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From: TURTLE
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To: RUFUS
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Subject: sick
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Date & Time: 01/29/90 14:39:24
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Message Number 1603
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You'd better check your temperature, boy; I think you're delirious.
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EVERYONE knows the only reason Nastassia likes you is your Cal Arts
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tape... }:>
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From: TURTLE
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To: RUFUS
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Subject: 4096 colors
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Date & Time: 01/29/90 14:40:57
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Message Number 1604
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I dunno if I'd say the movie had /no/ value; I rather liked the idea
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of a programmable "environment chamber" where you can...um, experience
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exotic surroundings. (Yeah! Yeah, that's it!) The rest of the movie
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was kinda lame, though.
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From: TURTLE
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To: CHIP P. UNICORN
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Subject: Simulated crime
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Date & Time: 01/29/90 14:43:49
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Message Number 1605
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Of course some policemen have brains that work. Maybe not in Florida,
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but I'm sure some policemen have brains that work. That just makes
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things interesting.
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From: TURTLE
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To: KEN OBER
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Subject: Did I Tell You?
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Date & Time: 01/29/90 14:46:41
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Message Number 1606
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Happy Birthday, doode!
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(c) 1990 The Death To You All greeting card company.
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From: YNGLING
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To: TURTLE
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Subject: stoorkeeper
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Date & Time: 01/29/90 16:57:52
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Message Number 1607
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STOORKEEPER (n.) one who keeps stoors.
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From: YNGLING
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To: TURTLE
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Subject: abortions...
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Date & Time: 01/29/90 17:00:26
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Message Number 1608
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I have never been one to "force" my beliefs down the throats of others.
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However, if I witness a homicide in progress, I will do what I can to
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prevent it - and until someone convinces me otherwise I consider
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abortion murder. I dont believe in sitting around bitching about the
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state of the world around me - I believe that it is my right to do
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whatever I want to recreate the world in my image (and it is everyone
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else's right to try and stop me if they wish). Now, I know there ap-
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pears to be a contradiction within this message but there really isnt.
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I continue in my efforts to change things but I try not to be obnoxious
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about it. And by the way...I may not be willing to adopt every unwant-
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ed child on the planet but I would be willing to provide contraceptives
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to any who could not afford or obtain them by themselves.
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From: YNGLING
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To: TURTLE
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Subject: Colorization
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Date & Time: 01/29/90 17:10:53
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Message Number 1609
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[My, arent we an antogonistic Turtle today...]
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I've tried that, it still alters the contrasting tones.
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From: YNGLING
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To: BEATLE
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Subject: Casablanca
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Date & Time: 01/29/90 17:14:07
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Message Number 1610
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Well, I guess Turner is a dead man then. Pity...I'd hoped to avoid in-
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carceration this lifetime. Perhaps I could find a jury who would agree
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that it was justifiable homicide......
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From: YNGLING
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To: CHIP P. UNICORN
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Subject: abortions...
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Date & Time: 01/29/90 17:18:42
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Message Number 1611
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Dear Chip:
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I'm sorry but I cannot view dismemberment of a living being as a
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"necessary evil." If there were a more humane method of aborting, or
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if legislation would place a restriction re: the age of the fetus so
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that dismemberment abortions were prevented, then I might consider
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changing my support.
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Don't worry - I have never been one to use abstention as an
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arguement for prevention. It doesn't work on ANY scale.
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The Yngling
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From: RUFUS
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To: CHIP P. UNICORN
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Subject: 2nd Generation
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Date & Time: 01/29/90 18:01:55
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Message Number 1612
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I'd be willing to go to California if:
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1) I had the money.
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2) My folks said "O.K., call when ya get there."
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3) I had a really valid reason to go to California.
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From: RUFUS
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To: CHIP P. UNICORN
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Subject: sick
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Date & Time: 01/29/90 18:04:01
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Message Number 1613
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>5% alcohol? That's it? Sheesh...
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Well, your not supposed to get drunk off the stuff.
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From: RUFUS
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To: KEN OBER
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Subject: Did I Tell You?
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Date & Time: 01/29/90 18:08:07
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Message Number 1614
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Happy birthday, is the party this weekend? I hear Chip always brings
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a big Chocolate Chip cookie.
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From: RUFUS
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To: TURTLE
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Subject: sick
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Date & Time: 01/29/90 18:09:05
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Message Number 1615
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Actually, my tale reminds her of that picture she did "...and the
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Serpent." (I think that's the title, I know it has a snake) Of course,
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I could be delirious.
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From: DONTHEN
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To: RUFUS
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Subject: 2nd Generation
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Date & Time: 01/29/90 19:56:15
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Message Number 1616
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> 3) I had a really valid reason to go to California.
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(1) The San Diego Comic Con. (2) The Furry Parties at the San Diego
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Comic Con. (3) The other parties at the San Diego Comic Con.
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(4) That neat mall next to the hotel the Furry Parties were held in.
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See, there's four valid reasons already.
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From: RUFUS
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To: DONTHEN
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Subject: 2nd Generation
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Date & Time: 01/29/90 21:26:49
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Message Number 1617
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Well, right at this moment, I have no reason to go. But I'l agree,
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those are four VERY good reasons. Getting the money would be the easy
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part, now point 2 is, to say the least, a major problem.
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From: THE ONE
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To: TURTLE
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Subject: Hello...
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Date & Time: 01/30/90 01:12:31
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Message Number 1620
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Give them my number please. I am desperate........
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For callers...
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From: CHARLES DITTELL
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To: SAURON
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Subject: SCBBS to Sauron
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Date & Time: 01/30/90 12:51:02
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Message Number 1621
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Doing well! How are you doing: give a call:
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unique games, great conversation!
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'em in!
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===========
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From: MIKE L
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To: ALL
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Subject: RIFLE FOR SALE
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Date & Time: 01/30/90 17:36:36
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Message Number 1622
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I HAVE A PELLET/BB RIFLE WITH A SCOPE ON IT FOR SALE
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IT IS THE MOST POWERFUL AIR GUN OF ITS TYPE AT 1760 FPS
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WILL SELL FOR 45$
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From: KEN OBER
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To: RUFUS
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Subject: All In Favor Of
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Date & Time: 01/30/90 19:23:53
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Message Number 1623
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All in favor of me going to college in California say "I"!!!!!!
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From: KEN OBER
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To: RUFUS
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Subject: EErr..
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Date & Time: 01/30/90 19:24:39
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Message Number 1624
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No, T'was /last/ weekend....DIdn't really have any sort of party, tho...
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REMOTE CONTROL! - 378-2218 - 300/1200 Baud
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(ACK! And NO, my 2400 is somewhere between Oregon and here!)
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From: RUFUS
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To: KEN OBER
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Subject: EErr..
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Date & Time: 01/30/90 20:39:23
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Message Number 1626
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Well, why not have a party this weekend. Maybe someone would give you
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an MSTF application for your birthday!
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From: KEN OBER
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To: RUFUS
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Subject: eerr...
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Date & Time: 01/31/90 12:55:21
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Message Number 1628
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Well, maybe I should....it'd be pretty fun to have a party this weekend.
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But where would we have it, and is Bart seriously going to give me an
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MSTF application???
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From: RUFUS
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To: KEN OBER
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Subject: eerr...
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Date & Time: 01/31/90 17:34:50
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Message Number 1629
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Your rich, rent a banquet hall! I'm sure if you had a party we could
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get you an MSTF application.
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===========
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From: SAURON
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To: CHIP P. UNICORN
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Subject: VGA
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Date & Time: 01/31/90 18:07:53
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Message Number 1630
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Someone's in the wrong message chain. I suspect it's me.
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From: SAURON
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To: DONTHEN
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Subject: VGA
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Date & Time: 01/31/90 18:09:55
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Message Number 1631
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What /I MEANT WAS/ if anyone tells you their color perception is
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sharper than 4096 colors allows...they ought to be touching up the
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Sistine chapel. (did I spell that right?)
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OK Chip - I got the gist of it now.
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===========
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From: SAURON
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To: BEATLE
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Subject: VGA
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Date & Time: 01/31/90 18:13:18
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Message Number 1632
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Oh, like a mere 3 or 4 thousand don't look realistic?
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From: SAURON
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To: YNGLING
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Subject: Colorization
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Date & Time: 01/31/90 18:15:32
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Message Number 1633
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What's the story on you guys? Is it so difficult to turn your color
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control counter-clockwise? Much ado about nothing.
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From: SAURON
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To: TURTLE
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Subject: Colorization
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Date & Time: 01/31/90 18:18:28
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Message Number 1634
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Bovine Excretia!! You beat me to the punch on that one. (I've already
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posted an almost identical response)
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From: SAURON
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To: DONTHEN
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Subject: Ice Pirates
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Date & Time: 01/31/90 18:22:10
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Message Number 1635
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Ron was wearing that heavy makeup because his face looks like a 47'
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Nash fuel pump.
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From: SAURON
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To: TURTLE
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Subject: Did I Tell You?
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Date & Time: 01/31/90 18:24:17
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Message Number 1636
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C-Net automatically wishes you a "Happy Birthday" Hehehehe
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===========
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From: SAURON
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To: CHIP P. UNICORN
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Subject: abortions...
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Date & Time: 01/31/90 18:28:32
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Message Number 1637
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Fairly thoughtful views there Chip. Good show.
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From: SAURON
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To: BEATLE
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Subject: abortions...
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Date & Time: 01/31/90 18:30:02
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Message Number 1638
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Read C.M. Kornbluth's "The Marching Morons" sometime. All will become
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clear.
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From: SAURON
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To: YNGLING
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Subject: abortions...
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Date & Time: 01/31/90 18:31:39
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Message Number 1639
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Thank you. That's all I've been saying for over a year.
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From: SAURON
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To: TURTLE
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Subject: Simulated crime
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Date & Time: 01/31/90 18:32:43
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Message Number 1640
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A stoorkeeper is one who trains members of one of the three strains of
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Hobbit.
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From: SAURON
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To: TURTLE
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Subject: abortions...
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Date & Time: 01/31/90 18:34:09
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Message Number 1641
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Let me "impose" one of MY views on you; Homicide is unlawful.
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From: KEN OBER
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To: RUFUS
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Subject: Who Me?
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Date & Time: 01/31/90 18:47:52
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Message Number 1642
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Rich!? SInce when!? I'm not rich until my parents die and I get
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what's left over! :)
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From: DONTHEN
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To: SAURON
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Subject: VGA
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Date & Time: 01/31/90 20:35:29
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Message Number 1643
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4096 colors is only 16 levels for each primary color. The difference
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between each level may not be astounding, but it's quite noticeable,
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especially the brighter the colors get -- if you take a picture that's
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been created with 256 levels per color (a 16 million color palette) and
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display it side-by-side on a Mac II and an Amiga, the Mac II one will
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have perceptibly smoother shading. Minor quibbles, to be sure, but the
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human eye can distinguish around 2 million distinct hues.
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From: TURTLE
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To: MIKE L
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Subject: RIFLE FOR SALE
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Date & Time: 01/31/90 23:16:19
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Message Number 1645
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Who makes it, and what kind of scope? I might possibly be interested;
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I also know someone who almost certainly will be.
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From: TURTLE
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To: SAURON
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Subject: Simulated crime
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Date & Time: 01/31/90 23:20:25
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Message Number 1646
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So how do I become a stoorkeeper? I want to engage in simulated crime
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for fun and profit, and Chip says stoorkeepers are the people who get
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to do it.
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From: TURTLE
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To: SAURON
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Subject: abortions...
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Date & Time: 01/31/90 23:21:27
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Message Number 1647
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>...Homicide is unlawful.
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So is jaywalking. Abortion, however, is not. Let us get our terms
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straight here: abortion is not murder for the simple reason that you
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can't murder something that is not a sentient being, any more than
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you can murder a blade of grass.
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From: YNGLING
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To: SAURON
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Subject: Colorization
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Date & Time: 02/01/90 17:11:50
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Message Number 1649
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Next thing you know you'll be suggesting that we take up painting-by-
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numbers. True art should not be tampered with. Period.
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From: YNGLING
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To: SAURON
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Subject: abortions...
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Date & Time: 02/01/90 17:16:33
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Message Number 1650
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Thats ALL youve been saying for over a year? Over and over again?
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Man, talk about a bad year.
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From: YNGLING
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To: ALL
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Subject: Dolphins & Tuna
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Date & Time: 02/01/90 17:19:18
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Message Number 1651
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This follows my earlier message re: the killing of dolphins by tuna
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fishermen.
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I received a letter today from the president of Van Camp Seafood
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(Chicken of the Sea) which was a reply to a letter I had sent him. In
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it he stated the following:
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"...only about 3.5% of our tuna purchases was yellowfin tuna caught
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by foreign sources...we strongly believe that a complete cessation of
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these purchases would have eliminated any desire of these parties to wor
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k with us to further reduce dolphin mortality."
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He also sent me some "information" which he felt I should have which
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included the statement: "The purse-seine fishing method...is the only
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known technique known which can catch the quantities recquired by the
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international canned tuna market."
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After reading this I feel like coughing up a hairball. But now I
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understand...we HAVE to slaughter the dolphins or else we cant have
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tuna cassarole on Saturday.
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If any of you would like to write to this asshole (and I REALLY hope
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some of you will): J. E. Munoz, President
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Van Camp Seafood Co.
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11555 Sorrento Valley Rd, Suite 100
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San Diego, CA 92121-1396
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or: FAX# 619-481-9344.
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Thank you for reading this.
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From: PSYCHE
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To: DONTHEN
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Subject: Bionic VGA eyes
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Date & Time: 02/01/90 21:38:39
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Message Number 1653
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Not to quibble, but the average human eye can distinguish more like 7
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million distinct hues. Of course, that hardly matters since we rarely
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are presented with all 7 million hues at the same time. Sure, we can
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see them, but we certainly don't need them. 4096 or whatever is plenty
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of variety for me, thank you very much.
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Anyway, one can't even look at a single object like a sheet of paper
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without being exposed to different hues. Perhaps the eye can distin-
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guish them, but if they're all from the same entity, the brain doesn't
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bother to say, "HEY! THESES ARE DIFFERENT COLORS," because it will
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confuse itself - even though the different percepted hues are caused
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entirely by an uneven light spread or by slightly different inks used
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in the same sheet of paper because they ran out when they were halfway
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through manufacturing the sheet (surely you must buy that one.)
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Of course I don't have the sources handy to back that up, but trust
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me - it's true. If I spent all of my time looking back through every
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piece of information I've ever read in order to correctly document my
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sources, they I simply wouldn't have the time to grace this board with
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my presence. I also wouldn't be able to stand doing so, because then
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I could not afford to enter these rambling, extremely confused states
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such as the one I am in now. ZZZZZZZZZZZZZZZZZZZZZZZZZZZZZZZZZZZZZZZZ.
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From: CHIP P. UNICORN
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To: CORWYN OF AMBER
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Subject: God & Stuff
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Date & Time: 02/02/90 00:55:10
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Message Number 1654
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|
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>Karsten's pretty nice in general... but a /god/ ???
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|
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He was just appointed quasigod status by the Committee That Oversees
|
||
Gods, Demigods, Angels, Demons, and Chocolate (C.T.O.G.D.A.D.C.) for
|
||
his work reforming New College students.
|
||
Chip P. Unicorn
|
||
===========
|
||
|
||
From: CHIP P. UNICORN
|
||
To: KEN OBER
|
||
Subject: OAG
|
||
Date & Time: 02/02/90 00:57:42
|
||
Message Number 1655
|
||
|
||
Dear Ken,
|
||
You said a mutual friend spent $1000 on Compuserve. How many
|
||
airline tickets did he buy, was my response.
|
||
Chip P. Unicorn
|
||
===========
|
||
|
||
From: CHIP P. UNICORN
|
||
To: RUFUS
|
||
Subject: 2nd Generation
|
||
Date & Time: 02/02/90 01:06:32
|
||
Message Number 1656
|
||
|
||
The third one is the easiest to find a solution for: there's
|
||
always the beach.
|
||
The second is easy to fix, as well... tell your parents you're
|
||
going off to see a good friend. (Just don't tell them who.)
|
||
The first is, of course, a problem.
|
||
Chip P. Unicorn
|
||
===========
|
||
|
||
From: CHIP P. UNICORN
|
||
To: RUFUS
|
||
Subject: sick
|
||
Date & Time: 02/02/90 01:08:16
|
||
Message Number 1657
|
||
|
||
You're not supposed to get drunk off of the medicine? Sheesh... what's
|
||
it good for, then? It even tastes lousy...
|
||
Chip P. Unicorn
|
||
===========
|
||
|
||
From: CHIP P. UNICORN
|
||
To: KEN OBER
|
||
Subject: All In Favor Of
|
||
Date & Time: 02/02/90 01:10:33
|
||
Message Number 1658
|
||
|
||
Sure. I. Which college?
|
||
Chip P. Unicorn
|
||
===========
|
||
|
||
From: CHIP P. UNICORN
|
||
To: SAURON
|
||
Subject: abortions...
|
||
Date & Time: 02/02/90 01:15:29
|
||
Message Number 1659
|
||
|
||
Thanks, Sauron. I stick by my guns. Having gone from the most conser-
|
||
vative high school in Florida to the most liberal college in the
|
||
nation has caused me a lot of confusion, but my political ideas are
|
||
finally solidifying.
|
||
Chip P. Unicorn
|
||
===========
|
||
|
||
From: CHIP P. UNICORN
|
||
To: SAURON
|
||
Subject: abortions...
|
||
Date & Time: 02/02/90 01:17:41
|
||
Message Number 1660
|
||
|
||
Dear Sauron,
|
||
Silly law, isn't it? And I'll wager that there's not ONE law on
|
||
the books prohibiting unicornocide. Or applecider.
|
||
Chip P. Unicorn
|
||
===========
|
||
|
||
From: BLACK MAGIC
|
||
To: TURTLE
|
||
Subject: No Problem!
|
||
Date & Time: 02/02/90 01:55:22
|
||
Message Number 1662
|
||
|
||
Thanx....much obliged!
|
||
Black Magic
|
||
===========
|
||
|
||
From: BLACK MAGIC
|
||
To: YNGLING
|
||
Subject: Dolphins & Tuna
|
||
Date & Time: 02/02/90 02:02:12
|
||
Message Number 1663
|
||
|
||
See, we do agree....my letter is in the mail!
|
||
Black Magic
|
||
===========
|
||
|
||
From: KEN OBER
|
||
To: CHIP P. UNICORN
|
||
Subject: Airline Tics
|
||
Date & Time: 02/02/90 13:26:26
|
||
Message Number 1664
|
||
|
||
None. JUst sopent hours online chatting with people...
|
||
===========
|
||
|
||
From: KEN OBER
|
||
To: CHIP P. UNICORN
|
||
Subject: College
|
||
Date & Time: 02/02/90 13:27:06
|
||
Message Number 1665
|
||
|
||
Beats me...whichever will accept me! :)
|
||
===========
|
||
|
||
From: ETC...
|
||
To: KEN OBER
|
||
Subject: Airline Tics
|
||
Date & Time: 02/02/90 15:34:16
|
||
Message Number 1666
|
||
|
||
HoUrS? HoW AbOuT WeEkS!
|
||
|
||
etc...
|
||
===========
|
||
|
||
From: CORWYN OF AMBER
|
||
To: PSYCHE
|
||
Subject: Bionic VGA eyes
|
||
Date & Time: 02/02/90 15:59:46
|
||
Message Number 1668
|
||
|
||
To the best of my knowledge, your earlier response is correct, but it
|
||
overlooks the fact that we evaluate a picture both conciously and
|
||
unconciously. A 16 million color (Sun Graphics Terminal) will "seem" to
|
||
be more realistic than an 8 million color version on the same screen.
|
||
You may not be able to distinguish 2 shades when they are put side by
|
||
side, but by using the incredible variety available to reproduce shading
|
||
and textures, a picture will give an impression of realism.
|
||
|
||
- Corwyn
|
||
===========
|
||
|
||
From: RUFUS
|
||
To: CHIP P. UNICORN
|
||
Subject: 2nd Generation
|
||
Date & Time: 02/02/90 16:21:50
|
||
Message Number 1669
|
||
|
||
Ahem, at the furry party, I had to draw a map to get to Franklins.
|
||
But at RufusCon, Bart drew the map and he placed Turtle's place about
|
||
3 miles North of the airport on 41.
|
||
===========
|
||
|
||
From: CHIP P. UNICORN
|
||
To: KEN OBER
|
||
Subject: College
|
||
Date & Time: 02/02/90 19:02:07
|
||
Message Number 1670
|
||
|
||
Dear Ken,
|
||
well... best of luck. And keep in touch!
|
||
Chip P. Unicorn
|
||
===========
|
||
|
||
From: CHIP P. UNICORN
|
||
To: RUFUS
|
||
Subject: 2nd Generation
|
||
Date & Time: 02/02/90 19:03:20
|
||
Message Number 1671
|
||
|
||
Dear Rufus,
|
||
Details. Details. Details. Maybe that was another furry party he
|
||
was planning to sneak off to when no one was looking.
|
||
Chip P. Unicorn
|
||
===========
|
||
|
||
From: TURTLE
|
||
To: ETC...
|
||
Subject: Airline Tics
|
||
Date & Time: 02/02/90 20:12:09
|
||
Message Number 1673
|
||
|
||
YoU kNoW, yOuR hAnDlE iS tHe SaMe As ThE nAmE oF a WeIrD cOmIc BoOk
|
||
LiNe By PiRhAnA pReSs...aLtHoUgH I bEt yOu DoN't CaRe.
|
||
ThErE's SoMeThInG vAgUeLy DiStUrBiNg AbOuT tHe WaY yOu EnTeR mEsSaGeS,
|
||
bUt I cAn'T qUiTe PuT mY fInGeR oN wHaT iT iS...
|
||
--A vAgUeLy DiStUrBeD TuRtLe
|
||
===========
|
||
|
||
From: RUFUS
|
||
To: CHIP P. UNICORN
|
||
Subject: 2nd Generation
|
||
Date & Time: 02/02/90 22:37:58
|
||
Message Number 1675
|
||
|
||
No, Bart just made a very nice, very wrong map. BUT, he was gone for
|
||
some time in the middle of the party.
|
||
===========
|
||
|
||
From: YNGLING
|
||
To: CHIP P. UNICORN
|
||
Subject: God & Stuff
|
||
Date & Time: 02/02/90 23:04:31
|
||
Message Number 1676
|
||
|
||
Reforming them into what? And what was wrong with their original form?
|
||
===========
|
||
|
||
From: YNGLING
|
||
To: BLACK MAGIC
|
||
Subject: Dolphins & Tuna
|
||
Date & Time: 02/02/90 23:06:27
|
||
Message Number 1677
|
||
|
||
If you would like the addresses of the presidents and CEO's of other
|
||
corporations which are also responsible for the slaughter of the
|
||
dolphin species let me know.
|
||
The Yngling
|
||
===========
|
||
|
||
From: YNGLING
|
||
To: TURTLE
|
||
Subject: Airline Tics
|
||
Date & Time: 02/02/90 23:10:58
|
||
Message Number 1678
|
||
|
||
iF yOU KeEp HArRaSsInG neW UsERs ABoUt tHeiR tyPiNg SKiLls THeY woNt
|
||
cALl BAcK.
|
||
===========
|
||
|
||
From: KEN OBER
|
||
To: CHIP P. UNICORN
|
||
Subject: Well,,,
|
||
Date & Time: 02/02/90 23:16:31
|
||
Message Number 1679
|
||
|
||
it isn'T like I'm leaving in the next few days or anything...It'll
|
||
still be eerr....atleast 2 years! hehehehe (In world-famous Turtle
|
||
voice) :)
|
||
===========
|
||
|
||
From: NERISSA
|
||
To: TURTLE
|
||
Subject: to say hello
|
||
Date & Time: 02/03/90 01:14:23
|
||
Message Number 1680
|
||
|
||
just typing hello again its beenawile
|
||
===========
|
||
|
||
From: TURTLE
|
||
To: NERISSA
|
||
Subject: to say hello
|
||
Date & Time: 02/03/90 04:53:09
|
||
Message Number 1681
|
||
|
||
Hello to you, as well! What's up?
|
||
===========
|
||
|
||
From: ETC...
|
||
To: TURTLE
|
||
Subject: MeSsAgEs
|
||
Date & Time: 02/03/90 10:41:50
|
||
Message Number 1682
|
||
|
||
YeAh IvE BeEn NoTiCiNg ThAt ToO...
|
||
WeLl WhEn YoU FiGuRe It OuT PlEaSe LeT Me KnOw!
|
||
|
||
Etc...
|
||
===========
|
||
|
||
From: ETC...
|
||
To: YNGLING
|
||
Subject: tYpInG SkIlLs
|
||
Date & Time: 02/03/90 10:44:23
|
||
Message Number 1683
|
||
|
||
WeLl, My TyPiNg IsNt ThE PrBlEm, ItS ThE PeRmAnEnT BrAiN DaMaGe CaUsEd
|
||
By CoUcH PoTaToIsMoSiS...
|
||
YoU SeE, It FiRsT AtTaCkS OnEs AbIlItY To DiStInGuIsH BeTwEeN CaPs AnD
|
||
LoWeR-CaSe LeTtErS...
|
||
|
||
etc...
|
||
===========
|
||
|
||
From: CYCLE
|
||
To: CHIP P. UNICORN
|
||
Subject: CP/M
|
||
Date & Time: 02/03/90 11:39:26
|
||
Message Number 1684
|
||
|
||
I'm trying to resurect an old HP-125 CP/M machine. So far little luck
|
||
or support as to where to find help (other than the direction the sysop
|
||
of this board has given me). I was hoping someone out there would know
|
||
something about the ancient operating system and would offer some help.
|
||
It's like trying to keep a dinosaur alive. Right now, it's eating me
|
||
out of house and home. I just need to find some way to tame it. Like
|
||
how to get binary files into and out of it's stubborn ports. HELP!
|
||
===========
|
||
|
||
From: SAURON
|
||
To: DONTHEN
|
||
Subject: VGA
|
||
Date & Time: 02/03/90 19:05:36
|
||
Message Number 1685
|
||
|
||
Fancy that. This may account for the fact that I've always been
|
||
content with blue...whatever the hue.
|
||
===========
|
||
|
||
From: SAURON
|
||
To: TURTLE
|
||
Subject: Simulated crime
|
||
Date & Time: 02/03/90 19:07:45
|
||
Message Number 1686
|
||
|
||
I think he means STOOLKEEPER. Believe me, you don' want THAT job.
|
||
===========
|
||
|
||
From: SAURON
|
||
To: TURTLE
|
||
Subject: abortions...
|
||
Date & Time: 02/03/90 19:09:02
|
||
Message Number 1687
|
||
|
||
The hell with it. Until all concerned parties can at least agree on
|
||
when a being becomes sentientwe're all talking at right angles.
|
||
===========
|
||
|
||
From: SAURON
|
||
To: YNGLING
|
||
Subject: Colorization
|
||
Date & Time: 02/03/90 19:12:05
|
||
Message Number 1688
|
||
|
||
Oh, yeah...there's really a relationship between turning a color
|
||
control down, and painting by number.
|
||
===========
|
||
|
||
From: SAURON
|
||
To: YNGLING
|
||
Subject: priorities
|
||
Date & Time: 02/03/90 19:14:18
|
||
Message Number 1689
|
||
|
||
It's amazing. The murder of dolphins stimulates you into angry
|
||
letters to corporations, but the murder of children stimulates
|
||
sarcastic posts.
|
||
===========
|
||
|
||
From: NIGHT RIDER
|
||
To: TURTLE
|
||
Subject: TYPING
|
||
Date & Time: 02/03/90 20:52:32
|
||
Message Number 1690
|
||
|
||
Hi All Whats Happening Just thought I would break in and see what was
|
||
up besides the fact some one has a problem with thier shift key or
|
||
something like that. ( ha ha ha snicker ha)
|
||
LATER NIGHT RIDER
|
||
===========
|
||
|
||
From: BEATLE
|
||
To: CHIP P. UNICORN
|
||
Subject: Simulated crime
|
||
Date & Time: 02/03/90 23:12:17
|
||
Message Number 1691
|
||
|
||
> The answer to all queastions: money.
|
||
|
||
but if the crime is simulated, isn't the money too??
|
||
===========
|
||
|
||
From: BEATLE
|
||
To: RUFUS
|
||
Subject: California
|
||
Date & Time: 02/03/90 23:16:27
|
||
Message Number 1692
|
||
|
||
You mean to say that you don't have a valid reason to drive to
|
||
California?? I have plenty. I also have a reason to stop over in
|
||
Oklahoma City, but that's kinda outta the way.
|
||
===========
|
||
|
||
From: BEATLE
|
||
To: RUFUS
|
||
Subject: California
|
||
Date & Time: 02/03/90 23:18:48
|
||
Message Number 1693
|
||
|
||
Getting the money would be no problem? That would be harder for me
|
||
than the parents part... Hey, but you're about to move out on your own
|
||
and come and go as you please, aren't you??
|
||
===========
|
||
|
||
From: BEATLE
|
||
To: SAURON
|
||
Subject: Colorization
|
||
Date & Time: 02/03/90 23:21:48
|
||
Message Number 1694
|
||
|
||
Turning the color knob won't fix it!!
|
||
===========
|
||
|
||
From: BEATLE
|
||
To: KEN OBER
|
||
Subject: Who Me?
|
||
Date & Time: 02/03/90 23:23:02
|
||
Message Number 1695
|
||
|
||
Shut the heck up!!!!
|
||
===========
|
||
|
||
From: BEATLE
|
||
To: ETC...
|
||
Subject: tYpInG SkIlLs
|
||
Date & Time: 02/03/90 23:27:49
|
||
Message Number 1696
|
||
|
||
iTs NoT a CaSe Of DaIn BrAmAgE, yOu HiT tHe ShIfT yOuRsElF. aNyWaY, i Am
|
||
PrObAbLy ThE bEsT eXaMpLe Of A cOuCh PoTaTo YoU cAn FiNd...
|
||
|
||
But I usually type like this! I don't like that above and I don't think
|
||
we like it either. I don't mean to yell. Everyone likes to have fun, but
|
||
I can't read the screwed-up goop easily (much less type it)....
|
||
===========
|
||
|
||
From: SNAKEBYTE
|
||
To: TURTLE
|
||
Subject: MEMBERS???????
|
||
Date & Time: 02/04/90 00:43:54
|
||
Message Number 1697
|
||
|
||
BEEN ON YOUR BBS TWICE AND HOPE YOU HAVE MORE TO OFFER THEN THE TWO FILE
|
||
AREAS THAT I HAVE ACCESS TO. IF THERE IS A WAY TO GET A HIGHER SECURITY
|
||
LEAVE A MESSAGE FOR ME...O.K.?
|
||
I LIKE THE NAME, HOPE YOU LIVE UP TO IT!!!!
|
||
WELL, GOT TO BEAM UP 'FOR THE OL' LADY TAKES THE CHAIN SAW
|
||
TO POOR OF 'PUTER HERE. SEEEEEEE YA'......SNAKEBYTE
|
||
===========
|
||
|
||
From: DONTHEN
|
||
To: SNAKEBYTE
|
||
Subject: MEMBERS???????
|
||
Date & Time: 02/04/90 01:10:11
|
||
Message Number 1698
|
||
|
||
Of course there is more here than two file areas. There are ten
|
||
conference areas, with hundreds and hundreds of messages in them, most
|
||
of them vastly more interesting than this one.
|
||
===========
|
||
|
||
From: TURTLE
|
||
To: ETC...
|
||
Subject: MeSsAgEs
|
||
Date & Time: 02/04/90 01:22:30
|
||
Message Number 1699
|
||
|
||
I'vE GoT iT! I'Ve fIgUrED iT oUt! It'S tHe fReqUeNt UsE oF eXclAmAtIoN
|
||
pOiNtS! ThAt'S It!! It mAkES yOu SoUnD LIkE YoU'Re ShOUtinG AlL tHe
|
||
TiMe. It's KiNd oF SubTlE, BuT If YoU pAy CloSE AtTenTiON YoU cAn
|
||
NoTIcE...
|
||
--A SuBtLe TuRtLe
|
||
===========
|
||
|
||
From: TURTLE
|
||
To: SAURON
|
||
Subject: abortions...
|
||
Date & Time: 02/04/90 01:27:35
|
||
Message Number 1700
|
||
|
||
Donthen recently pointed out that this entire conversation thread is
|
||
the equivalent of placing Jerry Falwell and Madeline Murray O'Hare
|
||
in the same room together...it generates lots of verbiage, but not
|
||
a lot of persuasion. Still, it is kind of interesting to watch.
|
||
|
||
On the topic of sentience: I'd say it's probably pretty obvious that a
|
||
zygote is not sentient by any stretch of the imagination. On the other
|
||
hand, it's also pretty clear that a 8 1/2-month fetus /is/. At what
|
||
point does sentience magically appear? Good question. I'd say on
|
||
the outset not before the central nervous system starts forming, and
|
||
possibly not for quite some time after that. Before that point, it's
|
||
hard to talk about "homicide" when you're discussing abortion; I still
|
||
maintain that destruction of an undifferentiated--and non-sentient--
|
||
group of cells does not qualify as murder any more than extracting
|
||
a tooth is murder.
|
||
===========
|
||
|
||
From: TURTLE
|
||
To: SAURON
|
||
Subject: priorities
|
||
Date & Time: 02/04/90 01:36:39
|
||
Message Number 1701
|
||
|
||
Dolphins are better than people.
|
||
===========
|
||
|
||
From: TURTLE
|
||
To: NIGHT RIDER
|
||
Subject: Stuff
|
||
Date & Time: 02/04/90 01:37:10
|
||
Message Number 1702
|
||
|
||
Good evening, and welcome aboard! I like to see new users who are
|
||
willing to dive right in and POST (a subtle hint to all you lurkers--
|
||
I know you're out there!--is implied here). As for what's up, well, I
|
||
am, which is kind of foolish considering I need to be up (again) in
|
||
not too many hours and I'm running on almost no sleep as it is. Such
|
||
is life, mine at least. Talk to you later...
|
||
--A noctournal Turtle
|
||
===========
|
||
|
||
From: TURTLE
|
||
To: SNAKEBYTE
|
||
Subject: aLTER rEALITY
|
||
Date & Time: 02/04/90 01:41:09
|
||
Message Number 1703
|
||
|
||
Why, yes, as a matter of fact, this board /does/ have more to offer
|
||
than two files areas. It has over 1700 messages, to start with. As
|
||
I'm sure you've probably noticed, there are no games here. There are
|
||
almost no files here (it was with reluctance that I put up the
|
||
two areas that are here, in fact). That's because it's a /computer
|
||
bulletin board/. People call it and post MESSAGES. But wait, it
|
||
gets better! They also /read/ messages. Pretty cool, huh? That way, you
|
||
see, people can have CONVERSATIONS! And people can exchange messages,
|
||
too! It's kind of like...well, it's kind of like a BULLETIN BOARD!
|
||
But hey, if I ever decide to stop running a bulletin board and start
|
||
running a remote access games host or a file depo, why, I'll be sure to
|
||
let you know.
|
||
--A BBS sysop Turtle
|
||
===========
|
||
|
||
From: BARTHOLOMEW FOX
|
||
To: RUFUS
|
||
Subject: YARF!
|
||
Date & Time: 02/04/90 01:59:09
|
||
Message Number 1704
|
||
|
||
I'm still waiting for the box of YARF's... it seems that Lance caught
|
||
himself the Flu and wasn't in the mood to go to the post office, but
|
||
that's gone now, so by the end of next week, I /should/ have your (and
|
||
my, and everybody's) YARF. Arf.
|
||
===========
|
||
|
||
From: BARTHOLOMEW FOX
|
||
To: KEN OBER
|
||
Subject: AHEM!
|
||
Date & Time: 02/04/90 02:02:11
|
||
Message Number 1705
|
||
|
||
That's passed already, yeah, and it went off pretty well (19 guests).
|
||
We'll probably be having a fairly large FurryParty in Orlando next, in
|
||
March at the whatever-Con there/then. Details will follow in posts
|
||
here and at The Wyvern's Den. Juan Alfonso WILL be there, as will
|
||
probably Ken "Mitch" Mitchrooney and Skudder Kidwell.
|
||
===========
|
||
|
||
From: BARTHOLOMEW FOX
|
||
To: CHIP P. UNICORN
|
||
Subject: Disney Releases
|
||
Date & Time: 02/04/90 02:06:05
|
||
Message Number 1706
|
||
|
||
I just bought the soundtrack to MERMAID. I really got a kick out of
|
||
most of the songs, and I did like the plot...
|
||
|
||
By the way, since the government reposessed my terminals, I'm not really
|
||
calling this board; see, this is just a figment of your imagination...
|
||
either that or I'm calling from Rufus's Fruit //e. I'm fairly sure I'll
|
||
be calling the Den (and maybe even glancing at the other bases here)
|
||
tomorrow (later today?) from the Turtle's pad or The Den Itself or...
|
||
whatever. I'm really tired....
|
||
===========
|
||
|
||
From: BARTHOLOMEW FOX
|
||
To: KEN OBER
|
||
Subject: The Furry Tape
|
||
Date & Time: 02/04/90 02:12:37
|
||
Message Number 1707
|
||
|
||
"Dude!" (Arf.) I'm in Sota right now, but I probably won't see you
|
||
this time. Anyway, I'd like to at least see the RufusCON & Furry
|
||
Party At Turtle's tapes one of these days... hmm...
|
||
===========
|
||
|
||
From: BARTHOLOMEW FOX
|
||
To: RUFUS
|
||
Subject: A Furry Tape
|
||
Date & Time: 02/04/90 02:14:42
|
||
Message Number 1708
|
||
|
||
We should all get together and prepare a half-hour trestise on Furrydom
|
||
with Tyler as the film dude (I'll do audio and some general what-is-a-
|
||
furry jabber with Watts and them).
|
||
===========
|
||
|
||
From: BARTHOLOMEW FOX
|
||
To: KEN OBER
|
||
Subject: 2nd Generation
|
||
Date & Time: 02/04/90 02:16:30
|
||
Message Number 1709
|
||
|
||
> SP FOREVER! LP & SLP SUCK EGGS!!!!!
|
||
|
||
Amen, guy. Actually, SVHS & ED BETA & SuperBETA FOREVER! Regular VHS
|
||
SUCKS!!!!!!! (Tell that to anyone who thinks VHS is better than Beta...
|
||
or IBM is better than... well, anything. -grin- Ahem.) Uhm... yeah.
|
||
Whatever. UMATIC is kinda neat...
|
||
===========
|
||
|
||
From: BARTHOLOMEW FOX
|
||
To: KEN OBER
|
||
Subject: Documentary
|
||
Date & Time: 02/04/90 02:19:02
|
||
Message Number 1710
|
||
|
||
VHS HiFi Rules! Linear audio bites rocks! Helical scan forever!
|
||
|
||
That reminds me. Turtle told me that at the last FurryParty there
|
||
were to be a mass of initiates, so I prepared a short presentation
|
||
on Furries for those of us of the Furrie persuasion, so as you all
|
||
could, well, grow fur (?). Yeah. I shouldn't even try to type at
|
||
this hour. Damn, justification! Cool...
|
||
===========
|
||
|
||
From: RUFUS
|
||
To: BEATLE
|
||
Subject: California
|
||
Date & Time: 02/04/90 02:33:46
|
||
Message Number 1711
|
||
|
||
O.K. Stop it all, NOW!! At the exact moment I posted that message, I
|
||
really didn't have valid reason to go to California.
|
||
===========
|
||
|
||
From: RUFUS
|
||
To: BEATLE
|
||
Subject: California
|
||
Date & Time: 02/04/90 02:34:45
|
||
Message Number 1712
|
||
|
||
Well, since the convention is in August, I could have the money. Since
|
||
I'm only 16, I can't move out for about 1 year, 5 months, and 7 days.
|
||
Of course, they probaly will be helping for college, so I won't be
|
||
moving out any time soon.
|
||
===========
|
||
|
||
From: PSYCHE
|
||
To: CORWYN OF AMBER
|
||
Subject: Bionic VGA eyes
|
||
Date & Time: 02/04/90 02:58:13
|
||
Message Number 1713
|
||
|
||
For human purposes, 8 million colors (or shades thereof) is overkill.
|
||
We can't distinguish that many, and it makes the monitor a whole hell of
|
||
a lot more expensive. I think 4096 is just fine - no more than a
|
||
million at the most.
|
||
Give me 16 million pixels over 16 million colors any day.
|
||
.s
|
||
===========
|
||
|
||
From: KEN OBER
|
||
To: BARTHOLOMEW FOX
|
||
Subject: tape
|
||
Date & Time: 02/04/90 15:23:07
|
||
Message Number 1715
|
||
|
||
I can mail you a copy if you desire....
|
||
|
||
Cosmic Thing......
|
||
===========
|
||
|
||
From: KEN OBER
|
||
To: BARTHOLOMEW FOX
|
||
Subject: 2nd Generation
|
||
Date & Time: 02/04/90 15:24:01
|
||
Message Number 1716
|
||
|
||
Actually, Hi-8 Is the best.... :)
|
||
===========
|
||
|
||
From: BARTHOLOMEW FOX
|
||
To: KEN OBER
|
||
Subject: Break Objects?
|
||
Date & Time: 02/04/90 16:47:46
|
||
Message Number 1718
|
||
|
||
What? Who are you talking to? What are you talkig about?
|
||
|
||
Pass me that little reed pill, please....
|
||
===========
|
||
|
||
From: BARTHOLOMEW FOX
|
||
To: ROCKY
|
||
Subject: Graphi-Gen
|
||
Date & Time: 02/04/90 16:50:47
|
||
Message Number 1719
|
||
|
||
I've seen those. They're kinda nifty...
|
||
===========
|
||
|
||
From: BARTHOLOMEW FOX
|
||
To: CHIP P. UNICORN
|
||
Subject: VulCon
|
||
Date & Time: 02/04/90 16:52:34
|
||
Message Number 1720
|
||
|
||
Ew... (I've been to a couple of those) To quote Watts, "they're
|
||
expensive and bad," andd from Turtle, "but other than that, at least
|
||
they're boring."
|
||
|
||
The MSTF application, at 32 pages, was a TAD long. Donchya think?
|
||
<grin>
|
||
===========
|
||
|
||
From: BARTHOLOMEW FOX
|
||
To: TURTLE
|
||
Subject: Colorization
|
||
Date & Time: 02/04/90 17:08:31
|
||
Message Number 1721
|
||
|
||
> So watch then with the color control turned all the way down.
|
||
|
||
Uhm... that doesn't help the fact that now the contrast is all screwed,
|
||
and... well, lotsa nifty side eeffects.
|
||
===========
|
||
|
||
From: BARTHOLOMEW FOX
|
||
To: KEN OBER
|
||
Subject: The Furry Tape
|
||
Date & Time: 02/04/90 17:13:47
|
||
Message Number 1722
|
||
|
||
I want one.
|
||
|
||
Of course, getting it won't be easy. If'n you bring it to the next
|
||
FurryParty (Orlando in March) I'd like to get a copy on a decent tape
|
||
(can you write HiFi VHS?).
|
||
===========
|
||
|
||
From: BARTHOLOMEW FOX
|
||
To: KEN OBER
|
||
Subject: eerr...
|
||
Date & Time: 02/04/90 17:16:21
|
||
Message Number 1723
|
||
|
||
I'm sure Bart would seriously cconsider it. Gee, maybe Bart will be
|
||
able to get a copy of if printed out. Gee... maybe...
|
||
===========
|
||
|
||
From: BARTHOLOMEW FOX
|
||
To: CORWYN OF AMBER
|
||
Subject: Bionic VGA eyes
|
||
Date & Time: 02/04/90 17:22:13
|
||
Message Number 1724
|
||
|
||
1) You probably can't distinguish more than 4 million hues anyway, so
|
||
the 16 megacolor display will look no different than the 8 megacolor
|
||
display (in most cases, you can be a ddweeb about it, tho)
|
||
2) Does that display even have 8 million pixels? You can only display
|
||
a number of colors equal to or less than the number of display points
|
||
available, n'est pas?
|
||
===========
|
||
|
||
From: BARTHOLOMEW FOX
|
||
To: KEN OBER
|
||
Subject: tape
|
||
Date & Time: 02/04/90 17:28:36
|
||
Message Number 1725
|
||
|
||
USPS, eh? Dude... but that'll cost you $2.40 plus the cost of the
|
||
tape itself. Maybe I should just get you a tape one of these days
|
||
(probably through Donthen, Turtle, Rufus, or Chip) and get it back
|
||
at somee unspecified time (like, oh, maybe when your district dude
|
||
or myself drops off your MSTF app).
|
||
===========
|
||
|
||
From: TURTLE
|
||
To: BARTHOLOMEW FOX
|
||
Subject: 2nd Generation
|
||
Date & Time: 02/04/90 18:27:05
|
||
Message Number 1726
|
||
|
||
Well, goshm, I have a copy of Brazil and The Wall on one videotape...in
|
||
SLP mode...second generation...bleah!
|
||
--A "no-sync" Turtle
|
||
You, too, can help prevent abuse of ellipses in our time...
|
||
===========
|
||
|
||
From: TURTLE
|
||
To: BARTHOLOMEW FOX
|
||
Subject: tape
|
||
Date & Time: 02/04/90 18:31:44
|
||
Message Number 1727
|
||
|
||
>...like, oh, maybe when your district dude or myself drops off your
|
||
>MSTF app...
|
||
|
||
As local MSTF district dude, I think that should be the responsibility
|
||
of the sponsor dude...
|
||
===========
|
||
|
||
From: RAVEN
|
||
To: BARTHOLOMEW FOX
|
||
Subject: YARF!
|
||
Date & Time: 02/04/90 23:08:56
|
||
Message Number 1730
|
||
|
||
Haven't we heard something of the sort already? Just checking. Hmm.
|
||
Chip was right, this tail DOES tast better with a little salt. . .
|
||
-r-
|
||
===========
|
||
|
||
From: BARTHOLOMEW FOX
|
||
To: TURTLE
|
||
Subject: sponsor dude
|
||
Date & Time: 02/04/90 23:16:50
|
||
Message Number 1731
|
||
|
||
Dude!
|
||
===========
|
||
|
||
From: BARTHOLOMEW FOX
|
||
To: RAVEN
|
||
Subject: YARF!
|
||
Date & Time: 02/04/90 23:17:57
|
||
Message Number 1732
|
||
|
||
I don't see the connection. <a confused fox>
|
||
===========
|
||
|
||
From: DONTHEN
|
||
To: ALL
|
||
Subject: YARF!
|
||
Date & Time: 02/05/90 11:57:10
|
||
Message Number 1734
|
||
|
||
According to the person who was supposed to send the YARF copies to
|
||
Bart Fox (this person being Lance Rund), the responsibility for mailing
|
||
the suckers out has been shifted over to Jeff Ferris, the publisher of
|
||
YARF, who will supposedly be sending a "bundle" of both YARF #0 (the
|
||
preview issue) and #1, which has already been printed.
|
||
===========
|
||
|
||
From: KEN OBER
|
||
To: BARTHOLOMEW FOX
|
||
Subject: Sorry...
|
||
Date & Time: 02/05/90 12:52:15
|
||
Message Number 1735
|
||
|
||
I don't even have a stereo VCR! :(
|
||
|
||
Feel like showing up at Pelican Pete's down in Engleweed in about 2
|
||
weeks? I'm planning a BBS get together around that time...
|
||
===========
|
||
|
||
From: YNGLING
|
||
To: SAURON
|
||
Subject: Colorization
|
||
Date & Time: 02/05/90 15:27:20
|
||
Message Number 1737
|
||
|
||
If you cannot understand the reasons why a classic like..oh..Citizen
|
||
Kane is diminished by altering even the most subtle effects of shadow
|
||
and light then you probably have trouble recognizing sarcasm when you
|
||
read it.
|
||
===========
|
||
|
||
From: YNGLING
|
||
To: SAURON
|
||
Subject: priorities
|
||
Date & Time: 02/05/90 15:30:50
|
||
Message Number 1738
|
||
|
||
Excuse me? Let me tell you something pal, I will give you $1000 for a
|
||
hard copy of ANY posts originating from MY computer that were in any way
|
||
sarcastic AND dealt with the subject of abortion.
|
||
===========
|
||
|
||
From: ETC...
|
||
To: TURTLE
|
||
Subject: MeSsAgEs
|
||
Date & Time: 02/05/90 16:25:33
|
||
Message Number 1739
|
||
|
||
Ok LEt'S TaKe A vOte WhO LiKeS/PrEfeRS My TyPiNg ThIS WaY??!?!!?
|
||
THis Is A mEaNinGLeSs MeSsAge. It CoUld Be SaYiNg SoMeThInG But It Is
|
||
NoT. iT CoUlD bE CoOl aNd InTeReStInG, BuT iT Is NoT.
|
||
ThIs Is JuSt YaRg!
|
||
ThIs Is ThE BeSt WaY To Be KiCkEd Of A BbS, So KiDs At HoMe Do NoT
|
||
aTeMpT ThIs At HoMe, ThIs StUnT WaS DoNe By BaIn DraInAgEd PrOfEsSiOnAlS
|
||
!..!
|
||
=oo=
|
||
(__)
|
||
UU
|
||
etc...
|
||
===========
|
||
|
||
From: TURTLE
|
||
To: YNGLING
|
||
Subject: Colorization
|
||
Date & Time: 02/05/90 18:01:29
|
||
Message Number 1741
|
||
|
||
>If you cannot understand why a classic like...oh...Citizen Kane is
|
||
>diminished by altering even the most subtle effects of shadow and
|
||
>light...
|
||
|
||
I assume, then, that you're also rabidly opposed to destroying the
|
||
integrity of such a classic work of art by, oh, say, transferring it
|
||
from 35mm film to videotape, and thus ruining subtle nuances of timing
|
||
(and destroying the resolution of the original film) by presenting it
|
||
in a media which is presented at 30 frames per second instead of 24
|
||
frames per second...or is it all right as long as the person watching
|
||
the videotape has had the brightness and contrast controls on his
|
||
television checked, set, and approved by an official member of the
|
||
Organization To Enforce Subtle Nuances of Shadow and Light in Early
|
||
Film Classics...?? Heaven forfend that some ignorant Philistine
|
||
should watch it in black and white and destroy the effect by turning his
|
||
contrast down too far!
|
||
|
||
By the way, as long as /you're/ watching a black and white copy of the
|
||
film, why all the fuss over what your next-door neighbor might be
|
||
watching? Just a question.
|
||
--A totally disinterested Turtle
|
||
===========
|
||
|
||
From: TURTLE
|
||
To: ETC...
|
||
Subject: MeSsAgEs
|
||
Date & Time: 02/05/90 18:08:24
|
||
Message Number 1742
|
||
|
||
Myself, I Am Generally Fascinated By Original And Creative Uses For
|
||
The Shift Keys, Especially On Bulletin Board Posts, But Evidently
|
||
My Respect For Creativity Is Not Shared By All The Users Here...Oh
|
||
Well. yOU kNOW, iT oCCURS tO mE tHAT tHIS pOST aLSO iSN'T sAYING
|
||
vERY mUCH. bUT aT lEAST iT dOESN'T mENTION aARDVARKS, jELLY dONUTS,
|
||
sPACE aLIENS, oR dAN qUAYLE aNYWHERE iN iT.
|
||
--a w d Turtle
|
||
a e
|
||
rp
|
||
===========
|
||
|
||
From: RUFUS
|
||
To: TURTLE
|
||
Subject: MeSsAgEs
|
||
Date & Time: 02/05/90 18:19:42
|
||
Message Number 1744
|
||
|
||
And what's wrong with aardvarks!!
|
||
Hummphhhh...
|
||
===========
|
||
|
||
From: YNGLING
|
||
To: TURTLE
|
||
Subject: Colorization
|
||
Date & Time: 02/06/90 16:33:24
|
||
Message Number 1745
|
||
|
||
As an artist I am offended by the alteration - in any way - of the
|
||
vision of another. I work mostly in pen and ink (usually a black and
|
||
white medium) and would hate to think that sometime in the future some
|
||
asshole might come along and take his Crayolas and alter my creation
|
||
to "improve" its asthetic value (especially if he were to limit himself
|
||
to three or four colors!!!). I should think you would be able to
|
||
understand that...but maybe not.
|
||
===========
|
||
|
||
From: TURTLE
|
||
To: YNGLING
|
||
Subject: Colorization
|
||
Date & Time: 02/06/90 17:03:03
|
||
Message Number 1746
|
||
|
||
>...I would hate to think that sometime in the future some asshole
|
||
>might come along and take his Crayolas and alter my creation...
|
||
|
||
We're not talking alteration of an original work of art here; the
|
||
black and white 35mm copies of Citizen Kane are not being attacked by
|
||
armies of people with paintbrushes. To extend your analogy a little,
|
||
would you start screaming if some asshole took a photocopy of your
|
||
work and started filling /that/ in with crayons? The piece as you
|
||
created it is still untouched.
|
||
|
||
I'm not especially impressed by colorization of old movies, but I'm not
|
||
going to start flaming about it either; if I want to see the original
|
||
version of the movie, I can. No problem. So call me a Philistine.
|
||
--A "don't sweat the trivial" Turtle
|
||
===========
|
||
|
||
From: BEATLE
|
||
To: BARTHOLOMEW FOX
|
||
Subject: Documentary
|
||
Date & Time: 02/06/90 19:43:37
|
||
Message Number 1748
|
||
|
||
> VHS Hi-Fi rules!
|
||
|
||
and linear sucks eggs,,, HMMMM,,, I have to agree. I'm just so dang
|
||
upset that it's all I have! ARGH!
|
||
===========
|
||
|
||
From: BEATLE
|
||
To: BARTHOLOMEW FOX
|
||
Subject: VulCon
|
||
Date & Time: 02/06/90 19:45:45
|
||
Message Number 1749
|
||
|
||
You're telling me that I'm missing something BETTER!?!?!?!? I happened
|
||
to ENJOY my first (and last, so far) Vulkon Convention. I guess it all
|
||
depends on 1) if you like Star Trek 2) how much you like Star Trek and
|
||
3) If you've been to something better...
|
||
===========
|
||
|
||
From: BEATLE
|
||
To: TURTLE
|
||
Subject: 2nd Generation
|
||
Date & Time: 02/06/90 19:49:19
|
||
Message Number 1750
|
||
|
||
You know, for less than $30, you can replace that copy of "The Wall"
|
||
and get Hi-Fi stereo to boot.
|
||
===========
|
||
|