textfiles/messages/BACKWATER/bw850323.txt

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19 
20 oooooooooooooooooooooooooooooooooooooooooooooooooooooooooooooooo
21 It is customary, I believe, to say something when one finds oneself
22 at the TOP!  I can say only that the Innkeeper and Patrons of this
23 Inn are to be congratulated for what they have offered to one who enters
24 from what is essentially a different world....
25    Also I should say that for the first time in many weeks I am having
26 a line noise problem and have been cut off twice!  I am not sure just
27 what this entry is going to look like.
28 ooooooooooooooooooooooo OBSERVER FROM ANOTHER GALAXY oooooooooooooooooooooo
29 (^)(^)(^)(^)(^)(^)(^)(^)(^)(^)(^)(^)(^)
30 
31 ThorPlease forgive me if I seemed short in my reply.  Thank you for both the
32 correction and the good intentions.
33 
34                              Ronin
35 
36 (^)(^)(^)(^)(^)(^)(^)(^)(^)(^)(^)(^)(^)
37 (Darn those bad phone connections)
38 (^)(^)(^)(^)(^)(^)(^)(^)(^)(^)(^)(^)(^)
39 ++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++
40 (Another try, different story)
41 @(  "Milchar!", Dimat exclaimed.  "I had begun to worry.  You had taken so long
42 to respond, I wasn't sure what to think.  A terrible conflict is raging."
43   Milchar, still stunned to see that his homeland, at least this part of it,
44   was no longer the beautiful park-like place he had known, paused a long time
45  before he answered.
46   "Dimat," Milchar began slowly, "Who has done such a thing?
47   How were we defended?  What force could have torn Celene at it's very
48   roots?"
49 "Do you remember the Spellbinders of Trill?"
50  Thinking a moment, Milchar remembered  the odd group of illusionists that
51 entralled audiences with there clever cantrips and deceptions.  "Yes, master."
52   "And do you remember what they wrought here in Celene, when you last
53   came here?"
54   "They had put on a grand show for the townspeople.  I still remember the
55  clarity of their work."
56  "Good, your memory is as sharp as ever.  The Spellbinders have done
57  something that no one ever supposed they would succeed at.  They've crossed
58   that boundary between illusion and reality.  Some of their figures are
59   now of true flesh and blood.  And now, my questing pupil, they wish to
60   possess all that they can of Celene."
61  "Do you mean that some of this waste about us is false?  Illusion?  How
62 much is not?"
63   "Only a True Seeing can tell for sure.  I called you to aid me to
64 cleanse our land of their danger."
65  A sudden blast rocked the ground.  "Cover!", Dimat yelled as he dived
66   behind a nearby boulder.
67   Outlines of gruesome creatures lined the mist about Dimat and Milchar,
68   augumenting their imaginations of the shapes of the beasts.
69 Milchar wished desparately for more of his equipment in his tower.
70  After a few moments, Milchar decided that the stars were not in the right
71 alignment for wishing, and gave it up.
72 (Well, at least this time the lines are complete.  I wonder what causes 
73 those two characters at the beginning of the file?)
74 +++++++++++++++++ Milchar ++++++++++++++++ 14:27 - 03/23/85 +++++++++++++++++
75 ? ? ? ? ? ? ? ? ? ? ? ? ? ? ? ? ? ? ? ? ? ? ? ? ? ? ? ? ? ?/MiG/? ? ? ? ? ? ?
76 Well, after being cut off 5 times, I finaly found some wire and made this thing
77 think that it always had a signal. Mr. Smith, I will reply in time, when I
78 can be sure of an upload finishing before being rudely disconected.
79 ? ? ? ? ? ? ? ? ? ? ? ? ? ? ? ? ? ? ? ? ? ? ? ? ?  ?MG/? ? ? ? ? ? ?
80 
81 (((((((((((((((((((((((((((((((((((((((((((((((((( LXIX ))))))))))))))))))))))))))))))))))))))))))))))))))))))))))
82 I won't even attempt to upload tonight, the line is full of junk, might as well go back to soup cans and string.
83 (((((((((((((((((((((((((((((((((((((((((((((((((( LXIX ))))))))))))))))))))))))))))))))))))))))))))))))))))))))))
84 ppppppppppppppppppppppppppppppppppppppppppppppppppppppppppppppppppppppppppppppp
85   Early on, a disk seems a lot different than one that has filled up.  Right
86 now it seems pregant with innumerable possibilities, later -- around half way--
87 it seems more mature and its personality established.  Somewhere around line
88 500 or somewhere after old age has set in.  Some disks go gracefully into
89 retirement, but some squeeze out the last byte...
90 ppppppppppppppppppp
91    The main street of the little village showed no life as the piper dismounted
92 pppppppppp
93 after getting knocked off the line for the fourth time, we'll just have to
94 leave the piper there 'till conditions improve!
95 ppppppppppppppppppppppppppppppppppppppppppppppppppppppppppppppppppppppppp
96 
97 ****************************************************************
98 As you can probably tell, there is enormous problems with the phone line
99 right now, if you managed to get thru, congradulations, you are truly
100 determined. But please, if you are having problems, noisy line, getting
101 dumpped, ect. as seems to be the case with everyone right now, CALL THE
102 PHONE COMPANY! Tell them what you are experiencing. The number to call
103 is 470-xxxx tell them you are having problems when you call 230-xxxx,
104 and describe them. I have been calling them everyday, but they have been
105 a bit lacidazial about it. So, on the squeaky wheel theory, CALL THEM!
106 If you call and all you get is a busy signal, be patient, the problem
107 is a parial short some place that comes and goes. Sometimes it locks
108 up for several hours, other times it just shorts out long enough to
109 dump you off line. So keep trying, and please, REPORT IT TO THE PHONE CO.
110 when it happens! It isn't going to get better until they get off their
111 duffs and decide that their really is something wrong. SO CALL!
112 Thank you.
113 ************************** CISTOP MIKEY ******************************
114 P.S. It doesn't hurt to call more then once. Like I said, I've been
115 calling once a day. If they get enough calls maybe they'll decide
116 to do something.
117 *********************************************************************
118 *%_@)#%*_)#$*^_)#$*^&_)#*^&_!)^*_$#)^&*_)$#*^_)#&*^_)#&^_)#$!^&*#&!)_#&^)_!#^
119 Farley : I can still fill you in on everything that has transpired, even if
120  you tried to call twice yesterday, and missed me both times. I was busy
121  turning green yesterday, after the PC&S meeting. You missed meeting a very
122  rare-in-appearing person, a person that has an interesting personality. But
123  not to worry, I am sure you and the person in question will meet up very
124  soon.
125 Piper : Respond on La Nerd? AOK.
126 Voyeur : Monday I will check in and get as much documentation as possible. 
127  Since your friend is in town for awhile, we can probably meet once more
128  before he leaves. The house was awfully quite last night. Did you notice
129  it too?
130 Kosta : We discussed the possibility of a new direction for the current
131  story, but nothing will happen until your are consulted. Gaudy will get
132  the word later today.
133 *)_#@*%@_#)%*)_%*@_#)%*@#_)%* L'homme sans Parity *%_#@)*_%)*%@)_#*%_@*%@_)#%
134 
135 Almost forgot : Mikey : Copylink doesn't work on the Tandy 2000 (as delivered.)
136 I think it is a case of COM1: being decoded in a different section of segment
137 0. I have a bit of the same problem with the extended break signal on my
138 Async program, since I have to address the port directly to send the break.
139 I'll read up on modifying the base address and see if that helps. I'll let
140 you know how it works.
141 _)*%)_@*@#_)*%@_)%@#)_%*@#)_@% L.s.P. *%_#*%_)@*%_)@*%@_)*%@)_#*%@_)#%*@#_)%%
142 THOR was getting irritated at the phantom at the INN. Five times he had
143 had his chair pulled out from beneath him and it was becoming unnerving.
144 THOR's patience was stretched to its breaking point and he wanted to place
145 his hands on the phantoms neck just
146 long enough to feel the bones become mush in his fingers.
147 too much, even as he thought it the phantom had the nerve to do it AGAIN.
148 I will leave the INN and come back when this monster has no more victims to
149 prey upon and tires with the boredom.
150 He will leave to do his dirty work in orhter establishments when he has 
151 finished searching for other souls to corrupt.
152 ee-eh. watashi wa amehrikano hito des.
153 .   .   .   .   .   .   .   .   .   .   .   .   .   .   .   .   .   .   .   .  
154 They shouda never took Ma Bell (read as AT&T) apart! All the king's horses &
155 all the king's men....et all
156 /\/\/\/\/\/\/\/\/\/\/\/\/\/\/\/\/\/\/\/\/\/\/\/\/\/\/\/\/\/\/\/\/\/\/\/\/\/
157      Good News for all the Patrons...THE LINE WORKS!!!!!!  Ma Bell finally
158 got off of her (insert phrase here) and fixed the phne line.
159 /\/\/\/\/\/\/\/\/\/\/\/\/\//\/\/\//\/\/\/Luingil/\/\/\/\/\/\/\/\/\/\/\/\/\
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162   All:
163 Again,this is an upload test.Please ignor it, and bear with me.It should work t
164 his time.
165                                                                 Tsilb
166 
167 |:|:|:|:|:|:|:|
168 -'-'-'-'-'-'-'-'-'-'-'-'-'-'-'-'-'-'-'-'-'-'-'-'-'-'-'-'-'-'-'-'-'-'-'-'-'-'
169 A small child lay alone in the darkness.  Creaking floorboards signal the
170 approach of the Boogie Man.  The child learns of fear.
171 
172 An old man sits contemplating his wrinkled face.  He knows the unfeeling
173 nature of the cosmos and is afraid.
174 
175 The music-lover listens to a cool jazz saxaphone.  Flowing melody cannot
176 soothe his fear.  Hearthache's gentle chains bind him.
177 
178 Our terrors are lost in talking crowds.  Death, love, the unknown... hold
179 us in firm embrace.
180 
181 I am a child, an old man, the music-lover.  Fear is my nature.
182 I will conquer it.
183 '-'-'-'-'-'-'-'-'-'-'-'-'-'The Jung and Restless'-'-'-'-'-'-'-'-'-'-'-'-'-'-
184 
185 #$##$##$##$##$##$##$##$##$##$##$##$##$##$##$##$##$##$##$##$##$##$##$##$##$##$#
186 L'homme: C'est la vie...
187 There are definite advantages to working with 'primitive' equipment.  My modem
188 won't let go of the line until I physically flip a switch on the modem itself
189 (or tell the computer to tell the modem to go off-line, but I'm not using a 
190 terminal program that will do that right now).  Makes keeping on-line a lot
191 easier, let me tell you....
192 #$##$##$#
193 Have you ever felt bored, yet have nearly hundreds of things to get done?
194 #$##$##$##$##$##$##$##$##$## Farley #$##$##$##$##$# 14:07 - 03/25/85 #$##$##$#
195 
196 ********************seeyouincourt*****longdistancelurkmode*******kathyd********
197 
198 KOSTA KOSTA KOSTA KOSTA KOSTA KOSTA KOSTA KOSTA KOSTA KOSTA KOSTA KOSTA KOSTA
199       With fear, I knew that to abandon thcrowd was a necessary evil to be
200 preformed.  When times are such as these, events seem to pass as if flying
201 with the aid of wings.  Prithy, may I come to know what the alterations to 
202 the patterns of our fine weavings may be pertaining?  I may dare to dial
203 the ever pleasant, ever informative ... 3.3.  All I want are the facts, sir.
204 YOU MUST GIVE THEM TO ME!!!!                  Bound and tied-
205 KOSTA KOSTA KOSTA KOSTA KOSTA KOSTA KOSTA KOSTA KOSTA KOSTA KOSTA KOSTA KOSTA
206 
207 ENT
208 KOSTA KOSTA KOSTA       Infernal Enter-only...  I forgot to request certain
209       other pieces of information, but you may find the questions elsewhere.
210 
211 
212 ^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^     (hesitation...)
213 ^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^     --->the patient Guardian...     84:16
214 
215 D n o : D n o : d n o : D n o : D n o : D n o :;d n o : D n o : D n o : D n o
216 
217 Ronin:
218 I hope that you will give me a call when you are up and running again.  I think I have a good name
219 for my new company.
220 
221                        Dno...
222 
223  D n o : D n o : D n o : D n o : D n o : D n o : D n o : D n o : D n o : D n o
224 .   .   .   .   .   .   .   .   .   .   .   .   .   .   .   .   .   .   .   .  
225     Leonard: your point is well taken, yes. But, come now... you have never met
226 me so I doubt that you can judge by my strange appearences. But, honestly, I am
227 no sir. I would not call myself "ladylike" either, but "sir" is definately 
228 inproper. -Tanya
229 .   .   .   .   .   .   .   .   .   .   .   .   .   .   .   .   .   .   .   .  
230 |{}|{}|{}|{}|{}|{}|{}|{}|{}|{}|{}|{}|{}|{}|{}|{}|{}|{}|{}|{}|{}|
231      Knowledge talks; Wisdom listens
232         Big. Large. Magnificently colossal. It stood there, towering over my
233 head, like a monolith from the past. I reached out to touch it. Hard as a rock.
234 Smooth, like no rock is ever smooth. Smoother than the finest metal, far
235 reaching over gold and platinum.  I looked up. It must have been over
236 two-hundred feet taller than I, carved with designs so foreshortened by
237 perspective that I could only see clearly for about ten feet up.  The designs
238 resembled heiroglyphs, etched deeply, each filling about a square foot.  In rows
239 across the whole face. It was basically a rectangular prism, I thought, and it
240 had these designs on all four sides. I wandered around the sides.  Aha, I
241 thought, this one has been, well, corroded.  How else could it have been
242 green?  Unless copper veins... The symbol was sort of of a man holding a star.
243 However, something wasn't right about it, something I could not put my finger
244 on.  I looked at the next heiroglyph in the row.  Funny, I thought, there is
245 just a blank space. Then the next hieroglyph showed the same man, surrounded in
246 a, well, cloud of fog.  Then the next one, and he stood, and the terrain was
247 somehow different.  I followed it across to the next face, for two more
248 hieroglyphs this, well, man walked.  And walked.  Then, and this was strange,
249 he found a flower.  It looked like a flower, anyway.  In the next hieroglyphs
250 he picked it, smelled it, and died.  Or at least it looked like he died.
251 He lay down on the ground with his arms spread wide going blah.  This was
252 strange, the row ended there.  I went back to the first face.  Another
253 incongruiity.  There were none on the row between the green one.  And it
254 was in the middle of the row.  I looked on the other two faces, in the same
255 row, and there was nothing but the usual gibberish, gibberish to me anyway.
256 I went back to the green hieroglyph.  I had looked the whole thing over
257 carefully.  What the heck.  I touched the green hieroglyph.  And vanished.
258 |{}|{}|{}|{}|{}|{}|{}|{}|{}|Magus 4|{}|{}|{}|{}|{}|{}|{}|{}|{}|{}|{}|{}|
259 Tanya: What message are you referring to? 
260          yours in puzzlement,
261 _____________________________Leonard_______________________________________
262 ps Mikey: have they told you WHAT was wrong with the line?
263 ___________________________________________________________________________
264 {*}{*}{*}{*}{*}{*}{*}{*}{*}{*}!!!isis!!!{*}{*}{*}{*}{*}{*}{*}{*}{*}{*}
265 
Thank you to all for the accolades.  That is Encouraging! 
266 
Guardian:   Log   who?    What?   Excuse  my  naivete.   but  I  dinna
267 
understand! 
268 
MIG: Are you grey because you stand between the shadows and the  light
269 
in  order  to  know who goes from one to the next?  You see us don our
270 
masks, and thus know the wearer.  But some may slip by ....... 
271 
Tin Man: One should never take up a loaded pen under the influence  of
272 tea  without  a  spellchecker to back one up.  Or a secretary.  I, for
273 
on%, as a charter member of the Society Against Literary Mayhem, would
274 
be scandalized. 
275 
  
276 
{*}{*}{*}{*}{*}{*}{*}{*}{*}{*}!!!isis!!!{*}{*}{*}{*}{*}{*}{*}{*}{*}{*}
277 
  
278 
   Memories long suppressed tore at Arthur's mind as he sat next to  a
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large  oak tree in his newly formed body.  The return to this form and
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the renewed association with time allowed him to recall memories in an
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orderly fashion,  and  the  nostalgia  proceeded  in  a  chronological
282 
order. 
283 
   For  all  the joyous romps he had had as a lad, Arthur's life truly
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began on that day he shattered the legendary stone.  The crack of  the
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stone  had  rent the very fabric of history, much as Alexander had the
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Gorgon  knot.   The  figure  that  approached   Arthur   as   he   sat
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contemplating  his  future  existence stood for nearly a quarter of an
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hour before Arthur looked up.  The sight of  someone  else  witnessing
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his  horrible  deed  gave Arthur quite a start, and the sword bit into
290 
his thumb. 
291 
   "OUCH!"
292 
   "Elegant, but very crude and somewhat clumsy," the voice was tired,
293 
but familiar. 
294 
   "But it's a nice sword, and I didn't mean to, I  just...I...I  just
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slipped...."  Arthur's  voice  trailed  off  in  panic, muffled by his
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bleeding thumb. 
297 
   Merlin shook his head.  "Lying won't help you now.  You  meant  to,
298 
you  didn't slip and no one ever said the stone could not be broken in
299 
the process."
300 
   "But I...what if...how can..."
301 
   "Sputtering ill befits the king  of  the  Bretons,  boy!"  Merlin's
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voice  shook  the  forest, or so it seemed.  "Look boy, you got it out
303 
and that's that.  You're going to be king whether you like it or  not,
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so  stop bellyaching and help me avoid your first war.  If anyone else
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sees this, they'll think just as you did and use  you  for  tomorrow's
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practice  dummy.   Here,  help  me with this," and a bewildered Arthur
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moved toward the old man. 
308 
   They worked frighteningly  fast,  knowing  that  at  any  moment  a
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reveler  might  wander  away from the feast and catch them in the act.
310 
They hurriedly dug a small depression into which they  positioned  the
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two  halves  of the stone, and piled dirt up the sides to maintain its
312 
place.  With the stone in position, they carefully replaced the  sword
313 
so  as to appear as it had before.  Arthur watched curiously as Merlin
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prepared a tiny pouch and lit a small candle.  As darkness approached,
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there they waited until a small crowd of feastgoers appeared. 
316 
   When the merrymakers approached, Arthur grasped the sword with both
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of his hands, and, on cue from Merlin  began  to  fake  straining  and
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pulling.   The  revellers  laughed  loudly  and  merrily  at what they
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thought was another fool out to impress his  girlfriend.   At  another
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cue  from  Merlin, though, Arthur gave the sword a turn and hoisted it
321 
free of the stone.  At the same instance, there erupted a mighty flash
322 
and a loud BANG!  from the stone, which again toppled in pieces.   The
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chuckling  group  was  now speechless, as all color drained from their
324 
faces.  Arthur, though paralyzed with fear  at  the  proceedings,  saw
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then  a  sight  he  would remember for all time: Merlin, hands clasped
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tightly over his own mouth, turning bright red, suppressing a laugh! 
327 
  
328 
{*}{*}{*}{*}{*}{*}{*}{*}{*}{*}!!!isis!!!{*}{*}{*}{*}{*}{*}{*}{*}{*}{*}
329 ZZZZZZZZZZZZZZZZZZZZZZZZZZZZZZZZZZZZZZZZZZZZZZZZZZZZZZZZZZZZZZZZZZZZZZZZZZZZZZZZZZZZZZZZZZZZZZZZZZZZZZZZZippydalurker
330 Above: Cute! I've always beena fan of contemporizing classic stories!
331 ZZZZZZZZZZZZZZZZZZZZZZZZZZZZZZZZZZZZZZZZZZZZZZZZZZZZZZZZZZZZZZZZZZZZZZZZZZZZZZZZZZZZZZZZZZZZZZZZZZZZZZZZZippydalurker
332 ]]]]]]]]]]]]]]]]]]]]]]]]]]]]]]]]]]]]]]]]]]]]]]]]]]]]]]]]]]]]]]]]]]]]]]]]]]]]]]
333 To: All UNDERGROUND operatives
334 From: J.K. O'Hara, DSNAC, UNDERGROUND
335 Subj: A little tidbit to keep you going
336 Since morale within our ranks has been fairly low these past few days, here's
337 a little story to cheer you up:
338   
339      Captain Brommel, it was well known, was a sadist.  His intense
340   pleasure at inflicting pain could not be mistaken; his favorite place in
341  the entire prison was the torture chamber, right next to the rack.  
342  Still, he was excellent at his job, and his superiors decided years ago to
343   just look the other way when he indulged himself.
344      One day, however, a prison riot broke out.  It seems that one of the
345   prisoners, taken just the day before, had been beaten almost beyond
346  recognition during an interrogation.  The other prisoners, of course, were
347 outraged.  They suddenly charged the guards during calisthenics, and in
348  the ensuing battle, seized several firearms and shot every single guard
349  they could find.  A few guards escaped to tell their Captain what
350  had happened.  Of course, they reported everything in the long and
351   drawn out manner of the military, ignoring not the slightest detail.
352      Finally, Brommel called for support to put down the uprising, but
353 needed one last bit of information.
354 
355  so the inquisitive sadist said, "Where's the grief?"
356 (imagine diabolical laughter from John K. O'Hara)
357 [[[[[[[[[[[[[[[[[[[[[[[[[[[[[[[[[[[[[[[[[[[[[[[[[[[[[[[[[[[[[[[[[[[[[[[[[[[[[[
358 SAAB$SAAB$SAAB$SAAB$SAAB$SAAB$SAAB$SAAB$SAAB$SAAB$SAAB$SAAB$SAAB$SAAB$SAAB
359 
360 TO ALL CONCERNED:
361 
362 If you have a car bilke or motor-bilke and would like a consoled made for
363 car stero installation, or gauges, or whatever, I ghave the resources to
364 do this.  I have made center consoles for stereo app;llications for a 
365 variety of different cars and would be more then happy to do one for you.
366 
367 Rates:
368 
369 for center console  $40.00
370 for bilke console $25.00
371 for motor bike    $30.00
372 
373 call 238-xxxx after 5:00 p.m.  ask for Dean
374 
375                                            S-N-AAB
376 
377 SAAB$SAAB$SAAB$SAAB$SAAB$SAAB$SAAB$SAAB$SAAB$SAAB$SAAB$SAAB$SAAB$SAAB$SAAB
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379 
380                       DDDDDD    D N     N     OOO OOO
381 D     D   N N    N   O     O
382                        D     D   N N   N   O     O
383                        D     D   N  N  N   O     O
384                       D     D   N    N N   O     O
385                        D     D   N    NN   O     O
386                       DDDDDD    N     N    OOOOO
387 
388 
389 rRonin:
390 
391 Since you liked my last proverb so much I thought you might enjoy a few more
392 and a quote or two:
393 
394 He that is not Handsom at twenty,nor strong at thirty,nor rich at forty
395 nor wise at fifty, will never be handsome, strong, rich , or wise.
396 
397 It is not What is she, but What has she.
398 
399 The way to feel safebe safe is to never to fellesecure.
400 
401 An horrid stillness first invades the ear,
402 And in that silence we tempest fear.
403                        (Astrea Redux)
404 
405 Genius is one percent cent . inspiration and
406 ninety nine-per cent.  perspiratinon
407                        (Thomas A. Edison)
408 
409                                      for now my friend,
410                                    later--- Dno...
411 
412 ddddddddddddddddddddddddddnnnnnnnnnnnnnnnnnnnnnnoooooooooooooooooooooooooo
413 up30
414 (^)(^)(^)8(^)(^)(^)(^)(^)(^)(^)(^)(^)(^)
415 
416 Dno:
417     May you be shot on sight for your lack of taste in proverbs.
418     If you quit now, you may save yourself much pain later.  Remember, a stich
419 in time saves nine.
420 
421                                Ronin
422 
423 (^)(^)(^)(^)(^)(^)(^)(^)(^)(^)(^)(^)(^)
424 S-N-AAB:
425     My friThanks for the beautiful job you did on building my center console.
426 It's awesome!
427                           c-64
428 THORTHORTHORTHORTHORTHORTHORTHORTHORTHOR
429 Some may think that to feel is to reach out your hand and let your
430 fingertips contact the person or thing  that you want to touch.
431 But to actually touch something or some one, you must reach out with
432 feelings not found in the tips of ones  fingers. For that touch is soon
433 forgotten by the both parties involved.
434 To feel and be felt, one must reach out with ones soul and if contact is made
435 neither party shall ever forget the
436 moment of tangency.
437 
438 kathyd:saw your words, glad to have you back at TANIS. My tankard is full.
439 Guardian:Have I missed another message?
440 TIN MAN:Where for goes thy prose?
441 Tanya:who darest call thee a drake, thee is surely a swan.
442 THORTHORTHORTHORTHORTHORTHORTHORTHORTHOR
443 ||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||
444 wow hawaii wazz great.  as the song says "Wish they all could be California
445 girls!"
446 COMO ESTA` Ud. SNR MIG?  YO SOY MUY BIEN.  SABE ESPAN~OL?  TAL VEZ SI`.
447 TAL VEZ NO.  LE TENGO LASTIMA POR Ud.  Ud ES UN PUTO GRANDE.  
448 ES UN PUN~ITERO TAMBIEN. QUE? HABLA NO ES VERDAD? SI` ES MUY VERDAD!
449 CUANDO` ES UN POSADO. YO NO SE`.  Y Ud.? SI Ud. SABE ESPAN~OL. 
450 TIENE LAS VACASIONES DIVERTIDO.
451 BACK TO INGLES.
452 IF YOU DONT UNDERSTAND SPANISH MIG I SUGGEST A CLOSE TO NATIVE SPEAKER TO 
453 INTERPRET THE ABOVE PARAGRAPH. OR AT LEAST SOME ONE WHO LIVED NEAR 
454 HISPANICS LONG ENOUGH TO PICK UP THE KEY WORDS IN THE MESSAGE.
455 I WONT TELL YOU AGAIN! BUZZ OFF!
456 OH BY THE WAY.
457                        TIENE UN DIA ALEGRE!!!!!!
458                        EL OSO GRANDE!
459 |||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||
460 ? ? ? ? ? ? ? ? ? ? ? ? ? ? ? ? ? ? ? ?  ? ? ? ? ? > ? ? ?/MiG/? > ? ? ? ? ?
461 
462 Gee, not too much to work with. All uppercase, with imaginary line noise. 
463 But I have a few ideas. By the way, your sentence structure sucks, according
464 to the person I had translate that. Oh, your not going to tell me again? I 
465 am so happy for you!! Come on EW, I expected better of you.
466 ? ? ? ? ? ? ? ? ? ? ? ? ? ? ? ? ? ? ? ? ? ? ? ? ? ? ? ? ? ?/MiG/? ? ? ? ? ? ?
467 
468 ||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||
469 EW EW EW EW!!!! IS THAT ALL YOU CAN SAY?  BY THE WAY THAT WAS NOT LINE NOISE.
470 THE ACCENT AND THE ~(I FORGOT WHAT IT IS CALLED) CANNOT BE PUT ATOP OF THE
471 APPROPRIATE LETTERS SO I JUST PUT THEM AFTER.  WHO TRANSLATED THIS? YOU?
472 WHY NOT YOU ARE SUPER STUD!! IF YOU CAN BE 6'3" AND GOD WHO KNOWS HOW HEAVY
473 WHY CAN'T YOU UNDERSTAND SPANISH AS WELL. ALSO THANK YOU FOR GETTING RIGHT 
474 DOWN TO THE POINT IN YOUR ABOVE MESSAGE.  MOST OF THE MESSAGES YOU WRITE TO ME
475 BEAT AROUND THE BUSH WITH ASSANINE COMMENTS.  MY PERSPECTIVE OF YOU IS WIDENING
476 TO NEW HORIZONS.  MABEY SOME DAY WE CAN BURRY THE OLE HATCHET AND TALK IN 
477 CIVILIZED TOUNGE.  COME ON NOW WHAT IS THIS "I expected better of you" CRAPOLA?
478 AT LEAT I TRIED TO AD A LITTLE VARIETY BY INTRODUCING A FORIEGN LANGUAGE. I 
479 KNOW IT HAS BEEN USED BEFORE BUT I THOUGHT IT WAS A NICE THOUGHT. I DO AGREE
480 MY SENTECE STRUCTURE LEAVES SOME TO BE DESIRED. IN MY CLASS THE MAIN FUNCTION
481 THIS YEAR IS TO CONCENTRATE ON LISTENING AND SPEAKING.  NOT AS MUCH WRITING
482 IS INVOLVED BUT I GET A CHANCE TO TRANSLATE A LOT. IF YOU DO NOW SPANISH I
483 WOULD APPRECIATE THE INCREASED VOCABULARY.
484                           TIENE UNA DIA ALEGRE
485                           don QUIJOTE
486 |||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||
487 ************.**********************
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488 ****************************************************************
489 thor: thank-you, its good  to be back.... i think
490 guardian thank-you
491 getting line hits, can't type with these conditions.
492 ***********iwo~incourt********kathyd****************
493 
494 CONGRATULATIONS KATHYD, YOUR WRITING IS IMPROVING. (ABOVE) IT'S THE BEST SO
495 FAR.
496 ||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||
497 HMMM NOTHING TO DO AROUND HERE IN THE GRAND OLE STATE OF OREGON.
498 IT IS NOW 4:26 AND I HAVE GOTTEN ON TO BWMS TWICE IN A ROW. OH GOLLY GEE WIZ.
499 DOES ANY ONE WANT TO TALK? DOES ANYONE HAVE ANYTHING AT ALL THEY WANT TO
500 GET OFF THEIR CHESTS AND PUT IT RIGHT ON MINE?
501 ||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||
502 ************************************************
503 now i remember why lurk mode is so inviting
504 i won't miss the jerks, that is fer sure!
505 phfttt!!!!  
506 ****************kathyd**************************
507 ||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||
508 Kathy:you must understand we are not jerks. we are just bored.
509 
510 MiG:satisfied with the lower case? still waiting i know youre out there
511                                        you know what
512                                        you know who
513 ||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||
514 sysop:  how do you afford keeping a bulletin board going w/o charging the 
515 users (or is just doing it worth it)?
516 from:   curious...
517 xXxXxXxXxXxXxXxXxXxXxXxXxXxXxXxXxXxxXxXxXxXxXxXxXxXxXxXxXxXxXxXxXxXxXxXxXxXxX
518 pppppppppppppppppppppppppppppppppppppppppppppppppppppppppppppppppp
519 There seems to have been a fantastic improvement in the phone lines!  I 
520 managed to read the whole disk without getting mung
521 (glitch was fingers -- not fone) knocked off the line.  As we're
522 near the bottom, I'll let the story rest another day.
523   -- to the one who left the message about rebuilding consoles and
524 the proverbs.
525     Sir:
526         Your use of control characters is quite obnoxious.  I realize tt
527 what you left translates to a backspace with your terminal or atari, but
528 to the rest of it, it is just garbage.  To see what it really looks like,
529 type "cc n" (control characters, show instead of send), and reread the
530 message.  Looks pretty bad doesn't it?  To compound the problem, your
531 character that translates as "^=" puts my terminal into graphics mode --
532 it expects the character strings coming to be encoded co-ordinates.
533 Very messy.  If you want to use a backspace, the system supports the
534 standard ASCII backspace command ... a much more readable message results.
535 pppppppppppppppppppppppppppppppppppppppppppppppppppppppppppppppppppppppppp
536 (damn enter only -- the line starting "to the rest of it" should be
537 "to most of us" pppppppppppppppppppppppppppppppppppppppppppppppppppppppppp
538 *******************************************
539 oh, i understand, you are bored so you
540 pick on others. sounds very juvie to me.
541 double phfttttt!!!
542 *********************kathyd****************
543 ------------------------------------------------------------------------------
544 Nothing can generate fear like a dream whenre the line between it and reality
545 is all too near.  I awake from this dream of mine, but what about the next
546 time?
547 -------------------Mad Max---------------------------------7:31'50------------
548 (ch /whenre/where)
549 ------------------------------------------------------------------------------
550 *************************************************
551 LEONARD: NO THEY DIDN'T SAY, BUT I'M NOT HOLDING MY BREATH IT DIDN'T
552 STAY FIXED THE LAST TIME. GIVE IT A COUPLE OF WEEKS, AND I MIGHT START
553 TO FEEL A LITTLE SAFER. 
554 L'HOMME: FIGURES, IT ISN'T COMPATIBLE IN ANYTHING ELSE, WHY SHOULD
555 IT BE COMPATIBLE THERE?
556 *************************** CISTOP MIKEY ********************
557 
558 DDDDDD    N      N    OOOOO
559 D     D   NN     N   O     O
560 D     D   N N    N   O     O
561 D     D   N  N   N   O     O
562 D     D   N   N  N   O     O
563 D     D   N    N N   O     O
564 D     D   N     NN   O     O
565 DDDDDD    N      N    OOOOO
566 
567 To:  Most of us (or everyone concerned and bothered)
568 
569       Thank you for pointing out what appears to be a very major flaw in
570 my Terminal program.  Unfortunately, the terminal software I was using
571 is built into my computer, and was the most convenient to use.  If you are
572 wondering what type of computer I am using, it is an NEC. (not an ATARI)
573 I do apologize for any mishaps that may have occured.
574 
575                                    Humbly,
576                                    Dno...
577 
578 DNO DNO DNO DNO DNO DNO DNO DNO DNO DNO DNO DNO DNO DNO DNO DNO DNO DNO DNO
579 
580 
581 please forgive this test
582 INVALID COMMAND

583 
584 up 20
585 oh well that was interesting.

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