Apollo BBS Archive - Feburary 1990

Apollo BBS Archive - Feburary 26 - 28, 1990

Message: 63559
Author: $ Zak Woodruff
Category: Answer!
Subject: Daryl's question
Date: 02/25/90  Time: 00:23:29

     People will refer to something as "The bible of XXXXX" for the same
reason that people say, "Oh GOD!  Not again!"  It's a part of culture.  I
don't have to believe in the bible's authority for me to be able to refer to
something as a "bible."  I'm just making a point:  "Other people regard
such-and-such grammar book as a source of authority."

      In other words, I needn't believe the bible in order to note that many
people regard it as a source of authority.

     Got it, punk?

Message: 63560
Author: Gary Chambers
Category: Chit Chat
Subject: LAWS
Date: 02/25/90  Time: 19:10:15

SOME PEOPLE CAN'T CONTROL THEIR ACTIONS*
THEY NEED HELP *
SUICIDE IS A PLEA FOR HELP THAT COMES TO LATE

Message: 63561
Author: $ Daryl Westfall
Category: Chit Chat
Subject: Zak/Question
Date: 02/25/90  Time: 20:37:27

It was rhetorical.

Message: 63562
Author: $ Zak Woodruff
Category: Chit Chat
Subject: last
Date: 02/25/90  Time: 21:11:43

Well Peter Piper picked a pepper!  Ooop!

Message: 63563
Author: $ Roger Mann
Category: Chit Chat
Subject: Nicauragua Revolts !
Date: 02/26/90  Time: 13:41:27

In a surprise, the UNO party has defeated the minions of Satan, the
Sandinistas in the first fair election held in Nicaragua in a long time.
Now the question is: Will Ortega relinquish power in two months ? If he
doesn't, what will the US do ? Will we invade Nic. as we did Panama to
install the legally elected president ? There is a precedent now for doing
such a thing ?

Message: 63564
Author: Jeff Beck
Category: Answer!
Subject: Roger
Date: 02/26/90  Time: 21:34:29

Poor Roger...ever the sniveling galactophage.  Take care that your mirkin
doesn't obstruct your already perilously pedicular vision.  Your
quakebuttock pusillanimity is not, I hope, a bellwether for my own
quadragenarian years.  To see you indulge in these quotidian quodlibets is
most rebarbative. Like the rasorial behavior of a steatopygous hen, your
sermocination only serves to reveal the extent of your sciolism.  Cease your
mussitation, your multiloquous muliebrity, heed the luminary examples of
your betters (i.e. me).
 
Ahem.

Message: 63565
Author: $ Dean Hathaway
Category: Chit Chat
Subject: Last
Date: 02/26/90  Time: 22:02:23

  I don't think you need to worry about your later years making you any less
palatable to the rest of society.
   See You Later
      Dean H.

Message: 63566
Author: $ Dean Hathaway
Category: Question?
Subject: Usage
Date: 02/26/90  Time: 22:06:01

  Were all the calls to this BBS coming from people in the Nicaraguan
government who are now too busy with other things to place a call?
   See You Later
      Dean H.

Message: 63567
Author: $ Dean Hathaway
Category: Drug Talk
Subject: Book
Date: 02/26/90  Time: 22:18:21

  I am reading Abbie Hoffman's 1987 book, 'Steal This Urine Test'. I don't
always agree with Hoffman's viewpoint on peripheral issues, but he makes a
very good effort here at minimizing outside comments and sticking to the
book's main focus. I have learned a few things already. The poppies from
which opium is derived were once grown right here in Arizona, for instance.
He details a lot of information on how drug operations really work, in
contrast to the way the media portrays drug labs, dealers, users,
interdiction efforts, and pricing/profit issues. I have only read about 20
percent of the book so far. It costs $5.95 in paperback and is available
from the Royal Bookstore. It will also be availble from me as a loaner when
I finish reading it.
   See You Later
      Dean H.

Message: 63568
Author: $ Daryl Westfall
Category: Chit Chat
Subject: Dean/Last
Date: 02/26/90  Time: 23:16:41

Reminds me of the song that Mojo Nixon did on "Bo-Day-Shus!"

Message: 63569
Author: $ Apollo SYSOP
Category: Chit Chat
Subject: Smith & Wesson
Date: 02/27/90  Time: 00:41:52

        Got my NEW 625-3 Smith & Wesson wheel gun (Six shooter) today.
This has a five inch barrel and uses 45 acp ammo.....   Scary looking to say
the least.  Makes my 357 look 'small'.

*=* the 'Mighty' Apollo SYSOP *=* with a BIGGER gun!

Message: 63570
Author: $ Peter Petrisko
Category: Question?
Subject: MESSAGES
Date: 02/27/90  Time: 01:13:04

What happened to mss. #63531 & 63534?  Both were evidently replied to, but
these replies look kind of silly now.
  
Some things just shouldn't be said.
 
Censor yourself before someone else does it for you.

Message: 63571
Author: $ Peter Petrisko
Category: Answer!
Subject: CLIFF/JUST SAY NO
Date: 02/27/90  Time: 01:24:31

     The "Just say No" campaign came from the Reagan administration.  The
beginnings of the gov't 'war on drugs' came from this "Just Say No"
propaganda.
     Last week, two kids came up to me and asked if I'd like to buy a candy
bar.  Part of this money, they explained, would aid the war on drugs.  The
wrappers had "JUST SAY NO" emblazoned across them in big red letters.
I asked the older kid (about 12 or 13) if he had tried drugs.  He admitted
he had sneaked some marijuana from his mom's stash on a few occasions.
     Not only is the "Just say No" campaign non-effective, it is helping to
shape a country of snitches & hypocrites.
     Catch phrases only help to sell products.  By the way, I didn't buy the
candy.  I'm not going to help the gov't sponsor a 'war' that has already
been lost.  Directly or indirectly.

Message: 63572
Author: Jeff Beck
Category: Answer!
Subject: Dean
Date: 02/27/90  Time: 01:48:00

Sir, you are an apogenous, bovaristic, coprolalial, dasypygal, excerebrose,
facinorous, gnathonic, hircine, ithyphallic, jumentous, kyphotic, labrose,
mephitic, napiform, oligophrenial, papuliferous, quisquillian, rebarbative,
saponaceous, thersitical, unguinous, ventripotent, wlatsome, xylocephalous,
yirning, zoophyte.
 
Hang loose, bro'.
 
P.S. After seeing that somewhat cryptic message you left to Rod about "that
magazine," I decided that it was my duty as a loyal, patriotic American to
report you to the appropriate authorities.  Your name is now on the list of
people suspected to be interested in subscribing to probably seditious
periodicals.  As you well know, Dean, the government keeps many such lists
on us all...they're watching us all...they know when you've been good or
bad, so be good for goodness sake.  These lists are cross-referenced, filed,
tabulated, computerized, sorted, shuffled, juggled, folded, stamped and
examined by three sworn witnesses, prior to being copied in triplicate, the
third copy of which is promptly shredded.  Big Brother is watching you,
Dean...Uncle Sam is a stern taskmaster, and he doesn't approve of pseudonym
using Libertarian troublemakers.  You think the people at Royal book store
sympathize?  Think again, bucko!  Royal Bookstore is run by government
stooges; every purchase is catalogued, every customer is
photographed...fingerprints are collected, hair collected and analyzed...
One look at your hair and THEY know what you had for breakfast last Tuesday!

Message: 63574
Author: Jeff Beck
Category: Chit Chat
Subject: Babblefest II
Date: 02/27/90  Time: 02:16:56

It was smart of you not to directly mention the name of the probably
seditious periodical...government spies and toadies are everywhere,
Everywhere, EVERYWHERE!!!  The government routinely monitors local bulletin
boards for signs of rebellious malcontents, LIKE YOU, who are then promptly
added to the appropriate list(s).  Just because you're paranoid doesn't mean
they're not out to get you! I suggest you go underground a while...use those
phony I.D.s based on the dead infant birth certificate ploy you got from The
Paper Trip; you know, the virgin sets you keep in your safe deposit
box...Fool!  Do you REALLY think it's safe there?  The government figures
that anything put into a safe deposit box must contain something of interest
at the very least; why else would people feel the need to HIDE it?  What? 
You don't trust banks?  Good, good...but THEY know all about your concealed
hiding places...the tunnel, the bunker...it's all been wired for months now,
every word, recorded, indelibly.  Your very THOUGHTS, Dean, are being
monitored at this very moment.  While Jackie Gleason bellows at Art Carney,
secret rays are projected from the TV...the manufacturers are all in league
with the government...rays, Dean, probing your mind...they know that you're
DIFFERENT...and they don't like it!  Pariah!  It's only a matter of time
until they use the spores...

Message: 63575
Author: $ Paul Savage
Category: Chit Chat
Subject: Roger/Ortega
Date: 02/27/90  Time: 05:52:35

 Apparently Ortega has stated that he will respect the will of the majority
of Nicaraguans. We can presume, or at least hope that he will keep his word
and step down. If he doesn't, I think that, while we could bring pressures
against him to do so, an invasion would be improper. I do not believe that
Panama set any precedent, since we had an interest in Panama that we do not
have in other South or Central American countries.
 This situation, however, if it develops into a confrontation, could be a
litmus of just how imperialistic the Bush administration is.
 In the same vein, if Panama is a precedent, how come we haven't invaded
Cuba yet? We still have a large Naval base there, don't we?

Message: 63576
Author: $ Daryl Westfall
Category: Chit Chat
Subject: Peter/Candy/Drugs
Date: 02/27/90  Time: 08:01:18

You should have bought the candy bar. The kid didn't say what he DID with
the candy; perhaps he was doing you a favor and laced it. If not, you should
have done your duty, and reported that child to the Miniyouth. B.B. would be
proud.

Message: 63577
Author: $ Daryl Westfall
Category: Chit Chat
Subject: Where is Lippard?!?
Date: 02/27/90  Time: 08:06:20

   It's just like him. Posts a mini-barrage of anti-Christian tirades, which
have been refuted quite well by some of the users on this board (yes, I
guess I am patting myself on the head a LITTLE, but it wasn't just me), and
da garbonzo doesn't even log on to get his responses. Wonder if he is just
waiting for them to scroll off before he calls back, so he can say that he
STILL hasn't gotten any response as to why us 1990 Christians shouldn't be
taking full responsibility for the Inquisition, the Salem witch trials, the
Christian militia, etc. etc. ad nauseum. JIM, CALL BACK YA SPUD!

Message: 63578
Author: $ Roger Mann
Category: Answer!
Subject: Jeff
Date: 02/27/90  Time: 08:12:41

Huh?

Message: 63579
Author: $ Roger Mann
Category: Chit Chat
Subject: Paul/Cuba
Date: 02/27/90  Time: 08:16:58

Both Panama and Nicaragua had free elections in which the party in power
was voted out. Noriega refused to step down. If Ortega does the same,
then we have established a precedent of interfering in the internal affairs
of another country. Cuba, as far as I know has never had a free election.

Message: 63580
Author: $ Apollo SYSOP
Category: Chit Chat
Subject: Roger/Panama
Date: 02/27/90  Time: 10:30:47

Re: If Ortega does the same, ........

        But Noriega also declared WAR on the U.S.   I think he got what he
asked for....  He was also wanted on drug charges.   I don't see any
parallel between the two countries.   "ifs" don't count as in:  "IF" the dog
hadn't  stopped to $#!+, he would have caught the rabbit.

*=* the 'Mighty' Apollo SYSOP *=*  *=* the 'Mighty' Apollo SYSOP *=* 
                      

Message: 63581
Author: Steve Hodode
Category: Joke
Subject: language
Date: 02/27/90  Time: 11:08:37

        THE  PARANOID SCHIZOPHRENIC'S DICTIONARY 
                                .
BUCK FEVER  : THE CONDITION OF SUDDENLY BEING GIVEN ONE'S GREAT
              OPPORTUNITY AND BEING UNABLE TO ACT APPROPRIATELY.
      IF YOU DON'T DRESS RIGHT YOU COULD CATCH BUCK FEVER.
                               .
RAP  : TO CRITICIZE SHARPLY.
 MY BOSS TOLD ME THAT IF I DIDN'T DO BETTER I WOULD HAVE TO LISTEN
 TO THE RAP MUSIC.
                               .
TANG : A FAINT SUGGESTION.
     I HAVE TANG EVERY MORNING BEFORE GOING TO WORK AS I LISTEN TO THE 
     RADIO.
     I GAVE HER TANG BUT SHE TURNED ME DOWN.

Message: 63582
Author: $ Zak Woodruff
Category: Chit Chat
Subject: Moscow Circus
Date: 02/27/90  Time: 15:25:07

     This morning at work I was surprised to see somebody walking a furry
Russian bear outside where I work.  Apparently they were doing some sort of
promotion thing at Magic 101; they were walking the bear around the complex
a little.  He was gentle and cute.
     I just looked out the door, and there was a bear.

Message: 63583
Author: $ Bob Thornburg
Category: Chit Chat
Subject: Zak
Date: 02/27/90  Time: 16:31:30

Re:  "they were walking the bear around the complex a little.  He was gentle
and cute"

The only good bear is a dead bear!

(Nothing personal Shirley!)

Message: 63584
Author: $ Beauregard Dog
Category: Chit Chat
Subject: Zak/bear
Date: 02/27/90  Time: 17:38:11

photo in today's repugnant. Looks like the bear and trainer are staying at
the Hotel Westcourt in Metro Center.

Message: 63585
Author: $ Beauregard Dog
Category: Chit Chat
Subject: Daryl on Jim
Date: 02/27/90  Time: 17:38:45

He only reads Apollo when he comes to Phoenix from Tucson (where he lives
and goes to school).

Message: 63586
Author: $ Daryl Westfall
Category: Chit Chat
Subject: Beau/Last
Date: 02/27/90  Time: 20:17:30

I better capture my post and repost it later, then.

Message: 63587
Author: $ Dean Hathaway
Category: Chit Chat
Subject: Bear
Date: 02/27/90  Time: 23:16:10

  I did some work in the building on 7th St. & Missouri this morning and saw
a bear attacking the fruit trees in front of the place as I drove in.
   See You Later
      Dean H.

Message: 63588
Author: $ Dean Hathaway
Category: Chit Chat
Subject: Mark
Date: 02/27/90  Time: 23:18:57

     You obviously don't know me well enough to define me, particularly
with twenty-five adjectives. If I were a zoophyte I would have no choice
but to hang loose, but that is not the case.
     That alphabetical banquet containing dictionary eccentricities
featured garish, hieroglyphical, ill-bred, jejune, knotted, largish,
maladapted, nebulous, obfuscatory, polysyllabic, quizzical, recondite,
stultifying, turbid, unutterable, vertiginous, whorled, xenolithic,
yowling zealotry.
     Thanks for reminding me about the problem of being on mailing lists
for subversive literature. I had decided to get a post office box to
receive it, so as to protect my security clearance, but hadn't decided
how to handle the post office requirement of an actual address for their
files. Now I can safely get all the anarchist, marxist, skinhead, deviant 
literature there is. I just subscribe in your name and have it all mailed
to a post office box I rented in your name and your home address is on
file at the post office in case anyone should inquire. You obviously won't
mind since you made such fun of the idea that anyone could ever try to hold
a person's reading material against them in any way. You're right of
course, that would be like someone publicizing what video tapes a candidate
for office had rented. Never happen. Thanks again, and have a nice day.
  See You Later,
     Dean H.
 p.s.(No I didn't really do it.)
 

Message: 63590
Author: Ralph Moffin
Category: On the Lighter Side
Subject: ofcriticism
Date: 02/28/90  Time: 03:10:17

TO ---> Paul Savvage, Ann oudin, Darrel Westfall, Dean McCarrow

  It looks like you all were right and me wrong!!!! I wanted to say
something about how people react to other poeple without very much thouhgt
or giving time to think about there ideas......like not trying  hard to
consider wher the other person is coming from....not being able to learn
from one-another.....thats all. Maybe I was being imbicillic or maybe you
missed what my point was....Im not sure.....but if I am right then your
criticques of my bulletinn only enhance my point!!!!! (if not thats life)

  Ann Oudin I dont think I said the sysop isn't supposed to express himself.
You mis-read my post!!!! (it refeers to him tampering with me ---->NOT
REFERS TO WHAT HE SAYS IN HIS OWN MESSAGES!!!!))  I hate B.B.S.'s where the
sys-op plays 'God' while your trying to contribute!!!!!!!!!
 
 ......also some people think I am other people I have never heard of
before. All I can say is Sorry Charlie! I am who I am.....toot toot....
 
<<>>
 
P.S. Paul I already heard about Jesus 200 times I dont need a bumpr stikcer
to remind me what I already know!!!! People want too much other people to
beleive the same as them.

Message: 63591
Author: $ Paul Savage
Category: Chit Chat
Subject: Zak/bear
Date: 02/28/90  Time: 05:43:41

 According to the news, the bear and it's trainer are staying at the
Westcourt while acting as an advance PR team for the Moscow circus.
 You work at or near the Westcourt?

Message: 63592
Author: $ Paul Savage
Category: Answer!
Subject: Ralph Muffin
Date: 02/28/90  Time: 05:49:29

 So you already "know" Jesus, eh? So does Satan, and he quakes at the
thought of Him.
 What you need to know is Jesus as your personal saviour, and Lord of your
life, but I guess you've already heard that 200 times as well. Apparently
the truth of that statement hasn't hit home yet. I hope it does before it's
too late. Eternity is one terrible price to pay for a season of doubt and
criticism here.
 God bless.

Message: 63593
Author: $ Ann Oudin
Category: Chit Chat
Subject: Bob on bears
Date: 02/28/90  Time: 09:25:05

Re: "the only good bear is a dead bear" === where did you come up with that
one? Whats the matter with bears pray tell. Geeze! -=*) ANN (*=-

Message: 63594
Author: $ Apollo SYSOP
Category: Chit Chat
Subject: Ralph Moffin
Date: 02/28/90  Time: 10:07:39

        I am not trying to play God....  I just want you to keep my name out
of your slimmy anti-Christian posts and slams.

        I also do not believe you are whom you say you are....  Your logic
smacks of Williamisim.

Message: 63595
Author: $ Apollo SYSOP
Category: Question?
Subject: Yellow Front
Date: 02/28/90  Time: 10:15:26

        How many people will miss Yellow Front?   What does this mean for
the economy?  Now, people will have to step UP to K-Mart.

        Inside word has it that Yellow Front lost millions to employee
theft and is one of the factors in its shutdown.

*=* the 'Mighty' Apollo SYSOP *=*

Message: 63596
Author: $ Zak Woodruff
Category: Chit Chat
Subject: the bear
Date: 02/28/90  Time: 14:19:24

I work on 7th St. just south of Camelback, in the Valley Commerce Center. 
That's a hop, skip and a jump away from where Dean said he saw the bear.

Message: 63597
Author: $ Shirley Bear
Category: Chit Chat
Subject: Bob / bears
Date: 02/28/90  Time: 16:32:53

It is a good thing you put that little notetation on that post other 
wise you would be in BIG TROUBLE.  <*>Smile<*>
                              ***** Shirley *****

Message: 63599
Author: Jeff Beck
Category: Chit Chat
Subject: I want a rock
Date: 02/28/90  Time: 17:27:47

If I were a carpenter, I'd hammer on my piglet, I'd collect the seven
dollars and I'd buy a big prosthetic forehead and wear it on my real head.

Message: 63600
Author: Jeff Beck
Category: Answer!
Subject: Dean
Date: 02/28/90  Time: 17:48:29


 
Stout fellow.
 
P.S. What do you mean, "twenty-five" ?

Message: 63601
Author: $ Dean Hathaway
Category: Answer!
Subject: last
Date: 02/28/90  Time: 18:35:44

  I mean two dozen plus one.
   See You Later
      Dean H.

Message: 63602
Author: $ Daryl Westfall
Category: Chit Chat
Subject: Yellow Front
Date: 03/01/90  Time: 00:22:29

What is there at Yellow Front to steal? Unless, that is, you are an outlaw
camper.