Date: Fri, 16 May 97
From: The Great Quail
"The Toast Queen states
oh-so-provocatively:
> IMO the three flamewars
that produce the most heat and the least
>light are politics,
religion, and "Glass is a supercooled liquid that
>slowly flows, and you
can see it in old windows and I don't care what the
>physicists say".
What? My God, this is
the exact kind of thinking that makes me furious! I
mean, haven't we all
been through this tedious flame war *far* too many
times? Those freaking
chemists, man. Always ready to start a fight.
"Supercooled liquid,"
my ass! Only morons - and by that I include all
those ninnies in the
Royal Society, from Boyle to Lord Kelvin and all the
way down - would buy
into such an idea. Glass is a solid, and that's
that. This all goes
back to the Arabian/Venetian alchemist question. Just
because those pompous
faux-Florentines were better glass blowers . . . I
mean, who ever heard
of anything like a "supercooled liquid!" Ohh
nnnooooooo, glass has
to be special. Had to hold up the Renaissance until
we could invent the
retort and the alembic, didn't we? But did they stop
there? Of course not!
Then we had blue glass, with new improved cobalt! A
coincidence that cobalt
takes its name from Kobold, a German goblin? Of
course not! It further
proves the esoteric German/Italian ties,
highlighting the cross
currents of this Eurocentric glass conspiracy! I
though this stuff was
all laid out in "The Chymical Wedding of Christian
Rosenbeaker." Why the
hell did we even bother to *have* the Thirty Year's
War for? And before
that, the driving of the Moors out of Spain? I mean,
*Hello!* Can you say
Oppressed Baghdad Clay Methodology versus the
Euroglass Dogma Cultural
Monolith?
Good Christ, I am sick
of explaining this to people. Glass, glass glass,
has to be bloody special.
And not content with blue, we had to have green
and brown glass, and
for what? Oh, and don't even *think* of giving me
that hydrogen peroxide/silver
nitrate dreck. I'll believe in ultraviolet
light when I see it,
baby, and not a moment sooner! Green and brown glass
. . . just more crap
to confuse future recycle programs with! More
stained glass for the
cathedrals - but hey, isn't that why the cut off
Laviosier's Head? There
was a blow to those damned chemists, delivered by
the harbingers of the
Age of Reason. The Masons were into that one up to
their eyeballs, I'll
warrant, or at least until that Glass infiltrator
Robespierre. (Who, by
the way, was a humble glazier named "Glassy Sven"
before he became a tyrant.)
Oh, yes, we've all heard
that supercooled liquid thing - and what a lame
explanation it is! Remember,
this is from the same people who brought us
the concepts of Quintessence,
Caloric Fluid, the Luminous Ether, and the
infamous Phlogiston
World Tour of the Late Eighteenth Century. Not to
mention Cold Fusion,
Flubber, and Buckeyballs! Do they take us for a
bunch of fucking idiots?
"But have you ever looked at the glass in an old
house . . . " Oh, *please*!
What a poor excuse to cover something as
simple as shoddy craftsmanship!
I mean, look at any pane of glass - does
it sag? No! Just a few
cases in those (by now certainly nearing the
status of an urban legend)
so called "old houses."
Will the Glass Conspiracy
ever stop? Or will they not rest until we are
all thralls to GOG:
the Glaziers Occupational Government? And the whole
machineries of their
lies and corruption! I will never forget the way
they tried to co-opt
our hero Einstein, coupling his greatness with that
horrid four hour so-called
"opera" from the seventies - and how obvious
it was, too, that this
"minimalist" composer would go by the name of
Philip Glass. . . .
Damn their eyes, these devils! In their arrogance
they no longer even
feel the need for secrecy . . . .
. . . but we'll show
them!
So flame away, Fegs!
I have held my own in this flame war on many, many
lists, and I am not
afraid to climb on my soapbox again!
Al-Quail ibn Hmuh ibn
Feggi
