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From: TURTLE
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To: BURNEY
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Subject: term prgs.
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Date & Time: 10/28/90 22:53:06
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Message Number 10051
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I haven't heard of any external line filters for computer systems, but
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I'm sure such a device isn't impossible. BYE does it in software by
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weeding out certain characters and character combinations, like
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curly braces and things of that nature, but the result is you can't
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use those characters in messages. In theory, it should be possible
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to build some sort of line filter, although I suspect it'd be of
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somewhat limited usefulness, since it wouldn't be able to fill in
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missing information that wasn't simply obscured by static...
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From: TURTLE
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To: BEATLE
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Subject: An issue
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Date & Time: 10/28/90 22:57:10
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Message Number 10052
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On the subject of drug legalization: Depends on which drugs we're
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talking about. Drugs like pot, it'd be a damn good idea; when it
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comes right down to it, weed is a safer intoxicant than alcohol, it's
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easy enough to produce that you can't really control it effectively
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by outlawing it (unlike things like heroin or PCP, you don't exactly
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need a full-fledged lab to produce it), and the money we're wasting
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to fight it could be used for other things. Harder drugs like PCP
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and crack: No way. They are simply too dangerous and too destructive.
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On the other hand, I think we're fighting them in a totally asinine
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way; as long as there is a demand for them they will be supplied,
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period, and no force known to man is going to prevent that from
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happening. Only by attacking the root of the problem, by way of
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things like drug education, Federally-sponsored drug rehab programs
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(most private programs cost between four hundred and a thousand
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dollars a day, for Christ's sake!) and other efforts aimed at the
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demand are we likely to see significant results.
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Incidentally, while the DEA is crowing over the fact that a price
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of a key in Miami has gone up from $16K to about $24K in the last
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year, it appears that that's more because all the Columbian drug lords
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are in the process of moving to Brazil than because the interdiction
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program is actually /working/. It also doesn't really mean a whole
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lot from the street point of view; the price per gram's been hovering
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at around $120 for a long time, it's just that it's heavily stepped-on
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now whereas a couple of years ago it was commonplace to find 85% pure
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coke on the streets. That's rather uncool from a public health point of
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view, since the stuff tends to get cut with everything from Borax to
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fiberglass filler...thank you George Bush, you always have the well-
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being of your citizens in mind.
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From: TURTLE
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To: BURNEY
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Subject: furry art
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Date & Time: 10/28/90 23:08:07
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Message Number 10053
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>>Furry art...long story...
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>We're listen'n
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Well, there was this party, see, and...
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From: TURTLE
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To: BURNEY
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Subject: David Duke
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Date & Time: 10/28/90 23:09:10
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Message Number 10054
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>People are a product of their environment. That goes for religion,
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>personal prejudices, political views, etc.
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There is more than a little evidence to suggest that fear and hatred
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of people who are different from yourself is biologically-based,
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rather than learned. From an evolutionary standpoint, people who are
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not members of your group represent competition for the same resources
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you need, and are therefore potential threats; also, the best way to
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ensure the survival of your own genetic line is to eradicate other lines
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that share the same ecological niche as you do. It's an outdated and
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obsolete instinct, but it's still largely instinct.
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From: TURTLE
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To: DIONYSUS
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Subject: PS/1
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Date & Time: 10/28/90 23:14:34
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Message Number 10056
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While I'll admit there's a certain apropriateness to buying a PS/1 in
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a K-Mart, the fact remains that they're staggeringly bad computers at
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an obnoxiously overinflated price, which two facts means that the
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people who own them are for some inexplicable reason insufferably proud
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of them. The problem /there/ is that these same people, who probably
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can't even spell "PS/1" to begin with, much less "8086" or "68000,"
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become a rather significant market force that encourages the develop-
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ment of tens of thousands of bad PS/1 word processors and other
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dippy applications at the cost of development for more interesting
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machines. Then you start to see bad prots from IBM's cropping up on
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Amigas and other, more powerful computers, and you see whole
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industries grow up with the entirely unfounded notion that only by
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developing applications for IBM hardware to the exclusion or near-
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exclusion of all other machines can they stay in business, which only
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increases the arrogance of the people who spent too much on PS/1's
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to begin with, and, well, I get annoyed.
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From: TURTLE
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To: ALL
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Subject: Mythagoras
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Date & Time: 10/28/90 23:20:26
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Message Number 10057
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Mythagoras #3 is here! It sports a beautiful four-color cover, and
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features stories and artwork by Terrie Smith, Paul Kidd, Watts Martin,
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Eric Blumrich, Chuck Mellvile, and others (including "UltraSheep" by
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Dirty Wrat & yours truly...) Cover price is $3.95 per issue (48 pages).
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It will be available at the Time Machine in Bradenton within the next
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few weeks, or if you can't wait you can pick up an issue from me
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(got some of the first batch to come off the press!).
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From: THUMPER 1
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To: TURTLE
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Subject:
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Date & Time: 10/29/90 01:55:05
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Message Number 10060
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I believe that Pres. Bush recieved a letter from a drug lord coalition
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thanking him for the interdiction. Some thing about shoring up the drug
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prices...
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From: THUMPER 1
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To: ALL
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Subject: words of wisdom
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Date & Time: 10/29/90 03:06:26
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Message Number 10061
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Sex should friendly. Otherwise stick to mechanical toys...
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...It's more sanitary.
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From: MAX
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To: BEATLE
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Subject: Add another
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Date & Time: 10/29/90 21:10:23
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Message Number 10062
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> Someone let me know if I'm wrong, but does it seem the dark and light
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> extremes have been mentioned in these arguments and not the shades of
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> grey??
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Gosh, you mean there's grey in these pictures, too? Got to change that
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dithering algorithm. Rats.
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The idea that there's more than two sides to most issues seems to be
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quite beyond a lot of people; the idea that there's more than one way of
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looking at the /same/ side is fuzzy to even more.
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If someone burns the flag, they are symbolically burning the
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country. If this wasn't the case, there wouldn't be any reason /anyone/
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got upset over it. But are they being disrespectful to the ideals of
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the Constitution, or are they being disrespectful to the practice of it?
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As a case in point, there was an art exhibit here a while ago which
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had an American flag partly dipped in a pool of oil. Everyone was
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outraged over it; the museum was broken into twice, and eventually the
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exhibit was removed. The artist's point, however, was that American
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ideals are being held hostage to the interests of big business (such as
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oil companies), and that as the environment is destroyed by such lack
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of foresight, America goes with it. It sounds to me like the "flag
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desecrator" was more patriotic, perhaps, than those denying him the
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right to make that comment.
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Most flag-burning cases can't make the same claim, but even so, the
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reason that America was actually founded was because English citizens
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were tired of having no ability to voice their criticisms of their
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government. This is why freedom of speech, with /no/ conditionals
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about patriotism, was guaranteed in the Bill of Rights to begin with --
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to make sure that American citizens have the right to criticize their
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government.
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Whether or not you violently disagree with flag-burning (or it makes
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you violently ill, even), the day that the flag-burners absolutely
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cannot make their point in that manner is the day they have won.
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From: MAX
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To: SPELLWIND
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Subject: ST:TNG
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Date & Time: 10/29/90 21:22:47
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Message Number 10063
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> I compare Poseidon, Zeus, and Hades to Ares....
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Then by all means, I compare Hecate and Athene. They're both Greek and
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female and occasionally invoked by Smurf Wiccans who don't grok the
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concept completely.
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From: MAX
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To: SPELLWIND
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Subject: You HOSERS
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Date & Time: 10/29/90 21:28:39
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Message Number 10064
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Why do you bother reading "Savage Sword of Conan" if you're a modern,
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enlightened male? (Or for that matter, literate and past the age of
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13?) You have to figure that most of the big Conan fans are big,
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ultra-macho types anyway.
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> Tell me, do ALL Marines think like this scumbag?
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Well, a friend of mine who used to run a BBS was one of the biggest
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fans of "Erma Felna, EDF" that I can think of; it was a military sf
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story about a flight commander who, among other things, faced a great
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deal of prejudice because of her sex (in the first few issues, she
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was sent into battle because the original commander was stuck on another
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planet and she was the highest-ranking qualified officer left, and she
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ended up becoming a hero of the battle, something the higher brass
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wasn't too pleased with). It is about the furthest thing from Conan
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that I can think of in terms of philosophy, characterization, writing
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and (especiall when you talk about the Marvel Conan) overall quality
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I can think of. This friend also happens to be a Green Beret.
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From: MAX
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To: TURTLE
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Subject: Christian affai
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Date & Time: 10/29/90 21:46:38
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Message Number 10065
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> And why was it a closed world during the Dark Ages, hmm?
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The fall of the Roman Empire cannot be blamed on Christianity. That the
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Catholic Church was the institution that tried to fill the gap could be
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considered unfortunate, or at least the attitudes (primarily the one
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that knowledge is reserved for priests) that came with it. However,
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it moved in, one suspects, because it was the only institution around
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that was able to.
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> In any event, I'm not convinced that going out and killing your
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> neighbors is a legitimate alternative to remaining isolationist...
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It isn't. However, the Crusades were, in a sense, latecomers to a long
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legacy of killing your neighbors in that region. Your earlier comment
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about the Islamic nations being kinder to strangers only holds true if
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those strangers aren't a perceived threat, just like Chrisitanity -- or
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a lot of other "empires." The fight over the "holy lands" of Islam,
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Judaism and Christendom was around before the Crusades and has persisted
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long, long after.
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While it's certainly not a defense of Christianity, I suspect that
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the reason the list of "charges" against the religion is so long is that
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it's been the predominant institution in the Western World and thus has
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had the time and power to screw things up to a much greater extent than
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other institutions. Assuming that a state of anarchy can't exist in a
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region for too long, since it's really a fundamentally more unstable
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situation than an empire beset by enemies, I have serious doubts as to
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whether any of the likely alternatives to the Holy Roman Empire would
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have a significantly better track record.
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From: THUMPER 1
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To: ALL WHO WILL LISTEN
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Subject: Navel's
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Date & Time: 10/29/90 23:53:04
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Message Number 10068
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Did Adam And Eve Have Navels?
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From: DIONYSUS
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To: TURTLE
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Subject: PS/1
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Date & Time: 10/30/90 01:25:10
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Message Number 10069
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Well, you have a right to be annoyed; but do you have a right to say
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that they are /really/ trashy computers? I mean, their popularity has
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to say something for them. Apparently, some people are a hell of a lot
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more impressed with them than you are.
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From: DIONYSUS
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To: THUMPER 1
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Subject: words of wisdom
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Date & Time: 10/30/90 01:31:41
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Message Number 10071
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Sex shouldn't rabid. So stay away from small animals...
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...It's safer.
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From: DIONYSUS
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To: THUMPER 1
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Subject: Navel's
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Date & Time: 10/30/90 01:35:34
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Message Number 10072
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No, but they had Movets and Pivassos.
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From: MAX
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To: DIONYSUS
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Subject: PS/1
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Date & Time: 10/30/90 21:36:38
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Message Number 10073
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> I mean, their popularity has to say something for them.
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The Commodore-64 is still the best-selling microcomputer of all time,
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yet its heyday came and went during the MS-DOS reign. "Rambo" was also
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an immensely popular movie, and in fact, all of the top 5 money-making
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movies with the exception of "Batman" are sequels. So, it would seem
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that (a) popularity is not an indication of quality, and (b) people
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would rather stick with the known and trite rather than the new and
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(potentially) daring.
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The PS/1 is new, but only in terms of case design. People are
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impressed with it because it's a "low end" 286 machine with IBM's name
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on it and VGA graphics inside. That's all fine and dandy, but you can
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get true 16-bit machines with comparable graphics for less, both in the
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MS-DOS architecture and out. It is still bundled with business
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applications -- fairly mediocre ones, by MS-DOS standards -- and has
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a rather boneheaded GUI to make things almost, but not quite, as easy
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as a Macintosh. (As Byte magaztem a direct question and get a
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reply. It works too. It's just all that DATA!!!!!!!!!!!
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From: TURTLE
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To: THUMPER 1
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Subject: Navel's
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Date & Time: 10/31/90 00:10:48
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Message Number 10076
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>Did Adam And Eve Have Navels?
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Does God have hands? If so, does he ever use them for anything? For that
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matter, can god create a boulder that's so heavy he can't lift it?
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Enquiring minds want to know!
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From: TURTLE
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To: DIONYSUS
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Subject: PS/1
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Date & Time: 10/31/90 00:12:03
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Message Number 10077
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>...do you have the right to say that they are /really/ trashy
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>computers? I mean, their popularity has to say something for them.
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>Apparantly, some people are a hell of a lot more impressed with them
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>than you are.
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Their popularity doesn't say a bloody damn thing about /them,/ it says
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something for IBM's marketing muscle. Popularity and quality are two
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totally unrelated concepts. Yes, some people are impressed with them.
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Most of those people have never used another computer, or never used
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another computer more sophisticated than a C=64. Again, has nothing
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to do with the quality of the machine itself. I don't like it because
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it's not expandable, it's outrageously overpriced, it's based on a
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slow and not terribly well-designed architecture, it runs an eight-bit
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operating system that was obsolete in 1984 on a sixteen-bit processor
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that was specifically designed for a bus it's not using, it's con-
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structed with surface-mount technology that makes it, essentially, a
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throwaway computer (you can't service or repair the motherboard), it
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claims to have VGA graphics but is limited to a tiny color palette,
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it's billed as the ultimate easy-to-use machine but in actuality its
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user interface is neither as sophisticated nor as intuitive as the Apple
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interface it was ripped from, it's underpowered, particularly for the
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price, and its sole purpose in life is as a marketing ploy to wedge
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IBM farther into the PC market (and even IBM will tell you that).
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Other than that, the only thing I object to about it is that it's
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built on a pathetic bus and it's ugly.
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From: TURTLE
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To: DIONYSUS
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Subject: words of wisdom
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Date & Time: 10/31/90 00:23:04
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Message Number 10078
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Sex shouldn't be purple. So stay away from pastels...
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...It's gaudy.
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From: DRAGONFLY
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To: SPELLWIND
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Subject: Bigotry
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Date & Time: 10/31/90 17:22:21
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Message Number 10079
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I, also, despise bigotry. But I've seen bigotry from both genders,
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and all races. No group is free.
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/Dragonfly/
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From: DRAGONFLY
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To: SPELLWIND
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Subject: Christian affai
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Date & Time: 10/31/90 17:24:20
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Message Number 10080
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To be frank, I'm quite confused by your message. For example, what
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gods exist within Buddhism? The Buddha clearly taught that he was NOT
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to be worshipped.
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Secondly, what do the Egyptian gods Anubis or Osiris have to do
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with Buddhism? I agree: one of the two was much more friendly than
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the other; but they were certainly not the only gods worshipped.
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Hail Aten!
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/Dragonfly/
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From: DRAGONFLY
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To: TURTLE
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Subject: Georgie
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Date & Time: 10/31/90 17:36:39
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Message Number 10081
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First and foremost, I've never advocated the permanent loss of
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the Federal government. I've only applauded when George shut down
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the government because of Congress. I wish he had kept it shut down
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until Congress came up with a satisfactory budget.
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I have said that if the Federal government failed, we would survive.
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Definitely not as well; definitely with more problems between states;
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but we would survive.
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/Dragonfly/
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From: DRAGONFLY
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To: TURTLE
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Subject: Christian affai
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Date & Time: 10/31/90 17:41:15
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Message Number 10082
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>And why was it a closed world during the Dark Ages, hmm?
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Not due to Christianity! Again, I claim that the fall of the Roman
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Empire (and the fall of its communications) was the cause of the Dark
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Ages. The fact that Christianity tried to maintain order during that
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time was not the cause.
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>I'm not convinced that going out and killing your neighbors is a
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>legitimate alternative to remaining isolationist...
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Basically, both war and complete isolationism scare me. Frankly,
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I'm enough of a pragmatist to say that the ends (the Rennaissance)
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somewhat justified the Crusades.
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/Dragonfly/
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From: DRAGONFLY
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To: TURTLE
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Subject: Christian affai
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Date & Time: 10/31/90 17:46:46
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Message Number 10083
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>Astronomy was a Persian invention. Persia was Muslim.
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Ahem? Turtle, I thought you were reasonably intelligent. Astronomy
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existed well before Islam existed.
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>The science of history, I believe, is credited to the Muslims.
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Really? There were quite a few historians in the Roman empire. Granted,
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many of them were rather one-sided. But they were historians still.
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/Dragonfly/
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From: DRAGONFLY
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To: BURNEY
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Subject: Cmdr
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Date & Time: 10/31/90 17:50:53
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Message Number 10084
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>There are more CBM's out there than any other computer any where.
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Really? Where's your source for that information?
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/Dragonfly/
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From: DRAGONFLY
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To: BEATLE
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Subject: An issue
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Date & Time: 10/31/90 17:53:01
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Message Number 10085
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My opinions on drug legalization? A doctor should be allowed to
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prescribe any medication his medical opinion says would help his
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patient.
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Quite sincerely, my life has been saved twice by medications not
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available in the United States. (I was not in the U.S. at the time.)
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||
The medication was considered too highly addictive for use in the
|
||
States, but it was ideal for my illness.
|
||
/Dragonfly/
|
||
===========
|
||
|
||
From: DRAGONFLY
|
||
To: BURNEY
|
||
Subject: David Duke
|
||
Date & Time: 10/31/90 18:00:35
|
||
Message Number 10086
|
||
|
||
>People are a product of there environment.
|
||
|
||
Exactly. That's one of the reasons why I advocate the idea of a
|
||
'global village' instead of nationalistic ideas.
|
||
/Dragonfly/
|
||
===========
|
||
|
||
From: DRAGONFLY
|
||
To: TURTLE
|
||
Subject: An issue
|
||
Date & Time: 10/31/90 18:10:34
|
||
Message Number 10087
|
||
|
||
But, Turtle -- don't you realize? It's so much flashier to burn down
|
||
drug fields than it is to try to stop the demand! And it makes much
|
||
better films when re-election time comes around.
|
||
/Dragonfly/
|
||
===========
|
||
|
||
From: DRAGONFLY
|
||
To: THUMPER 1
|
||
Subject: words of wisdom
|
||
Date & Time: 10/31/90 18:13:37
|
||
Message Number 10088
|
||
|
||
>Sex should friendly. Otherwise stick to mechanical toys... it's
|
||
>more sanitary.
|
||
|
||
I hate Lazarus Long.
|
||
/Dragonfly/
|
||
===========
|
||
|
||
From: DRAGONFLY
|
||
To: THUMPER 1
|
||
Subject: Navel's
|
||
Date & Time: 10/31/90 18:18:34
|
||
Message Number 10089
|
||
|
||
>Did Adam and Eve Have Navels?
|
||
|
||
Probably. And they probably had every other kind of orange.
|
||
/Dragonfly/
|
||
===========
|
||
|
||
From: KEN SABLE
|
||
To: OVER 600 MESSAGES
|
||
Subject: And Noone
|
||
Date & Time: 10/31/90 18:43:01
|
||
Message Number 10090
|
||
|
||
Writes me! ::Sniff:: NOBODY LOVES ME ANYMORE! ::WAAAHHHHH!::
|
||
|
||
At any rate, here I am calling after not calling after a week or so,
|
||
and I'm not going to even /attempt/ to read all the messages!
|
||
|
||
Don't forget: The Armadillo Connection 813/378-2218 8N124
|
||
|
||
-Sable-
|
||
===========
|
||
|
||
From: BURNEY
|
||
To: BEATLE
|
||
Subject: Cmdr
|
||
Date & Time: 10/31/90 19:13:55
|
||
Message Number 10092
|
||
|
||
I hava a friend with an AMIGA. He uses it to do video transfer work
|
||
(title screens and such). He is very busy but says when he gets the
|
||
time, its back to the Commodore. I hav a C64 hopefully a 128 soon.
|
||
===========
|
||
|
||
From: BURNEY
|
||
To: BEATLE
|
||
Subject: geeks
|
||
Date & Time: 10/31/90 19:17:23
|
||
Message Number 10093
|
||
|
||
If you wqnt to talk about social outcasts, lemme tell you about myself
|
||
in high school. I was one of those geeks, and to top that I didn't pay
|
||
attention. 2 strikes. I'm much
|
||
better now (thankyou doctor). It will change in time. Now I don't give
|
||
a damn what any one thinks about me personally (or my spelling...not
|
||
always the best). Give it time. How old are you (Email if privacy
|
||
desired) if I may be so bold as to ask?
|
||
===========
|
||
|
||
From: BURNEY
|
||
To: BEATLE
|
||
Subject: Drg legal.
|
||
Date & Time: 10/31/90 19:22:33
|
||
Message Number 10094
|
||
|
||
Some one who works for me just returned from Amsterdam. There he
|
||
took several photos of people on the public streets in broad daylight
|
||
shooting up. I dont think its a good idea.
|
||
===========
|
||
|
||
From: BURNEY
|
||
To: TURTLE
|
||
Subject: furry art
|
||
Date & Time: 10/31/90 19:33:16
|
||
Message Number 10096
|
||
|
||
>Well, there was this party, see, and...
|
||
Yeah...Yeah...(pant, pant)
|
||
===========
|
||
|
||
From: BURNEY
|
||
To: THUMPER 1
|
||
Subject: Navel's
|
||
Date & Time: 10/31/90 19:46:01
|
||
Message Number 10098
|
||
|
||
UM....do you mean belly buttons?
|
||
===========
|
||
|
||
From: BURNEY
|
||
To: DRAGONFLY
|
||
Subject: Cmdr
|
||
Date & Time: 10/31/90 19:54:57
|
||
Message Number 10099
|
||
|
||
To be perfectly honest, I dont have a source. I was gonig on the premis
|
||
someone told me, and its been confirmed through many individuals.
|
||
For instance there is an earlier message than this one who says the same
|
||
thing. (somewhere around #10045)
|
||
===========
|
||
|
||
From: BURNEY
|
||
To: DRAGONFLY
|
||
Subject: David Duke
|
||
Date & Time: 10/31/90 19:58:45
|
||
Message Number 10100
|
||
|
||
Forgive this poor slobs ignorance, but what do you mean by 'global villa
|
||
ge'
|
||
===========
|
||
|
||
From: BURNEY
|
||
To: KEN SABLE
|
||
Subject: And Noone
|
||
Date & Time: 10/31/90 20:01:25
|
||
Message Number 10101
|
||
|
||
Hey I know what you mean. I've been busy lately and its hell trying to
|
||
keep up with all the messages in your allotted time.
|
||
===========
|
||
|
||
From: DIONYSUS
|
||
To: TURTLE
|
||
Subject: words of wisdom
|
||
Date & Time: 10/31/90 21:44:54
|
||
Message Number 10102
|
||
|
||
So what's wrong with incestuous sex? That's what brothels are for.
|
||
===========
|
||
|
||
From: DIONYSUS
|
||
To: DRAGONFLY
|
||
Subject: Navel's
|
||
Date & Time: 10/31/90 21:48:02
|
||
Message Number 10103
|
||
|
||
I wonder what they did with the lint...
|
||
===========
|
||
|
||
From: ABARACUS
|
||
To: ALL
|
||
Subject: hello
|
||
Date & Time: 10/31/90 22:17:11
|
||
Message Number 10104
|
||
|
||
hello all, i just called to see whats going on here... I didnt know
|
||
that this bbs was still up, (how long have you had this bbs up about 2
|
||
years or so??)
|
||
later all...
|
||
===========
|
||
|
||
From: THUMPER 1
|
||
To: DIONYSUS
|
||
Subject: Parts is parts.
|
||
Date & Time: 11/01/90 00:21:36
|
||
Message Number 10105
|
||
|
||
You forgot about the Snozwanglers and the Vermiscious Cnids...
|
||
===========
|
||
|
||
From: THUMPER 1
|
||
To: TURTLE
|
||
Subject: God
|
||
Date & Time: 11/01/90 00:23:16
|
||
Message Number 10106
|
||
|
||
All gods have feet of clay, so make sure they wipe their feet before
|
||
coming inside.
|
||
===========
|
||
|
||
From: THUMPER 1
|
||
To: DRAGONFLY
|
||
Subject: Heinlein
|
||
Date & Time: 11/01/90 00:24:42
|
||
Message Number 10107
|
||
|
||
Lazarus Long drives me up the wall too. But Heinlein! Now there was one
|
||
twisted mother-forker. Did you ever read "The cat that walks through
|
||
walls"? Great book. Or try "Number of the Beast."
|
||
Can you figure out where this quote's from?(Or who it's from?)
|
||
"Fear is the mind-killer. Fear is the little death that brings total
|
||
obliteration. I will face my fear. It will wash over and through me.
|
||
When it is gone, Only I will Remain."
|
||
===========
|
||
|
||
From: THUMPER 1
|
||
To: DRAGONFLY
|
||
Subject: Oranges
|
||
Date & Time: 11/01/90 00:30:21
|
||
Message Number 10108
|
||
|
||
Aaaaahhhhh! But! Were they Manderin? Or just Limen?
|
||
===========
|
||
|
||
From: THUMPER 1
|
||
To: BURNEY
|
||
Subject: navels
|
||
Date & Time: 11/01/90 00:31:39
|
||
Message Number 10109
|
||
|
||
No. Oranges actually. Yes!!!!!! Belly-Buttons!
|
||
===========
|
||
|
||
From: THUMPER 1
|
||
To: JUST ABOUT EVERYBODY
|
||
Subject: ??????????
|
||
Date & Time: 11/01/90 00:36:22
|
||
Message Number 10110
|
||
|
||
I'm sitting here typing (badly) and I wonder... I can see in this room,
|
||
but when the lights go out, is it all really there? If I convinced
|
||
myself that it wasn't, would it be? (If I stopped taking the drugs
|
||
would I still right stupid messages like this?) If I took more drugs,
|
||
Would your replys seem different? Is this relevent? Are you relevent?
|
||
Does any one care?
|
||
|
||
|
||
|
||
|
||
|
||
....Probably not....
|
||
|
||
|
||
...I don't.
|
||
Manic deppression is hard to deal with at 1:00 am eh?
|
||
===========
|
||
|
||
From: BEATLE
|
||
To: TURTLE
|
||
Subject: An issue
|
||
Date & Time: 11/01/90 19:18:06
|
||
Message Number 10111
|
||
|
||
Yes, that would be the type of thing I was thinking of. Leagalizing
|
||
a drug like crack would be VERY stupid...
|
||
===========
|
||
|
||
From: BEATLE
|
||
To: TURTLE
|
||
Subject: Mythagoras
|
||
Date & Time: 11/01/90 19:21:02
|
||
Message Number 10112
|
||
|
||
> Cover price is $3.95...
|
||
|
||
Gimme! Gimme! Gimme! Me want Mythagoras NOW! Mine! Mine! Mine!
|
||
|
||
It's times like these when I wish I had a car, or at least a license
|
||
to drive alone...
|
||
===========
|
||
|
||
From: BEATLE
|
||
To: DIONYSUS
|
||
Subject: PS/1
|
||
Date & Time: 11/01/90 19:26:54
|
||
Message Number 10113
|
||
|
||
> do you have a right to say that they are /really/ trashy computers?
|
||
|
||
In a word, yes.
|
||
|
||
> ...has to say something for them. Apparently, some people are a hell
|
||
> of a lot more impressed with them than you are.
|
||
|
||
It's been mentioned around here many times that the sales of a
|
||
computer have no bearing whatsoever on the quality of said computer. I
|
||
mean 2 Live Crew sold tons of records, and their music is the worst
|
||
thing I've ever heard called "music". Also, most people might buy a PS/1
|
||
because the support is good or they just don't want a different computer
|
||
and don't know what else is out there...
|
||
|
||
I myself don't trust a computer in which you must replace a large
|
||
portion of the machine any time a smaller part breaks down.
|
||
===========
|
||
|
||
From: BEATLE
|
||
To: MAX
|
||
Subject: PS/1
|
||
Date & Time: 11/01/90 19:32:34
|
||
Message Number 10114
|
||
|
||
Allow me to jump in with some more useless facts...
|
||
|
||
Last time I checked (and I like to often), the top-grossing film of
|
||
all-time was "E.T." negating the comment that the 5 top money makers
|
||
except "Batman" were sequels. Plus, I would like to ask why you seem to
|
||
imply that a sequel indicates lower quality. Some of the top money
|
||
making sequels, namely "The Empire Strikes Back" and "Indiana Jones and
|
||
the Last Crusade", have been VERY high quality products...
|
||
===========
|
||
|
||
From: BEATLE
|
||
To: DRAGONFLY
|
||
Subject: An issue
|
||
Date & Time: 11/01/90 19:38:24
|
||
Message Number 10115
|
||
|
||
> And it makes much better films when re-election time comes around.
|
||
|
||
One of the things that keeps me amused through my years of growing up
|
||
is the absurdity of politics. There are too many things to mention here,
|
||
but I certainly hope it's more of a useful system when I get old enough
|
||
to vote. I'm too lazy to run, however... but then again, isn't that one
|
||
of the things that would make an almost typical politician?
|
||
===========
|
||
|
||
From: BEATLE
|
||
To: BURNEY
|
||
Subject: geeks
|
||
Date & Time: 11/01/90 19:42:47
|
||
Message Number 10116
|
||
|
||
No privacy neccesary... most people here know me. I'm 15, and just
|
||
over a month away from 16 (yay!)....
|
||
===========
|
||
|
||
From: BEATLE
|
||
To: THUMPER 1
|
||
Subject: ??????????
|
||
Date & Time: 11/01/90 19:46:01
|
||
Message Number 10117
|
||
|
||
> Manic deppression is hard to deal with at 1:00 am eh?
|
||
|
||
Well, if you are taking some sort of drugs (like was implied earlier
|
||
in the message), stop, and it should help. I know someone who was taking
|
||
drugs quite often and considered herself a manic depressive. Now she's n
|
||
not taking drugs anymore (I believe) and she's no depressed anymore.
|
||
===========
|
||
|
||
From: RUFUS
|
||
To: TURTLE
|
||
Subject: David Duke
|
||
Date & Time: 11/01/90 19:59:02
|
||
Message Number 10119
|
||
|
||
>...start buying so many PS/1's that they'll pop up in K-Mart.
|
||
|
||
"Attention K-Mart customers, we are having a blue light special on bad
|
||
computers. PS/1's, only $39.95."
|
||
===========
|
||
|
||
From: RUFUS
|
||
To: TURTLE
|
||
Subject: Toxic Shock
|
||
Date & Time: 11/01/90 20:02:12
|
||
Message Number 10120
|
||
|
||
Speaking of McD's, they've announced they won't be using foam
|
||
containers for their sandwich items.
|
||
===========
|
||
|
||
From: BURNEY
|
||
To: BEATLE
|
||
Subject: ShOCk
|
||
Date & Time: 11/01/90 20:50:27
|
||
Message Number 10122
|
||
|
||
I'm very suprised to hear (see)
|
||
that. By the way you talk, I'd have guessed much, much older [(17/18)
|
||
just kidding]. You seem much more mature than your years may suggest.
|
||
You've got a good start on the future...dont blow it by trying to
|
||
become like the riff raff you aren't. In time THEY will wish they
|
||
were more like YOU.
|
||
===========
|
||
|
||
From: SPELLWIND
|
||
To: DRAGONFLY
|
||
Subject: Christian affai
|
||
Date & Time: 11/01/90 22:09:01
|
||
Message Number 10125
|
||
|
||
True, but the fact that they are totally different does not mean that
|
||
they cannot be the same.
|
||
===========
|
||
|
||
From: SPELLWIND
|
||
To: ALL
|
||
Subject: juydg x
|
||
Date & Time: 11/01/90 22:19:44
|
||
Message Number 10126
|
||
|
||
AERTJUJ (arami for blue-faced)
|
||
|
||
|
||
Another time....
|
||
===========
|
||
|
||
From: THUMPER 1
|
||
To: BEATLE
|
||
Subject: Drugs
|
||
Date & Time: 11/01/90 22:57:33
|
||
Message Number 10128
|
||
|
||
The drug humor was just that, drug HUMOR! The only things I'm addicted
|
||
to is music, and nicotine.(One good, one bad, I know...) and the reason
|
||
for the depression was because I saw into the future and saw that
|
||
Beyond Chaos had crashed. And I just came up with a new way to kill the
|
||
rebels on the story board!!!!!!WWWWAAAAAAAAAAA!!!!
|
||
===========
|
||
|
||
From: THUMPER 1
|
||
To: BURNEY
|
||
Subject: 's ok
|
||
Date & Time: 11/01/90 23:02:59
|
||
Message Number 10129
|
||
|
||
It probably was funny, but it was late, and I was tired (like now) and
|
||
my humor sensors were not on kilter. later...
|
||
===========
|
||
|
||
From: THUMPER 1
|
||
To: ALL
|
||
Subject: modems
|
||
Date & Time: 11/01/90 23:08:28
|
||
Message Number 10130
|
||
|
||
Any one no where I can find a 2400 Bd hayes compatible modem cheap?
|
||
(No, not no but "know" ya' know?
|
||
The one I have is to slow, and is there any recomendations out there
|
||
for good com.software for IBM's?(Not ps/1's please)
|
||
===========
|
||
|
||
From: TURTLE
|
||
To: DRAGONFLY
|
||
Subject: Georgie
|
||
Date & Time: 11/02/90 01:57:28
|
||
Message Number 10132
|
||
|
||
>I wish he [George] had kept it shut down until Congress came up with
|
||
>a satisfactory budget.
|
||
|
||
It'd still be shut down. I'd hardly call the bound three-volume disaster
|
||
they produced "satisfactory."
|
||
|
||
By the way, I hope you all in BBS land are ready for the tax hikes
|
||
on gasoline and alcohol coming December first; I'm not looking forward
|
||
to them!
|
||
===========
|
||
|
||
From: TURTLE
|
||
To: DRAGONFLY
|
||
Subject: Christian affai
|
||
Date & Time: 11/02/90 01:59:45
|
||
Message Number 10133
|
||
|
||
>Astronomy existed well before Islam existed.
|
||
|
||
Astrology existed well before Islam existed. Such astronomy as was
|
||
necessary for the pursuit of astrology also existed. According to my
|
||
Islamic Studies professor, though, both astronomy as a pure (ie,
|
||
unconnected with fortunetelling, "the will of the gods," and similar
|
||
nonsense) and history the way we understand the term were Islamic
|
||
innovations. There is a HELL of a difference (pardon the expression)
|
||
between the off-the-cuff fast and loose "history" as it appears in the
|
||
Bible and history as a serious discipline, and Ibn Khaldun is generally
|
||
regarded by pretty near everyone to be the world's first true historian.
|
||
There's more to history than saying "King Izod raised his taxes
|
||
yesterday; man, that ticks me off!"
|
||
===========
|
||
|
||
From: TURTLE
|
||
To: DRAGONFLY
|
||
Subject: Cmdr
|
||
Date & Time: 11/02/90 02:03:33
|
||
Message Number 10134
|
||
|
||
>Really? What's your source for that information?
|
||
|
||
Wake up and smell the 6502's, dude! The C=64 is the best-selling
|
||
computer in history, and still has more units installed worldwide than
|
||
any other hardware platform in existance! You didn't think it was
|
||
PC architecture machines, did you??
|
||
===========
|
||
|
||
From: TURTLE
|
||
To: KEN SABLE
|
||
Subject: And Noone
|
||
Date & Time: 11/02/90 02:05:56
|
||
Message Number 10135
|
||
|
||
>NOBODY LOVES ME ANYMORE!
|
||
|
||
Well, I'm sure...no, wait. I think that's not true. Um...any takers?
|
||
|
||
|
||
(grin)
|
||
===========
|
||
|
||
From: TURTLE
|
||
To: BURNEY
|
||
Subject: furry art
|
||
Date & Time: 11/02/90 02:07:25
|
||
Message Number 10136
|
||
|
||
Well, see, there was this party, and I got kinda wasted, see, and
|
||
a friend of mine there was just getting exposed to the "furry" thing
|
||
for the first time, and she had this set of Magic Markers, see, and...
|
||
===========
|
||
|
||
From: TURTLE
|
||
To: BURNEY
|
||
Subject: instinct
|
||
Date & Time: 11/02/90 02:08:44
|
||
Message Number 10137
|
||
|
||
Yes, xenophobia and bigotry most certainly /can/ be learned from other
|
||
people. I'm not saying that the only way you get bigots is if they're
|
||
born that way; I'm saying that there probably exists a genetic
|
||
predisposition toward that sort of behavior.
|
||
===========
|
||
|
||
From: TURTLE
|
||
To: BURNEY
|
||
Subject: And Noone
|
||
Date & Time: 11/02/90 02:10:25
|
||
Message Number 10138
|
||
|
||
>...it's hell trying to keep up with all the messages in your allotted
|
||
>time.
|
||
|
||
Hey, if you (or anyoine else) need more time, just let me know! I'm not
|
||
stingy. Drop me a line in E-Mail and I'll raise your time limit.
|
||
===========
|
||
|
||
From: TURTLE
|
||
To: DIONYSUS
|
||
Subject: words of wisdom
|
||
Date & Time: 11/02/90 02:11:32
|
||
Message Number 10139
|
||
|
||
>So what's wrong with incestuous sex?
|
||
|
||
I can't speak for anyone else, but you've obviously never met my family,
|
||
or you'd realize the answer to that question is intuitively obvious to
|
||
even the most casual of observers...
|
||
===========
|
||
|
||
From: TURTLE
|
||
To: ABARACUS
|
||
Subject: hello
|
||
Date & Time: 11/02/90 02:13:15
|
||
Message Number 10140
|
||
|
||
aLTER rEALITY's been up for a year and two months now. Welcome
|
||
aboard!
|
||
===========
|
||
|
||
From: TURTLE
|
||
To: THUMPER 1
|
||
Subject: Heinlein
|
||
Date & Time: 11/02/90 02:16:00
|
||
Message Number 10141
|
||
|
||
>Fear is the mind-killer...
|
||
|
||
Bene Gesserit saying, from "Dune."
|
||
|
||
"The Cat Who Walks Through Walls" is truly a remarkable book.
|
||
Remarkably /bad/, that is. Kind of a shame; most of his earlier
|
||
works were much better...
|
||
===========
|
||
|
||
From: TURTLE
|
||
To: THUMPER 1
|
||
Subject: ??????????
|
||
Date & Time: 11/02/90 02:22:38
|
||
Message Number 10142
|
||
|
||
>...when I turn out the light, is it all really there?
|
||
|
||
No. I keep everything that's not being illuminated in a box in a
|
||
closet at my former residence in Cape Coral. Ask Max; he's seen the
|
||
closet...
|
||
|
||
I don't always keep the box illuminated.
|
||
===========
|
||
|
||
From: TURTLE
|
||
To: BEATLE
|
||
Subject: An issue
|
||
Date & Time: 11/02/90 02:24:58
|
||
Message Number 10143
|
||
|
||
>...I certainly hope [politics] is more of a useful system when I
|
||
>get old enough to vote.
|
||
|
||
HA ha ha ha ha ha ha ha!
|
||
===========
|
||
|
||
From: TURTLE
|
||
To: BEATLE
|
||
Subject: ??????????
|
||
Date & Time: 11/02/90 02:26:02
|
||
Message Number 10144
|
||
|
||
I know someone who occasionally takes drugs because she /is/
|
||
depressed...although I hardly think that part of the message was all
|
||
that serious.
|
||
|
||
Recreational drugs don't generally cause manic-depressive behavior.
|
||
Suicidial, homicidial, psychotic, paranoid, schizophrenic, irrational,
|
||
weird, and fun behavior, yes; manic-depressive, no.
|
||
===========
|
||
|
||
From: TURTLE
|
||
To: RUFUS
|
||
Subject: Toxic Shock
|
||
Date & Time: 11/02/90 02:29:43
|
||
Message Number 10145
|
||
|
||
I heard about McD's switching to paper containers. It kinda ticks me
|
||
off. Sure, polystyrene isn't degradable, but paper isn't degradable
|
||
in landfills either AND you gotta cut down trees to make it, it's
|
||
an environmental disaster to manufacture, and it leeches toxic stuff
|
||
into the ground when it gets wet.
|
||
===========
|
||
|
||
From: CRYSTAL
|
||
To: DRAGONFLY
|
||
Subject: An issue
|
||
Date & Time: 11/02/90 04:33:29
|
||
Message Number 10147
|
||
|
||
Two questions,
|
||
1) What country were you in, at the time the medication was precribed?
|
||
2) What was the drug that you were precribed?
|
||
* CRYSTAL *
|
||
===========
|
||
|
||
From: DRAGONFLY
|
||
To: BURNEY
|
||
Subject: Cmdr
|
||
Date & Time: 11/02/90 17:34:01
|
||
Message Number 10149
|
||
|
||
I've also heard this from a third source, Turtle. You might be right.
|
||
I thought by now Big Blue had sold more computers, but I admit: I'm
|
||
probably wrong.
|
||
/Dragonfly/
|
||
===========
|
||
|
||
From: DRAGONFLY
|
||
To: BURNEY
|
||
Subject: Duke Univ.
|
||
Date & Time: 11/02/90 17:36:47
|
||
Message Number 10150
|
||
|
||
>Forgive this poor slobs ignorance...
|
||
|
||
I don't know if you're either poor or slobbish, but if you're on
|
||
this board, you almost certainly aren't ignorant.
|
||
|
||
>...but what do you mean by 'global village'?
|
||
|
||
It's one of my idealisms. Basically, I'm saying that people the world
|
||
over have to become aware of the cultures outside their own. In other
|
||
words, one of the roads to peace is global understanding and acceptance.
|
||
We're afraid of that which we don't understand, so we must make
|
||
ourselves and others aware of other cultures; other ideas. The United
|
||
States has tried to make itself isolated from the world for too long --
|
||
then it tried to become the global policeman. Neither solution will help
|
||
the world (especially including the U.S.) grow together. Nothing
|
||
terribly profound there, really.
|
||
Basically, for the U.S, it means an acceptance that we're no longer
|
||
"number one" in everything -- and that we're now receiving some of the
|
||
same exploitation we once gave to other countries. It means that we
|
||
don't operate in a vacuum; that other countries, other ideas, other
|
||
basic philosophies do exist. And without a knowledge of them, we'll
|
||
fall further and worther behind in the world's eyes.
|
||
The terribly unprofound /Dragonfly/
|
||
===========
|
||
|
||
From: DRAGONFLY
|
||
To: DIONYSUS
|
||
Subject: Navel's
|
||
Date & Time: 11/02/90 17:50:02
|
||
Message Number 10151
|
||
|
||
>I wonder what they did with the lint...
|
||
|
||
Well, I lent it to Liszt. He wint somewhere with it...
|
||
/Dragonfly/
|
||
===========
|
||
|
||
From: DRAGONFLY
|
||
To: THUMPER 1
|
||
Subject: Heinlein
|
||
Date & Time: 11/02/90 17:53:33
|
||
Message Number 10152
|
||
|
||
>Did you ever read "The cat that walks through walls"?
|
||
|
||
Unfortunately, yes. It should be re-titled "How Pixel saved the
|
||
universe."
|
||
|
||
>Or try "Number of the Beast."
|
||
|
||
I did. The four <or maybe six or seven> least logical "mathe-
|
||
maticians" I've ever seen. If they had all the theory of the multiple
|
||
universes before, why did it take them so long to figure out they were
|
||
jumping from fiction-universe to fiction-universe?
|
||
|
||
Both of those were some of the worse, most "escapist" Heinlein.
|
||
(They weren't his worst novel, however. His very last novel was.)
|
||
Of his later works, I like Stranger in a Strange Land the most.
|
||
But his earlier ones were fantastic.
|
||
/Dragonfly/
|
||
===========
|
||
|
||
From: DRAGONFLY
|
||
To: THUMPER 1
|
||
Subject: ??????????
|
||
Date & Time: 11/02/90 18:00:32
|
||
Message Number 10153
|
||
|
||
>I can see this room, but when the lights go out, is it all really
|
||
>there?
|
||
|
||
Yes, but when the lights are on, and you can see the room, is it
|
||
all really there? Even though you can see things, does it mean they
|
||
exist? Does anything exist outside your mind? Does your mind exist?
|
||
If so, what color is it? Or does color exist? Does existance exist?
|
||
|
||
The solipsistic /Dragonfly/
|
||
===========
|
||
|
||
From: DRAGONFLY
|
||
To: BEATLE
|
||
Subject: An issue
|
||
Date & Time: 11/02/90 18:04:56
|
||
Message Number 10154
|
||
|
||
Hmmm... it seems to me that politicking (that is, telling your voters
|
||
how good of a job you're doing) and being a politician (that is, making
|
||
sure your voters' interests are being served) are entirely different
|
||
skills. We have many fine actors in Congress and the Senate who act
|
||
wonderfully in front of cameras. I'm not sure how many of them are
|
||
more interested in serving their voters than getting re-elected.
|
||
/Dragonfly/
|
||
===========
|
||
|
||
From: DRAGONFLY
|
||
To: CRYSTAL
|
||
Subject: An issue
|
||
Date & Time: 11/02/90 18:20:47
|
||
Message Number 10156
|
||
|
||
> What country were you in, at the time the medication was prescribed?
|
||
> What was the drug that you were prescribed?
|
||
|
||
Hmm... should I be talking about this on a tapped BBS?
|
||
The country was Mexico, and I don't remember the drug. I know
|
||
it was opium-based, but I'm not sure what, precisely, it was.
|
||
/Dragonfly/
|
||
===========
|
||
|
||
From: DIONYSUS
|
||
To: BEATLE
|
||
Subject: PS
|
||
Date & Time: 11/02/90 19:04:27
|
||
Message Number 10157
|
||
|
||
Okay. You have a right to say that IBMs are really trashy computers.
|
||
But don't expect me to share that view. Sure, there are better systems
|
||
on the market, some prices a hell of a lot more reasonably, I might add.
|
||
But IBM still sets a lot of precedents, are still VERY well respected
|
||
(at least among SOME), and really deserve credit for being what they are
|
||
in the computer world.
|
||
2 Live Crew is the worst thing you've ever heard called music? Well,
|
||
Manatee Bar Association had lunch last week listening to 2 Live Crew,
|
||
and actually didn't think they were all that bad. Of course, the lyrics
|
||
were dubbed out.
|
||
===========
|
||
|
||
From: DIONYSUS
|
||
To: BEATLE
|
||
Subject: E.T.
|
||
Date & Time: 11/02/90 19:10:30
|
||
Message Number 10158
|
||
|
||
E.T. was, in fact a sequel. What did that stand for anyway? Oh yeah -
|
||
The Extra Testicle. I think it was number three in the series.
|
||
===========
|
||
|
||
From: DIONYSUS
|
||
To: RUFUS
|
||
Subject: PS/1s
|
||
Date & Time: 11/02/90 19:12:57
|
||
Message Number 10159
|
||
|
||
Gimme forty of 'em.
|
||
===========
|
||
|
||
From: DIONYSUS
|
||
To: RUFUS
|
||
Subject: Toxic Shock
|
||
Date & Time: 11/02/90 19:14:31
|
||
Message Number 10160
|
||
|
||
Damn! And those foam containers are so good at repelling catsup stains,
|
||
too.
|
||
===========
|
||
|
||
From: DIONYSUS
|
||
To: TURTLE
|
||
Subject: words of wisdom
|
||
Date & Time: 11/02/90 19:22:16
|
||
Message Number 10162
|
||
|
||
I'm afraid my attempt at a pun was taken seriously... oh well.
|
||
===========
|
||
|
||
From: BURNEY
|
||
To: THUMPER 1
|
||
Subject: 's ok
|
||
Date & Time: 11/02/90 19:52:31
|
||
Message Number 10163
|
||
|
||
>humor sensors not on kilter...
|
||
Hey, noooo problemo dude.
|
||
(notice the unseen punctuation over the 'e' in problemo.) (pro:
|
||
problaymo)
|
||
===========
|
||
|
||
From: BURNEY
|
||
To: TURTLE
|
||
Subject: furry art
|
||
Date & Time: 11/02/90 19:58:49
|
||
Message Number 10164
|
||
|
||
No need to go further. I get the picture. This /is/ a family board....
|
||
.....right?
|
||
===========
|
||
|
||
From: BURNEY
|
||
To: DRAGONFLY
|
||
Subject: Duke Univ.
|
||
Date & Time: 11/02/90 20:06:12
|
||
Message Number 10165
|
||
|
||
With that I hAve to agree. Japan is a perfect example. They killed
|
||
people who came to there shores. After many years under the daimyos
|
||
(spelling) and various warlords and ultimately the shogun, they
|
||
realized that if they were to rule the world (which was the goals of
|
||
the emperor) they would have to learn the ideologies of the world and
|
||
glean from them what they thought was needed to rule the world. (ex:
|
||
learned from german army until defeated in ww1 then I believe they went
|
||
to French(?)...not sure)
|
||
===========
|
||
|
||
From: BURNEY
|
||
To: DRAGONFLY
|
||
Subject: An issue
|
||
Date & Time: 11/02/90 20:15:29
|
||
Message Number 10166
|
||
|
||
Was it that cancer drug?
|
||
===========
|
||
|
||
From: BURNEY
|
||
To: TURTLE
|
||
Subject: instinct
|
||
Date & Time: 11/02/90 20:21:43
|
||
Message Number 10167
|
||
|
||
You are another person who says that. I also heard that about crime
|
||
and blacks (no kidding I really heard that...on the 6:00 news no less
|
||
about 2 months ago) What makes you come to that conclusion?
|
||
===========
|
||
|
||
From: THUMPER 1
|
||
To: TURTLE
|
||
Subject: heinlein
|
||
Date & Time: 11/02/90 20:48:38
|
||
Message Number 10168
|
||
|
||
Perhaps, but I like Heinleins work. Old or new. I havn't got to much of
|
||
his older writing,(I am in fact going backwards at waldenbooks) but I
|
||
read stranger in a strange land( you grok me?) The collection of short
|
||
storys called (The Past Through Tommorow) is good and contains a lot of
|
||
older stuff. Get it and read,Methusela's Children as well as Misfit
|
||
Do you like Orson Scott Cards works? (Ender's Game, and Speaker for the
|
||
Dead?)
|
||
===========
|
||
|
||
From: THUMPER 1
|
||
To: TURTLE
|
||
Subject: Illumination
|
||
Date & Time: 11/02/90 20:53:59
|
||
Message Number 10169
|
||
|
||
How do you keep all that stuff in your closet? Perhaps by means of
|
||
temporal displacement? (for a complete explanation of T.D. read
|
||
Spellsinger by Allen Dean Foster) what would happen if we shed light on
|
||
the closet? Would all its contents explode into reality? (whoof! messy)
|
||
or would you just have to get out the dust buster?
|
||
===========
|
||
|
||
From: THUMPER 1
|
||
To: DRAGONFLY
|
||
Subject: Don't be tohard
|
||
Date & Time: 11/02/90 21:02:17
|
||
Message Number 10170
|
||
|
||
Perhaps not profound, But certainly eloquent. Bravo, my friend.
|
||
===========
|
||
|
||
From: THUMPER 1
|
||
To: DRAGONFLY
|
||
Subject: lint
|
||
Date & Time: 11/02/90 21:04:29
|
||
Message Number 10171
|
||
|
||
That last post was a little "fuzzy".
|
||
===========
|
||
|
||
From: THUMPER 1
|
||
To: DRAGONFLY
|
||
Subject: once again
|
||
Date & Time: 11/02/90 21:06:12
|
||
Message Number 10172
|
||
|
||
Once again, I'll repeat myself. I've read "Stranger in a..." And
|
||
I enjoyed it. The book of Short stories "The Past Through tommorow is
|
||
also good. I'm working my way through Heinlein backwards at waldenbooks
|
||
so I have not got to any "older" things yet (Any Suggestions are welcome
|
||
) But You have to understand my taste in the illogical. I'm an Organ-
|
||
Salesman(GASP!!!) I sucker people into buying a $25,000 machine (That
|
||
is a real price! No kidding!) when they're on a fixed income. I have to
|
||
play lounge music all day for the older folk just to get them in the
|
||
store. If heard "When the Saints Go Marching In" once every 15 minutes
|
||
you'd want to read a little illogical fantasy too. Yeeeeeshh!
|
||
Perhaps you see my point? Grok!
|
||
===========
|
||
|
||
From: THUMPER 1
|
||
To: DRAGONFLY
|
||
Subject: Solipsism
|
||
Date & Time: 11/02/90 21:15:17
|
||
Message Number 10173
|
||
|
||
I sorry but my cats exist. All cats exist, I couldn't exist without
|
||
them. I mean, what purpose would I serve other than to cater to their
|
||
feline whims? You'd have to be a cat owner(TRANS: person owned by a cat)
|
||
to understand. Are You?
|
||
===========
|
||
|
||
From: THUMPER 1
|
||
To: BURNEY
|
||
Subject: language
|
||
Date & Time: 11/02/90 21:22:10
|
||
Message Number 10174
|
||
|
||
Sorry no spanish here...Sprechen Sie Deutch? Ich bin sehr mude. Chuse!
|
||
===========
|
||
|
||
From: THUMPER 1
|
||
To: TURTLE
|
||
Subject: Drugs
|
||
Date & Time: 11/02/90 21:26:15
|
||
Message Number 10175
|
||
|
||
Drugs?!!?!?! Who? Me? Where?!? NO NO NO NO NO NO!!!!! Did I say drugs?
|
||
NOOOOOOOO! I meant fabric softener! Yeah Yeah! That's it! Fabric soft-
|
||
ener! Who me? Drugs? No Way! Not Me...
|
||
|
||
...Well maybe nicotine, and caffine, and schlitz, Coors, Miller,
|
||
ABsoLuTE... and uH! Jose' QUervo!!!! and COke and PCP!!!!!!!HAHAHAHAHAHA
|
||
Angel DDDUUUUSSTTTT!!!!!! OH YEAH!!! I LIKE IT!!!! CRACK !!! OH AND WHAT
|
||
ABOUT LD5 AND XT2? OH YEAH!!!SNORTSNORTSNORTSNORTSNORTSNORTSNORTSNORTSNO
|
||
RT...
|
||
|
||
...No really, just fabric softener.
|
||
===========
|
||
|
||
From: SNAKEBYTE
|
||
To: BEATLE
|
||
Subject: Barb's
|
||
Date & Time: 11/03/90 00:05:43
|
||
Message Number 10177
|
||
|
||
Sorry for the long time between calls. I got voice connected twice
|
||
here and it shyed me from trying too hard. Oh yeah, I saw the Site
|
||
station the next day and felt like a real fool.....a real big fool.
|
||
Oh well....nuthin' new for me......hehe
|
||
===========
|
||
|
||
From: SNAKEBYTE
|
||
To: TURTLE
|
||
Subject: Barb's
|
||
Date & Time: 11/03/90 00:09:27
|
||
Message Number 10178
|
||
|
||
Thanx for the info(?) on Magnetic Peripherals. What's this 5pm-9am
|
||
stuff? I call from work occasionally and I got "voiced" a couple of
|
||
times. Thought a/r had gone and died. Glad to see it hadn't.....
|
||
===========
|
||
|
||
From: SNAKEBYTE
|
||
To: THE SPECIALIST
|
||
Subject: Barb's
|
||
Date & Time: 11/03/90 00:12:04
|
||
Message Number 10179
|
||
|
||
Just about a month without getting on...wow! Sorry for the
|
||
belated thanyou for the HD info. Don't know how many sectors it
|
||
is....it's broke. Gonna get in touch with the manufacturer soon,
|
||
best way I know to be sure......see ya'
|
||
===========
|
||
|
||
From: BURNEY
|
||
To: THUMPER 1
|
||
Subject: Solipsism
|
||
Date & Time: 11/03/90 18:25:31
|
||
Message Number 10180
|
||
|
||
I don't know if Dragonfly is but I am. Damn that independant S.O.B.
|
||
===========
|
||
|
||
From: BURNEY
|
||
To: THUMPER 1
|
||
Subject: language
|
||
Date & Time: 11/03/90 18:28:12
|
||
Message Number 10181
|
||
|
||
I took two years of /deutsch/ in high school. That was 10 years ago.
|
||
I don't remember much (never use it). Now if I understand your deutsch
|
||
>Ich bin sehr mude. Chuse!
|
||
which I dont, you are /what/?
|
||
The answer in english would be appreciated. Maybe after a time it'll
|
||
come back.
|
||
===========
|
||
|
||
From: BURNEY
|
||
To: ALL
|
||
Subject: scratcing
|
||
Date & Time: 11/03/90 18:37:42
|
||
Message Number 10182
|
||
|
||
ScRatCh..SCRatCh..ScrATCh..
|
||
Has any body...SCraTcH...SCraTCh...got a cure...ScraTCH...for...sCRatCH.
|
||
..SCRATch...poision ivy...?
|
||
It's driving...scrAtCH...me insane
|
||
===========
|
||
|
||
From: KEN SABLE
|
||
To: TURTLE
|
||
Subject: And Noone
|
||
Date & Time: 11/03/90 21:11:59
|
||
Message Number 10184
|
||
|
||
See, no takers ... Actually EVERYONE loves me! :) What a strange TRS-
|
||
80 keyboard ... What a strange character set! Wow!
|
||
===========
|
||
|
||
From: TURTLE
|
||
To: DRAGONFLY
|
||
Subject: ??????????
|
||
Date & Time: 11/03/90 21:20:34
|
||
Message Number 10186
|
||
|
||
>Does your mind exist?
|
||
|
||
Yep. Does /yours?/
|
||
|
||
--A mindful Turtle
|
||
|
||
Isn't that kind of a personal question there, dude?
|
||
===========
|
||
|
||
From: TURTLE
|
||
To: BURNEY
|
||
Subject: furry art
|
||
Date & Time: 11/03/90 21:27:28
|
||
Message Number 10187
|
||
|
||
>No need to go further. i get the picture.
|
||
|
||
Bad pun, dude. I hope it was accidental...
|
||
|
||
>This /is/ a family board....
|
||
>.....right?
|
||
|
||
I don't see any families calling...but it /is/ public-access, I suppose.
|
||
===========
|
||
|
||
From: TURTLE
|
||
To: BURNEY
|
||
Subject: An issue
|
||
Date & Time: 11/03/90 21:29:05
|
||
Message Number 10188
|
||
|
||
>Was it that cancer drug?
|
||
|
||
No. That "cancer drug" is actually an extract of apricot pits; it's
|
||
illegal because it's about as effective in curing cancer as eating
|
||
Crayola crayons while singing "The Star-Spangled Banner," not
|
||
because it's particularly dangerous.
|
||
|
||
Still, it's a good mechanism for separating the masses from their
|
||
money...
|
||
===========
|
||
|
||
From: TURTLE
|
||
To: BURNEY
|
||
Subject: instinct
|
||
Date & Time: 11/03/90 21:31:22
|
||
Message Number 10189
|
||
|
||
Huh? Not sure I see the connection between saying that people are
|
||
instinctly xenophobic and saying that there's a connection between
|
||
crime and blacks...
|
||
===========
|
||
|
||
From: TURTLE
|
||
To: THUMPER 1
|
||
Subject: Illumination
|
||
Date & Time: 11/03/90 21:32:29
|
||
Message Number 10190
|
||
|
||
Well, the closet only contains objects which are not being illuminated.
|
||
If you shed light in the closet, the objects would be illuminated and
|
||
therefore they would no longer be in the closet. Sometimes, just for
|
||
fun, I turn the closet light on and off and on and off...
|
||
|
||
Of course, when I turn the light on, the objects inside are being
|
||
illuminated so they aren't in the closet. But when they aren't in the
|
||
closet, they aren't being illuminated any more, so they are. It's
|
||
kinda fun to watch other people's stuff simultaneously exist within and
|
||
not within my closet...
|
||
===========
|
||
|
||
From: TURTLE
|
||
To: SNAKEBYTE
|
||
Subject: Barb's
|
||
Date & Time: 11/03/90 21:37:42
|
||
Message Number 10191
|
||
|
||
The 5pm-9am stuff is there so the line can be used in my diligent
|
||
search for employment outside of McD's...if I ever get the money, the
|
||
BBS will go to its own line and everything will be peachy-keen again.
|
||
*sigh* Oh well...
|
||
===========
|
||
|
||
From: TURTLE
|
||
To: KEN SABLE
|
||
Subject: And Noone
|
||
Date & Time: 11/03/90 21:39:33
|
||
Message Number 10192
|
||
|
||
I LIKE the TRS-80 keyboard, thankyewverymuch. The character set is
|
||
not nearly as obnoxious as the one on Max's Superbrain, but I wish the
|
||
monitor weren't green...
|
||
===========
|
||
|
||
From: BEATLE
|
||
To: SPELLWIND
|
||
Subject: Christian affai
|
||
Date & Time: 11/04/90 00:06:36
|
||
Message Number 10194
|
||
|
||
|
||
> True, but the fact that they are totally different does not mean that
|
||
> they cannot be the same.
|
||
|
||
VOOP! VOOP! VOOP! Non-sequitur alert!! (I always like to do that)...
|
||
|
||
Please explain how this seemingly contridictory statement can be true.
|
||
===========
|
||
|
||
From: BEATLE
|
||
To: TURTLE
|
||
Subject: ??????????
|
||
Date & Time: 11/04/90 00:12:29
|
||
Message Number 10195
|
||
|
||
|
||
Okay, score another one for limited common sense. I keep missing
|
||
things that I should be getting... I need some mind discipline! Get
|
||
something in there besides knowledge and opinion... what use are they if
|
||
I keep tripping up?
|
||
===========
|
||
|
||
From: BEATLE
|
||
To: DIONYSUS
|
||
Subject: PS
|
||
Date & Time: 11/04/90 00:18:07
|
||
Message Number 10196
|
||
|
||
> 2 Live Crew is the worst thing you've ever heard called music?
|
||
|
||
Well, I'm really sick of most of rap. There is getting to be a better
|
||
selection of rap music, altough it's still not my favorite type of music
|
||
... What I don't like is that a lot of rap uses the same un-musical beat
|
||
and uninteligible lyrics. 2 Live Crew come across to me as uneducated
|
||
idiots. They look like they've been drinking and are about to fall over
|
||
dead, not to mention they smile too much (which must be better than
|
||
their speaking) and they try to make any swipe against them into an
|
||
issue of racism (which seems to be prevailant today, unfortunately, in
|
||
schools)...
|
||
===========
|
||
|
||
From: BEATLE
|
||
To: DIONYSUS
|
||
Subject: E.T.
|
||
Date & Time: 11/04/90 00:23:39
|
||
Message Number 10197
|
||
|
||
> I think it was number three in the series...
|
||
|
||
Almost amusing.
|
||
===========
|
||
|
||
From: BEATLE
|
||
To: THUMPER 1
|
||
Subject: Illumination
|
||
Date & Time: 11/04/90 00:26:14
|
||
Message Number 10198
|
||
|
||
> How do you keep all that stuff in your closet?
|
||
|
||
Whatever doesn't fit is protected by a 100% guaranteed S.E.P. field.
|
||
(Somebody Else's Problem)...
|
||
===========
|
||
|
||
From: BEATLE
|
||
To: TURTLE
|
||
Subject: Illumination
|
||
Date & Time: 11/04/90 00:30:20
|
||
Message Number 10199
|
||
|
||
> It's kinda fun to watch other people's stuff simultaneously exist
|
||
> within and not within my closet...
|
||
|
||
One to add to my either mental or computerized list of interesting
|
||
quotes. I hope you consider putting it in the next Overheard (oh, what
|
||
is it, four months or so away??)
|
||
|
||
"Oh, you mean I wasn't supposed to erase that?" - TTR
|
||
===========
|
||
|
||
From: BEATLE
|
||
To: TURTLE
|
||
Subject: Barb's
|
||
Date & Time: 11/04/90 00:33:40
|
||
Message Number 10200
|
||
|
||
It probably won't help, but the grocery store out here in the sticks
|
||
(just kidding...somewhat) is looking to hire a "full-time night stock
|
||
worker"... Well, we all know you like the night part...
|
||
===========
|
||
|
||
From: BEATLE
|
||
To: TURTLE
|
||
Subject: UltraSheep
|
||
Date & Time: 11/04/90 00:36:32
|
||
Message Number 10201
|
||
|
||
|
||
UltraSheep is a classic! Cracked me up to no end (and now I'm still
|
||
picking up the pieces seven hours afterward)...
|
||
|
||
Are you working on a sequel where we actually get to see UltraSheep
|
||
"battle the forces of evil, the laws of physics, and absurdity wherever
|
||
it rears its ugly head [maybe IBMs HQ??]"???
|
||
|
||
And even more importantly, is UltraSheep going to keep "rustle rustle"
|
||
ing around now that he's a big exec??
|
||
===========
|
||
|
||
From: RUFUS
|
||
To: DIONYSUS
|
||
Subject: PS/1
|
||
Date & Time: 11/04/90 01:17:45
|
||
Message Number 10202
|
||
|
||
>I mean, their popularity has to say something for them.
|
||
|
||
Kinda like "New Kids on the Block"?
|
||
===========
|
||
|
||
From: RUFUS
|
||
To: DRAGONFLY
|
||
Subject: An issue
|
||
Date & Time: 11/04/90 01:32:51
|
||
Message Number 10203
|
||
|
||
>I know it was opium-based...
|
||
|
||
I was on medicine (for 'the runs') that contained opium. Anyone more
|
||
up on medicine and drugs care to explain what the opium did (other than
|
||
make me feel better :) )?
|
||
===========
|
||
|
||
From: RUFUS
|
||
To: BEATLE
|
||
Subject: Illumination
|
||
Date & Time: 11/04/90 01:40:30
|
||
Message Number 10204
|
||
|
||
I myself have massed together a rather large list of groovin'
|
||
(HollyTalk (tm)) quotes, along with pictures, and tommorow I'm gonna
|
||
have to go searching for furry art...sigh...
|
||
===========
|
||
|
||
From: RUFUS
|
||
To: BEATLE
|
||
Subject: UltraSheep
|
||
Date & Time: 11/04/90 01:41:59
|
||
Message Number 10205
|
||
|
||
I'm waiting for:
|
||
1) UltraSheep merchandise. Shirts, mugs, dolls, a TV show...
|
||
2) Lawsuits from just about half of America. Those included will be
|
||
IBM, George Bush, the Soviet Union, and Chuck Schultz (sp?). I also
|
||
expect the PMRC, PTA, DAR, and the ACLU to be sueing (sp?).
|
||
===========
|
||
|
||
From: THUMPER 1
|
||
To: BURNEY
|
||
Subject: cATS
|
||
Date & Time: 11/04/90 17:34:00
|
||
Message Number 10207
|
||
|
||
Then you know what its like. I have five myself. 2 are kittens, and the
|
||
big boy of the group is named Spike, (23 pounds of feline fun!)
|
||
===========
|
||
|
||
From: THUMPER 1
|
||
To: BURNEY
|
||
Subject: Deutch
|
||
Date & Time: 11/04/90 17:35:53
|
||
Message Number 10208
|
||
|
||
>Ich bin sehr mude. Chuse!
|
||
I really need some german letters! That means "I'm tired." And "chuse"
|
||
Means See-Ya! Wie lange hast du schreibt am deiser BBS?
|
||
(How long have you been posting on A/R)
|
||
===========
|
||
|
||
From: THUMPER 1
|
||
To: TURTLE
|
||
Subject: Closets
|
||
Date & Time: 11/04/90 17:41:27
|
||
Message Number 10209
|
||
|
||
>It's fun to watch other peoples stuff exist within and not within my
|
||
closet.<
|
||
Kinda' like Dan Quale existing and then not quite existing in the white
|
||
house.
|
||
===========
|
||
|
||
From: THUMPER 1
|
||
To: BEATLE
|
||
Subject: S.E.P.
|
||
Date & Time: 11/04/90 17:47:07
|
||
Message Number 10210
|
||
|
||
Cool. You want me to quote some vogon like poetry foryou to suffer throu
|
||
I mean aprecciate?
|
||
Ode to belly button lint
|
||
Oh I would yearn to see.
|
||
A bird within a tree.
|
||
A kitty romp through feline mint <-----------------(Catnep)
|
||
Or sniff Jim Baker's navel lint.
|
||
|
||
Yes Tammy Fae is my kinda' gal
|
||
And Jimmy boy is simply swall (swell...whatever)
|
||
A stooly gave the feds a hint
|
||
Now Jimmy's sniffing his CELLMATES lint.
|
||
|
||
Thank you thank you. Now Tell me what you think or I'll toss you
|
||
out the airlock! RESISTANCE IS USELESS!!!!!!!!!!!!!
|
||
===========
|
||
|
||
From: THUMPER 1
|
||
To: BEATLE
|
||
Subject: Huh?
|
||
Date & Time: 11/04/90 17:57:42
|
||
Message Number 10211
|
||
|
||
Excuse me for butting in but now I'm interested. Whats "Ultrasheep" and
|
||
where can I get a copy to read myself?
|
||
===========
|
||
|
||
From: THUMPER 1
|
||
To: ALL
|
||
Subject: De'nada
|
||
Date & Time: 11/04/90 18:04:29
|
||
Message Number 10212
|
||
|
||
To Quote a close friend,"All the worlds a CPU, and we are just bit
|
||
players.-Ender-Nov.1990"
|
||
Yes another lame attempt to break up monoteny(Spelling?) I'll just mosy
|
||
on out and let one of you Brainy Types Start and interesting little talk
|
||
===========
|
||
|
||
From: DRAGONFLY
|
||
To: BURNEY
|
||
Subject: Duke Univ.
|
||
Date & Time: 11/04/90 18:41:50
|
||
Message Number 10213
|
||
|
||
You got it. Although I'm not absolutely certain about Oriental history
|
||
and culture (yo, Turtle!), what you've said sounds similar to my ideas.
|
||
Except, of course, the bit about ruling the world. The easiest way to
|
||
do that, of course, is to have the biggest armies and weapons -- which
|
||
the U.S. already has.
|
||
/Dragonfly/
|
||
===========
|
||
|
||
From: DRAGONFLY
|
||
To: BURNEY
|
||
Subject: An issue
|
||
Date & Time: 11/04/90 18:44:09
|
||
Message Number 10214
|
||
|
||
>Was it that cancer drug?
|
||
|
||
No, it wasn't a cancer drug. I picked up a really nasty bug in
|
||
Mexico (or maybe three), and the opiate was one of the two drugs the
|
||
doctor gave me.
|
||
/Dragonfly/
|
||
===========
|
||
|
||
From: DRAGONFLY
|
||
To: THUMPER 1
|
||
Subject: Eloquence?
|
||
Date & Time: 11/04/90 18:49:02
|
||
Message Number 10215
|
||
|
||
<Blushing> Thanks, friend!
|
||
===========
|
||
|
||
From: DRAGONFLY
|
||
To: THUMPER 1
|
||
Subject: lint
|
||
Date & Time: 11/04/90 18:50:21
|
||
Message Number 10216
|
||
|
||
>That last post was a little "fuzzy"
|
||
|
||
Yes, but it was a real peach.
|
||
===========
|
||
|
||
From: DRAGONFLY
|
||
To: THUMPER 1
|
||
Subject: once again
|
||
Date & Time: 11/04/90 18:51:51
|
||
Message Number 10217
|
||
|
||
Having to listen to ANY song once every fifteen minutes would drive
|
||
me a little crazy, myself. I'd be about to ask how you manage to sell
|
||
such things to people of fixed income, but I thought of what I was
|
||
doing last summer -- a position straight out of Doonesbury. Trying
|
||
to "sell" the Republican Senators to the Hispanic community. (I speak
|
||
Spanish fairly well.) It's convinced me never to vote for Connie Mack.
|
||
|
||
Anyway, the only early Heinlein that I remember is "Stormship
|
||
Troopers" -- a fairly good book. But the person I've just been sold
|
||
on was Mercedes Lackey. Try her out, sometime!
|
||
/Dragonfly/
|
||
===========
|
||
|
||
From: DRAGONFLY
|
||
To: THUMPER 1
|
||
Subject: Solipsism
|
||
Date & Time: 11/04/90 18:59:04
|
||
Message Number 10218
|
||
|
||
I have been rejected by two cats in my life. Both were self-assured
|
||
strays who wandered in to my life, stayed two or three weeks, and then
|
||
left for greener pastures. <SIGH!> Anyway, I've been more of a dog
|
||
fancier myself.
|
||
/Dragonfly/
|
||
===========
|
||
|
||
From: DRAGONFLY
|
||
To: THUMPER 1
|
||
Subject: language
|
||
Date & Time: 11/04/90 19:02:33
|
||
Message Number 10219
|
||
|
||
Das tut mir leid daB du sehr mude bist.
|
||
/Dragonfly/
|
||
===========
|
||
|
||
From: DRAGONFLY
|
||
To: TURTLE
|
||
Subject: ??????????
|
||
Date & Time: 11/04/90 19:09:29
|
||
Message Number 10220
|
||
|
||
DF>Does your mind exist?
|
||
T> Yep. Does /yours?/
|
||
|
||
Okay. Now, prove it.
|
||
/Dragonfly/
|
||
|
||
===========
|
||
|
||
From: DRAGONFLY
|
||
To: TURTLE
|
||
Subject: And Noone
|
||
Date & Time: 11/04/90 19:13:35
|
||
Message Number 10221
|
||
|
||
>I wish the monitor weren't green...
|
||
|
||
I'll loan you a can of pink spraypaint.
|
||
/Dragonfly/
|
||
===========
|
||
|
||
From: DRAGONFLY
|
||
To: BEATLE
|
||
Subject: UltraSheep
|
||
Date & Time: 11/04/90 19:17:53
|
||
Message Number 10222
|
||
|
||
What I'd like to know is: Why would UltraSheep want to battle the
|
||
laws of absurdity?
|
||
/Dragonfly/
|
||
===========
|
||
|
||
From: DIONYSUS
|
||
To: BEATLE
|
||
Subject: PS
|
||
Date & Time: 11/04/90 21:50:50
|
||
Message Number 10223
|
||
|
||
Jeez - my memory stinks. Oh well. I don't suppose you'd believe me if
|
||
I told you (though I don't remember the source) that the leader of 2
|
||
Live Crew makes more money from heading three record labels than he does
|
||
does from being in the band.
|
||
===========
|
||
|
||
From: DIONYSUS
|
||
To: BEATLE
|
||
Subject: E.T.
|
||
Date & Time: 11/04/90 21:53:53
|
||
Message Number 10224
|
||
|
||
Why thank you. I'm glad you have the balls to admit it.
|
||
===========
|
||
|
||
From: DIONYSUS
|
||
To: BEATLE
|
||
Subject: E.T.
|
||
Date & Time: 11/04/90 21:54:25
|
||
Message Number 10225
|
||
|
||
Now, if you'll excuse me, I've gotta study. I've got a test-to-kill
|
||
tomorrow.
|
||
===========
|
||
|
||
From: DIONYSUS
|
||
To: RUFUS
|
||
Subject: PS/1
|
||
Date & Time: 11/04/90 21:56:07
|
||
Message Number 10226
|
||
|
||
Actually, yes.
|
||
===========
|
||
|
||
From: TURTLE
|
||
To: BEATLE
|
||
Subject: Illumination
|
||
Date & Time: 11/04/90 22:06:05
|
||
Message Number 10228
|
||
|
||
>I hope you consider putting it in the next Overheard...
|
||
|
||
Well, Bart tells me I'm the Official Designated Overheard Person (tm)
|
||
(as well as the Official Designated Proofreader (tm)), so it might be
|
||
kinda silly to put my own quotes in Overheard. Next Mythagoras is (in
|
||
theory) due out in January or so...
|
||
===========
|
||
|
||
From: TURTLE
|
||
To: BEATLE
|
||
Subject: Barb's
|
||
Date & Time: 11/04/90 22:07:42
|
||
Message Number 10229
|
||
|
||
Can you be more specific about this grocery store?? I don't know where
|
||
you live (even though I've been out there), so I don't know where it
|
||
is. At this point I'll take pretty near anything.
|
||
===========
|
||
|
||
From: TURTLE
|
||
To: BEATLE
|
||
Subject: UltraSheep
|
||
Date & Time: 11/04/90 22:08:59
|
||
Message Number 10230
|
||
|
||
>UltraSheep is classic!
|
||
|
||
Thank you. Yes, there will be more...the first real UltraSheep /story/
|
||
(the one in Mythagoras #3 was background and origins, rather than a
|
||
story) is being scripted right now and will appear in Mythagoras #5.
|
||
Yes, he will keep "rustling" about even though he's a powerful,
|
||
important executive...although not exactly in the same way. Plus, look
|
||
for all manner of new strangeness in the story...mum's the word...
|
||
===========
|
||
|
||
From: TURTLE
|
||
To: RUFUS
|
||
Subject: Illumination
|
||
Date & Time: 11/04/90 22:11:58
|
||
Message Number 10231
|
||
|
||
>HollyTalk (tm)...
|
||
|
||
When is she leaving for Germany again?
|
||
===========
|
||
|
||
From: TURTLE
|
||
To: RUFUS
|
||
Subject: UltraSheep
|
||
Date & Time: 11/04/90 22:12:31
|
||
Message Number 10232
|
||
|
||
UltraSheep merchandise is actually a real possibility...Wratt is working
|
||
on the design for an UltraSheep T-Shirt that's a parody of all the neon
|
||
Ron Jon/Bad Dog surfer shirts wandering around. It'll probably be some
|
||
disgusting flourescent color, with an "UltraSheep" logo on the front
|
||
and a huge Da-Glo pic of UltraSheep himself on the back. They should
|
||
be rather cool (and expensive, but oh well).
|
||
===========
|
||
|
||
From: TURTLE
|
||
To: THUMPER 1
|
||
Subject: S.E.P.
|
||
Date & Time: 11/04/90 22:17:10
|
||
Message Number 10233
|
||
|
||
>Now Tell me what you think or I'll toss you out the airlock!
|
||
|
||
Well, I liked it, rawther.
|
||
===========
|
||
|
||
From: TURTLE
|
||
To: THUMPER 1
|
||
Subject: Huh?
|
||
Date & Time: 11/04/90 22:17:57
|
||
Message Number 10234
|
||
|
||
UltraSheep is a comic that debuted in Mythagoras #3, available directly
|
||
from me or at the Time Machine comic shop in Bradenton. Cover price is
|
||
$3.95 but if you get it from me it's $3.75.
|
||
===========
|
||
|
||
From: TURTLE
|
||
To: THUMPER 1
|
||
Subject: De'nada
|
||
Date & Time: 11/04/90 22:19:04
|
||
Message Number 10235
|
||
|
||
All the world's an analog stage and digital circuits play only bit
|
||
parts.
|
||
===========
|
||
|
||
From: TURTLE
|
||
To: DRAGONFLY
|
||
Subject: ??????????
|
||
Date & Time: 11/04/90 22:22:37
|
||
Message Number 10237
|
||
|
||
>Okay. Now prove it.
|
||
|
||
I don't like 2 Live Crew. 'Nuff said.
|
||
===========
|
||
|
||
From: TURTLE
|
||
To: DRAGONFLY
|
||
Subject: UltraSheep
|
||
Date & Time: 11/04/90 22:23:02
|
||
Message Number 10238
|
||
|
||
>Why would UltraSheep want to battle the laws of absurdity?
|
||
|
||
Not the laws of absurdity...absurdity itself! It's a self-reference
|
||
thing, see, and...never mind.
|
||
===========
|
||
|
||
From: THUMPER 1
|
||
To: DRAGONFLY
|
||
Subject: Your welcome
|
||
Date & Time: 11/05/90 01:29:42
|
||
Message Number 10239
|
||
|
||
No Problem...Just look at my stuff in a silly light. then it makes more
|
||
sense. Ciao'
|
||
===========
|
||
|
||
From: THUMPER 1
|
||
To: DRAGONFLY
|
||
Subject: peachs
|
||
Date & Time: 11/05/90 01:31:08
|
||
Message Number 10240
|
||
|
||
HAHAHAHAHAHAHAHAHAHAHOHOHOHOHOHOHOHAHAHEEHEEHEEHEEHEEHEEHEEHEEHEHEHEHE!
|
||
IS there MCI on this system?
|
||
\b1
|
||
Was there a beep?
|
||
later \v2 have a good night. Thumper One
|
||
===========
|
||
|
||
From: THUMPER 1
|
||
To: DRAGONFLY
|
||
Subject: Books
|
||
Date & Time: 11/05/90 01:34:14
|
||
Message Number 10241
|
||
|
||
>Mercedes Lackey...
|
||
never heard...etc. But I'll check it out. Try to read Neuromancer by
|
||
William Gibson.(The man how invented the Cyberpunk fiction movement(SP))
|
||
You been in the area long? See ya'
|
||
===========
|
||
|
||
From: THUMPER 1
|
||
To: DRAGONFLY
|
||
Subject: Dogs
|
||
Date & Time: 11/05/90 01:37:41
|
||
Message Number 10242
|
||
|
||
I had a black labrador when I lived with my parents. His name was Buck.
|
||
I love that dog...He still beats the hell out of me with that thick tail
|
||
The People I rent from already had three cats when I came here. I just
|
||
obtained two more kittens.(Fiesty little buggers) They're all mixed.
|
||
===========
|
||
|
||
From: THUMPER 1
|
||
To: DRAGONFLY
|
||
Subject: Deutch
|
||
Date & Time: 11/05/90 01:41:05
|
||
Message Number 10243
|
||
|
||
>Das tut....
|
||
You don't have to be sorry. I just stay up to late typing all these
|
||
posts. (Yawn). I'm usually to tired to even log off. the Time limits
|
||
usually get me.(Or my brother logs me out while I sleep.)
|
||
===========
|
||
|
||
From: THUMPER 1
|
||
To: TURTLE
|
||
Subject: Peotry
|
||
Date & Time: 11/05/90 01:49:44
|
||
Message Number 10244
|
||
|
||
OOps.. Good subject spelling.
|
||
"I smile and lift an eyebrow at your remark, which succedes in
|
||
obscuring my nose, which is then ,of course, no bad thing..."
|
||
OK I won't toss you out the airlock, but I will ask you to tell me the
|
||
answer to the ultimate question of the universe. Whats the answer!
|
||
===========
|
||
|
||
From: THUMPER 1
|
||
To: TURTLE
|
||
Subject: Cool
|
||
Date & Time: 11/05/90 01:54:11
|
||
Message Number 10245
|
||
|
||
Cool my friend. I'll take one. You want me to send you the money or
|
||
is there a BBS credit system? I got Visa, mastercard, and --------------
|
||
Europa Trans-universal credits. Want to buy some nebulonic clouds?
|
||
Cheap! Send me some E-mail on Myth...#3 Kay? later!!!
|
||
===========
|
||
|
||
From: THUMPER 1
|
||
To: TURTLE
|
||
Subject: yeah-yeah
|
||
Date & Time: 11/05/90 01:58:00
|
||
Message Number 10246
|
||
|
||
Ok smart guy. here a tough one: what color are mickey mouses shoe?
|
||
===========
|
||
|
||
From: THUMPER 1
|
||
To: ALL
|
||
Subject: Wherez evybody?
|
||
Date & Time: 11/06/90 00:27:28
|
||
Message Number 10247
|
||
|
||
Is the reason for the absence of posts tonight perhaps that the board
|
||
was not answering the phone this evening? I called several times, but
|
||
it was never answered. Maybe this is some new sign that I don't
|
||
understand. Or maybe all the talk of solipsism canceled everybody out
|
||
but me! AAAAAAAAAAUUUUUUUUUUUUURRRRRRRRGGGGGGGHHHHH!?!?!?!?!?!!!!
|
||
\b1
|
||
===========
|
||
|
||
From: CRYSTAL
|
||
To: BURNEY
|
||
Subject: scratcing
|
||
Date & Time: 11/06/90 02:29:49
|
||
Message Number 10248
|
||
|
||
I do believe that Calamine (sp) lotion, the beige stuff, is the only
|
||
product that will control the itch. It is not a cure, but if you stop
|
||
itching it, it will not spread. When I was little, between the ages of
|
||
4 and 10, I got it at the beginning of every summer. Good luck.
|
||
* CRYSTAL *
|
||
===========
|
||
|
||
From: SPELLWIND
|
||
To: TURTLE
|
||
Subject: Heinlein
|
||
Date & Time: 11/06/90 04:32:41
|
||
Message Number 10249
|
||
|
||
That's about those cats that help the reporter guy solve mysteries,
|
||
right? Those are cool.
|
||
===========
|
||
|
||
From: SPELLWIND
|
||
To: DIONYSUS
|
||
Subject: PS
|
||
Date & Time: 11/06/90 04:41:09
|
||
Message Number 10250
|
||
|
||
So, where's the Bar these Manatees have set up an Association at?
|
||
===========
|
||
|
||
From: SPELLWIND
|
||
To: BEATLE
|
||
Subject: Christian affai
|
||
Date & Time: 11/06/90 04:53:09
|
||
Message Number 10251
|
||
|
||
They appear totally different (additudes, personalities..etc) but
|
||
they still could be the same figure, just seen differently, though I
|
||
doubt it.
|
||
===========
|
||
|
||
From: SPELLWIND
|
||
To: BEATLE
|
||
Subject: PS
|
||
Date & Time: 11/06/90 04:55:30
|
||
Message Number 10252
|
||
|
||
Most so. Oden was beaten up quite a few times by black students at
|
||
Riverview...
|
||
===========
|
||
|
||
From: SPELLWIND
|
||
To: TURTLE
|
||
Subject: Duke Univ.
|
||
Date & Time: 11/06/90 05:07:29
|
||
Message Number 10253
|
||
|
||
Actually, according to the Centaur World Atlas, Iraq's army is pretty
|
||
small... want me to pop in the disks and give you the actual nomber?
|
||
(Actually it's the % of GNP used on the military...)
|
||
===========
|
||
|
||
From: SPELLWIND
|
||
To: THUMPER 1
|
||
Subject: yeah-yeah
|
||
Date & Time: 11/06/90 05:11:39
|
||
Message Number 10254
|
||
|
||
If you're referring to his 'shoes', they're yellow, and occasionally
|
||
B&W on a B & W cartoon...
|
||
===========
|
||
|
||
From: SPELLWIND
|
||
To: CRYSTAL
|
||
Subject: scratcing
|
||
Date & Time: 11/06/90 05:13:30
|
||
Message Number 10255
|
||
|
||
Yep. Calamine's the only thing that can do it.
|
||
===========
|
||
|
||
From: BEATLE
|
||
To: RUFUS
|
||
Subject: UltraSheep
|
||
Date & Time: 11/06/90 06:46:24
|
||
Message Number 10257
|
||
|
||
> Lawsuits from...
|
||
|
||
Gee, you left out the first one in the whole thing: Gary Trudeau (sp?)
|
||
===========
|
||
|
||
From: BEATLE
|
||
To: THUMPER 1
|
||
Subject: S.E.P.
|
||
Date & Time: 11/06/90 06:49:23
|
||
Message Number 10258
|
||
|
||
As I would type in the game of HHGTTG...
|
||
?> enjoy poetry
|
||
|
||
Like I have a choice?
|
||
===========
|
||
|
||
From: BEATLE
|
||
To: DRAGONFLY
|
||
Subject: UltraSheep
|
||
Date & Time: 11/06/90 06:52:31
|
||
Message Number 10259
|
||
|
||
> Why would UltraSheep want to battle the laws of absurdity?
|
||
|
||
No, no. It's "battle the forces of evil, the laws of physics, and
|
||
absurdity wherever it rears its ugly head
|
||
|
||
I had no idea there were LAWS to absurdity.
|
||
===========
|
||
|
||
From: BEATLE
|
||
To: DIONYSUS
|
||
Subject: PS
|
||
Date & Time: 11/06/90 06:55:04
|
||
Message Number 10260
|
||
|
||
> ...more money from heading three record labels...
|
||
|
||
I would believe it. And I'm glad someone took action against them fro
|
||
(er, FOR) using the name "Skywalker" (albeit they used two Y's)... I
|
||
don't take kindly to those people who degrade the names of the Rebel
|
||
leaders who fought to destroy the evil Empire!
|
||
===========
|
||
|
||
From: BEATLE
|
||
To: TURTLE
|
||
Subject: Illumination
|
||
Date & Time: 11/06/90 06:57:45
|
||
Message Number 10261
|
||
|
||
> Next Mythagoras is due our in January or so...
|
||
|
||
I thought the deadline was THIS month. Geesh, tell me I'm wrong please
|
||
... I've got some stuff I want to polish up and send in.
|
||
===========
|
||
|
||
From: BEATLE
|
||
To: TURTLE
|
||
Subject: Barb's
|
||
Date & Time: 11/06/90 06:58:56
|
||
Message Number 10262
|
||
|
||
> Can you be more specific about this grocery store??
|
||
|
||
Yes. It's a Kash n' Karry, it's big, the building is pink and white,
|
||
it's in the Manatee Towne shopping center, next to a Rite Aid drug store
|
||
and they're hiring night stockers... that's all I know, unless you want
|
||
to know more about the INSIDE...
|
||
===========
|
||
|
||
From: BEATLE
|
||
To: TURTLE
|
||
Subject: UltraSheep
|
||
Date & Time: 11/06/90 07:02:01
|
||
Message Number 10263
|
||
|
||
> It'll probably be some disgusting flourescent color...
|
||
|
||
Hey! I /like/ fluorescent colors! And I hope they do get a shirt, I
|
||
would love to see what kinda reaction it would pull at school! (It also
|
||
might help sell Mythagoras, too..)
|
||
===========
|
||
|
||
From: BEATLE
|
||
To: TURTLE
|
||
Subject: Huh?
|
||
Date & Time: 11/06/90 07:03:53
|
||
Message Number 10264
|
||
|
||
> if you get it from me it's $3.75.
|
||
|
||
Okay, concern #1 has been settled. I /did/ pay the right amount. Now,
|
||
nobody has concured on /why/ I paid that much. Mike Hickmon said it was
|
||
because I didn't get the "neat-o plastic bag" and Tyler said it was
|
||
because you were only semi-consious at the time, and I should pay the
|
||
money back.
|
||
===========
|
||
|
||
From: BEATLE
|
||
To: BEATLE
|
||
Subject: Barb's
|
||
Date & Time: 11/06/90 07:09:43
|
||
Message Number 10265
|
||
|
||
|
||
Actually, I don't know the adress to the KnK, or anything much to tell
|
||
the "location", but it's on SR 70, and it'S on the next intersection
|
||
west of New 301.
|
||
|
||
===========
|
||
|
||
From: BURNEY
|
||
To: TURTLE
|
||
Subject: furry art
|
||
Date & Time: 11/06/90 20:08:32
|
||
Message Number 10266
|
||
|
||
Yup it was unintentional...
|
||
===========
|
||
|
||
From: BURNEY
|
||
To: TURTLE
|
||
Subject: An issue
|
||
Date & Time: 11/06/90 20:09:38
|
||
Message Number 10267
|
||
|
||
Yeah I remember it was from fruit of some kind. Can't remember the name
|
||
of the drug though...
|
||
===========
|
||
|
||
From: BURNEY
|
||
To: TURTLE
|
||
Subject: instinct
|
||
Date & Time: 11/06/90 20:11:28
|
||
Message Number 10268
|
||
|
||
If you recall, you mentioned that certain actions are caused to a
|
||
certain degree, by genetics. I heard the same about blacks and crime.
|
||
I don't know what the xeno...what ever means though..
|
||
===========
|
||
|
||
From: BURNEY
|
||
To: THUMPER 1
|
||
Subject: cATS
|
||
Date & Time: 11/06/90 20:26:20
|
||
Message Number 10270
|
||
|
||
OH MY GOD...wadda ya feed that thing...super cat food or something?
|
||
I only have one and thats plenty. I love to put her on the dryer for a
|
||
few minutes and let her come out a giant static fur ball...ha..ha..ha...
|
||
(hysterical laughter)
|
||
===========
|
||
|
||
From: BURNEY
|
||
To: THUMPER 1
|
||
Subject: Deutch
|
||
Date & Time: 11/06/90 20:29:09
|
||
Message Number 10271
|
||
|
||
Ich bin schreibt am die BBs drei/ fier months lange. See its coming
|
||
back slowly. Very slowly indeed. The gramar isnt correct either I'm
|
||
sure.
|
||
===========
|
||
|
||
From: BURNEY
|
||
To: DRAGONFLY
|
||
Subject: Duke Univ.
|
||
Date & Time: 11/06/90 20:35:17
|
||
Message Number 10272
|
||
|
||
AH but we don't have the biggest army (china w/200 million). Also the
|
||
Soviet army is larger. That is why we are nuke loaded in the persian
|
||
gulf. It is no secret the US will go nuclear early if things go badly.
|
||
I knew someone who was in the armed forces in Viet Nam. We were
|
||
nuke loaded then too. Didn't knowthat did you...
|
||
===========
|
||
|
||
From: BURNEY
|
||
To: THUMPER 1
|
||
Subject: yeah-yeah
|
||
Date & Time: 11/06/90 21:39:19
|
||
Message Number 10273
|
||
|
||
yellow....i think..
|
||
===========
|
||
|
||
From: BURNEY
|
||
To: SPELLWIND
|
||
Subject: scratcing
|
||
Date & Time: 11/06/90 21:44:22
|
||
Message Number 10274
|
||
|
||
I've tried it, it don't work on mefor some reason. I finally had to go
|
||
to the clinic and get a shot of cortizone. That took care of the
|
||
swelling but not the itch. I finally went to the market and got a tube
|
||
of cort creme. That took care of the itch temporarily. After 2 weeks
|
||
going on three, it is finally going away....YEAH HAPPY DAYS ARE HERE
|
||
AGAIN...
|
||
===========
|
||
|
||
From: DRAGONFLY
|
||
To: TURTLE
|
||
Subject: UltraSheep
|
||
Date & Time: 11/06/90 22:04:47
|
||
Message Number 10277
|
||
|
||
How many colors will the Ultrasheep (tm) shirt have?
|
||
|
||
And what font will UltraSheep be in?
|
||
/Dragonfly/
|
||
===========
|
||
|
||
From: THUMPER 1
|
||
To: SPELLWIND
|
||
Subject: goooooood!
|
||
Date & Time: 11/06/90 22:09:25
|
||
Message Number 10278
|
||
|
||
Ok. that one was easy. but most people get it wrong. (I hope you didn't
|
||
cheat.) how about calculating Calculating Pi to its last decimal place
|
||
for me?
|
||
===========
|
||
|
||
From: THUMPER 1
|
||
To: BURNEY
|
||
Subject: Static
|
||
Date & Time: 11/06/90 22:25:06
|
||
Message Number 10279
|
||
|
||
>super cat food?
|
||
Naw. he doesn't even eat a lot. He just got that big by himself. Got
|
||
another that is headed that way too. I'll have to try the cat static
|
||
thing. Sounds good.
|
||
===========
|
||
|
||
From: THUMPER 1
|
||
To: BURNEY
|
||
Subject: Goiman.
|
||
Date & Time: 11/06/90 22:29:05
|
||
Message Number 10280
|
||
|
||
My Grammar sucks too.
|
||
===========
|
||
|
||
From: RUFUS
|
||
To: DRAGONFLY
|
||
Subject: Solipsism
|
||
Date & Time: 11/07/90 17:24:31
|
||
Message Number 10282
|
||
|
||
Funny, I wrote a paper for English on a cat that stayed with us for a
|
||
few weeks then left. Of course, I made up a few events to spruce the
|
||
paper up, and named the cat Omaha. <snicker>
|
||
===========
|
||
|
||
From: RUFUS
|
||
To: TURTLE
|
||
Subject: Illumination
|
||
Date & Time: 11/07/90 17:27:11
|
||
Message Number 10283
|
||
|
||
>When is she leaving for Germany again?
|
||
|
||
Umm, Ghods only knows (and I bet a few them don't know). That is, if
|
||
she is still going. Any number of things could pop up, the foremost
|
||
being financial problems.
|
||
===========
|
||
|
||
From: RUFUS
|
||
To: CRYSTAL
|
||
Subject: scratcing
|
||
Date & Time: 11/07/90 17:31:42
|
||
Message Number 10284
|
||
|
||
>When i was little, between the ages of 4 and 10, I got it [poision
|
||
>ivy] at the beginning of every summer.
|
||
|
||
Every summer? Was it a yearly ritual? :)
|
||
===========
|
||
|
||
From: RUFUS
|
||
To: BEATLE
|
||
Subject: UltraSheep
|
||
Date & Time: 11/07/90 17:34:50
|
||
Message Number 10285
|
||
|
||
>Gee, you left out the first one...
|
||
|
||
I dunno, I really don't think Gary Trudeau would sue...
|
||
===========
|
||
|
||
From: RUFUS
|
||
To: BEATLE
|
||
Subject: Illumination
|
||
Date & Time: 11/07/90 17:37:01
|
||
Message Number 10286
|
||
|
||
The deadline for submissions is 12/12/90. It'll probably come out in
|
||
January.
|
||
===========
|
||
|
||
From: BEATLE
|
||
To: ALL
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Subject: Grrr...
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Date & Time: 11/07/90 18:47:54
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Message Number 10288
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I have here in my hands a TV Guide report on "Is TV going too far?"...
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I seem to get the impression that the article is a bit biased. I'm also
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upset that they consider talking to five families a genunine "survey" to
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find out what offends people on TV. Anyone else read this article??
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From: TURTLE
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To: THUMPER 1
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Subject: peachs
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Date & Time: 11/07/90 21:37:23
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Message Number 10290
|
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>IS there MCI on this system?
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|
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Fortunatley, no (thank God). There isn't even word-whap on this
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system...much less anything in the way of intelligent message pro-
|
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cessing (other than on the part of the reader, of course).
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|
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From: TURTLE
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To: THUMPER 1
|
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Subject: Books
|
||
Date & Time: 11/07/90 21:38:41
|
||
Message Number 10291
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|
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>Try to read Neuro mancer by William Gibson.
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|
||
Excellent book! One of my favorites...
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|
||
>(The man who invented the Cyberpunk fiction movement...)
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|
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Not really. Cyberpunk was invented by Bruce Sterling ("Islands in the
|
||
Net"), but William Gibson made it popular.
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|
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From: TURTLE
|
||
To: THUMPER 1
|
||
Subject: Peotry
|
||
Date & Time: 11/07/90 21:40:40
|
||
Message Number 10292
|
||
|
||
>...I will ask you to tell me the answer to the ultimate question of the
|
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>universe. What's the answer!
|
||
|
||
Contrary to popular belief, the answer is not "42" as previously
|
||
suspected. Rather, the answer is "three cups of lima beans, two ounces
|
||
of guacomole, sixteen small flightless birds, and blue."
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|
||
|
||
From: TURTLE
|
||
To: THUMPER 1
|
||
Subject: yeah-yeah
|
||
Date & Time: 11/07/90 21:43:08
|
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Message Number 10293
|
||
|
||
What color are mickey mouse shoe? That's easy, they'r$#{{{+{{
|
||
|
||
-,{{{{{{;@@ .,d{,&% NO CARRIER
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||
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||
|
||
From: TURTLE
|
||
To: THUMPER 1
|
||
Subject: Wherez evybody?
|
||
Date & Time: 11/07/90 21:44:24
|
||
Message Number 10294
|
||
|
||
>I called several times, but it was never answered.
|
||
|
||
Sorry 'bout that. My computer was busy doing kinky links with an
|
||
Amiga 2000HD; I dragged this 'puter over to a friend's and hooked
|
||
'em up at 19.2K baud so I could transfer a bunco of files back and
|
||
forth. It ended up taking longer than I'd anticipated, since I also
|
||
ended up calling some Amiga BBSes from her 'puter and downloading a
|
||
bunch of stuff from there, too.
|
||
|
||
...aah, Amiga. Where else can I do a batch file transfer as a background
|
||
task, and as each file comes in fork off a new process that works on
|
||
translating the file from .GIF format to .IFF format while I have a
|
||
Mountain Dew and relax? 'Course, with only a meg of memory things
|
||
start getting a little cramped after you've got four or five programs
|
||
running at once, but oh well...
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|
||
|
||
From: TURTLE
|
||
To: SPELLWIND
|
||
Subject: Heinlein
|
||
Date & Time: 11/07/90 21:48:36
|
||
Message Number 10295
|
||
|
||
>That's about those cats that help the reporter guy solve mysteries,
|
||
>right?
|
||
|
||
No, "The Cat Who Walks Through Walls" is about a singular cat (Pixel)
|
||
with the ability to walk through solid objects, who because of this
|
||
talent ends up saving the Universe.
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||
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|
||
|
||
From: TURTLE
|
||
To: SPELLWIND
|
||
Subject: Duke Univ.
|
||
Date & Time: 11/07/90 21:50:19
|
||
Message Number 10296
|
||
|
||
>...Iraq's army is pretty small...
|
||
|
||
They're currently fielding over a million soldiers; that's not small,
|
||
dude. They don't spend very much on their army, and as a result it's
|
||
underequipped and badly trained, but it's very, very large.
|
||
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|
||
|
||
From: TURTLE
|
||
To: BEATLE
|
||
Subject: Illumination
|
||
Date & Time: 11/07/90 21:53:57
|
||
Message Number 10297
|
||
|
||
>I thought the deadline was THIS month.
|
||
|
||
The deadline for submissions to Issue #4 is December twelve.
|
||
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|
||
|
||
From: TURTLE
|
||
To: BEATLE
|
||
Subject: UltraSheep
|
||
Date & Time: 11/07/90 21:55:13
|
||
Message Number 10298
|
||
|
||
Well, New College is setting up a screen-printing outfit right now.
|
||
There are three shirts I'd like to make: an A/R T-shirt, an
|
||
UltraSheep T-shirt, and an "I Visited Sunny Beiruit, God's Own
|
||
Paradise on Earth" T-shirt (the latter wuld be burned, scorched, and
|
||
shot full of holes before wearing). Of the three, the Beiruit one is the
|
||
most likely to appear first, since Wratt and I are nominally working on
|
||
the art now. The UltraSheep shirt would likely be /very/ expensive
|
||
(probably around $18 a pop), so making that one may have to wait for
|
||
more financial resources to avail themselves.
|
||
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|
||
|
||
From: TURTLE
|
||
To: BURNEY
|
||
Subject: An issue
|
||
Date & Time: 11/07/90 22:01:52
|
||
Message Number 10300
|
||
|
||
>Can't remember the name of the drug though...
|
||
|
||
Laetril, although calling it a "drug" is kind of stretching the
|
||
definition of the word. "Drug" is a term usually applied to sub-
|
||
stances which are physiologically active.
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