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Re: [HoE] Camp, Or how the horse was shot and the Audience Laughed
In a message dated 7/29/99 1:57:50 AM Eastern Daylight Time,
bflory@frontiernet.net writes:
<< > I'd have to say you are quite off on that definintion of camp my friend.
> Camp is named camp merely because the movies that earned the title were
> popular on university 'camp'uses. If you want a current idea of 'Camp',
go
> to your local University, and sit in on some movie parties.
>
> And yes, Killer Tomatoes was 'Camp' when it came out.
>
> Xerxes
Interesting... tell me, when did this usage of the term camp originate?
B.D. "I'm serious" Flory
>>
My guess would be the 70's, everything happened in the seventies.
Crash
"the monkeys know the eighties sucked"