1                THE ROLE OF ONION RINGS IN THE SCENE
1                       (Olle/Deranked)

Yesterday we had a discussion on #coder.ger about the role of onion rings in the
scene. Since this topic is really important in my opinion and due to the fact
that I caught by boredom since my modem needs to be repaired, so that I'm not
able to cha around all day I decited to put my thought into this article for
8Schwugi^4.

First of all you surely know onion rings. You know, these yellow much too
small rings you can buy in nearly every supermarket which sometimes taste like
onion and sometimes a bit more like paprica or oregano.
Surely the role of the onion rings in our beloved scene has changed over the
last couple of years.
In former days onion rings were the absolutely no.1 snack for the elite scener.
Night after night tons of them got consumpted during every internet session,
the first word every newcomer was able to spell was "Onion Rings"!
But in the meantime this has changed. With the rising numbers of pizza services
spreading in every single town all over the world the onion rings got more and
more replaced by pizzas. Of course pizzas have many advantages, e.g. they are
much bigger so you don't need tons of them during one single session.  And you
need not get them by yourself, because there are pizza taxis who are doing the
job.

But all in all I think that onion rings still have a sense in the scene after
all! For example you can make funny pictures and logos out of them. Some time
ago I made a big "scene"-logo out of onion rings which I popped onto a piece
of paper with some glue. Ths only problem was the strange smell which began to
spread all over my house some time later...
Once I also tried to use onion rings as cdroms, but when I put a couple of them
into my cdrom drive it suddenly stopped working properly. Quite strange, maybe
the rings were a bit too sharp. But also filling in some water into the drive
did not help that much, there was just a big bang and the next moment my whole
tower was covered in black and grey smoke.

I think that everybody has to decide for himself whether onion rings still have
an importance for him or her or not. One thing is certain, they will always be
a part of our beloved scene, somehow...

                                                               A- Olle/Deranked
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