good times equivalents

[Gillies, Lindsay]

Don Larsson asks:
In regard to the latest notes over the so-called "Good Times" non-virus 
hoax:
[...]
So where's the thrill here?  In making a bunch of net-users uneasy until 
they
are disabused?  Keeping them on the alert for non-existent posts?
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Wannabe novelists imagine literary fame and fortune without arduous and 
exquisite effort over the text (qv GenX novels from the late 80's)...
Wannabe poets ditto (used to publish in the New Yorker, but thankfully no 
more, has anyone else flipped for Virginia Hamilton Adair?)...
Wannabe hackers imagine terrorizing the digital world without arduous and 
exquisite effort over the text (code)...
So the Good Times "virus" = Howard Moss = _Less than Zero_
(as he dons his flameproof suit...)

LindsayG