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ooooo ooooo .oooooo. oooooooooooo HOE E'ZINE RELEASE #857
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`888' `888' d8P' `Y8b `888' `8
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888 888 888 888 888 "I Secretly Love Quarex"
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888ooooo888 888 888 888oooo8
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888 888 888 888 888 " by Clyde
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888 888 `88b d88' 888 o 9/28/99
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o888o o888o `Y8bood8P' o888ooooood8
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you might know me from the "ask clyde" advice column i occasionally
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publish in hoe! i haven't published in a while! even if i had, you
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probably wouldn't have read it anyway, because of summer vacation! well,
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how are you! now, i want to tell you more about myself! i secretly love
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quarex!
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a long time ago, perhaps 5 years or more, quarex was this incredibly
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silly guy who wrote music on his computer! he released these music-files
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known as "modules"! think of them as a lower-quality form of mp3s! but not
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the same thing by any means!
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anyway, people could download these "modules"! but since this was
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around 1994, or before, like i said, people weren't downloading them from
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the internet! mostly, they had to rack up the file upload ratio points on a
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"bbs", or bulletin board system, and download them with a modem which was
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probably a 2400 or 14400! do you remember those kinds of modems! do you
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remember dialing long-distance! do you remember trade wars! do you
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remember 1994! in any case, this one song that quarex released was all
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about pork! quite a fascinating topic! even though this song had
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noticeable features such as poor quality, no memorable melody, no clever
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"hooks" (get it! hooks, pork, meat hooks! heh heh! wait, where's the joke
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in that! i'm no good at this "wit" stuff!), .. anyway, you get the point!
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it was a bad song! but that's what was so great about it! back in the day,
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things could be so terribly bad as to be viewed as good! in fact, it was a
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nice accomplishment of his! he only had four (or was it eight!) channels to
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work with, and some poor 8-bit audio samples to work with! plus, most
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everyone was using really noisy soundblaster cards, so even the great stuff
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sounded bad! boy, i almost want to throw this pentium out the 9th floor
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window! (good thing the office building i work in only has 6 floors!)
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i don't know what happened to quarex's musical aspirations! but i
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haven't heard a new music from him in a long time! yoo-hoo, quarex, are you out
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there! where are your new mods! where are your mp3s! where have your
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musical dreams gone! where is the question-mark key on my keyboard!
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so, now you know that i love quarex! i'm sure he doesn't reciprocate
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my platonic, altruistic views, but that is fine! i can live with that!
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now, if you're feeling bored, lonely, desperate, confused, happy,
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silly, mundane, useless, or just want to talk about bbs days, send me an
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email!
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[ (c) !LA HOE REVOLUCION PRESS! HOE #857 - WRITTEN BY: CLYDE - 9/28/99 ]
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