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   "McPeart" sayed:   
      
   > In article , Max C. Webster III   
   >  wrote:   
   >   
   >> "Dr. Charles Dutton"  done said:   
   >>   
   >> > "Artisan"  wrote:   
   >> >   
   >> >> Is this newsgroup for the music of the power-pop trio, or the big fat   
   >> >> guy   
   >> >> on   
   >> >> talk radio?   
   >> >>   
   >> >> Just saying... with all the fascist talk here, people appear to think   
   >> >> this   
   >> >> newsgroup is about Limbaugh.   
   >> >   
   >> > Yes, there are quite a few right wing nut jobs here.  About 90% of the   
   >> > NG.   
   >> > Better to just find a better forum.   
   >>   
   >>   
   >> From the time of Neil's tragedies, this forum ceased to be so much a Rush   
   >> forum   
   >> as it was a forum for Rush fans.  Rush was the thing we had in common,   
   >> but   
   >> since everything had been talked about a bazillion times over, we started   
   >> talking about other things.  Prof was said AMR was primarily about two   
   >> things:   
   >> 1) A conversation amongst Rush fans, just not necessarily about Rush, and   
   >> 2)   
   >> ignoring Libby.   
   >>   
   >> Since we weren't all Rush all the time, and there were forums that   
   >> catered to   
   >> those who wanted that, we became the red-headed stepchild of Rush groups,   
   >> and   
   >> quite frankly, we liked it like that.  Stereotypical Rush fans kinda   
   >> scare us.   
   >>   
   >> When facebook took off, and we realized we could do the same thing there   
   >> we   
   >> were doing here, but with pictures and other gewgaws, AMR started   
   >> circling   
   >> the   
   >> drain.  We're still here, checking in from time to time, but it's most   
   >> the   
   >> schizophrenic ranting of Libby or the bombastic political rants of a few   
   >> maladjusted nuts.   
   >>   
   >> So yes, this for is for the "power-pop trio," not the "big fat guy," but   
   >> don't   
   >> expect to read to much about either here.  It's mostly noise these days.   
   >>   
   >> Sadder still to watch it die than never to have known it . . .   
   >>   
   >>   
   >>   
   >> - Max -   
   >> =======   
   >> Facebook pics are OK and all,   
   >> but somehow that one in the   
   >> Hawaiian shirt with the cocktail   
   >> just isn't doing it for me.   
      
   > Facebook killed AMR, one of the reasons I am not on there anymore.   
   > You really can't do the same thing on FB because your around other   
   > common folks who don't get it.  The cool thing about AMR was that for   
   > the most part only fans were here not all of our other friends a family   
   > as well.   
      
   > What a sad loss...   
      
   Ayup.   
      
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