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1 If you are in need of help, you need but ask....
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2 ************************ INSTALLED: 14 JUL 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 L'homme: Next week (this week?) would be great. I think that the problem
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21 is some sort of weird go out and poke the code but not in a way that it
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22 will blow up completely type of bug. See you then.
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23 **************************** CISTOP MIKEY ******************************
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24
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25 Well, well... no need to say it is there?
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26 ~~~~~~~~~~~~~~
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27 SPACE SETTLER (Critters)
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28 by: Yang (Bob Asprin), Bob & Ann Passavoy, & Murry Porath
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29
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30 MUSIC: The Irish Washerwoman
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31
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32
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33 I'm an uncultured brawler, some call me a bore
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34 And if you don't like it, you'll land on the floor.
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35 There's nothing I'm liking so much as a fight
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36 Unless it is drinking and wenching all night.
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37
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38 Well, I eat critters for breakfast and stand seven-four
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39 My knuckles are hairy and drag on the floor,
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40 A typical member of our human race,
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41 The meanest damn critter that ever hit space.
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42
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43 CHORUS: Yo-de-oh-do de-oh-do de-oh-day-he
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44 Yo-de-oh-do de-oh-do de-oh-day-he
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45
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46 If you think that my accent is just a bit strange,
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47 The cause of it is just a wee bit deranged:
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48 My father's from Ireland, me mum's from the Moon
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49 And so by my lineage, I'm pure Irish Lune.
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50
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51 I was raised up on Venus, took schooling on Mars,
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52 Enlisted on Pluto, from there to the stars.
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53 I was discharged on Sigma, and so you can see
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54 That me and my accent are New Brooklynese.
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55
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56 CHORUS
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57
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58 I awoke the first morning and there in the door
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59 Was a critter with fangs like I'd ne'er seen before;
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60 That he's angry as blazes was easy to see;
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61 The big trouble was he was looking at me.
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62
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63 So I picked up the sofa and gave him a whack
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64 He crossed all three eyes and was knocked on his back.
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65 I came up with a razor; he said he was beat.
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66 Now he fetches my paper and sleeps at my feet.
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67
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68 CHORUS
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69
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70 There is one little warning I'd like to advance;
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71 If you walk in my garden, you're taking a chance.
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72 Carry large chunks of raw meat to feed to the plants
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73 And bring a flame thrower to use on the ants.
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74
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75 Now the lilacs have teeth and love dearly to chew;
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76 The snapdragon's nibble will cut you in two.
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77 I have many strange plants but the cream of the crew
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78 Is a rosebud whose sap tastes like Tullimore Dew.
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79
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80 CHORUS
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81
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82 Now some people have asked: as the stars I do roam
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83 If I never long for the man from back home?
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84 This pining away for a guy is such crap
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85 If you're horny enough, you just learn to adapt.
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86
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87 I have made it with guys who would curl up your hair,
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88 Both crouched in a tree and suspended in air.
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89 You just haven't made it until you have wailed
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90 With a guy with a forked tongue and prehensile tail.
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91
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92 CHORUS
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93
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94 Now I look kinda dirty and smell bad to boot;
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95 Your mother won't like me, your dad wants to shoot.
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96 Come live with me honey, we'll have us a brood
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97 Of three lovely children, both nasty and crude.
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98
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99 They'll stand six-foot-nine and weigh three-forty-two
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100 Eat raw horsemeat washed down with Tullimore Dew.
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101 Your friends will turn pale and their senses will whirl
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102 When we introduce them to our little girls.
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103
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104 CHORUS
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105 ~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~BARD~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~
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106 :::::=====:::::=====:::::=====:::::=====:::::=====:::::=====:::::=====:::::=====
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107 Rabbit's Run
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108 part #2
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109 Strider was the first to go in, along with Zephyr. Messenger stayed behind
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110 in case somethino approached while the two rabbits tried to pluck the sweet
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111 wet vegetables from the ground. He took a step back and immediately regretted it
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112 , wxat little time he had left to think.
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113 It was quick and the rabbit didn't feel a thing as the jaws clamped into
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114 him. He died as they bit him.
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115 "Messenger?" said Zephyr, walthough the sound was muffled by the carrot he
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116 held in his mouth. The dark shadows made the mood all the more solomn as
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117 the two saw what had happened to their best friend.
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118 "Zephyr!" Strider sobbed out, crying on the shoulder of the rabbit.
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119 "It's all right, Strider. Messenger's time has come, that's all."
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120 Strider turned away, sobbing, her whiskers became wet with the rain that
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121 was now even more steadily falling.
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122 "No it's NOT all right!" sxhe said, glaring at him, "I was lto lead this
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123 and I have failed!"
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124 "No...." he pushed her face up from it's downward position to make her
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125 face him, and once again he saw how trulybeutiful she was.
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126 "His time in this world was up. He has traversed the gap and is even now
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127 [BREAK]
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128 even now? Even now what? Don't leave us hanging! Hmm.... must
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129 have had a problem there.
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130 ''''''''''''''''''''''''''''''''''''''''''''''''''''''''''''''''''''''''''''''''
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131 \\\\\\\\\\\\\\\\\\\\\\\\\\\\\\\\\\\\\\\\\\\\\\\\\\\\\\\\\\\\\\\\\\\\\\\\
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132 ppppppppppppppppppppppppppplurking **SIGH** ppppppppppppppppppppppppppppppppppp
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133 CRASH,BANG,WALLOP!!!
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134
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135 :::::=====:::::=====:::::=====:::::=====:::::=====:::::=====:::::=====:::::=====
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136 All- Oops. I hate call waiting! Sorry about all that with leaving you in
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137 uspense and such, I'll begin this episode where that one was supposed to
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138 end.
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139 :::::=====:::::=====:::::=====:::::=====:::::=====:::::=====:::::=====:::::=====
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140 Rabbit's Run
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141 part #2 and a half
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142 "And is wishing even now that we'd go and do what we came here to do!"
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143 Strider looked up, to see the stars shine bright in the moonlit and silky clouded sky. Messenger was there,
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144 if you looked closely you'd see him.
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145 "I *sniff*...guess you're right. C'Mmon, let's gather the lettuce alone."
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146 T Zephyr agreed and the pair began to silently dig up the sweet lettuce from the soil. It was wet, but not
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147 muddy as yet, so the rabbits had an easier time getting at the radisxes,
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148 carrots, lettuce, beans, and other fresh vegetables thtat the soft ground had to
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149 offer. If they had had more time, they would take all the foodstuff from the
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150 ground. But time was the one thing that the rabbits had little of, for they
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151 knew that at any moment thate Human-who-makes-us-the-Truffles would
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152 come out of his burrow above ground and attack us with his bBANG twig. They worked feaverishly, picking the fd
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153 they needed.
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154 Their time just ran out.
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155 To be continued......
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156 All-You like so far??????
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157 :::::=====:::::=====:::::=====:::::=====:::::=====:::::=====:::::=====:::::=====
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158 p.s.: My name is Zephyr. Forgot to put it on the border above.
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1597 :::::=====:::::=====:::::=====:::::=====:::::=====:::::======:::::=====:::::=====
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160 Zephyr or whatever: Your story is weird!
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161 >>>>>>>>>>>>>>>>>>>>>>>>>>>>>>>>>OTIS<<<<<<<<<<<<<<<<<<<<<<<<<<<<<<<<<<<<<<<<
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162
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TO ALL:
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163
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164
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I would like to apologize on behalf of my kid-sister, "THE WIZ" or "THE TWIT"
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165
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whom you have so accurately renamed. She tends to be a more than a little abrupt and usually totally of-the-wall.
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166
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Sorry that she interupted your conversations and led to an argument, so lets getback to intelligent conve
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167
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conversations, is that OTAY with everybody? Could somebody tell me what I'm doing wrong to make my sentences get so br
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168
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oken up? Are any of you guys into BLOOM COUNTY? Maybe we can get Binkley's
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169
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closet of anxieties to move to my sister's abode and computer modems will haunt
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170
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her so bad that she won't touch it, what do you guys think. is that a great ideaor what?
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171 +=+=+=+=+=+=+=+=+=+=+=+=+=+=+=+=+=+=+
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172 Bloom county??? ever heard of it??? here's the answer in one little word, 'yes'"""""""
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173 It ain't no use,
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174 I cannot sleep...
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175 All up my back
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176 these chills do creep...
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177
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178 For in my room
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179 dark shapes I see!
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180 ( a chair, a lamp those shapes may be...)
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181 But now I think
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182 they are instead,
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183 shapes to fear!
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184 Shapes to dread!
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185
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186 Yes, who are you, you scary few?
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187 Are you things from my nightmare zoo?...
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188 Monsters and meanies in multiple twosomes?
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189 Nasties and beasties all toothsome and gruesome?
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190
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191 I know yer here! you haven't fled!
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192 Your goblin heads are there ahead!
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193 Now we'll see who spreads such dread...
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194
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195 ...A heap of lawyers atop my bed!
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196 +=+=+=+=+=+=+=+=+=+=+=+=+=+=+=+=+=+=+=+=+=+=+=+
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197 /'/'/'/'/'/'/'/'/'/'/'/'/'/'/'/'/'/'/'/
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198 Wiz: is there any other boards that you call
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199 that would have private mail? I would like to
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200 talk to you...
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201 /'/'/'/'/'/'/'/'/'/'/'/'/'/'/'/'/'/'/'/Wave.
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202
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203
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204 ==================================================================
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205 WHAT IS A TWIT?
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206 Among other things, a twit is a person who uses the bbs's too frequently,
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207 leaves many stupid, pointless messages, and uses aliases. Is Twittishness
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208 incurable?: Once a twit, always a twit? Witness the situation where someone
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209 recently couldn't get respect under any of a half-dozen aliases. It shows
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210 through even in the rarified atmosphere of this bbs.
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211 But maybe it is curable. Wait 10 years, and the kid will either grow up,
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212 or move away, or find some other way to amuse himself.
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213
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214 SOME WARNING SIGNS
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215 This handy quiz will help you determine if you (or someone you know) is a
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216 TWIT.
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217
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218 Question 1: Do you call the same bbs more than twice a day?
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219 Score: 0 for Never. 1 for Sometimes (once per month). 3 for often.(once per
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220 week)
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221
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222 Question 2: Do you use different aliases on the same system?
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223 Score 0 for Never. 1 for 1 alias. 3 for 2 aliases. 5 for 3 aliases.
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224 Add a point if you have aliases on more than one board.
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225
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226 Question 3: Assuming your answer to 2: is not 0, Do you abandon an alias
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227 after you've manages to piss of the other users of the system.
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228 Score 1 if No, 2 if yes.
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229
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230 Question 3: Do you enter more than 2 messages to a person in one day?
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231 Score 0 for Never, 1 for sometimes, 2 for Once a week.
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232
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233 Question 4: Would you be embarrassed if everyone knew your scores on
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234 questions 1,2, 3, and 4 above? (especially 1)
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235 Score 0 if No. Score 3 if yes.
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236
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237 Scoring: 0: You are not a twit. There is no prospect in your becoming a
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238 twit in the near future.
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239 1-3 You do quite well. Keep up the good work.
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240 4-5 Twit Alert: You are developing twit-like tendencies.
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241 6-7 Twit Warning! Twit Warning! You are in severe danger of becoming
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242 a TWIT.
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243 8-16 YOU ARE A TWIT. Hang up the phone right now and leave the rest
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244 of us alone.
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245
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246 ========================================================================
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247 "="="="="="="="="="="="="="="="="="="="="="="="="="="="="="="="="="="="
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248 Txahank Goodness! I score a 1! That means that I'm not a twit, I hope.
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249 Of course, there is always the slight chance that when I turn myself o
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250 off at night my Chameleon circuit, mabye due to an electrical short or
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251 some crazy malfunction, turns me into a hideous twit thing:
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252 Beta Unit
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253 And Mr. Twirt
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254 *That sxould read -twit-* . I can see it all now! I'd get rich and be a
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255 able to buy a nice hut in the southern Islands where Hawiian girls would
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256 play sweet songs on coconut insturments. Alas, sadly, we Beta Units are
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257 forbidden to get rich. Too bad. It'd make a great movie, wouldn't it?
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258 "="="="="="="="="="="="="="="="="="BETA UNIT "="="="="="="="="="="="="="=
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259 WIZ: quit using ctrl-S as a delay character! It locks up some terminals.
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260 If you must use a delay char, use NULL (ctrl-@, 00H) or if your terminal
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261 can't send that, then use ctrl-A.
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262 As for the broken sentences, this isn't a wordprocessor! There are only so
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263 many characters per line (set by the MA command). Type HELP to get more
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264 info about the commands. If the system won't let you enter all of a word
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265 you are at the end of the line (which may not be anywhere near the end of
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266 the line on your screen! If you can't get all of a word on the line, use
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267 your backspace key to erase the partial word & then re-enter the word after
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268 sending a carriage return.
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269 Twit-hater: you *are* acting rather twitly yourself. You aren't signing
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270 your msgs (counts as 5-10 points on the alias question). You have called
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271 at least three times since this time last night. Since you have already
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272 made you views clear, you also get points for 'boring, pointless msgs'.
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273 All: I rather like the definition of 'twit' that I heard a while back.
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274 Rumor has it that PAM came up with it.
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275 TWIT - someone who does obnoxious things because they don't know any
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276 better.
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277 JERK - someone who knows better, but does it anyway.
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278
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279 The Wiz *may* be a twit. The anonymous twit hater is starting to look like
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280 a candidate for jerkdom. By the way, unless I missed something, The Wiz's
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281 older sibling never said anything that would indicate his/her sex...
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282 _____________________________Leonard_______________________________________
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283 ''[[------=<DARK AVENGER>=------]] ``
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284 Well did it again chaged my boreder oh well
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285 Rabbit:Very good story, keep it up...
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286 Well as for the twits why don't we just drop the twit
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287 conversation they'll grow up one of these days,maybe not
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288 who knows...well how many of you would like me to do a story
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289 on here. Well probably not a whole lot right? Well I hope some
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290 of you do because I would like to get to know alot of you guys
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291 (Not the twits) because I'm new on these story boards...well
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292 thanks alot
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293 ''[[------=<DARK AVENGER>------]] ``
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294
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295 Leonard made an interesting, though false, assumption: he assumed that the
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296 "twit-hater" messages above were all written by the same person. ("You have
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297 already called 3 times since last night.") I know that to be untrue. All
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298 legitimate users of this system have a reason to shun twits, and it is like
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299 y that many would comment if they felt that their comments would do any god
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300 (good.)
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301 I don't sign this message because I don't want to permanently draw the ire
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302 of the people who are the targets of anti-twit messages: Even twits can
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303 be reformed and when they are, we can still be friends. As long as they
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304 know they need to change, they don't need to know where the advice came
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305 from.
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306 ----------------------------------------------------------------------
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307 .-.-.-.-.-.-.-.-.-.-.-.-.-.-.-.-.-.-.-.-.-.-.-.-.-.-.
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308
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309 L'homme: You are in need of a TEK 4010 graphics terminal? This is for your
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310 485 project, right? How about using the 4107 in 4010 mode? Call me for
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311 details... I receintly was given a Programmers Reference Guide for the 4107
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312 and you are welcome to peruse it. By the way, how are my disks coming?
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313
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314 .-.-.-.-.-.-.-.-.-.-.-.-.-.-.-.-.-.-.-.-.-.-.-.-.-.-.-.Emu
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315 `,`,`,`,`,`,`,`,`,`,`,`,`,`,`,`,`,`,`,`,`,`,`,
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316 Emu... I just called and couldn't get it to do very much. I did find a
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317 command 'call' that with put together with different numbers seems to search
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318 for different. I don't know. 'Call 1203' does something. I also observed
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319 that certain letters would pause for further entry. Usually you could hit
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320 space and it will continue but for some letters it seems to give you a chance.
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321 Seems like a chalange, I just wish it wasn't long distance from my home...
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322 Good luck with it!
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323 `,`,`,`,`,`,`,`,`,`,`,`,`,`,`,`,`,`Mark,`,`,`,
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324
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325 -+-
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326 -+- Here I go again.
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327 -+- -+- -+- -+- -+- -+- -+- -+- -+- -+- -+- -+- -+-
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328 As far as the subject of 'hating' goes, indeed it is a delicate one.
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329 Severe 'dislike' has even made it's nasty way into even this establishment.
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330 I can't say that I'm doing anything in the way of returning this to the
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331 famed storyboard we all know this to be, but a small piece of mind is some-
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332 thing I must give before I allow it to pass. (Go ahead, make jokes. I can
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333 handle it.) From whence I came, not a soul would say a word to a new face
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334 within these walls unless provoked by the new one. Now the new ones are
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335 the subject of inconceivably large amounts of what I call 'hate-mail'. Has
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336 the Inn changed so drastically(sp) in the past year? It reminds me of the
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337 story of the young and old trees growing in the forest... Once there was
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338 a time when the land was clear, nothing to be seen for miles. When man
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339 came along, he decided to over the land, portions of it, with healthy young
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340 sapling. Years had passed and the saplings grew to be tall, strong trees.
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341 Generations had passed and their children had decided that it was time to
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342 contribute to the massive glade of trees, in tradition with their ancestors.
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343 The younger saplings were planted around the older trees and amoungst them.
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344 Sad as it was, the younger ones within the glade had died, for they had
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345 been starved of their right to the Sun's life giving rays. The older trees
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346 continued in their existance since they were already able to reach the rays
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347 although the younger ones could not.
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348 Have we become so arogant as to portray the way of the older ones?
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349 Denying the younger ones their right where we were once allowed to grow?
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350 Lord knows that I've been given more than my fair share of tolerance here.
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351 I don't think it would make any difference if I were to suggest transposing
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352 one's self with the newer ones to see what they are going through...
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353 No, I guess it wouldn't. But you have to give them credit for their
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354 persistance and unending will to grow. But then, that's why you 'hate'
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355 them, isn't it? How little we learn, how soon we forget...
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356 -+- -+- -+- -+- -+- -+- -+- -+- -+- -+- -+- -+- -+-
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357 T.F. It works! (Although not as well when on-line.) Thank you greatly
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358 for your continued belief in me.
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359 -+- -+- -+- -+- -+- -+- -+- -+- -+- -+- -JUGGLER- -+-
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360 ch /over/cover/
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361 ch /current frame of mind/something better/
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362 -+-
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363
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364 ppppppppppppppppppppppppppppppppppppppppppppppppppppppppppppppppppppppppppppp
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365 Juggler -- I think you'll find that most of the "hate mail" does not come
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366 from those who have been "established" users of this system. Most of the
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367 old-timers here have been through one or two long hot summers. The problem
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368 is, of course, access. When a person is so lacking in self-worth or
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369 self-image that they have no constructive outlets, it is easy to indulge in
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370 anti-social acts. This can range from running down the sidewalk sticking out
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371 your tounge at your reflection to climbing to a high place with a high-power
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372 rifle and supply of ammunition -- extremes on the scale of behaviour.
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373 The more juvinile actions are easier to ignore -- just consider the ignorance
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374 that it exposes on the part of the perpitrator. If you get too far to the
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375 more serious extreme, the problem tends to be self-limiting -- the genes for
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376 that family line tend to be eliminated from the gene pool. For those who are
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377 somewhere in the vast middle, I don't know of any quick fixes -- they simply
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378 have to get bored with what they're doing. Hopefully they haven't gotten
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379 too deeply mired in a pattern of behaviour to be salvageable. It's time to
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380 just sit back and let most of this pass. **SIGH**
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381 pppppppppppppppppppppppppppppppppppppppppppppppppppppppppppppppppppppppppppp
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382 +++++hopingcurrentphasepassesquickly,thisisgettingdownrightdepressing++ Milch +
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383
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384 +++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++
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385 As the Innkeeper was awaken from his rather disturbed and dark sleep by
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386 the loud bickering within the Inn's common room. He became just a bit
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387 upset. Pulling on his cloths, he stepped into the common's and in his
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388 best authoritive voice he could must at such an early hour of the morning.
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389 "Enough!" I shall not have this bickering in my Inn! Take it elsewhere!"
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390 With that he began to heave great quanities of garbage out the rear door
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391 and onto the trash heap behind the Inn.
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392 You are welcome to enjoy the pleasures of the Inn, but I will not tolerate
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393 such behavior. Act in a reasonable and respectful manor, and I would be
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394 happy to have you as a patron. I will not however allow this bickering
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395 and squabling to continue.
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396 "What a mess, I can see this is going to take a while to clean up."
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397 +++++++++++++++++++++++++++++ The Innkeeper +++++++++++++++++++++++++++++
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398 :::::=====:::::=====:::::=====:::::=====:::::=====:::::=====:::::=====::::
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399 Juggler- An honorable intent, though I wonder if it isn't the young satree
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400 that decides to steal the nutrients from the ground.......
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401 Emu- You 're a chair, right?
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402 L'Homme(sp)-What does your name mean?
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403 Dark Avenger-I wouldn't put a story up as yet, it seems that miost of the
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404 patrons are expecting super-stories. Wait a while and then try writing one
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405 that we can enjoy.
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406 Milchar- Where are you? Come on out of "lurk" mode, please!
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407 :::::=====:::::=====:::::=====:::::=====:::::=====:::::=====:::::=====::::
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408 Rabbit'S Run
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409 part #4
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410 The sound of the large door opening and the strange words of the human
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411 signaled that their time had just run out.
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412 "Quickly!" whispered Zephyr, "Gather all you can and hurry away!"
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413 "Right!" said Strider, taking hold of some delicious radishes, andd
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414 running through the large grasses of the path, her heart pounding as one
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415 foot followed the otheHer fur glistened as the rain that had been
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416 held back in the clouds pourned down, making it even more difficult. They
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417 heard the sound of the bang TWIG, and a pellet from it whizzed past, m
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418 causing Strider to panic. She fell as the pellet shot past. She didn't
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419 realize that the pellet was going to miss. The yells of the Human and
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420 more pellets shot at their delicate ears, and they ran for all their
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421 heart.
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422 "*puff* ....Do you think he'll catch upwith us...*pant!*"
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423 "I doubt..*puff*...it, we have a pretty good xead start!"
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424 The two rabbits raced past, ignoring the whirling colors of the forest
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425 as they went.
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426 The human's sound got closer, then the sound of a Baying omne being
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427 held by him. The rabbit's only needed one chance to escape , but it was
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428 as if the earth had swallowed all the familiar escape routes, as if the
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429 shadow of night had covered the burrows with a thick layer of darkness and
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430 invisibility. Even the rabbit'S keen senses couldn't detect any means of
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431 escape.
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432 And that's when the human found them...
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433 (to be continued......)
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434 All-About my story, you like it?
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435 ::Should I continue it?
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436 :::::=====:::::=====:::::=====:::::====
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437 :::::=====:::::=====:::::=====:::::=====
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438 Whoops. Add the name ZEPHYR to my border above!
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439 :::::=====:::::=====:::::=====:::::=Zephyr:::=====:::::=====:::::=====::::
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440 *"*"*"*"*"*"*"*"*"*"*"*"*"*"*"*"*"*"*"*"*"*"*"*"*"*"*"*"*"*"*"*"*"*"*"*"*
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441 Bunny: Nice so far, I just wish it were all legible. I have a terrible
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442 time trying to read it.
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443 Zancresta the ferret
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444 "*"*"*"*"*"*"*"*""*"*"*"*"*"*"*"*"*"*"*"*"*"*"*"*"*"*"*"*"*"*"*"*"*"*"*"*"
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445 TWIT ADVENTURE
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446
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447 Once upon a time there lived a nice little Twit his name
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448 was George. George the Twit people called him. One day
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449 after school some of his friends were picking on him then
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450 the next day they picked on him some more. Poor Twit.Never getting enough..
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451 But this Twit was a different Twit. He was proud of being
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452 a Twit. One day after school his friends beat up on him again.
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453 But this didn't stop the Twit! He went and told the principal.
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454 and the principal said "Shut up Twit Go back from where you came!"
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455 This made poor George very angrey. He sat home and cried
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456 all day. He even missed his dinner. George didn't ever miss
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457 his dinner. So after school one day his friends were beating
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458 him up. He went to the principal again.
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459 George decided to go to the principal the next day and
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460 so he did.
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461 The principal told him that he was not a Twit only
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462 the principal was wrong he told him he was a NERD!!!!
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463 This made George really mad. He ran around three
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464 times and then cried all night. And missed his dinner
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465 again. His parents really didn't care because they knew
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466 they were Twits too. But tGeorge was determend to find out
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467 what went wrong here He got on his tricycle and peddled down
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468 to his friends house(the ones that were picking on him) and
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469 then he took his base ball mallet and rang the door bell while
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470 holding the base ball mallet ready for battle.
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471 George went over to their house and said 'ALLRIGHT WHY DO
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472 YOU GUYS KEEP BOSSING ME AROUND I'M NOT A TWIT OR A NERD YOU
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473 ALL ARE>!!"
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474 (TWIT TO BE CONTINUED NEXT WEEK)
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475 Anybody got more straight jackets?
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476
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477 *******************************************************************
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478 L'HOMME: ANY EST ON WHEN YOU'LL GET BACK OUT TO USD? JUST WONDERING....
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479 ************************** CISTOP MIKEY *********************************
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480
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481 hello there everyone.this is s.s.weed from R.I. hows it out therre?
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482 Going okay s.s.weed. Goin' okay.
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483 Dark Avenger: go ahead and try a story. It helps if the spelling and
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484 punctuation are correct, but it isn't *necessary*. If no one jumps down
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485 your throat, then we probably like the story...
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486 ___________________________Leonard_________________________________________
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487 ++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++
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488 A few minutes later, I found myself at the door to the Danger Room. The Doctor
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489 had felt the need for an 'exercise' area between adventures; the DR was the
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490 ultimate in work-out equipment. It could be set at three levels, and for
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491 countless scenarios. L1 was harmless mode- all targets and projectiles were
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492 holograms, phantoms. L2 was the 'minimal danger' mode- all devices were set
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493 to stun, not injure, the occupants. Lastly, L3- 'near-lethal' mode. It wasn't
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494 used much, but it was there. Theoretically, all devices would stop blasting
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495 when someone's vital signs went too far out of kilter. Of course, we'd only
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496 tested this once, when the DR was being built.
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497 As I stepped through the threshold, I saw the last images of a simulation
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498 fading away. Grann lay motionless near the middle of the white expanse of
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499 floor, and the Doctor sat smirking a little in the Control booth, 40 feet away.
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500 "Let me guess, you ran number 437, didn't you, Doctor?"
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501 "How'd you know? That gnome sure is a tough target. Kept popping out all over
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502 the place just as the computer had him in its sights. Had to resort to the
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503 fireball effect to get him. It wasn't bad, though. Look, he's getting up now."
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504 Number 437, on L2. As we programmed the DR some time ago, we included
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505 simulations of ourselves. The Doctor did mine, of course, and I did his.
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506 That way, vanity wouldn't get the best of us. 437 was the 'Milchar' program,
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507 the one where I was portrayed as throwing fireballs around like rice at a
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508 wedding. I had told him that it would be a terrible effort for me just to get
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509 one small fireball going, as it wasn't my specialty, much less dozens. He
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510 hadn't listened, and the program remained the same.
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511 Grann stirred. A faint moan floated about the DR. I helped him with a hand
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512 up, and saw that although he was dazed, he wasn't seriously hurt. "Enough,
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||
513 Doctor, Come in here and see the results."
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||
514 A few moments later, he was in the DR and puzzling out the printout.
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515 "Paratemporal? What in the 4 dimensions is Paratemporal?"
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516 "Ah, Doctor, that is one of the 4 ways to travel. You know about two already-
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517 Spatial and Temporal. Movement in space and movement forward and backward in
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518 time. There are two more, totaling 6 dimensions, not 4."
|
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519 "What are they, then?"
|
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520 "Planal, for one. Your technological plane is quite different from the one
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521 on which I originated. Magic still works though, thank Amigc. There are an
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522 infinite number of other existances, a different from one another."
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523 "And the last?"
|
||
524 "ParaTemporal. Travelling SIDEWAYS in time."
|
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525 "Sideways? I do believe you have a screw loose, Milch."
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526 "Not at all, not at all. Listen. At any point in time, decisions are made
|
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527 that affect the course of future history. If, however, a decision is made
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528 another way instead of the way that we are used to, the universe changes, if
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529 by a skull-splittingly small amount. True?"
|
||
530 "Well, yes..."
|
||
531 "All right, if many such changes of decision occur in the past, then more
|
||
532 radical departures from the 'norm' occur. Paratemporal travelling cuts ACROSS
|
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533 the lines of time that are formed by momentous decisions, allowing travel to
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534 places that MIGHT HAVE BEEN, but weren't in our 'normal' line. Have I defined
|
||
535 paratemporal accurately enough for you?"
|
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536 "I believe so. This printout says we must go to one of these 'other' Earths?"
|
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537 "Yes, but I have no idea how changed this Earth is from the one we're used to.
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538 I usually restrict myself to Spatial and Planal travel, the others tend to
|
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539 muck up the continuum a bit. Tell you what, I'll seize this opprotunity to
|
||
540 teach Grann the spell required to go across the lines, and you just let the
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541 box drag to to the proper Space/Time coordinates. We'll soon have an answer
|
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542 to your little mystery."
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||
543 ++++++++++++++++++++++++ Milchar ++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++
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544 @@@@@@@@@@@@@@@@@@@@@@@@@@@@@@@
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545 THANKS MILCHAR, I THINK THAT
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546 STORY WAS JUST WHAT THE INN
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547 NEEDS THESE DAYS. (STORIES
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548 NOT ARGUMENTS).
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549
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550 MAX...
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551 @@@@@@@@@@@@@@@@@@@@@@@@@@@@@@@
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552
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553 :::::::::::::::::::::::::::::::::::::::::::::::::::::::::::::::
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554 From Prometheus; Ironic
|
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555 I have said it before, and most likely, I'll say it again;
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556 things would be a lot better if people would simply continue
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557 with life, instead of brooding over everything.
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558 ::::::::::::::::::::::::::::::0:::::::::::::::::::0::::::::::::
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559 \\\\\\\\\\\\\\\\\\\\\\\\\\\\\\\\\\\\\\\\\\\\\\\\\\\\\\\\\\\\\\\\\\\\\\\\\
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560 <+><+><+><+><+><+><+><+><+><+><+><+><+><+><+><+><+><+><+><+><+><+><+><+>
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561 "*" - thanks.
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562 WIZ and/or FRED - Please take it easy on the space wasting, thanks.
|
||
563 Human/Animal folk - Animals are after all called animals....
|
||
564 Leonard - Even though it was dwn/up loaded it was *first raterate*
|
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565 sorry for line 605...It may lock a few terminals out in terminal land.
|
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566 please also CH/raterate/rate/
|
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567 cont- The Vader/MC gold is somethin I would really like to see in
|
||
568 commerical <sp?> land.
|
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569 <+><+><+><+><+><+><+><+><timetoshutup><+><+><+><+><+> dan <+><+><+><+><+>
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570 [/] [/] [/] [/] [/] [/] [/] [/] [/] [/] [/] [/] [/] [/] [/] [/] [/] [/] [/]
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571 ^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^ (...)
|
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572
|
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573 -+- -+- -+- -+- -+- -+- -+- -+- -+- -+- -+- -+- -+-
|
||
574 Ah, but don't you see? There is nothing to 'steal' here, for it is
|
||
575 all free for the reading! And I'm darn thankful that it is!
|
||
576 Piper, I'm glad to see that you still remain. Whatever the atmosphere...
|
||
577 I suppose what you say is true, I should realize such things. As much as
|
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578 I'd like to discuss this matter more, I know a dead issue when I see too
|
||
579 much of it. And I have. Back and forth the topics fly,
|
||
580 as do the bags of the
|
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581 -+- -+- -+- -+- -+- -+- -+- -+- -+- -JUGGLER- -+- -+-
|
||
582
|
||
583 <+><+><+><+><+><+><+><+><+><+><+><+><+><+><+><+><+><+><+><+><+><+><+><+><+>
|
||
584 Piper - Do you by any chance live in the Milwaukie area? This is the second
|
||
585 summer in a row that I have heard the sounds of THE pipes...
|
||
586 <+><+><+><+><+><+><+><+><+><+><+> just curious <+><+><+><+> dan <+><+><+><+>
|
||
587 And carefully in the quiet of the new dawn does one see that life is still
|
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588 in him. Wearily, he lifts his gaze to see that she has not returned. sigh >G
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