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Message: 5788
Author: $ Todd Reese
Category: Question?
Subject: Cliff
Date: 08/13/89 Time: 12:33:19
Did you get the virus in Ann's COMMAND.COM like we planned?
Message: 5789
Author: $ Ann Oudin
Category: Chit-Chat
Subject: Toddy/last
Date: 08/14/89 Time: 10:31:06
Cliff would never do such a thing fellow! He should have the nick name of
'Mr. Perfect' as far as computers go. You'll have to ask Sandy if he's Mr.
Perfect otherwish! Heh. -= *) ANN (*=-
Message: 5790
Author: $ Apollo SYSOP
Category: Chit-Chat
Subject: Perfect?
Date: 08/14/89 Time: 10:53:52
Not I!!! I wish I was, but I fall far short of the word 'perfect'.
If I was I could say.... *=* the 'Perfect' Apollo SysOp *=*
But that would be a lie. sniff (tm)
Message: 5791
Author: $ Todd Reese
Category: Chit-Chat
Subject: Ann
Date: 08/14/89 Time: 22:17:29
Didn't you know? Dean McCarron is the perfect one.
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Message: 2418
Author: $ Todd Reese
Category: Short Story
Subject: cont.
Date: 08/13/89 Time: 12:35:38
"I'm going down to 7-11. Anybody want a Big Gulp?"
...but then, surprising them all, ...
Message: 2419
Author: $ Sandy SYSOP
Category: Short Story
Subject: Cont
Date: 08/13/89 Time: 15:31:56
...... Rod, the Prophet of Bob, walks through the wall of the
bathroom. Speaking in the name of Bob, Rod the Prophet, announces how proud
Bob is of all present.
With authority, Rod the Prophet proclaims, "Bob, the god of
NO GOOD, has seen his children at work ...... he has seen their vile
intentions, their vulgar actions and he is well pleased."
Realizing the enormity of their transgressions they .......
Message: 2420
Author: $ Daryl Westfall
Category: Chit-Chat
Subject: The Family Lives
Date: 08/13/89 Time: 23:01:33
Looking in from the outside
At faces that I used to know
So sad that friendships wither
And are tramped into desolate snow
Your faces all look the same
But I know some things have changed
The family lives, the circle lives
The order is rearranged
Faces that I trusted so
Now glare as cold as stone
Except when family's near at hand
You've left me all alone
You say it's time for you to leave
I'm such a tiresome bore
Be careful that you are not struck
By my quickly closing door.
- To La Sagrada Familia II
Message: 2421
Author: $ Ann Oudin
Category: Short Story
Subject: Cont.
Date: 08/14/89 Time: 10:36:28
.... and worshipped the god Rod/Bob! They called out his name in glory and
he basked in this glory, deserving it fully. He walked toward the little
group, his silken robes making rustling sounds in the tiled bathroom. All
had their heads to the floor in a position of servitude and repentence. "Oh
most holy one - save us please" cried .........
Message: 2422
Author: $ Sandy SYSOP
Category: Short Story
Subject: Still More ...
Date: 08/14/89 Time: 13:39:40
..... cried the group in unison.
Feeling the group's anquish, Rod the Prophet, replied, "Well, Yes, I
will help you ................ Here ............... Have a Brownie."
As Rod was passing out his special Brownies, Sandy the sexy,
stupendous, smart she-SySop, walks in. Upon seeing Rod passing out his
special Brownies, again; seeing Cliff with his pants down, again; noticing
the Pool Man naked, again; and glaring at Ann's naked body, again; she ...
Message: 2423
Author: $ Gary Jones
Category: Short Story
Subject: more
Date: 08/14/89 Time: 15:55:49
threw up all over Rod and the brownies. At this our Hero, Cliff crawls to
his feet and.....................
Message: 2424
Author: $ Todd Reese
Category: Short Story
Subject: more more more
Date: 08/14/89 Time: 22:20:17
says, "Hmmmm... there's something strange about all of this." He whips out
his trusty magnifying glass, and summons the group. There, sitting in vomit
is a .............
Message: 2425
Author: $ Sandy SYSOP
Category: Short Story
Subject: latter middle
Date: 08/15/89 Time: 00:14:06
....... a note. Upon closer examination Eagle Eye Cyclops Cliff
noted a familiarity in the writing.
The name James Hawley came immediately to mind.
In big coarse letters was inscribed the message .....
I LOVE A GOOD JOKE!
All present stared at the note, their faces turning a darker shade
of red as the minutes passed. Each looked at the other not knowing what to
say. Finally the ducky waddled into the midst of this shocking circular
assemblage of statuesque figures and asked each one of them if they had each
received a note and if this note resembled the hand scribbles on this vomit
soaked piece.
Master of All of Apollo, Syslop Cliff replied without hesitation,
"Yup, I did. My note was supposed to be from Ann asking me to come over to
her house and fix her computer, ...... again." With that Cliff looked down
to satisfy himself that his britches were indeed up and secure.
The Pool Man .........
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Message: 3332
Author: $ Sandy SYSOP
Category: Question ?
Subject: Rod
Date: 08/13/89 Time: 14:48:09
What were you doing on your dogs?
Message: 3333
Author: $ Sandy SYSOP
Category: Jokes & Ha Ha's
Subject: Good Sport
Date: 08/13/89 Time: 14:52:22
A young man answered the phone. At the other end was a woman from
his past. She asked him if he remembered her. He asked her if she was the
Red head who was such a good sport, the one he spent the night with after
the party. She said she was. She also said she was pregnant and was going to
commit suicide. The young man replied, "My, you are a good sport!"
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Subject:Sandy/dogs
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1:Just walking them.
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Message: 302
Author: $ Todd Reese
Category: Chit-Chat
Subject: Chris Zagar
Date: 08/13/89 Time: 12:38:10
Does anybody know who this guy is besides Cliff?
Message: 303
Author: $ Sandy SYSOP
Category: SYSOP Speaks
Subject: Tadd
Date: 08/13/89 Time: 14:54:47
Can you keep a secret? ...................
Message: 304
Author: $ Sandy SYSOP
Category: SYSOP Speaks
Subject: Good
Date: 08/13/89 Time: 14:55:59
Well, ...........................................
Chris does not really exist.
Neither does this Pewter Star Ship.
We just want you money that's all.
Gotta problem with that?
Message: 305
Author: $ Peter Petrisko
Category: Chit-Chat
Subject: GT
Date: 08/13/89 Time: 16:20:29
I will not be able to make it to the GT as I have a gallery opening on
the 26th.
Cliff, I'll be in touch before the GT.
Message: 306
Author: $ Apollo SYSOP
Category: Chit-Chat
Subject: Last
Date: 08/13/89 Time: 21:50:34
There goes the 8 x 10 color glossy picture idea. Well, what day can
you make it?
Sigh!
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Message: 307
Author: $ Ann Oudin
Category: Chit-Chat
Subject: Cliff
Date: 08/14/89 Time: 10:38:11
Maybe Paul will come and bring his 3-D camera eh?
Message: 308
Author: $ Apollo SYSOP
Category: Chit-Chat
Subject: Paul
Date: 08/14/89 Time: 10:56:29
He is NOT a member of the Elite Apollo users. Besides, I don't
think we could afford to get all the members a copy of such a photograph.
*=* the 'Mighty' Apollo SYSOP *=*
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Message: 1664
Author: $ Apollo SYSOP
Category: Insomniac & inspired
Subject: Peter
Date: 08/11/89 Time: 00:21:35
I heard he is creating a new and bigger 'THANG' for Ann.
(Don't worry, Ann never logs in at night, so she can't see this post)
*=* the 'Mighty' Apollo SYSOP *=*
Message: 1665
Author: $ Peter Petrisko
Category: Chit-Chat
Subject: LAST
Date: 08/15/89 Time: 00:21:49
From what I hear, the THANG is in Costa Rica.
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Message: 60314
Author: $ Bob Thornburg
Category: Chit Chat
Subject: Rod
Date: 08/13/89 Time: 14:10:39
Re: "The military fighting man is the
most brain-washed of all people and understandable so."
Gee, I used to be in the Air Force! Does that mean my brain has been
washed? How can I correct this situation?
Message: 60315
Author: $ Bob Thornburg
Category: Chit Chat
Subject: Ann/Rod
Date: 08/13/89 Time: 14:15:52
Re: "the taxes keep
rising, the politicians become more criminal every year, pollution keeps
right on going strong and the prisons keep full and new laws being passed
daily taking away another of our little freedoms in the name of 'safty' or
for the minority or supposedly for the betterment of the country!"
But! The American people have within their power to do something about it!
If during the next major election, everyone refused to vote for the
incumbent, we could radically turn around the corruption in the government
we all find so repulsive.
Message: 60316
Author: $ Sandy SYSOP
Category: Question?
Subject: Last/Bob
Date: 08/13/89 Time: 15:09:16
So, how do you propose to get everyone to refuse to vote for the
incumbent?
A nice idea, however, the forces in power know how to 'divide and
conquer'.
That, plus they have the "NEWS" media in their pockets.
They control the communications.
Message: 60317
Author: $ Peter Petrisko
Category: Chit Chat
Subject: FARMER
Date: 08/13/89 Time: 16:35:19
I saw Phranc live a few years back. She performed a song about female
mud wrestlers. It was a sing-along.
I haven't seen K. D. Lang. Then again, I don't have to!
Message: 60318
Author: $ Peter Petrisko
Category: Tales & Tall Stories
Subject: GOODBYE
Date: 08/13/89 Time: 16:37:46
My log-ons will be far and few between in the near future, so I'll
"see" you all later.
Be good, JT.
Message: 60319
Author: $ James Taranto
Category: Chit Chat
Subject: Kielsky
Date: 08/13/89 Time: 19:27:25
It's amusing to see someone who is naive enough to try arguing with Rod
Williams.
Message: 60320
Author: $ Apollo SYSOP
Category: Question?
Subject: Peter P?
Date: 08/13/89 Time: 21:56:08
Now why is he leaving the system? Did I say something that upset
him? There goes another valuable user... sniff
Sysop
Message: 60321
Author: $ Daryl Westfall
Category: Chit Chat
Subject: ...
Date: 08/13/89 Time: 22:52:16
Hello.
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Subject:JT/argue
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1:I'm not arguing. I'm just expressing thoughts. I realize that I could have
2:been born in a country that is much worse off than the U.S. There are a lot
3:of them.
4:end
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Subject:Bob
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1:I was speaking more for the fighting man. The grunts are taught how to kill
2:and are given prejudices for the enemy. Their lives are never the same
3:after indoctronation. It is like raping the mind of a young man.
4:end
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Message: 60324
Author: $ Ann Oudin
Category: Chit Chat
Subject: Bob
Date: 08/14/89 Time: 10:24:49
Re: "If during the next major election, everyone refused to vote for the
incumbent, we could radically turn around the corruption in the government
we all find so repulsive"..
I did not vote for the imcumbent and it didn't make one bit of difference.
I am coming to believe that in most cases, the American voters does NOT have
any power anymore! The key word in your post is 'everyone' - and that just
doesn't happen - if it ever did. Minorities are ruling basically now.Take
the case of the drownings in the valley - according to this morning's paper
they polled 122 people that had small children under four. The majority of
the minority wanted a law passed to fence pools (around the pool itself!)
This means that the thousands of people that have pools and doesn't have
little children must comply with this very small minority if this law is
passed! I feel that something as big as this issue should be put to the
voters. How this all is going to turn out is a mystery right now, but if
they do pass such a law - I WIL move from this county and maybe even the
state. That much I do have power over at least! See you later. -=*)ANN(*=-
Message: 60325
Author: $ Ann Oudin
Category: Chit Chat
Subject: Rod/armed forces
Date: 08/14/89 Time: 10:29:27
My husband agrees with you. He was in the Korean war in the navy. He said
their major objective was to brain wash immediately! He said the worse thing
was those above the next guy playing god above the little guy.
-=*) ANN (*=-
Message: 60326
Author: $ Apollo SYSOP
Category: Chit Chat
Subject: Users?
Date: 08/14/89 Time: 11:11:52
Where are all you users? A whirlwind trip by Spaz Brown though
Apollo has change your minds to silly putty and tied your tongues.
There must be world news worthy of mention....
Has anyone else gone to see the movie 'ABYSS'? Quite the
adventure....
*=* the 'Mighty' Apollo SYSOP *=*
Message: 60327
Author: $ James Taranto
Category: Chit Chat
Subject: Last
Date: 08/14/89 Time: 15:11:36
My mind was silly putty to begin with.
Message: 60328
Author: $ Gary Jones
Category: Chit Chat
Subject: Flamingos
Date: 08/14/89 Time: 15:51:52
Looks like the flamingo conversation is back where it started. Didn't
someone suggest that the stupid birds stood on one leg to imitate a tree and
fool the fish? I think flamingos are OK, baked, with cornbread stuffing.
Except they taste a little fishy.
Message: 60329
Author: $ Bob Thornburg
Category: Answer!
Subject: Sandy
Date: 08/14/89 Time: 16:36:32
Re: "So, how do you propose to get everyone to refuse to vote for the
incumbent?"
Easy, I just get Ralph to shoot everyone who refuses!
Hmmmmmm. I got that backwards.
Easy, I just get Ralph to shoot everyone who refuses to refuse!
Hmmmmmm. Maybe the first one was right?
Message: 60330
Author: $ Bob Thornburg
Category: Chit Chat
Subject: Rod
Date: 08/14/89 Time: 16:38:04
Re: "It is like raping the mind of a young man."
You mean my brains have been violated?
Message: 60331
Author: $ Apollo SYSOP
Category: Chit Chat
Subject: JT # 60327
Date: 08/14/89 Time: 17:59:08
Re: Silly putty
We all knew that anyway. Tell us something new!
Message: 60332
Author: $ James Taranto
Category: Chit Chat
Subject: Last
Date: 08/14/89 Time: 18:24:56
Don't you know how Silly Putty works? It is incapable of doing anything
original. All it can do is reproduce images from the world around it, and
only in reverse.
Message: 60333
Author: $ Apollo SYSOP
Category: Question?
Subject: Last on JT
Date: 08/14/89 Time: 18:39:25
Are you tring to tell us you are incapable of an original thought?
You can reproduce only what some one has told you, and you still can't get
it right because you do it in reverse?
Brag on JT... I want to hear more!
*=* the 'Mighty' Apollo SYSOP *=*
Message: 60334
Author: $ James Taranto
Category: Chit Chat
Subject: Last
Date: 08/14/89 Time: 19:19:42
No, what I am trying to tell you is that I'm incapable of original thought.
So shut up already!
Message: 60335
Author: $ Apollo SYSOP
Category: Chit Chat
Subject: last
Date: 08/14/89 Time: 20:07:31
Again...
As I *SAID*, we knew that already.....
Your "So shut up already" drives home that point very clearly.
So.... 'DITTO'!
*=* the 'Mighty' Apollo SYSOP *=*
Message: 60336
Author: Mike Carter
Category: Answer!
Subject: Daryl Westfall
Date: 08/15/89 Time: 00:43:13
Hi there!
I'll be dropping in sometime to your store.
I pass by it every so often.
But it's always closed when I do.
L8r
Message: 60337
Author: Mike Carter
Category: Answer!
Subject: Cliff
Date: 08/15/89 Time: 00:44:49
Silly putty goes stale and hardens after awhile, making it
immune to outside forces and therby rendering it
quite useless.
Such can be said of many of our elected officials.
-Mike
Message: 60338
Author: $ Rod Williams
Category: Chit Chat
Subject: Stupid Silly Putty
Date: 08/15/89 Time: 01:00:45
I am somewhat an authority on locks and locksmithing because I have been
'living' it for the past thirteen years. I have studied it.
However, on any other subject (except being a father) I am not really sure
of what in the hell I am saying. I do not nor have I had the time necessary
to make a habit of studying, in depth, all that which I talk about.
But there is such a thing as debate and playing the Devil's (bless him)
advocate in order to learn, have fun, whatever.
Well, I lied, cause I am somewhat of a minor (with major leanings) authority
on being an atheist. That's because I've been one for a long while and I
have given that lots of thought and condideration.
But when it comes to world interests and political systems, all my thoughts
on the subject comes from bits and pieces that were gleaned from here and
there. Like, I might catch the tail end of a commentary or overhear a
conversation or two. Other than that I humbly admit that I am not a scholar
on any of the recent conversations I have had the pleasure of debating in.
However, I do find it an interesting past time and I have learned a tad here
and there from said debates.
Are you now happy, JT? Can I go on with my life?
Thank you.
Message: 60339
Author: Lee Nicholson
Category: Entertainment/Movies
Subject: The Abyss
Date: 08/15/89 Time: 01:09:15
I saw The Abyss at Cine Capri, in 70mm Dolby. The nice thing is, any show
before 6:00 pm any day costs only $3.00
Oh, by the way, the theatre, which holds 800 people, was sold out the day I
saw it (Sunday, the 4:05 showing).
The breathable fluid featured in the film does exist, by the way. Rather
strange, but as they say in the movie, we all breath fluid for nine months.
Message: 60340
Author: Lee Nicholson
Category: Chit Chat
Subject: Chinese
Date: 08/15/89 Time: 01:15:28
I was reading an article in "World Monitor" about Chinese calligraphy and
art, and the story was told of a (now quite popular) artist, who during the
"cultural revolution", painted a picture of a rooster for chairman Mao's
wife. Well, it seems that the ink was too dark, the rooster looked straight
at the viewer (of the painting), and the rooster's tail curved to the right,
all of which proved that the artist was a capitalist
sympathizer/counter-revolutionary. He was sent away to prison for years.
Message: 60341
Author: $ Rod Williams
Category: Chit Chat
Subject: Bob/brainwashed
Date: 08/15/89 Time: 01:20:49
If you took basic training in the military of this country (or any
other country ('cept Costa Rica) then I would say that your brains have
been violated. And it appears, from your 'get-even' attitude that they
have.
You come up with this eye for an eye stuff all the while saying you
are a Christian. Yup, Bobbie, they've been violated, I'd say.
Now, say ten hell Marys and perhaps the lard will actually forgive
you. -Rod
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