From: TURTLE To: BURNEY Subject: instinct Date & Time: 11/07/90 22:03:04 Message Number 10301 Xenophobia is fear of strangers or fear of anything different from yourself (for example, fear of blacks, fear of gays, and the like). The fact that there may be genetic predispositions toward behavioral trends has nothing to do with nonsense like a "link" between blacks and crime. 'Crime' is not a single basic behavior pattern or reaction. Fear, anger, and /basic/ drives can be influenced (not controlled!) by genetics, but complex behavior (like robbing cars) is not. Also, a genetic predisposition does /not/ mean the person who has it will behave that way, any more than a person with a predisposition toward addictive behavior is going to become an alcoolic. It still takes something in the environment (generally) to 'trigger' the behavior. (There is also no known or suspected genetically-influenced behavior trait that's limited to members of one particular race; most behaviors of that sort aren't even limited to humans!) =========== From: TURTLE To: DRAGONFLY Subject: UltraSheep Date & Time: 11/07/90 22:09:19 Message Number 10302 >How many colors will the Ultrasheep (tm) shirt have? Four or six, hence the cost. >And what font will UltraSheep be in? UltraSheep is a porcelain planter! Planters don't have fonts. The /foliage/ UltraSheep will be in is Venus flytraps, though. =========== From: TURTLE To: -ALL- Subject: It's coming! Date & Time: 11/07/90 22:13:16 Message Number 10303 The second annual RufusCon is happening this month. Stay tuned for details, and remember: "If this gets in the hands of the Russians, it's curtains for the free world." =========== From: MAX To: SPELLWIND Subject: ST:TNG Date & Time: 11/07/90 23:41:08 Message Number 10304 > Hecate and Athena are the same. No, they're not. Athena was the goddess of wisdom; Hecate was the goddess of magic. Only the same if you take a Zen approach to the whole thing and say that all of them, along with all other female deities, are all avatars of "the" Goddess. =========== From: MAX To: DRAGONFLY Subject: Heinlein Date & Time: 11/07/90 23:50:41 Message Number 10305 > Of his later works, I like Stranger in a Strange Land the most... When people attempt to divide Heinlein's works into "early" and "late," it's usually based around his stroke, which happened around 1970. "Stranger" was written before that, so it really isn't one of his "later" novels -- even though it was very different in tone from most of the ones written before it, it had a lot of the philosophies that were undercurrents in them. Most of the ones written after "Stranger" were rehashes of that original theme. =========== From: MAX To: DIONYSUS Subject: PS Date & Time: 11/08/90 00:00:27 Message Number 10306 > ...IBM really deserves credit for being what they are in the computer > world! Hear, hear! I wish more people would realize they're overpriced, badly designed computers backed by a company with the most egotistical We Are Everything attitude ever seen in American industry. Thanks, but no thanks. I could put together a software package, comprised mostly of public domain & shareware utilities, that would bring MS-DOS up to near the level of Z-System, but it'd still be missing a few extremely useful things and would take up about four or five times as much disk space (and not run appreciably faster than a 64180 or Z8400-based Z computer unless it was installed on a 386) -- but a lot of people wouldn't use it, because (and I am not making this up) it would be TOO CHEAP TO BE GOOD. Come again? That's right, a program that doesn't have a three-digit pricetag can't be useful. That attitude, combined with (a) the solution to slow program execution is a faster CPU and (b) the solution to bloated program code is to buy more memory, is what IBM really deserves credit for. =========== From: MAX To: THUMPER 1 Subject: heinlein Date & Time: 11/08/90 00:10:44 Message Number 10307 Orson Card is an excellent writer -- I think he's one of the best writers (along with William Gibson, Michael Bishop and Emma Bull) in the sf/fantasy field today. =========== From: MAX To: BEATLE Subject: Illumination Date & Time: 11/08/90 00:21:54 Message Number 10308 The deadline for Mythagoras #4 is mid-December (December 13, I believe). The publication date is February 1st (NOT January -- this issue came out November 1st, and it's a quarterly, not a bimonthly!). The months of publication are listed in the indicia, and it's always going to be out in the first week of the publication month (assuming we're on schedule). =========== From: CRYSTAL To: RUFUS Subject: scratcing Date & Time: 11/08/90 03:08:04 Message Number 10310 >Every simmer? Was it a yearly ritual? :) Yes it was, it was the most painful 6 years of my life. The only good thing about it was that I lived in Pennsylvania and it did not get too warm up their, at least not till after most of the poison ivy went away. * CRYSTAL * =========== From: KOOL KAT To: RUFUS Subject: UltraSheep Date & Time: 11/08/90 08:50:53 Message Number 10311 I would like to congtadulate the MSTF for a GREAT job on the new Mythagoras. It was AWESOME (If a little expensive.) Rowr!  The Kat =========== From: KOOL KAT To: BEATLE Subject: Rowr! Date & Time: 11/08/90 08:53:17 Message Number 10312 Of COURSE TV Guide is biased. That's what it there for. Just kidding.... By the way BEATLE, I'm baaaaaack! =========== From: SCOTT STEEL To: BEATLE Subject: gas chamber Date & Time: 11/08/90 18:24:25 Message Number 10315 > I would rather retch in a gas chamber than listen to their album, I wonder if I could arrange that for you. Yes 2 Live Crew is offensive but I do like some of their songs. Let me clarify, I don't like rap but I do like the F*ck Shop and Me So Horny. =========== From: SCOTT STEEL To: THUMPER 1 Subject: Drug legaliz... Date & Time: 11/08/90 19:12:59 Message Number 10316 A friend of mine,(non-BBSer) feels, and I agree, that we should legalize drugs. The government could pay off the national debt in no time, and a save money on drug enforcement to boot. Also it would get rid of many of heavy drug-users though overdose. Make drugs affordable and plentiful, users buy more, overdose and die. I know then you have to deal with all those dead bodies. But look at the benefits. Who knows, maybe people would actually brighten up and stop using drugs. .s =========== From: SCOTT STEEL To: KEN SABLE Subject: And Noone Date & Time: 11/08/90 19:26:38 Message Number 10317 Hey this is Scott Steel I haven't sign on in three weeks. And I,m now half way though the 400 and some odd new messages, and to be blunt. They suck. Nothing but bullshit about religion, and computers, and more stupid shit. The topic of drug legalization is interesting. =========== From: SCOTT STEEL To: SPELLWIND Subject: You HOSERS Date & Time: 11/08/90 19:37:28 Message Number 10318 > I resent that statement. No, you resemble that statement. =========== From: SCOTT STEEL To: THUMPER 1 Subject: Drugs Date & Time: 11/08/90 19:39:32 Message Number 10319 Addictions Nicotine and music. Occasional use of illegal substances. If you don't like it, tough shit. I'm just putting my two cents in. And yes I think drugs should be legalized. Thank you, good day. Scott Steel =========== From: SCOTT STEEL To: RUFUS Subject: An issue Date & Time: 11/08/90 19:53:46 Message Number 10320 New Kids on the Block should be tortured slowly and forced to listen to 2 Live Crew to be properly corrupted. The Fags on the Corner =========== From: THE SPECIALIST To: ELF Subject: SPECIALIST Date & Time: 11/08/90 20:30:42 Message Number 10321 E>WHO IS THIS CHARACTER? Who the hell are you? Besides, why do you ask? Ah, never mind...I probably don't care anyway. =========== From: THE SPECIALIST To: ELF Subject: GOTCHA Date & Time: 11/08/90 20:31:57 Message Number 10322 E>SO...., I HAVE MANAGED TO TRACK YOU HERE. WATCH YUR BACK! Eh? Where did you track me from last? And why have you taken an interest in me, anyway? =========== From: THE SPECIALIST To: DRAGONFLY Subject: words of wisdom Date & Time: 11/08/90 20:36:08 Message Number 10323 Lazarus Long was actually a fairly interesting character. Not as interesting as some of Hienlien's other characters, but still... =========== From: THE SPECIALIST To: THUMPER 1 Subject: Heinlein Date & Time: 11/08/90 20:38:12 Message Number 10324 T>Fear is the mind-killer. Fear is the little death that brings total T>obliteration. I will face my fear. It will wash over and through me. T>When it is gone, Only I will Remain. Could it have been Young Paul Atraides, from the book Dune, by Frank Herbert? =========== From: THE SPECIALIST To: ELF Subject: Never mind Date & Time: 11/08/90 20:42:07 Message Number 10325 E>AJ already warned me! Ah, so then, are you a faggot? That'd make you a Gender Bender. SICK SICK SICK SICK SICK SICK SICK SICK SICK SICK SICK SICK SICK SICK SICK SICK SICK SICK SICK SICK SICK SICK SICK SICK SICK SICK SICK SICK SICK SICK SICK SICK SICK SICK SICK SICK =========== From: THE SPECIALIST To: THUMPER 1 Subject: suggestion Date & Time: 11/08/90 20:52:00 Message Number 10326 Try "Have Spacesuit, Will Travel"...pulp but excellent. =========== From: RUFUS To: TURTLE Subject: Books Date & Time: 11/08/90 21:30:48 Message Number 10327 I'd like to know what happened to the movie for Neuromancer. If done right, it would be a very good movie. Anyone care to play that ever popular game "cast the characters"? =========== From: RUFUS To: TURTLE Subject: UltraSheep Date & Time: 11/08/90 21:34:21 Message Number 10328 >an A/R T-shirt, an UltraSheep T-shirt, and an "I Visited Sunny Beiruit, God's Own Paradise on Earth...." Hmm...you should slip a "Uncle Bob's" shirt in there... =========== From: RUFUS To: KOOL KAT Subject: UltraSheep Date & Time: 11/08/90 21:41:23 Message Number 10329 >I would like to congtadulate the MSTF for a GREAT job on the new >Mythagoras. It was AWESOME (If a little expensive.) Well, you should probably direct that comment to Bart or Max. Rufus, owned by Rufus, Ltd., is in no way associated with the MSTF. > Rowr! Rowr! back at ya. =========== From: TURTLE To: SCOTT STEEL Subject: gas chamber Date & Time: 11/09/90 01:11:13 Message Number 10331 >...I don't like rap but I do like the F*ck Shop and Me So Horny. I'm very sorry to hear that. Is there anything I can do to help? =========== From: TURTLE To: SCOTT STEEL Subject: Drugs Date & Time: 11/09/90 01:12:54 Message Number 10332 >And yes I think drugs should be legalized. Oh, good thinking. People can go to 7-11 and buy some crack and a little angel dust for the party this evening, hmm? "Hey, there's a sale on Michelob, and look, there's another on instant psychosis in powder form!" No thanks, I've seen what happens when people do that shit; I'm not convinced that making it *more* available is gonna solve the drug problem. =========== From: TURTLE To: THE SPECIALIST Subject: words of wisdom Date & Time: 11/09/90 01:15:09 Message Number 10333 Lazarus Long's only redeeming trait was his endless supply of pithy quotes, which he spewed forth at great length without provocation. Most of his philosophy (or actually Heinlein's philosophy) was rather silly, though. =========== From: TURTLE To: RUFUS Subject: Books Date & Time: 11/09/90 01:17:00 Message Number 10334 >I'd like to know what happened to the movie for Neuromancer. ?? Huh ?? I'm still wondering what happened to the movie version of "Watchmen." Was there a movie in the works for Neuromancer? >Anyone care to play that ever populat game "cast the characters"? Case: Matt Freuer. Molly: Sigourney Weaver. Armitage: Um, that's a tough one. Rivera: Lessee. What we need is one sick, evil, twisted mother here. How 'bout Mickey Rourke? =========== From: DRAGONFLY To: THUMPER 1 Subject: peachs Date & Time: 11/09/90 18:03:11 Message Number 10335 There was no beep. There is no MCI on this system. Everything is perfectly safe and sane. You are OK. You love Big Brother. Orgy-porgy, /Dragonfly/ =========== From: DRAGONFLY To: BEATLE Subject: UltraSheep Date & Time: 11/09/90 18:07:12 Message Number 10336 B> I had no idea there were LAWS to absurdity. Of course! The First Law of Absurdity is that absurdity will follow no laws. /Dragonfly/ =========== From: DRAGONFLY To: BEATLE Subject: Huh? Date & Time: 11/09/90 18:09:21 Message Number 10337 My dear sir, you payed that much for the quality of the magazine. Notic all of those wonderful words on the inside! And the beautiful type- setting! Not only that, but also notice the fine paper used. Do you truly believe that paper grows on trees? My dear sir, you did not merely purchase a magazine; you have helped the American Dream plod along! /Dragonfly/ =========== From: DRAGONFLY To: BURNEY Subject: Deutch Date & Time: 11/09/90 18:12:45 Message Number 10338 Not bad. Though you've still got quite a bit of an American accent. /der Deutscher/ =========== From: DRAGONFLY To: RUFUS Subject: Solipsism Date & Time: 11/09/90 18:15:29 Message Number 10339 R> I made up a few events to spruce the paper up, and named the R> cat Omaha. Heh heh heh! I'm curious: with a name like that, what events did you add to the cat's life? Purr! /Dragonfly/ =========== From: DRAGONFLY To: SCOTT STEEL Subject: And Noone Date & Time: 11/09/90 18:26:36 Message Number 10340 >...and to be blunt. They [the messages] suck. Okay. What topics are interesting to you? Start up something! /Dragonfly/ =========== From: DRAGONFLY To: TURTLE Subject: Drugs Date & Time: 11/09/90 18:30:33 Message Number 10341 T> I'm not convinced that making it *more* available is gonna solve T> the drug problem. How would you solve the drug problem? /Dragonfly/ =========== From: KEN SABLE To: TURTLE Subject: And Noone Date & Time: 11/09/90 21:40:17 Message Number 10342 Hey, I like the SuperBrain characterset!!!! =========== From: WIND STAFFER To: ALL Subject: Bit Net Date & Time: 11/09/90 22:19:56 Message Number 10344 Can Someone help me get a bitnet connection. I am new to the city and need help to contact relatives and friends through bit-net. Please respond in either e-mail or here. n -Wind- =========== From: THUMPER 1 To: TURTLE Subject: mci Date & Time: 11/10/90 10:02:01 Message Number 10346 Oh. No message wrap!( he reals with shock and disgust!) =========== From: THUMPER 1 To: TURTLE Subject: Cyberpunk Date & Time: 11/10/90 10:03:18 Message Number 10347 My apologies, I read (some where, I'll tell you where when I find the article.) that W. Gibson coined the term "Cyberpunk" Perhaps my last message was unclearly written. I do like Bruce Sterling though... =========== From: THUMPER 1 To: TURTLE Subject: 42 Date & Time: 11/10/90 10:06:04 Message Number 10348 > 16 small flightless birds, and blue. And Gravy! You always forget the gravy! =========== From: THUMPER 1 To: TURTLE Subject: Prolog Date & Time: 11/10/90 10:08:17 Message Number 10349 Have you heard of Prolog? It's an AI programming language that came out in '86, for fifth generation super-computers, but the language is now available (SP.?) for IBM and compatibles. I was just wondering if any one had heard about a new version for 1990-91? =========== From: THUMPER 1 To: TURTLE Subject: Pixel Date & Time: 11/10/90 10:12:29 Message Number 10350 The cat pixel can walk through walls because he's to young to know that he can't. (I think that was what the explanation was?!?) I dunno... One of my cats (His name is Trible) cab materialize at the refridgerator door just before you open it. =========== From: THUMPER 1 To: MAX Subject: IBM Date & Time: 11/10/90 10:20:42 Message Number 10351 IBM Is rumored to be preparing to market a "Transputer" (five small computers linked in one box) in late 1991. It's capable of running over 10,000 functions simultaneously, and it will be One fifth the power of a Cray super-computer at one one hundreth the price. (This is a rumor and it will probably never happen but wouldn't it be FUN!!!!) =========== From: THUMPER 1 To: MAX Subject: orson Date & Time: 11/10/90 10:25:49 Message Number 10352 Have you read "Ender's Game"? =========== From: THUMPER 1 To: SCOTT STEEL Subject: oh yeah! Date & Time: 11/10/90 10:29:06 Message Number 10353 WHY ARE THE MESSAGES BEING MIXED TOGETHER!!! WHAT'S GOING ON? HELP!!!! I'M MELTING!!!!! =========== From: THUMPER 1 To: SCOTT STEEL Subject: Addictions. Date & Time: 11/10/90 10:31:12 Message Number 10354 Cats... I'm addicted to cats too. (Take it any way you want to.) =========== From: THUMPER 1 To: THE SPECIALIST Subject: dune Date & Time: 11/10/90 10:34:25 Message Number 10355 My we have some literate people here! Very good! Bene Geserit Saying... =========== From: THUMPER 1 To: THE SPECIALIST Subject:  Date & Time: 11/10/90 10:35:31 Message Number 10356 How about... "I just have a slight Eodipus complex." =========== From: THUMPER 1 To: RUFUS Subject: cast Date & Time: 11/10/90 10:38:28 Message Number 10357 Wendy 'O Williams could be Molly! (HAHAHAHAHAHAHAHAHAHAHAHA.....HACK!) Dom deLuise could be the voice of Wintermute. =========== From: THUMPER 1 To: TURTLE Subject: Heinlein Date & Time: 11/10/90 10:42:19 Message Number 10358 >silly... Silly yes. But entertaining when you want light reading. =========== From: THUMPER 1 To: DRAGONFLY Subject: peachs Date & Time: 11/10/90 10:44:20 Message Number 10359 AAAAAAAAAAAAAUUUUUUUUUUUUUUUURRRRRRRRRRRRRRGGGGGGGGGGHHHHHHHHHHH!!!!!! Thanks... I'm feeling much better now. >Big brother... What about big sister? (Her name's Gurt.) =========== From: THUMPER 1 To: DRAGONFLY Subject: Accents Date & Time: 11/10/90 10:47:24 Message Number 10360 I took six years of German from an Italian teacher, So I speak German with an Italian accent. =========== From: RUFUS To: TURTLE Subject: Books Date & Time: 11/10/90 11:23:10 Message Number 10361 Yeah, there was discussion of a movie for Neuromancer. I'm not sure how far they got. I'll see if I can find out some more info. And I was thinking of Sigourney Weaver as Molly, too. I should go back and re-read that book, it's been a few years... =========== From: RUFUS To: DRAGONFLY Subject: Solipsism Date & Time: 11/10/90 11:25:31 Message Number 10362 >...with a name like that, what events did you add to the cat's life? Sheeesh....you people (insects, whatever) are bizarre. =========== From: RUFUS To: THUMPER 1 Subject: Pixel Date & Time: 11/10/90 11:27:33 Message Number 10363 >The car pixel can walk through walls because he's to young to know that >he can't. Gee, sounds like "I haven't learned about gravity yet, so it doesn't affect me." Classic Toon gag. =========== From: RUFUS To: THUMPER 1 Subject:  Date & Time: 11/10/90 11:29:25 Message Number 10364 Thanks, I just got a copy of it. OH YES!!!! OH YES!!! I love it. I'm thinking about Turbo C++Pro by borland. Any good? =========== From: RUFUS To: THUMPER 1 Subject: cast Date & Time: 11/10/90 11:30:39 Message Number 10365 >Wendy 'O Williams could be Molly! Who's Wendy 'O Williams? =========== From: DRAGONFLY To: THUMPER 1 Subject: Prolog Date & Time: 11/10/90 14:56:05 Message Number 10366 The best version of Prolog I've found was the one made by Borland. Like their Turbo Pascal, they've made quite a few changes to the language, but it's much faster than any other Prolog out. The Japanese really love Prolog. One of their companies made/ will be making a machine whose assembly code will be/is Prolog! (To me, that seems a waste of chip space.) I haven't heard of any new versions for 90/91, though. I'll keep an ear out. /Dragonfly/ =========== From: DRAGONFLY To: THUMPER 1 Subject: Accents Date & Time: 11/10/90 15:03:58 Message Number 10368 T1> So, I speak German with an Italian accent. I'd hate to find out what THAT sounds like... Achtung! Bringst mir das Spaghetti! Und, aye! Madre de Dios!, das Wein! /Dragonfly/ =========== From: DRAGONFLY To: RUFUS Subject: NOSEDIVE! Date & Time: 11/10/90 15:07:32 Message Number 10369 "If there's anything I can do, it's land a plane stoned." "...except if you count the times he sold drugs dressed as a nun!" "And I gave her the Stars and Stripes Forever." Heavy Metal was a wonderful movie. Now, where does THIS quote come from: "We've got clearance, Clarence." "What?" "What's our vector, Victor?" /Dragonfly/ =========== From: TURTLE To: KEN SABLE Subject: And Noone Date & Time: 11/10/90 20:08:50 Message Number 10370 >Hey, I like the SuperBrain characterset!!!! Liar. =========== From: TURTLE To: THUMPER 1 Subject: 42 Date & Time: 11/10/90 20:10:04 Message Number 10371 >And Gravy! You always forget the gravy! And gravy, I know. The Answer to Life, the Universe, and Everything needs gravy. It's also excellent with a blush wine, but a white's just out of the question...it totally overwhelms the flavor. I still like Spaghetti-O's better, though. =========== From: TURTLE To: THUMPER 1 Subject: Prolog Date & Time: 11/10/90 20:12:22 Message Number 10372 I've heard of Prolog; most of what I've heard about it isn't that positive. It's excellent for expert systems, but it's not really flexible enough for real AI applications--all of Prolog is an extended If...Then...Else statement. It's also available for a lot more platforms than supercomputers and IBM's. =========== From: TURTLE To: THUMPER 1 Subject: Pixel Date & Time: 11/10/90 20:14:19 Message Number 10373 Cats in general have a built-in short-distance teleportation ability. A cat can blampf from almost any point within a house to the refrigerator instantly; they can also blampf into closed cupboards, to underneath your feet, and to the door if they hear something interesting. They never do it when they're being watched, though. =========== From: TURTLE To: THUMPER 1 Subject: IBM Date & Time: 11/10/90 20:16:04 Message Number 10374 >IBM Is rumored to be preparing to market a "Transputer"... Atari already makes one, although they don't sell it in this country. It has as many processors as you can afford and fully configured is just a hair faster than a Cray supercomputer. If IBM makes this device, I'm sure they'll manage to screw it up somehow. The IBM RT is a good RISC workstation botched by a bad operating environment (it can run a Unix clone, but only as a satellite task under RT-OS!) and Micro Channel Architecture. Running a RISC machine on Micro Channel is like hitching a U-Haul to your Corvette. =========== From: TURTLE To: DRAGONFLY Subject: NOSEDIVE! Date & Time: 11/10/90 20:23:52 Message Number 10375 >Now, where does THIS quote come from: Airplane, the movie. How 'bout: "DADDY would have gotten us Uzi's!" =========== From: BEATLE To: TURTLE Subject: Books Date & Time: 11/10/90 21:31:49 Message Number 10376 > ...Matt Freuer [Frewer]... Sigourney Weaver... That would make it worth the admission for me! That sounds like an interesing pairing... =========== From: BEATLE To: DRAGONFLY Subject: Huh? Date & Time: 11/10/90 21:33:13 Message Number 10377 > you have helped the American Dream plod along! I'm certainly glad that buying a magazine helps that... I'd like the production to be a little more cost effective, though.. =========== From: BEATLE To: DRAGONFLY Subject: NOSEDIVE! Date & Time: 11/10/90 21:38:54 Message Number 10378 > "We've got clearance, Clarence." Sounds like "Airplane!" to me! "Don't call me Roger..." (I THINK that's right...) =========== From: BURNEY To: THUMPER 1 Subject: Static Date & Time: 11/10/90 22:11:51 Message Number 10380 >cat static thing....sounds good. Not too long now it'll kill'm. I actually knew someone who killed their cat that way. =========== From: BURNEY To: TURTLE Subject: An issue Date & Time: 11/10/90 22:20:11 Message Number 10381 Yeah thats it. Wasn't that the one they made from peach pits or something. =========== From: BURNEY To: RUFUS Subject: c.o.c. Date & Time: 11/10/90 22:32:22 Message Number 10382 >Anyone care to play that game cast of characters?..... Not acquainted with it ...elaborate. =========== From: BURNEY To: DRAGONFLY Subject: Deutch Date & Time: 11/10/90 22:37:56 Message Number 10383 Her Dragonfly. Ich sprecht Deutsch sehr gut, aber du bist einer gut Her fur [recognizing poor] Deutsch. I think... =========== From: BURNEY To: THUMPER 1 Subject: Pixel Date & Time: 11/10/90 22:46:22 Message Number 10385 Funny my cat does the same thing....right out of thin air. And if thats not enough, if you're a little slow with the handout, she'll try and grab it out of your hand. Looks real funny when she just came out of the dryer (he..he..he). =========== From: BURNEY To: THUMPER 1 Subject: oh yeah! Date & Time: 11/10/90 22:49:49 Message Number 10386 Soylent Green. That was a ridiculous movie (if you can call it that). Not one of Charlton Heston's better movies. =========== From: BURNEY To: DRAGONFLY Subject: NOSEDIVE! Date & Time: 11/10/90 22:56:21 Message Number 10387 It came from 'Airplane'. Starring whats his name and whose itz...Leslie Nielson. Not a bad movie for an evening of mindless entertainment. =========== From: BURNEY To: TURTLE Subject: Pixel Date & Time: 11/10/90 22:59:55 Message Number 10388 I thought they voompfed not blampfed.. =========== From: BURNEY To: TURTLE Subject: RufusConII Date & Time: 11/10/90 23:04:00 Message Number 10389 Hey one of the disadvantages of where I work is I have to let them know which Saturdays I want off. PLEASE let me know ASAP so I can tell the big guy. Better yet if its on a Sunday it would make life much more enjoyable for this poor user. =========== From: BURNEY To: ALL Subject: mag's Date & Time: 11/10/90 23:07:31 Message Number 10390 Ummm, whatever that message was, it just turned up blank. I dunno if it's you or Turtle's screwy software. . Grr, I wonder how bad it just maimed that line since I hit delete. ....screwy software, are you insane. It's perfect, if you enjoy search =========== From: BURNEY To: ALL Subject: chair Date & Time: 11/10/90 23:10:19 Message Number 10391 Hey has anybody got an office style chair they'd like to sell. Right know I'm sitting on a strait back chair. After sitting here reading all the messages, my tukus get soar. (hense the conference this msg is listed in). Reasonable quality would be appreciated and free would be nice too. However I'd go up to at least 2/3 million for a good one. I know this isn't a /real/ message but I'm working at it. =========== From: RUFUS To: DRAGONFLY Subject: NOSEDIVE! Date & Time: 11/11/90 11:55:58 Message Number 10392 "If it's one thing I can do, it's drive when I'm stoned." The quote you mentioned was from Airplane. =========== From: RUFUS To: TURTLE Subject: NOSEDIVE! Date & Time: 11/11/90 11:58:12 Message Number 10393 >"DADDY would have gotten us Uzi's!" No idea. How about this: "Oh shit, there goes the neighborhood." Hey, wait a sec, didn't this little game start on my board? [Uncle Bob's Alligator Farm and Tofu Museum. 371-3498 3/12/2400 hit return twice after connecting] ...hope that slipped past the shameless plug detector. =========== From: RUFUS To: BURNEY Subject: c.o.c. Date & Time: 11/11/90 12:00:52 Message Number 10394 Ok. seriously... James Earl Jones for the voice of Wintermute. Harry Dean Stanton could be Dixie the construct. =========== From: DRAGONFLY To: BURNEY Subject: Deutch Date & Time: 11/11/90 12:15:37 Message Number 10396 Herr Burney! Thanks for the compliment... I think. /Dragonfly/ =========== From: DRAGONFLY To: BURNEY Subject: oh yeah! Date & Time: 11/11/90 12:17:17 Message Number 10397 Soylent Green was a ridiculous movie. But it still was better than the book. /Flying Draco/ =========== From: DRAGONFLY To: BURNEY Subject: chair Date & Time: 11/11/90 12:19:25 Message Number 10398 >I know this isn't a /real/ message but I'm working at it. WARNING TO USER: All preceding messages have not been real messages. All users, characters, and quotations are a work of fiction. Any resemblence between these characters and actual people is merely a coincidence. If this had been an actual message, the FCC, in concordance with state and local authorities, would have notified you of this fact. Close cover before striking. /Dragonfly/ =========== From: MAX To: THUMPER 1 Subject: IBM Date & Time: 11/11/90 23:31:56 Message Number 10399 It would be interesting if IBM came out with a transputer, but I suspect they'd screw it up if they actually did. Oddly enough, Atari has had a transputer on the market for over two years using the T800 architecture; you can drop in more CPU boards and it becomes faster with each one plugged in. I think it takes 5 of them to equal a Cray II, which works out to about $25,000 -- less than a top-of-the-line Compaq Systempro. The catch is that Atari doesn't sell it in America, even though they are an American computer company. In Europe, the Atari 16/32-bit computer line outsells MS-DOS machines and there are Atari Transputer Workstations out there in universities and some corporate installations. In America, though, you can show somebody an Atari TT -- 4 megs of RAM, a 25 MHz 68030, higher-than-SuperVGA graphics, stereo music, both Unix and the native DOS (an enhanced version of CP/M-68K) -- and they'll say, "Atari? Didn't they make Pac-Man?" and dismiss the computer without looking at it. =========== From: MAX To: THUMPER 1 Subject: orson Date & Time: 11/11/90 23:39:52 Message Number 10400 > Have you read "Ender's Game"? Yes, along with its sequel (Speaker for the Dead). Both excellent books. =========== From: MAX To: BURNEY Subject: mag's Date & Time: 11/11/90 23:47:07 Message Number 10401 > What's all this I hear about a magazine. It's "Mythagoras," which is a science fiction/fantasy/comics magazine with a focus on anthropomorphics. It is edited by and features work by several people floating around the local BBS scene, as well as some nationally-recognized small press writers and artists. The current issue is #3 and there are no back issues available currently, although both 1 and 2 will be printed again in 1991. > Where can I get a complimentary copy to see if I might want to buy one > later... Um, well, basically, nowhere. Our normally limited budget is at this point extremely limited, and even in the best of circumstances, free copies are generally reserved for trades with other 'zines, reviewers and for soliciting contributions from writers and/or artists who may not get a chance to see Mythagoras otherwise. Issue #3 is on sale at The Time Machine in Bradenton (in Southwood Plaza on U.S. 41, about 3 miles north of the airport), with a cover price of $3.95. It will also be on sale at any furry party. =========== From: MAX To: DRAGONFLY Subject: oh yeah! Date & Time: 11/11/90 23:54:55 Message Number 10402 "Soylent Green" was NOT a ridiculous movie. It may have had some problems, but on the whole it was one of the best science fiction movies produced to date, one of the few genre works that doesn't assume sf has to be escapist and that the best "future" movie is the one that asks you to turn off your brain for the duration. =========== From: DIONYSUS To: THE SPECIALIST Subject: Never mind Date & Time: 11/12/90 00:08:56 Message Number 10403 My, that was cute. =========== From: DIONYSUS To: THUMPER 1 Subject: Prolog Date & Time: 11/12/90 00:12:43 Message Number 10404 Psst - know how I might be able to get a version of Prolog (cheap) for MS-DOS machines, other than just a public domain student version? I the bottom-of-the-line public domain student version, and any step up would be greatly appreciated, even if it is still public domain. I think the version I have is PDPROLOG (not sure of the version) from Dittell's board (Suncoast City). Also, are you aware of any cheap or free versions of LISP? =========== From: DIONYSUS To: THUMPER 1 Subject: Addictions. Date & Time: 11/12/90 00:19:13 Message Number 10405 I take it that you are simply fond of them. I am too, and just happen to have mine curled up in my lap as I type. He's great; kinda old, though, and has a tendency to drool and shake spit all over my keyboard. Funny - he only does that when I'm working at the computer. =========== From: DIONYSUS To: TURTLE Subject: 42 Date & Time: 11/12/90 00:25:10 Message Number 10406 I know very little of lisp, but I have an updated version of prolog now. (Thanks for the offer though.) =========== From: THUMPER 1 To: RUFUS Subject: toons Date & Time: 11/12/90 20:07:23 Message Number 10407 >Classic toon gag. Vewy funny you scwewy wabbit!!!! =========== From: THUMPER 1 To: RUFUS Subject: nosedive! Date & Time: 11/12/90 20:08:36 Message Number 10408 I don' know. I Give. What is it? =========== From: THUMPER 1 To: TURTLE Subject: music Date & Time: 11/12/90 20:16:52 Message Number 10412 Speaking of 42... ever here a the band Front 242? =========== From: THUMPER 1 To: TURTLE Subject: blamf! Date & Time: 11/12/90 20:22:24 Message Number 10414 Cat's must be related to "Night Crawler" from the X-Men comics. Cats go "Blamf!" and he went"Bamf!" Wierd. =========== From: THUMPER 1 To: TURTLE Subject: transputer Date & Time: 11/12/90 20:24:24 Message Number 10415 IBM bought the patent on the transputer. (Really!!!) but Atari still has manufacturers rights. And supposedly some R&D people from Cray are now in the tank with IBM. So maybe.... you never know! =========== From: THUMPER 1 To: BURNEY Subject: static Date & Time: 11/12/90 20:28:46 Message Number 10416 "Here fluffy, sit here for a minute...BBZZZZAAAAPPP!!!!!!..sizzle! MOM!!!!! CALL THE THAI STEAKHOUSE!!! TELL THEM TO COME FOR A PICKUP!!! =========== From: RUFUS To: THUMPER 1 Subject: nosedive! Date & Time: 11/12/90 21:35:39 Message Number 10429 "Nosedive!" was from Heavy Metal. The short with the three aliens in the giant smiley face space ship. Really good, film, you should catch it sometime. =========== From: TURTLE To: BURNEY Subject: NOSEDIVE! Date & Time: 11/13/90 00:59:29 Message Number 10431 It came from 'Airplane'...Not a bad movie for an evening of mindless >entertainment. Not a bad movie?? Airplane was wonderful! "Excuse me, I speak Jive..." =========== From: TURTLE To: BURNEY Subject: Pixel Date & Time: 11/13/90 01:00:25 Message Number 10432 >I thought they voompfed not blampfed.. Cats blampf. It's a more abrupt form of translocation; voompfing is nothing more than moving very quickly; blampfing is teleportation. Other things blampf too...like cars...late at night...don't ask. =========== From: TURTLE To: BURNEY Subject: RufusConII Date & Time: 11/13/90 01:01:56 Message Number 10433 RufusCon II is now officially set for December 8-9, 1990. It will probably run through most of the weekend (the last one did), so arriving after work is no problem. Most likely the 'official' starting time will be around 6 PM. Stay tuned for more details! =========== From: TURTLE To: RUFUS Subject: NOSEDIVE! Date & Time: 11/13/90 01:04:19 Message Number 10434 >"Oh shit, there goes the neighborhood." Can't tell you. "DADDY would have gotten us Uzi's!" is from a staggeringly bad horror flick called "Day of the Comet;" the person uttering the line was a darling 16-year-old girl complaining because her big sister just stole a bunch of MAC-10's with which to get the zombies... =========== From: TURTLE To: RUFUS Subject: Neuromancer Date & Time: 11/13/90 01:06:32 Message Number 10435 James Earl Jones as Wintermute...hmm. I dunno; that /might/ work... (kind of skeptical look). Rivera and Armitage are still kinda difficult to cast, too. How 'bout Meryl Streep for Lady 3Jane Marie Tessier- Ashpool? =========== From: TURTLE To: THUMPER 1 Subject: transputer Date & Time: 11/13/90 01:12:21 Message Number 10436 >IBM bought the patent on the transputer. (Really!) God, I hope you're wrong. >And supposedly some R&D people from Cray are now in the tank with IBM. Specifically, Stephen Chen, the man who was going to be Seymour Cray's successor. He and Cray got into it about Chen's design for the Cray III (Chen wanted to go with a whole bunch of untried technology, like fiber optic switching circuitry and superconducting Josephson junctions) and Cray was afraid that putting that much untested technology in one machine would be asking for grief. Chen now heads up IBM's super- computer research team. =========== From: TURTLE To: ALL Subject: System Crash Date & Time: 11/13/90 01:29:30 Message Number 10437 ...but I bet you all figured that out already, huh? Anyway, the problem's fixed now... =========== From: BEATLE To: RUFUS Subject: nosedive! Date & Time: 11/13/90 06:58:21 Message Number 10438 > Really good, film, you should catch it sometime. So, I guess it's a good trade to borrow someone's "Heavy Metal" for my "Rocky Horror"?? =========== From: BEATLE To: TURTLE Subject: RufusConII Date & Time: 11/13/90 07:00:11 Message Number 10439 > is now officially set for December 8-9, 1990. Cool. Now, are you still going to have some sort of Furry Party on the weekend of the 17th or 24th (like the rumors suggest)? =========== From: BEATLE To: TURTLE Subject: NOSEDIVE! Date & Time: 11/13/90 07:02:37 Message Number 10440 > staggerinly bad horror flick called "Day of the Comet;"... Wasn't that "Night of the Comet"?? It sounds similar. Isn't that the movie where some teenage girls survive a comet and then proceed to raid the department stores? I can't really remember much else, but I kinda liked the film.. =========== From: BEATLE To: BEATLE Subject: NOSEDIVE! Date & Time: 11/13/90 07:07:59 Message Number 10441 The message should have ran: How 'bout "Say! Do any of you guys know how to Madison?" =========== From: RUFUS To: BEATLE Subject: nosedive! Date & Time: 11/13/90 17:09:51 Message Number 10442 You have "Rocky Horror" on video. Does this mean we can throw toast and water and other items around your living room? =========== From: BEATLE To: RUFUS Subject: nosedive! Date & Time: 11/13/90 18:05:09 Message Number 10443 > You have "Rocky Horror" on video. Did I say that? Hmmm. I thought I kept it out of the BBS community. > Does this mean we can throw toast and water and other items around > your living room? Uh, well, no, not that I wouldn't want to. It's because A) it would make a DAMN BIG mess and B) I didn't let my parents know I have the movie on tape. Of course, this doesn't stop you from gettting the tape and throwing toast and water around SOMEONE ELSE'S living room. In fact, I /want/ someone to at least host a party (or some sort of thing) where we can make use of the audience lines (and maybe some other things... say the things that don't make a mess.) =========== From: BEATLE To: BEATLE Subject: nosedive! Date & Time: 11/13/90 18:09:18 Message Number 10444 GGESH, Beatle, you DIsay that.... Oh well, anyone up for "Heavy Metal" this weekend?? =========== From: BURNEY To: DRAGONFLY Subject: Deutch Date & Time: 11/13/90 22:01:00 Message Number 10446 >...thanks for the compliment..I think. I dont remember what I said, its been a few days since I've been on. Anyway, your welcome, I think. =========== From: BURNEY To: DRAGONFLY Subject: oh yeah! Date & Time: 11/13/90 22:03:06 Message Number 10447 I didnt read the book, but I'll take your word for it. =========== From: BURNEY To: MAX Subject: mag's Date & Time: 11/13/90 22:06:34 Message Number 10448 >It will also be on sale at any furry party. Whens the next one... =========== From: BURNEY To: THUMPER 1 Subject: static Date & Time: 11/13/90 22:12:01 Message Number 10449 I dont know what it was about your message, but it hit the funny bone. I laughed for several minutes after reading it [BBZZZAAAAPPPPPTTT...] =========== From: BURNEY To: THUMPER 1 Subject: cats Date & Time: 11/13/90 22:13:49 Message Number 10450 >likes to be dust-busted. Strange.... I guess....Mine likes to share the pillow with you at night. Mind you if you don't want to she will proceed to push you over irregardless. If on the off chance SHE doesn't want the pillow, she'll lay on you no matter what position you're in. I woke up the other morning with her on my back. Strange cat....doesnt like milk either... =========== From: BURNEY To: TURTLE Subject: airplane Date & Time: 11/13/90 22:19:39 Message Number 10451 P U L E E Z.....Tell me what was so wonderful (jive) about it. =========== From: BURNEY To: TURTLE Subject: Pixel Date & Time: 11/13/90 22:22:02 Message Number 10452 I wonder if Big Brother is catching all this.... =========== From: BURNEY To: TURTLE Subject: RufusConII Date & Time: 11/13/90 22:23:20 Message Number 10453 Whew...I thought I was gonna have to miss it. Thanks for the info... =========== From: MAX To: BURNEY Subject: mag's Date & Time: 11/13/90 23:28:28 Message Number 10455 The next one is, I believe, this weekend... I'm sure Turtle will post some follow-up information with more specifics as to how to get to his apartment and other such. =========== From: BEATLE To: BURNEY Subject: airplane Date & Time: 11/14/90 06:39:31 Message Number 10456 > Tell me what was so wonderful about it. I thought "Airplane!" was a great movie too. Tell me the name of any other comedy with that many sucessful jokes. They're few and far between =========== From: SPELLWIND To: THUMPER 1 Subject: goooooood! Date & Time: 11/14/90 17:03:42 Message Number 10459 Uhhhhhh.... 3? :) =========== From: SPELLWIND To: RUFUS Subject: scratcing Date & Time: 11/14/90 17:05:19 Message Number 10460 I've never gotten pois. ivy. I have, on the other hand, swallowed something under the counter (many years ago), and I dring a gallon of milk every two days since..... Paranoia. =========== From: SPELLWIND To: TURTLE Subject: Peotry Date & Time: 11/14/90 17:08:34 Message Number 10461 Actually, it's 12 cardinals, and a red baseball bat. =========== From: SPELLWIND To: TURTLE Subject: Heinlein Date & Time: 11/14/90 17:10:27 Message Number 10462 sounds like that ex X man, Shadowcat? =========== From: SPELLWIND To: TURTLE Subject: UltraSheep Date & Time: 11/14/90 17:12:03 Message Number 10463 I think I could live in Beiruit! Joe Bob Briggs says all they watch over there is World Championship Wrestling... WCW/NWA. Hahaha .s /s DONE! Hey! .Hey! hahahA =========== From: SPELLWIND To: TURTLE Subject: instinct Date & Time: 11/14/90 17:15:34 Message Number 10464 You do understand that 'robbing cars' is stealing stuff inside the car while stealing cars is actually taking the car. =========== From: SPELLWIND To: KOOL KAT Subject: UltraSheep Date & Time: 11/14/90 17:20:57 Message Number 10465 I'd like to congradulate them too, even though I haven't been able to get a hold of an issue... =========== From: SPELLWIND To: THE SPECIALIST Subject: Heinlein Date & Time: 11/14/90 17:25:32 Message Number 10466 Awesome Iron Maiden song for that book/movie.... though it was made afterwards..... =========== From: SPELLWIND To: RUFUS Subject: Books Date & Time: 11/14/90 17:27:17 Message Number 10467 Deja Q is on ST:TNG.... =========== From: THUMPER 1 To: TURTLE Subject: jive Date & Time: 11/14/90 18:54:44 Message Number 10468 Sup' my nig home boy, I be standin' it at dee cono wi' my BK's on ma feet... ...I allways wondered what B.K. stood for. Some people say "British Knights" and others say "Black Kid" you tell me? =========== From: THUMPER 1 To: TURTLE Subject: hey!!! Date & Time: 11/14/90 18:59:25 Message Number 10469 Explain some thing to me please! I left about Nine posts here on tuesday but when I reviewed them, only every third was there, and some of the stuff from my posts was mixed in with other peoples. what happened? =========== From: THUMPER 1 To: TURTLE Subject: oh. Date & Time: 11/14/90 19:01:55 Message Number 10470 Ignore my previous message. =========== From: THUMPER 1 To: BEATLE Subject: heavy met'l Date & Time: 11/14/90 19:02:56 Message Number 10471 Can I find "Heavy Metal" on video? and Where!!! =========== From: THUMPER 1 To: BURNEY Subject: catfood Date & Time: 11/14/90 19:07:15 Message Number 10472 Thai's don't actually eat cats. Mung's do, but I wasn't sure you would know what a Mung was. (Mongolian) O.K. enough of the reply Scheisse. How about just plain odd? When playing with radio controlled cars, remember to keep the alchohol warm.(It doesn't burn as readilly when cold.) and here's a few tips that I have found to be helpful when it comes to saftey... ...Just about all of this has happened to me at one dumb point or another... 1.Keep the alchohol warm, and the beer cold.(You figure it out) 2.Keep a fire extinguisher on hand. 3.keep all cats in a locked room if they are under 15 lb. 4.remove all shag carpeting. 5.Use a condo...no thats not right. 6.Don't eat J-ello naked.(What movie is that from.) 7.Cats go sssssssssSSSSSSSSSSCCHWWAAACK!!! when teleporting 8.If you close the refridgerator door fast enough the cat goes, ...ssssssssssSSSSSSSSSCCCCCRRRRRREEEEEEAAAA THUD!!!! 9.don't bring a running engine near your pubic hair......... .......rrrrrrrrrrrrRRRRRRRRRRENCH(tangle tangle) YYYYYYEEEEAAAAAARRRRGG 10.Don't let a 15 lb. cat ride a R/C car...... ......"Here Spike, sit on this...rrrrrRRENCH!(Tangle tangle) MMRRREEOOW! a bald cat is not a pretty sight. Thats it. hoped you enjoyed my sick delusions about warm-nude-jello- indoor-R/C car racing! Later! =========== From: THUMPER 1 To: BURNEY Subject: catz Date & Time: 11/14/90 19:23:41 Message Number 10473 One of our kittens likes tobacco... ...he eats the butts out of the ashtray.(YUCK!) =========== From: THUMPER 1 To: SPELLWIND Subject: phi Date & Time: 11/14/90 19:27:27 Message Number 10474 Absolutly correct!!! =========== From: TURTLE To: BEATLE Subject: RufusConII Date & Time: 11/14/90 19:53:58 Message Number 10477 There will be a semi-informal spontaneous almost-furry-party the weekend of the 17th, probably starting somewhere around 5 or 6ish. I don't know how many people will show up, how long it will last, or any other silly details, since this particular furry party is kind of one of those things that happens whenever Ken Sable tries to get involved in planning anything. =========== From: TURTLE To: BEATLE Subject: NOSEDIVE! Date & Time: 11/14/90 19:56:42 Message Number 10478 Yes, it was in fact "Night of the Comet," I believe. The main characters are two teenage girls who survive the effects of a comet that turns almost everyone else into zombies; they steal some MAC-10's (which throughout the rest of the show keep jamming, hence "DADDY would have gotten us Uzi's!"), and wreak mayhem on the nasty ikky zombies. It's a good movie. =========== From: TURTLE To: BURNEY Subject: airplane Date & Time: 11/14/90 19:59:08 Message Number 10479 >Tell me what was so wonderful (jive) about it. Well, it was a good parody of the endless series of Airport dreck we were dribbled with for a few years; it was funny, in its own brainless way; and some of the lines are classic. =========== From: TURTLE To: BURNEY Subject: RufusConII Date & Time: 11/14/90 20:00:16 Message Number 10480 No problem. RufusCon '90 (or RufusCon II depending on who you ask) may even have its own genuine RufusCon T-shirts available... lots of fun to wear to other conventions to confuse the nice people. Hey, I wonder if we can get some of the guys tapping my phone to show up! That'd be great!! (That's an open invitation, guys; I'm sure you know where I live. You'll have a good time, I guarantee it!) =========== From: TURTLE To: SPELLWIND Subject: instinct Date & Time: 11/14/90 20:03:34 Message Number 10481 >You do understand that 'robbing cars' is stealing stuff inside the >car while stealing cars is actually taking the car. Yes. Robbing cars occurs far more often than stealing cars, and is one of the most common forms of crime. According to a police officer I knew in Ft. Myers, they would get about five reports a day of robbed cars JUST FROM ONE SHOPPING MALL ALONE, while they usually didn't get five stolen car reports a week. ...sort of makes you a little more cautious, hmm? Leave your car unlocked and unattended at a mall and the odds of your being robbed are MUCH higher than most people think. =========== From: TURTLE To: SPELLWIND Subject: UltraSheep Date & Time: 11/14/90 20:06:06 Message Number 10482 >I'd like to congradulate them too, even though I haven't been able to >get a hold of an issue... You should be able to find them at the Time Machine. Max and Ken Sable also both have copies for sale (I'm temporarily outr, although I'll be getting some more by week's end...are you listening, Max??) =========== From: TURTLE To: THUMPER 1 Subject: jive Date & Time: 11/14/90 20:07:53 Message Number 10483 Hehehe... =========== From: TURTLE To: THUMPER 1 Subject: hey!!! Date & Time: 11/14/90 20:08:09 Message Number 10484 Well, we had a situation here on A/R called Message Base Crash Due RTo Sysop Carelessness. The message base filled up and clogged, and some of the messages (or rather, a LOT of the messages from two days ago) got garbled or lost completely. The problem has been almost completely fixed now, except for one kink in the message file that's still a little screwy (although it won't hurt anything you post now). =========== From: TURTLE To: THUMPER 1 Subject: catfood Date & Time: 11/14/90 20:11:10 Message Number 10485 >Don't eat J-ello naked. Too late. =========== From: SNAKEBYTE To: TURTLE Subject: Work??? Date & Time: 11/14/90 22:12:00 Message Number 10487 What's this McD's stuff????? I thought you had some gig at a local theatre? What kind of work you lookin' for? I've got some "connections" around and maybe I could put out some feelers for you. Well, if all else fails....just go win the lottery or something, but DON'T invest in Unisys....hehe =========== From: SNAKEBYTE To: THUMPER 1 Subject: cats Date & Time: 11/14/90 22:15:30 Message Number 10488 Don't mean to pry in here, but I had this big cat up in NC that absolutely REFUSED to go outside....EVER!!! The one time I tried to get her out for a little sun, she whipped around, latched on to my bare chest with all ten front claws and hung there...scared to death. Last time I ever tried to make any animal do what it didn't want to. What do you think would make a cat be such a home-body? hmmmmm.... =========== From: SNAKEBYTE To: BEATLE Subject: NOSEDIVE! Date & Time: 11/14/90 22:20:05 Message Number 10489 "The departure of the Wise Men from the East seems to have been on a more extensive scale than is generally supposed, for no one of that description seems to have been left behind." Sydney Smith one of my favorites...especially with the Iran/Iraq bull... ...sssssSNAKEBYTE . . BTW.....hi again. =========== From: SNAKEBYTE To: RUFUS Subject: nosedive! Date & Time: 11/14/90 22:22:37 Message Number 10490 Did Heavy Metal ever make it out on video? Can't say as I ever saw it around. The rag was the basis of the movie and being a looong time reader, I was a little let down by the flick (hoping too much for Mobius stuff everywhere). Just came across about a four foot high stack of back issues in the attic. Ended up sitting up there reading for a few hours....family couldn't find me....oh well! =========== From: SNAKEBYTE To: TURTLE Subject: NOSEDIVE! Date & Time: 11/14/90 22:25:00 Message Number 10491 "Airplane".....AHA!!! A classic. Should be a Leslie Nelson award for that one "Picked a bad day to quit sniffin' glue"....and the sceen with the lady being slapped around on the plane with the line of people down the aisle with wrenches, guns...etc....hahaha...a riot. Right up there with The Holy Grail. =========== From: SNAKEBYTE To: TURTLE Subject: NOSEDIVE! Date & Time: 11/14/90 22:29:07 Message Number 10492 Ever catch a flick called Elephant Parts? A good skit in there called Neighborhood Nuclear Superiority or something like that with Mike Nesmeth(sp) from the Monkees nuking his neighbors for bothering his bar-b-que.....good flick...good songs...(ie Lucy & Ramona & Sunset Sam). =========== From: SNAKEBYTE To: BEATLE Subject: nosedive! Date & Time: 11/14/90 22:33:05 Message Number 10493 >>>"Heavy Metal" for "Rocky Horror".... If you watch Heavy Metal...be sure to have a good stereo hooked up to your VCR....it'll help the effects of the movie. But then again, why would you have Rocky Horror without one......huh? Is Rocky Horror CopyGuarded to shit???? (look for a slight distortion across the top of the picture)...let me know...pleeeeeze? =========== From: SNAKEBYTE To: BEATLE Subject: NOSEDIVE! Date & Time: 11/14/90 22:36:10 Message Number 10494 >>>>Night of the Comet.... Yeah, with some zombied out victims running around killing everyone? I remember that one. They get trapped in a radio station or something? People falling apart (loosing limbs...etc). Kind of a cheap take-off on the Omega Man if you ask me. But it was entertaining.... =========== From: SNAKEBYTE To: RUFUS Subject: Rocky I Date & Time: 11/14/90 22:38:39 Message Number 10495 >>>>Beatle's Rocky Horror.... I think we should be able to throw toast around Beatle's house, but we'd have to dress wild and bring our own toast... unless we raided Beatle's kitchen before the show..... I wonder if he has one of those four-slice toasters...it'd save time... =========== From: SNAKEBYTE To: BEATLE Subject: airplane Date & Time: 11/14/90 22:43:51 Message Number 10496 >>>>>that many sucessful jokes.... Monty Python's Holy Grail, Life of Brian, And Now for Something Completely Different, If You Dont Stop It You'll Go Blind, Can I Do It 'Til I Need Glasses, Groove Tube, Flesh Gordon, BC Rock, Bill & Ted's Excellent Adventure, Spaceballs (well, maybe Young Frankinstein instead) , The Man With Two Brains, The Naked Gun, Vacation, European Vacation, (not Christmas Vacation), Animal House, History Of White People in America, Dragnet, Summer Rental.....whew!!! And I'm sure some that'll come to me later..... =========== From: RUFUS To: TURTLE Subject: RufusConII Date & Time: 11/15/90 17:54:08 Message Number 10497 With all those damned pocket reminder/city finder/video game player things from Casio, Sharp, etc. etc., you think they'd make one to plan your schedule. You people could really use one. Just punch in what you have to do, if any must be down at a certain time (like work), how long it will take, and by what percent you underestimate how long it will take. =========== From: RUFUS To: SNAKEBYTE Subject: nosedive! Date & Time: 11/15/90 17:59:23 Message Number 10498 Umm, I think HM came out on video, but Columbia bought the rights back. I have this really extensive HM discussion on my board, explaining all the details. Uncle Bob's, 371-3498, 3/12/24, hit return a few times, shameless plug. =========== From: RUFUS To: SNAKEBYTE Subject: Rocky I Date & Time: 11/15/90 18:01:40 Message Number 10499 >I wonder if he has one of those four-slice toasters... Wait, they make things to toast bread!? And all these years I've been using a blow torch. Sheesh.... =========== From: BURNEY To: BEATLE Subject: airplane Date & Time: 11/15/90 20:49:05 Message Number 10500 I didn't say it wasn't entertaining. I said it wasn't a good movie. It was a ridiculous plot, it did havea good cast though. It severely lacked originality but that was the idea. Also the play on words was taken, in my opinion, to the extreme. I will say it had its good points but mostly bad. For that reason I haven't seen 'The Naked Gun' with L. Nielson. I've heard it is similar. =========== From: BURNEY To: THUMPER 1 Subject: catfood Date & Time: 11/15/90 21:02:14 Message Number 10501 To reply to your statements: No I didn't know what 'Mung's' were. Why should I keep all cats under 15#'s in a locked room? No I don't know what movie 'Jello-Naked...'came from. Cats riding RC cArs (indoors) sounds like fun... sssssssSSSSSSSSSCCRREEEEEEEEAAAAAAAAAHHHH vroom...vroom...OH NOOOO...... ..C/r/A/S/h =========== From: BURNEY To: THUMPER 1 Subject: catz Date & Time: 11/15/90 21:07:42 Message Number 10502 Geee you could name it /catbut/...er.....thats cat-NIP isn't it? Oh well I'm tired. Thats my only excuse... =========== From: BURNEY To: TURTLE Subject: RufusConII Date & Time: 11/15/90 21:10:59 Message Number 10503 Who knows, maybe I'll be able to get away. How do I get there? =========== From: BURNEY To: TURTLE Subject: RufusConII Date & Time: 11/15/90 21:13:31 Message Number 10504 I just signed on as a user during the last of the phone tap messages. What makes you think you were being tapped? How'd ya find out? What for? (you a communist or something?) =========== From: BURNEY To: SNAKEBYTE Subject: nosedive! Date & Time: 11/15/90 21:20:47 Message Number 10505 The distortion you see,I believe is the result of a bad copy. If redone it should go bye bye.. =========== From: BURNEY To: THUMPER 1 Subject: catfood Date & Time: 11/15/90 21:29:47 Message Number 10506 OOOOps hit the wrong button. This is not a message. It will not disappear, you cannot delete it and it will not self destruct in 30 seconds. If this had been a real message, you would have heard the cAt screem and been notified where to tune in you area for more news and messages. Again this is not a message. Have a nice day... This non-message was posted with involuntary cooperation of the Sysop of this system =========== From: BEATLE To: THUMPER 1 Subject: heavy met'l Date & Time: 11/15/90 21:41:08 Message Number 10507 > Can I find "Heavy Metal" on video? Uh, yes and no. > and Where!!! I'm borrowing a mediocre copy from a friend. It's the first time I've seen the film. You're likely to find some people in these BBS circles with better copies. You can also watch the schedules for a Cinemax show. From what I've been told, it WAS on video for a while, but it was dis- continued. =========== From: THUMPER 1 To: TURTLE Subject: Garble Date & Time: 11/15/90 22:05:40 Message Number 10508 Thanks for the explanation. But Still some of my best poetic work has been forever lost!(Sigh!..sniffle...) =========== From: THUMPER 1 To: TURTLE Subject: movies Date & Time: 11/15/90 22:07:31 Message Number 10509 In case you hadn't guessed the "J-ello" bit was from "Real Genius". =========== From: THUMPER 1 To: SNAKEBYTE Subject: Outside Date & Time: 11/15/90 22:09:28 Message Number 10510 >...ten front claws and hung there... How long till you healed? You can always tell a kitten owner by the scratches on the hands. =========== From: THUMPER 1 To: BURNEY Subject: 15 lb'ers Date & Time: 11/15/90 22:16:31 Message Number 10511 Small cats are nimble enough to race around the room after cars, but if you let the big, heavy one run around that fast...well lets just say... you ever here of inertia? We have glass table tops. And Breakables... =========== From: THUMPER 1 To: BURNEY Subject: catdrugs Date & Time: 11/15/90 22:19:03 Message Number 10512 HAHAHAHAHAHAHAHAHA... actually it's Cat-Nep, not Cat-Nip. and if you want to get REALLY picky is's Cat-Mint. And then there's the ever so humongously picky (nepeta cataria). Had enough? =========== From: THUMPER 1 To: BURNEY Subject: Mission Imp. Date & Time: 11/15/90 22:23:17 Message Number 10513 I'm glad I didn't read that (non)message. =========== From: THUMPER 1 To: THUMPER 1 Subject: Herbs and such Date & Time: 11/15/90 22:26:02 Message Number 10514 Herb growing and incense are some of my many vices. Need a love potion? Poison? Anti-Diarhetic? Heart tonic? just let me know. It was brought to my attention that my handle is a bit silly. Let me clarify. I have never seen "Bambi".(really!) I am a bass player. One of the techniques used in bas playing is a "slapping" or "thumping" hand motion,("Hand motion"---Don't get any sick ideas about bass players ok?) Anyway, "Thumping" hence the name "Thumper One" Kay? Bye Now (thump thump) Thumper One (The bassist, not the Bunny) =========== From: BEATLE To: SNAKEBYTE Subject: NOSEDIVE! Date & Time: 11/16/90 19:44:04 Message Number 10515 > Elephant Parts... (Yep, it's Mr. Don't-Spell-Names-Of-Famous-People-I-Like here... hehe) Just so you know, it's Nesmith. Also, I remember you telling me that Blockbuster Video had The Complat Al and Elephant Parts. When I was there, I didn't see the Al video. But, Rufus says a new video store near him has it. =========== From: BEATLE To: SNAKEBYTE Subject: nosedive! Date & Time: 11/16/90 19:47:01 Message Number 10516 > Is Rocky Horror CopyGuarded to shit???? As a matter of fact NO, it isn't. The tape came out GREAT. It will be at the Furry Party too, if anyone feels a strange impulse to watch it (Rufus suggested that I bring it, too.) Also, you mentioned stereo. Well the copy of Heavy Metal had SOUND that was shot to shit. It was SLP third generation. The movie was good though. On Rocky Horror, a FULL sound remix was done. From the original mag (magnetic audio) track and the studio music masters, a full Chace Surround product was created. This is nothing short of a great achievement, considering the original film was mono. Unfortunately, my copy is mono. But, since the film was that way in the first place, ya won't miss anything! =========== From: BEATLE To: SNAKEBYTE Subject: airplane Date & Time: 11/16/90 19:52:49 Message Number 10517 Having seen almost all those films (didn't see any of the Monty Python films or the couple followin those)... I must disagree. Especially from what I saw of "Summer Rental". "European Vaction" was pretty mediocre, but the original was funny. "The Naked Gun" is CERTAINLY up there with "Airplane!" though. And while I liked "Dragnet", there is /no/ way its in the same class. =========== From: BEATLE To: RUFUS Subject: RufusConII Date & Time: 11/16/90 19:55:20 Message Number 10518 > you think they'd make one to plan yourschedule. Uh, I think they /do/ have one of those. =========== From: TURTLE To: SNAKEBYTE Subject: Work??? Date & Time: 11/17/90 15:34:40 Message Number 10520 Yep, I'm still at McD's. I'm also working (part-time) at a local theatre; it's shit work right now, but if I'm patient I might end up as a projectionist; I do have my projectionists' license already, which helps. If you can come up with anything better, though, believe me, I'm all ears... =========== From: TURTLE To: SNAKEBYTE Subject: NOSEDIVE! Date & Time: 11/17/90 15:37:14 Message Number 10521 >Right up there with The Holy Grail. "WHAT is the airspeed velocity of a common swallow?" "African or European?" "I-I don't know...AAAAIIIIIIIIIIIEEEEEEEEEEEE!!" That movie is truly a classic...although I liked "Life of Brian" some- what better. Life of Brian is one of the single funniest things I have ever seen. =========== From: TURTLE To: SNAKEBYTE Subject: NOSEDIVE! Date & Time: 11/17/90 15:39:13 Message Number 10522 Can't say I've ever seen, or even heard of, "Elephant Parts." Oh well... =========== From: TURTLE To: BURNEY Subject: airplane Date & Time: 11/17/90 15:41:34 Message Number 10523 >I said it wasn't a good movie. It was a ridiculous plot... YES!!!! (Ding ding ding ding!) The movie was a parody of "Airport," and it had EXACTLY THE SAME PLOT! It was SUPPOSED to be a ridiculous plot; that was the whole point of the movie! Aaargh! =========== From: TURTLE To: BURNEY Subject: RufusConII Date & Time: 11/17/90 15:43:19 Message Number 10524 My apartment is staggeringly easy to find. All you need to do is get on US 301 and head toward the airport. If you're coming north, you will pass a SuperAmerica (on the left) just before you get near the airport. Right past the SA is a traffic light; turn into Shadowood Apartments at the light. Follow the circle around until you find a weird-looking grey Baja Bug. Building 12, unit 1895. If you're going south, go past DeSoto (that's the airport access road) and keep going (about a quarter-mile) until you find the traffic light I just mentioned in front of Shadowood. Nothing to it! =========== From: TURTLE To: BURNEY Subject: RufusConII Date & Time: 11/17/90 15:45:54 Message Number 10525 >What makes you think you were being tapped? Well, some of my users started having a rash of muting failures when they called (if you've never seen one of these, they're kind of unmis- takable, and a dead give-away. Every now and then the modem that's being used to montior the phone, which is a complex beast because it needs to be able to sync with a dynamic carrier (1200 baud & up) with- out sending out its own clock pulses, will screw up and cut into the line. When that happens, the person who's logged on will get a string of uppercase U's (like UUUUUUUUUUUUUUUUU, sometimes several lines of them) and suddenly everything that user types just gets echoed back without DOING anything. The user is connected to the tapping modem, not the BBS.). Also, there's a weird hum on my line indicating a ground fault (meaning whoever tapped it didn't really pay attention to what he was doing), and if I dial a phone sweep I get a steady sound. Can't really say why I'm still being monitored. It is GTE's policy to tap any line that they believe has a BBS running on it for a few weeks in order to find out if the sysop is profiting from it (charging for access, running an online store, whatever); if he IS, GTE can nail him for a business-rate line ($35 a month more than a residential line). I've been tapped continuously for almost a year now; possibly they think I'm subversive? =========== From: TURTLE To: THUMPER 1 Subject: movies Date & Time: 11/17/90 15:51:52 Message Number 10526 Real Genius. I remember that movie. That one is one of my two or three all-time favorite movies, possibly because I know people who remind me a whole lot of several of the major characters. Loved it! =========== From: BEATLE To: TURTLE Subject: Work??? Date & Time: 11/17/90 17:43:26 Message Number 10527 > I'm also working (part-time) at a local theatre... I would like to work at a movie theatre. I'm not even sure I'd mind cleaning up after the movies. I'd really like to be an usher, tho. I could see a lot of movies (theoretcially) =========== From: MAX To: BEATLE Subject: heavy met'l Date & Time: 11/17/90 17:58:44 Message Number 10528 You can also find copies of the movie at some SF conventions. =========== From: MAX To: THUMPER 1 Subject: catdrugs Date & Time: 11/17/90 18:03:07 Message Number 10529 I /like/ cat-mint tea. =========== From: MAX To: THUMPER 1 Subject: Herbs and such Date & Time: 11/17/90 18:03:50 Message Number 10530 > I have never seen "Bambi". Well, we'll have to fix that sometime, won't we?.... =========== From: DIRTY WRAT To: THUMPER 1 Subject: Inert Cats Date & Time: 11/17/90 19:20:06 Message Number 10531 I had a cat that spent its time sliding from one end of the table off the other end. Thought it was fun or something (!!?) Have a dog like that now, his inertia carried him right into a wall... had a bump on his head the size of a tomato for about a month. ... He's not the smartest animal we've ever had... wonder if that had any- thing to do with it..... DW =========== From: PABLO To: DIRTY WRAT Subject: job Date & Time: 11/17/90 20:30:29 Message Number 10532 when are we going to start up our doubt business where we doubt other people's teachers out of existence? =========== From: AL REINHART To: TURTLE Subject: Location Date & Time: 11/18/90 08:36:41 Message Number 10536 Hey Dude, I live right across the traffic light from you ... behing the Budwiser plant. - Bones - =========== From: THRUD To: TURTLE Subject: taptaptap Date & Time: 11/18/90 10:26:54 Message Number 10537 Jeez, you must have a much more interesting life than I. Here you're accused of being a commie and/or subversive, while I get saddled with boring labels like conservative and taxpayer. Durn little romance in my lifestyle. Beware the Ides of RufusCon! You never know what kind of Nordic/Italians might turn up unexpectedly! THRUD =========== From: THRUD To: SNAKEBYTE Subject: NOSEDIVE! Date & Time: 11/18/90 10:34:25 Message Number 10538 Many moons back, I nearly broke up with my wife-to-be when she asked me to explain a Leslie Nielson joke to her. When I told her that humor like that must be caught on the fly, and is ruined if analysed (uh), she miraculously 'got it', and now laughs when I do, whether she gets it or not. THRUD =========== From: THRUD To: SNAKEBYTE Subject: NOSEDIVE! Date & Time: 11/18/90 10:39:40 Message Number 10539 I once had a tape of Night of the Comet, but I wore it out winding and rewinding over the part where whats 'er name is in the dressing room in bra and panties.....no matter how many times I watched it, the camera always turned away at just the wrong moment..... THRUD =========== From: THUMPER 1 To: TURTLE Subject: Genius Date & Time: 11/18/90 20:54:55 Message Number 10540 "Degerate eh? What about that time I found you naked with a bowl of Jello?" "That's not true!!!" "This is true." "I was hungry and hot! OK?!?" I love that movie... come on guys, let's TAN! =========== From: THUMPER 1 To: MAX Subject: Catmint Date & Time: 11/18/90 20:58:51 Message Number 10541 Cat mint tea is used in fevers to promotes sweating, in order to lower your temperature. The tea can also be injected into the bowels torelieve colic. And my cats love it. =========== From: THUMPER 1 To: MAX Subject: Bambi Date & Time: 11/18/90 21:01:31 Message Number 10542 If it's sad, I don't want to see it. I wouldn't want you guys to see me crying. I try to show only my Macho side.(grunt, belch). =========== From: THUMPER 1 To: DIRTY WRAT Subject: Dumb mutts Date & Time: 11/18/90 21:03:51 Message Number 10543 My parents have a black lab named "Buck". Nicest dog you'll ever see, but he tends to flay you with his tail when he's happy. =========== From: THUMPER 1 To: THRUD Subject: creeds Date & Time: 11/18/90 21:06:24 Message Number 10544 Nordic/Eyetalions? you meen people like Bjorn Giovanni? =========== From: THUMPER 1 To: THRUD Subject: Dressing Date & Time: 11/18/90 21:08:28 Message Number 10545 What kind of dressing room was it? I go for Bleu Cheese myself. The camera didn't turn away, the camera man himself lept off it and went after the girl. You saw him right? Kinda dusty, skin falling off him... =========== From: MMA To: THUMPER 1 Subject: Dumb mutts Date & Time: 11/19/90 01:46:37 Message Number 10546 My mother has a Boston Bull terrier. Now this si a strange dog... Robbie doesn't bark at you until you go to leave. She's scared of the wind (the noise) when she's inside. In her attempts to escape the noise,she's gone through several vinyl windows in the lanai. I wish that I had a Great Dan They're neat dogs! =========== From: BURNEY To: THUMPER 1 Subject: catdrugs Date & Time: 11/19/90 17:32:32 Message Number 10547 Uncle...I give...Had enuf.. =========== From: BURNEY To: BEATLE Subject: remix Date & Time: 11/19/90 17:35:57 Message Number 10548 Why bother to go through all that trouble of a remix. Just run down to your local Radio Shack and pick up a stereo simulator. I've got one and it sounds fine. Especially if you have it hooked up to a stereo unit an d not just the vcr. =========== From: BURNEY To: TURTLE Subject: bad tap job Date & Time: 11/19/90 17:43:34 Message Number 10549 Well I guess I've been lucky. That's never happened to me. Only an occasional crash. Though I think that was caused by a brain malfunction on this end. =========== From: THRUD To: THUMPER 1 Subject: creeds Date & Time: 11/20/90 17:23:43 Message Number 10554 Nordic/Italians - like Vafthrudner, Frost Giant of Napoli, reknowned for stomping on little thumpers. =========== From: TURTLE To: DIRTY WRAT Subject: Inert Cats Date & Time: 11/20/90 17:55:19 Message Number 10557 >He's not the smartest animal we've ever had... Are we talking about Stormy, by any chance? =========== From: TURTLE To: THRUD Subject: taptaptap Date & Time: 11/20/90 17:56:10 Message Number 10558 >Jeez, you must have a much more interesting life than I. If my life were any more "interesting" I'd be dead. If I ever publish my autobiography I'll have to do it as fiction...I swear nobody would believe it. Oh well... =========== From: BEATLE To: BURNEY Subject: remix Date & Time: 11/20/90 20:17:50 Message Number 10559 > Why bother to go through all that trouble of a remix. Just run down > to your local Radio Shack and pick up a stereo simulator. I have /never/ liked those. We had one back about five years ago. If you're a fan of real stereo, those Radio Shack do-dads aren't very satisfactory. You aren't going to get real channel separation, just a synthetic echoed sound. =========== From: BEATLE To: TURTLE Subject: taptaptap Date & Time: 11/20/90 20:21:14 Message Number 10560 > I swear nobody would believe it. Well, I think those of us who know you would believe it! If not, you can have a fun time and make money going on talk shows trying to prove the reality of it all. =========== From: THUMPER 1 To: MMA Subject: Danes Date & Time: 11/20/90 22:08:35 Message Number 10561 Great Danes are cool dogs, but sadly, due to their size and breeding, they usually don't live as long as other dogs and are prone to many problems when they near the ninth and tenth years of their lives.(like hip displasure, which can cripple the dog. and It is a rather sickly dog my parents have had two. But don't let that keep you from getting one. They are very nice animals. I just like mine to be around longer,(no joke intended) thats why I have cats. =========== From: THUMPER 1 To: BURNEY Subject: 'nuf Date & Time: 11/20/90 22:13:37 Message Number 10562 nuf' eh? you can't holler 'nuf till I lets ya'! =========== From: THUMPER 1 To: THRUD Subject: jeez! Date & Time: 11/20/90 22:15:39 Message Number 10563 Jeeeeezz! Just a joke dude! Don't pass any bovines through your anal sphincter! And don't go Bunnie Stomping here, vote on it at B/C. =========== From: THUMPER 1 To: ALL Subject: Everything Date & Time: 11/20/90 22:21:08 Message Number 10564 In my attempts to out manuever BBS "Board"em I have posted some rather odd things, and now in that spirit, I have come upon a new topic of discussion: Women. Not in the physical sence, but the mental. Why the hell are they so confusing? In an attempt to understand them better, I'd like every one to post something that they find odd, interesting, or unusual about some female that they know.(MOM is not included!) I work retail, selling piano's and organs. Why is it that women will enter the store. Ask about a piano, have you demonstrate every one in the store, make requests,(I don't know any Barry Manilow lady!) ask for the price, take out her checkbook, (YEAH!!!!!) then notice some girl walk by in a sweater and say. "I wish I could wear that color..." then get up to ask where she found her (The girls) shoes then disappear for ever! WHY WHY WHY WHY! WHY! WHY! WHY! AAAAAAAAAUUUUUUUURRRRRGGHHHHH!!!!! =========== From: MMA To: THUMPER 1 Subject: Danes Date & Time: 11/21/90 01:27:40 Message Number 10566 I know about the shorter lifespans of larger breeds, but I wasn't aware of the health problems later in life. My sister just had her rotwieller put to sleep. Sam had umor in her hip. She was 9 years old and a great watchd. Robin just a puppy rotwieller, her name is cash (expensive dog). My other choices for a dog would be a Golden retriever or a doberman pinscer among others that I like. =========== From: MMA To: THUMPER 1 Subject: Everything Date & Time: 11/21/90 01:38:00 Message Number 10567 Why is it that women have a fancy name for their bad moods (PMS) and we men are just plain PO'd? to answer the ? about the sweater... The sweater's cheaper than the piano... naah,that's not it. I dunno why they do that kinda thing. =========== From: BEATLE To: ALL Subject: odd stuff Date & Time: 11/21/90 18:09:36 Message Number 10570 I just came across an intersting book in (of all places) my school library. It's "The Dictionary of Euphimisms and other Doubletalk". I was going to discuss this book, but I just discovered that I sorta left it in school somewhere... shit, I don't want ~}_t er, I don't want to loose a large hardcover library book! =========== From: TURTLE To: BEATLE Subject: taptaptap Date & Time: 11/22/90 00:32:35 Message Number 10572 >If not, you could have a fun time and make money going on talk shows >trying to prove the reality of it all. I'm generally too busy /doing/ it to talk about it (although not as much lately; my life has gotten very, very quiet and boring since I moved to Sarasota). Besides, I thought you didn't get paid much (if at all) for going on talk shows. =========== From: TURTLE To: THUMPER 1 Subject: Everything Date & Time: 11/22/90 00:35:11 Message Number 10573 >I'd like every one to post something they find odd, interesting, or >unusual about some woman... Hmm. Well, lessee. Carey used to strip race a '63 Challenger in Maine, can get into a car with a slim jim in under a second, and can strip a Volkswagen Bug in about fifteen minutes (I know, we used to do it together). Does that qualify? =========== From: THUMPER 1 To: MMA Subject: Dogs Date & Time: 11/22/90 01:11:54 Message Number 10574 They (the puppies) all sound cute. I hope your happy with your choice and I wish them good luck! =========== From: THUMPER 1 To: MMA Subject: Women Date & Time: 11/22/90 01:13:21 Message Number 10575 My ex used to say that PMS meant Putting up with Mens Shit. The Sweater thing must be hormonal, I dunno'... =========== From: THUMPER 1 To: BEATLE Subject: Books Date & Time: 11/22/90 01:15:08 Message Number 10576 I used to forget my books at school too, (usually on purpose.) =========== From: THUMPER 1 To: TURTLE Subject: Carey Date & Time: 11/22/90 01:16:57 Message Number 10577 Every thing she does qualifies except the volkswagon bug work. Any one can do it if they have a kitchen table and a butter knife. =========== From: BEATLE To: TURTLE Subject: taptaptap Date & Time: 11/22/90 23:29:20 Message Number 10578 > I thought you didn't get paid much (if at all) for going on talk shows Uh, well, I dunno. But, if they want you bad enough, they'll pay. =========== From: MMA To: THUMPER 1 Subject: Dogs Date & Time: 11/23/90 03:24:32 Message Number 10580 The puppies are only 1, and it's my sister's dog up in PA. I wish that I had a dog. =========== From: MMA To: BEATLE Subject: odd stuff Date & Time: 11/23/90 03:27:11 Message Number 10581 Lemme know if you find it. If you can't, I'll see if the library has it. If they do, you can get it at selby library. =========== From: BEATLE To: MMA Subject: odd stuff Date & Time: 11/23/90 23:13:18 Message Number 10582 > if they do, you can get it at selby library. Uh, that won't help replace the book from my school library if I lost it. But, thanks for informing me. =========== From: BEATLE To: ALL Subject: Grrr! Date & Time: 11/23/90 23:14:29 Message Number 10583 Messages! Messages! We want messages!! =========== From: THUMPER 1 To: MMA Subject: mutts Date & Time: 11/24/90 01:15:26 Message Number 10584 To bad, why don't you go down to the humain society and get one? =========== From: THUMPER 1 To: BEATLE Subject: messages Date & Time: 11/24/90 01:17:09 Message Number 10585 Ok Beatle, heres a message... 2400 baud!!!!!!!! finally!!!!1 YEAH!!!! Ok? *********************************************************************** Here's something to talk about: Should the AK-47 be baned as a hunting weapon? Some facts: 1. The AK-47 is not a machine gun (aka no 2000 rounds per min. etc.) 2. It is SEMI-AUTOMATIC, which means it will shoot as fast as you can pull the trigger. 3. Almost all hunting rifles are SEMI-AUTOMATIC, but their clips do not extend out the bottom of the gun. 4. Does that mean that all rifles should be banned? Or just the semi's? 5. Should SEMI-AUTO pistols be banned? Here's the topic, how bout some posting? =========== From: DRAGONFLY To: THUMPER 1 Subject: catdrugs Date & Time: 11/24/90 15:05:21 Message Number 10587 >Actually it's Cat-Nap, not Cat-Nip... Had enough? Actually, no. Never tried the stuff. /Dragonfly/ =========== From: DRAGONFLY To: THUMPER 1 Subject: Herbs and such Date & Time: 11/24/90 15:06:58 Message Number 10588 Herb growinbg and incense? Purr! Do you know of any other things to put into a "relaxing" potion other than chamomile and maybe cloves? Damn! Another musician on board! Do you have an acoustic bass as well as an electric one? /Dragonfly/ =========== From: DRAGONFLY To: TURTLE Subject: RufusConII Date & Time: 11/24/90 15:13:22 Message Number 10589 >Possibl they think I'm subversive? But you ARE a subversive agent of the... uh, the Communists aren't our enemies any longer, are they? And you don't LOOK Iraqi. Hmmm... Aha! You're an agent of the International Anarchist Conspiracy, dedicated to the overthrow of everything sane! Your aim is to replace the President of the United States with a furry, and post strange messages on so-called "bulletin board systems" around the country to spread your propaganda! Hmph! /Dragonfly/ =========== From: DRAGONFLY To: THUMPER 1 Subject: Everything Date & Time: 11/24/90 15:24:45 Message Number 10590 >Why is it that women will enter the store, ask about a piano,... >take out her checkbook then notice some girl walk by in a sweater... >then disappear for ever! Simple. They don't really want to buy an organ. They just want to waste some time listening to Barry Manilow. Something unusual that's happened with women? I really can't give anything unusual about women as a whole -- just individual incidents with some women I've known. Why does my girlfriend always try to get me to play guessing games? Her voice occasionally gives off a sound of "something's wrong between us" -- and until I mention this, she'll say nothing? And then, when I ask, "Is anything wrong?" she says, "Not really..." And then I have to continue pushing to find out what really WAS wrong... (Occasionally, it WAS important enough for it to have been worth it. But not always.) /Dragonfly/ =========== From: DRAGONFLY To: TURTLE Subject: Everything Date & Time: 11/24/90 15:34:45 Message Number 10591 Excuse my ignorance. What's the difference between strip racing and drag racing? /Dragonfly/ =========== From: DRAGONFLY To: BEATLE Subject: taptaptap Date & Time: 11/24/90 15:36:10 Message Number 10592 T>I thought you didn't get paid much (if at all) for going on talk T>shows B>Uh, well, I dunno. But, if they want you bad enough, they'll pay. If they do, it's rare. I once replaced Henry Kissinger on a talk show, and they payed me nothing. /Dragonfly/ =========== From: MAX To: TURTLE Subject: taptaptap Date & Time: 11/24/90 20:46:14 Message Number 10593 > my life has gotten very, very quite and boring since I moved to > Sarasota... *snort* =========== From: MAX To: THUMPER 1 Subject: messages Date & Time: 11/24/90 20:47:54 Message Number 10594 Hunting should be banned, regardless of whether or not you're using an AK-47. Killing other creatures, even if they are not sapient to the degree humans are, for "fun" has always struck me as being very close to the same ethical/moral level of a torturer who enjoys his work. If it's the thrill of the chase a hunter's after, he can damn well use a camera, and I won't care whether his Nikon is automatic or not. =========== From: MAX To: TURTLE Subject: stuff Date & Time: 11/24/90 20:58:41 Message Number 10595 I'm using ZCOMM again mostly for the humor value. It prints the row and column of the cursor on the status line, for reasons I still can't fathom, and prints a constantly-changing number which appears to be a buffer count for no reason at all. A few days ago I got a blotzed sector in a YMODEM transfer. Does ZCOMM print a normal error message? Noooo, it printed: Sector 112 Retry 0 : Noise Burst Detected Sector 112 Retry 0 : Got 23 for sector ACK Sector 112 Retry 0 : NAK on Sector Output Flow Control Restraint RELEASED ...your guess is as good (probably better) than mine. At any rate, I just uploaded an archive which contains the newest version of DELZH4, along with LZHUF4, which actually creates LZH files. It's written with the same C compiler that ARC4 was, but it's 16K instead of 30K (50K w/overlays) and only requires 64K... no idea how it does in terms of speed, but it can't be worse than ARC4's crunching algorithm (can it??). I may be by later tonight, as I plan to spend this evening out of the house to avoid a general atmosphere of bitchiness floating about currently. As Chris Grant says, "more later as it develops." =========== From: THUMPER 1 To: DRAGONFLY Subject: Holidays Date & Time: 11/25/90 02:08:42 Message Number 10596 Did Every one stop posting for the holidays? I called here several times and nothing was new! AAAAAAAUUUURRGGHHGH!! What? Were you all so full of turkey that you couldn't reach the modem? ...I was...(urp) =========== From: THUMPER 1 To: DRAGONFLY Subject: Herbs and music Date & Time: 11/25/90 02:10:37 Message Number 10597 I do play the string (acoustic) bass (I think I said I was classically trained, didn't I?) but I no longer Own one, (Florida humidity does bad things to acoustic instruments. It got VERY expensive to maintain) >things to put into a relaxing potion other than chamomile and cloves? Sure! Here's a few: Catmint Cowslip Hops Melilot Mint (pepper) Poppy (wild) (this is not the type used for heroin, that's the White Primrose Valerian Woodruffle (sweet) Any of those will work well when made into a tea. Be very careful with cloves, they smell nice, but they are toxic. Prolonged use of cloves will make you very ill. Any one else want a herbal cure for something? Peace Thumper One =========== From: THUMPER 1 To: DRAGONFLY Subject: Subversive Date & Time: 11/25/90 02:21:47 Message Number 10598 No actually we're all subversive in one way or another. I'd like to have my own board. That could be taken with a subver. slant on it. =========== From: THUMPER 1 To: DRAGONFLY Subject: What's wrong Date & Time: 11/25/90 02:24:05 Message Number 10599 That post sounded funny Dragonfly... ...what's wrong? =========== From: THUMPER 1 To: DRAGONFLY Subject: racing Date & Time: 11/25/90 02:24:55 Message Number 10600 Strip racing is racing stripped. Drag racing is racing in womens clothes. ===========