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1 If you are in need of help, you need but ask...
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2 ******************* INSTALLED: 26 NOV 84 ********************************
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3 Welcome to BWMS (BackWater Message System) Mike Day System operator
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4 *************************************************************************
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5 GENERAL DISCLAIMER: BWMS IS NOT RESPONSIBLE FOR ANY INFORMATION
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6 PLACED ON THIS SYSTEM.
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7 BWMS was created as an electronic bill board. BWMS is a privately owned
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8 and operated system which is currently open for use by the general public.
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9 No restrictions are placed on the use of the system. As the system is
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10 I may find offensive. Because of the limited size of the system, it will be
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11 periodically purged of messages. (only 629 lines of data can be saved)
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12 To leave a message, type 'ENTER' and use ctrl/C or break to get out of the
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13 ENTER mode. The message is automatically stored. If after entering the
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14 message you find you made a mistake, use the replace command to replace
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15 the line. To exit from the system, type 'OFF' then hang up.
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16 Type 'HELP' to see other commands that are available on the system.
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17 ************************************************************
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18 """"""""""""""""""""""""""""""""""""""""""""""""""""""""""""""""""""""""""
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19 I BELIEVE THE COMMENT IS "AT THE TOP!"
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20 """"""""""""""""""""""""""""""""""""""""""""""""""""""""""""""""""""""""""
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21 """""""""""""""""""""""""""""""""POOH BEAR""""""""""""""""""""""""""""""""
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22
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23
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24 "#"#"#"#"#"#"#"#"#"#"#"#"#"#"#"#"#"#"#"#"#"#"#"#"#"#"#"#"#"#"#"#"#"#"#"#"
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25
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SAMMY TWIT WAS HERE!!!
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26 2#"#"#"#"#"#"#"#"#"#"#"#"#"#"#"#"#"#"#"#"#"#"#"#"#"#"#"#"#"#"#"#"#"#"#"#"
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27 WHAT HAPPENED TO ALL THE MESSAGES. HAS THE SYSTEM BEEN PURGED?
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28 && && &&
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29 It does look that way...
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30 MiG: does he drive worse than I do? At least I've never run anyone over...
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31 (I think.)
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32 && && &&
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33 The Poet was having trouble hanging on to his perceptions. Things started out in three dimensions, alright, but
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34 what appeared to be natural lines rapidly shifted before his eyes into crystalline fractal shapes extending off
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35 into the n-dimensional spaces of this reality. Perhaps extending into realities beyond. Strange, he thought, it
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36 usually takes at least half an evening's drinking before things look like this... A buzzing grew insistently in his
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37 ears, rising to an agonizing level as he raised his gaze to the sky and saw slicing through the unseen spaces...
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38 "The golden Eagle!" The words exploded from him, startling his companions (whose attention was somewhere else
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39 entirely). They were less startled, but more disturbed, when he then stiffened and keeled over onto the Piper.
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40 && The Mad Actor &&
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41 <+>+<+>+<+>+<+>+<+>+<+>+<+>+<+>+<+>+<+>+<+>+<+>+<+>+<+>+<+>+<+>+<+>+<+>
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42 Dear MIG:
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43 According to her last entery, Kathy also asked for some hints on
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44 ZORK.
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45 ASP.
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46 <+>+<+>+<+>+<+>+<+>+<+>+<+>+<+>+<+>+<+>+<+>+<+>+<+>+<+>+<+>+<+>
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47 GOODNESS! Drive B only has 461 lines on it, and it's already been demoted.
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48 I guess Mikey must be planning on being OUT for a while?
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49 _innocent bysitter_
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50 RYRYRYRYRYRYRYRYRYRYRYRYRYRYRYRYRYRYRYRYRYRYRYRYRYRYRYRYRYRYRYRYRYRYRYRYRY
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51 I have come across a rather bizarre catalog. It's for the SOF EXCHANGE.
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52 Among the knives, guns, camo fatigues, etc they have slogan T-shirts.
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53 A list follows:
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54 Peace through Superior Firepower
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55 Death Rides a Pale Horse
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56 Special Forces - Living by chance, Loving by choice, Killing by profession
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57 Marines - Let me win your hearts and minds or I'll burn your damn huts down
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58 Participant Southeast Asia Wargames - 2nd place
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59 Visit Lebanon, Help a Syrian meet Allah
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60 (backed with: "Hey, we just stepped in some Shiite.")
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61 Grenada: When you care enough to send the very best
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62 Communism is CONTRA-Banned
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63 C.A.T.T. - Central America Training Team
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64
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65 (Pity, they don't have my all-time favorite: Kill 'em all, let God sort
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66 'em out)
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67 Ian MacHinery
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68 RYRYRYRYRYRYRYRYRYRYRYRYRYRYRYRYRYRYRYRYRYRYRYRYRYRYRYRYRYRYRYRYRYRYRYRYRY
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69 ::::::::::::::O O::::::::::::11/26::::::::::20:41::::::::::::O O::::::::::
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70 Ian: bring that along to PorSFiS Saturday (Yes boys & girls, it happens
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71 again this Saturday at the Mult. Cnty. Library at 2 PM); I'd like to
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72 take a look at it. Some of those T-shirts tickle my fancy (I won't say
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73 which ones, I'm not in the mood to defend myself against hordes of angry
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74 whatevers here).
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75 And if you happen to have any extra archive disks by then......?
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76 And by the way - are you related to Francis X. MacHinery? Your position
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77 as head of the Network and his as hereditary head of the FBI are somewhat
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78 similar. (name that 'tune'...)
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79 Given the presence of a certain party, do you suppose it would be a good
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80 time to pick up on our McKane story again? (Where it left off, of course..)
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81 babble babble babble babble babble babble babble babble babble babble babble
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82 oooops! I mean
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83 :::::::::::::::::O O:::::::::::::::voyeur:::::::::::::::O O::::::::::::::
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84 Voyeur: I have on good authority that Ian's branch of the family was
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85 disowned by Francis's branch (something about selling the Jupiter Bridge..)
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86 As for archive disks, I should have 2 - 3 boxes of them back by Sat.
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87 (& yes, I'm sure Mr. MacHinery will bring the catalog)
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88 L'homme: As for archive disks, for any sessions after the current one,
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89 could you put files FOUR (4) to a disk? And in *ORDER*?
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90 _____________________________Leonard_______________________________________
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91 UUUUUUUUUUUUUUUUUUUUUUUUUUUUUUUUUUUUUUUUUUUUUUUUUUUUUUUUUUUUUUUUUUUUUUUUUU
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92 So there we were levitated above the floor of the citadel by a glorious
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93 ring of light. This is the feeling I h
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ad always associated with the
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94 phrase "gyre and gimble in the wabe." Except that we were wafting over a
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95 sea of little rotund creatures who, no longer lulled by the music, were
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96 baring their cute little fangs. Milchar scouted out possible exits through
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97 time, space, and whatever other dimensions he commands.
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98 (pause for switch to present tense.)
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99 Suddenly the tide of globuloids is galvanized into quivering attention. A
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100 large unhappy creature strides into the hall with a retinue of wide-eyed
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101 smurfs. They fear him. He despises them. The more they try to please
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102 him, the more he holds them in contempt. The Blue Demon is bored with his
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103 conquest of this cuddly horde and if there were an easy way to do it, he
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104 would casually annihilate them. This is sad, but we have our own problems
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105 to consider.
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106 Blue Demon has seen us. He smiles. Company, at last. A challenge. Fresh
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107 meat. He seats himself in a lush chair and smugly awaits the dissipation
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108 of our spell. We swim about helplessly as Milchar thumbs through his spell
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109 collection muttering, 2here is pellxszfaalert189:0phgtirirowpw@
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110
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111 muttering "where is spell alert when youneed him ?
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112 (This is not a code)
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113 We dropped to the ground at Blue Demon's feet just as Milchar yelled,
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114 "Of course, of course, we knew it all along!"
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115 "Thank you, my little pilgrims, for collecting all the parts of the neck-
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116 lace for me," simpered Blue Demon and put his huge hand around
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117 Milchar's neck."
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118 Knew what all along?
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119 UUUUUUUUUUUUUUUUUUUUUUUUUUUUUUUUU Lila UUUUUUUUUUUUUUUUUUUUUUUUUUUUUUUU
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120
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121 ***********************************************************************
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122 I'm slightly disapointed, I had hoped to find some helpfull hints so
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123 i could dtop tearing my hair out when sitting down at adventure again.
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124 Zork is worse, I have managed to get the painting upstairs, and kill
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125 the troll, not much else. help!!! but what did I find? what I expected
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126 a new disk. I think there is a cure for the smurfs and a way to get the
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127 smurfs to go against "papa". but I'm not telling!! Ill be baccck later
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128 with another "thrilling" chapter.
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129 *********************************kathy************************************
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130 ? ? ? ? ? ? ? ? ? ? ? ? ? ? ? ? ? ? ? ? ? ? ? ? ? ? ? ? ? ? ? ? ? ? ? ? ?/
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131 Wasp:White Anglo Saxon... My country is the U.S., my aftershave is blitz
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132 dark, my computer, SV328. My skin colour? depends on how much welding I do.
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133 I have yet to find a Vic-20 user who doesn't have a better machine, write a
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134 decent program. Nor have I seen one who enjoys his Vic-20 ever input any-
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135 thing of great import. Any Vic-20 lovers out there care to disprove me?
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136 Asp:Oops! thanks for setting me forward.
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137 CDP:EEK! what an enjoyable evening, lets do it again sometime? We can get
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138 into more and better Microcode.
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139 ? ? ? ? ? ? ? ? ? ? ? ? ~ ? ? ? ? ? ? ? ?/MiG/? ? ? ? ? ? ? ? ? ? ? ?/
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140 *************************************************************************
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141 HMMMMMM
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142 **********************.**************************************************
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143 As we speak, Leo and Ontho are circling the northern wasteland of
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144 Iceland watching for strange things that go "FLASH" in the night, err
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145 or day, depends..
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146 **************************************************************************
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147
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148 ^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^
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149 >> ALL ALLOWED << Wow, that's a change... I guess a couple of people
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150 have had a change of thinking.
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151 Prometheus: Would you happen to be one of the people that got to see a
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152 private showing of `Star Trek III...' at ten o'clock the day it opened
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153 at the JB Cinema? I was there also...
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154 Voyeur: Since you were the last to bring up PorSFiS, is its meeting a
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155 regular occurance?
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156 And is the M.C.L. you mentioned the one downtown?
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157
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158 Yarn Weavers of The INN: Is it just my imagination, or is there more than
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159 one person sharing the by-line to the same story? Every time I read another
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160 installment of what seems to be the same story, there's a different name pinned
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161 to the bottom line of it all. [` I'm so confused! ']
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162 The Doctor: Does the name Lady Romanadvoratrelunder mean anything? If not
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163 then it would be pointless to ask: Which re-generation?
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164 To all: The young Master West should be on his way soon as probably only a
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165 weekly installment from here on; I still need to consider alternate paths.
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166 Three cheers for poetic license!
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167 ^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^ --->Sondargaard ^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^
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168
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169 ***************************************************************************
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170 FYI: SONDARGAARD, YES IF YOU ARE TALKING ABOUT THE STORY CURRENTLY
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171 EMPLOYING SMURFS, BLUE MEANIES ACTUALLY AND SOME 3/5 CARDS? I PERSONALLY
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172 AM NOT INVOLVED WITH THAT ADVENTURE, BUT SEVERAL OTHERS ARE.
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173 ***************************************.***********************************
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174 Meanwhille back at the "ranch", Alex is starring up into the night
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175 sky, giving his thoughts to the air. He had grown quite attached to Leo
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176 and hoped she would endure the mission well. He could console himself in
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177 knowing he passed on his knowledge to her with the best of his ablities.
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178 And her test would also be his test of teaching. Sigh.. As he turned and
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179 walked back to the shelter, he meet the old woman who offered her support.
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180 No words were exchanged, but they clasp hands and went inside.
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181 The sun was beginning to break and Leo wiped her eyes with the inside
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182 of her mitten. the deck of the disk was covered with a fine coat of ice
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183 that made moving about quite dangerous. Ontho was stirring too. Looks like
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184 both of them had fallen asleep on the job. (tsk tsk!)
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185 ***************************kathy********************************************
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186 pppppppppppppppppppppppppppppppppppppppppppppppppppppppppppppppppppppppppp
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187 Milchar & Co. -- sorry I've not had time to contribute much lately, but
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188 I'm up on a deadline at work (known as 16 hr days, 7-day weeks).
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189 I'll try to help more when I can. Keep it going -- it's a pretty good
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190 adventure so far!
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191 pppppppppppppppppppppppppppppppppppppppppppppppppppppppppppppppppppppppppppp
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192 +++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++
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193 I barely had enough time. I yelled, "NARTQ RLOOJF!" A small ball of light appeared in my right hand, and I threw it
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194 at the beast and ducked.
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195 The ball travelled in a long arc, then decended down into the beast's eyes. The ball disappeared, but from the look of
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196 the demon he wasn't too happy about what had happened to him. A brilliant light that close to his eyes had blinded him
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197 temporarily. #Let's regroup, and plan out our defense from this thing. I have a small idea, but I'd like to hear
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198 from the rest of you first. He'll be busy with trying to see for a little while.#
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199 I looked about and tried to see what else existed here besides a huge demon and more crystal. Hmm... the citidel
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200 was much more close to us now than before. And the little blue things were nowhere to be seen, although they could be
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201 heard (to the west). I realized just how tired I was after all this effort. #How about we find a good spot to rest
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202 for a while, after we get a good distance from this thing?#
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203 +++++++++++++ Milchar ++++++++++++++++++++++++++ 06:47am / 11/27/84 ++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++
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204 ::::::::::::::::O O::::::::::11/27::::::::::08:19::::::::::::::O O:::::::::
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205 Sondgaard: correct on both counts. PorSFiS is the Portland Science Fiction
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206 Society, and meets every other Saturday at 2 PM at the Multnomah County Library
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207 downtown on 10th. It is also an informal BackWater meeting (see what strange
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208 faces lurk behind these even stranger personas). And Yes, some of the stories
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209 here are multi-authored. The one about the smurfs is being written in
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210 various amounts by Milchar, bard, piper, Lila, L'homme.
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211 Kathy: West from the Troll room is the maze. Gather up all the junk you can
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212 carry, then enter. Drop a piece in each room, then start mapping
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213 (which way(s) can I go in each room - N,S,E,W,NE,NW,SE,SW,U,D). It takes
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214 a while, but there are at least three reasons to figure out the maze.
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215 :::::::::::::::O O:::::::::::::::::voyeur::::::::::::::O O:::::::::::::::
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216 { ^+/* ---------------- ^+/* ---------------- */+^ ---------------- */+^ }
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217 "Sometimes this place is like an oak tree in summer." Mez mumbled to no
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218 one in particular.
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219 "That doesn't make any sense at all", remarked the person with long
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220 silver hair at a nearby table, "I don't suppose you'd care to explain?"
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221 "Easy, there may be 'twittering at the top' but there's a great deal of
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222 substance beneath, however, not all of it is readily visible."
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223 "Oh, talking in riddles again, right?"
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224 "Not at all, it's just that things are not always what they seem."
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225 "Perhaps you might give a few examples. Would that be possible?"
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226 "I'm afraid not, but there is a story that comes to mind that might
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227 clear up the point a bit.
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228
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229 Once, in the days when craftsmanship flowered, there was a tinsmith, a
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230 man of strength and character. Daily he worked at his trade, turning out
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231 items that were both beautiful and functional. His work was in great demand
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232 and there were few households in town that didn't have at least one utensil
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233 made by this fine craftsman. His scope of vision extended beyond work, and
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234 he could not help but notice the repressive conditions created by the people
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235 in positions of political power. A great number of folks were little more
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236 than slaves, taxed heavily to provide comforts for the rulers, and few
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237 freedoms they could call their own. The efforts of the tinsmith to rectify
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238 these conditions did not go unnoticed, he was thrown in jail.
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239 As time went by the jailers became fond of the tinsmith and permitted
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240 him to have a prayer rug, woven by his wife. One day when he was talking
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241 with the jailers he said, "Perhaps you are aware that I am a metal craftsman,
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242 and a good one at that. If you would bring me materials and tools I will
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243 fashion artifacts. You can take these items to the market and sell them, thus
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244 we can all profit from this miserable situation."
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245 His keepers, being somewhat greedy, agreed to bring the tools and other
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246 items requested. He fashioned many beautiful things. These were sold by the
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247 jailers and the profits divided, although not very evenly. One day when the
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248 jailers returned from the market they found the jail unlocked and the
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249 tinsmith gone.
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250 Our story moves forward to another time and place. The one time tinsmith
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251 is now the leader of a large following, a group called the 'designers'. One
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252 of the new arrivals to the group is inquiring how the name came to be.
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253 "It's from a time when I was imprisoned for my beliefs. My wife went to
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254 the person who had fashioned the locks on the jail and obtained the details
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255 of the design. She then wove these into a prayer rug, at the very place where
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256 my head would rest, during my daily prayers. Once I recognized the design for
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257 what it was I fashioned a plan for escape. Under a ruse I persuaded my
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258 jailers to bring tools and materials. From these I fashioned a key and made
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259 my escape. That is how I came to be free, to form this group."
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260 { ^+/* --------------- The Mesolithic Mathematician --------------- */+^ }
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261
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262
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263 /$&!)_%&#)_&^_)#&!)_&_!&%+_!)#*&%_)&!#^_)&)_@$^&$)_&@)_#&%^@)_&^_@&_+@#&^_@)^
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264 Lila:Is it safe to assume that you found the elusive 'key' that unlocks so
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265 many 'important' things? Things to be treasured, and not ignored. Things
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266 that require constant attention, without distractions from cross-country
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267 truckers hell-bent of self-destruction. In as much as we try to survive
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268 this world in which we live, conditions sometimes warrant extreme action
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269 that may go against the first edict of survival. Self-preservation
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270 is a strong force, but in preserving pain and suffering, is anything
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271 really accomplished?
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272 Leonard:And what else would you like sir, the proverbial eggs in your beer?
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273 I have all the new archives on PCDOS disks now. I will delete the headers
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274 for you, but the ordering of the files will remain as random as wheat
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275 thrown 'gainst the wind. That could change however, if the man who is
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276 responsible for the xfer of text files from machine to machine, namely
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277 one voyeur, can be convinced to copy the files in order. Four files per
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278 disk can be handled iff (not a typo, check you math texts) four files
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279 fit. We try to please the customers here at Archive Center East, as long
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280 as it doesn't mean too much trouble for us.
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281 Kathy:Do you still need hints on getting the pirate's treasure chest? As for
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282 Zork, voyeur can be a great aid. He recently stumbled through it, and
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283 according to rumor, achieved all 350 points. His hints and clues will
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284 I am sure be cleverly worded, to avoid giving too much away, unlike the
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285 clods who reside on the CBBS systems.
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286 PC&S'ers et all : So what exciting things are we going to do the Saturday?
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287 I can't stand another early breakup like we had two weeks ago. I need
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288 a break from my books. One can only take so much studying before the
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289 words and numbers merge into one indistinguishable mass of jejune
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290 abstraction.
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291 *)_#*@)_%*@#)_%*@#_)*#@_)%*@#)_%*@ L'homme sans Parity *&#)_@*%)_*)_%*)_%@#*%
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292
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293 ^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^
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294 Not to go overboard on the current BUCKAROO BANZAI fascination,
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295 I think the unindoctrinated should know just a little about it before they
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296 go. Namely, yes there is somewhat of a comic book format to it, but also
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297 that the director of the movie has been writing BANZAI stories for years,
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298 which may tend to leave a few bases uncovered, such as...
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299 *you kind of get a STAR WARS feeling about some of the characters because
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300 sometimes there may be a reference to an individuals past or his character
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301 trait. No problem, except they don't get back to it to tell you what was
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302 so funny about the reference.
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303 *And since he's been writing the stories for so long,(a matter of YEARS of
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304 unpublished material,) some of the background is lost as to how some of the
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305 characters actually developed.(Sorry, kid. That first screenplay don't cut it)
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306 *And the last point is this; you might get the feeling that if it were a book
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307 that you somehow read chapter five before you got to chapter two. (What?)
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308 But don't let this sway you away, BUCKAROO BANZAI is a terrific show, and I
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309 wouldn't miss it.
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310 (I'm not too biased because I'm a projectionist at a Portland movie house,
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311 but a good movie is a good movie...)
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312 ^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^ --->Sondargaard ^^^^^^^^^^
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313
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314 oh yea! More often the case is that the viewer isn't sophisticated enough
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315 to tie loose ends together, and make coherence out of chaos. The general
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316 public can`t take a complex movie, digest it, and come out feeling secure
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317 in the knowledge that they 'understood' the film. Why are movies like ET
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318 so popular, while films with real meaning and deep understatement like
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319 'The Last Metro' go un-noticed, except for the intellectual set? It is a sad
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320 day when movie directors must simplify plots and characters to keep producers
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321 rolling in money from moronic masses in movie houses. How many good films
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322 could have been great, if they hadn't been Americanized? For a society that
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323 considers itself sophisticated, we sure could learn much from our European
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324 neighbors. Foreign film directors are the last bastion of intelligence in
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325 the movie theater. Without their input in the form of foreign films, what
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326 a wasteland the movie industry would be. The few renegade American directors
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327 who flush the Hollywood mentality all have been influenced by past and
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328 present foreign directors. Without these kindred souls who still believe
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329 movie making is an art, and not an industry solely bent on the almighty
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330 dollar, the only thing of substance coming out of Hollywood would be the
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331 NO SMOKING commercials. Save the dying breed of intelligent film makers.
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332 Voice your opinion, support your position. If you revel in the carnage of
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333 Friday the 13th part 2^5, then take no heed; but if your are a truly
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334 concerned film goer, show your support in the best way possible, at the
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335 box office.
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336 A FILM FAN.
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337
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338 ++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++
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339 This will be a joint entry, the Doctor is sitting here cracking poor jokes as I type this. I am trying to convince him
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340 to come to thee next PorSFiS, would any of you help me?
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341 ++++++++++++++
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342 L'homme; what progress? I haven't your working plot routine or the time to finish it anyway. I still have to do 2
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343 late AP english assignments. I did talk to Tom about Saturday, I think he will hire someone else soon if my situation
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344 doesn't change. Oh, well. Anyway, I can go.
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345 +++++++++++++++
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346 Haven't anything to enter for the adventure right now...
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347 ????????????????
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348 The Doctor and K-9 were STILL trying to fix the Dimensional Stabilizer floating around in E-Space (Pick a time, ANY
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349 time!!). While rummaging through a pile of misc. items looking for a certain replacement part, he comes upon a strange
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350 device..."Banzai Oscillation Overthruster...good idea, bad design. I'll have to have a talk with him. After all my
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351 teachings and he still can't get it right." The Doctor chucks the 'thruster away. Just then a sudden jolt strikes the
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352 Tardis. "What the...K-9, what's going on?" 'Master. We are being pulled somewhere by a force registering 610.4 on
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353 the Umu scale.' "Damn that Milchar! I'm going to rip up those #%$'#'% 3x5 cards..."
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354 ?????????????????
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355 That's it for now...
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356 ??????????????? The Doctor ?????????????+++++++++++++++++ Milchar ++++++++++++++------------ 04:43 on 11/27/84--------
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357 *~*~*~*~*~*~*~*~*~*~*~*~*~*~*~*~*~*~*~*~*~*~*~*~*~*~*~*~*~*~*~*~*~*~*~*~*~*~
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358 The wind howled as the door to the Inn opened. A tall lean man entered
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359 and ducked to avoid a flying blue smurf. The man mumbled under his breath
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360 and threaded his way through the noisy crowd to a table in the rear. He
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361 sat with his back to the wall, an old habit. He had been gone for a long
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362 time, but recognized many. A faint smile came to his lips.
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363 "What can I get you, sir?" It was a woman's voice. The man looked
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364 up expectantly, but it was not Pam.
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365 "A glass of wine, if you please?" The barmaid turned to go. Salazar
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366 laid a hand on her arm. "Have you seen Pam or Leroy Mckane?"
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367 "You'll have to excuse me," she said blankly. "I'm new here."
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368 Salazar nodded and let her go. The cryptic message said Pam would be
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369 here. He could see faint signs of her passing, but that was all. Maybe it
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370 was too late. Too late in more ways than one. He had thrown off his
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371 pursuers for the moment. But they would never give up the chase. Salazar
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372 touched the reassuring weight of the automatic nestling under his right
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373 armpit and settled back in his chair to enjoy the tales of adventure. He
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374 had experienced enough adventure of his own in the last few weeks. He would
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375 let the others entertain him for the present.
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376 *~*~*~*~*~*~*~*~*~*~*~*~*~*~*~*~*~*~*~*~*~*~*~*~*~*Valinor*~*~*~*~*~*~*~*~*~
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377
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378
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379
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380 HEY, DO ANY OF YOU HITCHHIKER FANS KNOW THAT IT WILL SOON BE COMING OUT
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381 IN CINEMA FORM
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382 WHERE IT CONTRADICTS EVERYTHING IN THE THIRD BOOK AND THE BRITSH RADIO
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383 VERSION
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384
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385
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386 A Film Fan: Do not take what I have said harshly, my words were only in
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387 warning to those that might wish to view the film not knowing what to
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388 expect, as was the case with ERASERHEAD, another off the wall movie to
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389 say the least, but I enjoyed it also. (Am I still so critcal of the
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390 current throng of movie goers, well...)
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391 Touche' as to the European influence! So, someone else knows where to
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392 look when not satisfied with the present lot. Your insight was quite
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393 refreshing, a good parry/reposte to the ` I-just-saw-Terminator--
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394 Wasn't-he-awesome? (give me a hammer and put them out of my misery)
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395 ^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^ --->Sondargaard ^^^^^^^^^
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396
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397
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398 Greetings: Hello, and thank you for your interesting stories
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399 of FLYING SMURFS, exciting adventures, upset movie goers,
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400 and other odds and ends. This is quite an interesting little system.
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401 I am real new to your system, and would like to find out what kind
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402 of equipment you use. I am using an ALPHA MICRO AM-60 terminal with
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403 a SIGNALMAN MK XII 300/1200 baud ANCHOR AUTOMATION, INC. modem. I
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404 use this primarily to tie into the computer at work, where I am the
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405 system operator. Our system has 2- 60Mb Winchester disk drives, a
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406 25Mb Removable cartridge winchester drive and a 25Mb fixed drive.
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407 The internal memory configuration is 5-512k memory boards (2.5Mb).
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408 To interface with this nice little system, there is 14 terminals,
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409 6 Okidata printers, and a 600 lines per minute DATAPRODUCTS printer.
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410 Currently we are discussing the purchase of a 400Mb Fujitzu(?) drive
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411 which has a lot faster disk access time (however this would be for
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412 the next fiscal year probable).
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413 I would like to findout from others what they have. 11-27 2040 hours
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414 ~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~(they really do call me..) PAPA SMURF~~
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415
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416 PaPa Smurf: You begin to remind me of Mez...
|
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417 ^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^ --->Sondargaard ^
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418
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419 M
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420
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421 Qu%q
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422
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423 Arrr2rgggcgc!!!! A4ic on my phon! line!!!
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424 ::::::::::::O O:::::::::::11/27:::::::::::::::22:38:::::::::::O O::::::::::
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425 Leonard: you made the Cities connection quite rapidly. Is that perchance
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426 the origin, or do you merely have every book memorized? Or WAIT -
|
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427 I know - you have them all indexed and cross-referenced on your M100
|
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428 (your high-tech bag of holding).
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429 Regarding the archives, last time I did the transfer, I applied as much
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430 negative entropy to the order as I could. Judging from the result, imagine
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431 the mess *I* recieved. As they say they say (I've never heard it, but I've
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432 heard it referred to) - GIGO.
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433 L'homme: that msg to Lila, so ambiguous to the outsider, was just Dripping
|
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434 with hidden references/meanings known only to the two of you. Fun being
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435 on the inside, isn't it. (the same urge responsible for those AE boards you
|
||
436 like so much like Rome...)
|
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437 Oh, by the way - thanks for the kind words vis-a-vis my Zork abilities.
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438 ("stumbled through it..... rumor has it.... "). Speaking of which, hows
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439 the quest for II & III coming?
|
||
440 As far as something exciting to do after PorSFiS/PC&S, hows about we go over
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441 to Leonards, warm up his MC-10, and run 10 X = X + 1: PRINT X: GOTO 10.
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442 That should keep us interested for most of the afternoon, waiting for the denouement.
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443 Kathy: if you want non-blatant Zork answers, how about this:
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444 N, W, NE, D, S, N, E. That gets you from SOMEWHERE in the maze, to
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||
445 the troll room. (be warned - the converse does not necessarily work).
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446 :::::::::::::O O::::::::::::::::voyeur::::::::::::::O O:::::::::::::::::
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447 TTTTTTTTTTTTTTTTTTTTTTTTTTTTTTTTTTTTTTTTTTTTTTTTTTTTTTTTTTTTTTTTTTTTT
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448 film fan--the mass of Europeans, so I understand, regard Clint Eastwood
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449 and Jerry Lewis as high art and berate their own filmmakers for being
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450 unable to produce similar material. So it goes.
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451 voyeur--one can satisfy one's degenerate penchant for sick and hilarious
|
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452 t-shirts at Andy & Bax. They have some real zingers. (universal minds
|
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453 rule the slime pit.) You can also get pure wool Portughese combat
|
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454 jodhpurs. And day-glo watch caps.
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455 kathy--leap in with any ideas on getting out of smurfville; you can be
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456 a new arrival from the Ruby Valley or Blue Demon's business agent or
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457 whatever you want. We're dying to be rescued.
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458 TTTTTTTTTTTTTTTTTTTTTTTTTT G. Minsky TTTTTTTTTTTTTTTTTTTTTTTTTTTTTTTTTTTTT
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459 L'homme: You put 4 (and sometimes 5) files on a disk LAST time! I asked for
|
||
460 four so ask to avoid all the shuffling caused by trying to find room for
|
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461 that one last file!
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||
462 In any case, once we start getting the 5 1/4" archive disks, I can see
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463 no problem with keeping things in order.
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464 Voyeur: I *FIRST* read some of those stories in 5th grade (and got my copy
|
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465 of "A Life for the Stars" confiscated...). You've seen my bookshelves. I
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466 have read EVERY book on them AT LEAST once. If it's a good story, I've
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467 probably read it 5-20 times. (I have worn out 2 paperback copies of "Stranger
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468 in a Strange Land").
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469 As for Blish, have you ever read "Black Easter"? If not, please find a
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470 copy and read it! If you have read it, read the SEQUEL(!!) "The Day After
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471 Doomsday".
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472 __________________________________Leonard_____________________________________
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473 RYRYRYRYRYRYRYRYRYRYRYRYRYRYRYRYRYRYRYRYRYRYRYRYRYRYRYRYRYRYRYRYRYRYRYRYRY
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474 As Salazar sipped his wine, he noticed that there appeared to be
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475 something on the bottom of the glass. He drank some more thinking that if
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476 it was poison or a drug, it was far too late already.
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477 Peering more closely, he saw that it was a message:
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478
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479 WELCOME BACK
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480 THE NETWORK
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481 PS. YOU REALLY SHOULD BE MORE CAREFUL
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482 RYRYRYRYRYRYRYRYRYRYRYRYRYRYRYRYRYRYRYRYRYRYRYRYRYRYRYRYRYRYRYRYRYRYRYRYRY
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483 Reaching into his pack, Bard flipped a switch to TIME-STOP. He then
|
||
484 extracted an ancient tome. After locating the appropriate entry, he set the
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485 tome down and proceeded to remove a vial of ink(?) and some drawing tools.
|
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486 He hummed to himself as he worked.
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487 Finished, he stepped back to admire his handiwork. He then packed
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488 everything away, flipped the switch back to NORMAL, and ran!
|
||
489 While he had been blinded, the demon was still able to "feel" the
|
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490 pentagram appear. He'd never felt one take shape quite that fast before,
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491 but no matter! The foolish mortal didn't know the truth about pentagrams or
|
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492 he would never have tried one!
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493 True, the demon was compelled to appear in the pentagram (a limb at
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494 each of four points while the head occupied the fifth). However, once he
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495 had appeared in the proper spread-eagled position, he was free to LEAVE it
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496 and attack.
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497 He had shown SOME ingenuity, as the pentagram was only about one-
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498 third of the demon's normal size. Unfortunately for the mortal, hthe demon
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499 would AUTOMATICALLY change size to fit the symbol. The demon grinned evilly
|
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500 as he disappeared.
|
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501 The grin was gone a split second later when he reappeared in mid-
|
||
502 air AND IMMEDIATELY DISAPPEARED AGAIN!
|
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503 "Where in hell...
|
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504 is the bloody....
|
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505 damn pentagram!"
|
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506 screeched the demon as he
|
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507 continued to disappear and reappear, each time one-third of his former size
|
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508 Meanwhile, bard was smiling as he thought of the demon. True, the
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509 solution wasn't ORIGINAL, but it was still elegant.
|
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510 He could picture the demon's wrath when it finally realized that
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511 the pentagram was tatooed on its STOMACH!
|
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512 ~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~BARD~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~
|
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513 ? ? ? ? ? ? ? ? ? ? ? ? ? ? ? ? ? ? ? ? ? ? ? ? ? ? ? ? ? ? ? ? ? ? ? ? ?/
|
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514 Papa Smurf:The industry consensis (and also my own) is that the "eagle"
|
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515 drives from fujitsu happen to be the best avalible. Sounds to me like your
|
||
516 running a 34-36 or system 1. Not even close? perhaps one of the select few
|
||
517 who had brains enough to get something from DG? 11/750 perhaps? 25 megs is
|
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518 a bit small for a 780. then again, I am a biased speed phreak when it comes
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519 to larger processors, I think 4 megs isn't enough when 16 people fire up
|
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520 a compieler.
|
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521 I am currently using a SV328 configured as a terminal to tie into a '780.
|
||
522 ? ? ? ? ? ? ? ? ? ? ? ? ? ? ? ? ? ? ? ?/The Man in Gray/? ? ? ? ? ? ? ? ?/
|
||
523 ************************************************************************
|
||
524 THANKS MUCH FOR THE HINTS MY FRIENDS, SEE YA ALL AT THE MEETING ON
|
||
525 SATURDAY. I GOT ZORK CLUES TODAY, ANYONE TO GIVE ME A HINT ON THE
|
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526 PIRATES CHEST IN ADVENTURE?
|
||
527 ********************************kathy***********************************
|
||
528 $$$$$$$$$$$$$$$$h$$$$$$$$$$$$$$$$$$ $$$$$$$$$$$$$,$$$$$$$$($($$$$$$$$$$$
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||
529 $$$$$$ $$$$$$$$$$$$$$$$$$ $$$$$$$$$$$$$$$$$$$$$$$$$$$ $$$$$$$$$$$$$$$$
|
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530
|
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531 0433 HOURS 11/28/84
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532
|
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533 Sondargaard: As it happens you don't remind me of anyone. NO, I have no
|
||
534 connection with Papa S. (don't even know who it is). Besides I don't
|
||
535 even know what kind of computer I'm using! Does it really matter?----Mez
|
||
536 ==========================================================================
|
||
537 You know you are really in trouble when.... you steal from old Mad
|
||
538 magazines and pass it off as original.
|
||
539 =================================================== Sudden Death =========
|
||
540 ******************"*"*"*"*"*"*"*"*"*"*"*"*"*"*"*"*"*""*""**"*"*"*"*"*"*"*"
|
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541 AND BACK ON THE SUBJECT OF INTERESTING TITLES ON T-SHIRTS
|
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542
|
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543 you should look in a copy of Soldier of Fortune Magazine
|
||
544
|
||
545 Mercenaries Don't Die.....................they just go to hell and regroup
|
||
546 Better Dead than Red
|
||
547 Kill a Commie for Mommie
|
||
548 GOD,GUNS,&GUTS made AMERICA...lets keep all three.
|
||
549 U.S Army..the only thing I feel when I kill is the recoil of my rifle
|
||
550 Join the U.S.M.C...travel to distant lands;meet exciting,unusual people and
|
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551 kill them
|
||
552 Nuke their ASS and take their Gas
|
||
553 WARNING!!!TRESPASSERS WILL BE SHOT.......SURVIVORS WILL BE SHOT AGAIN
|
||
554 NOTICE...ANYONE FOUND HERE AT NIGHT WILL BE FOUND HERE IN THE MORNING
|
||
555 IS THERE LIFE AFTER DEATH????...............TRESPASS HERE AND FIND OUT
|
||
556 IF YOU COME THROUGH THIS DOOR YOU WILL BE KILLED....SI VIENES POR ESTA PUERTA
|
||
557 TE MATO....
|
||
558 CRIMINALS BEWARE..WE SHOOT BACK
|
||
559 CRIMINALS BEWARE..NO PRISONERS TAKEN
|
||
560 AL TRESPASAR TE PEGO UN TIRO
|
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561
|
||
562 *"*"*"*"*"*"*"*"*"*"*"*""*"*"*"*"*"*"*"*"*"*"*"*"*"*"* ANY COMMENTS*"*"*"*"*"*"*
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563 "*"*"*"*"*"*"*"*"*"*"*"*"*"*SPOOK"*"*"*
|
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564 ################################################################################
|
||
565 ################################################################################
|
||
566 PLEASE READ THE FOLLOWING
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||
567 NOTICE
|
||
568
|
||
569 >>>>>>>>>>>>>>>>>>>>>>>>>>>>>>>>>>>>>>>
|
||
570 INSTRUCTIONS IN CASE OF NUCLEAR
|
||
571 ATTACK
|
||
572 >>>>>>>>>>>>>>>>>>>>>>>>>>>>>>>>>>>>>>>>
|
||
573 1. SEEK IMMEDIATE COVER
|
||
574
|
||
575 2. STAY CLEAR OF ALL WINDOWS
|
||
576
|
||
577 3. KEEP AWAY FROM OBJECTS THAT MIGHT
|
||
578 CAUSE INJURY
|
||
579
|
||
580 4. AS SOON AS YOU SEE THE FLASH OF THE
|
||
581 NUCLEAR EXPLOSION, BEND OVER, PLACE
|
||
582 YOUR HEAD BETWEEN YOUR LEGS......... .....AND KISS YOUR ASS GOODBYE.
|
||
583
|
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584
|
||
585 >>>>>>>>>>>>>>>>>>>>>>>>>>>>>>>>>>>>>>
|
||
586 THANK YOU FOR YOUR ATTENTION
|
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587
|
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588 ###############################################################################
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589 ########################################
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590
|
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591 ^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^
|
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592 Mez: I only meant [PaPa S] :: [Mez] not [PaPa S] = [Mez]
|
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593 Because you both have the gift of stating something simple that can
|
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594 cause others to stumble if they eavesdrop. And no, it doesn't matter...
|
||
595 ^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^ --->Sondargaard ^^^^^^^^
|
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596 ::::::::::::::::::::::::::::::::::::::::::::::::::::::::::::::::::::::::::::::::::::::::::::::::::::::::::::::::::::::::::::::
|
||
597 From Prometheus: The Designed
|
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598 I am asorry for not being more prompt in returning any messages of late, as I was in Peru for a canference on African Bees.
|
||
599 Africanized bees are what some people have taken to calling "Killer Bees". In any case, I am back and, as usual,
|
||
600 assorted messages follow...
|
||
601
|
||
602 Man in Gray; Financing is cleared through NSA and I can't touch it from here. Salog can tell you what he damn well pleases,
|
||
603 but I don't get a penny until someone in Washington clears it.
|
||
604 Salog is screwed anyway, I payed up on the Red, Blue and Black vans three days ago. And filed it with NSA immediately.
|
||
605 Kendall is still sitting on the plane as I enter this. I found out that he and his secretary are heading for the Observtory
|
||
606 with about three Federal Marshalls. I can handle the Marshalls, but I think were gonna tip off Kendall in the process.
|
||
607 I am due on a flight in an hour to Colorado, and I'll beat them to the Observatory by about thirty minutes.
|
||
608 The bastard wouldn't even pay for a direct flight. Would you beleivethe flight plan he bought calls fortwo layovers.
|
||
609 I have a little red light here that says someones tapping, gotta go, messages to Sondargaard, and Kathy and such later...
|
||
610
|
||
611 Anyway, it must've been line interference on this end, but nothing more to say on that, but Grice is all upity about APPLE,
|
||
612 and the modem. I am after a modem cord, and then things can get back into action. MLCbbs is quickly becoming reality.
|
||
613
|
||
614 SONDARGAARD; I was at the 'Screening' and think I know your borne identity, to make sure, please tell me if I have seen you
|
||
615 on a Tri-Met line more than once. I am pleased at finding I have met you.
|
||
616 KATHY; If you would be so kind as to attend the next PorSFiS, I can bring a very nice Pente set (Just received as an early
|
||
617 Christmass present) An interesting pente game passes as exciting. Doesn't it?
|
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618
|
||
619 ::::::::::::::::::::::::::::::::::::::::::::::::::::::::::::::::::::::::::::::::::::::::::::::::::::::::::::::::::::::::::::::
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620
|
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621
|
||
622 ;.,;.,;.,;.,;.,;.,;.,;.,;.,;.,;.,;.,;.,;.,;.,;.,;.,;.,;.,;.,;.,;
|
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623 I disagree that only Foreign films have intelligence. I also
|
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624 disagree that having understandable chacters means having dumb
|
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625 characters. And I also disagree that understanding characters
|
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626 means that the audience is dumb, and unsophisticated. One could
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627 say that never grasping what any character ever means is dumb...
|
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