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are that of imagination. That's the sign post up ahead. Your next stop -
The [TWI]light Zone SIG....
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Rod Serling
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$ Rod Williams 21:21:51 (1200)
David James 21:20:36 (1200)
Jim Riggs 21:09:48 (2400)
$ Beauregard Dog 20:40:23 (2400)
$ Jack Flash 20:27:41 (2400)
$ Felix Cat 19:24:26 (2400)
$ Chris Neal 18:51:43 (2400)
$ Apro Poet 17:53:47 (1200)
Robert Mazer 17:34:05 ( 300)
Todd Ivy 16:10:18 (2400)
$ Michael James 14:30:16 (2400)
$ Roger Mann 13:07:20 (1200)
$ James Hawley 12:14:07 (2400)
$ Ann Oudin 09:21:41 (2400)
$ Michael James 08:41:25 (1200)
$ Roger Mann 07:44:26 (1200)
$ Beauregard Dog 07:39:16 (2400)
$ Mike McNeill 07:05:44 (2400)
$ Melissa Dee 06:23:44 (2400)
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Message: 4822
Author: $ Bill Burkett
Category: Up Yours
Subject: Beau - To The Main
Date: 06/11/91 Time: 07:23:09
> I can't believe it. The City Manager actually convinced Ortega
> to take back his resignation.
Let's go to the [M]ain BBS!
Message: 4823
Author: $ Roger Mann
Category: Quickie
Subject: Rod/fingers
Date: 06/11/91 Time: 07:50:19
No, in fact, they felt like they were never going to stop playing.
Message: 4824
Author: $ Michael James
Category: Cosmos-Chatter
Subject: drugs
Date: 06/11/91 Time: 09:08:59
What's a beta blocker?
Message: 4825
Author: $ Ann Oudin
Category: Cosmos-Chatter
Subject: Roger on 'Jane'
Date: 06/11/91 Time: 09:31:24
I too tried Marijuana years ago when it was the 'in thing to do' and was
disappointed. Not that it wasn't pleasuable - the first time I tried it, I
laughed for several hours - over nothing! The second time we tried it & the
last, it was baked in brownies. It made me kind of sick to my stomach and I
never tried it again. Could not see where it was better than booze and it
was so much more expensive. But I guess the only thing I really didn't like
was the 'coming down from it'! One minute you were high - the next - down
low! Where with booze, it's a slow coming out of it - sometimes, painfully
slow! :) *>>> ANN O. <<<*
Message: 4826
Author: $ Apollo SysOp
Category: Up Yours
Subject: Bill???
Date: 06/11/91 Time: 10:44:42
Re: "Let's go to the [M]ain BBS!"
Errr, I hit [M] and got the [M]ain menu.... I think you either ment the
'main [B]ulletin board' or the '[PUB]lic board'. When ever one encloses
a letter in the < and >, it means this is the sequence to be entered to get
there or the place to be.
You don't want to be 'Cub SysOp' forever... do you?
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Message: 4827
Author: $ Roger Mann
Category: Cosmos-Chatter
Subject: beta blocker
Date: 06/11/91 Time: 13:10:52
Ah, the innocence of the young. A beta-blocker is used to control high blood
pressure and to slow the heart rate of those who have had a heart attack. It
is a depressent.
Message: 4828
Author: $ Roger Mann
Category: Cosmos-Chatter
Subject: Ann on 'Jane'
Date: 06/11/91 Time: 13:11:57
Quite so. As with any drug we all have different reactions. I prefer
beta-blockers.
Message: 4829
Author: $ Michael James
Category: Cosmos-Chatter
Subject: beta blocker
Date: 06/11/91 Time: 14:33:55
I thought it was a new copy protection scheme for Sony VCRs.
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Message: 1644
Author: $ Melissa Dee
Category: Junk Culture
Subject: GT
Date: 06/11/91 Time: 06:33:14
Sorry you all missed it! In total, there were 12 or 13 of us. Dean H and
Bonnie were there as well as Nick, Michael James, and Beau and myself. The
movie was great, of course, and many of the people there were seeing it for
the first time. Too bad many of them already knew the secret of "Rosebud".
Peter, my friends have changed with my names, ya know. Too bad you missed
them. Sharron and Dave, Dean, Randy, Kristi, Carol are pretty neat people.
In fact, we had a Twin Peaks GT last night. Anyone else see it? Weird,
frustrating stuff. I saw that BOB took Windom's soul and that, even though
we saw BOB in the mirror at the end, that it was Windom saying "How's
Annie?" and laughing.
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Message: 1794
Author: $ Paul Savage
Category: Chit-Chat
Subject: Ann
Date: 06/11/91 Time: 05:46:13
Rod always seems to be right to you, probably because you are standing in
the same mire with him.
By the way, did you know that, according to World Health Organization
figures, some 53,000 non-smokers died last year as a direct result of
second-hand smoke? True fact. Scientifically observed and proven.
Go pass the poison! (Somewhere else!)
Message: 1795
Author: $ Paul Savage
Category: Chit-Chat
Subject: Rod
Date: 06/11/91 Time: 05:51:32
Your suppositions are, of course, your own opinions, admitted by your own
statement of "I believe". They are also unfounded by any scientific study.
The effects of tobacco smoke, both direct and second hand, have been proven
beyond a shadow of a doubt, by many, many scientifically conducted studies,
held over long periods of time, and are not opinion, but documented
evidence. These are facts that people like you and Ann would continue to
sweep under the rug and ignore. The evidence keeps piling up, however, and
the rug is exceedingly difficult to walk on.
Message: 1796
Author: $ Melissa Dee
Category: Answer!
Subject: Rod
Date: 06/11/91 Time: 06:34:58
By the way, Rod, I thought I'd let you know that your posts as of late have
been great entertainment for me. Thanks. The tale of your first pot
experience was a classic.
Message: 1797
Author: $ Ann Oudin
Category: Shut Up Already!
Subject: Mike on Rod & Ann
Date: 06/11/91 Time: 09:36:49
... and you are in the same league with Cliff and Pauley - wrong all the
time!
I have came to the conclusion that the 3 of you are jealous of Rod and his
free thinking/living. He is not hamstrung in life - is free to choose. You
are not! *>>> ANN O. <<<*
Message: 1798
Author: $ Ann Oudin
Category: Chit-Chat
Subject: Pauley on mire.
Date: 06/11/91 Time: 09:39:16
Re: your "Rod always seems to be right to you, probably because you are
standing in the same mire with him"!
That's not mire ... it's S#*T and we're all standing in it! Just look down.
*>>> ANN O. <<<*
Message: 1799
Author: $ Apollo SysOp
Category: Chit-Chat
Subject: Ann
Date: 06/11/91 Time: 11:06:48
I am FREE in my thinking. You are the one caught in the grip of a
poison drug that is not free. You dispute scientific fact and have no
credentials to do so. I assume it is your inner self trying to cover up the
sickness and death your habit has caused others close to you.
As for my FREE thinking, I got battered in the CHRistian SIG
yesterday and fear to go there today or for the next week or so, all because
of my free thinking. You know not of what you speak! I do speak my mind,
and it was not destroyed like Rods on drugs. I get high on life!
Ingestion into the lungs is figured in parts per million. I bet if
I were to have the air in my computer room analyzed, there would be no
harmful jet plane fuel found. Or volcano ash. In your smoking, there would
be found high concentrations of tar and many other poisons that KILL people.
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Message: 1800
Author: $ Michael James
Category: Chit-Chat
Subject: all
Date: 06/11/91 Time: 14:35:19
You're all wrong wrong wrong wrong wrong wrong wrong wrong wrong wrong
wrong!
Message: 1801
Author: $ Beauregard Dog
Category: Answer!
Subject: Michael/last
Date: 06/11/91 Time: 20:46:40
No, they're not.
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22:over a city that doesn't even recognize the threat and I again wondered.
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1: asses with more than one
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24:sheet of toilet paper as it is wasteful and messes up the environment.
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Message: 1802
Author: $ Rod Williams
Category: Chit-Chat
Subject: Smoke Screen 1 of 2
Date: 06/11/91 Time: 21:28:10
I was working out by the airport at 40th St. and University this morning.
I was sitting in my van with my side door open making a key to a Ford
ignition lock that was still in the column.
A Chevy Blazer loaded with people pulled in and stopped just ahead of me,
leaving the auto's exhaust pipe even with me and my open door. Then the
driver gets out and leaves the engine running.
After a few seconds I became very aware of the harsh fumes that were
enveloping me. I immediately thought of the second hand smoke debate as I
grabbed the column and my equipment and fled to a less (sic) polluted spot.
I wondered how many smokers it would take to emit that amount of harsh
fumes.
It is this auto pollution more than burning plant material that is
unhealthy but since most everyone in our society is dependent on the
internal combustion engine for survival it is conveniently overlooked.
Just then an airplane was taking off from Sky Harbor and I could see a
large dark tail of ghastly smoke trailing behind the plane, spreading it
over a city that doesn't even recognize the threat and I again wondered.
Message: 1803
Author: $ Rod Williams
Category: Chit-Chat
Subject: SS # 2
Date: 06/11/91 Time: 21:28:46
Picking on a small cigarette when our entire environment contains much
deadlier, unseen quantities of pollutants is like blaming General George
Armstrong Custer for being out of uniform after the Battle of the Little
Big Horn.
I too cannot 'get down' on auto pollutants as I depend on them for my
living. Even if I did not drive the food I eat is trucked or flown in and
most everything else I depend on is also.
So, I guess the chicken shit idea is to become a non-smoker of cigarettes
and then bitch and complain to anyone who will listen. Look at me, they
say, I am a non-smoker and look how those who smoke are messing up my
health. If they want to complain then I suggest they go after more meatier
matters and leave the smallest of the pollution problems alone. Or is that
their only hope in being heard because they know their power is limited to
small inconsequential matters?
I am reminded of security guards and such, people of little power who tend
to abuse their position and push to the limit anything that will bring grief
to others. This gives a certain type of individual, the small, a feeling of
power and satisfaction.
While we are at it, let's stamp out wiping our asses with more than one
sheet of toilet paper as it is wasteful and messes up the environment.
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1:This sig sure has become interesting of late.
2:
3:Paul, these statistics you mention are simply a smoke-screen to get your
4:mind off real issues. They were no doubt made up to look good.
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6:Since you are so into 'research' then how many of us are dying or being
7:weakened by airplane, auto, and industrial pollution?
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9:I still think you are cute although out of the ball park.
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11: Rod
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13:P.S. Melissa, I'll try to keep you entertained.
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Message: 1804
Author: $ Rod Williams
Category: Chit-Chat
Subject: Final
Date: 06/11/91 Time: 21:33:31
This sig sure has become interesting of late.
Paul, these statistics you mention are simply a smoke-screen to get your
mind off real issues. They were no doubt made up to look good.
Since you are so into 'research' then how many of us are dying or being
weakened by airplane, auto, and industrial pollution?
I still think you are cute although out of the ball park.
Rod
P.S. Melissa, I'll try to keep you entertained.
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Message: 75658
Author: $ Bill Burkett
Category: Politics
Subject: Mike Breaks My Heart
Date: 06/11/91 Time: 07:22:12
Kwitcherbitchin!
Government employees have the closest thing to assured income this society
offers. Sure, there have been some layoffs, but they're so rare as to be
called "historic" when they happen. The poor suckers at McDonnell-Douglas,
U-Haul, wherever, are lucky to get 2 column-inches on page 6 of the Business
section and their unemployment pay.
Then there are those of us with businesses of our own, constantly watching
the books to see if we'll have ANY income in the next month.
> There's bound to be a cash-register charlie behind some bushes
> at an insurance company parking lot waving his shiny radar gun
> at me. Ready to explode from behind those bushes on his
> Kawasaki to deliver his financial death penalty to me.
Loved it, Mike. You DO have a flair!
Message: 75659
Author: $ Bill Burkett
Category: Politics
Subject: Ortega's A Crybaby
Date: 06/11/91 Time: 07:22:35
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1:Excellent post Mike.
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3:I think we all have something in common.
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Message: 75659
Author: $ Bill Burkett
Category: Politics
Subject: Ortega's A Crybaby
Date: 06/11/91 Time: 07:22:35
> I can't believe it. The City Manager actually convinced Ortega
> to take back his resignation. I think that it should have been
> accepted, and then the stupid new regulations should have been
> rescinded.
Agreed. The proposed policy requiring notification of the City Manager on
undercover operations was undoubtedly a bad idea. But Ortega should have
been told not to let the door hit him on the way out. Ortega's crybaby act
will serve only to embolden him; further removing the Police Department from
control by the public. We can only hope our Mayor and Council members have
been sufficiently angered that THEY'LL pay closer attention to Ortega and
his cronies. Fat chance.
> ...we're at status quo ante.
When we're talking about government, shouldn't that be "status quo ante up?"
Message: 75660
Author: $ Beauregard Dog
Category: Chit Chat
Subject: Little
Date: 06/11/91 Time: 07:41:11
Yeah, I saw him zipping around the office a couple of times yesterday.
Didn't get a chance to say 'hi' to him, though.
Message: 75661
Author: $ Apollo SysOp
Category: Politics
Subject: Ortega
Date: 06/11/91 Time: 12:28:44
Mr. Ortega of the Phoenix Police Department is going to be
'history' come this friday. Today he delivered his resignation to City
Hall.
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Message: 75662
Author: $ Apollo SysOp
Category: Politics
Subject: Clean Gas?
Date: 06/11/91 Time: 12:31:50
Mobil Gas is going to sell de-oxygenated fuel YEAR round....
I smell something political about this beyond the stench of the gas itself.
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Message: 75663
Author: $ Apollo SysOp
Category: News Today
Subject: Volcano
Date: 06/11/91 Time: 12:34:47
Subic Bay.... My brother's boy is there, after being in the Gulf.
A mere 30 miles away is a volcano that may blow at any time. If it blows
big time, is 30 mile far enough? I don't think so.....
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Message: 75664
Author: $ Roger Mann
Category: Politics
Subject: Ortega?
Date: 06/11/91 Time: 13:08:04
Again ?
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1:If he isn't evacuated by the time it blows, 30 miles isn't far enough.
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Message: 75665
Author: $ Roger Mann
Category: Politics
Subject: Cliff/gas
Date: 06/11/91 Time: 13:08:59
What politics. Mobil said it was cheaper to keep the gas the same the year
round. Or don't you believe it ? (Sounds fishy to me, too)
Message: 75666
Author: $ Apro Poet
Category: Answer!
Subject: Cliff #75663
Date: 06/11/91 Time: 18:01:47
That's in the Phillipines, right? They evacuated the base
nearest the volcano. There's only essential personnel
there now.
Message: 75667
Author: $ Apro Poet
Category: Politics
Subject: Robber Barons
Date: 06/11/91 Time: 18:12:00
It was the firm Drexel, Morgan and Company that was given
a U.S. government contract to float a bond issue of $260
million. The government could have sold the bonds directly;
it chose to pay the bankers $5 million in commission.
On January 2, 1889, as Gustavus Myers reports:
... a circular marked "Private and Confidential" was
issued by the three banking houses of Drexel, Morgan &
Company, Brown Brothers & Company, and Kidder Peabody &
Company. The most painstaking care was exercised that
this document should not find its way into the press or
otherwise become public.... Why this fear? Because
the circular was an invitation ... to the great
railroad magnates to assemble at Morgan's house, No.
219 Madison Avenue, there to form, in the phrase of the
day, an iron-clad combination.... a compact which would
efface competition among certain railroads, and unite
those interests in an agreement by which the people of
the United States would be bled even more effectively
than before.
There was a human cost to this exciting story of financial
ingenuity. That year, 1889, records of the Interstate
Commerce Commission showed that 22,000 railroad workers
were killed or injured.
In 1895 the gold reserve of the United States was
Message: 75668
Author: $ Apro Poet
Category: Politics
Subject: Robber Barons
Date: 06/11/91 Time: 18:21:52
depleted, while twenty-six New York City banks had $129
million in gold in their vaults. A syndicate of bankers
headed by J.P. Morgan & Company, August Belmont & Company,
the National City Bank, and others offered to give the
government gold in exchange for bonds. President Grover
Cleveland agreed. The bankers immediately resold the bonds
at higher prices, making $18 million profit.
A journalist wrote: "If a man wants to buy beef, he must
go to the butcher.... If Mr. Cleveland wants much gold, he
must go to the big banker."
While making his fortune, Morgan brought rationality and
organization to the national economy. He kept the system
stable. He said: "We do not want financial convulsions and
have one thing one day and another thing another day." He
linked railroads to one another, all of them to banks, banks
to insurance companies. By 1900, he controlled 100,000
miles of railroad, half the country's mileage.
Three insurance companies dominated by the Morgan group
had a billion dollars in assets. They had $50 million a
year to invest -- money given by ordinary people for their
insurance policies. Louis Brandeis, describing this in his
book *Other People's Money* (before he became a Supreme
Court justice), wrote: "They control the people through the
people's own money."
Message: 75669
Author: $ Apollo SysOp
Category: Bulletins
Subject: Shooting
Date: 06/11/91 Time: 18:37:03
My truck was shot at today 2:20pm and another car in the area had
its window shot out. The police think they know the house it came from.
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Message: 75670
Author: $ Apollo SysOp
Category: Chit Chat
Subject: Apro on Subic Bay
Date: 06/11/91 Time: 18:38:59
They evacuated the base 10 miles from the volcano. Subic Bay is 30
miles away and I have not heard if that was vacated or not. Subic Bay is a
very large Navy base... I have been there myself.
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Message: 75671
Author: $ Felix Cat
Category: War!
Subject: Mike
Date: 06/11/91 Time: 19:31:01
Re: Between them, the Government and the IRS, I'm being bled to death.
I know how you feel Mike. I feel the same way. Most people don't really
know how much they pay the government because it is slowly deducted from
their pay. I have to pay quarterly in cash. I also pay the full Social
Security of over 15%. And that's 15% of my gross income before any
deductions are allowed. Then I pay about 24% income tax, 6.7% sales tax,
and a number of other little silly taxes.
And then some people wonder why I get upset when the government spends
$19,000,000 studying cow farts.
Message: 75672
Author: $ Felix Cat
Category: Question?
Subject: Cliff
Date: 06/11/91 Time: 19:33:40
Re: I smell something political about this beyond the stench of the gas
itself.
You mean to say they're not doing it because they have a concern about the
earth's environment?
Message: 75673
Author: $ Felix Cat
Category: Question?
Subject: Cliff
Date: 06/11/91 Time: 19:35:06
Re: The police think they know the house it came from.
You mean someone is actually dumb enough to shoot at cars from their own
house?
Message: 75674
Author: $ Beauregard Dog
Category: Chit Chat
Subject: Clark AFB/Subic Bay
Date: 06/11/91 Time: 20:43:33
They moved the people from Clark and are housing them at Subic Bay...
Message: 75675
Author: $ Beauregard Dog
Category: Chit Chat
Subject: Mobil
Date: 06/11/91 Time: 20:44:22
Another interesting tidbit -- seems they're probably going to gasahol
instead of the MTBE-additive stuff they've been selling here during the
winter months.
Message: 75676
Author: $ Rod Williams
Category: Chit Chat
Subject: Cash-register charli
Date: 06/11/91 Time: 21:36:42
Excellent post Mike.
I think we all have something in common.
Message: 75677
Author: $ Rod Williams
Category: Chit Chat
Subject: Cliff/30 miles
Date: 06/11/91 Time: 21:39:01
If he isn't evacuated by the time it blows, 30 miles isn't far enough.
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1:Your posts entitled "Robber Barons" is excellent reading and something to
2:remember. That is why I sent the entire post to my printer. Required
3:reading.
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Message: 1
Author: $ Rod Serling
Category: Sight & Sound
Subject: Twilight Zone
Date: 09/03/90 Time: 20:14:08
You're traveling through another dimension. A dimension not only of
sight & sound but of mind. A journey into a wondrous land whose boundaries
are that of imagination. That's the sign post up ahead. Your next stop -
The Twilight Zone........
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Author: $ Roger Mann
Category: Sight & Sound
Subject: Ch15
Date: 09/04/90 Time: 09:42:03
Channel 15 had a reprise of old TZ episodes, including some from the movie
I must say that the originals are the best.
Message: 3
Author: $ Jeff Beck
Category: Macabre
Subject: To Serve Man
Date: 09/04/90 Time: 17:57:28
I prefer a nice orange sauce, myself.
Message: 4
Author: $ Melissa Dee
Category: Sight & Sound
Subject: Hello?
Date: 09/05/90 Time: 23:04:45
Hello
Hello
Hello....
Echo
Echo
Echo....
Just testing.
Message: 5
Author: $ Mike Carter
Category: Sight & Sound
Subject: Just ahead
Date: 09/10/90 Time: 21:21:22
..is a floating carcass of a thimble doll with nylon hair...
..is a porcelan eye with horse hair eyelashes..
..is a mirror about to be smashed..
..is another episode of life in the black and white zone.
Message: 6
Author: $ Nick Ianuzzi
Category: Bizarre
Subject: Rod Serling
Date: 09/12/90 Time: 03:34:07
Rod Serling apparently had quite a sense of humor. He once struck a deal
with a major airline to allow him to place a cardboard cutout of an alien
creature outside an aircraft window. His plan was to tell his seat
companion to look out the window, and then raise the window shade revealing
the alien and scaring his neighbor to death. Unfortunately, the draft from
the engines ripped away the alien, so the joke didn't go over too well.
Message: 7
Author: $ James Hawley
Category: Journey
Subject: SIG
Date: 09/19/90 Time: 00:15:44
We do not exist.
This is not real.
Do not pass go, do not collect welfare.
Message: 8
Author: $ Ann Oudin
Category: Dimension
Subject: Me
Date: 09/19/90 Time: 07:49:58
Heck, I've been in the (a) Twilight Zone all my life and since I've joined
Apollo, I've been in the other 'Zone' as well! -=*) ANN (*=-
Message: 9
Author: $ Evan Mecham
Category: Bizarre
Subject: The Primary
Date: 09/19/90 Time: 23:40:47
I just don't know what went wrong, I should have won!
Symington is 90% bad, and Goddard is 100% bad for Arizona.
- E.M.-
Message: 10
Author: $ Paul Savage
Category: Bizarre
Subject: ?????
Date: 09/20/90 Time: 08:28:41
How did I get here? Am I caught in Steve's yellow sub-routine, or have I
found a black hole? Never heard of this
place............gee..............it's dark in here!
shudder.........shake........shiver...........
Message: 11
Author: $ Todd Reese
Category: Bizarre
Subject: Dreamscapes....
Date: 09/20/90 Time: 17:19:31
I dreamt of the Borg last week. I was a crew member, along with Captain
Piccard and the others. In my dream, the captain was, to our demise,
permanently made a Borg. The Borg successfully captured the Enterprise, and
we had to surrender it to them along with the instruction manual (I don't
know why, but the Enterprise had an instruction manual in my dream). We
were all moved to an underground prison of some sort while waiting our turns
to be adapted to serve the Borg.
For some reason the Borg remind me of Terry Goddard.
Message: 12
Author: $ Michael James
Category: Sight & Sound
Subject: I don't remember
Date: 09/21/90 Time: 09:22:52
I don't remember what I dreamt last night.
Message: 13
Author: $ Beauregard Dog
Category: Sight & Sound
Subject: Others
Date: 10/01/90 Time: 19:51:36
Serling, Rod
Yes, you've entered... Cliff's Palace of Fun.
Message: 14
Author: $ Apro Poet
Category: Journey
Subject: Destiny
Date: 12/17/90 Time: 17:42:51
"You can never plan the future by the past."
- Edmund Burke
Message: 15
Author: $ Bill Burkett
Category: Bizarre
Subject: Ulp..
Date: 12/18/90 Time: 08:39:37
What the heck am I doing here?
DUCK! Here comes that door again...
Message: 16
Author: $ Gordon Little
Category: Dimension
Subject: Realities
Date: 12/19/90 Time: 13:04:28
Is this place real? I have been here once before, but was too short of time
(and also too bewildered) to think of anything to say. Now once again I
have stumbled through that crack in the cosmos, that electronic wormhole,
and found myself here again.
I cannot prove it is real. I can look at the script of this logon session
afterward and see "Twilight Zone", but for all I know I might have edited
those words in myself while sleepwalking.
But then, how do we know anything is real? In front of me is a mirror. To
my right, another mirror. I can see myself, balding spots and everything.
On the table is a beer can, several boxes of diskettes, a printer, a box of
Kleenex, a litter of papers, a glass of water, pencils and pens, a cassette
recorder, a deck of cards, a litter of papers. How do I know they are real?
Only by the evidence of my senses, which are unreliable and detect only part
of the electromagnetic and sonic spectrum. For all I know there might be a
host of alien life swarming around the room, visible only in the X-ray band.
And how do I know that my senses can be relied upon? There might be faulty
wiring somewhere. What I see, hear, feel, and even do might not be real. I
only *believe* it is real. This doesn't worry me, because things happen
more or less as I expect them to, and my life seems to work. It is how I
"know" that I am sane -- whatever that means. But as I keep saying to
everybody: beware of that "fact" -- it is *only a belief*!
Message: 17
Author: $ Roger Mann
Category: Bizarre
Subject: Back Again
Date: 04/25/91 Time: 10:31:00
It's baaacck.
Message: 18
Author: $ Michael James
Category: Dimension
Subject: Cable
Date: 05/03/91 Time: 10:47:08
Bill must have stumbled across the way to open the hidden door...
Message: 19
Author: $ Ann Oudin
Category: Bizarre
Subject: * I'll ...
Date: 05/05/91 Time: 12:06:35
... be back"! *>>> ANN O. <<<*
* Quoting Arnold Swartznegger in the Terminator - worlds greatest movie.
Message: 20
Author: $ Melissa Dee
Category: Bizarre
Subject: Whewww.
Date: 05/13/91 Time: 12:56:39
I thought I was in the PHAntom Zone...
Message: 21
Author: $ Roger Mann
Category: Dimension
Subject: ST/NG
Date: 05/14/91 Time: 13:03:00
I saw ST/NG and Beverly Crusher kissed Riker. Now, Riker as of late has
grown grossly obese and has quite puffy eyes. Watching Crusher kiss Riker
was enough to make me turn off the television and enter the Twilight Zone.
Message: 22
Author: $ Beauregard Dog
Category: Journey
Subject: The Door
Date: 05/16/91 Time: 21:59:53
Yeah, I'd like to know why Cliff decides to turn it on, and then how Apollo
manages to "decide" to let someone in. This was my 1680th login, caller
#160211, 21st caller today. Time of login: 21:48:05
If y'all would post this info and any other you can think of, perhaps future
visitors can solve the puzzle?
Message: 23
Author: $ Cliff Kolostow
Category: Journey
Subject: Wow!
Date: 05/17/91 Time: 13:26:41
This is my first trip into this place as a regular user. I found
the experience to be fun. My name of Cliff Kolostow does not give me any
special powers. I trigger the Zone just like the rest of you. I do take
exception with Dog's last post... Cliff turned on nothing, maybe one of the
SysOps did, but don't count on them admitting anything, after all, this
place does not officially exist.
Now, I wonder when and if I will see a response to this lost in time
post? Till my next [J]ourney into the [TWI]light Zone.... I wish you all
good health!
clif- *=* Chairman of the Board *=*
P.S. Yes, I was surprised to see the [TWI]light Zone message at log in.
Message: 24
Author: $ Bill Burkett
Category: Sight & Sound
Subject: I've got blisters...
Date: 05/20/91 Time: 07:47:28
...on my fingers!
Message: 25
Author: $ Don Hicks
Category: Imagination
Subject: Hmmmm...
Date: 05/22/91 Time: 19:39:39
Oh no, not againnnnnnnnn...
Message: 26
Author: $ Felix Cat
Category: Bizarre
Subject: Huh?
Date: 05/30/91 Time: 19:18:51
Where did this place come from? I thought it was something new until I
noticed the dates going back to 9/3/90.
Message: 27
Author: $ Roger Mann
Category: Journey
Subject: Stats
Date: 06/03/91 Time: 21:03:46
160700, 24, 6/3/91
Twilight Zone Bulletin Board command:?
[$] : Scan from when last on
[$C] : Scan Continuous
[$R] : Resume $tatus scan after abort
[D] : Display/set scan settings
[E] : Enter a message
[F] : Find author, category or subject
[G] : Goodbye
[J] : Journey to a SIG
[M] : Main Menu
[O] : Other SIG members
[P] : Post Office
[R] : Retrieve message
[RC] : Retrieve Continuous (###-###)
[S] : Scan messages
[SP] : Scan Prompted
[U] : Update a message
[W] : White pages
[Z] : Zap a message
Twilight Zone Bulletin Board command:E
Enter category, [?] for list:?
[B]izarre [D]imension
[I]magination [J]ourney
[M]acabre [S]ight & Sound
Enter category, [?] for list:M
You chose Macabre
Subject:Death. my pretty
Enter a line containing only an [*] to stop
1:When I die I want the worms and maggots to consume my flesh, then belch.
2:end
Edit command:E0
0: Subject:Death. my pretty
Find text:Death.
Replace text:Death,
0: Subject:Death, my pretty
Find text:
Edit command:S
Saving message...
The message is 28
Twilight Zone Bulletin Board command:R28
Message: 28
Author: $ Rod Williams
Category: Macabre
Subject: Death, my pretty
Date: 06/11/91 Time: 21:45:54
When I die I want the worms and maggots to consume my flesh, then belch.
Twilight Zone Bulletin Board command:G
Goodbye, Rod Williams
You were on 24:30
Please hang up now
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