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A-M00SE-ING ANECDOTES AND ILLUMINATION BY AND FOR THE PAWNS OF THE
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M00SE ILLUMINATI
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Issue #23| Disclaimer: The Editors will place almost anything | Apr. 24,1989
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---------- in this newsletter out of a frantic desire to fill ---------------
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the issue, so don't blame them for the quality or content of the submissions.
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Excepting those they may have written themselves, the enclosed items do not in
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any way represent the Editors' opinions. In fact, let's be real safe, and say
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that as far as this newsletter is concerned, they have no opinions at all. OK?
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The Index
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EDITORIALS AND LETTERS An Editorial.
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EVENTS AND NEWS Various & sundry items of [dis]interest
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FICTION AND POETRY
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M00SCELLANEOUS NONSENSE
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ASK THE ORACLE Do Twinkies have cream fillings?
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MEET THE M00SES Scamp & Guardian Angel
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M00SE LIST UPDATE The compleat list...
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Spriiiing is here! ah-suh-puh-ring is here! Life is skittles and life is
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beer...
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BL00p!
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Some of you may have noticed that there haven't been any M00se Droppings for a
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while (you could say the M00se is constipated). (Nia kulpo, nia granda kulpo!)
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For a while, this was because there were *no* submissions. This is, of course,
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understandable, since many of us have papers to write and can't afford to bl00p
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around.
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NOW, however, there are submissions. (Of course, this issue could have gotten
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out a few days earlier, but this time it was *our* fault; Goblin decided to
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join a Twinkie-farming commune while I was away in Florida training at the
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SWAMI-swamp.)
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The next issue *will* be out no later than the twelfth of May. Submission
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deadline for the next issue is Thursday, May 11. (As long as we receive it by
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Friday morning, it'll be in the issue, which will be sent out in the late
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afternoon.)
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One article is missing from this issue: we assigned a M00se to cover a rumored
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conspiracy concerning blue-haired grandmothers, but he hasn't reported back.
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If we have received no word from him by next Thursday, you'll have to remove
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him from your lists.
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Ni deziras al vi bonan tagon! (Bl00p 'til you dr00p!)
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Submissions: WITHALL@CTSTATEU.BITNET (Goblin)
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M00se list & Back Issues : LEE_JES@CTSTATEU.BITNET (SalmonM00se)
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According to our sources, the sun was two degrees warmer last Tuesday according
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to a big nosed Penguin friend in the Antartic.
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There was a Starfire sighting at Adventure V... (*Great* fun!!!!!)
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The Mega-Thr0ng-A-Th0n is to be held??? Where? When? How??
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Wanted: Donald Trump look-a-alike in Bill the cats body.
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Wanted: More info on M00se T-shirts..
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Wanted: Goblin seeks the Iguana Tavern, where (when) is it now? (& sends
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hellos to the guy with the Pen)
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Quiet fern seeks companionship of a older potted palm. Is looking for a well
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war watered, mature ladyfriend to be misted with. I am a normal mild mannered
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fern into peanut butter parties and mazola togas..
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Hi Gang! How's it going out there in television land? Spaceman Biff
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here. I just had a few thoughts I just HAD to share with y'all.
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1) If Penelope' is the classical Greek symbol for wifely
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fidelity, and Calliope' is the Muse of the dance, and
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Turpsycchide' the Muse of music, does that make Envelope'
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the Muse of punctual postal delivery?
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2) Is there any interest out there in starting a new
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m00se shaped breakfast cereal? We could call it Fr00t Bl00ps.
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Test market: San Francisco.
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3) I am working on a new mollusk-specific hunter/killer,
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but am having a little trouble with the guidance system.
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The basic idea is that the fully automated unit is released into
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the ocean and hunts down scallops (oooh.) and cooks them in the
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shell using a small, poorly shielded microwave oven. The unit
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operates by distilling combustible hydrocarbons from the
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seawater itself which it then burns in a diesel engine.
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Unfortunately, the magnetic-to-true North deviation is huge up
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around Alaska, where the fuel is most plentiful this time of
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year. (And speaking of North deviations, how about that Ollie,
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huh?!) Any helpful hints would be appreciated.
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4) THERE IS _NO_ RULE #6!!!!!
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5) Love is like drinking from a broken water glass. It doesn't
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hold what you put in it, the edges are cold, hard, and pointy,
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and you risk serious lip damage if you try too hard. Ahem.
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6) And now, a poem from Mr. Steve Martin:
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The Pointy Birds
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The pointy birds are pointy, pointy.
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They anoint my head, anointy, 'nointy.
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7) Well, that went so well I think I'll finish with a set of
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poems concerning fishing, and the logical conclusion of fishing,
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ripping off fishheads. These were written by yours truly, a Mr.
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Thomas Wickham, and a Mr. Michael Graham, all manly men who
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are mighty to kill fish.
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TO FISH, TO FISH
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THIS IS MY ONLY WISH
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WHEN OUT FISHING LATE
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I ALWAYS FEEL GREAT
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WHEN OUT FISHING EARLY
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I FEEL MANLY AND BURLY
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TO CAST OUT MY LINE
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IS NOTHING MORE DIVINE?
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TRULY, FISHING IS MOST QUIET,
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MOST PEACEFUL.
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THEN OUT GOES YOUR LINE!
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THIS IS THE TIME.
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RIP OFF ITS HEAD
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UNTIL IT SCREAMS AND IS DEAD!
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I'll tell you a tale (which you'll get in the mail);
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A schedule of fishing designs!
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Of heads to be torn (on the Ides of March, morn)
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From the fish that we snare on our lines!
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We'll hook up the bait and get there no late
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-er than six A.M., beating the sun.
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Then cast our rigs out, enticing the trout
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To a meal, and thus, our meal become!
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For the quiet of dawn, when to the lake I have gone
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With a cup of hot Joe by my side
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Makes me again whole, a tocsin of the soul
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Awaiting doomed fish from the tide.
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Then later, to Bud's, for some eggs and fried spuds
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And strong coffee, and lightly singed bread.
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Then 205 Linn is the place we'll begin
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To peel skin back, and rip off some heads.
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So now comes the time for the end of my rhyme.
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Preserve it so you can look back
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Once again to this reference, so that, with great deference,
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We can sacrifice the trout we caught at Wickhamhead rock, in full view
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of the bass and sunny in the tank*, thereby striking fear into their
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hearts as they watch us merrily decapitate their buddies and cousins!
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Hee-hee-hee-hee-hee!!!!!!!!!
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* - Mssrs. Wickham and Graham keep several locally caught fish
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in a seventy gallon aquarium in their living room. Wickhamhead
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rock is on of the ornaments in the tank.
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Fish heads, fish heads!
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Let's go hook some fish heads!
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Fish heads, fish heads!
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Let's rip off some!
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In the fish tank
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Happy laughing fish heads!
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Rip off fish heads
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From the Lake!
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Honestly, it seems to me quite a shame not to go fishing this afternoon!
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Respond soon, or be a goon.
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Happy, Laughing
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--T. Sticklerod Z.
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(Author's note - the following poem is written as if in a dialect common
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to a particular southern community; no offense is
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intended, any more than if I had written it using a
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midwestern dialect, a "valleygirl" dialect, etc., so
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please, no ruffled feathers or hate mail. Thanx.)
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Skin strains, muscle pains
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Ooh ah loves dem fish heads!
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Spines breaks, mah muscles aches,
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Ah loves to rips dem off!
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In da mawnin', by de stream!
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Ooh ah loves dem fish heads!
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De water be murky, dis mus' be a dream!
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Ah loves to rips dem off!
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Tamara mawnin', vicious early!
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Ooh ah loves dem fish heads!
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Eyes a bleary, hairs a squirrelly!
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Ah loves to rips dem off!
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Mah main man John**,by Sahmun Crick
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Ooh ah loves dem fish heads!
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Wants ta fish wid his mighty stick!
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Ah loves to rips dem off!
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At fahv foh sebben, when de sun rise!
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Ooh ah loves dem fish heads!
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It be legitmit to rips off fish heads!
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Ah loves to rips dem off!
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Seriously, at 5:47 tomorrow morning stream trout season opens. How'd ya
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like to head out to Myers and work your fave trout spot?
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--T. Sticklerod Z.
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** - The Innkeeper
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April 11, 1989
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It sure ain't too early to be manly and burly
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And rip off the heads of some fish
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And strip flesh from their spine, so with a fine wine
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Their remains make one hell of a dish.
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Perhaps thou wouldst deign, barring instance of rain
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To go snare a few sometime this week?
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We could try in the lake, or a stream, if we take
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The precautions for wading a creek.
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This Saturday noon would be all none too soon
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For this lad to go dangle a lure.
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Any cold that we catch will be surely no match
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For some trout liver oil; the cure.
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I've run out of rhyme, so respond in quick time
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O'er the system, or perhaps face to face.
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I'm sending this fare to both Wick and "Half-There"***
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To see who responds first; wins the race.
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*** - Mr. Graham, whose other half of the wonder twins was lost to
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marriage approximately two years ago. His reply is below.
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Once again a fish poem, that is less than a tome
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It would be my pleasure,
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the length of to measure,
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HEAD to tail of a beautiful fish.
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Then rip off its head,
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butter on the rest spread,
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and turn into a devourable dish.
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The ides would be great,
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best early, not late,
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lest the piscines no longer are biting.
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We speak of this later,
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til then, alligator,
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in fishheadish thoughts be delighting.
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That's all for now, cadets. Stay tuned for Batman!!!
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T. Sticklerod Z.
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(Spaceman Biff!!)
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SECRET AGENT M00SE
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====== ===== =====
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There's a M00se that leads a life of danger.
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To everyone he meets he stays a stranger with every move he
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makes another chance he takes. Odds are he would live to see
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tomorrow.
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Secret Agent M00se Secret Agent M00se they've give you a
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number and take away your name.
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Beware of pretty faces that you find. A pretty face can hide
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an evil mind. Be careful what you say or you'll give yourself
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away. Odd are you won't live to see tomorrow.
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Secrete Agent M00se Secret Agent M00se they've give you a
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number and take away your name.
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Secret Agent M00se Secret Agent M00se they've give you a
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number and take away your name.
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Swinging on the Riviara one day and then laying in a Bombay
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ally next day Oh no you let the wrong word slip while kissing
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persuasive lips. The odds are you won't live to see tomorrow.
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Secret Agent M00se Secret Agent M00se they've give you a
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number and take away your name.
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Secret Agent M00se
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-By D0CT0R M00SE (DRX)
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and Claudette M00se.
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The following is from Indiana Joe...
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My roomate found this inside a roll of toilet paper. We have no idea where
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it came from or what it means, so we thought this was the perfect place to send
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it. Here it is.
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There is garbage out of food-water-TV-
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radio-books-newspapers in America -
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mental and physical cancers are made
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out of living and children everyday.
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1776
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Why don't world governments and every state
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in America do what Father Flanagan did -
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build a boystown and save world children.
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Easy to do if governments are not parasites.
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Dictators and sick value free with their own
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kind would die with *sickness-cancers and
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wars* - why build them in any way.
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There would not be any governments if
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governments had to prove themselves
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what governments allow.
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Duty-honor-country and legally-
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morally correct to destroy business
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and government parasites
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1776 - America minutement watchmen not
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Washington DC Columbia parasites statues -
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Valley Forge reminders not decorators
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in every state in America - 1776
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Big people are parasites not children
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When is America going to have a
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school of morals for lawyers.
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Why are world governments not self
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supporting Boy Scouts or better
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1776
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Bankruptcy signature law is a sick devil
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cancer parasite business and government
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and are *accessories* to crimes against every
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age and create martyrs and wars.
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Minimum wages governments and people -
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only good working conditions needed not
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parasites = work clothes-work shoes
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America not sick mirrors
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Living creatures have to be killed every
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day = best of medicine if possible -
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salf control - medicine ground floor planet
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not snake pits out of living or material
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B[B 1776
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No money schools - no useless studies
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halfday in factory - halfday in school.
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Everyone gets an equal chance -
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nno government parasite tax or salary.
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Big people are parasites not children.
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Does anyone else understand this? --Indiana Joe
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This one is from Jonathan Clemens<JSJPC1@ALASKA>..
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I'm looking for some biased opinions on the Illuminati and secret societies in
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general, for a research paper. Care to contribute any?
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Jonathan
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Here, from Hal Eisen, is more "Ask the Oracle"...
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It's been said that the Lord has an inordinate fondness for beetles
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(tens of thousands of species; about 1/3 of all species of anything
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are beetles). Why is this?
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The Oracle has answered your question as follows:
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Beetles are among the most funky creatures known to mankind. But they are
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also very well-designed. A solid beetle, take for example a June bug, is
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the flying tank of the animal world - nothing below the size of a bird or
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a tarantula can so much as scratch its chitin. But I wander, and begin to
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leave the subject. This may be a result of not sleeping last night.
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Anyway, the Questioner asked why the Lord has an inordinate fondness for
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beetles. The Oracle can confirm this surprising fact. The Lord loves
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beetles - He has them fried for breakfast, boiled for lunch, and sauteed
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for dinner; in a pie for dessert. Questioner may then ask, if the Lord
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loves his beetles so, why did He not have them rule the world? Instead
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we have these ugly, pale, squishy creatures. This is a very good
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question, which is only logical, because the Oracle asked it. But I am
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slipping again. The answer is that humans really are beetles; we are
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locked in a state of permanent hallucinations caused by sleeping too much.
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Try not sleeping for a week or so, and the people around you will truly
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appear to change into their natural form, that of the Giant Leprous Stag
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Beetle. It's a very illuminating experience. Or, you can just put on
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these special sunglasses, courtesy of the Resistance, and see that those
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around you are actually GLSBs. But I begin to plagiarize. The Oracle,
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being infinitely wise, knows that it is always time to go to sleep when
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you begin plagiarizing.
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Are computers good or bad? (You do not have to totally agree or disagree) Why?
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The Oracle has answered your question as follows:
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WEll, one must first consider if computers can
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truly BE. Then, we may decide if dey be good or dey be bad.
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I tend to think of a computer, at least THIS computer,
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as nothing more than an overgrown fancy automatic
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coffee machine, which doesn't even brew coffee well, at that.
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Is coffee bad? Well, that depends on it's source, the terror room
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being a prime example of truly BAD coffee, while one is
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hard pressed to come up with an instance of truly good coffee.
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Since the computer really can't even do such a simple thing as
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brew coffee, even bad coffee, one must conclude that it's
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designers didn't like coffee very much, although it is reasonable
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to suppose that they did indeed consume vast quantities of it.
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Why this discrepancy exists is a matter of further speculation
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which should perhaps be best contemplated by a system programmer
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pulling an all-nighter to meet a deadline.
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So, did the system's designer, under the influence of coffee,
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design a system which was good?
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I think not, as that most feared and dirty word, compromise
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must have also exerted quite an influence, and under the twin
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seductions of coffee and compromise, the designer could
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only have fallen into catatonia.
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How can I determine if I'm sane or insane?
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The Oracle has answered your question as follows:
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Flip a coin: If it comes up a polka-dotted grue, you are insane.
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If, however, it is the gold and silver herd of zebras chasing the
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witch's broom, you are perfectly sane.
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On the Master Lock commercials, why do they shoot the lock when picking
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it is so easy?
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The Oracle has answered your question as follows:
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Damn good question. Maybe they've never picked one themselves. Master
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Locks are the most pickable locks ever developed; the Guinness Stout Book
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of Irreproducible Records record that Peter ap Llacanwych holds the world
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record for Master Lock picking, 3,423 consecutively in just over six
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hours, with his teeth. (The Welsh are, however, very dextrous with their
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teeth.) Maybe they figure that the lock is so old and incompetent that it
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deserves a quick death.
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If nobody said something to somebody, would they be as mad as if
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another person had said something to somebody else?
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The Oracle has answered your question as follows:
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I hope you have studied logic to some degree or other, as to properly
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answer this question, we must delve into monadic predicate logic. I
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will begin with the premise that our society consists of all sorts of
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people, including those emotionally incapable of anger and those who
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become enraged at the slightest provocation. From this, we know that
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there exists an x, such that x is a person (Px) and x becomes enraged
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at the slightest provocation. That is, somebody becomes enraged at
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the slightest provocation. Call this particular instance of x, c.
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Thus, we know:
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Pc ^ Ec (I forgot to include that Ex means x becomes enraged at the
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slightest provocation.)
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where c=somebody
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By similar reasoning, there exists another arbitrary x (call it d)
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such that x is a person and x is emotionally incapable of anger (Ix).
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Thus:
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Pd ^ Id
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This allows us to say with confidence that somebody (c) would become
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far more angry than somebody else (d) regardless of the situation. Of
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course, each one is equally mad, as neither one has what we would call
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a stable mind-set. That, however, is more the realm of the psychologist
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than the logician. How fortunate that the Oracle is all things.
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Is selling class notes illegal and/or unethical?
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($2.50 cheap call 555-5742)
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The Oracle has answered your question as follows:
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Does it matter? Neither consideration affects much
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of the activities going on at Hopkins . . .
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Where can I get a full transcript of V.P. Bush's convention speech?
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Seriously.
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The Oracle has answered your question as follows:
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If you just want the useful and interesting information, "cat /dev/null"
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will do.
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What is the best use for:
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1 kg horsehair
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3 gallons of rice pudding
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and two hundred yards of library debit cards, laid end to end?
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The Oracle has answered your question as follows:
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To compute the value of pi. Use the debit cards to mark out a 25 by
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25 yard square, and inside the square a 25 yard radius quarter-circle.
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Now mix the horsehair with the glop, mold into a ball, and let dry.
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The repeatedly throw the ball to a random spot inside the 25 yard
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square. After several hundred iterations, the value of pi will be
|
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four times the ratio of the number of times the ball fell inside the
|
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quarter circle to the total number of times the ball was thrown.
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how come when ever anyone besides me does something on the computer, it works,
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but when i do the EXACT same thing, it doesn't?
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The Oracle has answered your question as follows:
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The computers today are smart. They have artificial intelligence and
|
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are making you a experimental subject for their research in cognitive
|
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science and human reasoning. You will soon find out that they have been
|
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running you and you are inferior to them. The will send a full analysis
|
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of your mental capabalities (if any) and your psychological behavior.
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What does "eyes only" mean? Do people often use their teeth to read?
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The Oracle has answered your question as follows:
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You laugh. However, scientific studies have shown that the rats in the
|
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deepest nether parts of the Milton S. Eisenhower Library are among the
|
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most knowledgeable rats in the world. Also, that the books in the deepest
|
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nether parts of the Milton S. Eisenhower are among the most rat-gnawed
|
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books in the world. Therefore, the conclusion is obvious: rats read with
|
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their teeth. With only a few exceptions, curiously enough including most
|
|
of the people who run the world, humans are more talented than rats.
|
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Therefor[Be, humans should also be able to read with their teeth. The
|
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Oracle therefore suggests that the Questioner take it upon himself to
|
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test this theory by stuffing the Encyclopedia Britannica down his throat.
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If all roads lead to Rome, how the hell do you get out of the city?
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The Oracle has answered your question as follows:
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Rome is, of course, world renowned for one of its greatest
|
|
contributions to history (and civil engineering): its roads.
|
|
However, this is not its only great invention/improvement. Certain
|
|
other roman practices, such as the orgy, still have fame and followers
|
|
in this day and age. This knowledge that the Romans had almost
|
|
comes close to impressing The Oracle.
|
|
The Romans, in their finite, but still rather powerful logic, foresaw
|
|
the problem that you have queried and made another great contribution
|
|
to history (and civil engineering): the sewer system. That's right.
|
|
In its final death throes Rome had the brilliant idea that anyone who
|
|
wanted to leave the Roman empire not only had to beat all of the
|
|
Roman Legions, they also had to clamber through the dank, smelly, grue
|
|
infested Roman sewers. This idea not only survives, albeit modifidied,
|
|
in the modern world, but prospers and is the subject of certain D movies:
|
|
C.H.U.D., Alligator, etc.
|
|
Truly, the Romans were quite devious.
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"The worms crawl in and the worms crawl out,
|
|
The ones that crawl in are weak and thin,
|
|
The ones that crawl out are fat and stout,
|
|
Your eyes fall in and your teeth fall out,
|
|
Your brains come tumbling down your snout,
|
|
Be merry, my friends, be merry. Uurrgghh."
|
|
|
|
So who wrote this originally?
|
|
|
|
The Oracle has answered your question as follows:
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|
|
|
The true original author of this was George Bush, talking to Ronald
|
|
Reagan. The little lecture on what really happens when you die fell
|
|
short of the desired effect, as Reagan did not appear to know what
|
|
a "brain" was. This was possibly from the results of introspection.
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THE REVISED M00SE ILLUMINATI SHORT-FORM ID FILE
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<Since we've received a few ID's which have been rather voluminous, we've
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decided to send this out again (with an addition made by Pickle). If you
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want your ID printed in one of the following issues of M00se Droppings,
|
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please fill this form out and send it to WITHALL@CTSTATEU. To those of
|
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you who *have* filled one out and sent it to us: we're kind of out of space
|
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in this issue, so we'll print yours starting with Issue number 22.>
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The short form..
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FNORDFNORDFNORDFNORDFNORDFNORDFNORDFNORDFNORDFNORDFNORDFNORDFNORDFNORDFNORDFNORD
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The Official M00se Illuminati Identification Form
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Chapter Name: ____________________________________________________
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Nickname(s): ____________________________________________________
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Life Form: ____________________________________________________
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Sex: Male ___ Female ___ Hermaphrodite ___ Other ___
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Net Address: ________@________ Purity Quotient: _______%
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Description: ____________________________________________________
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____________________________________________________
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____________________________________________________
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Favourite Saying: ____________________________________________________
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Other Stuff: ____________________________________________________
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This week we are proud to introduce the ID's of Scamp and Guardian Angel..
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The Official M00se Illuminati Identification Form
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Chapter Name: Becki Tants
|
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Nickname(s): Scamp, Becki, Hey Wench!, Roo
|
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Life Form: Tavern Wench, Flirt
|
|
Sex: Male ___ Female XXX Hermaphrodite ___ Other ___
|
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Net Address: RETANTS@SUNRISE Purity Quotient: ~_58.0%
|
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Description: Extremely Sexy (I can provide references ;-) Buxom
|
|
Wench of the best sort...open mouthed (in several
|
|
ways) Saucy, Big brown eyes that speak volumes,
|
|
and shoulder length brownish, reddish blond hair.
|
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Favourite Saying: Love the one you're with, especially if he has longer
|
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hair then you do.
|
|
Other Stuff: Makes money working miracles for General Electric
|
|
so that she can afford her rather expensive lifestyle,
|
|
can hold her mead well, LOVES TO FLIRT, plays role
|
|
playing games, listens to lots of music, but loves
|
|
heavy metal the best (see note about mens hair length)
|
|
and loves to drive (usually like a maniac, or so i'm told).
|
|
CHOCOHOLIC is an understatement, and is one of the 3
|
|
founding members of "The Girls from Syracuse". Can take
|
|
a reasonable amount of credit for Lynx's dirty mind.
|
|
|
|
By the way, I guess this might be called an OFFICIAL Scamp Sighting.
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From Guardian Angel.. O:-)
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|
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Chapter Name: Kevin Pelletier
|
|
Nickname: Nick. Nick Name.
|
|
Life Form: Androseptarian. A small class of four legged winged creatures
|
|
inhabiting most of the known Andromeda galaxy around 132nd
|
|
street.
|
|
Sex: ONLY with goblins...
|
|
Net Address: For fiscal year 1988, 1.2 million. Or Kevin@Loyvax
|
|
Purity Quotient: .00000000000000000000000000000000005% (My left toenail only.)
|
|
Description: 5 feet 14 inches, sandy blond hair, partially due to a lack
|
|
of washing since my last trip to the ocean. Blue eyes, Irish
|
|
Throughout. Piano Player, influenced by George Winston, Kitaro,
|
|
and, of course, the deeply mellow Androseptarian chants of the
|
|
Four Year Mating Season. (What a time that is!)
|
|
Favorite Saying: Grrxxflipstomyr Trruilic. A beautiful Androseptarian saying
|
|
meaning (roughly) in english, "Stop that cat, the car has fallen
|
|
from the sky on my toe."
|
|
Favorite Cartoonist: Gary Larson or Berke Brethead.
|
|
Favorite Cartoon Line: Larson's Moby Dick..."Call me Ralph-no, Call me Frank.."
|
|
Unfavorite Saying: "Not tonight, I have a large throbbing sensation in my mid
|
|
cereberal cortex." I hate when they say that...
|
|
Personality: What, you have to ask???
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This week, for all those of you who have lost, deleted, folded, bended,
|
|
spindled, or mutilated your old copy of the M00se List: A fresh new one!
|
|
|
|
Notes about the New List: Wolverine is now known as Lord Trelf, and both
|
|
he and Lord Sabre now have new net addresses.
|
|
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TOTAL CHAPTERS: 141
|
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THRONG/CHAPTER USERID NODE NAME
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Alaska thr0ng FSDEM2 @ ALASKA Mugwump
|
|
(5 chapters) FSJBK @ ALASKA G00se
|
|
JSJPC1 @ ALASKA Jonathan
|
|
RECS012 @ ALASKA B00gle
|
|
TSJV @ ALASKA Boogel
|
|
|
|
Binghamton thr0ng FR0130 @ BINGVMA Pig Dung
|
|
(2 chapters) FR0250 @ BINGVMA Red Rock Mud Puddle
|
|
|
|
Boston University thr0ng CLXLAUC @ BUACCA Rorshach
|
|
(3 chapters) ENLDC8C @ BUACCA Paladin
|
|
LAN @ BUCSF.BU.EDU
|
|
Larry Nathanson
|
|
|
|
Brockport thr0ng DS1437 @ BROCK1P Don Schleede
|
|
(3 chapters) KG5927 @ BROCK1P Fry-Guy
|
|
MW2440 @ BROCK1P FryM00se
|
|
|
|
Bucknell University chapter SHAFFERJ @ BKNLVMS James Shaffer
|
|
|
|
Buffalo thr0ng V054NN84 @ UBVMSA Foto/PacifistM00se
|
|
(25 chapters) V109MEN5 @ UBVMSC 0.Dm00se
|
|
V117MG7B @ UBVMSC Olu
|
|
V123P62M @ UBVMSC Lorelei
|
|
V047KFZ7 @ UBVMSD Roachm00se
|
|
V051Q576 @ UBVMSD The Rivina
|
|
V056GZPK @ UBVMSD BritM00se
|
|
V065L4KV @ UBVMSD Donald Duck
|
|
V067LUFD @ UBVMSD Riff, DeathM00se
|
|
V068GZ8E @ UBVMSD Evil
|
|
V068KY46 @ UBVMSD Ineedanickname
|
|
V068MVHU @ UBVMSD Brandy
|
|
V078QM32 @ UBVMSD F00nels
|
|
V083PBXV @ UBVMSD Sindar
|
|
V085PWPZ @ UBVMSD Valerie. :)
|
|
V096NHDQ @ UBVMSD Chris M00spaw
|
|
V097NQQG @ UBVMSD EXPL0RER 01
|
|
V098PZJD @ UBVMSD Cardinal M00se
|
|
V101PYRW @ UBVMSD Villager M00se
|
|
V110JQ34 @ UBVMSD The Reverend M00ster
|
|
V116PFFT @ UBVMSD Zem00se
|
|
V122QQVZ @ UBVMSD Sweeper M00se
|
|
V133NNUW @ UBVMSD BigBadM00se
|
|
V291NHTP @ UBVMSD WarM00se, DangerM00se
|
|
IN%"JJZ @ S.CC.PURDUE.EDU"
|
|
ChickenM00se
|
|
|
|
Canisius College chapter MI245A25 @ CANISIUS Canisius M00se
|
|
|
|
Connecticut College chapter IJDIC @ CONNCOLL Scub
|
|
|
|
Connecticut State U thr0ng CLAFFEY_JOR @ CTSTATEU Indiana Joe
|
|
(7 chapters) COLANGELO @ CTSTATEU Ken Colangelo
|
|
CRAMER @ CTSTATEU Scopus
|
|
HENNEQUI_WEM @ CTSTATEU Anonym00se
|
|
LEE_JES @ CTSTATEU SalmonM00se
|
|
PHINNEY_AVK @ CTSTATEU Phredde
|
|
WITHALL @ CTSTATEU Hobgoblin/Vegi-M00se
|
|
|
|
Cornell thr0ng CBRY @ CORNELLA Ladykate
|
|
(2 chapters) ZEMANIAN%CHEME.DECNET @ CHEME.TN.CORNELL.EDU
|
|
Spaceman Biff
|
|
|
|
CUNY Thr0ng P02QC @ CUNYVM Mike
|
|
(2 chapters) S99QC @ CUNYVM Yossi
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|
|
|
Drew chapter MHEAD @ DREW Drewid
|
|
|
|
HABiT (H0use 0f Ap0stles DB06103 @ UAFSYSB M00se Man
|
|
0f Biggles Thr0ng) DB06103 @ UAFSYSB Ms. M00se
|
|
(4 chapters) JC06081 @ UAFSYSB Nemesis Milph
|
|
SH06078 @ UAFSYSB Dave T. Dead/R0b0p0pe
|
|
|
|
Hartford thr0ng AHRENS @ HARTFORD Wrangle
|
|
(7 chapters) AROTH @ HARTFORD Rocket
|
|
BEAUBIEN @ HARTFORD Sindex
|
|
DICKSON @ HARTFORD Pickle/MOON ROACH!
|
|
ROSSI @ HARTFORD The Chairman
|
|
SZIMMERM @ HARTFORD Greymalkin
|
|
WEIMAN @ HARTFORD Rhiannon/Sushi
|
|
|
|
Haverford thr0ng K_KRAVITZ @ HVRFORD Q.
|
|
(2 chapters) S_BLINN @ HVRFORD Sean Blinn
|
|
|
|
Johns Hopkins U Chapter INS_AHJE @ JHUVMS Spocko
|
|
|
|
Lansing, NY thr0ng B45J @ CORNELLA Sabre
|
|
(4 chapters) B45J @ CRNLVAX5 Half-Elf
|
|
B45J @ CRNLVAX5 The Innkeeper
|
|
TQMY @ CRNLVAX5 Lord Trelf
|
|
|
|
Loyola thr0ng FRANK @ LOYVAX Spank
|
|
(9 chapters) GAIL @ LOYVAX Sybil
|
|
KEVIN @ LOYVAX
|
|
Mr. Sparebuttonssuppliedwithhisshirt
|
|
MARKUS @ LOYVAX Markus
|
|
MARY_BETH @ LOYVAX Cinderella
|
|
PAMELA @ LOYVAX Mommydammit
|
|
STASA @ LOYVAX Phoenix
|
|
TERESA @ LOYVAX Teresa
|
|
VANIDOR @ LOYVAX Vanidor
|
|
|
|
Maine chapter IO80222 @ MAINE Rainmaker
|
|
|
|
North Dakota State U. chapter UD140680 @ NDSUVM1 The Anachronist
|
|
|
|
Northeastern U. chapter ACM_MDB @ NUHUB The_Sage
|
|
|
|
Nova Scotia chapter 01GORF @ DALAC Terry Grignon
|
|
|
|
0ber0n Trading Thr0ng ST5616 @ SIUCVMB QuantumCat
|
|
(2 chapters) ST6344 @ SIUCVMB Black_D0G the pirate
|
|
|
|
Old Dominion University thr0ng LBS100S @ ODUVM (nick unknown)
|
|
(3 chapters) MRH100C @ ODUVM Frizbog Gordnik
|
|
SAB100C @ ODUVM Sandi Bedford
|
|
|
|
Penn State thr0ng JLA @ HOGBBS.FIDONET.ORG
|
|
(3 chapters) James L. Anderson
|
|
MSP @ PSUECL Mark S. Pfaff
|
|
WCF @ PSUECL Bill Fenner
|
|
|
|
Portland thr0ng IP60591 @ PORTLAND Centauri
|
|
(4 chapters) IP75004 @ PORTLAND Blazer
|
|
IP85014 @ PORTLAND qwerty
|
|
IP85033 @ PORTLAND Mitsya the Red M00se
|
|
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|
Pratt Institute chapter TPIERCE @ PRATT Fnordius Flavius
|
|
|
|
Purdue thr0ng PATWHITE @ PURCCVM Patrick White
|
|
(2 chapters) XD2W @ PURCCVM FoxM00se
|
|
|
|
Siberacuse thr0ng CRUSSELL @ SUNRISE GypsyLynx
|
|
(8 chapters) DPFLINT @ SUNRISE Sandman
|
|
JBANKERT @ SUNRISE CHAOS Engineer
|
|
RABEELER @ SUNRISE Beez
|
|
RETANTS @ SUNRISE Scamp
|
|
VASISON @ SUNRISE Vince Sison
|
|
LIBISU2 @ SUVM Guardian Angel
|
|
LIBLJR @ SUVM Niniane
|
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Stony Brook thr0ng FNORD @ SBCCVM Fnord
|
|
(4 chapters) JROSENSH @ SBCCVM Joanne Rosenshein
|
|
RRKHAN @ SBCCVM Romel
|
|
WALL @ SBCCVM Wall
|
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|
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Sweden chapter ICE @ SEQZ51 Ice
|
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Towson State U. chapter S76NING @ TOWSONVX Repression
|
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Trinity thr0ng CWELLER @ TRINCC Din0m00se
|
|
(4 chapters) FANTASYG @ TRINCC Trinity Fantasy Guild
|
|
OPER3 @ TRINCC Razz
|
|
REWING @ TRINCC Slick Rick
|
|
|
|
U California Riverside chapter WATKINS @ UCRVMS Kevin
|
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|
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UConn chapter WALLFESH @ UCONNVM Sande
|
|
|
|
University of Missouri chapter C482529 @ UMCVMB Count_Zero
|
|
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|
U of New Hampshire chapter J_BUTMAN @ UNHH Oliver
|
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|
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U Regina chapter BLACKWEL @ UREGINA1 Ron
|
|
|
|
U of Vermont chapter DZUCKER @ UVMVM dzucker
|
|
|
|
Villanova thr0ng 054649739 @ VUVAXCOM Squish
|
|
(6 chapters) 188622462 @ VUVAXCOM Kamikaze
|
|
580074787 @ VUVAXCOM Fiben
|
|
59401463 @ VUVAXCOM Starscream
|
|
SWORD05 @ VUVAXCOM Ford Prefect
|
|
WATER @ VUVAXCOM The Doctor
|
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Washington State U. thr0ng 24945863 @ WSUVM1 Bard
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