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1 If you are in need of help, you need but ask...
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2 ************************* INSTALLED: 23 MAR 85 *********************
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3 Welcome to BWMS (BackWater Message System) Mike Day System operator
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4 ************************************************************
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5 GENERAL DISCLAIMER: BWMS IS NOT RESPONSIBLE FOR ANY INFORMATION
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6 PLACED ON THIS SYSTEM.
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7 BWMS was created as an electronic bill board. BWMS is a privately owned
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8 and operated system which is currently open for use by the general public.
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9 No restrictions are placed on the use of the system. As the system is
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10 privately owned, I retain the right to remove any and all messages which
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11 I may find offensive. Because of the limited size of the system, it will be
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12 periodically purged of messages. (only 629 lines of data can be saved)
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13 To leave a message, type 'ENTER' and use ctrl/C or break to get out of the
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14 ENTER mode. The message is automatically stored. If after entering the
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15 message you find you made a mistake, use the replace command to replace
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16 the line. To exit from the system, type 'OFF' then hang up.
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17 Type 'HELP' to see other commands that are available on the system.
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18 ************************************************************
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19
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20 oooooooooooooooooooooooooooooooooooooooooooooooooooooooooooooooo
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21 It is customary, I believe, to say something when one finds oneself
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22 at the TOP! I can say only that the Innkeeper and Patrons of this
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23 Inn are to be congratulated for what they have offered to one who enters
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24 from what is essentially a different world....
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25 Also I should say that for the first time in many weeks I am having
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26 a line noise problem and have been cut off twice! I am not sure just
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27 what this entry is going to look like.
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28 ooooooooooooooooooooooo OBSERVER FROM ANOTHER GALAXY oooooooooooooooooooooo
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29 (^)(^)(^)(^)(^)(^)(^)(^)(^)(^)(^)(^)(^)
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30
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31 ThorPlease forgive me if I seemed short in my reply. Thank you for both the
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32 correction and the good intentions.
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33
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34 Ronin
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35
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36 (^)(^)(^)(^)(^)(^)(^)(^)(^)(^)(^)(^)(^)
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37 (Darn those bad phone connections)
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38 (^)(^)(^)(^)(^)(^)(^)(^)(^)(^)(^)(^)(^)
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39 ++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++
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40 (Another try, different story)
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41 @( "Milchar!", Dimat exclaimed. "I had begun to worry. You had taken so long
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42 to respond, I wasn't sure what to think. A terrible conflict is raging."
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43 Milchar, still stunned to see that his homeland, at least this part of it,
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44 was no longer the beautiful park-like place he had known, paused a long time
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45 before he answered.
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46 "Dimat," Milchar began slowly, "Who has done such a thing?
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47 How were we defended? What force could have torn Celene at it's very
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48 roots?"
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49 "Do you remember the Spellbinders of Trill?"
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50 Thinking a moment, Milchar remembered the odd group of illusionists that
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51 entralled audiences with there clever cantrips and deceptions. "Yes, master."
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52 "And do you remember what they wrought here in Celene, when you last
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53 came here?"
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54 "They had put on a grand show for the townspeople. I still remember the
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55 clarity of their work."
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56 "Good, your memory is as sharp as ever. The Spellbinders have done
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57 something that no one ever supposed they would succeed at. They've crossed
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58 that boundary between illusion and reality. Some of their figures are
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59 now of true flesh and blood. And now, my questing pupil, they wish to
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60 possess all that they can of Celene."
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61 "Do you mean that some of this waste about us is false? Illusion? How
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62 much is not?"
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63 "Only a True Seeing can tell for sure. I called you to aid me to
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64 cleanse our land of their danger."
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65 A sudden blast rocked the ground. "Cover!", Dimat yelled as he dived
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66 behind a nearby boulder.
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67 Outlines of gruesome creatures lined the mist about Dimat and Milchar,
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68 augumenting their imaginations of the shapes of the beasts.
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69 Milchar wished desparately for more of his equipment in his tower.
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70 After a few moments, Milchar decided that the stars were not in the right
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71 alignment for wishing, and gave it up.
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72 (Well, at least this time the lines are complete. I wonder what causes
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73 those two characters at the beginning of the file?)
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74 +++++++++++++++++ Milchar ++++++++++++++++ 14:27 - 03/23/85 +++++++++++++++++
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75 ? ? ? ? ? ? ? ? ? ? ? ? ? ? ? ? ? ? ? ? ? ? ? ? ? ? ? ? ? ?/MiG/? ? ? ? ? ? ?
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76 Well, after being cut off 5 times, I finaly found some wire and made this thing
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77 think that it always had a signal. Mr. Smith, I will reply in time, when I
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78 can be sure of an upload finishing before being rudely disconected.
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79 ? ? ? ? ? ? ? ? ? ? ? ? ? ? ? ? ? ? ? ? ? ? ? ? ? ?MG/? ? ? ? ? ? ?
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80
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81 (((((((((((((((((((((((((((((((((((((((((((((((((( LXIX ))))))))))))))))))))))))))))))))))))))))))))))))))))))))))
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82 I won't even attempt to upload tonight, the line is full of junk, might as well go back to soup cans and string.
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83 (((((((((((((((((((((((((((((((((((((((((((((((((( LXIX ))))))))))))))))))))))))))))))))))))))))))))))))))))))))))
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84 ppppppppppppppppppppppppppppppppppppppppppppppppppppppppppppppppppppppppppppppp
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85 Early on, a disk seems a lot different than one that has filled up. Right
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86 now it seems pregant with innumerable possibilities, later -- around half way--
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87 it seems more mature and its personality established. Somewhere around line
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88 500 or somewhere after old age has set in. Some disks go gracefully into
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89 retirement, but some squeeze out the last byte...
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90 ppppppppppppppppppp
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91 The main street of the little village showed no life as the piper dismounted
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92 pppppppppp
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93 after getting knocked off the line for the fourth time, we'll just have to
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94 leave the piper there 'till conditions improve!
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95 ppppppppppppppppppppppppppppppppppppppppppppppppppppppppppppppppppppppppp
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96
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97 ****************************************************************
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98 As you can probably tell, there is enormous problems with the phone line
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99 right now, if you managed to get thru, congradulations, you are truly
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100 determined. But please, if you are having problems, noisy line, getting
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101 dumpped, ect. as seems to be the case with everyone right now, CALL THE
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102 PHONE COMPANY! Tell them what you are experiencing. The number to call
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103 is 470-xxxx tell them you are having problems when you call 230-xxxx,
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104 and describe them. I have been calling them everyday, but they have been
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105 a bit lacidazial about it. So, on the squeaky wheel theory, CALL THEM!
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106 If you call and all you get is a busy signal, be patient, the problem
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107 is a parial short some place that comes and goes. Sometimes it locks
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108 up for several hours, other times it just shorts out long enough to
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109 dump you off line. So keep trying, and please, REPORT IT TO THE PHONE CO.
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110 when it happens! It isn't going to get better until they get off their
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111 duffs and decide that their really is something wrong. SO CALL!
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112 Thank you.
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113 ************************** CISTOP MIKEY ******************************
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114 P.S. It doesn't hurt to call more then once. Like I said, I've been
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115 calling once a day. If they get enough calls maybe they'll decide
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116 to do something.
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117 *********************************************************************
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118 *%_@)#%*_)#$*^_)#$*^&_)#*^&_!)^*_$#)^&*_)$#*^_)#&*^_)#&^_)#$!^&*#&!)_#&^)_!#^
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119 Farley : I can still fill you in on everything that has transpired, even if
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120 you tried to call twice yesterday, and missed me both times. I was busy
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121 turning green yesterday, after the PC&S meeting. You missed meeting a very
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122 rare-in-appearing person, a person that has an interesting personality. But
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123 not to worry, I am sure you and the person in question will meet up very
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124 soon.
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125 Piper : Respond on La Nerd? AOK.
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126 Voyeur : Monday I will check in and get as much documentation as possible.
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127 Since your friend is in town for awhile, we can probably meet once more
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128 before he leaves. The house was awfully quite last night. Did you notice
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129 it too?
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130 Kosta : We discussed the possibility of a new direction for the current
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131 story, but nothing will happen until your are consulted. Gaudy will get
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132 the word later today.
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133 *)_#@*%@_#)%*)_%*@_#)%*@#_)%* L'homme sans Parity *%_#@)*_%)*%@)_#*%_@*%@_)#%
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134
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135 Almost forgot : Mikey : Copylink doesn't work on the Tandy 2000 (as delivered.)
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136 I think it is a case of COM1: being decoded in a different section of segment
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137 0. I have a bit of the same problem with the extended break signal on my
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138 Async program, since I have to address the port directly to send the break.
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139 I'll read up on modifying the base address and see if that helps. I'll let
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140 you know how it works.
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141 _)*%)_@*@#_)*%@_)%@#)_%*@#)_@% L.s.P. *%_#*%_)@*%_)@*%@_)*%@)_#*%@_)#%*@#_)%%
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142 THOR was getting irritated at the phantom at the INN. Five times he had
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143 had his chair pulled out from beneath him and it was becoming unnerving.
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144 THOR's patience was stretched to its breaking point and he wanted to place
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145 his hands on the phantoms neck just
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146 long enough to feel the bones become mush in his fingers.
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147 too much, even as he thought it the phantom had the nerve to do it AGAIN.
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148 I will leave the INN and come back when this monster has no more victims to
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149 prey upon and tires with the boredom.
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150 He will leave to do his dirty work in orhter establishments when he has
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151 finished searching for other souls to corrupt.
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152 ee-eh. watashi wa amehrikano hito des.
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153 . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . .
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154 They shouda never took Ma Bell (read as AT&T) apart! All the king's horses &
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155 all the king's men....et all
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156 /\/\/\/\/\/\/\/\/\/\/\/\/\/\/\/\/\/\/\/\/\/\/\/\/\/\/\/\/\/\/\/\/\/\/\/\/\/
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157 Good News for all the Patrons...THE LINE WORKS!!!!!! Ma Bell finally
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158 got off of her (insert phrase here) and fixed the phne line.
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159 /\/\/\/\/\/\/\/\/\/\/\/\/\//\/\/\//\/\/\/Luingil/\/\/\/\/\/\/\/\/\/\/\/\/\
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160
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162 All:
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163 Again,this is an upload test.Please ignor it, and bear with me.It should work t
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164 his time.
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165 Tsilb
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167 |:|:|:|:|:|:|:|
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168 -'-'-'-'-'-'-'-'-'-'-'-'-'-'-'-'-'-'-'-'-'-'-'-'-'-'-'-'-'-'-'-'-'-'-'-'-'-'
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169 A small child lay alone in the darkness. Creaking floorboards signal the
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170 approach of the Boogie Man. The child learns of fear.
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171
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172 An old man sits contemplating his wrinkled face. He knows the unfeeling
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173 nature of the cosmos and is afraid.
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174
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175 The music-lover listens to a cool jazz saxaphone. Flowing melody cannot
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176 soothe his fear. Hearthache's gentle chains bind him.
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177
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178 Our terrors are lost in talking crowds. Death, love, the unknown... hold
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179 us in firm embrace.
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180
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181 I am a child, an old man, the music-lover. Fear is my nature.
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182 I will conquer it.
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183 '-'-'-'-'-'-'-'-'-'-'-'-'-'The Jung and Restless'-'-'-'-'-'-'-'-'-'-'-'-'-'-
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185 #$##$##$##$##$##$##$##$##$##$##$##$##$##$##$##$##$##$##$##$##$##$##$##$##$##$#
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186 L'homme: C'est la vie...
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187 There are definite advantages to working with 'primitive' equipment. My modem
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188 won't let go of the line until I physically flip a switch on the modem itself
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189 (or tell the computer to tell the modem to go off-line, but I'm not using a
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190 terminal program that will do that right now). Makes keeping on-line a lot
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191 easier, let me tell you....
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192 #$##$##$#
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193 Have you ever felt bored, yet have nearly hundreds of things to get done?
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194 #$##$##$##$##$##$##$##$##$## Farley #$##$##$##$##$# 14:07 - 03/25/85 #$##$##$#
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195
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196 ********************seeyouincourt*****longdistancelurkmode*******kathyd********
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197
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198 KOSTA KOSTA KOSTA KOSTA KOSTA KOSTA KOSTA KOSTA KOSTA KOSTA KOSTA KOSTA KOSTA
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199 With fear, I knew that to abandon thcrowd was a necessary evil to be
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200 preformed. When times are such as these, events seem to pass as if flying
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201 with the aid of wings. Prithy, may I come to know what the alterations to
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202 the patterns of our fine weavings may be pertaining? I may dare to dial
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203 the ever pleasant, ever informative ... 3.3. All I want are the facts, sir.
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204 YOU MUST GIVE THEM TO ME!!!! Bound and tied-
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205 KOSTA KOSTA KOSTA KOSTA KOSTA KOSTA KOSTA KOSTA KOSTA KOSTA KOSTA KOSTA KOSTA
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206
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207 ENT
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208 KOSTA KOSTA KOSTA Infernal Enter-only... I forgot to request certain
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209 other pieces of information, but you may find the questions elsewhere.
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210
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211
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212 ^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^ (hesitation...)
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213 ^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^ --->the patient Guardian... 84:16
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214
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215 D n o : D n o : d n o : D n o : D n o : D n o :;d n o : D n o : D n o : D n o
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216
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217 Ronin:
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218 I hope that you will give me a call when you are up and running again. I think I have a good name
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219 for my new company.
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221 Dno...
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223 D n o : D n o : D n o : D n o : D n o : D n o : D n o : D n o : D n o : D n o
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224 . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . .
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225 Leonard: your point is well taken, yes. But, come now... you have never met
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226 me so I doubt that you can judge by my strange appearences. But, honestly, I am
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227 no sir. I would not call myself "ladylike" either, but "sir" is definately
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228 inproper. -Tanya
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229 . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . .
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230 |{}|{}|{}|{}|{}|{}|{}|{}|{}|{}|{}|{}|{}|{}|{}|{}|{}|{}|{}|{}|{}|
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231 Knowledge talks; Wisdom listens
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232 Big. Large. Magnificently colossal. It stood there, towering over my
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233 head, like a monolith from the past. I reached out to touch it. Hard as a rock.
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234 Smooth, like no rock is ever smooth. Smoother than the finest metal, far
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235 reaching over gold and platinum. I looked up. It must have been over
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236 two-hundred feet taller than I, carved with designs so foreshortened by
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237 perspective that I could only see clearly for about ten feet up. The designs
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238 resembled heiroglyphs, etched deeply, each filling about a square foot. In rows
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239 across the whole face. It was basically a rectangular prism, I thought, and it
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240 had these designs on all four sides. I wandered around the sides. Aha, I
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241 thought, this one has been, well, corroded. How else could it have been
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242 green? Unless copper veins... The symbol was sort of of a man holding a star.
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243 However, something wasn't right about it, something I could not put my finger
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244 on. I looked at the next heiroglyph in the row. Funny, I thought, there is
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245 just a blank space. Then the next hieroglyph showed the same man, surrounded in
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246 a, well, cloud of fog. Then the next one, and he stood, and the terrain was
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247 somehow different. I followed it across to the next face, for two more
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248 hieroglyphs this, well, man walked. And walked. Then, and this was strange,
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249 he found a flower. It looked like a flower, anyway. In the next hieroglyphs
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250 he picked it, smelled it, and died. Or at least it looked like he died.
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251 He lay down on the ground with his arms spread wide going blah. This was
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252 strange, the row ended there. I went back to the first face. Another
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253 incongruiity. There were none on the row between the green one. And it
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254 was in the middle of the row. I looked on the other two faces, in the same
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255 row, and there was nothing but the usual gibberish, gibberish to me anyway.
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256 I went back to the green hieroglyph. I had looked the whole thing over
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257 carefully. What the heck. I touched the green hieroglyph. And vanished.
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262 ps Mikey: have they told you WHAT was wrong with the line?
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263 ___________________________________________________________________________
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264 {*}{*}{*}{*}{*}{*}{*}{*}{*}{*}!!!isis!!!{*}{*}{*}{*}{*}{*}{*}{*}{*}{*}
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272 tea without a spellchecker to back one up. Or a secretary. I, for
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began on that day he shattered the legendary stone. The crack of the
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hour before Arthur looked up. The sight of someone else witnessing
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"Sputtering ill befits the king of the Bretons, boy!" Merlin's
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so stop bellyaching and help me avoid your first war. If anyone else
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practice dummy. Here, help me with this," and a bewildered Arthur
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two halves of the stone, and piled dirt up the sides to maintain its
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so as to appear as it had before. Arthur watched curiously as Merlin
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pulling. The revellers laughed loudly and merrily at what they
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free of the stone. At the same instance, there erupted a mighty flash
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chuckling group was now speechless, as all color drained from their
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325
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then a sight he would remember for all time: Merlin, hands clasped
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tightly over his own mouth, turning bright red, suppressing a laugh!
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{*}{*}{*}{*}{*}{*}{*}{*}{*}{*}!!!isis!!!{*}{*}{*}{*}{*}{*}{*}{*}{*}{*}
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329 ZZZZZZZZZZZZZZZZZZZZZZZZZZZZZZZZZZZZZZZZZZZZZZZZZZZZZZZZZZZZZZZZZZZZZZZZZZZZZZZZZZZZZZZZZZZZZZZZZZZZZZZZZippydalurker
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330 Above: Cute! I've always beena fan of contemporizing classic stories!
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331 ZZZZZZZZZZZZZZZZZZZZZZZZZZZZZZZZZZZZZZZZZZZZZZZZZZZZZZZZZZZZZZZZZZZZZZZZZZZZZZZZZZZZZZZZZZZZZZZZZZZZZZZZZippydalurker
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332 ]]]]]]]]]]]]]]]]]]]]]]]]]]]]]]]]]]]]]]]]]]]]]]]]]]]]]]]]]]]]]]]]]]]]]]]]]]]]]]
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333 To: All UNDERGROUND operatives
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334 From: J.K. O'Hara, DSNAC, UNDERGROUND
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335 Subj: A little tidbit to keep you going
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336 Since morale within our ranks has been fairly low these past few days, here's
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337 a little story to cheer you up:
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338
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339 Captain Brommel, it was well known, was a sadist. His intense
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340 pleasure at inflicting pain could not be mistaken; his favorite place in
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341 the entire prison was the torture chamber, right next to the rack.
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342 Still, he was excellent at his job, and his superiors decided years ago to
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343 just look the other way when he indulged himself.
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344 One day, however, a prison riot broke out. It seems that one of the
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345 prisoners, taken just the day before, had been beaten almost beyond
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346 recognition during an interrogation. The other prisoners, of course, were
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347 outraged. They suddenly charged the guards during calisthenics, and in
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348 the ensuing battle, seized several firearms and shot every single guard
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349 they could find. A few guards escaped to tell their Captain what
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350 had happened. Of course, they reported everything in the long and
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351 drawn out manner of the military, ignoring not the slightest detail.
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352 Finally, Brommel called for support to put down the uprising, but
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353 needed one last bit of information.
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354
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355 so the inquisitive sadist said, "Where's the grief?"
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356 (imagine diabolical laughter from John K. O'Hara)
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357 [[[[[[[[[[[[[[[[[[[[[[[[[[[[[[[[[[[[[[[[[[[[[[[[[[[[[[[[[[[[[[[[[[[[[[[[[[[[[[
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358 SAAB$SAAB$SAAB$SAAB$SAAB$SAAB$SAAB$SAAB$SAAB$SAAB$SAAB$SAAB$SAAB$SAAB$SAAB
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360 TO ALL CONCERNED:
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361
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362 If you have a car bil ke or motor-bil ke and would like a consoled made for
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363 car stero installation, or gauges, or whatever, I g have the resources to
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364 do this. I have made center consoles for stereo app;l lications for a
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365 variety of different cars and would be more then happy to do one for you.
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366
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367 Rates:
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368
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369 for center console $40.00
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370 for bil ke console $25.00
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371 for motor bike $30.00
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372
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373 call 238-xxxx after 5:00 p.m. ask for Dean
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374
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375 S-N-AAB
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376
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377 SAAB$SAAB$SAAB$SAAB$SAAB$SAAB$SAAB$SAAB$SAAB$SAAB$SAAB$SAAB$SAAB$SAAB$SAAB
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379
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380 DDDDDD D N N OOO OOO
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381 D D N N N O O
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382 D D N N N O O
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383 D D N N N O O
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384 D D N N N O O
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385 D D N NN O O
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386 DDDDDD N N OOOOO
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387
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388
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389 r Ronin:
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390
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391 Since you liked my last proverb so much I thought you might enjoy a few more
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392 and a quote or two:
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393
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394 He that is not Handsom at twenty,nor strong at thirty,nor rich at forty
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395 nor wise at fifty, will never be handsome, strong, rich , or wise.
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396
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397 It is not What is she, but What has she.
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398
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399 The way to feel safe be safe is to never to fell e secure.
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400
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401 An horrid stillness first invades the ear,
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402 And in that silence we tempest fear.
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403 (Astrea Redux)
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404
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405 Genius is one percent cent . inspiration and
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406 ninety nine - per cent. perspiratin on
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407 (Thomas A. Edison)
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408
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409 for now my friend,
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410 later--- Dno...
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411
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412 ddddddddddddddddddddddddddnnnnnnnnnnnnnnnnnnnnnnoooooooooooooooooooooooooo
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413 up30
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414 (^)(^)(^)8(^)(^)(^)(^)(^)(^)(^)(^)(^)(^)
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415
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416 Dno:
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417 May you be shot on sight for your lack of taste in proverbs.
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418 If you quit now, you may save yourself much pain later. Remember, a stich
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419 in time saves nine.
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420
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421 Ronin
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422
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423 (^)(^)(^)(^)(^)(^)(^)(^)(^)(^)(^)(^)(^)
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424 S-N-AAB:
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425 My friThanks for the beautiful job you did on building my center console.
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426 It's awesome!
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427 c-64
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428 THORTHORTHORTHORTHORTHORTHORTHORTHORTHOR
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429 Some may think that to feel is to reach out your hand and let your
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430 fingertips contact the person or thing that you want to touch.
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431 But to actually touch something or some one, you must reach out with
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432 feelings not found in the tips of ones fingers. For that touch is soon
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433 forgotten by the both parties involved.
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434 To feel and be felt, one must reach out with ones soul and if contact is made
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435 neither party shall ever forget the
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436 moment of tangency.
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437
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438 kathyd:saw your words, glad to have you back at TANIS. My tankard is full.
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439 Guardian:Have I missed another message?
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440 TIN MAN:Where for goes thy prose?
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441 Tanya:who darest call thee a drake, thee is surely a swan.
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442 THORTHORTHORTHORTHORTHORTHORTHORTHORTHOR
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443 ||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||
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444 wow hawaii wazz great. as the song says "Wish they all could be California
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445 girls!"
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446 COMO ESTA` Ud. SNR MIG? YO SOY MUY BIEN. SABE ESPAN~OL? TAL VEZ SI`.
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447 TAL VEZ NO. LE TENGO LASTIMA POR Ud. Ud ES UN PUTO GRANDE.
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448 ES UN PUN~ITERO TAMBIEN. QUE? HABLA NO ES VERDAD? SI` ES MUY VERDAD!
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449 CUANDO` ES UN POSADO. YO NO SE`. Y Ud.? SI Ud. SABE ESPAN~OL.
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450 TIENE LAS VACASIONES DIVERTIDO.
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451 BACK TO INGLES.
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452 IF YOU DONT UNDERSTAND SPANISH MIG I SUGGEST A CLOSE TO NATIVE SPEAKER TO
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453 INTERPRET THE ABOVE PARAGRAPH. OR AT LEAST SOME ONE WHO LIVED NEAR
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454 HISPANICS LONG ENOUGH TO PICK UP THE KEY WORDS IN THE MESSAGE.
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455 I WONT TELL YOU AGAIN! BUZZ OFF!
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456 OH BY THE WAY.
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457 TIENE UN DIA ALEGRE!!!!!!
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458 EL OSO GRANDE!
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459 |||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||
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460 ? ? ? ? ? ? ? ? ? ? ? ? ? ? ? ? ? ? ? ? ? ? ? ? ? > ? ? ?/MiG/? > ? ? ? ? ?
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461
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462 Gee, not too much to work with. All uppercase, with imaginary line noise.
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463 But I have a few ideas. By the way, your sentence structure sucks, according
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464 to the person I had translate that. Oh, your not going to tell me again? I
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465 am so happy for you!! Come on EW, I expected better of you.
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466 ? ? ? ? ? ? ? ? ? ? ? ? ? ? ? ? ? ? ? ? ? ? ? ? ? ? ? ? ? ?/MiG/? ? ? ? ? ? ?
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467
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468 ||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||
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469 EW EW EW EW!!!! IS THAT ALL YOU CAN SAY? BY THE WAY THAT WAS NOT LINE NOISE.
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470 THE ACCENT AND THE ~(I FORGOT WHAT IT IS CALLED) CANNOT BE PUT ATOP OF THE
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471 APPROPRIATE LETTERS SO I JUST PUT THEM AFTER. WHO TRANSLATED THIS? YOU?
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472 WHY NOT YOU ARE SUPER STUD!! IF YOU CAN BE 6'3" AND GOD WHO KNOWS HOW HEAVY
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473 WHY CAN'T YOU UNDERSTAND SPANISH AS WELL. ALSO THANK YOU FOR GETTING RIGHT
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474 DOWN TO THE POINT IN YOUR ABOVE MESSAGE. MOST OF THE MESSAGES YOU WRITE TO ME
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475 BEAT AROUND THE BUSH WITH ASSANINE COMMENTS. MY PERSPECTIVE OF YOU IS WIDENING
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476 TO NEW HORIZONS. MABEY SOME DAY WE CAN BURRY THE OLE HATCHET AND TALK IN
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477 CIVILIZED TOUNGE. COME ON NOW WHAT IS THIS "I expected better of you" CRAPOLA?
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478 AT LEAT I TRIED TO AD A LITTLE VARIETY BY INTRODUCING A FORIEGN LANGUAGE. I
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479 KNOW IT HAS BEEN USED BEFORE BUT I THOUGHT IT WAS A NICE THOUGHT. I DO AGREE
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480 MY SENTECE STRUCTURE LEAVES SOME TO BE DESIRED. IN MY CLASS THE MAIN FUNCTION
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481 THIS YEAR IS TO CONCENTRATE ON LISTENING AND SPEAKING. NOT AS MUCH WRITING
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482 IS INVOLVED BUT I GET A CHANCE TO TRANSLATE A LOT. IF YOU DO NOW SPANISH I
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483 WOULD APPRECIATE THE INCREASED VOCABULARY.
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484 TIENE UNA DIA ALEGRE
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485 don QUIJOTE
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486 |||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||
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487 ************.**********************
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**************j.******jz*******
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488 ****************************************************************
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489 thor: thank-you, its good to be back.... i think
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490 guardian thank-you
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491 getting line hits, can't type with these conditions.
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492 ***********iwo~incourt********kathyd****************
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493
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494 CONGRATULATIONS KATHYD, YOUR WRITING IS IMPROVING. (ABOVE) IT'S THE BEST SO
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495 FAR.
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497 HMMM NOTHING TO DO AROUND HERE IN THE GRAND OLE STATE OF OREGON.
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498 IT IS NOW 4:26 AND I HAVE GOTTEN ON TO BWMS TWICE IN A ROW. OH GOLLY GEE WIZ.
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499 DOES ANY ONE WANT TO TALK? DOES ANYONE HAVE ANYTHING AT ALL THEY WANT TO
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500 GET OFF THEIR CHESTS AND PUT IT RIGHT ON MINE?
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503 now i remember why lurk mode is so inviting
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504 i won't miss the jerks, that is fer sure!
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505 phfttt!!!!
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506 ****************kathyd**************************
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508 Kathy:you must understand we are not jerks. we are just bored.
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510 MiG:satisfied with the lower case? still waiting i know youre out there
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511 you know what
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512 you know who
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514 sysop: how do you afford keeping a bulletin board going w/o charging the
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515 users (or is just doing it worth it)?
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517 xXxXxXxXxXxXxXxXxXxXxXxXxXxXxXxXxXxxXxXxXxXxXxXxXxXxXxXxXxXxXxXxXxXxXxXxXxXxX
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518 pppppppppppppppppppppppppppppppppppppppppppppppppppppppppppppppppp
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519 There seems to have been a fantastic improvement in the phone lines! I
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520 managed to read the whole disk without getting mung
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521 (glitch was fingers -- not fone) knocked off the line. As we're
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522 near the bottom, I'll let the story rest another day.
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523 -- to the one who left the message about rebuilding consoles and
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524 the proverbs.
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525 Sir:
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526 Your use of control characters is quite obnoxious. I realize tt
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527 what you left translates to a backspace with your terminal or atari, but
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528 to the rest of it, it is just garbage. To see what it really looks like,
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529 type "cc n" (control characters, show instead of send), and reread the
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530 message. Looks pretty bad doesn't it? To compound the problem, your
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531 character that translates as "^=" puts my terminal into graphics mode --
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532 it expects the character strings coming to be encoded co-ordinates.
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533 Very messy. If you want to use a backspace, the system supports the
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534 standard ASCII backspace command ... a much more readable message results.
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535 pppppppppppppppppppppppppppppppppppppppppppppppppppppppppppppppppppppppppp
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536 (damn enter only -- the line starting "to the rest of it" should be
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537 "to most of us" pppppppppppppppppppppppppppppppppppppppppppppppppppppppppp
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538 *******************************************
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539 oh, i understand, you are bored so you
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540 pick on others. sounds very juvie to me.
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541 double phfttttt!!!
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542 *********************kathyd****************
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543 ------------------------------------------------------------------------------
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544 Nothing can generate fear like a dream whenre the line between it and reality
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545 is all too near. I awake from this dream of mine, but what about the next
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546 time?
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547 -------------------Mad Max---------------------------------7:31'50------------
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548 (ch /whenre/where)
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549 ------------------------------------------------------------------------------
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550 *************************************************
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551 LEONARD: NO THEY DIDN'T SAY, BUT I'M NOT HOLDING MY BREATH IT DIDN'T
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552 STAY FIXED THE LAST TIME. GIVE IT A COUPLE OF WEEKS, AND I MIGHT START
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553 TO FEEL A LITTLE SAFER.
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554 L'HOMME: FIGURES, IT ISN'T COMPATIBLE IN ANYTHING ELSE, WHY SHOULD
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555 IT BE COMPATIBLE THERE?
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556 *************************** CISTOP MIKEY ********************
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557
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558 DDDDDD N N OOOOO
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559 D D NN N O O
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560 D D N N N O O
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561 D D N N N O O
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562 D D N N N O O
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563 D D N N N O O
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564 D D N NN O O
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565 DDDDDD N N OOOOO
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567 To: Most of us (or everyone concerned and bothered)
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568
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569 Thank you for pointing out what appears to be a very major flaw in
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570 my Terminal program. Unfortunately, the terminal software I was using
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571 is built into my computer, and was the most convenient to use. If you are
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572 wondering what type of computer I am using, it is an NEC. (not an ATARI)
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573 I do apologize for any mishaps that may have occured.
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574
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575 Humbly,
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576 Dno...
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579
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580
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581 please forgive this test
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582 INVALID COMMAND
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583
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584 up 20
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585 oh well that was interesting.
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