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Apollo BBS Archive - July 3, 1988


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Message: 3845
Author: $ David Burkhart
Category: Chit-Chat
Subject: Michelle
Date: 07/03/88  Time: 00:17:28

Yeah, but don't worry.  It doesn't take a very good lawyer to sue for
malpractice.

Message: 3846
Author: $ Sandy SYSOP
Category: Chit-Chat
Subject: Last
Date: 07/03/88  Time: 00:58:16

        That's true, David, but it takes a good lawyer to win.

Message: 3847
Author: $ Michelle Reynolds
Category: Chit-Chat
Subject: David
Date: 07/03/88  Time: 12:44:11

What is your profession?

Message: 3848
Author: $ Beauregard Dog
Category: Answer!
Subject: last
Date: 07/03/88  Time: 13:13:42

He's a student

Message: 3849
Author: $ Traci Sibel
Category: Chit-Chat
Subject: last
Date: 07/03/88  Time: 13:44:20

heehee...

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Message: 3851
Author: $ David Burkhart
Category: Chit-Chat
Subject: last
Date: 07/03/88  Time: 17:19:09

And a darn good one.
Actually "textbook punk" is a little inappropriate, because virtually all of
my textbooks are written by leftist idiots.  That's OK, though, because many
of my professors are leftist idiots.

Message: 3852
Author: $ Zak Woodruff
Category: Chit-Chat
Subject: last
Date: 07/03/88  Time: 18:54:51

Better a leftist idiot than a rightist idiot.

Message: 3853
Author: $ Michelle Reynolds
Category: Chit-Chat
Subject: David
Date: 07/03/88  Time: 23:10:46

A student majoring in what?

Message: 3854
Author: $ David Burkhart
Category: Chit-Chat
Subject: last
Date: 07/04/88  Time: 01:06:25

Economics.

Message: 3855
Author: $ David Burkhart
Category: Chit-Chat
Subject: Zak
Date: 07/04/88  Time: 01:06:57

Well, that's true.  When you're a leftist idiot, you have more company.

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Message: 1561
Author: $ David Burkhart
Category: Cosmos-Chatter
Subject: last
Date: 07/03/88  Time: 00:19:37

Yeah, but it was really Cliff that put that Thang in your yard.

Message: 1562
Author: $ Zak Woodruff
Category: Up Yours
Subject: bull$#!+
Date: 07/03/88  Time: 03:35:43

I yam what I yam
And that's what I yam;
I'm Popeye the sailor man:
     Toot!!!  Toot!!!
I eat all my spinach and
Fight to the finish,
I'm Popeye the sailor man;
     Toot!!!  Toot!!!

Message: 1563
Author: $ Ann Oudin
Category: Cosmos-Chatter
Subject: David/Thang
Date: 07/03/88  Time: 08:00:56

No - Cliff did not put Thang in my yard, but I know who did! Ta ta.
=*--ANN--*=
P.S. I can't believe that we've been talking about Cliff's penis like we
have and he hasn't made a comment in the last couple of days. Somehow, I
feel the 'wrath of the Mighty Sysop' is gonna come down on us soon!
=*--ANNIE THE FANNY--*=

Message: 1564
Author: $ Mike Carter
Category: Cosmos-Chatter
Subject: Zak
Date: 07/03/88  Time: 14:01:32

Has anyone else noted the similarities between Zak and Dan Deacon's
style of verbage?
I think it has something to do with getting "Porked' in the wrong places.

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Message: 1566
Author: $ James Hawley
Category: Answer !
Subject: Ann/Cliff's thang
Date: 07/03/88  Time: 18:03:37

Well the reason Cliff isn't complaining more is bacause this is the most
attention his thang has ever gotten.

Message: 1567
Author: $ Zak Woodruff
Category: Cosmos-Chatter
Subject: Mike Carter
Date: 07/03/88  Time: 18:59:27

Mike, you're getting old.  You used to have such sharp wit.  Now you've done
yourself wrong, resorting to the embarassingly unoriginal tactic of
questioning heterosexuality in a fellow male.  Do yourself a favor:  go back
to the thesaurus, old man.

Message: 1568
Author: $ Zak Woodruff
Category: Cosmos-Chatter
Subject: Ann
Date: 07/03/88  Time: 18:59:42

Who left the thang in your yard?

Message: 1569
Author: $ Mike Howerton
Category: Cosmos-Chatter
Subject: Mike Carter
Date: 07/03/88  Time: 22:29:57

Come on Mike. We all know that you are capable of a better message
then that last post.  I didn't think that it would ever be possible
but it is. We would like you to go back to the thesaurus.
What am I saying???

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Message: 92
Author: $ Sandy SYSOP
Category: Crapola
Subject: Ann
Date: 07/03/88  Time: 01:00:44

        Did anyone tell you that your BUTT is out of joint?

Message: 93
Author: $ James Hawley
Category: Crapola
Subject: Mike
Date: 07/03/88  Time: 02:26:41

Go play with primer caps.

Message: 94
Author: $ Ann Oudin
Category: Crapola
Subject: Sandy/my butt
Date: 07/03/88  Time: 08:03:02

I'll have you know my 'butt' is not out of joint. It is perfection! Of
course, so is yours! (See, I learned!) =*--ANNIE THE FANNY--*=

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Message: 52947
Author: Apro Poet
Category: Politics
Subject: Freidrich
Date: 07/02/88  Time: 23:31:12

  Winston Smith, the rebellious party member, will be 
captured, tortured and the ultimate triumph of doublethink 
will be the expression of his total defeat as total victory 
- "He had won the victory over himself.  He loved Big 
Brother."  But the proles go on and on, "living and partly
living"; they are the slumbering mass that no ruler can ever
either eliminate or withstand, that no ruler can ever truly
rule.  It is banal to say that the working people have a
right to earn a decent wage and live in peace and freedom,
but it is the same important banality of two plus two making
four, and one of the finest things about Orwell is his
persistence in these half-forgotten banalities.  In these
hysterical times, when the dictator Franco is the hero of 
the right and the dictator Tito is the hero of the left, and
when the common working people of England have botched one 
of their greatest chances, Orwell's determined faith in 
these common working people with their football pools 
reminds one of a fine man's love for a thoroughly foolish
woman.
  "Only there, in those swarming disregarded masses,
eighty-five percent of the population of Oceania, could the
force to destroy the party ever be generated," Orwell wrote
in that strange tone of mixed bitterness and faith that 
comes from a sense of unnecessary failure.  "The party could

Message: 52948
Author: Apro Poet
Category: Politics
Subject: Freidrich
Date: 07/02/88  Time: 23:35:59

not be overthrown from within ...  But the proles, if only
they could somehow become conscious of their own strength,
would have no need to conspire.  They needed only to rise 
up and shake themselves like a horse shaking off flies.  If
they chose they could blow the party to pieces tomorrow
morning....
  "But if there was hope, it lay in the proles.  You had to
cling on to that.  When you put it in words, it sounded
reasonable; it was when you looked at the human beings 
passing you in the street that it became an act of faith."

Message: 52949
Author: $ David Burkhart
Category: Chit Chat
Subject: Rod
Date: 07/03/88  Time: 00:24:41

You're hopeless.

Message: 52950
Author: Midnight Economist
Category: My Dinner with...
Subject: William R. Allen
Date: 07/03/88  Time: 01:24:49

The means to satisfy wants are *scarce*.  We want more than we can have. 
Scarcity gives rise to *competition* and *conflict*.  And yet in a viable
society we must live together in general confidence, with coordinated
activity.  How can there be peaceful and efficient coexistence of aquisitive
and uncooperative people in a stingy world?
  The motives of people are essentially the same everyplace--to increase
material welfare and to express personality.  But social arrangements,
including economic systems, differ greatly in the extent to, and the manner
in, which goals may be pursued.  Scarcity exists in all societies; how
*adaptation* to scarcity is made varies from community to community.
  Use of violence is one way of resolving conflicts.  Thomas Hobbes, the
English seventeenth-century political theorist, explained the problem of
order when people seek to satisfy their diverse desires with scarce
resources: "...if any two men desire the same thing, which nevertheless they
cannot both enjoy," he says "they become enemies."  And in the anarchical
state of nature, "the life of man [is] solitary, poore, nasty, brutish, and
short."
  Hobbes resolves the problem of order by introducing a ruler to whom each
man shall "give up [his] Right of Governing [him]self."  People are to enter
into a social contract with an absolute sovereign, Hobbes tells us, "to keep
them in awe, and to direct their actions to the Common Benefit."
One may reject violence as a mode of interpersonal relations and still be
dissatisfied with the Hobbesian Big Brother resolution of the problem. 
Instead of state-imposed order, how about mutual bribery?  We tend to class 

Message: 52951
Author: Midnight Economist
Category: My Dinner with...
Subject: Professor Allen
Date: 07/03/88  Time: 01:26:55

as immoral all bribery.  But is it immoral to induce people to do what you
wish by making them *better off*?  Let Adam Smith, the Scottish thinker of
the eighteenth century, explain:
  Man has almost constant occasion for the help of his brethren, and it is
  in vain for him to expect it from their benevolence only.  He will be more
  likely to prevail if he can intrest their self-love in his favor, and show
  them that it is for their own advantage to do for him what he requires...
  Give me that which I want, and you shall have this which you want... It is
  not from the benevolence of the butcher, the brewer, or the baker, that we
  expect dinner, but from their regard to their own interest.  We address
  ourselves not to their humanity but to their self-love.

  Is this a grubby view of the world and how to adapt to scarcity?  Well,
the world *is* grubby.  We *are* confronted by scarcity.  And so conflict
*does* exist.  Are we to adapt through giving up our individual freedom and
responsibility to Hobbesian central control--or adapt through mutually
beneficial coordination of self-interested actions in a free market? 
Acquisitive, self-serving drives exist.  Are we to try forever, with Hobbes,
simply to supress them--or with Smith, to channel them to fruitful ends? 
Are we to be content to constrain behavior and block energies from
undesirable path--or garner reciprocal gains of free men in pursuit of
individual advantageous results?
                -- William R. Allen, Economics Professor, UCLA

Message: 52952
Author: Zak Woodruuf
Category: Chit Chat
Subject: ...
Date: 07/03/88  Time: 02:12:40

Kill the geeks!!!!

Message: 52953
Author: $ James Hawley
Category: News Today
Subject: Peter Cervelli
Date: 07/03/88  Time: 02:29:54

Beau Dog payed Peter Cervelli $20.  Peter stated that he would now donate
that money to the Apollo BBS fund.

Message: 52954
Author: $ Nick Ianuzzi
Category: Chit Chat
Subject: Rod
Date: 07/03/88  Time: 02:52:47

If I didn't know you better, I'd be inclined to say that you are in the
midst of a serious depression.

Man has done many wonderful things. You can choose to ignore them and dwell
on the negative, but the fact is that while you sit at your keyboard and
complain about man's inhumanity, there are a good many out there trying to
do something to improve things. 

Message: 52955
Author: $ Zak Woodruff
Category: Chit Chat
Subject: "Zak Woodruuf"
Date: 07/03/88  Time: 03:30:27

Kill the geeks?  Is that the best you can do, JT?  You have the nerve to
criticize me for writing stupid messages, which, of course, I do, and all
YOU can come up with is "kill the geeks"?

What a hypocrite.

Just another representative of this age of chaos.

Message: 52956
Author: $ Ann Oudin
Category: Chit Chat
Subject: Rod/nature
Date: 07/03/88  Time: 07:56:34

Mother nature DOES 'pull the plug' sometimes -- I.E. AIDS - the Greenhouse
Effect! We are paying the price for over indulgence! =*--ANN--*=

Message: 52957
Author: $ Apollo SYSOP
Category: Answer!
Subject: Rod on TAXes?
Date: 07/03/88  Time: 09:42:37

        If EVERYONE payed their fair share of TAXes, maybe the ones that
pay now would not have to pay so much.  Taxes are suppose to be a way every-
one chips in for the roads and other common property we use.  When there are
people that do not pay..(thinking they are so smart and the exception) the
load gets heaver on the ones that do pay.
        This is suppose to be an 'Everyone' involved system... sort of like
that stupid 'Peoples enviormental Army' of yours...  but just like this
present system, there would be people that would think it did not apply to
themselves.   Rod, you're a hypocrite!

SYSOP

Message: 52958
Author: $ Ann Oudin
Category: Chit Chat
Subject: New laws
Date: 07/03/88  Time: 11:14:42

In the paper today, they listed the 'New Laws from the 38th
Legislature'. Some are very good, some partially and some are extremely
bad and not solving a thing. One of the good one's is - "The state
board of Education will have to set minimum grade standards for
students who participate in extracurricular activities. (I.E. sports)
Unfortunately, it is still on the governor's desk, but I assume it
means it will pass.
Some of the very bad one's ---- "PROOF OF AUTO INSURANCE': to better
enforce the mandatory insurance law, police will be required to ask for
proof of insurance when they stop motorists and confiscate the license
plates of those driving with suspended tags. The State will seek out
those who have cancelled or expired policies. Also sets up a commission
to study why Arizona insurance rates are so high." (Signed)  This one
doesn't make a bit of sense. Why didn't they study why the rates were
so high BEFORE they condemned us with mandatory insurance? And they are
going to take our plates away on the spot! This will create law brakers
because people need to go to work to make enough money to pay the damn
high insurance rates! They'll just find other, illegal plates to put on
it temporarily.
Another bad one: - "Chances will increase that murderers of police
officers will get the death penalty. Judges now will consider the
murder of a police officer an aggravating circumstance in determining
whether a defendant should be sentenced to life in prison or death"
(Signed!) This doesn't make sense either. Is a police office's (cont)

Message: 52959
Author: $ Ann Oudin
Category: News Today
Subject: Cont.
Date: 07/03/88  Time: 11:15:59

(Cont.) life anymore precious than anyone else's? If we have the death
penalty, why not use it at all times, without fail in charges of 1st
degree murder?
New SIN Laws: - "The State will crack down on Peep Show operations,
imposing special building and lighting requirements and clamping a
limit on their inventories of sexual devices." (On the gov. desk!) I
have no idea what this one means. Does it mean that when the men go in
the little booths to watch the girly shows, it has to be better lit?
For what purpose? So some one can look in and see that he is not
'fooling with himself'? Drooling? Eyes bugging out? What? And they are
going to limit the inventories of sexual devices? What different does
it make if a store owner has 5 or 500? He isn't going to stock up more
than the supply demands anyway.
"The State will impose limits on alcohol consumption at clubs featuring
nude dancing in an attempt to close down such establishments" (On gov.
desk) Another idiotic law that no doubt will pass. Why limit the
consumption? Why not just none at all? And they 'are attempting to
close such establishments? Why? It's legal and there is a certain
percentage of demand. Also, what is 'limiting the consumption'? One
drink - two - more? Some people can get roaring drunk on two drinks.
They can also be more than half drunk when they enter the place. From
the beginning of time, men have got together, drank and watch nude
women dancing and cavorting. They finally had the intelligence to have
it legalized, and now they want to stop it again. (Cont.)

Message: 52961
Author: $ Ann Oudin
Category: News Today
Subject: cont.
Date: 07/03/88  Time: 11:26:00

The worse one in my opinion - "The question of whether women - like Gov.
Rose Mofford, - should be allowed to hold the State's top offices will be
put before the voters Mov. 8. Currently, the Az. Constitution allows only
men to hold the state's top five offices, but the provision is superseded by
federal law"! I thought women had equal rights in everything now? Why do we
have to vote on it anyway? It's unconstitutional - so just get rid of it
immediately! Why is Rose in there if this is a law? Stupid! They should have
gotten rid of that law 20 years ago, or better yet, never had it to begin
with! Why should anyone else vote on whether I can run for high office or
not if I want to? This is an insult to women and I resent it very much.
=*--ANN--*=

Message: 52962
Author: $ Ann Oudin
Category: News Today
Subject: Bad news for sure!
Date: 07/03/88  Time: 11:26:46

I just heard some news that is more important than the last few posts I
wrote about. --- My husband just told me We (america) just shot down a
Iranian civilian air lines over the gulf with 288 people on board!
I think I will immediately start believing in GOd and get down on my
knees and pray that Iran doesn't have the 'bomb'! Going to go listen to
the details! =*--ANN--*=
 
 

Message: 52963
Author: $ Beauregard Dog
Category: Chit Chat
Subject: closing down busines
Date: 07/03/88  Time: 13:09:54

s...  The adult bookstores, if the law passes, will *not* have booths for
watching peep shows.
 
The alcohol-consumption bill is aimed at the Alaskan Bush Company, which
does not have a liquor license but instead allows its customers to bring
their own booze.  This pisses off the powers-that-control-liquor-boards and
the powers-that-own-topless-places because they lost a lot of business to
this place and the liquor board can't touch them.

Rev. Beau

Message: 52964
Author: Apro Poet
Category: Politics
Subject: SAMIZDAT!
Date: 07/03/88  Time: 14:48:29

  "In Germany they first came for the Communists and I 
didn't speak up because I was not a Communist.  They came 
for the Jews but I didn't speak up because I was not a Jew.
Then they came for the Trade Unionists but I didn't speak up
because I was not a Trade Unionist.  Then they came for the
Catholics but I didn't speak up because I was a Protestant.
  Then they came for me - and by that time no one was left 
to speak up."
                     Pastor Niemoller
                     (a victim of a Nazi Concentration Camp)

"They that can give up essential liberty to obtain temporary
safety deserve neither liberty nor safety."
                     Benjamin Franklin

Message: 52965
Author: Apro Poet
Category: Tales & Tall Stories
Subject: Tru Fax
Date: 07/03/88  Time: 14:59:24

From USA Today, June 23, 1988, by Steve Marshall:

             Inmate: I died, so my term's over
  Jailhouse lawyer Jerry Rosenberg goes to court today with
a creative argument to get out of the life sentence he's 
serving for killing two police officers in 1963.
  Rosenberg, 49, says he's already died once - during heart
surgery two years ago.  So, his reasoning goes, he has 
already served his sentence.
  Ridiculous, says Assistant Attorney General Ken Goldman,
who will handle the case for New York's Auburn Correctional
Facility.
  Rosenberg says not to count him out.  Before he even got 
his law degrees by mail, he found a loophole that got his
death sentence reduced to life.
  The inmate, subject of a book and a TV movie, says, "the
whole world is watching this one."
  Rosenberg has been in the hospital for the past month for
treatment of several ailments, including an irregular 
heartbeat, headaches and the worsening of two hernias in his
chest associated with heart surgery he had in 1986.
  During surgery, Rosenburg's heart stopped and he was 
revived with electric shocks.

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Author: Richard Johns
Category: Chit Chat
Subject: BBS
Date: 07/03/88  Time: 15:32:18

 
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Message: 52967
Author: $ Rod Williams
Category: Chit Chat
Subject: Amerika
Date: 07/03/88  Time: 16:29:18

        Obviously the government is doing something wrong as evidenced by
the decline of the U.S. of A..  It seems that Japan may be our new owners if
we do not develop a spirit of togetherness.   In order for that to happen,
the rich capitalists will have to start taking less of a profit and turn it
over to the working class.  
        My objection is that there is too large of a division between the
classes, too many poor and struggeling while the well-to-do seem to be
ignoring the problem and manage to raise taxes each year.  This raise, of
course, falls on the backs of the struggleing class.
        I am all for a workable nation but we aren't working together at
all.  We are a nation divided and we had better get our 'stuff' together
before the creditors move in and take over.
        We must eliminate the everyday stresses of the poor or else.

        It seems to me that we are a paranoid nation which spends too much
man hours and material on war.  Einstein said: "You cannot simultaneously
prevent and prepare for war."  Quite a lot of our taxes go for this
endaveor.                               Rod


Message: 52968
Author: $ David Burkhart
Category: Chit Chat
Subject: last
Date: 07/03/88  Time: 17:29:57

You say the rich "manage to raise taxes each year."  Taxes have not been
raised in nearly forty years.  Inflationary bracket creep resulted in
effective tax raises, but the tax cuts of the Reagan administration
compensated for some of this.  It also resulted in the rich paying a larger
share of total taxes.

Message: 52969
Author: $ Dean Hathaway
Category: Chit Chat
Subject: Rod/Cooling Sun
Date: 07/03/88  Time: 23:37:30

Another group of scientists has proof that the sun is cooling off as it does
for a while every 130 years or so. When asked about the fact that other
scientists are claiming proof that the Greenhouse Effect is upon us, their
spokesman said that if there is such a thing it will be fortunate for us.
You can be confident that none of this will put a stop to any of the other
scientists with conflicting end-of-the-world scenarios no matter what the
outcome.
  See you later,
     Dean H.

Message: 52970
Author: $ Dean Hathaway
Category: Chit Chat
Subject: Everyone/Rod
Date: 07/03/88  Time: 23:44:57

  It should be obvious that when Rod asks what good has man done he does not
mean anything which benefits man. To his inverted logic and viewpoint it is
that which lowers or destroys man that is to be applauded. If you want to
earn his five bucks you will have to change tactics and bring up things like
the amount of plants, worms, and animals that have fed on the carcasses of
dead humans over our history.
  See you later,
     Dean H.

Message: 52971
Author: $ David Burkhart
Category: Chit Chat
Subject: last
Date: 07/04/88  Time: 01:15:50

All he has to do is look up from his keyboard and look around.  His kids are
bringing joy (and yes, annoyance) into each others life everyday.
But let's say his premise is true, and man has contributed nothing.  What
attitude should we adopt in order to change that?  Rod's nihilistic, dead
end viewpoint, or a doctrine of personal responsibility?

Message: 52972
Author: $ Rod Williams
Category: Chit Chat
Subject: David/taxes
Date: 07/04/88  Time: 01:36:58

        There is an organization that figures, each year, the amount of days
necessary to work in order to pay ones taxes.  Each year it creeps up by
several days.  This year, I believe it is from Jan.1 to May 3., up two days
from last year.  If this trend continues, I hate to think about it.
                                Rod


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:just what do you have against people that get ahead by working hard and 
:become rich?
:
:I don't know.
:
:then why are you always down on them...  and for the lazy ass holes that do 
:not wish to work hard?
:
:I don't know any.
:
:you do not know any rich people?
:
:I don't know any lazy assholes.
:
:geesh... okay...good night
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Message: 52973
Author: $ Rod Williams
Category: Chit Chat
Subject: Dean/David
Date: 07/04/88  Time: 01:49:22

        I don't really know if I am right or wrong, that is for certain. 
All I really know is that from what I personally observe our little world is
in trouble.  It is not running smooth.....there are many murders, robbery,
deviant sexual offenses, and people in high places who are caught doing bad
things.  I, unlike you, work in the street amomgst the everyday people, I
see their attitudes, I see their misery and this again tells me that
something needs changing.  
        If we continue along our current path then I only see more gloom for
our future.  I am searching, I am questioning and both of you are supposed
to be educated people, intelligent people, more intelligent people than I,
so what immediate social reforms do you suggest?  I am serious.
        At least I suggest things, they may be wrong, maybe not but in the
time I have been on this board, I have revised some of my thinking because I
saw errors here and there.  
        I see a terrible spirit in this nation, it is a greedy, capitalistic
one that is at best self serving.  Am I wrong....are the biggies really
trying to help the poor and the middle class or are they just heaping more
trouble on us?  I don't see anything getting better...I do see the Texas
Savings and Loans folding and Arizona is seventh in losses with Mera Bank
being one of the big losers.  What is happening, are the corporate giants
vieing to take each other over for pure power purposes and letting the poor
and middle class fall where they may.  
        I have children and I care for their futures, that is why I am being
vocal.  

Message: 52974
Author: $ Rod Williams
Category: Chit Chat
Subject: cont.
Date: 07/04/88  Time: 01:52:54

        I would like to see Ron Paul, the Libertarian get office but you and
I both know that it is a joke....we are a two party system....we get the
choice of two clowns and the news media, for all practical purposes, ignores
any third party candidate.
        We need a peaceful revolution of our youth to bring mankind a step
further up the ladder of intelligence, like in the sixties.
        Do you just draw your paychecks and keep quiet, watching sports,
drinking beer and playing the lottery?
        What can I say, I do care, an awful lot.
                                Rod

Message: 52975
Author: $ Rod Williams
Category: Chit Chat
Subject: Junk
Date: 07/04/88  Time: 01:56:39

        Reincarnation may or may not be true, I have no idea.  But if it is
then the very wealthy, the ones who hoard, may be screwing themselves for
the next life.  
        I like to think that if it is true, if I could help this world
evolve just a bit then if I do have to come back to this place, that it may
be a bit better.  Boring, I'm sure.
        In any case, whether it be true or not, there are always kin to
think about making it better for, eh!

Late Night Bulletin Board command:$C

Message: 1495
Author: $ David Burkhart
Category: Chit-Chat
Subject: last
Date: 07/03/88  Time: 00:22:17

Nope.  It was only delayed fifteen minutes.  You missed Sandra Bernhard
bringing on Madonna as a suprise guest.  They were dressed identically and
acting like goofballs (more specifically, like two fourteen year old girls
trying marijuana for the first time).
It was comedy at its best.

Message: 1496
Author: $ James Hawley
Category: Answer!
Subject: Last
Date: 07/03/88  Time: 02:27:59

It figures.  The first time he puts out a good show, and I miss it.  The
first two were boring.  

Message: 1497
Author: $ Zak Woodruff
Category: Chit-Chat
Subject: David Letterman
Date: 07/03/88  Time: 03:11:33

He's a geek.

Message: 1498
Author: $ Zak Woodruff
Category: Chit-Chat
Subject: geekdom
Date: 07/03/88  Time: 03:26:12

Actually, I admit that I have been a geek on this board.  Yes, JT, yes,
Peter Cervelli, yes, Beauregard Dog, and yes, Nick Ianuzzi - I give in.  But
it is not entirely my fault.  We are in the midst of an important
sociological phenomenon.  I have only served as a model and example which I
hope you can all learn from and gain a broader perspective of how this crazy
society of ours works.

It's like the old elevator experiment.  A group of people crowded into an
elevator; they were all participating consciously in the experiment.  Once
an unsuspecting victim entered the elevator, everyone nonchalantly turned to
his right ninety degrees.  Not knowing what to do, the confused subject
turned ninety degrees.  It's called fitting in, it's called going with the
flow, it's called conformism.  It's why there are fads.  It's why there are
fashions.  It's why two similar articles of clothing will have outrageous
differences in price, only because of the label.  There is a whole system
that revolves around this much-practiced concept.  This system includes
status symbols, non-conforming conformists, outcasts, cliques, and social
deviance.

It is the inevitable responsible of each individual, of each one of us, to
accept our conscious participation in this social system.  We conform
without even thinking about it.  Though each of us does what we have to to
"be different", we all do things to insure acceptance as well.  And this, my
friend is why I've acted like a geek.  I'm simply trying to fit in.

Message: 1499
Author: $ Nick Ianuzzi
Category: Chit-Chat
Subject: last
Date: 07/03/88  Time: 03:46:00

Quit babbling. None of us here babble.

Message: 1500
Author: $ David Burkhart
Category: Chit-Chat
Subject: Zak
Date: 07/04/88  Time: 01:12:01

Quit being such a goofball.

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Message: 1429
Author: $ James Hawley
Category: Mortal users
Subject: Court Case
Date: 07/03/88  Time: 02:31:05

Well I think it was settled out of court.  B.D. payed Cervelli the $20,
proving that I didn't owe him the money.

Message: 1430
Author: $ Beauregard Dog
Category: Answer!
Subject: money
Date: 07/03/88  Time: 13:18:38

Sorry, I don't think that proves anything. Since I am involved in this,
however, I don't think I should try to be the judge.
 
 
Rev. Beau

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 2:evening but I forgot.  Catch you next time.
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