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1 If you are in need of help, you need but ask...
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2 ************************* INSTALLED: 10 JUN 85 *********************
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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 privately owned, I retain the right to remove any and all messages which
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11 I may find offensive. Because of the limited size of the system, it will be
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12 periodically purged of messages. (only 629 lines of data can be saved)
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13 To leave a message, type 'ENTER' and use ctrl/C or break to get out of the
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14 ENTER mode. The message is automatically stored. If after entering the
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15 message you find you made a mistake, use the replace command to replace
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16 the line. To exit from the system, type 'OFF' then hang up.
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17 Type 'HELP' to see other commands that are available on the system.
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18 ************************************************************
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19
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20 Hah hah! I've got it and you ain't! Bleahhh...
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21 _innocent bysitter_
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22 {{{{{{{{{{{{{{{{{{{{{{{{{{{{{{{{{{{{{{{{}}}}}}}}}}}}}}}}}}}}}}}}}}}}}}}}}}}}}}
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23 Near the top I think they say,
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24 But I'll have to wait for another day,
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25 To say the lines I hold so dear:
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26 "AT THE TOP!" I want to cheer.
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27
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28 Tin Man:
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29 I thank you for your comments said.
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30 I'm glad my poems are well read.
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31 The heartfelt words you left me here,
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32 Are very kind, and very dear.
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33 You too sir have the poet's pen.
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34 Your writing does the soul transend.
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35 I think we both must speak our minds,
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36 And it's nice to have response in kind.
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37 {{{{{{{{{{{{{{{{{{{{{{{{{{{{{{{{{{{{{{{{{NEW POET}}}}}}}}}}}}}}}}}}}}}}}}}}}
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38
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39 XXXXXXXXXXXXXXXXXXXXXXXXXXXXXXXXXXXXXXXXXXXXXXXXXXXXXXX
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40 A lone figure sat watching, waiting for that which
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41 would not happen. The time came and went, and it did
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42 not happen, what dark thoughts pass through his mind?
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43 What desperate fears travel in his bones? What could
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44 have happened? What reason could cause this lack of
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45 being? Will the time be forever barren, or has he but
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46 allowed some dark demon to talk deep inside? Where has
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47 the time gone, what has been done? For the time has
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48 now passed, and nothing has happened. Yet still he
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49 waits, watching, hopeing, praying that his time sense
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50 is wrong, that the gods are only playing tricks with
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51 his mind. Ignoring the demon's dark cries, he sits
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52 alone and watches, watches for that which did not come.
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53 XXXXXXXXXXXXXXXXXXXXXXXXXXXXXXXXXXXXXXXXXXXXXXXXXXXXXXX
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54
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55 ^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^
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56
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57 .... lurking ....
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58
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59 ^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^Emu
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60 ++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++
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61
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Success! Or an approximation of that item at least.
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62
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63
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64
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65
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66 (())(()) (())(()) (())(()) (())(())
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67 Fellows had slipped quickly to the side of the mansion's expanse of
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68 property. The wall continued around the house, high enough that he
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69 couldn't see in, but it looked easily climbable. Stepping between the
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70 fragrant rose bushes that lined the wall, he jumped to the sill and pulled
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71 himself over. Jumping down from the wall landed him into a large
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72 rhododendren, with more noise than he had expected.
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73 The lawn surrounding the mansion looked well-kept, much like a golfing
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74 green. "Too bad I don't have my putter with me," thought Fellows. Not
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75 really knowing what to expect next, but having a feeling that it might be
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76 messy, Fellows pulled out his pistol. Just in time to see the warning LED
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77 flash on, then off. He waited.
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78
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79 ------
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80
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81 No one was watching the car that they had stolen, so no one saw the
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82 note get slipped under the left wiper. The carrier of the message knew who
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83 had stolen the car, and new that they would return to it. The message
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84 would be safe.
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85 If anyone had cared to look at it, they wouldn't have seen much; only
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86 five words on a slip of paper with a letterhead from a hunting and trapping
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87 supply store in Medford, OR. The words were,
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88 "L'homme,
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89 please send help
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90 Miranda"
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91
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92 (())(()) (())(()) (())(())
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93
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94 ////////////////////////////// OM //////////////////////////////
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95 Paul and his foreman returned from their extended lunch just in time
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96 to see Ralph screw on the lid to the small hand-held remote control for
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97 the latest revision to the car.
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98 "Here Paul, go ahead and try it! I did just what you told me to do
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99 and I installed the remote switch behind the back seat. Go ahead, try it!"
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100 As Paul took the remote control and turned to the foreman to explain the
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101 latest phase of the operation, Ralph sprinted over to the car and seated
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102 himself on the driver's side.
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103 "I'm ready when you are!" called Ralph from across the garage. Whirring
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104 sounds of machines being turned on could be heard coming from the car.
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105 After a minute or so, the sounds died down and all that could be heard
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106 was the car.
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107 "I really must protest to this. Why do you find it necessary to
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108 constantly cut off my power just after you re-initialize my power-up?
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109 Is that you out there Farley? I don't recognize you. Hello?" The voice
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110 was that most widely reputed as "Fred".
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111 "Okay, hit the switch the next time it starts to talk again."
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112 "It?" asked Fred. "Now I *really* must..."
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113 Just then Paul flicked the switch he had in his hand and the voice synth-
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114 isizer hissed and crackeled from behind the rear seat. The voice turned
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115 into a shocking falsetto. The foreman had a puzzled look on his face.
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116 "...protest. I will not be refered to as an 'it'. My name is Fred."
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117 "That's more like 'Frida' now, toots," said Paul. The foreman
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118 chuckled. "Okay, I'll switch it back for now. That should come in handy
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119 once we have it, er, 'her' back on the raod." Now Paul chuckled.
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120 As Paul returned the switch to the 'male' position, the trunk of the car
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121 sprung open and a show of fireworks went off.
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122 "Alright Ralph, what did you forget to do this time?" asked Paul.
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123 "I didn't forget to do anything. I put the back panel back on just
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124 like you asked me to."
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125 "Did you finish re-installing those Ram chips like I asked you before
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126 you put the back panel on?"
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127 "Huh?" A major portion of Ralph's vocabulary.
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128 "Never mind. Just get over here."
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129 "Yeeea, right. Whatever you say."
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130 "Those chips were a vital part of the reprogramming of the logic
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131 section. The whole plan would be ruined without them."
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132 "The whole plan? No, wait! Listen! Don't you remember those guys said
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133 they needed some extra parts for some other project..."
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134 "Those chips won't work anywhere else other than in *this* car! Where
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135 did the chips go?"
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136 Ralph realized that they would never see those chips again, and all he
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137 could say as he turned to look to the sky was...
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138 "Oooops..."
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139 ////////////////////////////// OM //////////////////////////////
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140 --=--==--===--====--=====--======--=======--========--=========--==========
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141 Hi All, WOW! what creativity! I haven't seen the board like this in
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142 a long time. Lots of stories. Fun, but watch out, summer's almost here,
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143 and cometh the twits too. But, I'll try and keep BWMS clean.
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144 On the practical side, Does does anyone know how many modem
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145 Users there are in the Metro area? I have to do some research, and
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146 I was wondering if the data had already been compiled. Also, Brian Smith!
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147 I WANT MY DISKS! I'm coming over soon, and I'll take them if you don't
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148 get in touch with me soon.
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149 Here's a nifty quote I found....
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150 "When a true genius appears in the world, know him by this sign,
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151 that all the dunces are in confederacy against him."
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152 - Swift
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153
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154 Anyway, keep up the good writing....
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155 Tuesday, 6/11/85, 11:29 - Friar Tuck -
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156 ==========--=========--========--=======--======--=====--====--===--==--=--
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157 __________::::::::::__________::::::::::__________::::::::::__________::::::::
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158 Good day, Guardian 'o Mine.
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159
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160 By the way, 'Theus, this is *NOT*...
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161 __________::::::::::__________:::::::::: The Jiz /// __________::::::::
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162 #$##$##$##$##$##$##$##$##$##$##$##$##$##$##$##$##$##$##$##$##$##$##$##$##$##$#
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163 Several moments after leaving L'homme and Fellows, Farley had managed to
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164 creep to the rear wall of the manor grounds. Ivy fell in gigantic clumps
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165 from the top of the wall; it had obviously not been well kept here. Farley
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166 drew the NET issue pistol and readied himself to check the small gate he
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167 spied between two of the larger clumps of ivy. The pistol felt strange in
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168 his hand- he was used to his old one. Ian had given him the utmost
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169 assurance that the new guns had much more power and range than his old gun,
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170 but Farley would have felt more comfortable with Betsy.
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171 Farley peered around the corner. No one in sight, but that was no
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172 indication. Farley spied a dog kennel at the rear of the house, the home of
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173 the five vicious brutes that now lay before it. To make matters worse, a
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174 small red light on the gun abruptly lit- indication that gunplay was expected
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175 soon. Farley's grip tightened on the pistol, and he tried to think of a way
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176 around the dogs that didn't involve noise.
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177 Wishful thinking. Farley's chronocom decided to act up again, this time
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178 at a considerably louder volume than before:
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179 "Farley: I regret to say that time is working against both of us. We
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180 need your cooperation. Just a little information from you and then you can
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181 have Fred back. Wouldn't you like that? A special transmitter will be sent
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182 to you in the mail, disguised as an am/fm clock. Tune it to 550 AM, then
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183 press ALARM ON. Further instructions later."
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184 The dogs, before just lying about, were now quickly perking up their ears
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185 and turning their head. Farley jumped out of sight and punched the small
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186 "Volume off" button. Too late. The dogs jumped up, eager to chase.
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187 Suddenly Farley had an idea. He quickly found a rock, then tested the
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188 vines to see how strong they were. Quickly, he climbed up the wall using
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189 the vines, until he reached a point just below the top of the wall. The
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190 dogs were racing toward the gate quickly. Farley waited for the right moment,
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191 then completed a maneuver that did credit to the minimal NET traing Farley
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192 had received.
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193 Almost simultaneously, Farley threw the rock as far as he could away from
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194 the house, and swung over the wall to hang from the vines on the other side.
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195 The dogs had continued through the gate, following the noise the rock had
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196 made. In a time shorter than it takes to tell the story, Farley closed the
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197 gate and locked the dogs outside, with himself conveniently inside.
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198 Farley smiled faintly at the bewildered dogs. Now out of immediate
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199 danger, his mind drifted a moment on the message. Could they have him?
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200 He decided not to worry about it now, in the middle of an assignment.
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201 Farley carefully made his way to a rear door, and quietly pushed it open.
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202 "Now to find out what's going on..."
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203 #$##$## had to check it, still having some problems with u/load. #$# Farley #$#
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204 -----------------------------------------------------------------------------
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205 Yes, here comes all of the little guys who forgot where the modem
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206 was put. I can just see them now running madley for the computer, telephone
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207 numbers in hand! They will come to impress all of us, to win our hearts and
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208 minds (but not stomach).
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209 We'll be waiting with open arms, right? Can't wait to hear all of the
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210 new boards put up by them, just on weekends that is. Backwater will be a
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211 special place for them, they will just love it. On this board they can be
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212 whoever they want, even someone else that has already been calling... The
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213 names, oh those creative names are going to be here too! I almost forgot!
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214 Names like 'METAL HEAD' and 'HEAD BANGER', not to mention the stories they
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215 will bring.
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216 Here they come, will you be ready for them? Boy, I can't wait...
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217
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218 ps. Spare us the 'Juvie hunts', that realy makes the graves spin.
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219 --------------------------------------------------------------------Clark-----
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220
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221 {c}{c}{c}{c}{c}{c}{c}{c}{c}{c}{c}{c}
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222 is there anyone out there? hello?
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223 {c}{c}{c}{c}{c}{c}{c}{c}{c}{tammy}{c}
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224
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225 THERE'S NOBODY HERE BUT US TWITS....
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226
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227 (I'm certain that the open arms you hold, with knives in your hands, will
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228 receive the twits. Especially with such preminition of them. They are out
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229 there, oh yes! And, theywill come here, oh yes! But, I just wonder...
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230 could it be that such foul comments of them make them only wish to ensure
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231 your telling. No, I don't like the vandals. But, could those comments--
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232 perhaps--have served for only to help cause their appearence. They would
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233 come anyways, but how much fewer? Just a thought...Dos Manos)
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234 WELL, IT SURE BRINGS OUT THE KIND OF
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235 PEOPLE THAT ASK QUESTIONS ABOUT IT.
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236 JUST LIKE DOS MANOS, WHATS YOUR PROB?
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237 ====================================================================
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238 Dos Manos: I bet you have a great sense of humor too!I bet you get
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239 mad when a tv commercial says that your peanut butter isn't creemy
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240 enough!Just makes you want to cry right?
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241 ====================================================tv commercial===
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242 %^%^%^%^%^%^%^%^%^%^%^%^%^%^%^%^%^%^%^%^%^%^%^%^%^%^%^%^%^%^%^%^%^%^%^%^
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243 Did I miss something? Is this the start of happy week?
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244 Must have been something I missed! But is this what we come to seek????
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245 %^%^%^%^%^%^%^%^%^%^%^%^%^%^%^%^%^%^%^%^%^%^%^%^%^%^%^%^%^%^%^%^%^%^%^%^%^%^%^%
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246 @@@@@@@@@@@@@@@@@@@@a little border never hurts@@@@@@@@@@@@@@
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247 Hey, all! Another BWMS type system has gone up. I think it's called
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248 BAUD or something like that. The number is 663-xxxx. Give it a try...
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249 It's neat!
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250 @@@@@@@@@@@@@@@@@@a little more border to end@@@@@@@@@@@@@@@@@
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251 FARLEY!!! How could you??? 'Just after you left L'homme and Petrov??? ARG!!!
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252 Petrov is four thousand miles away in sheep dreamland...er I mean Australia.
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253 Don't worry though, only a few people will know of your tremendous goof. I
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254 ch'ed the name from Petrov to Fellows like the other stories had it. No one
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255 will be the wiser...unless...they...read...this...message...Uh oh, I guess
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256 I kinda goofed too huh? Thanks ALL ALLOWED!
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257 ================================================a friend====================
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258 ???????????????????????????????????????????????????????????????????????????????
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259 Milch: You lied!! Have those $"(#%#'" rotten 3x5 cards screwed up your mind?
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260 You told me there was an entry on db, after my last one, and there wasn't!
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261 What's the story??
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262 ???????????????? The Doctor ??????????????????????? June 11, 1985 at 11:19 ????
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263 kml.) kml.) kml.) kml.) kml.) kml.) kml.) kml.) kml.) kml.)
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264 I sharpen my pencil in preparation like any prudent warrior before
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265 a battle. The clean white paper is neatly arranged in an inviting stack,
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266 ready to become the ultimate in literary work. As my pencil approaches
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267 the paper, the expected happens. All the half formed ideas and fragments
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268 that had, until now, been crowding around watching the preparations take
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269 this opportunity to flee like nebulous mice. They vanish into hidden
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270 corners, leaving my mind as blank as an unfurnished apartment.
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271 I consider leaving the desk for oblivion in a cup of coffee, but
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272 with an effort of will I remain seated. After all, this is not new. It
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273 happens nearly every time it's necessary to write. I decide to try a
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274 technique used by our cats. By elaborately ignoring one's prey, it can
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275 often be persuaded to get within striking distance. I begin to think
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276 about last summer, people I knew fifteen years ago, and the archaeological
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277 disaster of my closet. It seems the trick is working. A mouse-idea
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278 whisks out of hiding, intrigued by my apparent lack of interest. I will
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279 wait until it comes close enough, then I strike, catching its tail with
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280 my sharp pencil, pulling it out into letters, words, sentences. The
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281 pencil races over the paper, trapping the idea in my illegible hand-
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282 writing. Heedless of the scrawling, I write on, for sudden inspiration
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283 cannot be made to wait for something as insignificant as penmanship.
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284 -- Jannet Fields
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285 kml.) kml.) kml.) kml.) kml.) kml.) kml.) kml.) kml.) kml.)
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286 (We had only the other day spoken of this so I had decided that now would
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287 be the best time to post this assignment. If I recall correctly, she
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288 wrote this about eight(?) months ago. Appropriate at any time, no?)
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289 typing for Jannet, Lewis...
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290 kml.) kml.) kml.) kml.) kml.) kml.) kml.) kml.) kml.) kml.)
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291
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292 ............. ............. ............. .............
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293 Yes, you have most certainly written me into a fine little corner...
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294 Your fears have been realized, and they have come true. Nothing we
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295 can't work out by ourselves though. hee hee
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296 (It seems your explainations went unnoticed by your co-patriot. Again.
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297 Better luck next time, L'homme.) -Kosta
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298 ............. ............. ............. .............
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299
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300 ppppppppppppppppppppppppppppppppppppppppppppppppppppppppppppppppppppppppp
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301 Wracked by the agonies of grief, the piper slept the day through.
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302 Curled beneath the boughs of a small evergreen on the edge of a clearing
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303 in the deep woods, he did not notice his visitors -- the wolves who had
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304 brought him there sniffed once or twice then moved on about their business.
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305 His sleep was troubled. Often his body would shudder and jerk, inarticulate
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306 sounds would force themselves from his throat before slumber would again deepen.
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307 The last light of the evening was still staining the evening sky when the
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308 piper finally regained partial conciousness. Shivering, he tried reflexively
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309 to gather the rags that remained of his clothing around himself.
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310 We don't really know all the connections between our state of mind and health.
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311 Some have estimated that 20% of all disease has a mental origin, others maintain
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312 that the figure should be closer to 90%. This does NOT mean that between 20
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313 and 90 percent of all disease is imaginary; it means that the root cause, the
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314 prime factor of these diseases is the human mind. Not only do we not know how
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315 many diseases are caused by the mind, we don't really know how to treat them
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316 or just how the mind causes the problem. What we do have are a few examples
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317 of physical symptoms caused by mental stimuli.
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318 Most are well known, raising a blister on a hypnotized person's arm by
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319 telling them you are touching their arm with a red-hot iron, then pressing
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320 a finger to the flesh, hysterical blindness, and ulcers. Others, not widely
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321 talked about, include cancer patients who have been able force the disease
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322 into "spontaneous remission" by visualizing their body successfully battling
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323 the invader. Indeed, some studies show an amazingly high correlation between
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324 personality traits and the onset of the disease itself.
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325 Shivering beneath the sheltering boughs the piper sought refuge for his
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326 wounded mind and body. The sick sleep he fell back into was marked by
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327 shivering and twisting as his body rebelled under the lash of his mind. Had
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328 anyone been near, his flushed face and rapid shallow breathing would have
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329 alerted them that something was wrong, but only a passing owl drifing across
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330 the branch-engraved moon saw the motion beneath the boughs.
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331 pppppppppppppppppppppppppppppppppppppppppppppppppppppppppppppppppppppppppppp
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332 INDEX INDEX INDEX INDEX INDEX INDEX INDEX INDEX INDEX INDEX INDEX INDEX
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333
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334 The readability index tells you the level of education a reader will
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335 need to understand the document. If the Readability Index is 12.4, a
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336 person would need a high school education to understand the document.
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337
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338 The following values were obtained using the Flesch-Kincaid formula
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339 to calculate the Readability Index. This formula is the United States
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340 Government Department of Defense standard (DOD MIL-M-38784B). The
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341 government requires its use by contractors producing user's manuals
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342 for the armed services. The Readability Index is equivalent to the
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343 Overall Reading Grade Level (OGL) for the document. The Index is based
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344 on the average sentence length and the average number of syllables
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345 per word.
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346
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347 Piper#2 12.18 l'oeuf 5.38
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348 Piper#1 11.44 KOSTA 4.23
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349 Jannet Fields 9.23 BH 4.13
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350 THE TIN MAN 8.23 XXXXXX 4.11
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351 Clark 6.37 Dosmanos 3.74
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352 L'homme sans P. 6.17 Marvin Deepe 3.70
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353 Farley 6.16 OM 3.50
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354 Miranda 6.00 NEW POET#1 2.21
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355 Milchar 5.93 NEW POET#2 1.00
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356 Chronos 5.49
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357
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358 These values were obtained from entries made between 6/8/85 and
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359 6/12/85. Remember the results are merely a mathematical indication
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360 of the readability of a given piece of writing based on a strict
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361 formula. No judgement is being made on the relative quality of the
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362 written material indexed. Obviously such a determination is very
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363 subjective and is far beyond the scope of this or any other program.
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364 The decision should always be left to the individual reader.
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365
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366 INDEX INDEX INDEX INDEX INDEX INDEX INDEX INDEX INDEX INDEX INDEX INDEX
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367
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368 SWELL ABOVE, DOES THIS MEAN WE CAN ALL
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369 WRITE INSTRUCTION BOOKS FOR NUCLEAR
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370 BOMBS?
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371
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372 ^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^ (ch /GF/FK)
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373 So, in five months and six days the number of users has gone down as
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374 well as the average of the index. That should only be expected seeing as
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375 there was a change in the index being used. Curiouser and curiouser.
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376 It is somewhat disparaging not to find the multitude of users that
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377 there once were, but since this thing called summer shall soon be upon us
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378 I don't doubt that the increase should take only a short time. Maybe.
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379
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380 To some more time is now available while to others there is less.
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381
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382 ^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^ --->the returning Guardian 163:12
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383
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384 1.0 ?
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385 !!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!
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386 I think it may be that the NET has been more effective than it thought.
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387 They've driven everyone off. Hey, a new one to go along with the TWIT (totally
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388 without....), the SIMP! Self Important Malicious People!
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389 !!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!
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390 INDEX: Curious. Although I can see how it is only valid with certain
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391 considerations. Unfortunately, not all the previous entries could be
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392 scaled too. That would be interesting. Any possibilities? And, how
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393 would that rate. I used large syllable words but all of them are common
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394 enough and easily understood.
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395 .....................................
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396 I'd love to see how that program figures syllables....
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397 For instance, does it know that 'through' is only one syllable?
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398 ...............................................
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399 ^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^
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400 Observations #31
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401 Hey, there's a hole in my sock. When did that get there?
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402 Those things are really amazing. Have you ever wondered where the holes
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403 come from? I go out, buy a brand new pair of socks, and come home to wear
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404 them The next thing I know, a hole has appeared! It wasn't there when I
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405 bought them, and I never saw or felt it creep up on me.
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406 I think it's a communist plot.
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407 I'm willing to bet that the soviets are smuggling the little devils into
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408 the country in huge crates marked "wholesome additives". Once in the
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409 country, the holes are turned loose on the poor innocent socks, as a way of
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410 breeding dissent in the people. The Soviets probably think that if the hole
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411 situation gets bad enough, the people will demand that the government take
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412 over all of the sock manufacturing, in hopes of improving product quality.
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413 Thus the beginnings of social change and governmental aquisition of private
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414 industry.
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415 The fact that the Soviets are overlooking is that we know better. The
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416 American people know that if the government took over sock manufacturing,
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417 the socks would soon end up with built-in holes, also known as
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418 "loop-holes". Only the rich would have the resources to afford the
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419 specially trained personel to eradicate the holes, while the poor would have
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420 to live with the governmental surplus socks distributed on cheese and sock
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421 day. Capitalism would continue as strong as ever.
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422 I have just recently discovered a way to keep the Soviet holes from taking
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423 over all of my socks. When I buy a new pair of socks, I carefully cut a
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424 small hole in each heel and sew a small hem to keep it from fraying and
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425 spreading. This way, when a hole tries to jump into my sock, it finds the
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426 sock already inhabited by a hole. You see, holes are very territorial.
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427 Seldom will you find more than one hole in the same sock. When it does
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428 happen that one hole tries to intrude upon another's sock, it will get
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429 eaten, and the original hole will grow that much more. Since my holes
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430 aren't truly alive, this can't happen.
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431 I once heard of a certain hole that was very aggressive. It would sit in
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432 a sock eating all intruders, until it had grown so big that the sock was
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433 useless and had to be thrown out. It migrated from sock to sock, growing
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434 larger and larger, until soon the sock would completely disappear as it
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435 climbed in. I suspect that this is what happens to all the socks that get
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436 lost in the world's laundries: that hole, and others like it, is hiding in
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437 the dryer, eating socks whole.
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438 ^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^Emu
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439 $$$$$$$$$$$$$$$$$$$$$$$$$$$$$$$$$$$$$$observations...(^cont?^)
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440 That hole that you saw appearing on your socks is probably much like the
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441 one growing in your head this very instant. One that just eats up all the grey
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442 stuff you never wanted to use, a void that is growing and GROWING! Soon you
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443 will be all gone, to bad, so sad. There will be nothing left of you except
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444 a big hollow shell that little kids will play house in.
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445 These holes are not only on our socks, they are in our minds. If we don't
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446 get on the bal;l and get the little guys out it's going to be pretty messing.
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447 So get up, go outside, and tell a friend or two! WARN THEM BEFORE IT HITS!!!
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448 They will be ever so gratefull...
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449 $$$$$$$$$$$$$$$$$$$$$$$$$$$$$$$$$$$$$$observations. not to be taken seriously.
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450
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451
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452 ZZZZZZZZZZZZZZZZZZZZZZZZZZZZZZZZZZZZZZZZZZZZZZZZZZZZZZZZZZZZZZZZZZippydalurker
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453 Tammy-- Message awaits on PCS...
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454 ZZZZZZZZZZZZZZZZZZZZZZZZZZZZZZZZZZZZZZZZZZZZZZZZZZZZZZZZZZZZZZZZZZZippydalurker
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455 --The flower pedals of life fall down
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456 A beauty which crumples into dryness
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457 Scattered in the wind
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458 The lifeless flower death falls
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459 But, yet, the scent is never lost--
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460 RYRYRYRYRYRYRYRYRYRYRYRYRYRYRYRYRYRYRYRYRYRYRYRYRYRYRYRYRYRYRYRYRYRYRYRY
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461 Attention: program update.
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462 change in line 4020
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463 CH /CHR$(0)/""/
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464 end of change report...
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465 RYRYRYRYRYRYRYRYRYRYRYRYRYRYRYRYRYRYRYRYRYRYRYRYRYRYRYRYRYRYRYRYRYRYRYRY
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466 COM-WEB>COM-WEB>COM-WEB>COM-WEB>COM-WEB>COM-WEB>COM-WEB>COM-WEB>COM-WEB>
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467 09>01:09>01:09>01:09>01:09>01:09>01...
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468 DATA-STOR PROBLEMS MAY BE SELF SOLVING SOON. BUFFER SIZE LIMITATION MAY BE
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469 DIFFICULTY. AMBERDON FILES ON HAND: TELZEY TOY (FOUR STORIES; TITLE STORY,
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470 COMPULSION, RESIDENT WHITCH, COMPANY PLANET) AND LION GAME (NOVEL (NOVELLA(?)))
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471 >C.U.USUAL COORDINATES.
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472 >COM-WEB>COM-WEB>COM-WEB>COM-WEB>COM-WEB>COM-WEB>COM-WEB>COM-WEB>COM-WEB>
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473 99999999999999999999999999999999999999999999999999999999999999999999999999999
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474 Each month for three days I go mad.
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475 Today's the first if these; tis why thou seest me glad!
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476 - Jalal'din Rumi (the mathnavi) -
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477 99999999999999999999999999999999999999999999999999999999999999999999999999999
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478 *****************************************************************************
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479 GOOD MORNING, well that's better, I see that summer is here and we are
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480 now experiencing a rash of new users. I have yet to experience a entire
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481 summer of backwater so this will be a new chapter to read. and read,
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482 the writing is not needed of me, entertainment will be found in many forms.
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483 I think ill go skiing this summer, and read.
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484 ******seeyaallinseptember*****kathyd******************************************
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485
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486 ppppppppppppppppppppppppppppppppppppppppppppppppppppppppppppppppppppppppppppp
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487 Sigh. I guess my addiction to complex sentence structure (I really don't
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488 get too unreadable do I? (If I do please forgive me; it is one of my few
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489 small pleasures (or indulgences) in life)) gets me into the "writer for the
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490 more educated" catagory -- for which, this sentence should be a real test;
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491 those who can decipher meaning from it probably are reading at a level
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492 comparable to those undertaking post-doctoral research.
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493 I really wonder how that last sentence would affect my reading level index?
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494 That one's a mess -- subordinate clauses dripping off at every turn and twist;
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495 wordy; and really useless. Does anyone know whether the various reading
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496 indices take sentence structure into account, or do they just count
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497 word-length/syllables and sentence length? Oh, well, try to get back to the
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498 story soon.
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499 pppppppppppppppppppppppppppppppppppppppppppppppppppppppppppppppppppppppppppp
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500 {*}{*}{*}{*}{*}{*}{*}{*}{*}!!!isis!!!{*}{*} ever try doing that left-handed?
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501 Hi everybody! Sorry I haven't been around, but I should be here often over
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502 the next few days. I just happen to be stuck here with loads of extra time,
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503 but no memory therefore no uploading. Arthur is on ice, for personal
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504 reasons, but may appear later in a revised version. How about a poetic
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505 interlude.
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506 __________________________
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507
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508 A woman rode a pale horse.
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509 She rode through fire, but was not seared.
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510 She rode through water, but did not drown.
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511 She rode through earth, but was not enveloped.
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512 She came to air, and breathed fear.
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513 "Why have we stopped?" asked the mount?
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514 "I feel pain," came the reply.
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515 "When I rode through fire, my strength of will cloaked me.
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516 "when I rode through water, my loyalty bouyed me.
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517 "When I rode through earth, my honesty freed me.
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518 "What have I now?
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519 "Walk with me," said the horse.
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520 She took a step, and breathed fire.
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521 The horse grew dark.
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522 Again she stepped, and began to drown.
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523 The hore grew smaller.
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524 Another step, she choked on dust.
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||
525 She felt a hand clasp her own.
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526 She kissed the equine man, they breathed as one.
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527 He said, "You were the horse.
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528 "You carried me, you protected me.
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529 "And I led the way."
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530 She faced him now, and knew the warmth of the fire,
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531 the coolness of water
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532 the support of the earth,
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533 And the sweetness of a breath drawn that was not hers alone.
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534 Isis
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535
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536 Sorry for the hurried entry. They want another x-ray.
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537 {*}{*}{*}{*}{*} wish me luck !!!isis!!!{*}
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538 {c}{c}{c}{c}{c}{c}{c}{c}{c}{c}{c}{c}{c}{c}{c}{c}{c}{c}{c}
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539 Zippy!!!! I tried to write you on pcs but thre was no more
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540 room for msgs. i'll try again later when there might be
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541 some room open. i tried to talk to you on 2316373 but the
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542 sysop threw me off.
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543 {c}{c}{c}{c}{c}{c}{c}{c}{c}{c}{c}{c}{c}{c}{tammy}{c}{c}{c}
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544 ???????????????????????????????????????????????????????????????????????????????
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545 Milch: No entry???
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546 ??????????????? The Doctor ???????????????????????? June 13, 1985 at 2:54 ?????
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547 HI EVERYBODY
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548
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549 [/]
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550 /////////////////////////////////////\\\\\\\\\\\\\\\\\\\\\\\\\\\\\\\\\\\\\
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551 My soul is like the oar that momently
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552 dies in a desperate stress beneath the wave,
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553 then glitters out again and sweeps the sea.
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||
554 Each second I'm new-born from some new grave.
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555 The Sleeper
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556 /////////////////////////////////////\\\\\\\\\\\\\\\\\\\\\\\\\\\\\\\\\\\\\
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557 +++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++
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558 Doctor: One thing at a time, please. Landline is much faster mode of
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559 communication. How I ever got into this mess, I'll never know. Oh, well,
|
||
560 only $230 more to pay on the truck. TTYL, Milch
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||
561 +++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++
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||
562 #$##$##$##$##$##$##$##$##$##$##$##$##$##$##$##$##$##$##$##$##$##$##$##$##$##$#
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563 Friend: I did WHAT? Er, ah, just a sec, checking the file I uploaded.
|
||
564 .......
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565 Hmmm, Attention: Spelling checkers are fine, but if anyone figures out a way
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||
566 to write an intent checker and a sentence structure checker, they've got a
|
||
567 good market right here. I think I'll chalk this one up to fatigue, or perhaps
|
||
568 temporary insanity. What I REALLY need is a brain that works more than 10-15%
|
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569 of the time.
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570 I stand corrected, and a bit red-faced.
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||
571 #$##$##$##$##$##$# Farley #$##$##$##$# 164/85-20:34 #$##$##$##$##$##$##$##$#
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572 ----------------------------------------------------------------------------
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573 Kosta? Mary Lamb? Together? I am jealous.
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||
574 PETROV
|
||
575 ////////////////////////////////////////////////////////////////////////////
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||
576
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577 To the nameless N.E.T. attacker - If it feels good dontcha stop.
|
||
578 Beat your chest if it feels good
|
||
579 but dontcha stop. Stand above
|
||
580 others only when they sit down
|
||
581 but dontcha stop. Be secure in
|
||
582 your masked attacks and dontcha
|
||
583 STOP!
|
||
584
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585 ^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^
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586
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587 ^*^*^*^*^*^*^*^*^*^*^*^*^*^*^*^*^*^*^*^*
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588 roo
|
||
589 keeps going back to the main menu. It's done this 3 times now as I write this. W
|
||
590 {*}!!!isis!!!{*}
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591 A token effort if I ever saw one. Someone has already invented an intent
|
||
592 checker and structure checker. We're called proofreaders, and are state
|
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593 of the art all the time. Some may say too bad, we're human, but we don't
|
||
594 mind the jeers like "dictionary head" and such. Sometimes I feel that it's
|
||
595 the only thing I do well....
|
||
596 What do you do at 4:30AM in the hospital and can't sleep? Log on!
|
||
597 {*} !!! isis !!! {*}
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||
598 pppppppppppppppppppppppppppppppppppppppppppppppppppppppppppppppppppppppppp
|
||
599 isis --
|
||
600 You are a proofreader? (I assume professionally.) For whom?
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||
601 pppppppppppppppppppppppppppppppppppppppppppppppppppppppppppppppppppppppppp
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||
602 -_-_-_-_-_-_-_-_-_-_-_-_-_-_-_-_-_-_-_-_-_-_-_-_-_-_-_-_-_-_-_-_-_-_-_-_-
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603 Australian creature with the sox of sacredness: Are you sure? I mean,
|
||
604 huh? Gee, I must be realy a horrible host to my sox. I think that
|
||
605 maybe because I don't give 'em enough attention that maybe they don't
|
||
606 really mind the company of an extra hole. Most of mine have two holes
|
||
607 in 'em (if they gots holes in 'em). Then again, if mommy would stop
|
||
608 buying me those "tubes" and would go back to buying me some real sox,
|
||
609 I would only have to bother with one hole at a time! Tubes on feet?
|
||
610 Aw mommy, do I have to put up with this again??????????????????????????
|
||
611 _-_-_-_-_-_-_-_-_-_-_-_-_-_-_-_-_-_-_-_-_-_-_-_-_-_ abacab _-_-_-_-_-_-_
|
||
612 I was going to add something to that, but it's popular now. (chuckle)
|
||
613 _-_-_-_-_-_-_-_-_-_-_-_-_-_-_-_-_-_-_-_-_-_-_-_-_-_-_-_-_-_-_-_-_-_-_-_-_
|
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614
|
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615 Still awaiting further responce on the results of my formula.
|
||
616 Maybe I shall see more by the end of the day. --L. C. Kincaid
|
||
617
|
||
618
|
||
619 CISTOP: I've returned from america's paradise in the Virgin Islands (missnamed
|
||
620 I might add), temporarily to the land of the infinite illusion. I'll
|
||
621 call today some time to work out logistics. / capt'n barefoot /
|
||
622
|
||
623 in amoungst the rings of confusion
|
||
624 silencing the thought-powers one by one
|
||
625 it seems all so incredible...
|
||
626 our own ability
|
||
627 to confuse, to sacrifice, to enlighten
|
||
628 like the shakespearean play
|
||
629 we foolish(ly) and happily hold on to sanity -j&v
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