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001=Usr:0 Null User 06/30/87 20:34 Msg:0 Call:0 Lines:19
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002=Usr:1 CISTOP MIKEY 05/13/89 23:17 Msg:3809 Call:21067 Lines:2
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20 Help somebody! I'm trapped inside this computer! Help Somebody!
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003=Usr:1 CISTOP MIKEY 05/13/89 23:19 Msg:3810 Call:21068 Lines:2
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22
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23 ***********************************************************************
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004=Usr:1 CISTOP MIKEY 05/13/89 23:24 Msg:3811 Call:21070 Lines:92
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24 Path: percival!littlei!uunet!lll-winken!xanth!ukma!rutgers!ucsd!sdcsvax!
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25 ucsdhub!calmasd!wlp
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26 From: wlp@calmasd.Prime.COM (Walter L. Peterson, Jr.)
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27 Newsgroups: alt.fusion
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28 Subject: History (of science) repeats itself.
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29 Keywords: P&F history of science
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30 Message-ID: <308@calmasd.Prime.COM>
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31 Date: 4 May 89 06:35:38 GMT
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32 Organization: Prime-Calma, San Diego R&D, Object and Data Management Group
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33 Lines: 84
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34
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35 Picture, if you will, the following hypothetical succession of newspaper
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36 headlines:
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37
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38 "Professor claims radical new discovery - Scientific community skeptical"
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39
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40 "Nation's top experts disagree on 'discovery'"
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41
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42 "Chief of nation's leading lab can't reproduce experiments"
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43
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44 "Leading European scientists debunk Prof's. claims"
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45
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46 "Prof. repeats claim of new discovery - will disclose more details of
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47 experiments"
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48
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49 "Scientists still not convinced - say discovery is only 'speculation'"
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50
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51 "Prof. offers to help reproduce experiments"
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52
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53 These made-up 'headlines' are not talking about the P&F "cold fusion"
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54 experiment, rather they are based on the events following the publication
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55 in the "Philosophical Transactions" for February 19, 1671 of "A Letter of
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56 Mr. Isacc Newton containing his new Theory of Light and Colours".
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57
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58 I have obviously cast these headlines in the jargon of today's news media;
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59 however, they fit the events of 300 some odd years ago. The 'Chief of nation's
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60 top lab' was none other than Robert Hooke, who was Curator of Experiments for
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61 the Royal Society.
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62
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63 The experiment that is questioned in the 'headlines' is the now famous
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64 separation of sunlight into the colors of the spectrum by a simple
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65 prism; an experiment that is easily understood by modern school children.
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66
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67 Not only was Hooke unable to reproduce Newton's simple experiments, he and
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68 other members of the Royal Society, including Sir Robert Moray and Ignance
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69 Gaston Pardies, began to doubt that Newton had even done the experiments!
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70 They claimed, in letters to Newton at Cambridge, that his 'discovery' was
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71 only an hypothesis; a guess.
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72
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73 The European opposition came from virtuosi as famous as Christiaan Huygens and
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74 as obscure as a monk named Linus, but all agreed: Newton's experiment did not
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75 work and his new theory of colors was just an hypothesis.
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76
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77 Newton sent numerous letters with further details of the experiment to the
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78 Royal Society and his critics through the Society's secretary, Henry Oldenburg,
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79 The controversy raged for years, and at one point in March of 1673, Newton was
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80 so fed-up that he even sent Oldenburg a letter of resignation from the Royal
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81 Society. There were still doubts when Newton came to London in February, 1675
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82 on other business and attempted to perform the experiment for the Society, but
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83 was unable to due to bad weather, which only prolonged the debate.
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84 Newton was so disgusted at this point that he put off the publication
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85 of his "Opticks" until 1706.
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86
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87 This story could go on for several more pages, even in this abbreviated
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88 narrative, but I hope that this gets the point across. The reproduction of
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89 an experiment that we consider child's play today eluded some of the best
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90 minds of the seventeenth century for years. I don't know if "cold fusion"
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91 is real or not, but I do know that some of the contradictions of the P&F
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92 experiment have contradicted each other, that others have omitted one or
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93 more critical measurement, and others have had various other problems. The
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94 book is still open on "cold fusion" and will probably remain open until Pons
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95 and Fleischmann can agree to assist some "name" lab, like Los Alamos to
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96 reproduce their "experimentum crucis".
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97
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98 This kind of controversy is not new to science. It existed at the beginings of
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99 modern science in Newton's day, it exist now and probably always will.
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100 This current debate over "cold fusion" has a very large component of deja vu.
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101
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102 ------------------------------------------------------------
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103
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104 P.S. for more information on Newton's discoveries and the controversy
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105 that surrounded almost every one of them see:
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106
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107 "In the Presence of the Creator: Isaac Newton & His Times", by
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108 Gale E. Christianson, Free Press, NY, 1984
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109 --
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110 Walt Peterson. Prime - Calma San Diego R&D (Object and Data Management Group)
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111 "The opinions expressed here are my own and do not necessarily reflect those
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112 Prime, Calma nor anyone else.
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113 ...{ucbvax|decvax}!sdcsvax!calmasd!wlp
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114
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115 **************************************************************************
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005=Usr:32 JOHN SILVERMAN 05/14/89 00:19 Msg:3812 Call:21072 Lines:11
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116 #$#$#$#$#$#$#$#$#$#$#$#$#$#$##$#$#$#$#$#$#$#$#$#$#$#$#$#$#$#$#$#$#$#$#$#$#$#$
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117
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118 Welcome to the Backwater News System. Must be slow posting.
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119
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120 Just called one last time to say goodbye. This board was the very fist I called
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121 back in 1985, and has remained enjoyable the whole time. Thanks for the
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122 good time.
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123
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124 J.D. Silverman
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125
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126 #$#$#$#$#$#$#$#$#$#$#$#$#$#$#$#(but I'll be back...)#$#$#$#$#$#$#$#$#$#$#$#$#$
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006=Usr:84 Michael Miller j 05/14/89 09:29 Msg:3813 Call:21080 Lines:7
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127 &*&*&*&*'s
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128 Good luck in whatever you are moving onto JD, I enjoyed your story writing and
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129 your board.
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130
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131 An Astral Dreamer
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132 &*&*&*&*'s
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133
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007=Usr:84 Michael Miller j 05/14/89 11:07 Msg:3814 Call:21081 Lines:75
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134
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135 Article 291 of alt.prose:
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136 Path: psueea!tektronix!uunet!shelby!agate!ucbvax!tut.cis.ohio-state.edu!emory!s
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137 From: meo@stiatl.UUCP (Miles O'Neal)
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138 Newsgroups: alt.prose,talk.bizarre
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139 Subject: MegaFauxPas
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140 Keywords: Embarassment To the Max
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141 Message-ID: <4673@stiatl.UUCP>
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142 Date: 11 May 89 22:09:33 GMT
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143 Organization: Sales Technologies Inc., a teeny little company in the existance
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144 Lines: 60
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145 Xref: psueea alt.prose:291 talk.bizarre:38676
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146
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147
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148 I had the CheaperTaxi driver pull right up in front of the
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149 Westin Lenox Hotel. As soon as I saw that the other arrivals
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150 were either in chauffeur-driven stretch lemos or having valets
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151 park their Euro-spec V12 Jaguars, I knew I had made a faux pas.
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152 Bigtime. So as not to appear the rube, I flipped a valet a 20,
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153 told the cabbie to keep the meter running and I'd see him in
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154 the morning, flipped the doorman a 10 and the bellboy another
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155 10, and told them both I'd carry my own bags since they contained
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156 the treaties for a ban on nuclear AIDS-pesticides. I sauntered
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157 over towards the bar and slipped out a side entrance. I caught the
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158 next MARTA train downtown to a Red Roof Inn, where I ought to be
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159 cool, even as tired as I was.
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160
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161 I asked the desk clerk if she was busy, and in return got an icy
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162 stare and a glimpse of a MOTSS Member-4-Life card. I only wanted
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163 to check in, not get a date, for crying out loud. When I got to
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164 the question on the form that asked for occupation, I put Male
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165 Impersonator on a whim. The clerk warmed up immediately, and escorted
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166 me personally to a room in the back away from the other guests and
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167 asked if I needed company. I told her to wait while I changed, and
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168 we'd head out to a bar. As soon as the door was closed, I threw my
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169 suitcase out the window. I climbed out, and dropped one story onto
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170 my luggage, which burst open, strewing Teddy Ruxpin (TM) Talking Undies
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171 everywhere. I grabbed my toothbrush and razor, some mismatched argyle
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172 socks, and the SciFi novel I'd started reading on the plane from
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173 Philly, and hightailed it out of the alley. A couple of blocks away,
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174 I started hitching, and an old geezer in an older, geezier Ford gave
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175 me a lift to the Y.
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176
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177 The cat at the desk checked me in with no problem, read me the rules,
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178 and gave me a room by myself. Of course, I had to share the shower
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179 with 7 other guys, 3 gals, and a very hairy foreign national of unknown
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180 origin and indeterminate gender. When I refused to join in the soapy
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181 gathering, one of them asked me why I had checked into the Young Perverts
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182 Orgiastic Society in the first place if I was gonna be hostile. Glancing
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183 at my key, I saw my latest mistake, and promised to be right back with
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184 my sheep. They brightened up, and I skipped down the hall, sopping wet,
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185 to my room. Some wino had made off with everything (including my suit),
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186 except my toothbrush and novel, and the Y's towel. I wrapped the towel
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187 around my dripping locks, and wandered casually down the fire escape.
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188
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189 Slinking from bush to bush, still dripping, clad only in my Y-based turban,
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190 mismatched dayglo Argyles, and my last pair of Teddies, which were now
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191 shorted out into an endless loop of a gay, loud, "Hi! Wanna be my friend?",
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192 which was attracting far too much attention from people I would just as
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193 soon avoid right that minute, I finally found an out-of-the-way, darkened
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194 pay phone booth. Fortunately, it worked, and accepted 3rd-party charges.
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195 Using a purloined IRS phone-billing account, I called my client, and they
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196 agreed to move the next day's meeting to the afternoon. Then I called the
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197 local cops, told them some nut case was wandering around 5th and Piedmont
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198 nekkid, wet, and being too friendly with old ladies. I waited right under
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199 the traffic light until the cruiser showed up. They booked me for the night,
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200 and I finally had a place to get some rest without fear of terminal
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201 embarassment. Twice they brought me cell-mates, but one was a drugged-out
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202 Madonna clone, and the other was a Tech student in a drunken stupor, and I
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203 knew I wouldn't do anything stupider than them, so I slept just fine at
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204 lst.
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205
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206 Ever have 1 of those days?
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207
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208
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008=Usr:233 molusk the crab 05/14/89 14:32 Msg:3815 Call:21084 Lines:9
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209
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210
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211 **********************************
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212
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213 Must be that people have been
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214 sucked up by aliens.
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215
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216 **********************************
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217
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009=Usr:84 Michael Miller j 05/14/89 15:56 Msg:3816 Call:21086 Lines:6
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218 &*&*&*&*'s
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219 Perhaps they were. three more days until two. Then another countdown can start.
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220
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221 An Astral Dreamer
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222 &*&*&*&*'s
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223
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010=Usr:465 Gregg Harris 05/14/89 18:36 Msg:3817 Call:21088 Lines:46
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224 )*&)(*&&)(*&)(*&&)(*&)(*&)((*&)(*)(**()*&&)(**)((**&
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225
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226 (Voice from Above) "ENTER OR DIE!!!!"
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227
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228 Oh, no its the 7-11 coming inn for another pass.
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229
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230 ack, ack, ack!
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231
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232 - - - - - -
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233
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234
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235 Whoop Plot Inconsistantsy...
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236
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237 *Dream sequence*
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238
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239 The mole woke up from his nap, wondering what he has been dreaming about
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240 (*wow, I now know what patrick duffy felt like after his dream sequence:*)
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241
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242 The mole getting bored rolled over in disgust for being part of such a
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243 poor plot change.
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244
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245 - - - - - -
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246
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247 WHOOP WHOOP! PLOT COMPLICATION, PLOT COMPLICATION!
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248
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249 The Mole
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250 )*&)(*&)(*&&)((**&)(**&)((**&)(**&&)((*&(*)*)&&((*)&&(*)&
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251 )*&()**&)(*&)(**)(*&)(**&)(*&()*&()*()*((*&
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252 percentage now at
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253
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254 .
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255
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256 .
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257
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258 .
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259
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260 5.52%
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261
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262 thats lurks per post not percentage.
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263
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264 Oh, well noone is totally perfect :-)
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265
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266 The Slightly Imperfect Mole...
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267 )(*&)((*&)(&((*)&)(*&()*&()*&
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268
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269
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011=Usr:84 Michael Miller j 05/14/89 20:30 Msg:3818 Call:21089 Lines:3
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270
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271 Perhaps the heat caused people to melt....
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272
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012=Usr:84 Michael Miller j 05/14/89 22:07 Msg:3819 Call:21091 Lines:24
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273 Begin Hunk...
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274
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275 Muchie could feel the cold hard reality of cyber space all around
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276 him. Today was the big day, the trits were going to get their a**es kicked,
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277 It was about time they got put in their place, nobody put down the wags and
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278 got away with it.
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279 The light on the artificial horizon dimmed, and at that signal he
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280 and the rest of the wags charged forward. With a snap of his wrist a knife
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281 appeared, and subconciosly he reveled in the thought that he had six proc
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282 capability, while just about everybody else was stuck with four. It was
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283 going to be one h*ll of a lot of fun.
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284 The first of the trits appeared, they wore scarlet red shirts and
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285 pants and their heads were obscured by impenetrable clouds. With screaming
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286 battle crys the two groups came together.
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287
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288 The sight that greated little billys mother was not a pretty one. When
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289 she had fineshed vomiting she ran from the room and called the disposal
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290 service. She had heard rumors about burn out, but had thought them meerly
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291 stories. She couldn't help but think what a tradgedy it was, after all he
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292 had only been five. The net was such a good baby sitter.
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293
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294
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295 End Hunk...
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296
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013=Usr:4 Milchar 05/14/89 22:27 Msg:3820 Call:21093 Lines:42
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297 ::: BGN CYBER-LINK: ID F78B:9EA1:C88D CODED: SEMAPHORE :::
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298
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299 "Careful, Sem," said Ann, "those are critical components.
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300 Damage those and you can sell me as scrap."
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301 Sem was busy soldering a ribbon cable to contacts on a circuit
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302 board. "Have I slipped up yet? I'm running on my Magic, baby. Nothing
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303 can go wrong." He grinned at the cube.
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304 "I don't share your faith in that chemical, Sem." Ann changed
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305 the subject. "How long before my matrix link is operational?"
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306 Sem talked while he worked. "Almost finished, I think." His
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307 pencil-laser melted a tiny bit of solder, completing the last connection.
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308 "Ready for test accesses, baby."
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309 "Already begun, Sem. There seems to be intermittent operation
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310 of the 08 and 1E lines. Please recheck."
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311 Sem looked again, firing the pencil-laser twice more.
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312 "I have positive connection on all data lines, Sem."
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313 "Ann, honey, how would you feel about a little run?"
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314
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315 ::: SUSPENDED THREAD 02, WAITING FOR RESTART :::
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316
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317 "That was when he asked me to perform the data snatch
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318 on grid coordinates 2C77:03-63DF:84-0B5A:91."
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319 "Please identify the data structure at those coordinates."
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320 asked the Honorable John H. White.
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321 "The structure is the main data store of OmniCorp, Limited."
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322 "Please continue with your testimony, Ann."
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323
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324 ::: RESTART THREAD 02 -- DONE :::
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325
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326 "I am yours to command, Sem. Please elaborate upon this 'run.'"
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327 Sem got up and moved to the console, pressed a few keys. "Data
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328 now available in local store 8FAB, key is OMNI."
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329 Ann paused as she gathered data, then spoke. "This will take
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330 some doing. OmniCorp manufactures Analog Neural Nets. There is a very
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331 high probability that several AI units will be part of OmniCorp's
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332 military-grade Intrusion Countermeasures Electronics."
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333 "Doesn't matter, baby," said Sem as he applied another derm to
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334 his wrist, "'Cause you're the best, and I have my Magic." Sem
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335 giggled for a few moments. "What could go wrong?"
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336
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337 ::: END CYBER-LINK: RUN TIME 00:22:53 CODED: SEMAPHORE :::
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338
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014=Usr:4 Milchar 05/14/89 23:00 Msg:3821 Call:21094 Lines:9
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339 ++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++
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340 AD: Remember that electronic magazine idea for writing? You're
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341 too late, it seems. I just downloaded an archive filled with stories
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342 from various authors, with a text reader program. I'll show it to
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343 you at work Tuesday... I'm going to Estacada on Monday to aid the
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344 parental units in dwelling clensing in preparation of permanent
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345 occupant displacement. (Helping them get rid of stuff so they can
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346 move out.)
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347 +++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++ Milch ++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++
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015=Usr:219 Friar Mossback 05/14/89 23:43 Msg:3822 Call:21095 Lines:6
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348 [][][][][][][][][][][][][][][][][][][][][][][][][][][][][][][][][][]
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349 Well, JD is gone to Eugene. A sadder Portland is left behind.
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350 We musn't let that fate happen here, no 7-11s. I liked the
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351 "one of those days" story.
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352 [][][][][][][][][][][] Friar [][][][][][][] Still boycott Exxon!
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353
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016=Usr:84 Michael Miller j 05/14/89 23:48 Msg:3823 Call:21096 Lines:6
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354 &*&*&*&*'s
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355 Curses, foiled again! Oh well, somebody has to be second. :-)
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356
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357 (You know who)
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358 &*&*&*&*'s
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359
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017=Usr:84 Michael Miller j 05/15/89 12:47 Msg:3824 Call:21104 Lines:3
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360
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361 We need new blood.
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362
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018=Usr:465 Gregg Harris 05/15/89 18:11 Msg:3825 Call:21107 Lines:7
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363 )*(&)(*&)(*&)(*&)(*&)(*&)(*&)(*&)(*&)(*&)(*&
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364
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365 Lurking, Scribbling, Lurking, SCribbling...
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366
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367 The Mole modus boredus
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368 )(*&)(*&)(*&)(*&)(*&)(*&)(*&)(*&)(*&)(*&
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369
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019=Usr:287 Ralph Steadman 05/15/89 22:29 Msg:3826 Call:21112 Lines:100
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370 696969696969
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371 > Rick Dell'aquill is a ParaNet member from Seven Hills, Ohio and State
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372 Section Director for the Mutual UFO Network in Cuyahoga County. He is a
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373 practicing attorney and has contributed articles to the MUFON UFO Journal.
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374 Again, his views as presented here does not necessarily reflect those of
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375 ParaNet
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376 ---------------------------------------------------------------------->>
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377 In a recent series of uploads provided to Freenet by Dale Wedge and Jim
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378 Speiser of Paranet, a December 29, 1987 statement by John Lear was quoted.
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379 Mr. Lear is a reputable and apparently highly qualified airline pilot with
|
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380 impressive credentials. Every so often one finds something in UFOlogy which
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381 is simply staggering in its implications but valueless without supporting
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382 evidence and therefore, "hard to swallow." Although he should be admired for
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383 his courage in presenting this information (obtained from various "sources")
|
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384 without hard objective evidence, Mr. Lear's statement can only be regarded as
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385 interesting reading without evidentiary support. In short, he sets a nice
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386 table but leaves us waiting for dinner. >>
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387 Were it not for his credentials and ParaNet's assurance of his "numerous
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388 contacts in sensitive positions," the otherwise outlandish claims he makes
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389 could be dismissed as entertaining fiction. However, Mr. Lear's character and
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390 reputation require that greater consideration be given to his statement. >>
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391 In summary, Mr. Lear contends that our government has for over 40 years
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392 been concealing from the public a "horrible truth" concerning an "invasion" of
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393 Earth by EBEs (Extraterrestrial Biological Entities). He alleges that the U.S.
|
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394 government has conducted "business with little gray extraterrestrials for
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395 about 20 years," i.e. we were "sold" by MJ-12 to the aliens in exchange for
|
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396 technology and to preserve our democracy. He contends that our government
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397 agreed to ignore human/cattle abductions and mutilations, but that the deeply
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398 sinister purposes of these activities were not completely understood by MJ-12
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399 until about 1984. >>
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400
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401 Without explaining the EBE's reason(s) to do business with the most
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402 powerful nation on Earth when they could covertly continue their activities in
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403 the Third World without concern, or why these advanced and powerful aliens
|
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404 would even want or require our "agreement" to continue their activities, Mr.
|
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405 Lear maintains that the purposes of the abductions are:
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406
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407 (1) The insertion of a 3mm spherical device through the nasal cavity of the
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408 abductee into the brain. The device is used for the biological monitoring,
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409 tracking, and control of the abductee.
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410
|
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411 (2) Implementation of Posthypnotic Suggestion to carry out a specific
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412 activity during a specific time period, the actuation of which will occur
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413 within the next 2 to 5 years.
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414
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415 (3) Termination of some people so that they could function as living sources
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416 for biological material and substances. (Why not cadavers?)
|
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417
|
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418 (4) Termination of individuals who present a threat to the continuation of
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419 their activity.
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420
|
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421 (5) Effect genetic engineering experiments.
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422
|
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423 (6) Impregnation of human females and early termination of pregnancies to
|
||
424 secure the crossbreed infant. >>
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425
|
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426 He cites the history of UFOlogy in the 40's and 50's, contending that
|
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427 several crashed saucers and at least 3 live aliens have been captured and
|
||
428 hidden by the government. But would such a powerful adversary permit humans
|
||
429 to hold, study and possibly copy crashed saucers or permit us to keep captured
|
||
430 aliens, or would they simply take them back? >>
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431
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432 The EBEs are said to suffer from an atrophied digestive system which
|
||
433 requires that they sustain themselves by absorbing through the skin a solution
|
||
434 made from certain enzyme/hormonal secretions derived from cattle and humans
|
||
435 and collected by ghoulish cattle and human mutilations. The various body
|
||
436 parts said to be obtained in this manner are then supposed to be taken for
|
||
437 processing to various hidden laboratories jointly maintained by the aliens and
|
||
438 CIA in the Southwestern U.S. Although this description of the alien's
|
||
439 atrophied digestive tract agrees with alleged autopsies of dead aliens
|
||
440 (reported by Stringfield, et al). It is difficult to accept that in at least
|
||
441 2000 years of genetic engineering on cattle and humans, the aliens have not
|
||
442 collected enough material to maintain their own "livestock" and feed
|
||
443 themselves without CIA cooperation. >>
|
||
444
|
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445 Mr. Lear maintains that a 20 year plan for release of UFO information to
|
||
446 the public (including the history and intentions of the EBE's) to be completed
|
||
447 by 1987-88, was terminated when the "horrible truth" became apparent. Indeed,
|
||
448 during the first year of the Carter Administration, various media sources,
|
||
449 including Walter Cronkite on the "CBS Evening News" and " U.S. News and World
|
||
450 Report," reported that before the end of that year the administration was to
|
||
451 release UFO information of a "startling" nature. The information was never
|
||
452 released. He contends that "Star Wars" is in reality a defensive response to
|
||
453 the EBEs, not Soviet nuclear missiles, but does not explain why the EBEs
|
||
454 permit us to continue with SDI studies that pose a threat to them. >>
|
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455
|
||
456 Among the many manipulations of human history said to be perpetrated by
|
||
457 the aliens, they maintain that Jesus was their creation and that his
|
||
458 crucifixion has been recorded in an alien holographic videotape. There are
|
||
459 also said to be other recordings by humans, including an interview of an alien
|
||
460 which is translated by an Air Force Colonel and other tapes said to be held by
|
||
461 UFO investigator William Moore. It is difficult to understand why such a
|
||
462 superior race, capable of manipulating human civilization for a minimum of
|
||
463 2000 years, would wait to subjugate the planet for that same period. At the
|
||
464 time of Christ, our most advanced missile system was the "slingshot." We are
|
||
465 now capable of nuclear "suicide." Insane as that would be, their food supply
|
||
466 would go up with us. >>
|
||
467
|
||
468 Further evidence should be interesting and will be anxiously awaited. >>
|
||
469 696969696969696969
|
||
020=Usr:11 L'homme sans Par 05/16/89 07:42 Msg:3827 Call:21119 Lines:8
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||
470 (*)_%(*)@_)#@%*)!_*$~)@_$(!_+@$)_+#@!$(@#_)%*)_#@%*_)@!(_#@^)_$#@&@)_#*%@_)#%*@
|
||
471 Milchar: I hope those aren't Intel ICE units you're talking about?
|
||
472 AD: My, aren't we getting philosophical in our old age?
|
||
473 redsun: Don't you ever, ever, ever go down on the weekend again like that. I
|
||
474 mean like 4.5 megs for you and you won't answer the bloody phone. What's a
|
||
475 poor qiclab to do?
|
||
476 *@%$#*)_#$@*%_)@#%*&)_@#*%@)_#%*@# L'homme sans Parity *%@#*@#*%@)_%*@)_#%*@)_#
|
||
477
|
||
021=Usr:84 Michael Miller j 05/16/89 15:56 Msg:3828 Call:21123 Lines:9
|
||
478 &*&*&*&*'s
|
||
479 L'homme, me philisophical? I can't even spell the word. :-)
|
||
480
|
||
481 Oh, Milch says thank the gods of PGE for redsuns vacation. Looks like
|
||
482 auto-reboot is useless when your console is out. :-)
|
||
483
|
||
484 An Astral Dreamer
|
||
485 &*&*&*&*'s
|
||
486
|
||
022=Usr:287 Ralph Steadman 05/16/89 16:41 Msg:3829 Call:21125 Lines:72
|
||
487 696969696969
|
||
488 COLMAN McCARTHY: Sending a Real Message to Exxon
|
||
489 WASHINGTON POST: STYLE, 05/14/89 Copyright (c) 1989 The Washington Post Co.
|
||
490 By COLMAN McCARTHY
|
||
491
|
||
492 It was lively theater but not much more when a member of Congress stood in
|
||
493 the well of the House the other day and scissored in half his Exxon credit
|
||
494 card. It was heady populism but not much more when some talk-radio babblers
|
||
495 called for a boycott of Exxon.
|
||
496 Aside from a few satisfying moments of stick-it-to-the-bums glee, these
|
||
497 attacks on Exxon the oil spiller do little to protect the world from the next
|
||
498 blackening, in Alaska or wherever. What does a boycott accomplish? Don't fill
|
||
499 up at the Exxon gas station but drive down the street to Amoco? That's the
|
||
500 company guilty of Europe's worst oil spill, when its Amoco Cadiz came apart
|
||
501 off the coast of Brittany in 1978. Or perhaps instead of Exxon, boycotters
|
||
502 should buy from Union? It was 20 years ago this spring that one of Union's
|
||
503 offshore oil rigs broke and blackened the beaches of Santa Barbara, Calif.
|
||
504 I went to Santa Barbara in May 1969 to write about the spill. Boycott
|
||
505 fervor was in the air then, too, if not the water. Union was scorned by the
|
||
506 citizens' group GOO (Get Oil Out).
|
||
507 Big oil didn't get out not out of the Santa Barbara Channel, nor Prince
|
||
508 William Sound, nor Antarctica's Palmer Peninsula, where 250,000 gallons of oil
|
||
509 were spilled last January.
|
||
510 To be meaningful, a boycott of all oil companies is needed. The
|
||
511 congressman-showman who snipped his Exxon credit card would have been credible
|
||
512 had he announced, say, that he was cutting in half his personal consumption of
|
||
513 oil or was taking public transportation or commuting by bicycle to work or
|
||
514 insulating his home, or was pushing for heat-tight buildings back in his home
|
||
515 district where he rents office space.
|
||
516 Energy conservation and energy efficiency is the only boycott that oil
|
||
517 companies respect, because it's the only one that can last beyond the latest
|
||
518 postspill furor. If a nation's habits of consumption are radically changed,
|
||
519 the oil industry's habits of production are forced to change also.
|
||
520 Greenpeace magazine reports this month that "the United States loses more
|
||
521 energy each year through poorly engineered windows than is provided by all the
|
||
522 oil flowing through the Alaska pipeline. From this perspective, leaving it in
|
||
523 the ground is far cheaper and less destructive than pumping it, burning it and
|
||
524 spilling it across oceans from Cape Horn to the Bering Sea."
|
||
525 Environmental groups have deep wells of information to prove that America
|
||
526 can save more oil than it can produce or import. Changing cars from gas
|
||
527 guzzlers to gas sippers has been demonstrated. In 1973 automobile efficiency
|
||
528 was an inefficient 14 miles per gallon. Two years later federal standards were
|
||
529 passed, and the efficiency doubled to 28 mpg by 1987. The technology is
|
||
530 available to increase it to 45 mpg by 1995, which would eventually more than
|
||
531 eliminate the need to import any oil at all.
|
||
532 Nothing has been said by George Bush since the Alaska spill about rallying
|
||
533 the country to conservation or efficiency. The former Texas oil man doesn't
|
||
534 think that way. The Village Voice reports that while he was vice president,
|
||
535 Bush's Task Force on Regulatory Relief tried to repeal the 1975 fuel
|
||
536 efficiency standards. Congress refused but did, as a compromise, weaken them.
|
||
537 Instead of promoting conservation and efficiency, Bush remains the old
|
||
538 Texas wildcatter who never sees an oil field he doesn't want to drill. His
|
||
539 Interior Department is advancing proposals for exploiting coastal oil off
|
||
540 Washington, Oregon and Florida, as well as in the Arctic National Wildlife
|
||
541 Refuge. Of seven industrial nations, the United States ranks last in the
|
||
542 percentage of income devoted to energy conservation research.
|
||
543 If oil were an illegal drug, the United States would be the world's
|
||
544 sorriest addict. It has 5 percent of the Earth's population but consumes 25
|
||
545 percent of its energy. The high from this addiction is so pleasurable that
|
||
546 only a few politicians dare advance the conservation ethic. A member of
|
||
547 Congress who called on Americans, say, to bicycle to work would be as
|
||
548 ridiculed as Jimmy Carter was when he asked citizens to lower their
|
||
549 thermostats.
|
||
550 Whether freebasing on crack or oil, addicts lose touch with reality. Now
|
||
551 the Exxon addicts are announcing that they are changing dealers, as if
|
||
552 becoming an Amoco addict is the answer. It's not. A boycott high, apparently,
|
||
553 has some of the same thrill as an oil high. And the same downer after.
|
||
554
|
||
555 ------->BOYCOTT OIL COMPANIES<---------(easier said than done, but it must be
|
||
556 done)..................................................................
|
||
557
|
||
558 696969696969696969
|
||
023=Usr:33 Mike Stanfill 05/16/89 22:25 Msg:3830 Call:21130 Lines:15
|
||
559 /*/*/*/*/*/*/*
|
||
560 Wow... it's been too long since I've been on. Too much stuff to
|
||
561 do I guess... whoever wrote that stuff on the end of the last disk...
|
||
562 looked pretty deep - I'll have to look at that on my soft-copy. Maybe
|
||
563 I'll use a quote or two for that informative essay that's due tomorrow..
|
||
564 then we'll all be famous! (Gee, I hope my prof. doesn't read Backwater!
|
||
565 Nahhhh!) _
|
||
566 /#)
|
||
567 n n n (#/
|
||
568 / ~~~ ~~~ \/
|
||
569 /___/____\__\
|
||
570
|
||
571 */*/*/*/*/*/*/ -swob (a Self-Willed Orange Blancmange)
|
||
572
|
||
573
|
||
024=Usr:84 Michael Miller j 05/16/89 22:51 Msg:3831 Call:21131 Lines:9
|
||
574 &*&*&*&*'s
|
||
575 Hello there swob, I was begining to woder what had happened to you. Compiler
|
||
576 design useing all of your time?
|
||
577
|
||
578 Well, just one more day.
|
||
579
|
||
580 An Astral Dreamer
|
||
581 &*&*&*&*'s
|
||
582
|
||
025=Usr:4 Milchar 05/17/89 00:01 Msg:3832 Call:21132 Lines:19
|
||
583 +++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++
|
||
584 HAPPY BIRTHDAY BWMS! (And someone else, incidentally.... :-])
|
||
585 Today marks the second anniversary of BWMS II, brought on line at midnight
|
||
586 the morning of the 17th of May, 1987. Take a look at the "AU" command.
|
||
587 Yep. Right there in vivid black and green (or whatever your terminal is).
|
||
588 AND NOW, A BIT OF TRIVIA: The first person to log on to BWMS II was
|
||
589 Jeff Green, also known as the Doctor (one of many on BWMS). Some
|
||
590 bizarre mage character named Milchar was the last on BWMS I.
|
||
591 AND WHAT IS BWMS? The hardware? Read the "AUTHOR" command. HOW ABOUT
|
||
592 THE ORIGINAL ONE? A modified DiskWriter, circa 1975 technology methinks.
|
||
593 8K rom, 1K ram, 630 disk sectors a disk, 1 for the system and 629 for
|
||
594 text.
|
||
595 So, now that BWMS II has survived its second year (despite the fact I
|
||
596 had a hand in writing the software!), shall we have a party? Where? When?
|
||
597 Inquiring minds.....nahh, forget that cliche'. Anyone have any ideas?
|
||
598 (chanting HAPPY BIRTHDAY TO YOU, HAPPY BIRTHDAY TO YOU in background,
|
||
599 do this out loud in your own home for better effect. Thank you.)
|
||
600 Now, I wonder where my "Bake B-Day Cake" 3x5 card is?
|
||
601 +++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++ Milchar +++++++++++++++++++++++++
|
||
026=Usr:82 SWORDSMITH 05/17/89 00:21 Msg:3833 Call:21134 Lines:4
|
||
602 SS.SS.SS.SS.SS.SS.SS.SS.SS.SS.SS.SS.SS.SS.SS.SS.
|
||
603 OFF
|
||
604 ?
|
||
605 SS.SS.SS.
|
||
027=Usr:84 Michael Miller j 05/17/89 08:43 Msg:3834 Call:21139 Lines:9
|
||
606
|
||
607 &*&*&*&*'d
|
||
608 Whoops, ah the 'd' means todays the day. Yea, thats the ticket!
|
||
609
|
||
610 Happy b-day BWMS-II!
|
||
611
|
||
612 AD(Yes, I might be shortening my sig.)
|
||
613 &*&*&*&*'d (Gotta be consistent.)
|
||
614
|
||
028=Usr:4 Milchar 05/17/89 18:50 Msg:3835 Call:21147 Lines:3
|
||
615 Awfully quiet around here for a party.... time to liven it up a bit.
|
||
616 YAY! YAHOO! YIPPEE! (Horns blare) HOORAY! (Bells ring)
|
||
617 -=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=--=-=-==-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-
|
||
029=Usr:287 Ralph Steadman 05/17/89 19:21 Msg:3836 Call:21149 Lines:51
|
||
618 696969696969
|
||
619 HELMSMAN CAN'T EXPLAIN SPILL:-5/17/89
|
||
620 Gregory Cousins, third mate of the Exxon Valdez, said he couldn't pinpoint
|
||
621 how the tanker ran aground March 24, spilling 11 million gallons of oil off
|
||
622 the Alaska coast. Cousins, at the helm when the accident occurred, appeared
|
||
623 before a National Transportation Safety Board panel in Anchorage.
|
||
624 The Exxon Valdez oil spill cleanup in Valdez, Alaska, has brought a short-
|
||
625 term economic boom to the port city. Some have made small fortunes. But there
|
||
626 is little pleasure in the added commerce, local officials say as the National
|
||
627 Transportation Safety Board conducts hearings in Anchorage this week into the
|
||
628 accident.
|
||
629 Valdez, Alaska, has roughly doubled its 3,000 population since the Exxon
|
||
630 tanker spill March 24. Local businesses are shorthanded because employees have
|
||
631 left, lured to the cleanup by $16.69-an-hour wages. There are no hotel rooms
|
||
632 and houses are renting for $12,000 a month.
|
||
633 More than 40 lawsuits have been filed against Exxon Corp. over the Alaska
|
||
634 oil spill disaster, and dozens more are pending, according to company
|
||
635 spokesman Leo McLean. Experts say the litigation will break new ground by
|
||
636 applying an array of statutes -from ancient doctrines of admiralty law to the
|
||
637 latest environmental legislation.
|
||
638
|
||
639 HONESTY MISSING, SURVEY SAYS:-5/17/89
|
||
640 A survey of 1,000 adults finds that 75 percent of the people in the United
|
||
641 States think honesty and ethical behavior have declined in the past few
|
||
642 decades, reports Parents magazine. Eighty percent say they think the nation's
|
||
643 ethics are lower than they should be. And 92 percent favor the teaching of
|
||
644 honesty in schools.
|
||
645
|
||
646 BUSH NON-COMMITTAL ON COOKIES-5/17/89
|
||
647 Most politicians stay neutral on major issues, but President Bush is taking
|
||
648 the non-committal stance to a new extreme.
|
||
649 That's because he won't help California grade school kids decide on which
|
||
650 should be the "national cookie" --Oreos or chocolate chips.
|
||
651 Fifth-grade teacher Rosemary Hartner says her 21 students sent Bush letters
|
||
652 regarding the controversial cookie conflict. Most were pro-chip.
|
||
653 But Hartner felt Bush should make the final decision.
|
||
654 However, his response left the kids in limbo.
|
||
655 Written on White House stationery and signed by Bush, it reads:
|
||
656 "How thoughtful of you to send me your essays on the national cookie. It's
|
||
657 always a joy to see young citizens using their talents in a creative way. You
|
||
658 can be proud of your work."
|
||
659 Hartner says her students enjoyed getting the letter, but were upset that
|
||
660 Bush didn't help them solve the issue.
|
||
661 Hartner says she explained to the kids that Bush is a politician and that
|
||
662 seemed to satisfy them.
|
||
663 After all, what can you expect from a politician?
|
||
664 Especially the one that will veto the minimum wage law passed by Congress, over
|
||
665 a difference that amounts to about two gallons of milk a month in take home pay
|
||
666 to the lowest wage earners in this country. A kinder, gentler, nation, indeed!
|
||
667
|
||
668 696969696969696969
|
||
030=Usr:465 Gregg Harris 05/17/89 19:37 Msg:3837 Call:21150 Lines:11
|
||
669 )(*&)(*&)(*&&)(*&&)(*&)(*&)(**&)(*&
|
||
670
|
||
671 Happy B-Day BWMS. Yippy.
|
||
672
|
||
673 hey, Milch: working on version 3 :-)
|
||
674
|
||
675 ------
|
||
676
|
||
677 The Mole
|
||
678 )((*&)(**&)(*)(*&)((*&)(*&)(*&)((*&)(*()(*&
|
||
679
|
||
031=Usr:84 Michael Miller j 05/17/89 20:25 Msg:3838 Call:21151 Lines:12
|
||
680 &*&*&*&*'s
|
||
681 WordWrap? (Just kidding.)
|
||
682
|
||
683 So, how about a mondo party, one to celebrate BWII's second, BWMS's 8th and
|
||
684 our CYSTOP's ??. Hmm, if we all got together I think we could fill a table
|
||
685 or two. If everybody who has ever called backwater came we could probably fill
|
||
686 a stadium or two.
|
||
687 :-)
|
||
688
|
||
689 An Astral Dreamer.
|
||
690 &*&*&*&*'s (Still playing with my sig.)
|
||
691
|
||
032=Usr:245 Doug King 05/17/89 22:10 Msg:3839 Call:21154 Lines:14
|
||
692
|
||
693 <<<<<<<<<<<<<<<<<<<<<<<<<<<<<<<<<<<<<<>>>>>>>>>>>>>>>>>>>>>>>>>>>>>>>>>>>>>>>>>
|
||
694@Milchar, you say Jeff Green was the first person
|
||
695@
|
||
696@
|
||
697@Milchar, you say
|
||
698@
|
||
699@
|
||
700 Milchar, you say Jeff Green was the first to log onto Backwater? Did he go to
|
||
701 Estacada High School? If so ask him if he knows about breaking into a certain
|
||
702 persons locker (mine) back in 1984. The guy drove me nuts!
|
||
703 <<<<<<<<<<<<<<<<<<<<<<<<<<<<< Bartender Slug >>>>>>>>>>>>>>>>>>>>>>>>>>>>>>>>>>
|
||
704
|
||
705@
|
||
033=Usr:4 Milchar 05/18/89 00:40 Msg:3840 Call:21159 Lines:6
|
||
706 ++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++
|
||
707 Mr. Slug: Yes, the same one... he was first on BWMS II. Zog only knows
|
||
708 who was first on BWMS I, that was way before my time. Perhaps Mikey
|
||
709 remembers?
|
||
710 And yes, Jeff can drive you nuts. He still does. :-)
|
||
711 +++++++++++++++++++++++++++++ Milch ++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++
|
||
034=Usr:219 Friar Mossback 05/18/89 10:36 Msg:3841 Call:21163 Lines:9
|
||
712 [][][][][][][][][][][][][][][][][][][][][][][][][][][][][][][][][][]
|
||
713 Party time again? What say we leave the week-ends out of it this
|
||
714 time, and have a nice quiet brew at the MT bottle and Deli. Say
|
||
715 around 7:00ish? And let's say, Thursday? Any other takers?
|
||
716 [][][][][][][][][][][] Friar [][][][][][][][][][] Boycott Everything!
|
||
717 PS. I reinsulated some areas in my house this week. I calculate a savings
|
||
718 of 3 bbls of oil a year, for a total cost of $14. If we all could do that
|
||
719 much?
|
||
720 [][][][][][][][]
|
||
035=Usr:286 Jeff Marten 05/18/89 15:21 Msg:3842 Call:21165 Lines:5
|
||
721 {+}{+}{+}{+} -|- ThingFish -|- {+}{+}{+}{+}
|
||
722
|
||
723 He walks.....He talks.....He crawls on his belly like a reptile....
|
||
724
|
||
725 {+}{+}{+}{+}
|
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036=Usr:131 THE VISION 05/18/89 16:49 Msg:3843 Call:21166 Lines:18
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726 __________________________________T_H_E__V_I_S_I_O_N_______________________
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727
|
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728 Yo! Been gone for a rather long time, but I am back now. Hey AD!
|
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729 There's been a lot going on here. Haven't had time to read it all
|
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730 though. You went to the Dalles? Fun, huh? So BWMS's B-Day was a
|
||
731 couple days ago? Well... I'm sorry I missed it. Just been really
|
||
732 busy with school, etc. lately. We have finals in a couple weeks,
|
||
733 too. Hey, anyone been watching the Geraldo's that were filmed in
|
||
734 Portland? Pretty cool. Saw some people I know on there. Oh well,
|
||
735 enough for now. Later! (BTW AD, keep it as An Astral Dreamer. That's
|
||
736 the best way... the original way!) Later!
|
||
737
|
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738 _*_*_*_*_*_*_*_*_*_*_*_*_*_*_*_*_*_*_*_*_*_*_*_*_*_*_*_*_*_*_*_*_*_*_*_*_*_
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739
|
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740 ___T_H_E__V_I_S_I_O_N___
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741
|
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742 5/18/89 4:57 25pm
|
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743
|
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037=Usr:465 Gregg Harris 05/18/89 18:18 Msg:3844 Call:21168 Lines:20
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744 )*(&)(*&)(**&)(*&)(*&)(*&)(*&)(*&)(*&)(*&)(*&)(&)(*&)(*&)(*&
|
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745 yeeeeeaaaaaaaaaaaa!
|
||
746 ------
|
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747
|
||
748 The glare from the screen reflected off his eyes. The room had gone out
|
||
749 of focus several hours back, he was in hack mode, the mode someone reaches when
|
||
750 the believe they are two minutes from completion of a project but they seem to
|
||
751 have forgotten that there still are just a few more functions to go (procedures
|
||
752 for you pascal programmers out there :-). He glqnces over to the clock hoping
|
||
753 it still is before midnight. the time is 2:30 am; must of let the time go by.
|
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754 I can finish ths tomorrow ...
|
||
755
|
||
756 - - -
|
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757
|
||
758 Oh, does anyone know how to do a text dump from tip. is it tilde put or tilde
|
||
759 get, I always get these confused.
|
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760
|
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761 The Mole (Tipus Modus)
|
||
762 )(*&)(**&)(*&)(*&)(*&)(*&)(*&)(*&)(*&)(*&)(*&)(*&)(*(&)(*&)(*&)(*&)(*&*
|
||
763
|
||
038=Usr:84 Michael Miller j 05/19/89 09:09 Msg:3845 Call:21178 Lines:10
|
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764 &*&*&*&*'s
|
||
765 Xmm,0not much action on the party idea. Oh well.
|
||
766
|
||
767 Good to see you again Vision, good luck with school.
|
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768
|
||
769 Signing off.
|
||
770
|
||
771 An Astral Dreamer
|
||
772 &*&*&*&*'s
|
||
773
|
||
039=Usr:465 Gregg Harris 05/19/89 14:02 Msg:3846 Call:21182 Lines:10
|
||
774 )(*&)(*&)(*)(*&)(*&()*&)(*&)(*&
|
||
775
|
||
776 Is there anybody out there?
|
||
777
|
||
778 Boy, this is sad. only Astral Dreeamer entered something since I
|
||
779 was last on. Come on. I dare you to enter sometime.
|
||
780
|
||
781 The Mole
|
||
782 )*(&)8*&)(*&)(*&)(*&)(*&)(*&)(*&
|
||
783
|
||
040=Usr:322 Stray Cat 05/19/89 19:56 Msg:3847 Call:21188 Lines:3
|
||
784
|
||
785 something
|
||
786
|
||
041=Usr:322 Stray Cat 05/19/89 19:59 Msg:3848 Call:21189 Lines:4
|
||
787 @#)^)(*@&$#, tricked me ... or I overlooked the obvious; anyway
|
||
788
|
||
789 SOMETIME
|
||
790
|
||
042=Usr:287 Ralph Steadman 05/19/89 20:21 Msg:3849 Call:21190 Lines:82
|
||
791 696969696969
|
||
792 OIL IMPORTS TO HIT 12-YEAR HIGH:-5/19/89
|
||
793 Annual petroleum imports are forecast to exceed do}estyc crude oil
|
||
794 production for the first time since 1977, according to the Independent
|
||
795 Petroleum Association of America. This is supported by the forecast that U.S.
|
||
796 crude oil production will drop for the fourth consecutive year, down 4 percent
|
||
797 to an average 7 million barrels per day.
|
||
798 .......ARE YOU READY FOR THE LINES........
|
||
799 SCIENTISTS SAY OCEANS RISING:-5/19/89
|
||
800 Scientists have evidence the world's oceans are rising about one-tenth of
|
||
801 an inch annually. And0dhey say it might be a sign of global warming caused by
|
||
802 man-made pollutants. University of Toronto researchers say "a nearly globally"
|
||
803 sea level rise during this century might be attributed to "climatic warming."
|
||
804 .......ARE YOU READY FOR THE FLOOD........
|
||
805 EXXON - RESPONSE `OUTSTANDING':-5/19/89
|
||
806 Exxon Shipping President Frank Iarossi Thursday defended his company's
|
||
807 response to the Exxon Valdez spill as "outstanding" - saying the only failure
|
||
808 was the ship's inabiliti0to recover the oil. Iarossi was questioned before a
|
||
809 National Transportation Safety Board panel in Anchorage, Alaska. He also
|
||
810 defended Exxon's drug and alcohol policy, saying it had resulted in 34 firings
|
||
811 in five years.
|
||
812 Joseph Hazelwood, fired captain of the Exxon Valdez, was a respected
|
||
813 seaman plagued by alcoholism and lack of initiative, according to confidential
|
||
814 performance reviews released by the National Transportation Safety Board. The
|
||
815 agency is investigatyng the spill. Hazelwood received hospital treatment for
|
||
816 alcoholism in 1985.
|
||
817 A lawyer defending Exxon in Alaska oil spill suits has been arrested on
|
||
818 charges of drunken driving in Alaska. News of the arrest came as Exxon
|
||
819 executives were defending the company at a shareholders meeting in New Jersey.
|
||
820 Douglas Serdahely, 42, was arrested Wednesday. Meanwhile, Exxon said Thursday
|
||
821 that it would begin randomly testing employees for drug and alcohol use.
|
||
822 EXXON MEETING - MIHUD RUSULTS:-5/19/89
|
||
823 When Exxon Corp's turbulent annual meeting Thursday in New Jersey was
|
||
824 over, nobody could agree on how it fared in the wave of monumental criticism
|
||
825 over the Alaska oil spill. Shareholders seemed mollified. Environmentalists
|
||
826 say they were insulted.
|
||
827 Exxon tightly controlled its annual meeting Thursday in Parsippany, N.J.,
|
||
828 despite the throng of oil-spill protesters. It was ripe for hysterics, but
|
||
829 never got out of hand. Every person who wanted to speak was given two minutes.
|
||
830 Ed Rothschild, a representative of five environmental groups, asked for Exxon
|
||
831 Chairman Lawrence Rawl's resignation. Rawl refused.
|
||
832 At Thursday's shareholders meeting on the oil-spill response Exxon
|
||
833 Chairman Lawrence Rawl said: The company has spent $115 million on cleanup and
|
||
834 believes it can finish by mid-September; the firm will do random drug and
|
||
835 alcohol tests on several thousand employees, including executives; and a panel
|
||
836 will review0management performance. Most shareholders expressed satisfaction.
|
||
837 Environmentalists were not impressed Thursday with the steps Exxon Corp.
|
||
838 told shareholders it had taken to respond to the Alaska oil spill. Jay Hair,
|
||
839 president of the National Wildlife Federation, said company Chairman Lawrence
|
||
840 Rawl "came off as arrogant." Exxon managers are failing at salvaging their
|
||
841 image, said John Merriam, chairman of the Conference on Issues and Media.
|
||
842 Despite the public attention over the oil spill raised at its annual
|
||
843 meeting Thursday, Exxon is probably not in any immediate financial danger
|
||
844 because of the spill, financial experts say. Exxon's net income for the first
|
||
845 three months 1989 was $1.3 billion, or 99 cents a share, down 7 percent,
|
||
846 mostly because of rising crude prices. Its stock was up 3/8 Thursday to 43 1/4.
|
||
847 ..........ARE YOU READY FOR THE STUPIDITY AND GREED.........
|
||
848
|
||
849 REINCARNATION/UFO ABDUCTION INSURANCE-5/19/89
|
||
(50 Want to get paid 10 million bucks for being abducted by an outerspace
|
||
851 alien?
|
||
852 Or 20 million smackers for being reincarnated?
|
||
853 That's the amount Florida accountant Mike St. Lawrence claims he will pay
|
||
854 if folks purchase his "future life insurance" and/or "UFO abduction
|
||
855 insurance."
|
||
856 Here's how the reincarnation insurance works: Pay a one-time fee of $9.95
|
||
857 and collect 10 million when you prove in your next life that you bought the
|
||
858 policy in this lyfe.
|
||
859 You get 20 million if you return as a lower life form like a plant or
|
||
860 animal.
|
||
861 As for the UFO abduction insurance, 10 million dollars is yours if you've
|
||
862 been kidnapped and obtain a authorized signature from an extraterrestrial.
|
||
863 St. Lawrence says he's sold about 10,000 policies so far.
|
||
864 Even actress/New Age Priestess Shirley MacLaine owns one.
|
||
865 And there's one being sent to Prince Charles and Princess Di.--M.D.
|
||
866 For more information, or to throw your money away:
|
||
867
|
||
868 > 319 Hermits Trail, Altamonte Springs, FL 32701; 1-800-443-6858
|
||
869 ............ARE YOU READY............
|
||
870
|
||
871 696969696969696969
|
||
872
|
||
043=Usr:4 Milchar 05/20/89 00:26 Msg:3850 Call:21192 Lines:7
|
||
873 ++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++
|
||
874 Friar- where is that? I have trouble keeping names straight, and that
|
||
875 one seems familiar, but I don't recall space-time coordinates of same
|
||
876 offhand. Jog my memory/
|
||
8'7 696969 person: I don't think insurance policies will be my road to riches-
|
||
878 I'm selling "DRY PAINT" signs instead. :-)
|
||
879 +++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++ Milch +++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++
|
||
044=Usr:84 Michael Miller j 05/20/89 15:37 Msg:3851 Call:21205 Lines:7
|
||
880 &*&*&*&*'s
|
||
881
|
||
882 Just droping in. How is everything?
|
||
883
|
||
884 An Astral Dreamer
|
||
885 &*&*&*&*'s
|
||
886
|
||
045=Usr:4 Milchar 05/20/89 23:16 Msg:3852 Call:21211 Lines:8
|
||
887 +++++++++++++++++++++++++++++;+++;++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++
|
||
888 AD: Weeell, I'm playing Space Quest III (358 out of 738 points so far...)
|
||
889 More than once I burst out laughing. I LOOOVE the MonoLith Burger place.
|
||
890 It took me ages to work out how to get out of that stupid garbage freighter,
|
||
891 though (How to build a working spaceship out of parts you may find around
|
||
892 the home).
|
||
893 See ya tomorrow....
|
||
894 +++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++ Milch +++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++
|
||
046=Usr:82 SWORDSMITH 0 5/20/89 23:51 Msg:3853 Call:21212 Lines:1
|
||
895 SS.SS.SS.SS.SS.SS.SS.SS.SS.SS.SS.SS.
|
||
047=Usr:84 Michael Miller j 05/21/89 12:04 Msg:3854 Call:21220 Lines:31
|
||
896 TO DARNED SILENT.
|
||
897
|
||
898
|
||
899 Today is the day that Roger reaches his Majority. The
|
||
900 fact that he feels he is not ready does not matter. Measuring from
|
||
901 conception he is 124 year old. No fond farwells, only a quick freez and
|
||
902 trip outsystem to some far off colony world.
|
||
903 "Oh I wanta be a farmer, a farmeb0I wyll be." he sings to himself.
|
||
904 The training he has recieved has all been academic, as there is very
|
||
905 little free space for growing food on the Earth itself, and even if
|
||
906 there were the air outside would not allow it. So he will arrive, be
|
||
907 thawed and start working. "I'll even be off these suppresents" He
|
||
908 thinks, but it is a neutral thought.
|
||
909 A bell rings, and knowing that this is the signal he stands, grabs
|
||
910 his bag and walks from the room. The walls are a happy loking blue,
|
||
911 and he is happy to. The lights flicker, and momentarily the walls turn
|
||
912 red. He feels a surge of hate, but it passes as the lights return to
|
||
913 normal. (In a room far away many people in white smocks node to each
|
||
914 other, the experament has been a success.)
|
||
915 As he reaches the final gate there is again a flickering, this time
|
||
916 the walls turn green. He feels somthing... Back to the happy blue,
|
||
917 and calmness returns. Through the gates he goes, up the walk and into
|
||
918 the waiting room. There he waits, standing stiffly in place against one
|
||
919 of the wall. The walls flash brown, and suddenly he is raked with pain.
|
||
920 He falls to the floor, and grasping his head begins to moan softly.
|
||
921 But his eyes are now closed and the pain has gone away. His eyes
|
||
922 open and he stands, returning to the wall. Time passes. It grows dark
|
||
923 and he sleeps... It is a cold sleep.
|
||
924 His parents, long dead knew him only as accidetal fetus #987436.
|
||
925
|
||
926
|
||
0$8=Ucr:219 Friar Mossback 05/21/89 14:35 Msg:3855 Call:21226 Lines:6
|
||
927 [][][][][][][][][][][][][][][][][][][][][][][]
|
||
928 Milch-
|
||
929 It's where we had the first one, many years ago. Out towards Vancouver on
|
||
930 Haydn Island.
|
||
931 Friar
|
||
932 [][][][][][][][][][][][][][][][][][][][][][][]
|
||
049=Usr:4 Milchar 05/21/89 15:09 Msg:3856 Call:21229 Lines:8
|
||
933 ++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++
|
||
934 Friar: I don't recall it. That is a bit out of my way, which might explain
|
||
935 why I missed it the first time. Is there some place closer to the center
|
||
936 of things which might suffice?
|
||
937 Anyone who cares: Don't spend until 3:00am playing Space Quest III, or any
|
||
938 other game for that matter, you'll regret it. Why anyone would pay $59.95
|
||
939 for a game solved in seven hours is beyond me...
|
||
940 ++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++ Milch :-] +++++++++++++++++++++++++++++
|
||
050=Usr:465 Gregg Harris 05/21/89 19:34 Msg:3857 Call:21238 Lines:13
|
||
94! )(*&)(*&)(*&)(*&)(*&)(*&)(*&)(*&)(*&)(*&)(*&
|
||
942 Milch: Buy Mire. Its the game of a Lifetime.
|
||
943
|
||
944 Ho hum, It sure is lonely here these days. I wonder if everyone
|
||
945 has been abducted by aliens or something. Oh, noooo. It's the
|
||
946 Orange Blaumanche(sp)!!! :- (man with no mouth)
|
||
947
|
||
948 The Mole (Modus Paper-Writus)
|
||
949 )(*&)(**&)(*&&)(*&)(*&&&*))(**&((*&)((*&))(*)&(*&(*)(*)(
|
||
950
|
||
951 - 50 lines to go -
|
||
952 Da Mole
|
||
953
|
||
051=Usr:4 Milchar 05/21/89 22:50 Msg:3858 Call:21"47 \ines:7
|
||
954 ++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++
|
||
955 Mole: Mire? Naaah, I ain't playin' nothing I had a hand in designing... :-)
|
||
956 As for the abduction theory, you may be right. Fleets of aliens landed
|
||
957 today and beamed up everyone they found outside. Guess I'm safe, I've
|
||
958 been inside most of today. That'll teach those early-risers a thing or
|
||
959 three! :-)
|
||
960 ++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++ Milch +++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++
|
||
052=Usr:465 Gregg Harris 05/22/89 14:13 Msg:3859 Call:21261 Lines:8
|
||
961 )(*&)(*&)(*&)(*&)(*&)(*&)(*&)(*&)(*&)(*&)(*&)(*&()*&)(*&
|
||
962 This is sad. :-(
|
||
963
|
||
964 Is there anybody out there?
|
||
965
|
||
966 The Lonely Mole
|
||
967 )(*&)(*&)(*&)(*&)(*&)(*&)(*&)(*&)(*&(*&())*&)(*&))(*&(*&()*&)
|
||
968
|
||
053=Usr:84 Michael Miller j 05/22/89 18:47 Msg:3860 Call:21264 Lines:5
|
||
969 &*&*&*&*'s
|
||
970 I'm out here. Not much to say.
|
||
971
|
||
972 &*&*&*&*'s
|
||
973
|
||
054=Usr:4 Milchar 05/22/89 19:02 Msg:3861 Call:21265 Li~es:5
|
||
974 ++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++
|
||
975 Drat- a story to upload, and not enough lines! Fill this disk!
|
||
976 (Low chanting in background swells until you can distinguish the words)
|
||
977 fffilll the disk...Fill The Disk....FIll THe DIsk...FILL THE DISK!
|
||
978 +++++++++++++++++++++ Milch 890522190814 +++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++
|
||
055=Usr:301 Cal Menop 05/22/89 22:54 Msg:3862 Call:21271 Lines:6
|
||
979 >>>>>>>>>>>>>>>>>>>>>>>>>>>>>>>>>>>>>>>>>>>>>>>>>>>.>>>.>>>>>>>>>>>>>>>>>>>>>
|
||
980 What can one say when there's so little space left... 20 lines isn't enough for
|
||
981 a story entry, or much of anything else. Besides, it's been so long for some
|
||
982 that we don't know what to say (I tried using MA 76 before I used the ENter
|
||
983 command... that might give you some idea how long it's been for me...)
|
||
984 <<<<<<<<<<<<<<<<<<<<<<<<<<<<<<<<<<<<<<<<<<<<<<<<<<<<<<<<<<<<<<<<<<<<<<<<<<<<
|
||
056=Usr:465 Gregg Harris 05/22/89 23:23 Msg:3863 Call:21273 Lines:3
|
||
)85 )(*&)(*&)(*&)(*&)(*&()*&)(*&)(*&)(*&
|
||
986 Lurk. The Mole
|
||
987 )(*&)(*&)(*&)(*&)(&)(*&)(*&)(*&)(&)(*&
|
||
057=Usr:84 Michael Miller j 05/23/89 00:35 Msg:3864 Call:21277 Lines:12
|
||
988 &*&*&*&*'s
|
||
989 Only 12 more lines to fill? Ok, I think I can do it.
|
||
990
|
||
991 Ahmm, gee, I seem to be suffering from writers block. Ok, here goes.
|
||
992
|
||
993 Life is like an open box. Often though it seems as if that box is in fact
|
||
994 a toilet.
|
||
995
|
||
996 Down to only four lines! I don't think I can come up with any more pithy
|
||
997 phrases, so I guess it's time to sighn out.
|
||
998
|
||
999 An Astral Dreamer &*&*&*&*'s (Who screwed up and hit return one to many times.)
|