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From: BEATLE
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To: CYBERPUNK
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Subject: next conv.
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Date & Time: 11/30/89 06:46:29
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Message Number 600
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You can go to a Star Trek convention and find ROBOTECh stuff. Comic
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conventions don't happen that often anymore, but there are Trek cons
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every year. Sometimes twice a year. If I see anything you might like,
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I'll let ya know...
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From: BEATLE
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To: SAURON
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Subject: BLB
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Date & Time: 11/30/89 06:50:28
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Message Number 601
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Some classics won't come back. You know, some book companies have said
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that they couldn't sell books like"The Wizard of Oz" today... They don't
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even want to try.
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From: BEATLE
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To: DONTHEN
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Subject: Movies....
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Date & Time: 11/30/89 06:56:37
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Message Number 602
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All I remember was that I heard Siskel & Ebert complaining that movies
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like "Bambi" and "Peter Pan" had the top and bottom cropped off to make
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the screen wider, so I assumed that they were TV screen-shaped in the
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first place.
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From: BEATLE
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To: CYBERPUNK
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Subject: your plan
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Date & Time: 11/30/89 07:00:13
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Message Number 603
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Good plan! I'd love to see what the video store thought when the next
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person to rent "Batman" says "Hey, they had a lot of clowns, but no
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Batman! What gives?"
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From: RUFUS
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To: CHIP P. UNICORN
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Subject: Randomness
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Date & Time: 11/30/89 15:17:51
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Message Number 604
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I've seen this set around that has all the moves a piece can make
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printed on the base of the piece. Talk about real convenient. After I
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learn..I dunno..what will I do then....
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From: RUFUS
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To: CHIP P. UNICORN
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Subject: GoCon
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Date & Time: 11/30/89 15:19:00
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Message Number 605
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Good idea. We could have it at my place, but we can only fit about
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8 people in my room.
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From: RUFUS
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To: PSYCHE
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Subject: GoCon
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Date & Time: 11/30/89 15:20:19
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Message Number 606
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Maybe some day over winter break?? I'm not doing anything, except
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batteling to purchase gifts, which is fun when your heavily armed.
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From: RUFUS
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To: TURTLE
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Subject: Go where?
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Date & Time: 11/30/89 15:22:33
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Message Number 607
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I don't get to play too much. I'd like to play more, but can rarely
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find anyone else ( until now ). Wish they had a computer version for
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the ole Apple here.
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From: CYBERPUNK
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To: KEN OBER
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Subject: GoCon
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Date & Time: 11/30/89 16:54:45
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Message Number 608
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stupid.
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From: CYBERPUNK
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To: DONTHEN
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Subject: Wyvern's Den
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Date & Time: 11/30/89 16:55:40
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Message Number 609
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that's pretty7 rude.
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From: CYBERPUNK
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To: SPELLWIND
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Subject: Con
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Date & Time: 11/30/89 16:58:30
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Message Number 610
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what's your BBS going to be???
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From: CYBERPUNK
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To: BEATLE
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Subject: next conv.
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Date & Time: 11/30/89 16:59:57
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Message Number 611
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thanks dude! but i thought that there was usally Star Trek stuff
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at Star Trek conventions.... hehehe
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From: SAURON
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To: LORELEI
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Subject: DOLPHINS
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Date & Time: 11/30/89 17:08:52
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Message Number 612
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1. Some football guy.
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2. No.
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3. would you settle for a Great Dane?
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From: SAURON
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To: TURTLE
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Subject: Misogeny
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Date & Time: 11/30/89 17:17:43
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Message Number 613
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Just so you know...I have a daughter whose IQ is 169 (higher than mine
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and any remarks I address to (or about) the Fair gender are strictly
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in response to the current campaign that is attempting to portray males
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as chauvinist neanderthals. Strangely - the rest of you seem content to
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sit back and ignore the feminist crap that's being promulgated about one
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half of our species. So be it. If you guys are content to remain silent
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- I'm not.
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....but you already knew that.
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From: SAURON
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To: ANGEL
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Subject: Misogeny
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Date & Time: 11/30/89 17:25:04
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Message Number 614
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Drat! no one wants to play anymore.
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From: SAURON
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To: ANGEL
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Subject: diversions
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Date & Time: 11/30/89 17:25:57
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Message Number 615
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Only if they're with younger women.
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From: TURTLE
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To: BEATLE
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Subject: BLB
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Date & Time: 11/30/89 17:31:30
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Message Number 616
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No, I'm not sure at all. I'm not even sure what it was called, or where
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it disappeared to, or much of anything else, for that matter. But I
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AM sure I hate IBM...
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...hey! There's an idea! Perhaps I should create
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a sub-board dedicated exclusively to abusing IBM and Mush-DOS! Yeah!
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From: TURTLE
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To: BEATLE
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Subject: Witches & Stuff
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Date & Time: 11/30/89 17:34:51
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Message Number 617
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>...some book companies have said that they couldn't sell books like
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>"The Wizard of Oz" today...
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Of course not. The religious fundamentalists would scream about the
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portrayal of witches in the book, child psychologists would cluck their
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tongues about the damaging effects of having the main character melt
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a witch, parents would complain that Dorothy displays far too much
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initiative for her own good and therefore the book is clearly designed
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to subvert parental authority, anti-drug crusaders would say that the
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book is describing what /must/ be a drug trip, and school boards would
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ban it in school libraries because it communicates the wrong lessons
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to young minds.
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From: TURTLE
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To: RUFUS
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Subject: GoCon
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Date & Time: 11/30/89 17:39:47
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Message Number 618
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>...we can only fit about 8 people in my room.
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Naaaah, I can fit almost that many people in my Volkswagen Bug; surely
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in a room the size of yours we could stuff...oh, 15 or 20 people. If
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you take out the bed we could cram even more!
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From: TURTLE
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To: SAURON
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Subject: Misogeny
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Date & Time: 11/30/89 17:41:37
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Message Number 619
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Hmm. It seems like battling feminist propaganda about males being
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Neanderthal thugs by behaving like a Neanderthal thug is using some...
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peculiar tactics. I'm sure Andrea Dworkin would approve...
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From: TURTLE
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To: ALL
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Subject: Wyvern's Den
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Date & Time: 11/30/89 18:09:09
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Message Number 620
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I have been informed that the Den will be up and back on-line in about
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two days...so don't despair. The number is 925-1386; 300-1200 baud;
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science fiction/fantasy oriented (in case you didn't already know).
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Evidently Watts went down to GTE today with a flamethrower and an UZI,
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and now they've seen the error of their ways.
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From: CHIP P. UNICORN
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To: PSYCHE
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Subject: GoCon
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Date & Time: 11/30/89 18:24:15
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Message Number 621
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Psyche-
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>You'll be able to defeat Chip P. Unicorn with your eyes closed and
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>your belly full of alcohol...
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Listen, Mr. "Who needs a board? Let's play mental chess!" on the
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way from Jacksonville... my playing is NOT that bad. Reckless, insane,
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and without proper motivation, yes. But not bad.
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Chip P. Unicorn
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From: CHIP P. UNICORN
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To: PSYCHE
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Subject: GoCon
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Date & Time: 11/30/89 18:27:43
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Message Number 622
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Personally, I prefer the hippopotamous. Or the Cabbage offense.
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<Personal note to Rufus: see what you've gotten yourself into?!?>
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Chip P. Unicorn
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From: CHIP P. UNICORN
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To: TURTLE
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Subject: Chess
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Date & Time: 11/30/89 18:30:30
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Message Number 623
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>Why are the little horsies always raved about as though they were the
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>next best thing to two gods on a plate?
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We equines stick up for each other.
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Chip P. Unicorn
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From: CHIP P. UNICORN
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To: SPELLWIND
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Subject: Con
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Date & Time: 11/30/89 18:32:03
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Message Number 624
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> Having two speakers next to my ears and chucking out Appetite For
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> Destruction at full volume has left me deaf.
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Hmmm... betcha can't keep your fingers on the speakers for ten
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minutes... :)
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I'm game, Spellwind: what will your BBS's name be?
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Chip P. Unicorn
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From: CHIP P. UNICORN
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To: BEATLE
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Subject: Yuppies
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Date & Time: 11/30/89 18:37:57
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Message Number 625
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You're right. At fourteen, you're too young to be a yuppie.
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You're a guppie. :)
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Chip P. Unicorn
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From: CHIP P. UNICORN
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To: RUFUS
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Subject: GoCon
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Date & Time: 11/30/89 18:40:57
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Message Number 626
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Where will we have the Dealers' Room? And the filking room? I guess
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we'll have to partition off your room into four corners in which only
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two can fit at a time...
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Chip P. Unicorn
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From: BEATLE
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To: SAURON
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Subject: Vulvas
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Date & Time: 11/30/89 19:02:50
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Message Number 627
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Do you plan on getting married someday? And if you already are, I feel
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sorry for your wife.
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From: BEATLE
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To: DONTHEN
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Subject: Movies....
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Date & Time: 11/30/89 19:04:10
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Message Number 628
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The discs that are letterboxed that you mentioned are available here
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except for "Close Encounters". Another letterboxed TAPE I can think of
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is the EXCELLENT film "Innerspace".
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On the laserdisc front, the letterboxed version of "Ghostbusters" is
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VERRRRRRRRRRY good, and "E.T." is also letterboxed on disc. "Roger
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Rabbit" will be on a letterboxed disc within the next few months. Also,
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I would like to see the disc of "Poltergeist" as it is also letterboxed.
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Also, I would like a laserdisc player! hehehe...
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Oh, just remembered, the new tape release of "Ghostbusters II" is half
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letterboxed up to the credits, where it is fully letterboxed.
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From: BEATLE
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To: TURTLE
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Subject: Letterboxing
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Date & Time: 11/30/89 19:10:19
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Message Number 629
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I love this. Something I KNOW about...
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"Aliens" was not released on TAPE letterboxed. Neither was "Alien".
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BUT, soon, both films will be on LASERDISC in letterbox format. And for
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those of you who really liked the movie "Aliens", the TV (CBS) version
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had(has) 8 minutes of new footage. Anyone tape it when it was on???
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From: BEATLE
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To: LORELEI
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Subject: DOLPHINS
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Date & Time: 11/30/89 19:15:47
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Message Number 630
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You know, the name Don Shula is very familiar...isn't he one of those
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football TV guys???
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From: BEATLE
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To: KEN OBER
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Subject: GoCon
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Date & Time: 11/30/89 19:18:31
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Message Number 631
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Hey, I'll trade ya August for December. My birthday is in December. Of
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course, if there is a Beatle con, people would do what >I< want to do. I
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know you won't be showing up!
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From: BEATLE
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To: CYBERPUNK
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Subject: next conv.
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Date & Time: 11/30/89 19:23:30
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Message Number 632
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There is, but there were lots of other Sci-Fi dealers sellingother
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assorted stuff. Tons of comic books, $50 Star Wars figures, pirated
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anime tapes, ROBOTECH stuff, and models, etc...
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From: BEATLE
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To: TURTLE
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Subject: Witches & Stuff
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Date & Time: 11/30/89 19:26:29
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Message Number 633
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actually, the reason was that nobody would buy it...
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From: BEATLE
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To: BEATLE
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Subject: Letterboxing
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Date & Time: 11/30/89 19:28:32
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Message Number 634
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And to clear this up, for whoever mentioned that "Alien" and "Aliens"
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were ALREADY available (I saw that after I wrote the message)...
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the movies (and others you said that were from Japan) will be
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available HERE from US companies.
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From: SPELLWIND
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To: SAURON
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Subject: Misogeny
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Date & Time: 11/30/89 20:40:27
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Message Number 636
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But alot of males fit that description (or act like it).
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I'm not one of them, girls.
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From: SPELLWIND
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To: CHIP P. UNICORN
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Subject: Con
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Date & Time: 11/30/89 20:44:57
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Message Number 637
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Haha! I'm not telling! They're holding it for me at Computers Etc.,
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probably'll be a christmas gift. Hey, you dont hafta sacrifice presents
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just because you don't believe in the religion!
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From: KEN OBER
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To: CHIP P. UNICORN
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Subject: GoCon
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Date & Time: 11/30/89 21:10:35
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Message Number 638
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Hey, Idon't mind....my place would be a blast to have a con, ask
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anyone who's ever been here! The question is...My parents wouldn't
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go for it, sorry.... (well, they MIGHT)
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From: KEN OBER
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To: CYBERPUNK
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Subject: GoCon
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Date & Time: 11/30/89 21:12:35
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Message Number 639
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> stupid.
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Is that all you have to say? STUPID?!?!?!?
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From: KEN OBER
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To: BEATLE
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Subject: GoCon
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Date & Time: 11/30/89 21:14:09
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Message Number 640
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sure I'D show up! Just as long as it had noithing to do with Ihate
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about what you like! hehehehe :>
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From: ANGEL
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To: CYBERPUNK
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Subject: RUFUS CON '89
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Date & Time: 11/30/89 22:09:23
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Message Number 641
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Hello, there. Pleased to almost meet you! Maybe at the second
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annual RufusCon.
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From: ANGEL
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To: RUFUS
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Subject: GoCon
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Date & Time: 11/30/89 22:11:32
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Message Number 642
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Can I add Scrabble to the game list, or is that too mundane for this
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fast-track crowd?
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From: ANGEL
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To: RUFUS
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Subject: H.A.M.
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Date & Time: 11/30/89 22:12:40
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Message Number 643
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I've had one play produced locally, and it was supposed to be produced
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again this fall by a New Mexico troop, but that fell through for reasons
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I can't determine (thank goodness I hadn't spend the anticipated
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royalty check!) I don't sing particularly well, but I am very LOUD!!!!
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Which is a castable asset in a large theater. I dance only under
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duress. I'm still a fox-juggler in training, oh, and acting?
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God, I'm wonderful!
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From: ANGEL
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To: CHIP P. UNICORN
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Subject: H.A.M.
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Date & Time: 11/30/89 22:17:22
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Message Number 644
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No immediate plans to perform in a show. But I will be directing
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the February show at the Players of Sarasota. It's called "The Musical
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Comedy Murders of 1940" -- it's a hoot-and-a-half. Delightfully
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bizarre characters in a snow-bound mansion replete with revolving
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bookcases, hidden passages, and unknown knifer, and bodies dropping
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like flies. I'm looking forward to it.
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By the way, open auditions are December 18 at 7:00 pm if any of you
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have thespianic ambitions.
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Oh, and a kwepie doll is a cheap plastic doll once given away as a
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prize in carnival games. It's contemporary equivalent is a stuffed
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Gumby, or the like.
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From: ANGEL
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To: SAURON
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Subject: diversions
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Date & Time: 11/30/89 22:31:30
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Message Number 645
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> Only if they're with younger women.
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WRONG! Take my word for it.
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From: TURTLE
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To: BEATLE
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Subject: Movies....
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Date & Time: 11/30/89 22:57:39
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Message Number 646
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I saw this most amazing thing once...a video disc player that didn't
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use a laser. The disc had a groove in it like a record, and the video-
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disc player actually had a needle! It was a really neat idea. It didn't
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work too well, though; the groove on the disc was /very/ narrow, and
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it tended to skip (a somewhat interesting thing to watch). The discs
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themselves were pretty. Normally, they're sealed in a plastic carrier
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and you can't see them (or touch them), but I broke one open once.
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It's really shiny...and diffracts light in some amazing ways.
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From: TURTLE
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To: BEATLE
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Subject: Aliens
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Date & Time: 11/30/89 23:00:38
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Message Number 647
|
||
|
||
The CBS version has extra footage? Where can I find a copy???!!! Aliens
|
||
is one of my #1 all-time favorite movies!!!
|
||
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|
||
|
||
From: TURTLE
|
||
To: ALL
|
||
Subject: aLTER rEALITY
|
||
Date & Time: 11/30/89 23:04:29
|
||
Message Number 648
|
||
|
||
Well, gang, the spirits must be out in force today...I averaged about
|
||
10 new messages an hour for most of the day. Anyway, this message base
|
||
is starting to eat into storage space in a hefty way, so I'm gonna start
|
||
clearing out some of the older ones (hey, 700 messages isn't bad for
|
||
one 360K floppy!) I may start automatically deleting messages after a
|
||
set number of days if this keeps up...
|
||
===========
|
||
|
||
From: TURTLE
|
||
To: ALL
|
||
Subject: AAARRRGGGHHH!!!
|
||
Date & Time: 12/01/89 15:32:38
|
||
Message Number 649
|
||
|
||
Well, aLTER rEALITY was up and running on the 3.5" floppy...for about
|
||
half a day. Well, the traitorous, backstabbing thing failed, taking
|
||
the message base with it...AAAIIIGGGHHH! Anyway, I've restored a backup
|
||
of the message base, but 20 messages were lost in the process. ('Tis
|
||
a good thing I did a complete backup last night, methinks...) Anyway,
|
||
the microfloppy may be down for the count; the damn thing isn't worth
|
||
the effort it would take to kick it into next Tuesday. More on this
|
||
as it develops.
|
||
--A frustrated Turtle
|
||
===========
|
||
|
||
From: RUFUS
|
||
To: CHIP P. UNICORN
|
||
Subject: GoCon
|
||
Date & Time: 12/01/89 15:43:11
|
||
Message Number 650
|
||
|
||
An all time favorite offense when losing at checkers is the "Throw the
|
||
board across the room and storm out of the room pouting." I suppose it
|
||
would work with Chess to.
|
||
===========
|
||
|
||
From: RUFUS
|
||
To: CHIP P. UNICORN
|
||
Subject: GoCon
|
||
Date & Time: 12/01/89 15:44:26
|
||
Message Number 651
|
||
|
||
Well, the dealers room is under my computer desk, and the filking room
|
||
could be under the other desk. Say, we could have it at my aunts farm
|
||
that has 11 acres. We could bring some Port-O-Tiolets and have a grand
|
||
time for a few weeks.
|
||
===========
|
||
|
||
From: RUFUS
|
||
To: KEN OBER
|
||
Subject: GoCon
|
||
Date & Time: 12/01/89 15:47:25
|
||
Message Number 652
|
||
|
||
Here's what we do, we tie your parents up for the night.
|
||
===========
|
||
|
||
From: RUFUS
|
||
To: ANGEL
|
||
Subject: GoCon
|
||
Date & Time: 12/01/89 15:48:22
|
||
Message Number 653
|
||
|
||
Fair enough. I have this weird game where the board stands up between
|
||
the two player. I'll have to find it and see what you have to do.
|
||
===========
|
||
|
||
From: RUFUS
|
||
To: ANGEL
|
||
Subject: H.A.M.
|
||
Date & Time: 12/01/89 15:49:37
|
||
Message Number 654
|
||
|
||
Well, you'll have to tell us all when you will be acting next. We can
|
||
all come down and see ya. Of course, we are a tough group to please.
|
||
Hmm..last time I saw a play was "Who's Life is it Anyways" or something
|
||
like that. It was about this quaddraplegic (sp?) who wanted to die, so
|
||
they had a court case. It was extra credit for Law Studies, and well, I
|
||
wasn't all that impressed with it. Oh well, can't win 'em all. And my
|
||
mind is drifting..
|
||
===========
|
||
|
||
From: RUFUS
|
||
To: TURTLE
|
||
Subject: Aliens
|
||
Date & Time: 12/01/89 15:53:32
|
||
Message Number 655
|
||
|
||
Yea, I saw it. If I'm not mistaken, some of the extra footage included
|
||
these "smart" guns they set up in a corridor. When the aliens came near
|
||
the guns would proceed to blast away.
|
||
===========
|
||
|
||
From: CRYSTAL
|
||
To: ANGEL
|
||
Subject: diversions
|
||
Date & Time: 12/01/89 17:08:40
|
||
Message Number 657
|
||
|
||
To back you up on that, It is true. The woman does not have to be
|
||
younger then the man.
|
||
===========
|
||
|
||
From: CRYSTAL
|
||
To: ALL
|
||
Subject: GameCon
|
||
Date & Time: 12/01/89 17:15:29
|
||
Message Number 658
|
||
|
||
Hay guys, lets have a Game Con. It could be fun. Lets see we
|
||
could have Scrabble, Chess, Go, Scatergories, Monopoly, Connect-4,
|
||
Battle Ship, Pictionary, Sorry, Life, Clue, Trivial Pursuit, Boggle,
|
||
Wheel Of Fortune, Memory, and Chutes and Ladders. Just think it could
|
||
be fun. Any way it was just an idea.
|
||
* CRYSTAL *
|
||
===========
|
||
|
||
From: TURTLE
|
||
To: ALL
|
||
Subject: Well...
|
||
Date & Time: 12/01/89 18:30:24
|
||
Message Number 659
|
||
|
||
aLTER rEALITY is back up on the 3.5" drive. (Some turtles never learn.)
|
||
The new drive is somewhat slower than the 5.25" (Hey, it's from an IBM.
|
||
What do you want?) and is a good deal flakier (ditto, and the fact that
|
||
Turtle had to kludge an interface for it doesn't help...) Anyway, I
|
||
/hope/ this thing doesn't flake out on me again...if it does, oh
|
||
well, kiss some more messages goodbye. Anyway, the message base is
|
||
somewhat less cramped for room now, so it is probably worth it.
|
||
--An optimistic Turtle
|
||
===========
|
||
|
||
From: BEATLE
|
||
To: KEN OBER
|
||
Subject: GoCon
|
||
Date & Time: 12/01/89 18:37:38
|
||
Message Number 660
|
||
|
||
Yes, your place would be neat. And if you got that S-VHS VCR you could
|
||
have movies (maybe Howard the Duck hehehehe) is Dolby Surround and show
|
||
it off. Just one thing, your house has 1) many breakable objects 2) a
|
||
fairly small amount of space to have a buch of people around. Then again
|
||
you don't have to worry, your parents WON'T go for it.
|
||
===========
|
||
|
||
From: BEATLE
|
||
To: KEN OBER
|
||
Subject: GoCon
|
||
Date & Time: 12/01/89 18:40:03
|
||
Message Number 661
|
||
|
||
Well, I would show movies like "Back to Future"...just kidding. well,
|
||
I might do that. I wouldn't show horror movies. And I woldn't make you
|
||
listen to The Beatles...I know you'd really not want to come. What about
|
||
a Star Trek Beatle Con???
|
||
===========
|
||
|
||
From: BEATLE
|
||
To: TURTLE
|
||
Subject: Movies....
|
||
Date & Time: 12/01/89 18:43:43
|
||
Message Number 662
|
||
|
||
Lessee, that was either the first RCA "Selectavision" player or the
|
||
other first laserdisc player. I remember that was a top-loading player..
|
||
===========
|
||
|
||
From: BEATLE
|
||
To: TURTLE
|
||
Subject: Aliens
|
||
Date & Time: 12/01/89 18:44:52
|
||
Message Number 663
|
||
|
||
Hey, I also want to see that extra footage!
|
||
===========
|
||
|
||
From: BEATLE
|
||
To: CRYSTAL
|
||
Subject: GameCon
|
||
Date & Time: 12/01/89 18:47:25
|
||
Message Number 664
|
||
|
||
And one of the most amusing games---VCR Commercial Crazies! Yes, it's a
|
||
tape of the wackiest commercials from the people who brought you the
|
||
Federal Express guy. Some of the commercials are even funny!
|
||
===========
|
||
|
||
From: CORWYN OF AMBER
|
||
To: ALL
|
||
Subject: ? Letterboxing?
|
||
Date & Time: 12/01/89 19:30:46
|
||
Message Number 665
|
||
|
||
OK: WHAT IS LETTERBOXING!!!!
|
||
===========
|
||
|
||
From: TURTLE
|
||
To: ALL
|
||
Subject: Hey!
|
||
Date & Time: 12/02/89 15:36:03
|
||
Message Number 666
|
||
|
||
After a brief hiatus in which this board was experiencing weird
|
||
technical difficulties (due to a dumb turtle who never bothers to read
|
||
documentation...), we are back. A few people attempted to log on this
|
||
morning and got a carrier but nothing else; apologies if you were
|
||
one of them. We're still having a few quirky problems here at aLTER
|
||
rEALITY, but if you'll just bear with us, life will become sunshine
|
||
and roses Real Soon Now.
|
||
--A gosh-what's-a-manual-for Turtle
|
||
===========
|
||
|
||
From: ROCKY
|
||
To: ALL...
|
||
Subject: movies...
|
||
Date & Time: 12/02/89 21:58:56
|
||
Message Number 667
|
||
|
||
Well, I've heard all the classics, except for these few, which by the
|
||
way are also among my favorites, These animation classics seem to be
|
||
making huge comebacks (which they always seem to do) but I was wondering
|
||
what happened to "100 and 1 Dalmations", and "Jungle Boy", and ALSO, a
|
||
VERY classic flick that was realeased a relatively short time ago in
|
||
animation land, though done by totally different animators (The
|
||
animation in this flick was rated top of the line at it's time of
|
||
release) and that was "Heavy Metal". Since the release of Heavy Metal,
|
||
I have yet to see such quality animation in a full length feature
|
||
cartoon (if you can call it that) and it's storyline as yet unmatched.
|
||
There were segments in the movie "The Wall" which matched the quality
|
||
of the animation techniques used in Heavy Metal, but was only in short
|
||
visual bursts of fantastic animation.
|
||
===========
|
||
|
||
From: BEATLE
|
||
To: CORWYN OF AMBER
|
||
Subject: ? Letterboxing?
|
||
Date & Time: 12/02/89 23:10:58
|
||
Message Number 668
|
||
|
||
Ever notice that the movie theatre has a movie screen that is ALMOST
|
||
as wide as two TV screens side by side? Well, when THAT size is shown on
|
||
a TV with black bars at the top and bottom to fill empty space, THAT'S
|
||
letterboxing.
|
||
===========
|
||
|
||
From: BEATLE
|
||
To: ROCKY
|
||
Subject: movies...
|
||
Date & Time: 12/02/89 23:14:52
|
||
Message Number 669
|
||
|
||
Disney has a LONG line of classic animated films they have yet to put
|
||
on video. They often release them to theatres. For instance, "Peter Pan"
|
||
was released at least twice in the last 8 years. Anyway, that film and
|
||
others such as "Jungle Book" and "101 Dalmations" and the absolute #1
|
||
Disney classic, "Snow White" will have to wait a while for a video
|
||
release. Now that Disney's big movies are out ("Bambi", "Cinderella",
|
||
etc.), I would guess that "Peter Pan" or "Fantasia" might be in line for
|
||
release soon.
|
||
===========
|
||
|
||
From: PSYCHE
|
||
To: CRYSTAL
|
||
Subject: GameCon
|
||
Date & Time: 12/02/89 23:54:08
|
||
Message Number 670
|
||
|
||
I think it sounds good (possibly in January?) What does everyone
|
||
else think of a GameCon?
|
||
(Positive feedback only, please. If you don't like it, you don't
|
||
have to come. So there.)
|
||
===========
|
||
|
||
From: CRYSTAL
|
||
To: PSYCHE
|
||
Subject: GameCon
|
||
Date & Time: 12/03/89 00:59:28
|
||
Message Number 671
|
||
|
||
It think it is a great idea. I am glad you thought of it. And
|
||
holding it is January is an even better idea. You see after the 15th
|
||
I don't get any days off till Christmas any way. And from today on I
|
||
only get two more days of till the 15th. So January is and excellant
|
||
idea. Two great minds....... Ok so it's set. Will set the actual
|
||
date after New Years. And Thank you for your support.
|
||
* CRYSTAL *
|
||
===========
|
||
|
||
From: DONTHEN
|
||
To: ROCKY
|
||
Subject: movies...
|
||
Date & Time: 12/03/89 02:59:46
|
||
Message Number 672
|
||
|
||
Hm. "Heavy Metal" had some really good animation and some so-so
|
||
animation, depending on who was doing it (each segment was done by a
|
||
different team). The storylines of each individual segment were good,
|
||
although the connecting device of the Evil Green Ball from Hell was a
|
||
damn silly idea. I think the best animation done in the 80's is the
|
||
movie "Rock and Rule," which also had a pretty good storyline and a
|
||
fairly impressive soundtrack to boot. It is, coincidentally enough,
|
||
the only movie with anthropomorphic characters who could be considered
|
||
furries instead of funny animals.
|
||
===========
|
||
|
||
From: TURTLE
|
||
To: DONTHEN
|
||
Subject: movies...
|
||
Date & Time: 12/03/89 05:01:01
|
||
Message Number 673
|
||
|
||
Rock and Rule is also, coincidentally enough, animated by the same
|
||
people who did the animation in Pink Floyd The Wall. Rock and Rule
|
||
contains a fair number of really sophisticated animation techniques
|
||
and special effects that I have never seen anywhere else...pity it
|
||
was such a box-office flop.
|
||
===========
|
||
|
||
From: TURTLE
|
||
To: PSYCHE
|
||
Subject: GameCon
|
||
Date & Time: 12/03/89 05:02:50
|
||
Message Number 674
|
||
|
||
Positive feedback only? In that case, I guess it's likely to be
|
||
unanimous; everyone who responds will say a game convention is
|
||
a good idea. Seems like a kind of silly way to get everyone to
|
||
agree, though. Myself, I think it sounds like an interesting idea,
|
||
but I'm not all /that/ fond of games in general so I'm not sure I'd
|
||
want to make a grand two-day affair or something out of the whole
|
||
deal.
|
||
===========
|
||
|
||
From: TURTLE
|
||
To: ALL
|
||
Subject: More flames
|
||
Date & Time: 12/03/89 05:04:46
|
||
Message Number 675
|
||
|
||
Gosh, this bulletin board has gotten really slow, hasn't it? I knew this
|
||
-<deleted>- PS/2 drive was slower than the 5.25" drives I normally use,
|
||
but I didn't think it would be /that/ much slower. Oh well, the message
|
||
base is more than twice as large now; I guess the speed decrease will
|
||
have to be lived with. Kind of weird, though; the /only/ reason I like
|
||
PBBS at all is the fact that it's a fast system, so for the sake of
|
||
speed I am willing to overlook its weird problems and general klunkiness
|
||
and lack of flexibility; now it appears that that one advantage has
|
||
been tossed out the window. *Sigh* I may yet end up setting up an
|
||
ERACS BBS From Hell (ERACS: The program designed to convince you you're
|
||
running on a mainframe), but it'd be a shame to toss out the messages
|
||
I have so far. *sigh* Such is life, mine at least.
|
||
--A long-suffering Turtle
|
||
PS: Somebody ask Donthen about his car window. It's totally off-topic,
|
||
but it'd be amusing anyway. I bring this up because my fingers hurt and
|
||
it makes typing difficult. Ask Donthen; he'll make sense of it all.
|
||
===========
|
||
|
||
From: RUFUS
|
||
To: CRYSTAL
|
||
Subject: GameCon
|
||
Date & Time: 12/03/89 12:07:20
|
||
Message Number 676
|
||
|
||
Let's not forget Spoons, the only full contact card game!
|
||
===========
|
||
|
||
From: RUFUS
|
||
To: DONTHEN
|
||
Subject: movies...
|
||
Date & Time: 12/03/89 12:12:14
|
||
Message Number 677
|
||
|
||
So when is the AnimationCon?? On another note, our new TV has a feature
|
||
that gives everything a slightly bluish tinge, and it makes animation
|
||
look better ( O.K., some animation ).
|
||
===========
|
||
|
||
From: RUFUS
|
||
To: DONTHEN
|
||
Subject: windows
|
||
Date & Time: 12/03/89 12:15:37
|
||
Message Number 678
|
||
|
||
What's up with your car window?
|
||
===========
|
||
|
||
From: DONTHEN
|
||
To: TURTLE
|
||
Subject: ERACS
|
||
Date & Time: 12/03/89 14:20:36
|
||
Message Number 679
|
||
|
||
ERACS has only one major flaw: it bites rocks. It's hard to use, you
|
||
have no way to run it as an open-access system, you can't have spaces in
|
||
your username, the message base utility makes the Greene Machine look
|
||
downright userfriendly, the downloading utility is just as bad, and it's
|
||
SLOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOWWWW. When I was running it
|
||
from my hard drive it was about half as fast doing everything as your
|
||
floppy-based PBBS system is, and that's running on your 3.5" drive --
|
||
and I was running at 6 MHz. It takes almost a minute just to log on to
|
||
the damn thing. I'll admit, the TTY filter impresses the hell out of
|
||
me, and MONITORx/ECS's functions that don't require patching the damn
|
||
DOS are really cool (even though they don't do anything that the Fox
|
||
kernel couldn't do if it was set up correctly, not counting being able
|
||
to set privilege bits on every DOS command) ... but the advantages
|
||
really don't seem like they're worth the hassle. I suspect if you
|
||
actually set up an ERACS system, you'd really, really regret it after
|
||
a while. I realize all the privilege bits and the neato command parser
|
||
appeal to the mainframe hacker in you, but let's face it -- being able
|
||
to restrict access to the ATTRIB command when you let people play around
|
||
at your OS level may be something no other BBS lets you do, but it's
|
||
something no other BBS misses, either. Considering that nobody in their
|
||
right mind would run a public-access ERACS system without using the
|
||
menu control files, that "advantage" is somewhat illusory. A case could
|
||
be made for wanting to give certain users the ability to access half the
|
||
DOS commands, but it'd be real hard to claim it's necessary for a BBS.
|
||
(Besides, I suspect the same thing will be possible from the Fox script
|
||
processor, and with a better command parser to boot.)
|
||
===========
|
||
|
||
From: DONTHEN
|
||
To: RUFUS
|
||
Subject: windows
|
||
Date & Time: 12/03/89 14:34:00
|
||
Message Number 680
|
||
|
||
It's missing a gasket. Someone tried to break into it in Tampa. In
|
||
fact, he did it successfully, which is a good thing, considering his
|
||
friend's keys were locked in the car and both of them would have been
|
||
stuck at a Spur station at the intersection of Fowler and I-75 for even
|
||
longer than they were, which was, in fact, quite long enough. Cold
|
||
weiather sucks and they didn't even have very good coffee.
|
||
===========
|
||
|
||
From: CHIP P. UNICORN
|
||
To: BEATLE
|
||
Subject: BeatleCon
|
||
Date & Time: 12/03/89 15:59:29
|
||
Message Number 682
|
||
|
||
>people would do what >I< want to do.
|
||
|
||
Only possible in a police state. Or if you're Madison Avenue.
|
||
Chip P. Unicorn
|
||
===========
|
||
|
||
From: CHIP P. UNICORN
|
||
To: KEN OBER
|
||
Subject: GoCon
|
||
Date & Time: 12/03/89 16:01:41
|
||
Message Number 683
|
||
|
||
Gee... a might! location for a convention. Wow! This is the closest
|
||
we've gotten for a while... we'd better start printing up the posters,
|
||
T-shirts, invite the GoH and Fan GoH, hire some staff and gofers
|
||
before your parents change their minds, huh?
|
||
Chip P. Unicorn
|
||
===========
|
||
|
||
From: CHIP P. UNICORN
|
||
To: ANGEL
|
||
Subject: H.A.M.
|
||
Date & Time: 12/03/89 16:05:02
|
||
Message Number 684
|
||
|
||
You might find an interested thesbian here. When would the practices
|
||
be, and can I see a copy of the script? (When will the performance be?)
|
||
... well, if you have no use for a unicorn on the stage, my stableboy
|
||
might be interested, too.
|
||
Chip P. Unicorn
|
||
===========
|
||
|
||
From: CHIP P. UNICORN
|
||
To: TURTLE
|
||
Subject: aLTER rEALITY
|
||
Date & Time: 12/03/89 16:07:23
|
||
Message Number 685
|
||
|
||
At the rate we're going, might have to be on a one-WEEK deleting time...
|
||
aLTER rEALITY is doing fantasically well...
|
||
Chip P. Unicorn
|
||
===========
|
||
|
||
From: CHIP P. UNICORN
|
||
To: RUFUS
|
||
Subject: GoCon
|
||
Date & Time: 12/03/89 16:08:38
|
||
Message Number 686
|
||
|
||
Works good in Go, too. Then again, Psyche has a magnetic Go set, so
|
||
throwing it across the room might not disturb the position of the
|
||
board...
|
||
Chip P. Unicorn
|
||
===========
|
||
|
||
From: CHIP P. UNICORN
|
||
To: CRYSTAL
|
||
Subject: GameCon
|
||
Date & Time: 12/03/89 16:10:52
|
||
Message Number 687
|
||
|
||
Crystal-
|
||
The idea's been batted about a bit. Anyone want to get together
|
||
prizes for the winners? (Implies an entrance fee, of course. I might
|
||
do nametags in my free time; not supply winners' prizes.)
|
||
What games would be brought? And which ones would be competed in?
|
||
Chip P. Unicorn
|
||
===========
|
||
|
||
From: CHIP P. UNICORN
|
||
To: TURTLE
|
||
Subject: Hey!
|
||
Date & Time: 12/03/89 16:13:56
|
||
Message Number 688
|
||
|
||
I was one of them... anyway, how can we believe that message you
|
||
wrote? (Take a look at the message number...)
|
||
Chip P. Unicorn
|
||
===========
|
||
|
||
From: CHIP P. UNICORN
|
||
To: TURTLE
|
||
Subject: More flames
|
||
Date & Time: 12/03/89 16:17:40
|
||
Message Number 689
|
||
|
||
An ERACS board could be fun... don't worry; if this insanity dies,
|
||
there will be more to replace it. Long live Discordia!
|
||
Chip P. Unicorn
|
||
===========
|
||
|
||
From: RUFUS
|
||
To: DONTHEN
|
||
Subject: windows
|
||
Date & Time: 12/03/89 20:45:34
|
||
Message Number 690
|
||
|
||
Ohh, nothing like "I rolled the window up when Turtle's fingers were in
|
||
the way." I do that all the time, but the Hell Nova does have power
|
||
windows.
|
||
===========
|
||
|
||
From: RUFUS
|
||
To: CHIP P. UNICORN
|
||
Subject: GoCon
|
||
Date & Time: 12/03/89 20:49:04
|
||
Message Number 691
|
||
|
||
O.K. I'll rent one of those large cranes that has a giant electromagnet
|
||
on it. Then hold the board down, and flip the switch. Little go pieces
|
||
stuck in the roof. Anyways, could you give me a little hint as to what
|
||
you do in Go? All I saw was a board with about a thousand squares and
|
||
about 2000 black and white pieces.
|
||
===========
|
||
|
||
From: RUFUS
|
||
To: CHIP P. UNICORN
|
||
Subject: GameCon
|
||
Date & Time: 12/03/89 20:51:15
|
||
Message Number 692
|
||
|
||
Well, we need games for all types. Maybe Pictionary for the simple
|
||
minded ( like me ) and Spoons for the violent minded ( like me ) and
|
||
maybe Paranioia for the mind who likes to vacation ( like me ).
|
||
===========
|
||
|
||
From: CRYSTAL
|
||
To: DONTHEN
|
||
Subject: AAA
|
||
Date & Time: 12/03/89 20:59:25
|
||
Message Number 693
|
||
|
||
When I was able to drive, my parents, gave me a quift of AAA
|
||
automobile club. It was not until I started going out with Turtle that
|
||
I use it so often. When I first got the card I used it only during the
|
||
winter months in PA. Since I have moved to Florida and began dating
|
||
Turtle I use it at least four times a year. Any one who goes out with
|
||
a Turtle in the car ( no matter yours or his ) Take a AAA card with you
|
||
Remember don't leave home with out it.
|
||
* CRYSTAL *
|
||
===========
|
||
|
||
From: CRYSTAL
|
||
To: CHIP P. UNICORN
|
||
Subject: GameCon Prizes
|
||
Date & Time: 12/03/89 21:06:32
|
||
Message Number 694
|
||
|
||
YES AND THE WINNER OF ALL THE GAMES WILL WIN A *NEW* NEVER BEFORE
|
||
DRIVEN 1987 * Y U G O *. With the special options package:
|
||
|
||
1.) Air Conditioning (with the windows rolled down)
|
||
2.) Seat bealts (connected to the car in two places),(not necessarly
|
||
in the same place as other cars)
|
||
3.) MATCHING Pickle Bucket Seats
|
||
4.) Front, rear, and side windows
|
||
5.) Four tires (pre-instuled)
|
||
6.) A pocket radio WITH antenna
|
||
7.) And last but not least turn signals
|
||
|
||
Yes Ladies and Gentleman, Boys and Girls of all ages this car can
|
||
be yours, If YOU win the GAMECON....
|
||
|
||
* CRYSTAL *
|
||
===========
|
||
|
||
From: PSYCHE
|
||
To: TURTLE
|
||
Subject: GameCon
|
||
Date & Time: 12/03/89 22:03:11
|
||
Message Number 695
|
||
|
||
Unanimity is the point. Those who don't think it is a grand, spiffy
|
||
idea can just stay home. I really don't care to hear if they think the
|
||
idea sucks... That doesn't tend to be good for one's ego.
|
||
===========
|
||
|
||
From: PSYCHE
|
||
To: CHIP P. UNICORN
|
||
Subject: GoCon
|
||
Date & Time: 12/03/89 22:07:01
|
||
Message Number 696
|
||
|
||
Ken's parents might be agreeable to the idea of having a GoCon at the
|
||
house, but I don't think that they would Go fer hiring some GoFers.
|
||
That might be gilding the lily.
|
||
Just shoot me for that one.
|
||
===========
|
||
|
||
From: PSYCHE
|
||
To: CHIP P. UNICORN
|
||
Subject: GoCon
|
||
Date & Time: 12/03/89 22:10:30
|
||
Message Number 697
|
||
|
||
Throwing it across the room might or might not disturb the position
|
||
of the board, but it would certainly disturb the person who it hit. I
|
||
thought GO was a relaxing game.
|
||
===========
|
||
|
||
From: PSYCHE
|
||
To: RUFUS
|
||
Subject: GoCon
|
||
Date & Time: 12/03/89 22:13:47
|
||
Message Number 698
|
||
|
||
381 squares and a trillion black and white pieces. I'll let Chip
|
||
explain the object of the game (gee, that's a tough one).
|
||
===========
|
||
|
||
From: PSYCHE
|
||
To: RUFUS
|
||
Subject: GameCon
|
||
Date & Time: 12/03/89 22:15:40
|
||
Message Number 699
|
||
|
||
We could just have everybody bring their own games. If they were
|
||
smart, they'd bring games that they knew would appeal to the masses;
|
||
otherwise, they might just have to sit in the corner and play with
|
||
themselves. Like I said before, games included in GameCon should
|
||
appeal to more than just the people who brought them.
|
||
===========
|
||
|
||
From: ANGEL
|
||
To: RUFUS
|
||
Subject: GoCon
|
||
Date & Time: 12/03/89 22:50:18
|
||
Message Number 700
|
||
|
||
Wow! An 11 acre ant farm! Those little critters must be happy!
|
||
===========
|
||
|
||
From: ANGEL
|
||
To: RUFUS
|
||
Subject: Openings
|
||
Date & Time: 12/03/89 22:52:18
|
||
Message Number 701
|
||
|
||
Actually ARCHANGEL opened in a play Friday night. He's in 'The Lion In
|
||
Winter' at Anna Marie Island Players, playing the King of France. Gee
|
||
from ambassador to King, not a bad job promotion. I saw the show last
|
||
night and he was, as usual, superb. But he looked ridiculous. He's
|
||
6'6" and they put him into a long purple robe and then put a crown on
|
||
top -- made him look like Welch Gumby.
|
||
===========
|
||
|
||
From: ANGEL
|
||
To: CHIP P. UNICORN
|
||
Subject: Casting couch
|
||
Date & Time: 12/03/89 23:02:43
|
||
Message Number 702
|
||
|
||
Well, the script doesn't call for a unicorn, but if your stableboy is
|
||
interested, we need five men, five women -- ages from early twenties to
|
||
early fifties. Rehearse evenings from 7:30 to 10:30 five nights a
|
||
week starting January 9 (roughly). Show opens mid-February (this is
|
||
embarrasing, I don't remember what day we open ... oh, well, I'll be
|
||
there regardless).
|
||
===========
|
||
|
||
From: SAURON
|
||
To: BEATLE
|
||
Subject: Vulvas
|
||
Date & Time: 12/04/89 03:49:17
|
||
Message Number 703
|
||
|
||
Married again? No, once (for 19 years) was quite enough.
|
||
===========
|
||
|
||
From: SAURON
|
||
To: ....
|
||
Subject: Bah!
|
||
Date & Time: 12/04/89 03:51:45
|
||
Message Number 704
|
||
|
||
You've obviously all been brainwashed by the bra-burners.
|
||
===========
|
||
|
||
From: SAURON
|
||
To: TURTLE
|
||
Subject: Oz
|
||
Date & Time: 12/04/89 03:54:51
|
||
Message Number 705
|
||
|
||
Just for the record, Ballantine Books released the complete Oz series
|
||
in paperback about 8 years ago. I had a few and the cover art was really
|
||
nice;much more so than the terrible scratchings the original Grosset &
|
||
Dunlop hardcovers had in the 30's.
|
||
===========
|
||
|
||
From: TURTLE
|
||
To: RUFUS
|
||
Subject: GameCon
|
||
Date & Time: 12/04/89 04:13:45
|
||
Message Number 706
|
||
|
||
While we're on the subject of Games We Need To Have At GameCon, let
|
||
us not forget the more...reptilian of pasttimes--like, say, Mexican,
|
||
and Quarters, and many other sophomoric pasttimes designed to cause
|
||
extreme inebriation in their contestants.
|
||
--A game-loving Turtle
|
||
===========
|
||
|
||
From: TURTLE
|
||
To: PSYCHE
|
||
Subject: GoCon
|
||
Date & Time: 12/04/89 04:16:56
|
||
Message Number 707
|
||
|
||
Click...Click...(blasted thing)...Click...BLAM!! Aha, there we go.
|
||
===========
|
||
|
||
From: TURTLE
|
||
To: SAURON
|
||
Subject: Bah!
|
||
Date & Time: 12/04/89 04:19:13
|
||
Message Number 708
|
||
|
||
Men stink! They're all chauvanist pigs! Women are supreme! Women
|
||
everywhere should unite and cast off the chains of male domination!
|
||
Men must be put in their places! All of them! Off with their heads!
|
||
Force them to bow to the female form! Make them lie face-down in dirty
|
||
bath water! Yarg! Yarg!
|
||
===========
|
||
|
||
From: RUFUS
|
||
To: CRYSTAL
|
||
Subject: GameCon Prizes
|
||
Date & Time: 12/04/89 15:39:58
|
||
Message Number 709
|
||
|
||
I'd rather have another cake. Actually, for the next Con I'll bake my
|
||
chocalate with chocalate chips covered with chocalate icing brownies.
|
||
===========
|
||
|
||
From: RUFUS
|
||
To: ANGEL
|
||
Subject: GoCon
|
||
Date & Time: 12/04/89 15:42:04
|
||
Message Number 710
|
||
|
||
Not really, the bathroom is about a 3 acre walk. They don't go very
|
||
often.
|
||
===========
|
||
|
||
From: CORWYN OF AMBER
|
||
To: ROCKY
|
||
Subject: movies...
|
||
Date & Time: 12/04/89 17:37:17
|
||
Message Number 711
|
||
|
||
I thought Wizzard (are there two Z's in that title.. not sure.) had
|
||
scences comparable to Heavy Metal's .. Don't get me wrong, I'm a big
|
||
Heavy Metal fan, I just liked Wizard a lot too... If you haven't seen it
|
||
and you liked Heavy Metal.. get it sometime.
|
||
- Corwyn
|
||
===========
|
||
|
||
From: CORWYN OF AMBER
|
||
To: BEATLE
|
||
Subject: ? Letterboxing?
|
||
Date & Time: 12/04/89 17:40:11
|
||
Message Number 712
|
||
|
||
Thank you.. When they release films "letterboxed" do they usually
|
||
release it in a normal format also?
|
||
===========
|
||
|
||
From: CHIP P. UNICORN
|
||
To: ALL
|
||
Subject: Batman Apprec.
|
||
Date & Time: 12/05/89 00:07:23
|
||
Message Number 713
|
||
|
||
"Half-holy bat guano, FatMan!"
|
||
-- from the Robin Appreciation Society. All donations
|
||
cheerfully accepted. Have an excruciatingly pleasant day.
|
||
===========
|
||
|
||
From: CHIP P. UNICORN
|
||
To: RUFUS
|
||
Subject: GoCon
|
||
Date & Time: 12/05/89 00:09:35
|
||
Message Number 714
|
||
|
||
A hint? Heck! I'll try to teach you the game over the modem.
|
||
Basically, the game is very simple [Hah!] The person with the
|
||
black stones moves first. He places one of his stones in the
|
||
intersection of the lines on the board. Then the white player goes,
|
||
and places one of his stones in an intersection. The two alternate
|
||
placing stones in corners of the board. Got me so far?
|
||
The idea of the game, really, is to capture territory. If any
|
||
two pieces of the same color are touching horizontally or vertically
|
||
(note: NOT DIAGONALLY!!!!), they are said to be "linked." Still
|
||
with me?
|
||
Stones are removed from the board in only one way: they must be
|
||
completely surrounded horizontally and vertically (NOT DIAGONALLY),
|
||
touching, by the opponent's pieces. Heck -- here are a few diagrams
|
||
of captured positions:
|
||
o ooo oo
|
||
oxo ooXXo oXXo
|
||
o oXo oXXo
|
||
o oo
|
||
Got that? Here are a few examples of NOT captured pieces:
|
||
xxx
|
||
xo x There's an "escape" left for the poor o -- but he'll
|
||
xx probably be taken next move.
|
||
|
||
xxx
|
||
xooox
|
||
xo ox Surprised? This is NOT taken. The space on the INSIDE counts
|
||
xooox as an escape route... though they'll probably be taken
|
||
xxx next move.
|
||
|
||
xxx
|
||
xooox
|
||
xo ox The o's in this position cannot be taken. CANNOT! When X
|
||
xooox tries to move into one of the empty spots, he's instantly
|
||
xo ox taken... x cannot hold both empty spots at the same time.
|
||
xooox This is called "two eyes," and it's extremely powerful.
|
||
|
||
The only other rule you need know: you cannot move into the same
|
||
square twice in a row. This prevents certain bad things from happening.
|
||
|
||
That's it for the rules. When GameCon comes around (if!), I'll
|
||
review them... and play you a game. It's a LOT tougher than it seems...
|
||
Chip P. Unicorn
|
||
===========
|
||
|
||
From: CHIP P. UNICORN
|
||
To: RUFUS
|
||
Subject: GameCon
|
||
Date & Time: 12/05/89 00:22:16
|
||
Message Number 715
|
||
|
||
Yes! We NEED more Paranoia players! George Orwell meets the Marx
|
||
Brothers... (that's how we played it, kinda sorta... Lots of fun!)
|
||
Chip P. Unicorn
|
||
===========
|
||
|
||
From: CHIP P. UNICORN
|
||
To: CRYSTAL
|
||
Subject: GameCon Prizes
|
||
Date & Time: 12/05/89 00:24:03
|
||
Message Number 716
|
||
|
||
Crystal,
|
||
Thanks for offering the grand prize! Everyone, let's give a big
|
||
hoof to Crystal...
|
||
Chip P. Unicorn
|
||
===========
|
||
|
||
From: CHIP P. UNICORN
|
||
To: ANGEL
|
||
Subject: Casting couch
|
||
Date & Time: 12/05/89 00:32:17
|
||
Message Number 717
|
||
|
||
The only time which I might have problems with is the auditions.
|
||
I plan on visiting my parents for Christmas (actually, I have no
|
||
choice!), but I might still be in the Sarasota area on the 18th.
|
||
Regardless if I show up for the auditions, I WILL be at the
|
||
performance. At least as a member of the audience.
|
||
Chip P. Unicorn
|
||
===========
|
||
|
||
From: CHIP P. UNICORN
|
||
To: SAURON
|
||
Subject: Bah!
|
||
Date & Time: 12/05/89 00:36:19
|
||
Message Number 718
|
||
|
||
No. I merely have quite a bit of respect for the brain of my filly.
|
||
She is currently a straight-A student in her college (good going!),
|
||
as well as holding down a full-time job. And she gives delicious
|
||
backrubs.
|
||
Chip P. Unicorn
|
||
===========
|
||
|
||
From: CHIP P. UNICORN
|
||
To: RUFUS
|
||
Subject: GameCon Prizes
|
||
Date & Time: 12/05/89 00:38:56
|
||
Message Number 719
|
||
|
||
drool... drool... drool... Don't mention them in front of me. I'm a
|
||
chocolaholic!
|
||
The chocolate-lover.
|
||
===========
|
||
|
||
From: ANGEL
|
||
To: CHIP P. UNICORN
|
||
Subject: Casting couch
|
||
Date & Time: 12/05/89 00:47:04
|
||
Message Number 720
|
||
|
||
Please do indeed come to opening night. I want to pack the house
|
||
when the critics are there with people who will laugh, hoot, holler,
|
||
and stamp hooves in appreciation (whether they appreciated it or not).
|
||
This is my first directing assignment in the area and I'd like to be
|
||
asked back.
|
||
===========
|
||
|
||
From: PSYCHE
|
||
To: TURTLE
|
||
Subject: GameCon
|
||
Date & Time: 12/05/89 01:00:41
|
||
Message Number 721
|
||
|
||
You're not implying that we should have alcoholic beverages at
|
||
GameCon, are you? Ewww, YUK!
|
||
I have never touched a drink containing alcohol in my life (at least
|
||
not that I can remember, so I'm sure I haven't), and am not sure how
|
||
thrilled I would be about having lots of people at close quarters
|
||
belching, gagging, throwing up, and having flatulence contests.
|
||
If you insist, however, I'm game.
|
||
===========
|
||
|
||
From: PSYCHE
|
||
To: TURTLE
|
||
Subject: GoCon
|
||
Date & Time: 12/05/89 01:06:40
|
||
Message Number 722
|
||
|
||
If I were a criminal, you could say "aha, there we Go, Con."
|
||
===========
|
||
|
||
From: SPELLWIND
|
||
To: CHIP P. UNICORN
|
||
Subject: Poker
|
||
Date & Time: 12/05/89 01:45:50
|
||
Message Number 723
|
||
|
||
Well, we could play betting poker. I'd donate half my winnings to the
|
||
'prize fund'. And I am a Very Good poker player. I'll only play if it's
|
||
betting.
|
||
===========
|
||
|
||
From: SPELLWIND
|
||
To: CRYSTAL
|
||
Subject: Turtlecar
|
||
Date & Time: 12/05/89 01:51:16
|
||
Message Number 724
|
||
|
||
And a will, and insurance, and a seatbelt......
|
||
.s
|
||
===========
|
||
|
||
From: SPELLWIND
|
||
To: PSYCHE
|
||
Subject: GoCon
|
||
Date & Time: 12/05/89 01:53:37
|
||
Message Number 725
|
||
|
||
Well, you could always have it at my house. I have an interesting house,
|
||
and you don't have to whisper!
|
||
===========
|
||
|
||
From: SPELLWIND
|
||
To: TURTLE
|
||
Subject: GameCon
|
||
Date & Time: 12/05/89 01:57:44
|
||
Message Number 726
|
||
|
||
Definitely.
|
||
===========
|
||
|
||
From: SPELLWIND
|
||
To: CHIP P. UNICORN
|
||
Subject: Batman Apprec.
|
||
Date & Time: 12/05/89 01:59:55
|
||
Message Number 727
|
||
|
||
They might have him in the next Batman movie. I hope not.
|
||
===========
|
||
|
||
From: BEATLE
|
||
To: SAURON
|
||
Subject: Oz
|
||
Date & Time: 12/05/89 07:03:18
|
||
Message Number 729
|
||
|
||
Hmmmmmmmmm...interesting. They wouldn't have done that 10 years ago.
|
||
BUT, Ballantine was the company that took the chance by publishing "Who
|
||
Censored Roger Rabbit"...
|
||
===========
|
||
|
||
From: BEATLE
|
||
To: CORWYN OF AMBER
|
||
Subject: movies...
|
||
Date & Time: 12/05/89 07:06:10
|
||
Message Number 730
|
||
|
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The movie was "Wizards" and it was made by the same people who did a
|
||
segment of Heavy Metal...
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|
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From: BEATLE
|
||
To: CORWYN OF AMBER
|
||
Subject: ? Letterboxing?
|
||
Date & Time: 12/05/89 07:07:07
|
||
Message Number 731
|
||
|
||
Well, in the case of a letterboxed tape, the movie is only on tape in
|
||
the letterboxed form. To preserve cable ratings (assuming people don't
|
||
want letterboxing on cable), the
|
||
movie is converted to screen size for pay cable. If a film is on disc
|
||
letterboxed, chances are that there is a tape unletterboxed, unless the
|
||
tape was alredy released in letterbox. Only about 10 major films (maybe
|
||
less) have been released letterboxed on tape. Some other "classic" or
|
||
foreign films have also been letterboxed.
|
||
It is interesting to compare something like "Ghostbusters" letterboxed
|
||
to the normal TV version...
|
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|
||
From: BEATLE
|
||
To: ALL
|
||
Subject: ZemeckiCon...
|
||
Date & Time: 12/05/89 07:15:33
|
||
Message Number 732
|
||
|
||
ARE YOU INTERESTED???
|
||
The ZemeckiCon (IF HELD) would be planned for summer 1990. It will be
|
||
a two-day event including video screenings of the following Zemeckis
|
||
films:
|
||
"I Wanna Hold Your Hand"
|
||
"Used Cars"
|
||
"Romancing the Stone"
|
||
"Back to the Future"
|
||
"Who Framed Roger Rabbit"
|
||
"Back to the Future Part II"
|
||
PLUS trivia contest, behind the scenes of some of the movies specials,
|
||
AND the cap of the Con, a trip to the movie theatre to see "Back to the
|
||
Future Part III". Of course, to rent the tapes and buy the movie tickets
|
||
there will have to be a fee. This fee will also contribute to the prize
|
||
in the trivia contest.
|
||
Hey, it's a quirky idea, but SOMENONE has to be interested.
|
||
Tyler, don't reply to this message...
|
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|
||
|
||
From: CRYSTAL
|
||
To: BEATLE
|
||
Subject: Used Cars
|
||
Date & Time: 12/05/89 10:55:50
|
||
Message Number 733
|
||
|
||
Finally someone else that has seen "Used Cars". That has got to be
|
||
one of the funniest movies of all time. Everyone has got to rent it.
|
||
* CRYSTAL *
|
||
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|
||
|
||
From: CORWYN OF AMBER
|
||
To: ALL
|
||
Subject: The Shadow
|
||
Date & Time: 12/05/89 12:18:38
|
||
Message Number 734
|
||
|
||
Call The Shadow BBS, 359-1717.. it's up from 11:00pm till 4:00pm.
|
||
Online games: Murder Motel, Leech, and of course Camel.
|
||
|
||
If you haven't played Camel, you have to try it, it's a very simple game
|
||
but it's also very difficult to win. We STILL need more message writers,
|
||
I'm not going to put in other bases if there are only a few messages in
|
||
the existing ones..
|
||
Call tonight. (P.S. If you tried calling and got hung up on, sorry
|
||
I was having problems w/ the init string a lot, the problem's solved now
|
||
- Corwyn
|
||
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|
||
|
||
From: BEATLE
|
||
To: CRYSTAL
|
||
Subject: Used Cars
|
||
Date & Time: 12/05/89 16:20:58
|
||
Message Number 735
|
||
|
||
Yep, I saw "Used Cars". I originally saw it because it was produced by
|
||
Steven Spielberg. It is an oddity because it is the only R-rated film
|
||
Steven Spielberg or Robert Zemeckis has ever made.
|
||
I take it you would be interested in ZemeckiCon...
|
||
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|
||
|
||
From: CYBERPUNK
|
||
To: ALL INTERESTED
|
||
Subject: ChristmasCon
|
||
Date & Time: 12/05/89 16:42:19
|
||
Message Number 736
|
||
|
||
hey all, ayone interested in a ChristmasCon, or it could be CyberCon
|
||
, it can be held at my house, can have as much noise as you want, and a
|
||
LOT more room than Turtles house, if ya'll like it, tell me!! we might
|
||
have it!!
|
||
Cy
|
||
===========
|
||
|
||
From: SPELLWIND
|
||
To: CRYSTAL
|
||
Subject: Used Cars
|
||
Date & Time: 12/05/89 16:49:12
|
||
Message Number 737
|
||
|
||
That was with the dead guy. That guy drove that car and gave him a
|
||
heartattack. funny.
|
||
===========
|
||
|
||
From: SPELLWIND
|
||
To: CORWYN OF AMBER
|
||
Subject: The Shadow
|
||
Date & Time: 12/05/89 16:52:33
|
||
Message Number 738
|
||
|
||
Also call and help out the developing storyboard...
|
||
===========
|
||
|
||
From: SPELLWIND
|
||
To: BEATLE
|
||
Subject: Used Cars
|
||
Date & Time: 12/05/89 16:54:09
|
||
Message Number 739
|
||
|
||
yep!
|
||
===========
|
||
|
||
From: TURTLE
|
||
To: PSYCHE
|
||
Subject: GameCon
|
||
Date & Time: 12/05/89 17:08:23
|
||
Message Number 740
|
||
|
||
>I have never touched a drink containing alcohol in my life...
|
||
|
||
How sad. Anything I can do to help?
|
||
|
||
>...not sure how thrilled I would be about having lots of people at
|
||
>close quarters belching, gagging, throwing up, and having flatulence
|
||
>contests.
|
||
|
||
Doesn't sound like fun to me, either. I'm not completely sure of the
|
||
relevance of that statement, though.
|
||
Thpth!
|
||
===========
|
||
|
||
From: TURTLE
|
||
To: PSYCHE
|
||
Subject: GoCon
|
||
Date & Time: 12/05/89 17:16:46
|
||
Message Number 741
|
||
|
||
Puns like that can get you arrested in 17 states, Mr. Psyche...
|
||
===========
|
||
|
||
From: TURTLE
|
||
To: ALL
|
||
Subject: Yo-Yo's...
|
||
Date & Time: 12/06/89 02:50:55
|
||
Message Number 743
|
||
|
||
...don't go up and down as often as this system. *sigh* I just found and
|
||
fixed another teensy weensy problem...if you called and got stuck in
|
||
"Looking in your Mailbox!" for about 2 years, then you, too, were a
|
||
victim. Oh well. Anyway, it's all better now...
|
||
--A resigned Turtle
|
||
===========
|
||
|
||
From: CORWYN OF AMBER
|
||
To: ALL
|
||
Subject: Modem connects
|
||
Date & Time: 12/06/89 14:39:29
|
||
Message Number 744
|
||
|
||
How exactly does the modem connect process take place. I know I usually
|
||
hear two tones, then the (static) "crshhh" of carrier. What exactly are
|
||
the first two (or one) tones.. <-- On this system I hear one tone before
|
||
carrier.. It's one of the few 1200 baud systems I call so I'm not sure
|
||
if that's it. If (when calling another system) I hear only one tone and
|
||
nothing else, which modem isn't doing it's job.. (in other words, "Whos
|
||
fault is it?") Any other info on exactly how modems connect would be
|
||
welcome.
|
||
- Corwyn (Eagerly awaiting enlightenment)
|
||
===========
|
||
|
||
From: CORWYN OF AMBER
|
||
To: TURTLE
|
||
Subject: Alcohol
|
||
Date & Time: 12/06/89 14:46:03
|
||
Message Number 745
|
||
|
||
I haven't drank anything (significant) since the last PCP(about a month)
|
||
and it's done terrible things to my disposition. Really, I'm a much
|
||
nicer person when I'm slightly (or very) drunk.. have a lot more fun too
|
||
|
||
Wednesday.. (next) I plan on getting completely and totally smashed just
|
||
for the theraputic value.. I highly recommend it.
|
||
|
||
- Corwyn (Eagerly awaiting inebriation)
|
||
===========
|
||
|
||
From: CORWYN OF AMBER
|
||
To: SAURON
|
||
Subject: Abortion
|
||
Date & Time: 12/06/89 14:56:07
|
||
Message Number 746
|
||
|
||
Abortion has been defined as legal during the first two tri-mesters of
|
||
pregnancy (w/ a doctor's consent) Some people declare this an arbitrary
|
||
descision. I don't think we will ever know enought about conciosness to
|
||
determine whether the infant is self-concious at that time. The catchy
|
||
slogan "Right to Life" is mis-leading, as are discussions as to whether
|
||
the fetus is alive. My personal conclusion is: Of course the fetus is
|
||
alive, that is not the issue. Your teeth are alive, so is a cancerous
|
||
growth in a woman with cancer (I realize this is a distasteful simile,
|
||
but I believe it present the idea well>. No-one disputes the right of
|
||
an individual to have one of his/her teeth pulled.. or have a cancerous
|
||
growth removed. The fetus is the same as these two except for one
|
||
(or two.. see above reference to it's self-conciousness) factor,
|
||
it's potential. That fetus is certainly no more intelligent than the
|
||
cow you had for dinner last night (vegetarians are excused from this
|
||
argument), or Gasp! the Turtle steak you ate last week (or year).
|
||
The telling question is whether you judge the action on the basis of
|
||
the fetus' potential to become an intelligent, self-concious organism.
|
||
The precedence, I beleice supports NOT doing so, you can not sentence a
|
||
man to death because of his potential for committing murder.. you can't
|
||
try a castrator for killing all the children the man had the POTENTIAL
|
||
to have. As I am coming up with these examples off the top of my head,
|
||
I am sure there are flaws in them.. and I'm sure there are "Pro-Lifers"
|
||
who will joyously point them out to me, but my purpose is to demonstrate
|
||
the shift in the actual issue. I have many other reasons for supporting
|
||
legalized abortion, some of which are difficult to explain.. I'd prefer
|
||
to see how people respond to this note before explaining some of them. I
|
||
will return..
|
||
- Corwyn (Eagerly awaiting morally outraged responses)
|
||
===========
|
||
|
||
From: RUFUS
|
||
To: CHIP P. UNICORN
|
||
Subject: GameCon
|
||
Date & Time: 12/06/89 15:22:17
|
||
Message Number 747
|
||
|
||
I was in the thingy that is a pick up with tank treads. Well, some guy
|
||
was looking down the launch tube to see if it was clear, so I fired.
|
||
I explained to the computer that "He was attempting to sabotage equipmen
|
||
by jamming his flashlight into the tube." Of course we wiped out about
|
||
25 clones in 2 hours. Lotsa fun.
|
||
===========
|
||
|
||
From: RUFUS
|
||
To: ANGEL
|
||
Subject: Casting couch
|
||
Date & Time: 12/06/89 15:25:22
|
||
Message Number 748
|
||
|
||
No problem, just point the critics out, and we'll be happy to meet them
|
||
outside with large baseball bats. Will Archangel be trying out for
|
||
any parts??
|
||
===========
|
||
|
||
From: RUFUS
|
||
To: CYBERPUNK
|
||
Subject: ChristmasCon
|
||
Date & Time: 12/06/89 15:28:43
|
||
Message Number 749
|
||
|
||
Sounds good to me, but stop the Turtle/Crystal house bashing. They were
|
||
kind enough to let us in, and risk getting evicted. Half the fun is
|
||
stepping on people.
|
||
===========
|
||
|
||
From: TURTLE
|
||
To: CORWYN OF AMBER
|
||
Subject: Modem connects
|
||
Date & Time: 12/06/89 15:35:53
|
||
Message Number 750
|
||
|
||
Okay, here we go... The first tone you hear is a CCITT signal. That
|
||
is the carrier for a 300 baud modem; if you're using 300 baud, you
|
||
just send an ORG carrier back and that's that. 1200 baud uses a carrier
|
||
on a different frequency. Most modems will respond to the CCITT carrier
|
||
by sending a 1200 baud carrier, which (unlike 300 baud) contains sync
|
||
signals...that's why it makes that hissing sound. What happens on the
|
||
host end at this point depends on how good the host modem is. Some
|
||
modems will immediately recognize the 1200 baud carrier and start gen-
|
||
erating one of their own, and the connection takes place. Other modems
|
||
will search for a 300 baud carrier, not find one, and switch to sending
|
||
a 1200 baud carrier with no sync signals. They will THEN suddenly
|
||
realize that they're hearing a 1200 baud carrier and wake up, and start
|
||
sending the sync signal, and the connection gets made. Is that terribly
|
||
helpful?
|
||
--A wizard Turtle
|
||
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|
||
|