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001=Usr:0 Null User 06/30/87 20:34 Msg:0 Call:0 Lines:19
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1$If you are in need of help, you need but ask...
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2$************************* 04 NOV 91 **************************************
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3$Welcome to BWMS II (BackWater Message System II) Mike Day System operator
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4$**************************************************************************
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5$GENERAL DISCLAIMER: BWMS II IS NOT RESPONSIBLE FOR ANY INFORMATION
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6$ PLACED ON THIS SYSTEM.
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7$BWMS II was created as an electronic bill board. BWMS II is a privately
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8$owned and operated system which is currently open for use by the general
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9$public. No restrictions are placed on the use of the system. As the
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10$system is privately owned, I retain the right to remove any and all
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11$messages which I may find offensive. Because of the limited size of the
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12$system, it will be periodically purged of messages (only 999 lines of data
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13$can be saved). To leave a message, type 'ENTER'. Use ctrl/C to get out
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14$the ENTER mode. The message is automatically stored. If after entering
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15$the message you find you made a mistake, use the replace command to
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16$replace the line. To exit from the system, type 'BYE' 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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002=Usr:1 CISTOP MIKEY 11/04/91 20:26 Msg:6780 Call:38252 Lines:8
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20 Life's a pudding full of plums;
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21 Care's a canker tha benumbs;
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22 Wherefore waste our elocution
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23 On impossible solution?
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24 Life's a pleasant institution;
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25 Let's take it as it comes!
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26 - Sir William Gilbert
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27 ********************************
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003=Usr:604 Chemo Sabe 11/04/91 20:39 Msg:6781 Call:38253 Lines:18
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28 ooooooOOOooo, Julie+Jeff's (and Father Faust) has you convinced, huh CM? And
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29 WHO the @_(*^# is Sir William???
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30
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31 ********* And Where the @#*&^$% is HERCULES when you need him? ....
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32
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33 This Kansan is sick of the @_#)(&$^ Hydra. I suppose CM is referring to
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34 Barb's visit with the "public." I think the Portland contingent musta been
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35 led by Banker Bob and I think she's taken lessons on how to conduct an open
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36 public forum from Favorite Son Father Faust ... does he take kickbacks or
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37 what??? The only John Q. Public on Father's Sunday "City Hall" program was
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38 cut off pronto <we'll have none of THAT <- which was, of course, the REAL
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39 problem>. I guess the Governor's open forum was closed tight, though. All
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40 news crews were kicked out of the REAL "discussion" and were only allowed to
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41 hear her speech. So is OPB gonna broadcast this "open forum" for us or are
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42 we just gonna accept all propaganda issued?
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43
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44 **************************************** Will the BS EVER end???
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45
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004=Usr:131 THE VISION 11/06/91 00:35 Msg:6782 Call:38275 Lines:4
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46 ________________________________________________The Vision Lurks_______
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47 ____________________________________And, Finding Nothing of Interest...
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48 ________________________________________________The Vision Leaves______
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49
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005=Usr:84 Michael Miller j 11/06/91 09:18 Msg:6783 Call:38282 Lines:7
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50 &*&*&*&*'s
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51 TV, try 254xxxx if you want to get ahold of me. My alias there is the same
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52 as it was on my board.
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53
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54 An Astral Dreamer
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55 &*&*&*&*'s
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56
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006=Usr:84 Michael Miller j 11/08/91 10:15 Msg:6789 Call:38400 Lines:6
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57 &*&*&*&*'s
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58 Why do people always take, and never give?
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59
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60 An Astral Dreamer
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61 &*&*&*&*'s (Living life, more or less. Mostly less.)
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62
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007=Usr:322 Stray Cat 11/09/91 15:09 Msg:6793 Call:38420 Lines:9
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63
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64 Speaking from personal experience, AD, I took it for too @$&)#$^ long. Now I
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65 plan on giving some of it back ... and hope others will do the same. We've
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66 all taken it for too long. <grin>
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67
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68 We sure are active lately. Did we scare everybody away??? Maybe I could
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69 finish my slapdash Pat North story ... since it goes right along with
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70 prevent attitudes in some current events.
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71
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008=Usr:549 alan kennedy 11/10/91 14:18 Msg:6794 Call:38440 Lines:1
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72 lurk
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009=Usr:604 Chemo Sabe 11/10/91 16:42 Msg:6795 Call:38444 Lines:77
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73 ************************************************************************
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74
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75 CLEAN CUT KID
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76
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77 Everybody wants to know why he couldn't adjust
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78 Adjust to what, a dream that bust?
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79
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80 He was a clean-cut kid
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81 But they made a killer out of him.
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82 That's what they did
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83
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84 They said what's up is down, they said what isn't is
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85 They put ideas in his head he thought were his
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86
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87 He was a clean-cut kid
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88 But they made a killer out of him.
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89 That's what they did
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90
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91 He was on the basebell team, he was in the marching band
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92 When he was 10 years old he had a watermelon stand
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93
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94 He was a clean-cut kid
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95 But they made a killer out of him.
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96 That's what they did
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97
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98 They said, "Listen boy, you're just a pup."
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99 They sent him to a napalm health spa to shape up
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100
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101 They gave him dope to smoke, drinks and pills.
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102 A jeep to drive, blood to spill
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103
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104 They said, "Congratulations you got what it takes."
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105 They sent him back into the rat-race without any brakes
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106
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107 He was a clean-cut kid
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108 But they made a killer out of him
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109 That's what they did
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110
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111 He bought the American dream but it put him in debt
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112 The only game he could play was Russan Roulette
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113
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114 He drank Coca-Cola, he was eating Wonder Bread,
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115 Ate Burger Kings, he was well fed
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116
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117 He went to Hollywood to see Peter O'Toole
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118 He stole a Rolls Royce and drove it in a swimming pool
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119
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120 They took a clean-cut kid
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121 And they made a killer out of him
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122 That's what they did
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123
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124 He could've sold insurance, owned a restaurant or bar
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125 Could've been accountant or a tennis star
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126
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127 He was wearing boxing gloves, took a dive one day
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128 Off the Golden Gate Bridge into China Bay
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129
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130 His mama walks the floor, his daddy weeps and moans
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131 They gotta sleep together in a home they don't own
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132
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133 They took a clean-cut kid
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134 And they made a killer out of him.
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135 That's what they did
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136
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137 Well, everbody's asking why he couldn't adjust
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138 All he ever wanted was somebody to trust
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139
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140 They took his head and turned it inside out
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141 He never did know what it was all about
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142
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143 He had a steady job, he joined the choir
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144 He never did plan to walk the high wire
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145
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146 They took a clean-cut kid
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147 And they made a killer out of him.
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148 That's what they did.
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149
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010=Usr:322 Stray Cat 11/11/91 13:51 Msg:6797 Call:38455 Lines:2
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150 --By Bob Dylan (I'm sure he wouldn't mind)
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151
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011=Usr:576 Robert Doherty 11/11/91 21:04 Msg:6806 Call:38467 Lines:2
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152
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153
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012=Usr:84 Michael Miller j 11/12/91 22:17 Msg:6811 Call:38482 Lines:30
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154 &*&*&*&*'s
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155 Its been awhile since I logged in. Hmm, heres a short poem/song I've written.
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156
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157 Carl lived up on the hill
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158 he could see the valley below
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159 watched it change, the forrests go
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160 the rivers turned to stone.
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161
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162 He'd made his living getting by
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163 He'd never had someone
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164 To tell him what to do you see
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165 that wouldn't have been right
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166
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167 But as his world grew near its end
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168 he saw his world colapse
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169 and so he went to live inside
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170 his world view had been snapped
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171
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172 They buried him in a cardboard box
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173 no name upon his grave
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174 and if you look were he used to live
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175 well, you'll find a condo there.
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176
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177 (Thats it. The second part of the third verse sort of bothers me, but I guess
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178 it works. The first verse is probably my favorite right now. If I could
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179 right entire songs like that, I could probably make a living at music.)
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180
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181 An Astral Dreamer
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182 &*&*&*&*'s (Pretentious? Me?)
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183
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013=Usr:84 Michael Miller j 11/13/91 11:10 Msg:6812 Call:38491 Lines:13
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184
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185
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186 People, People, People. I'm really starting to wonder if it is worth
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187 calling, let alone contributing here anymore. How tough is it to post
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188 once every few days? If you have the time to login, you have the time
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189 to make an entry. Has TV addled you all to the point were an
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190 interactive medium is just beyond your abilities? If the cream of the
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191 crop can't contribute, then we are all in a whole lot of trouble.
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192
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193 Its really really sad to see what has happened to BW.
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194
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195 (Guess who?)
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196
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014=Usr:610 Peace 11/13/91 19:11 Msg:6813 Call:38499 Lines:6
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197 $$$$$$$$$$$$$$$$$$$$$$$$$$$$$$$$$$$$$$$$$$$$$$$$$$$$$$$$$$$$$$$$$$$$$$$$$$
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198
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199 Wow. Linda Forsyth (see user file) is getting married next May. What a
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200 long strange trip it's been...
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201
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202 $$$$$$$$$$$$$$$$$$$$$$$$$$$$$$$$$$$$$$$$$$$$$$$$$ peace $$$$$$$$$$$$$$$$$$$
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015=Usr:1 CISTOP MIKEY 11/20/91 20:23 Msg:6814 Call:38509 Lines:5
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203 Sorry about all the bussy signals for the last week or so, the phone line
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204 has been down. Everything should be ok now.
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205 The phone company has repaired the problem. Apparently they switched it to
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206 another set of wires.
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207 ************************************ CM ************************************
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016=Usr:576 Robert Doherty 11/20/91 21:52 Msg:6815 Call:38513 Lines:54
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208 The Blue Capsule
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209 I'll admit it, I wasn't the best kid when I was growing
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210 up. My parents suspected the worst from me and my friends
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211 most of the time. The were afraid that I would start
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212 shooting marijuana and murder them in the night in a drug
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213 induced rage. It's funny how people can distort reality
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214 without doing drugs.
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215 John and I were little brats in our early teens and the
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216 late summer boredom was hitting us pretty hard one Sunday.
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217 We were laying around on my parents bed watching the t.v.,
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218 when in walked my father who said he had a job for us to do.
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219 Grumbling, the way teenagers do when parents use the "j"
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220 word, we confronted the task that was put to us. It seems
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221 that the toilet in my parents bathroom was leaking and the
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222 valve was turning on and off two or three times every hour.
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223 My dad gave us a new ballcock and flapper ball to replace
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224 the old worn parts.
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225 For those of you that have not repaired a toilet this
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226 is not a difficult job. But, for two teenagers it was a
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227 monumental task. After laying all the parts out on the bed
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228 we finally figured it out and finished the job with no
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229 problems.
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230 It was about an hour or two later that my older sister
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231 came running out of the bedroom ranting and raving to my
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232 parents that she had found a blue capsule on the bed were
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233 John and I had been laying. By this time my mother was
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234 hysterical and my father well, he was not in the best mood I
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235 had ever seen him in. John and I were summoned to the
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236 family tribunal gathered in our living room.
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237 "Where did this come from?" my father asked holding
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238 the capsule between his thumb and index finger. John looked
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239 at me, and I at him. "I don't Know" we both said in unison.
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240 For a teenager, it is hard not to look guilty even when your
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241 not. "I am going to ask you again, where did this come
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242 from?" "It's not mine" John said with a frightened look.
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243 My father looked at me, I quickly denied any knowledge of
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244 the capsule. We weren't pleading our case very well as it
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245 was a case of guilt by proximity and the judge and jury had
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246 already decided the verdict.
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247 In the meantime, my sister, the worldly woman she
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248 was,(she had moved out of the house for all of a couple of
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249 months) had taken the capsule and pulled it apart to inspect
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250 the bright blue powder inside. You know how on T.V. crime-
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251 drama shows, when the cops bust a drug ring, they take out
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252 their pocket knife poke a little hole in one of the bags of
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253 suspected drugs then with their little finger they take a
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254 taste. This is what my sister did (As if she would even
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255 know what drugs would taste like; it could have been cow
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256 shit for all she knew!). It immediately made her tongue
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257 bright blue.
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258 As the questioning became more heated, John offered
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259 that the "pill" was a dental capsule that he had to use to
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260 show the plaque on his teeth. This excuse was verified over
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261 the phone with John's mother, but was quickly dispelled when
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017=Usr:576 Robert Doherty 11/20/91 22:12 Msg:6816 Call:38514 Lines:30
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262 she said that the dental aid in question was not a capsule
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263 but in fact a chewable tablet. Now we were in more trouble
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264 as John was now accused of lying. By this time John's
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265 parents were on the way over to the house to inspect the
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266 blue capsule for themselves.
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267 John had made a mistake, it was now believed that the
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268 pill was his, since he had lied. I was still not off the
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269 hook though, for instead of proximity it was association
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270 that made me guilty. Soon his parents would show up and the
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271 full court would convene. I had truly no idea where the
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272 pill had come from and was beginning to think that it was
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273 John's.
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274 With the arrival of John's parents, the facts and
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275 evidence were brought out and an inspection of the bed only
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276 revealed the empty package and instructions of the toilet
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277 hardware. My father suddenly started to laugh, he was
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278 reading the instructions. Everyone was looking at him,
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279 John's parents especially, since they did not see anything
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280 funny about this at all. He began to read out loud "step
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281 sixteen: to make sure the flapper ball is installed properly
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282 take blue capsule and sprinkle in toilet tank, if blue dye
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283 appears in toilet bowl reseat flapper ball."
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284 We were all howling, all except my sister whose tongue
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285 stayed blue for two days. John and I lived like kings for
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286 the next few days. And I will always remember the story of
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287 the blue capsule.
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288 @@@@@@@@@@@@@@@@@@@@@@@BOBD@@@@@@@@@@@@@@@@--------------
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289 >11/7/91
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290
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291
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018=Usr:131 THE VISION 11/21/91 01:11 Msg:6818 Call:38515 Lines:7
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292
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293 To guess who - were you referring to me as causing everybody on
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294 the board not to post anything? Well that was not my intention and
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295 those were some rude comments. I think you shouldn't waste your time
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296 calling here anymore because you have nothing worthwhile to contribute.
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297 -The Vision
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298
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019=Usr:84 Michael Miller j 11/21/91 07:42 Msg:6819 Call:38521 Lines:18
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299
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300 To The Vision.
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301
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302@No
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303 I was not accusing you of anything of the sort. The intent of the message was
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304 to goad the callers of this board to start contributing. The lack of activity
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305 was not blamed on you or anybody else directly.
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306
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307 The simple fact is that a dozen or so people call this board, while only two
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308 or three contribute. From time to time one of the dozen enter a message
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309 saying how its just not like the old days. Of course its not like the old
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310 days. First of all, nothing ever is. Second of all, a house is only as
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311 good as the people who build it and contribute to its upkeep. There are too
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312 many people who live in this house without contributing to its upkeep.
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313 I do not count you as being amoung these.
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314
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315 (Guess wh)
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316
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020=Usr:11 L'homme sans Par 11/21/91 09:38 Msg:6820 Call:38523 Lines:6
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317 *$#@*$_)@#*%_)#*_)(%_$#^_)*%#(%)$(_)(#_)*%@_%^*_)*~$*_)%&_)*!$()!$(!_$_%*_)*!_
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318 Blue Capsule Story: That was a great funny story! Isn't it amazing how a little
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319 thing can grow out of proportion like that??? Thanks for sharing it.
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320 Mikey: What is the "speed" rating of your machine in MHz?
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321 &*%$#@*_%*_)$_@#%&*_)*_)%@# L'homme sans Parity *$#*$!)#$)*$@#%&*#%&)_$*!@$*!$
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322
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021=Usr:1 CISTOP MIKEY 11/21/91 19:24 Msg:6821 Call:38537 Lines:3
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323 L'homme: Norton SI says '101'. RealSI says 21.4xAT.
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324 Landmark says 149Mhz then crash and burns.
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325 ************************** CM *******************************
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022=Usr:322 Stray Cat 11/21/91 19:33 Msg:6822 Call:38538 Lines:7
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326 XOXOXOXOXOXOXOXOXOXOXOXOXOXOXOXOXOXOXOXOXOXOXOXOXOXOXOXOXOXOXOXOXOXOXOXOXO
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327
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328 QW: Input from the 2% contingent might be more healthy fatwise. I'm
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329 afraid the "cream" are too mainlined.
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330
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331 xoxoxoxoxoxoxoxoxoxoxoxoxoxoxoxoxoxoxoxoxoxoxoxoxooxoxoxoxoxoxoxoxoxoxoxoxo
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332
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023=Usr:84 Michael Miller j 11/21/91 21:20 Msg:6823 Call:38540 Lines:30
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333 &*&*&*&*'s
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334 Heres a verse I wrote.
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335
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336 Carl lived up on the hill
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337 He could see the valley below
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338 Watched it change
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339 The forests go
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340 The rivers turned to stone
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341
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342 The last line is really about southern california. As far as I know, there
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343 are just about no natural rivers or creeks anywhere near the cities. They
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344 are all contained by big cement sewers, just like the ones you see
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345 in terminator II and other movies.
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346
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347 I remember playing in them as a kid. One day I even talked some friends into
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348 crawling down one of the side pipes. I was about 12 at the time. It was
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349 something of an adventure. We took water, and flashlights, and away we went.
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350
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351 We got about a querter mile in, before we gave up. We'de ran into
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352 our first manhole cover, and the tunnel became smaller beyond that point.
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353 I was all for going on, but everyone else had tired of the expedition.
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354 Things had been dry up till then.
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355
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356 When I look back on it, it sill surprises me that we didn't run into any rats
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357 or mice. The only living thing we did run into was one very lost lizard
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358 near the entrance.
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359
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360 An Astral Dreamer
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361 &*&*&*&*'s (Just thought of a better story. Oh well.)
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362
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024=Usr:322 Stray Cat 11/22/91 09:32 Msg:6825 Call:38552 Lines:7
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363@{}{}{}{}{}{}}{}{}{}{}{}{}{}{}{}{}{}{}{}{}{}{}{}{}{}{}{}{}{}{}{}{}{}{}{}{}{}{}
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364@
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365@Geesh, is it finally OVER ... that two-week free ad campaign by our local gas
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366@company. How many electric hot water heaters did we see wheeled out??? On
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367@the other hand, how many kids has PGE gotten PPS return home and needle their
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368@parents about their power-usage vices???
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369@
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025=Usr:322 Stray Cat 11/24/91 13:31 Msg:6827 Call:38581 Lines:18
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370 >>>>>>>>>>>>>>>>>>>>>>>>> And the GOLDEN Fleece Continues <<<<<<<<<<<<<<<<<<<
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371
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372 So the BigO can call that "
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373 Cream of the Crop" Royalty of Portland's Patriarchal Power Platoon Stingy
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374 Skinflints huh? Just because They're no supporting "the arts" so the likes
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375 of that Truly Offensive and Ever-Insufferable PJ and his ilk can pushily
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376 brown-nose their way onto the resulting limelighted hero worship scenes that
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377 most Billionaires attend to display their "cultures"? And, even worse,
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378 when The MultiBillionaires DO bestow their strings-attached meager donations,
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379 they must SUFFER shameful slights and indecent indignities regarding having
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380 their Names in Neon ... which, of course, They'd never in a billion years
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381 Suggest but is, more cruelly, FORCED on Them by Insensitive Charity Monger
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382 Coporations. Well, I think We should Form a Committee to discuss the prob-
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383 able need for sending a major portion of Our highly-taxed hoards of spare
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384 cash (and winning lottery tickets) to these Blessed Beneficent Benefactors,
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385 just to show we're not the idiot Ingrates The Media seems to make us out to
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386 be. Might help us to set some Priorities, too ... you know???
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387
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026=Usr:322 Stray Cat 11/24/91 14:11 Msg:6828 Call:38582 Lines:2
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388 >>>>>>>>> And Who the T^*)@$#$* is *MARGE* Kafoury, anyway??? ............
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389
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027=Usr:131 THE VISION 11/24/91 20:10 Msg:6829 Call:38589 Lines:9
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390
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391 To Guess Who:
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392 Ok thanks :) Yeah things here have changed, I have noticed
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393 that as well. But everything goes through change, and you always
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394 come back to the basics....
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395 -The Vision
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396
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397 To AD: Keep it up man! Great stuff :)
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398
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028=Usr:322 Stray Cat 11/25/91 02:39 Msg:6830 Call:38594 Lines:12
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399
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400 /o/o/o/o/o/o/o/o/o/o/o/o/o/o/o/o/o/o/o/o/o/o/o/o/o/o/o/o/o/o/o/o/o/o/o/o/o
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401
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402 And what WAS that stuff on last week's (or week previous) 60 MINUTES about
|
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403 local emperor/god Phil Knight? He goes on TV to say he's one of few CEOs
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404 to receive ONLY $600,000 per year & the interviewer says "YEAH BUT you also
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405 OWN the place." So does the abundantly-w/healthy Mr. K OWN Beaverton's
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406 Taj Mahal??? And did he ever PAY those subcontracts that had to go out of
|
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407 because He wouldn't/didn't?
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408
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409 /o/o/o/o/o/o/o/o/o/o/o/o/o/o/o/o/o/o/o/o/o/o/o/o/o/o/o/o/o/o/o/o/o/o/o/o/o
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410
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029=Usr:84 Michael Miller j 11/25/91 09:14 Msg:6831 Call:38596 Lines:26
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411 &*&*&*&*'s
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412 TV, thanks.
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413
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414 Heres another short verse.
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415
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416 You got the money, you have it all.
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417 You don't have your freedom
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418 But that price is small
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419
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420 Traped inside
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421 Life deride
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422 does it matter?
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423 You bet it does
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424
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425 Town of small minds, and you know them.
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426 They don't have their freedom
|
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427 But thats their problem
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428
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429 Many minds
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430 life reminds
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431 does it matter?
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432 You bet it does
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433
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434 An Astral Dreamer
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435 &*&*&*&*&*'s (Variation. sunsantiation. Monostation. revurberation.)
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436
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030=Usr:322 Stray Cat 11/26/91 05:37 Msg:6832 Call:38606 Lines:25
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437
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438 X>X>X>X>X>X>X>X>X>X>X>X>X>X>X>X>X>X>X>X>X>X>XX>X>X>X>X>X>X>X>X>X>X>X>X
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439
|
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440 And the missing link in the Phil Morford scandal ... seems like Earl the
|
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441 Pearl was just doing his "ex" a favor huh??? Ms. Shelly is also a friend
|
||
442 of one of those hardt-type libbers I had to deal with, wo had a long history
|
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443 of tyrrany with underlings ... which the union never did anything about.
|
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444
|
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445
|
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446 Also, after a long year and a half, I've finally gotten The Word (in writing)
|
||
447 from one of the Esteemed PPS board members. Looks to me like the Board's no
|
||
448 longer willing to "rubberstamp" personnel matters (as my Union so rightly put
|
||
449 it). I guess after they had to publicly rescind one of these actions (in the
|
||
450 same set of minutes I appeared it), they decided it was too much of a problem
|
||
451 for them to deal with. After submitting a 200-pg defense I received a 6-liner
|
||
452 stating not only this was a "Personnel"/administrataive problem (as I was
|
||
453 TRYING to point out to THEM) with which they no longer wanted to deal, but
|
||
454 they They'd also lost the material I'd submitted. (Before he'd said he
|
||
455 thought it was "lying" around the Board/PUBLIC INFORMATION office somewhere
|
||
456 ... is there no end to this kind of respect/regard???) When I'd called
|
||
457 Another member regarding receipt of ay type of written Word, he said he
|
||
458 couldn't "talk about it. Period. End of Conversation." Click.
|
||
459
|
||
460 X<X>X<X>X<X>X<X>X<X>X<X>X<X>X<X>X<X>X<X>X<X>X<X>X<X>X<X>X<X>X<X>X<X>X<X>X<
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461
|
||
031=Usr:604 Chemo Sabe 11/26/91 06:48 Msg:6833 Call:38607 Lines:2
|
||
462
|
||
463 How much INFILL could an "IN" Phil Fill when an "in" Phil CAN FILL in???
|
||
032=Usr:604 Chemo Sabe 11/26/91 07:04 Msg:6834 Call:38609 Lines:1
|
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464 (*EXCEPT* in Little Berzerkly/Alameda, OF COURSE ... where They all live.)
|
||
033=Usr:609 Doctor Duran Dur 11/27/91 23:58 Msg:6835 Call:38637 Lines:9
|
||
465 >>>>>>>>>>>>>>>>>>>>>>>>>>>>>>>>>>>>>><<<<<<<<<<<<<<<<<<<<<<<<<<<<<<<<<<<<<<<<<
|
||
466
|
||
467 "Do you know what the secret to life is???"
|
||
468 "No.
|
||
469 "It's one thing -- just one thing."
|
||
470 "Yeah, what's that???"
|
||
471 "That's what you'll have to figure out!!!"
|
||
472 ........<CITY SLICKERS>.........
|
||
473 >>>>>>>>>>>>>>>>>>>>>>>IN THE EYES OF A STRANGER<<<<<<<<<<<<<<<<<<<<<<<<<<<<<<<
|
||
034=Usr:352 Katie Kolbet 11/28/91 09:26 Msg:6836 Call:38641 Lines:12
|
||
474
|
||
475
|
||
476 ++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++
|
||
477 Hidey ho and many hellos!
|
||
478 Just thought since I was home for Thanksgiving that I would pop onto the board
|
||
479 to say hi! (So I have!) Hey Vision, I haven't heard from you in ages!
|
||
480 Astral Dreamer, many hellos. You guys got some interesting stuff going on this
|
||
481 board. When I come up with a story to top your childhood memories, I'll
|
||
482 add it to the collection. Give me a day or two. Anyway, I'll pop back on
|
||
483 again before this month (November) ends! HAPPY THANKSGIVING!!!!!!!
|
||
484
|
||
485 ---Kaitlyn----
|
||
035=Usr:11 L'homme sans Par 11/28/91 12:19 Msg:6837 Call:38644 Lines:5
|
||
486 *_#*%_)@#*%_)*!_)*%$)&^_)*%_)$(!)$(@%)*(_)(!$*!@#%)&_)~&$_)*%%&@)&^_)*!$_)!*($_
|
||
487 AD: Have you recorded any songs in your new "studio?" Also, could you send me
|
||
488 a copy of that VGA speed tester?
|
||
489 *%_@#)*%_)@#$(_)!@(#_)$%*_)*$!$* L'homme sans Parity *$!)*$!@)*$_)!@$*)_!@*_)*
|
||
490
|
||
036=Usr:322 Stray Cat 11/29/91 11:24 Msg:6838 Call:38654 Lines:68
|
||
491 $%$%$%$%$%$%$%$%$% THE AT AT THE TOP/COPs CREAM OF THE CROP $%$%$%$%$%$%$%$%$%
|
||
492
|
||
493 Besides Neil, another thing I don't like about Vera is Arlene. Not jut be-
|
||
494 cause She MADE Them name a major DT landmark after Her, but I think I once
|
||
495 interviewed for a "secretarial" job at one of Her corporations when I was
|
||
496 much younger and stupider (yes, it IS possible). The Office was a profuse
|
||
497 plantation-type brick estate down the street from MLC and this matronly-
|
||
498 looking interrogater harshly grilled me on whether I thought I was able to
|
||
499 "keep secrets" and it I'd be willing to "travel." <-??? I'd already de-
|
||
500 plored the manor milieu, but Her manner also gave me the creeps. May it
|
||
501 somehow reminded me of the unforgettable week I'd spent as a "live-in" at
|
||
502 the Helzer Estate.
|
||
503
|
||
504 I was like a sophomore or junior in high school and my mom'd begun her
|
||
505 usual fet about my summer "supervision" while she was at work. Besides I
|
||
506 think she was of the opnion we always at odds only because I was a
|
||
507 "spoiled brat" and need to experience the Real World of Work so I might
|
||
508 would "appreciate" home a little more. And since when she was growing up
|
||
509 she'd worked summers as a live-in (mainly to escape the Christian tyrrany
|
||
510 of a cruel older sister), she thought THAT would be a wonderful alternative
|
||
511 to my usual attendance at summer school. So I went to the employment
|
||
512 division and they found me this summer live-in "babysitting" assignment
|
||
513 offering "room and board" and a whopping 50 smackers a month!
|
||
514
|
||
515 The Helzer estate was an entire block in Alameda and they had one Kid I
|
||
516 hardly ever saw. They also had a "Cook" and we both lived in slave cells
|
||
517 over the garage. The Cook was an older woman and I seem to recall she had
|
||
518 a heavy accent and something wrong with her foot. It was all wrapped up in
|
||
519 bandages which made her limp. Evidently, the Cook had the sae loose range
|
||
520 of on-call "duties" I did because I remember Mrs. Helzer calling Down on
|
||
521 her intercom one morning (I think we were doing the breakfast dishes)
|
||
522 ordering her to the basement to Fetch the Kid's socks, which she was to
|
||
523 deliver to His Upstairs bedroom. I offered to do it for her because of
|
||
524 her age and foot and all those stairs and all, but she declined. I think
|
||
525 her reason was I wouldn't be able to find them or some such thing, which
|
||
526 led me to think she knw because she probably musta DID their stupid laundry
|
||
527 too.
|
||
528
|
||
529 As it ended up, the only tme I "Babysat" was for maybe two hours on the
|
||
530 second or third day when She dropped me and the kid off at Grant for an
|
||
531 athletic program he was attending. I was ordered to sit outside on the
|
||
532 grass and retrive him after class. I think that was the same day she
|
||
533 mentioned something about wanting me to wear a Uniform for the duration
|
||
534 of my endentureship.
|
||
535
|
||
536 The rest of my time there I was a stupid, "cheap" teenage domestic, work-
|
||
537 ing for a fraction of what they would've had to pay for the Real Thing,
|
||
538 plus they probably thought I was just young and dumb enough to feel I
|
||
539 should Do anything they asked. As it turned out, after helping the cook
|
||
540 ad "serving" the Family their meals (for which, I was told, I'd need
|
||
541 LESSONS), my main duty was not only the upkeep of Mr. Helzer's somewhat
|
||
542 isolated living quarters (including steriklizing his bathroom/walk-in
|
||
543 8-head shower room [<-we'd better get the PGE police over there] AND a
|
||
544 daily change of sheets) but I was soon informed I'd be buzzed in my
|
||
545 cell in the evening to take a glass of prune joice of his nightstand
|
||
546 each night. I think this was the same day I was also ordered to make
|
||
547 sure their 30-piece silver service display was kept polished. I'm pretty
|
||
548 sure I did take the juice up but maybe I just freaked out at the thought,
|
||
549 but I called my MUCH OLDER sister <-grin (and second mother) and she had
|
||
550 me outta there in a FLASH. She toldl 'em off real good too.
|
||
551
|
||
552 I ended up living with my sister and her girlfriend the rest of te
|
||
553 summer and they got me a Decent job "serving meals" to Decent folk at
|
||
554 the neighborhood restaurant they both worked at weekends. I didn't
|
||
555 have to wear a uniform and earned triple the money too!
|
||
556
|
||
557 $%$%$%$%$%$%$%$%$%$%%$ We've come such a LONG way, haven't we "Babe"??
|
||
558
|
||
037=Usr:84 Michael Miller j 11/30/91 15:21 Msg:6839 Call:38664 Lines:12
|
||
559 &*&*&*&*'s
|
||
560 L'homme, I've recorded quite a bit of stuff over the last several months.
|
||
561 Some of it may even be decent. Right now, I'm working on getting a group
|
||
562 of people together. I want to work out enough songs to put together
|
||
563 an album on the cheap next year. Don't know if it'll happen, but I'm
|
||
564 putting a lot of effort into it, so I have hopes.
|
||
565
|
||
566 (I'll see i I have the tester.)
|
||
567
|
||
568 An Astral Dreamer
|
||
569 &*&*&*&*'s (I really need to learn how to drive.)
|
||
570
|
||
038=Usr:54 George Freemont 11/30/91 22:57 Msg:6840 Call:38668 Lines:9
|
||
571 ______________---------------______________________
|
||
572 Just wanted to say that I believe the administrators of the Portland
|
||
573 Public Schools are doing a *wonderful* job. I just can't see what
|
||
574 all the hullabaloo is all about. Could it be that someone has a
|
||
575 private agenda?
|
||
576 ______________Just Curious--_______________________
|
||
577
|
||
578 P.S. I guess I'd better duck and cover now.
|
||
579 ______________--------------______________________-
|
||
039=Usr:609 Doctor Duran Dur 12/01/91 00:20 Msg:6841 Call:38671 Lines:43
|
||
580 >>>>>>>>>>>>>>>>>>>>>>>>>>>>>>>>>>>>>>>>><<<<<<<<<<<<<<<<<<<<<<<<<<<<<<<<<<<<<<
|
||
581
|
||
582 'Smells like teen spirit...true to the music...hasta be NIRVANA!!!!!!!!!
|
||
583 A rippling, smashing, spine-tingling plethera of body-slappin', giftwrappin',
|
||
584 body-baggin' bozos from the inner-bowles of YOUR local city hall. HA --
|
||
585
|
||
586 'Tis the season...foChristmas givin'...so, go out and buy me a gun!!!
|
||
587 I lost my j; my wife's with Bob; and, the cat got hit by a truck. HA --
|
||
588
|
||
589 Show me, blow me, stiff me, slap me...give me a kiss on the cheek.......
|
||
590 All I want for Xmas is my two front teeth!
|
||
591
|
||
592 Ode to the boy down the street...for delivering my groceries 5x a week...
|
||
593 He's such a BIG boy, too! HA --
|
||
594
|
||
595 "Squire!" he shouted, "Squire--where are my shoes???"
|
||
596 "With your wife, O Gracious One." he replied.
|
||
597 "Well, where in the hell is S???"
|
||
598 "With your brothe Gracious One"
|
||
599 "That's funny," the King said to himself, "I distinctly remember my brother
|
||
600 wearing a ten-and-a-half!!!" HA --
|
||
601
|
||
602 I read the news today, OH BOY!
|
||
603 The English army had just won the war...
|
||
604 -- j.l. HA --
|
||
605
|
||
606 Give me half an inch,
|
||
607 and I'll take your foot!!! HA --
|
||
608
|
||
609 Turn your head and -- CAUGH -- HHH HHH AAAAAAAAA
|
||
610 HHH HHH AAA AAA
|
||
611 HHHHHHHHH AAAAAAAAA --- ---
|
||
612 HHH HHH AAA AAA
|
||
613 HHH HHH AAA AAA
|
||
614
|
||
615
|
||
616 ..............................................Doctor Duran Duran
|
||
617 >>>>>>>>>>>>>>>>>>>>>>IN THE EYES OF A STRANGER<<<<<<<<<<<<<<<<<<<<<<<<<<<<<<<<
|
||
618 ..
|
||
619 ..
|
||
620 ..
|
||
621 ..
|
||
622 .......................................................................
|
||
040=Usr:186 Wesley Smith 12/01/91 08:17 Msg:6843 Call:38673 Lines:2
|
||
623 I would like to take this time to wish one and all a safe and happy holiday
|
||
624 holiday season. I hope every one had a happy Thanksgiving, and didn"t eat to
|
||
041=Usr:609 Doctor Duran Dur 12/01/91 22:03 Msg:6844 Call:38687 Lines:91
|
||
625 ..
|
||
626 ..
|
||
627 ..
|
||
628 ..
|
||
629 .......................................................................
|
||
630 >>>>>>>>>>>>>>>>>>>>>>>>>>>>>>>>>>>>>><<<<<<<<<<<<<<<<<<<<<<<<<<<<<<<<<<<<<<<<<
|
||
631
|
||
632 'Twas the night before Xmas,
|
||
633 Clause had nothin' to spare -
|
||
634 Just enough for a taxi,
|
||
635 And a 2-zone bus fair...
|
||
636
|
||
637 Deliverin' them toys,
|
||
638 To those girls and boyz -
|
||
639 Whether they're naughty or nice,
|
||
640 Or even on ice...
|
||
641
|
||
642 He didn't care,
|
||
643 Can you blame him?
|
||
644 He had nothin' to spare -
|
||
645 For a night of famine...
|
||
646
|
||
647 He landed 'bout twelve,
|
||
648 With the help of his elves -
|
||
649 Cause he got a DUI
|
||
650 With a sparkle in his eye...
|
||
651
|
||
652 A drink of Rum,
|
||
653 With a little kid and his drum -
|
||
654 'Like a fairy tale,
|
||
655 He actually drank ale....
|
||
656 Pa rum, pa pum, pum..............
|
||
657
|
||
658 Santa staggered here and there,
|
||
659 And met up with a queer -
|
||
660 Ho, ho, ho...and a bottle of rum,
|
||
661 Clause gave him a drink and a little toy drum...
|
||
662
|
||
663 Right just then, Frost appeared,
|
||
664 Santa, dazed awhile,
|
||
665 Gave Jack a smile,
|
||
666 Then, ran away with the wind in his beard...
|
||
667
|
||
668 Ho, ho , ho, give me a drink!
|
||
669 That big fat man needed a shrink -
|
||
670 Merry Xmas to all...ha, ha, ha,
|
||
671 As that merry bum cocked him in the jaw...
|
||
672
|
||
673 Knocked out cold,
|
||
674 With presents in his bag -
|
||
675 Everyone laughed,
|
||
676 And thought it was a gag...
|
||
677
|
||
678 Then, the police were on the scene,
|
||
679 'Lookin' mighty mean,
|
||
680 Breakin' up the crowd,
|
||
681 Knowin' the fat man was plowed...
|
||
682
|
||
683 They took him away,
|
||
684 Thinkin' he was a stray -
|
||
685 His elves were really stressed,
|
||
686 Because they were shamely dressed...
|
||
687
|
||
688 They wounded up bookin' Clause,
|
||
689 For no reason, or cause -
|
||
690 Now, he's in the slammer,
|
||
691 With MC HAMMER...
|
||
692
|
||
693 Xmas that year,
|
||
694 Sucked very dear,
|
||
695 For Santa and his wife -
|
||
696 'Cause he lost his job,
|
||
697 And screwed up his life....
|
||
698
|
||
699 'Now he's a bum
|
||
700 Drinkin' a bottle of rum,
|
||
701 With Rudolph the Red-Nosed Raindeer -
|
||
702 Givin' blow jobs for fun,
|
||
703 'Til his mouth feels like dung,
|
||
704 Ho, ho, ho...he's now considered a queer!!!!!
|
||
705
|
||
706
|
||
707 This Christmas Fairy Tale was brought to you by a special grant from
|
||
708 Smith's Home Furnishings -- 'cause nobody cares like Smith's!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!
|
||
709
|
||
710 >>>>>>>>>>>>>>>>>>>>>>>>>>>IN THE EYES OF A STRANGER<<<<<<<<<<<<<<<<<<<<<<<<<<<
|
||
711 ..
|
||
712 ...
|
||
713 ..
|
||
714 ....
|
||
715 ....................................................................
|
||
042=Usr:604 Chemo Sabe 12/02/91 13:33 Msg:6845 Call:38699 Lines:57
|
||
716 XVXVXVXVXVXVXVXXVXVXVXVXVXVXVXVXVXVXVXVXVXVXVXVXVXVXVXVXVXVXVXVXVXVXVXVXVX
|
||
717
|
||
718 I sure hope the case against Al Brown is more substantial than he one Tigard's
|
||
719 Finest had against me and my friend. It was one of the few times I'd coerced
|
||
720 a whole day's yardwork outta my roommate, and since we'd toiled from dawn
|
||
721 until dusk that fine spring day, we were too tired and hungry by nightfall
|
||
722 to even THINK about fixing dinner. So we'd decided to use the mailed coupon
|
||
723 for Godfather's Pizza that'd jut opened right down the street. As it hap-
|
||
724 pened, we were the only customers there until a carlod of obnoxiously drunk
|
||
725 bowlers made their presence known and scared me halfto death with their
|
||
726 menacing-sounding rowdiness toward the order taker. I finished quickly and
|
||
727 left, noting Tigard's finfest parked in the lot next dorr -- I'd thought
|
||
728 there were ethere because they'd been following the drunks or that the lone
|
||
729 pizza worker had been scared of 'em too and had called for assistance. But
|
||
730 NooOOoOO, for some reason we soon notice they wee following **US** ...
|
||
731 clear up past Fred Meyer, where they finally turned on their light and
|
||
732 motioned for us to pull into the isolated parking lot just past Burger King
|
||
733 on Barbur ... way up and off the road. No sooner had they pulled out their
|
||
734 2' mettal flashlight/bill clubs to shine steadily in our eyes than we
|
||
735 noticed, 3, 4, 5 other Tigard patrolcars pulling in (evidently it was a SLOW
|
||
736 night or something). Unfortunately I asked something that mighta sounded a
|
||
737 little smartassed about why they were shining their clubs in my eyes and
|
||
738 they immediately had my friend's door open and ordered him outta the car.
|
||
739 THey took him over and bent him over their patrol car to search him, hand-
|
||
740 cuffed his hands way up behind his back then told him to "get up (off the
|
||
741 patrol car) LIKE A MAN", after which they threw him to the ground to remove
|
||
742 his shoes.
|
||
743
|
||
744 By THAT time, my dog (a MEAN samoyed-poodle who'd come along foro the ride)
|
||
745 and I were practically hysterical. She was running around barking at the
|
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746 circle of "reserves" that'd surrounded us and I was complaining (possibly
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747 rather loudly) that the whole thing seemed like a ridiculous third-rate
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748 60s anti-eveything movie coe true, which WOULD be funny if it wasn't. As
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749 it ended up my friend was dragged off to Hillsboro, charged with "resist-
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750 ing arrest" <-???, this stemming from an original charge of "running the
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751 red" back at Godfathers (it IS/WAS confusing down there ... by the Tigard
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752 drivein ... that weird loop that is landscaped/fenced). And they also
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753 threatened me I was "that far" away (thumb/forefinger almost touching) from
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754 being arrested myself.
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755
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756 Since I didn't drive and was told I'd have to remove the car from the mid-
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757 dle of the parking lot, I went to the restaurant across the street to call
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758 my neighbor to ask him to come drive the car home. When I returned to the
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759 "scene of the crime" I found they'd all simply abandoned me ... leaving me
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760 alone in that dark, sisolated parking lot at 11:00 PM or so just a few days
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761 after the first woman was found murdered out here. I filed a complaint
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762 about the whole thing with the police department and I DID hear from them
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763 some months later. Another 6-liner (only because of the 2" margins) stating
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764 the City had looked into the matter and there was no wrongdoing on their
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765 part. Period. So my friend remains to be tagged a vicious "criminal" for
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766 life.
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767
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768 And Meantime, all this while we've been sitting ducks out here for all the
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769 REAL criminals they've never seemed to do anything about ... including the
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770 vicious and possibly even MORE TREACHEROUS criminal pursuits of the "white
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771 collar" types.
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772
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043=Usr:84 Michael Miller j 12/02/91 18:39 Msg:6846 Call:38703 Lines:20
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773 &*&*&*&*'s
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774 Ah, the joys of recording music. Recorded the song _on the run_ yesterday
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775 on my little 4 track. (I've posted lyrics and chords for this one here
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776 before.) My brother wrote a bass part for it that sounds fairly good,
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777 and a friend of mine wrote a guitar part that fits in really well. All
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778 in all it sounds good.
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779
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780 The downside was me recording the vocal about 15 times. I just couldn't seem
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781 to please myself. In the end I just decided to live with something less
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782 then perfection.
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783
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784 Its sort of wierd how we soun differant to others. Has to do with the
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785 tubes that lead from the throat to the inner ear I guess. Tends to distort
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786 our speach a little. My biggest problem is dealing with the fact that
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787 I don't sound the same on tape as I do to myself. Oh well, I'll learn to
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788 live with it.
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789
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790 An Astral Dreamer
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791 &*&*&*&*'s (...)
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792
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044=Usr:322 Stray Cat 12/02/91 19:39 Msg:6847 Call:38709 Lines:7
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793
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794 Geesh, of ALL the nerve. Now somebody actually wants EVERY grocery store
|
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795 in the state to have the same privileges Stroheckers has ALWAYS had, namely
|
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796 being able to sell hard liquor on the premises. I bet you don't even have
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797 to show a rent receipt up there either, but maybe THAT only applies to
|
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798 certain stores Downtown, huh??? And that aint even hard.
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799
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045=Usr:322 Stray Cat 12/03/91 07:58 Msg:6848 Call:38712 Lines:42
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800 MVMVMVMVMVMVMVMVMVMVMVMVMVMVMVMVMVMVMVMVMVMVMVMVMVMVMVMVMVMVMVMVMVMVMVMVMV
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801
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802 I guess I really SHOULD start asking other people what THEY know and think
|
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803 about the Al Brown allegations, because in my heart I never believed the
|
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804 first convictions. There's a whole bunch of weird people out here that all
|
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805 hung out down at the General Store and the Wright guy they arrested this
|
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806 month lived right near there too. Then there's the ones who DIDN'T hang
|
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807 out down there who are equally as weird who might have their OWN reasons
|
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808 for wanting Brown to take the rap instead of the REAL perpetrator(s). I
|
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809 think a history of this whole area is in order.
|
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810
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811 I will say that the senior Al Brown was an exemplary citizen in this area.
|
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812 For years he'd till my neighbors' and "my" backlots for less than it probably
|
||
813 cost him to drive his tractor up the street and he's help the other widows
|
||
814 in the neighborhood with odd jobs they were unable to do too. He always
|
||
815 kept his house and yard neat as apin and always had his two back lots in
|
||
816 vegetables. The same cannot be said for the house diagonally across from
|
||
817 him whose family had a neighborhood "history." One of the older women who
|
||
818 got a call had Mr. Brown as a pallbearer at her husband's funeral too. Mr.
|
||
819 Browon got cancer shortly after the first convictions and has since died.
|
||
820 That house and the house across the street from it stood empty for I don't
|
||
821 know how long. The weird place across from them was just tilled under last
|
||
822 summer and the who empty houses finally sold. When I told a neighbor that
|
||
823 has moved outta the neighborhood, she said I'd better check on down the
|
||
824 street because the it appears the offender simply moved down the street.
|
||
825 When she described the house, I knew it right away because I'd noticed it
|
||
826 looked "deathly" years ago.
|
||
827
|
||
828 One of the things I resent about the whole thing is the all the hype sur-
|
||
829 rounding it. It seems like the case is already built against him before
|
||
830 there's even been a trial. And I think part of the problem is that the
|
||
831 neighborhod ... no the entire sw area ... has been preprimed through those
|
||
832 questionable neighborhood associations who seem to be the only outlet for
|
||
833 area crime information anymore (which makes me begin to wonder about these
|
||
834 new c
|
||
835 "community policing" policies too). There's ALWAYS been weird corruption
|
||
836 out here and I've always felt it was more of a "cause and effect" situation.
|
||
837 I always kinda think when you've got alot of "legal"-type corruption thru
|
||
838 city bureaus and government officials, you're gonna have a backlash or what
|
||
839 is is commonly called "criminal" activity even though they're both the same.
|
||
840 Too bad we can't just call a truce, huh? But there's money to be made ...
|
||
841
|
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046=Usr:604 Chemo Sabe 12/03/91 19:20 Msg:6849 Call:38715 Lines:4
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842 """""""""""""" Wouldn't it be nice if all those banks & S&L's took Father
|
||
843 Faust/Bruce Williams' advice and all worked three times as hard as the
|
||
844 next guy to pay back their debts? We'd all be millionaires.
|
||
845
|
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047=Usr:576 Robert Doherty 12/03/91 20:44 Msg:6850 Call:38716 Lines:3
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846 MY MY MY MY MY MY MY.......NOTHING LIKE A LITTLE CHEERFUL PROSE AND CONVERSAT-
|
||
847 ION TO BRIGHTEN UP THE HOLIDAYS!
|
||
848 ____________________________BD_________________________________________________
|
||
048=Usr:286 Jeff Marten 12/03/91 23:42 Msg:6851 Call:38719 Lines:49
|
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849
|
||
850
|
||
851 {+}{+}{+}{+}
|
||
852
|
||
853 Jesus, all this snivelling about non-posting. Ok, ok...how's
|
||
854 this...........
|
||
855
|
||
856 Last Train to Jamaica
|
||
857
|
||
858 I'm walking along the beach near Negril, seven miles of
|
||
859 white sand spread out in a crescent before me as I squint
|
||
860 into the morning sun. Not another soul on the beach as far as
|
||
861 I can see, not another sound in the air other than the {entle
|
||
862 lapping of the turquoise waves on the white shore and the
|
||
863 stray calls of brightly colored birds in the lush rustling
|
||
864 vegetation.
|
||
865 I come upon a set of railroad tracks that rise up out of
|
||
866 the water, sever the small beach and disappear into the
|
||
867 brush. No way. Could a storm have washed them up? Nobody
|
||
868 builds railroad tracks into the sea. I touch a steel rail
|
||
869 with my bare foot. It's hot from the sun. And it's vibrating.
|
||
870 I leap back as the sea suddenly explodes. Out of boiling
|
||
871 white foam a black steel smokestack emerges like Godzilla,
|
||
872 billowing a great plume of grey smoke into the morning air. A
|
||
873 giant steam locomotive engine, just like in the Westerns,
|
||
874 rises out of the frothy Caribbean and roars past me as I
|
||
875 stand dumbstruck in the sand--pistons furiously pumping,
|
||
876 giant iron wheels spinning over the tracks, seawater
|
||
877 evaporating off the hot churning black machinery. Car after
|
||
878 car thundering past me, old wooden passenger cars, windows
|
||
879 sparkling wet in the tropical sunshine. I can see inside.
|
||
880 There are people in there Ladies in bonnets, gentlemen in
|
||
881 top hats smoking big cigars. I'm rooted to the spot where I
|
||
882 stand, frozen in raw shock and awe. As the caboose disappears
|
||
883 into the jungle and the man standing on the platform waves to
|
||
884 me, I wave back. A reflex.
|
||
885 Finally, I pull my feet back out of the sand where
|
||
886 they've sunk. I touch the rail again with my foot. No
|
||
887 vibration. I follow the tracks into the green foliage. After
|
||
888 about fifty yards, the wooden ties begin to sink
|
||
889 progressively deeper into the ground, until the steel rails
|
||
890 themselves disappear into the sandy undergrowth.
|
||
891
|
||
892 -+|[ ThingFish ]|+-
|
||
893 Melts In Your Mind, Not Your Bloodstream
|
||
894
|
||
895
|
||
896 {+}{+}{+}{+}
|
||
897
|
||
049=Usr:604 Chemo Sabe 12/05/91 12:06 Msg:6853 Call:38743 Lines:41
|
||
898 VVVVVVVVVVVVVVVVVVVVVVVVVVVVVVVVVVVVVVVVVVVVVVVVVVVVVVVVVVVVVVVVVVVVVV
|
||
899
|
||
900 MICHAEL Brown, huh? Bet he's that too good to be true/Blonde Troy Donohue
|
||
901 type who tilled our bac lots that one year ...
|
||
902
|
||
903 I'm still wondering who it was, though, that I wated for the bus with one
|
||
904 day about 6-8 yrs before this whole mess started who insisted on giving me
|
||
905 a ride to town instead of my hitchhiking when it appeared the bus wasn't
|
||
906 coming. Had his car parked right across the street, too. Now the story
|
||
907 on this car, he'd said, was that he'd gotten it from the guy who used to
|
||
908 own "the gas station" right there on Barbur (there were 3 if you counted
|
||
909 the old one that WAS the bus stop). I think he said he'd gotten it instead
|
||
910 of backwages when the station was sold. Said the car'd belonged to the
|
||
911 guy's son, who'd worked there too, along with alot of other neighborhood
|
||
912 boys. Said the passenger seat HAD been wired and door handles removed on
|
||
913 the passenger side. He cautioned me NEVER to hitchhike, but if I DID never
|
||
914 to get in a car with the doorhandles removed. (After I'd gotten a ride
|
||
915 from an old man handing out those weird religious tracts that looked like
|
||
916 they were produced by perverts, I DID quit BTW).
|
||
917
|
||
918 Now I never DID know who this guy was ... or his son, but when I told this
|
||
919 story to a neighbor whose brother attended school with this son, she said
|
||
920 "oh yeaer" in a way you knew was weird. I don't think too much about it
|
||
921 UNTIL one day when we were driving down the freeway in rush hour traffic
|
||
922 right next to this guy who was towing this pickup with a woman (probably
|
||
923 his sister) in the truck steering. Evidently the truck had no brakes and
|
||
924 they weren't using a towbar, only a rope. Somehow the pickup rammed into
|
||
925 the towed truck sending the tow car into the guardrail, breaking the rope
|
||
926 and setting the truck free ... without brakes. The chick ended up bailing
|
||
927 out of the moving truck onto the road divered between the freeway and Bar-
|
||
928 bur and her truck continued through the red light and down Barbur into a
|
||
929 gas station jut past what was then Denny's Restaurant. As it turned out,
|
||
930 the car closest to the "accident"
|
||
931 ended up as a witness down at the gas station and I heard him say he was
|
||
932 the son of the guy who'd owned the station up te street. He seemed almost
|
||
933 silly or giddy or maybe "ON something" (as Tigard's Finest are fond to say).
|
||
934 If I remember correctly, I think he had a bald spot with stringy long hair.
|
||
935 And when I've thought about it lately, in my own mind, HE seeme more the
|
||
936 type to be continually harrassing people in the neighborhood by such pranks
|
||
937 as turning all the outdoor water spigots in the yard in the middle of the
|
||
938 night.
|
||
050=Usr:657 Shrew kate 12/05/91 12:24 Msg:6854 Call:38744 Lines:22
|
||
939
|
||
940 Unrelated but also interesting too, last summer while I was out sunbathing
|
||
941 I heard some strange noises, like branches breaking. Since we'd had a rash
|
||
942 of this type of vandalism for the past couple of years, I went to investi-
|
||
943 gate and found this "hippy"-looking lady with long bkack frizzy hair and
|
||
944 her teenage son standing in the yard of the empty house that was "secretly"
|
||
945 up for sale (the house across for THAT was empty too and up for sale). I
|
||
946 explained my Mission and ended up talking to her for half an hour or so
|
||
947 (the neighborhood Overlord was overseeing the operation too). Anyway she
|
||
948 said she was the wife of the ex-chief of police from Sherwood ... that
|
||
949 they'd lived in California for ahile (San Diego or Sacramento, can't remem-
|
||
950 ber), but had returned some time ago and had rented the Brown's house up
|
||
951 the street, so was Familiar with the neighorhood. Shortly after that,
|
||
952 the weird house across the street from the Browns mysteriously "disappeared"
|
||
953 (amost overnight) and the 10-year collection of old metal, refrigerators,
|
||
954 cars and whatever was removed from the yard too. Seems to me 10 years ago
|
||
955 there was only a gargantuan old boat sitting around in that yard. They'd
|
||
956 also had fire there some time back .... maybe like the one this last fall.
|
||
957
|
||
958 VVVVVVVVV Perhaps they should question some of the OLDER neighbors that
|
||
959 USED to live up there ... the ones in the same business maybe.
|
||
960
|
||
051=Usr:657 Shrew kate 12/05/91 20:53 Msg:6856 Call:38761 Lines:9
|
||
961 WWWWWWWWWWWWWWWWWWWWWWWWWWWWWWWWWWWWWWWWWWWWWWWWWWWWWWWWWWWWWWWWWWWW
|
||
962
|
||
963 I don't know WHAT it is about this neighborhood, but before the deluge,
|
||
964 a guy right up the street was convicted of the shooting at Zack's in SE
|
||
965 Portland. I'd noticed at the time a damaged car parked on the lawn of
|
||
966 that house with the driver-side window smashed where his head probably
|
||
967 hit ...
|
||
968
|
||
969 WWWWWWWWWWWWWWWWWWWWWWWWWWWWWWW Where'd they all come from ... and WHY?
|
||
052=Usr:658 Justin Klein 12/05/91 22:56 Msg:6857 Call:38768 Lines:11
|
||
970 ------------------------------Justin the Blue---------------------------------
|
||
971 Who is back. I be back from the hinterlands, Corvallis and Albany, and
|
||
972 I am gainfully employed. Doing well, for once in my life.
|
||
973
|
||
974 I got a good job, which makes me feel two ways; 1, glad as hell, and 2,
|
||
975 guilty for all those who lightning like this doesn't strike.
|
||
976
|
||
977 If It can happen to me, believe me, it can happen to you. Don't
|
||
978 give up.
|
||
979
|
||
980 -------------------------------I'll be back.----------------------------------
|
||
053=Usr:219 Friar Mossback 12/06/91 07:00 Msg:6858 Call:38772 Lines:5
|
||
981 [][][][][][][][][][][][][][][][][][][][][][][][][][][][][][][][][][][][][][][]
|
||
982 Justin-
|
||
983 Long time no talk to, how ya been? Congratulations on the pleasant turn
|
||
984 your life is taking. Great news!
|
||
985 [][][][][][][][][][][][][][][][][][] Friar [][][][][][][][][][][][][][][][]
|
||
054=Usr:657 Shrew kate 12/06/91 13:15 Msg:6860 Call:38775 Lines:6
|
||
986 <<@>><<@>><<@>><<@>><<@>><<@>><<@>><<@>> Aint it amazing how quickly
|
||
987
|
||
988 they REACT when you're a druggist who happens to live in a mini-mansion
|
||
989 in the hills??? That musta been record time. Wonder if it was Just his
|
||
990 wife shot if we'da seen that kinda speed.
|
||
991
|
||
055=Usr:84 Michael Miller j 12/06/91 17:16 Msg:6861 Call:38776 Lines:8
|
||
992 &*&*&*&*'s
|
||
993 Does it sometimes seem as if certain people on this board have lost touch
|
||
994 with reality? I've read everything, and I'm still unable to figure out what
|
||
995 that last post was about.
|
||
996
|
||
997 Welcome back Justin.
|
||
998 An Astral Dreamer
|
||
|