Apollo BBS Archive - August 1989

Apollo BBS Archive - August 10, 1989


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Mail from Spaz Brown
Date: 08/10/89  Time: 08:43:27

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Thanks.  Mutual of Omaha being on Channel 8, of course.  And that's what
I've heard about James, also.  I'm sorry that I'm probably going to miss him
on this go-round.

How's the wife and kids?  How's business?  (My, doesn't that sound
established.)  It's nice to see that you're still around stirring things up.
Talk to you later, perhaps.

HB
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 1:James, as it is turning out, has a good head for mathematics.  He has, thus 
 2:far, been making a grand and glorious living by gambling.  This is his 
 3:second trip to Costa Rica is several months.  He frequently travels to 
 4:California and Las Vegas.  He lives a few blocks away from me in a really 
 5:nice condo.  I like him.  He has developed character over the past few years
 6:and his self-confidence has improved greatly.
 7:
 8:Jasmine, Christian, Eve, Sol, Busy, Jon, Melody and Courtney are really 
 9:doing well.  Christian was married several months ago and we didn't lose a 
10:daughter, we gained another mouth to feed.  Well, really they have their own
11:place near Camelback and 15th Street.  
12:
13:Jasmine is doing good but she closed down her shop (2940 E. Thomas), 
14:Jasmine's Cottage, due to a slowed down economy.  My business is almost too 
15:good.  I usually have more work than I can handle.  The rest of the 'herd' 
16:are trucking along the weird road of life, trying to figure it out.
17:
18:Where are you living?  How'd you get the job with the paper?  What have you 
19:been doing?
20:
21:Take care,  Rod
22:end

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Message: 5768
Author: $ Sandy SYSOP
Category: Debate / dispute
Subject: Rod/money
Date: 08/09/89  Time: 23:32:01

        Can we talk about this soon?
        We still have the computer in our posession.
        I believe in 'Free Enterprise' .............

Message: 5769
Author: $ Ann Oudin
Category: Chit-Chat
Subject: Sandy/Friday
Date: 08/10/89  Time: 09:56:41

Yeah! Yeah! YEAH! -=*) ANN (*=-

Message: 5770
Author: $ Ann Oudin
Category: Chit-Chat
Subject: Sandy/holding up
Date: 08/10/89  Time: 10:04:11

Rod might offer the $100 more - but remember my dinner that comes with the
installation --- Buffalo wings - potatoes - Brownies - a salad with your
choice of dressing - coffee - tea - Coke - and all the spiked drinks you can
hold and wonderful conversation. Not to mention the midnight swim! 
                          -=*) ANN (*=-

Message: 5771
Author: $ Sandy SYSOP
Category: Question?
Subject: Last
Date: 08/10/89  Time: 10:24:12

        About the Brownies, Ann ...........

Message: 5772
Author: $ Apollo SYSOP
Category: Question?
Subject: Ann..
Date: 08/10/89  Time: 19:18:48

        I worked all last night...  How does Monday saound instead?

Yawn...  Gee VGA Paint by RIX looked great when I ran a speed and VGA test
on your system Ann...

The system is just Zipping along just fine. 

Message: 5773
Author: $ Bob Thornburg
Category: Get-Togethers
Subject: Ann
Date: 08/10/89  Time: 21:14:34

Hey Ann!  How about a GT at your house to celebrate getting your new
computer?  You did get it didn't you?

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Subject:Sandy/more money

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 1:Okay, along with the extra $100. I'll throw in some great drugs.  Okay?
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Message: 2398
Author: $ Sandy SYSOP
Category: Short Story
Subject: Middle, part 3
Date: 08/09/89  Time: 23:37:54

        ..... the sudden motion of my soapy covered body caused my little
ducky to topple over on his head as the powerful eddies swept him to and
fro.
        The unexpected interuption startled me so that I was having a hard
time .................

Message: 2399
Author: $ Jeannie Innajug
Category: Short Story
Subject: continued
Date: 08/10/89  Time: 07:13:28

..........finding the soap.  As the person at the door continued to knock
louder and louder, I turned to my rubber ducky and said, "ducky..........

Message: 2400
Author: $ Spaz Brown
Category: Short Story
Subject: It continues
Date: 08/10/89  Time: 09:01:45

. . . . . Answer the door, will you?  I hate it when people interrupt my
bath."  The duck waddled out of the tub and.....

Message: 2401
Author: $ Ann Oudin
Category: Short Story
Subject: It continues ....
Date: 08/10/89  Time: 10:08:28

.... and fell on the hard tile, spliting his little ducky head open. The
blood flowed like lava towards ..........

Message: 2402
Author: $ Sandy SYSOP
Category: Short Story
Subject: Middle still
Date: 08/10/89  Time: 10:35:14

        .... the maiden in distress in the bathtub gazed in horror at the
bloody liquid as it made its way to her towel she had haphazardly laid on
the flood next to the tub. The anxious moments past. She soon realized the
little ducky spilled her afternoon drink, a Bloody Mary.
        In relief she quickly motioned the little ducky to see who was at
the door.
        "No one interupts my bath," she mumbles to herself, "no one but ...

Message: 2404
Author: $ Gary Jones
Category: Short Story
Subject: continuing some more
Date: 08/10/89  Time: 12:09:18

The *&*^%$$%^&* MIGHTY APOLLO SYSOP (&^%^$#$%^&%$$% !!!  In bounces our
hero, and immediatly slips in the spilled Bloody Mary, falling to the edge
of the bathtub, where he busted his..................

Message: 2405
Author: $ Spaz Brown
Category: Short Story
Subject: Last
Date: 08/10/89  Time: 13:11:14

I'm not even going to TOUCH that one.

HB

Message: 2406
Author: $ Sandy SYSOP
Category: Short Story
Subject: continue
Date: 08/10/89  Time: 15:41:02

        .....new state-of-the-art, electronic, computerized, self-contained,
2,000,000 word speller checker.
        "Darn!" quips Cliff. He kneels down to gather up the pieces.
        "Darn, Darn, Double Darn!" he moans. "I was hoping to log on to
Apollo and speak my mind again. Now, I gotta wait, I guess."
        Cliff busily picks up the broken pieces being careful to wipe the
Bloody Mary off each piece. His 'pride and joy' toy is carted off to the
garage. "I'll go and fix this thing, dear. I am so-o-o-o smart. I can do
things like this, you know." Cliff grins. His eyes were still upon the
lovely lady in the tub.
        "Alone at last!" was her silent response. Now I can ........

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 1:see just how faithful Mr. Sysop is to Sandy.  With that Ann steps from the 
 2:tub and wraps a towel around her body, and walks towards Cliff.....
 3:end

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Message: 3322
Author: $ Sandy SYSOP
Category: Question ?
Subject: ???
Date: 08/09/89  Time: 23:41:29

        What hump?

Message: 3323
Author: $ Ann Oudin
Category: Cosmos-Chatter
Subject: On Sandy & mr. X
Date: 08/10/89  Time: 10:13:02

I would venture to say - Sandy's imagination is running amok! When I was
over at their house, Sandy wouldn't let me be alone with my sysop for one
minute - muchless, her going into the other room with a Mr. X!!! If she did
indeed draw a pix of Mr. X - she must have been thinking of Whitey at the
time because it's sure true to life. -=*) ANN (*=-

Message: 3324
Author: $ Gary Jones
Category: Cosmos-Chatter
Subject: Mr. X
Date: 08/10/89  Time: 11:59:45

That's what I was asking.  How could she draw such a true to life picture of
Whitey without some real-life modeling sessions?

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Message: 292
Author: $ Sandy SYSOP
Category: Chit-Chat
Subject: Last
Date: 08/09/89  Time: 23:42:47

        I expect nothing more than a "Huh?" from a dead person .......

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Message: 1662
Author: $ Spaz Brown
Category: Chit-Chat
Subject: Peter Petrisko
Date: 08/09/89  Time: 01:40:29

You're still around?  Shame on you!  Surely you found something better to do
than this.  Like graduate, for instance.

(If you didn't, my apologies.)

Just thought I'd say hi--

Heather

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Message: 60263
Author: David Gardner
Category: Answer!
Subject: ozone and CFCs
Date: 08/09/89  Time: 23:11:50

I know that your message was humorous, but for the benifit of readers who
don't understand:
 
The part of the atmosphere we are normally concerned with, is called the
troposphere.  Sphere, in this context, refers to an area, and "tropo"
derives from a Greek word meaning change.  This is because the weather, and
most of the corresponding atmospheric changes, occur within the troposphere.
 The thickness of the troposphere varies, being about 5 miles at the poles,
and 10 miles at the equator.
Above this is the stratosphere.  Within the stratosphere is the ozone layer.
 Ozone is simply O3, that is, oxygen (O2) with an extra atom.  This ozone
layer is created when ultraviolet light strikes oxygen molecules within the
stratosphere.  This layer of ozone, by absorbing much of the sun's
ultraviolet radiation, keeps the Earth from being a barren wasteland.  Were
it not for the ozone layer, and other parts of the atmosphere which filter
out other unwanted forms of radiant energy, we would all be dead.
Ozone, however, is toxic to human beings.  Ordinarily, this is not a problem
because the ozone layer is somewhere around 25 miles above us, and we don't
breathe it.  When through industrial means it is produced in the air around
us which we breathe, ozone is harmful rather than benificial.
Cloroflorocarbons, or CFCs, tend to break down the ozone layer in the
stratosphere.

Message: 60264
Author: David Gardner
Category: Answer!
Subject: flamingos
Date: 08/09/89  Time: 23:18:41

That theory doesn't hold water (hyuk!).  Flamingos stand on one foot in the
warm Florida waters.

Message: 60265
Author: David Gardner
Category: Chit Chat
Subject: burial, etc.
Date: 08/09/89  Time: 23:23:37

 
Today I read a story on page 3 of the Republic about an 87
year old woman who was laying on the embalmer's table, when she suddenly
showed signs of life.  The embalmer was quite apoplectic.  The woman is
recovering nicely.
 
In Japan, where living space is scarce, burial space is also scarce.  For
this reason, after a few years, the remains are dug up and cremated, and the
grave is re-used.
 
If you have ever seen newspapers in the U.K., you will know that page 3 is
usually reserved for saucy photographs of buxom, topless women.  This is
standard fare for British newspapers -- ordinary papers, not tabloids.
 

Message: 60266
Author: Greg Chambers
Category: News Today
Subject: I won!
Date: 08/10/89  Time: 02:59:20

AFter yawning publicly in court, shuffling and re shuffling
of feet..hearded like cows into a court-room and listening
to some of the most pathetic, hopless and ignorant blathering
from 3 defendants in 3 separate cases, I convinced the
Judge that the  speeding ticket was in error.
The Judge looked very tired and gave me the expression of one
who had seen it all and my ticket was barring the way to some sleep.
"Dismissed".
The issuing officer didn't look too happy. Snicker snicker.
-Greg

Message: 60267
Author: Greg Chambers
Category: Chit Chat
Subject: My Departure
Date: 08/10/89  Time: 03:00:03

Goodbye!

Message: 60268
Author: $ Paul Savage
Category: Answer!
Subject: Bob/ cremation
Date: 08/10/89  Time: 05:57:28

 I don't have the time or the heart to dig out all the paper work right now,
but it is true that the bodies have to be embalmed prior to cremation, which
makes no sense at all other than the protection of the mortician's bank
account, but the cremation, if I recall is around $300, and if they can't
talk you into buying an expensive urn for the ashes, they will even take
them to a place near lake Pleasant and reverently scatter them for you at no
extra charge. It sure beats the thousands of dollars for coffins, plots,
funeral processions, marble monuments, etc. to honor a bunch of rotting
flesh. I have memories that noone or nothing can ever erase. It's all I
need.

Message: 60269
Author: $ Jeannie Innajug
Category: Chit Chat
Subject: Flamingos....
Date: 08/10/89  Time: 07:09:53

Hey......................Bird lovers...................

Flamingos stand on only their coldest foot when they're in tropical waters.

See Y'aa..............
Jeannie

Message: 60270
Author: $ Ann Oudin
Category: Chit Chat
Subject: Bob/cremation
Date: 08/10/89  Time: 09:46:56

I think your right about the law that protects the income of the morticians.
When we left Calif. back in 1974 - it was a law there and you couldn't bring
the ashes home either. So that meant the ashes were usually buried.
(expense) What I don't understand, if this is indeed true in  Arizona, why
their income needs to be protected. I'd guess that 75% of the people are
buried. That's plenty of profit. Why not protect the secretary - the
gardener - the pest controller etc. etc.???? The morticians must have one
hell of a 'lobbist force' is all I can say. -=*) ANN (*=-
P.S. Did you know that in Calif. at that time, it was also a law that an
artopsy (sp?) was done on each deceased person. What for, I don't know.

Message: 60271
Author: $ Ann Oudin
Category: Chit Chat
Subject: Bob/brakes
Date: 08/10/89  Time: 09:47:48

Well - that's one 'plus' for progress anyway. -=*) ANN (*=-

Message: 60272
Author: $ Ann Oudin
Category: Chit Chat
Subject: Bob/at sea
Date: 08/10/89  Time: 09:51:32

I don't know how much we'd pollute the fish - but I think the reason it
isn't a common practice - the idea of eating fish that had eaten people! Of
course, that shouldn't make any difference - but ........! -=*) ANN (*=-

Message: 60273
Author: $ Gary Jones
Category: Question?
Subject: Heather Brown
Date: 08/10/89  Time: 11:53:11

Heather, welcome back.  But does the impending sale of your PC mean that
you're not long for our (Apollo) world?

Message: 60274
Author: $ Spaz Brown
Category: Answer!
Subject: Gary Jones
Date: 08/10/89  Time: 13:09:26

No, it just means that I upgraded.  My artifact was just replaced by a PS/2
50Z.  Unfortunately, my modem (the one I'm using at the present is borrowed)
is a Hayes 300 Smartmodem from the dark ages.  So much for progress.

I'll be on for a few days, but then I'm going down to school, so it may
become erratic again.  (It wasn't THAT long since the last time I was on,
right?  Okay, maybe not THAT erratic.)  I'm enjoying it while it lasts.

HB

Message: 60275
Author: $ Spaz Brown
Category: On the Lighter Side
Subject: The d
Date: 08/10/89  Time: 14:21:13

It's still there (that poor SIG), though empty.  However, seeing that a SIG
is largely useless without people (SI Group does not work well without a
group), it is being opened up again by invitation only.  Generally speaking,
the qualification for membership is to have been active at the time I was,
five years ago -- and there are a lot of you -- with the exception that, as
standard policy in these matters goes, Rod, JT, Nick and Peter are
automatically exluded, just because I want to see how long it takes before
Peter finds another way on.  Sorry to the rest of you.  You are helpless
victims.  Maybe later.

As for those "newbies" (Ha ha) who are too "young" to be on the SIG -- my
apologies.  You do have each other to talk to.

Leave a note for Cliff or me -- but I may not be returning (the wandering
SIGOP).  However, I do promise to log in again in the next five years after
it's re-opened. . . so keep the faith.  

The subject of the SIG?  Each other, basically, with an emphasis on things
that have gone undebated for a while. . . like why we haven't come up with
another radical Moslem to replace the gentleman Rod always fought with. 
Final note:  If ANYONE who has my home phone number calls me (you won't get
me anyway -- I'll be gone) to try and get on the SIG -- and you know who you
are -- you are automatically denied the privelege.  The trick is to get on
without a membership WITHOUT bothering me.  Thanks!  HB

Message: 60276
Author: $ Peter Cervelli
Category: Chit Chat
Subject: The Void
Date: 08/10/89  Time: 16:18:02

I am as interested in getting access to the Void now as I am interested in
sitting through a festival of Dino DeLaurentis films.

Even obsessions have a shelf-life.

Message: 60277
Author: $ Spaz Brown
Category: Chit Chat
Subject: Last
Date: 08/10/89  Time: 16:57:59

Though I notice yours have a longer life than some.  And who are you to
insult Dino DeLaurentis?

HB

Message: 60278
Author: $ Peter Cervelli
Category: Chit Chat
Subject: Last
Date: 08/10/89  Time: 17:46:23

Touche.  Who AM I to insult Dino DeLaurentis.

Message: 60279
Author: $ James Taranto
Category: Question?
Subject: Heather
Date: 08/10/89  Time: 18:14:52

Do you ever get the feeling you're being followed?

Message: 60280
Author: $ James Taranto
Category: Chit Chat
Subject: My PR job
Date: 08/10/89  Time: 18:29:26

Actually, my job is fairly journalistic, as PR jobs go.  I do work on op-ed
pieces and newspaper columns, as well as press releases, newsletters, and
brochures.  And I work for a public policy think tank, so I deal with a lot
of the same sorts of issues I would if I were a reporter.  (I am a bit tired
of public policy, however.)  For some reason which I have not yet discerned,
people I knew four or five years ago find it surprising that I would be
working in public relations.  I guess I must have been socially rough-edged
in my younger days.

Message: 60281
Author: $ Apollo SYSOP
Category: Chit Chat
Subject: Last on Rough-Edged
Date: 08/10/89  Time: 19:33:03

        That was quite an understatement there James....  "Socially
rough-edged in my younger days"...  You were down right 'COURSE'.

        But somehow.. you are going places.... Good luck!

Message: 60282
Author: $ Bob Thornburg
Category: Chit Chat
Subject: Gary
Date: 08/10/89  Time: 21:05:21

Re:  "Hydraulic brakes had and still
suffer from the problem that if there is the smallest leak in the system,
you lose the whole brake system."

The dual master cylinder system has been standard equipment on cars for some
time now.  If there is the smallest leak in the system, you lose only half
of the whole brake system.

Message: 60283
Author: $ Todd Reese
Category: Chit Chat
Subject: JT
Date: 08/10/89  Time: 22:15:15

Ever heard of sandpaper?

Message: 60284
Author: Art Clark
Category: Question?
Subject: Flamingos
Date: 08/10/89  Time: 22:55:15

I suppose by the tropics, you aren't refering to Florida, since it is above
the Tropic of Cancer.  You might conceivably argue that its lower portions
were part of subtropical regions, but that is about it.
 
My question is this:  How do you know that Flamingos stand on their coldest
foot in the tropics?  Ever asked one which of his feet he perceived as being
the coldest?  And why, pray tell, should a flamingo have cold feet in the
tropics?  In other words, if the theory breaks down when applied to warm
temperate regions, why shouldn't it break down when applied to the tropics?

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 1:        My guess is they stand on one leg to fool the little fishes.  
 2:Standing on two legs may be a dead give-away but one leg may just look like 
 3:a single branch thus giving the fish a sense of false security.
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 2:nuclear weapons affect the ozone?
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