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Apollo BBS Archive - July 14, 1987



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Mail from Mark Adkins
Date: 07/14/87  Time: 02:08:41



Hi Rod...I got a message that you called tonight around 9:00, but didn't get
in until around 1:30. Didn't actually DO that much...I drove out to Kiwanis
Park because I heard something on the radio about a jazz festival there
tonight at 7:30, but the "jazz" group was a less than well rehearsed band
called "Igor's Cowboy Jazz Band"...oh well...they occasionally floundered
into some decent swing rhythms and there was a goodly number of people there
to at least provide a "festive" atmosphere. I stuck around for a while
afterwards, and watched some people (mainly girls) trying to jump two ropes
swinging out of phase with each other, without too much success. Watched a
volleyball game (really wanted to play, but didn't want to butt in). Went
and saw "The Squeeze", which was horrible...well, maybe not that bad, but
not good either. Then I drove around looking for something interesting
(don't ask me what) to catch my eye. I took Central all the way down to
South Mountain Park (which was closed with a vehicle barricade), and back
without finding any sort of night life (except for one or two decrepit souls
which I assumed were street people (probably because they were sleeping on
bus benches). Whoopie...
 
Mark


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 1:I need to photocopy the songs contained in "Not The Bible" and that's why I 
 2:phoned.  Christian and I were up for quite a while, as usual.
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Message: 45071
Author: $ Mark Adkins
Category: Answer!
Subject: Rod/last
Date: 07/14/87  Time: 01:59:02

That was great Rod. Every once in a while you come up with a real
gem..."yea, though I trot through the valley of death, I get annoyed with
this little fly that keeps buzzing me"...and..."he maketh me lie down in
decay and slimeballs"...are surely two all-time great lines. They are
certainly better than Michael Keaton's new movie, "The Squeeze". After I
paid $5.50 to see it, I felt kind of squeezed myself.

Message: 45072
Author: $ Ann Oudin
Category: Chit Chat
Subject: Rod/JT/knot
Date: 07/14/87  Time: 09:14:27

Very funny! I'd like to tie a knot ON him - not with him. By the way - our
Woman/Ann/JT discussion is through - KAPOOT - done - over!! Have you ever
heard the expression of "Pi$$ing into the wind"? WELL if I could, thats
what I've been doing. That man - or kid, what ever - won't budge an inch. He
thinks of himelef as an intelligent debater

He prefers name calling to discussion, so I don't want to waste my time.
I've read over the posts and I see he treats everyone that way too.
Personally, I'd reather talk to God. --- ANN

Message: 45073
Author: $ Apollo SYSOP
Category: In search of
Subject: 2400 modem Customers
Date: 07/14/87  Time: 13:54:26

        If I could get a deal on some 2400 BAUD  Internal EVEREX modems,
would there be anyone wanting one?  I would like to get some for $199.95
(Pre-paid Cash)....

CliffORD!


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Message: 1545
Author: $ Zak Woodruff
Category: Chit-Chat
Subject: last
Date: 07/14/87  Time: 16:27:35

HARLY QUIN???

Don't tell me you named your kitty after those books!  Even worse, after a
motorcycle with an MTV vee-jay riding it...

Message: 1546
Author: $ James Taranto
Category: Chit-Chat
Subject: Melissa
Date: 07/14/87  Time: 22:47:26

Two of my cats got eaten by coyotes or run over by cars, so I only have one
left and could use some replacements.  Would you mind mailing me a couple of
kittens?

Message: 1547
Author: $ David Burkhart
Category: Chit-Chat
Subject: last
Date: 07/14/87  Time: 22:55:30

UPS?


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Message: 411
Author: $ Charles Zweiger
Category: Answer!
Subject: PC_DITTO
Date: 07/14/87  Time: 21:49:47

I know someone who already has PC DITTO, and he says it works very well..He
says he can put a disk in IBM format, load up an atari term, pop his IBM
disk in the drive and download IBM programs..He also says that the list of
programs runable is GIGANTIC.. I will enter a message with the titles by the
company that makes it (which run with it)..

                   Talk to you later,
                   Charles Zweiger..


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Message: 1105
Author: $ Mike Howerton
Category: Question?
Subject: stuff
Date: 07/14/87  Time: 02:35:43

Why am I awake at this time of the night????
Why do I do things like this to myself???
I am begining to think that I have masochistic tendencies. (Then again,
I have thought that for a long time.)
 
 
Did you ever think  that possibly we are all just a Little Computer
People (TM) program running in someone's computer????
I just waiting for the owner to answer when I tap on the glass.
 
 
See what happens when you stay out late earning  money????
It would be so much easier if I could earn this money in the afternoon
but unfortunately it just isn't possible.
(My he loves to ramble, doesn't he??)

Message: 1106
Author: $ David Burkhart
Category: Chit-Chat
Subject: last
Date: 07/14/87  Time: 23:07:07

Why don't you go reprogram yourself?


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Message: 45077
Author: $ Apollo SYSOP
Category: Vote
Subject: Lt. Col.Oliver North
Date: 07/14/87  Time: 15:54:52

        Is he GUILTY.... or is he ????  
        A new ote soon to be posted on this...  Anyone have any input as
to how to word the question?

CliffORD

Message: 45079
Author: $ Robert Simpson
Category: Tales & Tall Stories
Subject: # change...
Date: 07/14/87  Time: 16:44:40

The Black Castle is getting a new number (sucks.....But, we all must make
sacrifices)  it will be 843-6782.

Message: 45080
Author: $ Apro Poet
Category: In search of
Subject: Life
Date: 07/14/87  Time: 17:33:18

...
  Our arsenals for fighting off bacteria are so powerful, 
and involve so many different defense mechanisms, that we 
are in more danger from them than from the invaders.  We 
live in the midst of explosive devices; we are mined.
...
  The gram-negative bacteria are the best examples of this.
They display Lipopolyssacharide endotoxin in their walls,
and these macromolecules are read by our tissues as the very
worst of bad news.  When we sense lipopolyssacharide, we are
likely to turn on every defense at our disposal; we will 
bomb, defoliate, blockade, seal off, and destroy all the 
tissues in the area.
...
  All this seems unnecessary, panic-driven.  There is 
nothing intrinsically poisonous about endotoxin, but it must
look awful, or feel awful, when sensed by cells.  Cells 
believe that it signifies the presence of gram-negative
bacteria, and they will stop at nothing to avoid this 
threat.
...
  It is, basically, a response to propoganda, something like
the panic-producing pheromones that slave-taking ants 
release to disorganize the colonies of their prey.

Message: 45081
Author: $ Apro Poet
Category: In search of
Subject: Life
Date: 07/14/87  Time: 17:36:42

  I think it likely that many of our diseases work in this
way.  Sometimes, the mechanisms used for overkill are
immunologic, but often, as in the limulus model, they are 
more primitive kinds of memory.  We tear ourselves to pieces
because of symbols, and we are more vulnerable to this than
to any host of predators.  We are, in effect, at the mercy 
of our own Pentagons, most of the time.

Message: 45082
Author: $ Ann Oudin
Category: Chit Chat
Subject: Rod/God
Date: 07/14/87  Time: 20:20:28

We can talk about any little old thing your heart desires honey!! Yes - J.T.
is interesting, but then again, so is the plague. He was alright until he
stared name calling. Even that would be alright once in a while - but thats
all he ended up doing. WE can talk about statistics - the weather - sex -
politics etc, etc. You name it! But for God's sake - please don't start in
on women's saleries OK? -- ANN

Message: 45083
Author: $ James Taranto
Category: Answer!
Subject: Ann
Date: 07/14/87  Time: 22:33:04

I have offered facts, and all you have offered in reply is statements like,
"you are wrong and simply won't admit it!" or "you just don't know period."
Not a single fact to bolster your case.  It is unfortunate that you don't
feel this subject is important enough to merit a reasonable discussion.

Message: 45084
Author: $ James Taranto
Category: Question?
Subject: Cliff/North
Date: 07/14/87  Time: 22:33:30

How can you ask if North is guilty when he hasn't been charged with
anything?

Message: 45085
Author: $ James Taranto
Category: Chit Chat
Subject: Today's lesson
Date: 07/14/87  Time: 22:41:54

The Reagan Administration has come under a lot of fire for, if not violating
the Boland Amendment, well, at least trying to find ways around it,
violating its "spirit" if not its letter by seeking support for the
Nicaraguan freedom-fighters.  Some wise-ass liberals have even gone so far
as to use this to derogate the doctrine of original intent in constitutional
law--the New Republic suggested that the Administration should have called
Congressman Boland and asked him whether his amendment was meant to apply to
the NSC.

If the Boland Amendment is not unconstitutional, and if indeed the
administration violated its provisions, it is legally culpable for doing so
(whether it is morally culpable is a matter of some debate, but beside the
point of this lesson).  But it is ludicrous to criticize the administration
for attempting to supply the freedom-fighters while remaining in compliance
with the letter of the Boland Amendment.

In this country we have a system of checks and balances, so that each branch
of the government exercises some control over the other two branches.  The
current congressional hearings are a legislative check to balance executive
power.  There are also executive checks on legislative power; the most
important is the veto.

Now, had the Boland Amendment been a bill unto itself, it would certainly
have been vetoed by President Reagan, and would not have been able to muster

Message: 45086
Author: $ James Taranto
Category: Chit Chat
Subject: Lesson continued
Date: 07/14/87  Time: 22:46:20

the two-thirds majority needed to overturn a presidential veto.  Why didn't
the President veto Boland?  Because it was an amendment to an appropriations
bill, and if it had not passed, the government would not have been able to
continue functioning.

Thus, it is clear that Congressman Boland proposed it as an amendment to the
appropriations bill rather than as a separate bill in order to get around
the President's veto power.  Legally there is nothing wrong with this, but
it did violate the spirit of the Constitution's veto provision.

If the Administration defied the will of Congress, but did so legally, why
is this any more suspect than the Congress defying the will of the
Administration--completely legally?

Message: 45087
Author: $ David Burkhart
Category: Chit Chat
Subject: last
Date: 07/14/87  Time: 22:55:03

I agree completely.
Putting these ridiculous amendments on appropriations bills is a practice
which is much more damaging than anything North did.

Message: 45088
Author: $ Apollo SYSOP
Category: Chit Chat
Subject: JT on Ann..
Date: 07/14/87  Time: 23:50:04

        What "FACTS"??? Something you "READ" from a book... and because it
was someone else who wrote it, you bought it "Hook, Line and Sinker" as
TRUTH? Does personal experiance count for anything?

        JT on Cliff ?
        Did I say North was accused of something?  Are you telling me
we can't have a poll on how we feel about what is going on with Oliver
North and the Contra affair (scandal)?

        Typical "Reporter" type mentality, J.T., Forcing your interpretation
of the facts on other people rather than just reporting the facts as they
are.

CliffORD