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1 If you are in need of help, you need but ask....
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2 ************************* INSTALLED: 24 JAN 87 ***********************
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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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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 All articles that coruscate with resplendence are not truly auriferous.
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21 ***********************************************************************
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22 Friar: I suspect that a 6 year single term would only make the situation
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23 worse. A big problem now is that cme the second term the president really
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24 has no need to do things the way the majority of the people want him too.
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25 He can't get re-elected, and there is no place else to go after being
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26 the president that is of any importance. As a result, there is no reason
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27 for them to do what the people want. At least with a four year term there
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28 is some degree of acountability required if they expect to get reelected.
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29 I think that the real problem is that they just slack off after the 2nd
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30 election because they don't have to worry about getting re-elected, and
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31 so don't care if they get in trouble. There is always the talk that he
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32 has to do good so that the party will look good and win more seats in the
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33 next election, but that is the party promoters speaking and not the
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34 individual. Maybe what we really need is not a 6 year term, but a 2 year
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35 re-election term. Now some say that a 2 year term would be disruptive,
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36 That the president couldn't get anything done since he would have to
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37 always keep his nose clean for the upcoming election, but that is the
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38 idea behind it. As for it not giving the president enough time to get
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39 anyting done, I disagree with that, since if he was kicked out after
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40 only two years, it means that the people didn't want hom doing what he
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41 was doing anyway. So it gives them an oportunity to get rid of him before
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42 he does too much damage. If he was re-elected though, then nothing is
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43 disrupted since he remains in office and can continue with what he was
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44 doing. The other thing I would like to see is an upper age limit.
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45 Let's say around 70. There are several problems with someone over 75
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46 being in that position. The first is that it is very demanding and
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47 stressful. Though that isn't a reason to disallow the person of itself,
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48 but the other is that the persons views about the world and the way
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49 things should be is different than the majority of those who he is
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50 supposed to be representing. This creates conflicts. With the threat
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51 of re-election hanging infront of them, that surpresses the urge to
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52 ignore what the general populance wants and do what he wants. But
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53 come that final term, he is old, doesn't care what others think, so
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54 he does what he wants and to hell with the people he is supposedly
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55 running the country for.
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56 *********************************************************************
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57 Hey! Let's elect Pat Robertson! We *know* what he's in it for. The money!
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58 ++++++++++++++++++++++++ fred ++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++
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59 $$$$$$$$$$$$$$$$$$$$$$$$$$$$$$$$$$$$$$$$$$$$$$$$$$$$$$$$$$$$$$$$$$$$$$$$$$
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60
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61
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62 T0 Day in this land there lives among us, some folks who are stupid.
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63
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64 The time has certainly come where the re-election process needs
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65 revamping. I agree, electing a U.S. President today is a waste of precious
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66 time and $. Changing the term of office will not change this.
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67
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68 Fundamentally, men are selfish. If they can achieve their goal through
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69 the unrestricted use of money, in support of "their" candidate, they will!
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70 This we have already seen.
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71
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72 [A[A[A[A[A[A [C[C[C[C[C[C[C[C[C[C[C[C[C[C[C[C[C[C t
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73
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74 [A[A[C[C[C[C[C[C[C[C[C[C[C[C[C[C[C[C[C[C[C[C[C[C[C[Cth
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75
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76 [Atime and $.
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77
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78
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79
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80 [C[C[C[C[C[C[C[C[C[C[C[C[C[C[C[C[C[C[C[C[C[C[C[C[n
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81
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82 In part I concur, perhaps limiting the election process to one six
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83 year term without the possibility of re-election would alleviate the
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84 Lame Duck syndrome.
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85 ???????????????????????????????????BOZO???????????????????????????????????
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86 Bozo: Please do not use your cursor keys to edit messages! The result may
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87 be ok on *your* screen, but it is just garbage on most screens. The system
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88 merely stores those ESC sequences. And most users are *not* using equipment
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89 that supports ANSI controls.
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90 If you make a mistake on line you are *stuck* with it. You might try
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91 composing offline and then uploading. To upload to BW your software should
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92 either send a char, and wait for the echo before sending the next char. Or
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93 send a line and wait for you to prompt it to send the next line.
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94 It is possible to upload by using intercharacter and interline delays, but
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95 I have no idea what the required values are.
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96 ____01/24/87__________Leonard_JD 2446820.3621_________12:41:30_PST_________
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97 Sigh... and then depression set in.
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98 lurk...lurk...lurk...
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99 *******************************************************************************.P
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100 Probably *THE* major problem with the re-election process is the process itself.
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101 The fact that every four years we have to stop, change gears, try to do two
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102 things at once and expect some measure of success is more than the people can
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103 be expected to endure. Even in high school we were aware that the best form
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104 of government is a "benevolent dictatorship." The trick here is to keep it
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105 benevolent. Over the years a variety of methods have been suggested, but to
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106 date the only way that might keep a ruler honest is the threat of revolution.
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107 Any country that truly fears revolution takes drastic steps to disarm the
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108 populace (the examples are too numerous to bother listing.) Perhaps our
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109 president should be elected for life, as is the pope, but the general public
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110 al of arms. Admittedly, at first we
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111 would see a huge proliferation of weapons that would have only "macho" power.
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112 In time people would cut back their could
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113 reasonably afford. Perhaps we might
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114 also bring back dueling. It isn't as far-fetched as it sounds. Corporate
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115 executives might consider their actions a bit more if the penalty for injuring
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116 people financially could cost them
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117 their lives. Corporate ethics might then more nearly match personal ethics.
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118 *************** THE COURT JESTER *********************************************
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119 O\=<([V2V])>=/O
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120 @@@@@@@@@@@@@@@@@@@@@@@@@@@@@@@@@@@@@@@@@@@@@@@@@@@@@@@@@@@@@@@@
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121 Challenging people to duels? Could be interesting, especially if FCC
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122 passes the new packet switching regulation. I doubt if many of the
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123 people on that committie would last long....
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124 Let's look at the president issue from another viewpoint. What made
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125 ,no, makes a good president. With what we have now, we have someone who
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126 distributes athority, but still has a strong leadership image (note that
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127 may or may not be only an image, but it is the image itself which is
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128 important). Who coming up has these qualities? ANY of them? It sure
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129 dosent look like we're going to have many people worth voting for int
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130 ,scratch that last, in the next election.
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131 Any comments?
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132 Fast Fred
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133 BSAL (ret)
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134 @@@@@@@@@@@@@@@@@@@@@@@@@@@@@@@@@@@@@@@@@@@@@@@@@@@@@@@@@@@@@@@@@@@@@@@
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135 NO COMMENT
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136
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137 ____01/25/87__________________JD 2446821.3867_________13:16:57_PST_________
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138 ----------------------------------------
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139 Distributes authority you say, well if
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140 the current situation is any indication
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141 he distributes it so far that he has
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142 no idea of what is going on. Or worse
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143 knows what is going on and expects
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144 loyal followers to take his falls for
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145 him. Thats cheap in my book.
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146
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147 DOD
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148 ----------------------------------------
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149 .-.-.-.-.-.-.-.-.-.-.-.-.-.-.-.-.-.-.-.-.-.-.-.-.-.-.-.-.-.-.-.-.-.-.Emu
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150 pppppppppppppppppppppppppppppppppppppppppppppppppppppppppppppppppppppp
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151 On a slightly different note -- it's lambing season. Spring is on
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152 its way and the little lambs are coming. For someone who raises sheep,
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153 it's a time of hard work and reward. The miracle of birth is just that,
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154 a miracle. Sometimes, however, it turns into a tragedy. It takes little
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155 empathy to feel for a newborn creature rejected by its mother. That happens
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156 too. I recieved a call last night from a neighbor who was lambing and had
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157 a little bum lamb (one orphaned or rejected by its mother). The little
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158 critter was weak and the neighbor did not have time to hand raise it
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159 (there is a limit to the work one person can do). Last night was the night
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160 of the midnight run to the neighbor's, coming home with a weak little
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161 bundle of tight-curled wool held tight in my daughter's arms. The little
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162 critter was so weak that it could hardly get down a couple of ounces of
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163 sweetened warm milk.
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164 A couple of ounces was enough, though, with the encouragement of a
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165 six year old cheering squad. First a couple of ounces, then a couple more.
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166 This morning it drank three ounces and had a lot more strength. There's
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167 something very satisfying about seeing life come back to a nearly dead
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168 critter, as well as the glow in the face of a little girl that helped.
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169 pppppppppppppppppppppppppppppppppppppppppppppppppppppppppppppppppppppp
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170 ____01/26/87__________________JD 2446822.6069_________18:34:04_PST_________
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171
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172
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173
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174 To: All Users,
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175
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176 For sale. 1 205mm Zoom lens,
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177 made by Vivitar. This lens will work
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178 with virtualy any 35mm camera, with
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179 the common snap on mount.
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180
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181 This lens is in mint cond. with
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182 no scratches mars or other blemish
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183 type things on the lens itself or
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184 on it's hansomly styled exterior.
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185
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186 ---------- Price: $80.0-----------
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187
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188 If intrested contact, Mark Landers
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189 at (503) 771-0767. Or leave a message
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190 here.
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191
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192 Thank You!
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193 Mark Landers
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194
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195 ###########################################################################
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196 I can only assume that a "Do Not File" document is filed in
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197 a "Do Not File" file.
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198 Senator Frank Church
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199 Senate Intelligence Subcommittee
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200 Hearing 1975.
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201 ###########################################################################
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202 -------------------------------------------------------------------
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203
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204 Amazing, truly amazing ...
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205 When a true view of the current situation is presented our
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206 dear Corpulent Francis has little to say on the matter. Shows the
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207 truth of his thinking I'd guess.
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208
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209 DOD
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210 -------------------------------------------------------------------
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211 -=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=
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212 exit
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213 Who is the more corpulent. The corpulent or the one who calls him so?
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214 LoafRumLoafRumafRum
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215 Do any of you have a name for the
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216 tende~cy to type words`like "loaf"
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217 or Rum instead of Load or`Run?
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218 ------=-----------m---------------=-----------=----------------------------
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219 I used to be plagued by 'RUM' commands back when I was 8 years old and had
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220 my first TRS-80 model I. I found a cure: I learned to typw.
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221
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222 -=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=
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223 ++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++
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224 Not long afterwards (so it seemed to me), I awoke in a room that was part of a
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225 building of fitted stone blocks, decorated with what could only be art (it was
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226 at least as good as the types of art that humans were used to), and a few
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227 simple furnishings. The bed in which I lay was constructed more like a bird's
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228 nest than anything else.
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229 Looking to the open window, I noted that I had been mistaken about the time;
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230 I had slept the remainder of the day and through the night, it seemed. The
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231 sun had just cleared the horizon, throwing a reddish tint onto the world All.
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232 Yob stood quietly at the door, puffing away at something in a manner quite
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233 similiar to the habit of humans with tobacco. "Feeling better, Erhuman?"
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234 "Much better, thank you, Yob. Your world has a lovely sunrise."
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235 "Harumph. They pale when compared to sunsets, Erhuman. Perhaps you are lucky
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236 today and enjoy its passing this night. The Healer says you recover well, much
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237 faster than Peepul. Soon fit enough to travel, return to your home if needful."
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238 "I hope I shall enjoy your sunset, Yob. I thank you and the Healer for your
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239 care. I hope I may repay your kindness in some way."
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240 "Again harumph. No need for repay. But I am curious about your world, your
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241 own land. Is it very much like All?"
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242 I sighed. "Not as much like as I'd like, Yob. It seems to get better, then
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243 worse...not really like All at all."
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244 Yob frowned. "Why stay? Must be better places. Go there, or stay here."
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245 This was going to be difficult to explain. "I stay because... I have, a gift,
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246 Yob, a rare gift that I feel I must use to help my people, or anyone in need
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247 of help. I have a power, both inborn and taught to me...I shall show you."
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248 I cupped my hands together, concentrating upon the flow of mystical energies,
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249 blotting out Yob and the sunlight and my pain...
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250 Nothing. Nothing!
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251 "Mighty Amigc... failed! I have not failed in casting this spell since my
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252 apprenticeship! Not in any reality, no matter how remote, has it ceased to
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253 work as it was intended... it is based on the simplest laws of magic! This
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254 means.." I stopped.
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255 "This means I'm stranded."
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256 ++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++ Milchar ++++++ January 27, 1987 at 12:44am ++
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257 O\=<([V2V])>=/O
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258 --------------------------------------
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259
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260 Why have elections? What the Americans need to do is have a Lotto
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261 for president game. Now what you do is buy a Lotto for President
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262 game card around November 2nd. You know the kind you scrach off
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263 Then you turn on your tv set on to channel 6 at 7:00 p.m. on sat.
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264 January 15th and if they draw your number you become president.
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265 Just think, first of all since it would be an interstate game
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266 it would be federaly run, which stands to reason. Second of all
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267 the president is usually a figure head of government so who gives
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268 if they are incompetent, so anyone can win!
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269 Last but not least there are over 230.5 million people in the US
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270 and just think of the of the money brought into the federal govt.
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271 at a buck a ticket, not to mentioned election spending.
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272 signed HARRY CARRY.
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273 --------------------------------------------------------------------
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274 ____01/27/87__________________JD 2446823.7452_________21:53:17_PST____
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275 -------------------------------------------------------------------
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276 And the lucky winner is ... Corpulent Francis ... Oh god!!
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277 Where is my ticket to Canada!!!
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278 DOD
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279 -------------------------------------------------------------------
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280
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281 --
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282 | DOD, I think you are being harsh
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283 | on the user that you keep calling
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284 | `Corpulent Francis'
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285 | While he may seem a stubborn
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286 | debater, and he isn't your first
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287 | choice for President, there are
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288 | a few people who probably have
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289 | felt the same about you.
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290 | Relax on this. There isn't
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291 | anything to be gained in it, and
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292 | we all have better things to do.
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293 -- Ryan
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294
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295 indows at the end of each hall. Wet cement was still just outside, and damp
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296 ir was still around in the halls.
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297
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And so was I. I was wet, my hair was wet, and my overcoat was just
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298 plain soaked in the rain. Everyone else was arranged in the end of the hall
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299 and eating lunch. It was soon past the start of lunch, although no one ever
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300 seems to notice the time during lunch. Everyone drifts to their fourth period
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301 class as soon as they start to suspect the period is about to end. As of that
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302 minute, it had occured to no one that lunch was about to end, so there
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303 everyone was.
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304
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A friend looked up and out of his lengthy blond hair. And then he
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305 presented a magnifying glass from one of his coat pockets. It was old, with a
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306 brass ring around the crystal lens and a handle made out of dark wood. It
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307 looked nice to have in a pocket. If not for ever using, then for looking at
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308 stuff with when disinterest sets in. In an old and just as somber hall at
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309 school, for instance.
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310
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He handed it to me, along with a few scraps of ancient paper. They
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311 looked ancient, anyway. Each scrap was curled around other scraps and was
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312 thinner than any other paper I had seen around for a while.
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313
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I went over to a patch of sunlight, underneath the tall windows that
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314 are at the end of the hall near the auditorium. I set my bag down, and then
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315 placed the scraps down also. Aligning the light as focused by the lens, I
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316 directed it on the scraps of paper. The scraps were what was left of a Chinese
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317 firework. It had been disected and the loose leaves of paper were all that was
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318 left. It had no sinister appearance, it was just paper.
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319
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A stream of smoke was rising up from a scrap of paper I had magnified
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320 and was floating off into the drafts when a staffer passed and distracted me.
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321 The lens was still focusing light and directing it to a single spot on the
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322 paper. It then blew up. It ignited a fuse within the wraps of paper which
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323 detonated a powder charge, and it just blew up.
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324
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Scared the Hell out of me.
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325
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It had never occured to me that it would do that. I scoff at Fifties
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326 safety films and ever laugh at the films about civil defense in the event of a
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327 nuclear catastrophe. While this minor flair was not of the magnitude of a
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328 nuclear device, it honestly discharged an explosive. No morals or even much of
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329 a fable here, just please be careful.
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330
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331 O\=<([V2V])>=/O
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332 ppppppppppppppppppppppppppppppppppppppppppppppppppppppppppppppppppppppp
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333 ===============================================================================
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334 In case nobody's noticed, there hasn't really been mucx of ach of a choice i
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335 in any of the last several presidential elections. How else could we
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336 have elected an "image" for our leader?
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337 ============== THE COURT JESTER ======================================
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338 ____01/28/87__________________JD 2446824.6056_________18:32:06_PST_________
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339 It does not befit a court jester to say boring things about the President,
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340 without any insight or barbed criticim. Drop the name, or drop the act.
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341 *******************************************************************************
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342 The Republican convention was to be held in Richmond. Four hundred miles away,
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343 or about three days ride on a Harley and with the wind at your back. Screams
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344 from the chopper faded on down the turnpike like the exhaust fumes. Richmond
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345 was the meeting of the New Right, and Geraldine was not about to miss this.
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346 Congress was going to debate the free trade issue this Winter, and she was not
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347 about to miss her chance to scare federal government panty-waists into
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348 protecting the American bike industry. Her tight tee-shirt read "I'd rather
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349 eat shit than ride a Jap bike" and she meant it. Her wheels were scraping off
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350 asfalt on the Sherman Bridge outside of Richmond when the cop car showed up in
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351 her rear view mirror. The chopper pulled off to the side of the road. The
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352 figure on it let the forward wheel twist away from the road as it put glasses
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353 on and lit up a cigarette. Puffs of marijuana and cloves faded into thin air
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354 while the cop pounded the gravel up to the bike. Reaching for her liscence,
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355 Geraldine pulled out a sawed off shot-gun from her leather overcoat and offed
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356 the Jew cop. The other cop was hiding in the car as she pulled along it and
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357 blew him away too. He was black. She was doing her bit for white supremacy
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358 over the minorities. Then she rode. The weather was like it was the last time
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359 she jousted with Harleys and chains in Kansas. When she got to the convention
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360 center in Richmond, she used her Brit accent to get past the security as the
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361 alluring and dangerous mistress of Candidate Kemp. A few kids were running in
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362 the concrete corridors underneath the convention floor. She put them into
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363 heavy industrial dumpsters and locked them in. One snot was put in a
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364 refrigerator and she left him there for about five minutes. He must not have
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365 held her breath or something, cause he was limp when she opened the door and
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366 let him fall out. Word spread around the convention floor that Geraldine
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367 Fallosse was in the convention center. She was soon drafted to the podium and
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368 delegates from every state were cheering for her to assume the Presidential
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369 mantle from their former idol, Ronald Reagan. A hush fell over the crowd as
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370 she put her sour face up to the mike and sneered at it real mean like. "Fags"
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371 she said, "Ron is the man for American, man! Give him another shot!" and then
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372 she pointed her sawed off at the figure in the wheel chair. President Reagan
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373 was left alone in the chair, drool running out of his mouth in a tube, and
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374 wearing the same tee-shirt Geraldine was wearing. Conventioneers everywhere
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375 cheered for their man. The New Right had been saved again by the
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376 biker-statesman from the outer pits of Hell. Geraldine was getting off the
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377 stage by riding her Harley down the main stairs when Nancy came up to her.
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378 There should have been a needle in her arm the way she was pumped up full of
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379 junk. The first lay was wearing a leather bra with tassles, and fish-net
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380 stockings. Geraldine put her hand on the back of her head and pulled her head
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381 into hers for a little bit of foreign policy. Geraldine let Nancy go, but not
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382 before telling her how she hated the way Nancy's ass jiggled. Then she rode
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383 again. Guess where she is now? Riding out west somewhere. Maybe near your home
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384 town, and maybe near your wife and family.
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385 *******************************************************************************
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386 After that, I can only say that I am speachless!! An excellent satire!
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387 ================================================ THE COURT JESTER =============
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388 -=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=
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389 Ah yes, that brings back memories of my days on a BCC. It seems so long ago,
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390 not so much by time, but by temperments. When I rode, it was the young
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391 American dream to criss cross the country on cycles. It was the way to go.
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392 Free from uncle sam, free from pigs, free from the boss man, free to live
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393 and ride for the sake of it. Damn, that was good.
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394
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395 I remember one time coming out of Austin Texas. Those good old Texan boys
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396 just plain didn't like us bikers. But they would only make their opinion
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397 known when they were more of them than there were of us. Even cowards are
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398 brave when there's a bunch of 'em. Anyway, we had been having a bit of fun
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399 at one of the cafe's, called Earl's, I think. A fight had broken out between
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400 the Indian, and one of the local boys. We all jumped in of course, Indian
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401 was one of us, and we beat the living sh, er crap out of that good old boy.
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402 He wasn't so good anymore, but he was plenty old after that. Someone must
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403 have called ahead, because as we reached the city limits, a bunch of cars
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404 and pickups were parked across the road, and a bunch of red necks armed to
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405 the teeth with baseball bats and shotguns slung on their shoulders stood
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406 around the vehicles. I was riding point and I saw them first. I motioned
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407 the gang to head right, past the road block. Ginger, my hip hugger, yelled
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408 in my ear something about being a chicken or something, so I gave a war
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409 yelp, and we went smack dab in to the middle of the red necks. It was
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410 pretty fierce fighting. Indian got his head blown off by a shot gun before
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411 he even got off his bike, but someone on our side his a gas tank or some
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412 thing with his iron and it blew up taking two or three more good old boys
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413 to cattle heaven. Ginger jumped off before I got into the fray, which
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414 spread out a bit across the road. Surprising there wasn't much gun play
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415 after Indian got it and the truck blew up. I think those guys wanted to
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416 fight, but not kill. You gotta remember that cow hands are tough, but they
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417 don't live on the road on a bike. I have never seen a more hell-born
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418 bunch of guys get into it like my gang that day. Even some of the women
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419 ganged up on a couple of the red necks and made 'em sorry they were ever
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420 born a man. I don't know how long it lasted. Time kinda flies by when
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421 there's baseball bats swinging and jaws breaking. We managed to get
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422 past the road blocks. Indian and another young kid who I never got to
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423 know didn't ride away either.
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424
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425 I guess that's kind of a not so happy story, but hearing about the Harley
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426 hacker brought back some real memories.
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427
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428 P. Fonda
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429 ==========================================================================
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430 L'homme: I goofed and trashed the file I sent you, could you 'mail' it
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431 back? (additions welcome!)
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432 ____01/29/87__________Leonard_JD 2446825.6715_________20:06:57_PST_________
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433 goodgrief.
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434 <o><o><o><o><o><o><o><o><o><o><o><o><o>
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435 An emptyness, a nothingless void.
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436 I try to see my way through it,
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437 I try to find a path to follow.
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438 I have only my memories to guide
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439 me and the memories are wrong.
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440 I stumble against objects that
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441 aren't there, I run up against
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442 walls I cannot see or feel.
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443 I follow glimerings of hope
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444 only to find them disappear days,
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445 weeks, months later.
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446 I thrash out in my rage, but
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447 there is nothing there. I want
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448 to hold on to something, but
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449 there is nothing.
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450 I am falling into an empty
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451 nothingless void.
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452 An endless ending.
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453 bh
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454 <o><o><o><o><o><o><o><o><o><o><o><o><o>
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455 O\=<([V2V])>=/O
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456 [\] [/] [\] [/] [\] [/] [\] [/] [\] [/] [\] [/] [\] [/] [\] [/] [\] [/] [\] [/]
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457
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458 The Final End of the Victorian Age
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459
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The papers flew through the steam and floated even higher in the warm
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460 updraft. Runic writing was on the sheer leaves all though the penmanship was
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461 of such poor quality that that it might have been an indecipherable cipher for
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462 all it mattered, even if the pages had been flat on a table and not twelve
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463 feet above the train platform.
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464
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About the only person who could have made sense of the script was the
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465 man who stood at one end of the platform and wrapped in coat and scarf. His
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466 curls of white hair were hanging in front of his twin eyes and hiding the
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467 disparaging glances he gave each leaf as it fell.
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468
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The only other person who could have read those notes was his
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469 confidential secretary and incidentally, she was his wife as well. Her
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470 attention was at the ticket window and with the boy who was dealing her the
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471 train tickets they would need to get to the conference so early the following
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472 morning. Endeavoring to get them to the conference, she did not see the
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473 accident in which the case that unlatched and fell open and so she did not see
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474 the papers spill out onto the platform.
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475
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His duty now was to gather up the sheets that had fallen out, and do
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476 it before they were ruined on the wet gravel or in the puddles that rested
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477 with the rails in a ditch. He set his case down and latched it as he jumped
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478 into the railway.
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479
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Vendors and travellers had lined the platform in an effort to pry
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480 their trades while giving no mind to the noise or the commotion on the
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481 platform. His wife had been done with purchasing the tickets and was now on
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482 her toes, trying to see over the heads of the bustlers and the traffickers.
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483
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He was picking up a sheet and packing it into a coat pocket when a
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484 ruffian noticed him. Eating an apple to pass the time of waiting for the
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485 constabulary to lose him in the rail station, he saw the aging man fall into
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486 the rift the train pulled through. A drop he then saw was a spry leap.
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487
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The scene was becoming more and more a spectacle as the toughie
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488 started to watch. An old man was picking up his papers which had fallen from a
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489 case on the platform, and a lady who obviously was his daughter or wife, was
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490 looking for him in the crowd.
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491
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She saw her husband in the rift just as the rowdy spotted the train
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492 rounding the last bend. The back to the coat and of the man was to the
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493 oncoming train. His hearing was poor ever since his eardrum was shattered
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494 during childhood and he could not hear the whistle as it tried to steam to a
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495 stop.
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496
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His wife ran up to the edge of the rift and called to her husband. The
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497 tough stood up from leaning on a vending stand and took a few paces toward the
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498 rift. An engineer aboard the train noticed the fellow in the railway and
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499 immediately set about bringing the train to a stop.
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500
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His honest opinion was that he could halt the engine in time enough to
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501 not strike the old man under. He found out he was wrong as the old man fell
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502 beneath him and was crushed under the weight of the metal goliath.
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503
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His wife had not been able to stand watching the death of her
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504 brilliant and wonderful husband and had turned. Her hands were covering her
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505 face and she heard the train whistle mingle with the scream her husband rang
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506 out with as he died. That scream she heard for the rest of her life and felt
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507 miserably glad that she had not committed the horrible sight of the death to
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508 memory also.
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509
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The street tough strode calmly over to her and held her while she
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||
510 sobbed. The engineer and conductor deboarded to look over the scene at the
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||
511 front of the engine and train. The tough and the wife went on in life to marry
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512 and spend the rest of their lives in the same town as her late husband had
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||
513 died in. It came to pass that the tough died before she did all though she
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514 never remarried, preferring not to try to recapture the essence of her life,
|
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515 that day on the station platform.
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516
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517 [\] [/] [\] [/] [\] [/] [\] [/] [\] [/] [\] [/] [\] [/] [\] [/] [\] [/] [\] [/]
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518 (Composed after art class)
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519 (_)-(_)-(_)-(_)-
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520
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521 .-.-.-.Must.have.been.one.hell.of.an.art.class.-.-.-.-.-.-.-.-.-.-.-.-.-.Emu
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522 [][][][][][][][][][][][][][][][][][][][][][][][][][][][][][][][][][][]
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523 Emu and I had finished our sandwiches, and I was rumaging in the bag
|
||
524 for some desert when I heard Emu draw a breath in quickly. Looking
|
||
525 up, I could see he had gone pale again. Looking towards the cot of our
|
||
526 friend the Innkeeper, I saw that he had vanished. No trace, just a
|
||
527 pleasant feeling left behind.
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||
528 [][][][][][][][][][][][][] Friar [][][][][][][][][][][][][][][][]
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||
529 (Sorry, mikey. OK Now?) F.
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530
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||
531 H
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532 HELP
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533
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534
|
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535
|
||
536 On a mild azure day just sixteen years after his birth, Mars led a score
|
||
537 of his closest friends on horseback from the city of his fathers. It was the la
|
||
538 st day of a fortnight of sunny days: the lingering snow was gone, the sod
|
||
539 again firm. A legion of scuttling fluffy clouds were painting that a spring
|
||
540 storm might soon descend with passion; but for now the world was newly verdant a
|
||
541 nd beautiful.
|
||
542 Mars was mounted on a superb ivory mare named Victory after the stallion
|
||
543 Balzor had ridden to the final battle of his Rivival. A second reason for the
|
||
544 name was prophecy of gavril Joab: "Seated upon the broad back of Victory ,
|
||
545 Mars and Venus will return to reclaim their ancient throune. Know then the
|
||
546 For Years of Trial are upon you, that those who Remember may be exalted
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||
547 HELLO MIKE
|
||
548
|
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549 THANK FOR THE COPY OF AMODEM. IT SEEMS TO BE WORKING FINE ALREADY.
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550 SEE YOU ON MONDAY.
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551 TIMRUSS
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552 (_)-(_)-(_)-(_)-(_)-(_)
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553 O\=<([V2V])>=/O
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554 <<:****************************passing through******:>>
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||
555 ____02/01/87__________________JD 2446828.3595_________12:37:47_PST_________
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556 (Another art class is coming up in a few days.)
|
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557
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558 Good God this place is dead. A twit would be better than nothing at all. True American, where are you when we need you. George.559
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||
560 ++++++++ Lurkus Modius, too many exams coming up too soon. +++++ Milch +++++++
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561
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562 WE INTERUPT THE DAILY COMPLAINING FOR THIS MESSAGE:
|
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563 Mikey, I have several files ready for uploading here. They
|
||
564 continue the events of the Brazil entry, and proceed to another
|
||
565 notch in the plot. But, the entry is longer than the blank
|
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566 space on this disk. I have waited two nights but the disk isn't
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567 passing very quickly. Could you just advance the disk regardless
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568 of the last few lines? I will try to cut the entry down to fit
|
||
569 the available space and check back tonight.
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570 WE HERE AT RADIO FREE SOUTH AMERICA THANK YOU.
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571
|
||
572 what is this news, a plot, a conspiracy, an adventure?
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573 signed: anxious in amherst.
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574 OFF
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575 EXIT
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576 ^C^C^C
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577 ++++++
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578 W?W?W?W?W?W?W?W?W?W?W?W?W?W?W?W?W?W?W?W?W?W?W?W?W?W?W?W?W?W?W?W?W?W?W?W?W?W?W?
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||
579 was not a large apartment. A central room, a bathroom, and a long
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580 pane of glass for a window that showed the street. It was second floor and the
|
||
581 windows opened just slightly. The breeze was pleasant but the idea of flinging
|
||
582 out the window was better. Logistics was a rudimentary science meant for the
|
||
583 optimistic and a second story window was not of suicidal variety.
|
||
584
|
||
585 Newspapers lined the floor in a patchwork reminiscent of quilts made
|
||
586 from old scraps of cloth. Each article was cut from unlike papers. Each print
|
||
587 was distinct and held to the patchwork metaphor. Trust me on this one.
|
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588
|
||
589 It was an old lady who sat in the center of the room. The view from
|
||
590 behind her eyes was that of a youth in pain. Her eyes squinted while memories
|
||
591 of her smarting knees ran through her mind. Her memories reverted to ones of
|
||
592 her son every few minutes. Contrasts of their times as children would come.
|
||
593
|
||
594 Questioning why was the dominant idea. Her son had died at the hands
|
||
595 of an American gun ship in the jungles of Panama and she just wanted to know
|
||
596 why that was. No answer was in the war stories on the news, no answer was in
|
||
597 the articles at her feet, and only relief would come from flinging herself out
|
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598 the ajar window.
|
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599
|
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600 W?W?W?W?W?W?W?W?W?W?W?W?W?W?W?W?W?W?W?W?W?W?W?W?W?W?W?W?W?W?W?W?W?W?W?W?W?W?W?
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601 ch / was/ It was/
|
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602 (_)-(_)-(_)-(_)-(_)-
|
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603
|
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604 pppppppppppppppppppppppppppppppppppppppppppppppppppppppppppppppppppp
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605 xxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxx
|
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606 (_)-(_)-(_)-(_)-(_)-
|
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607 L'homme: If you remember the 7 pieces of equipment whose number astonished
|
||
608 you, I have an update... I'd forgotten about the other three! That makes
|
||
609 10. Things are just a bit out of hand...
|
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610 ____02/02/87__________Leonard_JD 2446829.6663_________19:59:33_PST_______
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