Subject: Re: "Bisk?"
From: herriman@cris.com (Richard Cretan)
Newsgroups: alt.aol-sucks

dkendrizk@usa.pipeline.com(David Kendrick) wrote:

>What's the origin of the term "bisk" for AOL/GNN's answer to your first
>rock of cybercrack? 

"Bisk," which is becoming widely accepted as the term of choice for
AOL disks and CD-ROMs, has its origin in a post made a few weeks ago.

The poster was saunders@rio.com.  Many acknowledge him as a poet in
his own right, although skeptics have alleged that saunders is merely
dyslexic.

The fateful six-line post was titled "AOL is sucks!!!what you can do
with ther cd rom bisk," and described the bizarre ritualistic
destruction of AOL freebies:

:cost to mutch
:it suck
:no good 
:send to many disk.
:Me and my friends took a bisk and lit it on fire and froze it
:slamed it angaisnt the boor.

Needless to say, the "bisk" in this post/poem has already passed into
the vernacular, while the work itself (a marvel of compression and
thwarted expiation) has prompted outgrowths of poetic excrescence here
in the newsgroup.

A quick deconstruction of this textual artifact reveals a classic
confrontation between life and death.  Saunders' "bisk" survives all
manner of bodily harm, including the usual elemental forces (fire and
ice) before coming to its (presumed?  actual?) end against a "boor."

In no small way, I regard saunders as a postmodern critic of AOL who 
has ventured into new grammatical, lexical, and conceptual territory.
If he can be found -- for, to my knowledge, he has never since
returned to a.a-s -- it may be possible to ask him pointed questions
about his work and its ambitions.  But it is unclear whether his reply
will be intelligible.

There are also rumors that saunders will soon replace Andrew Kantor at
the helm of Internet World, but these have yet to be substantiated.