Apollo BBS Archive - March 1989

Apollo BBS Archive - March 6, 1989



Mail from Apollo SYSOP
Date: 03/05/89  Time: 17:45:07

[A]bort, [N]ew only, [R]ead or [S]kip:Read

I did not go to the GUN show...  I forgot about it....

I do NOT want the bugs, give them to Mike Carter.

*=* SYSOP Cliff *=*
[A]bort, [C]ontinue, [I]nsty-reply or [Z]ap:Zap

Mail from Nick Ianuzzi
Date: 03/06/89  Time: 01:07:10

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Well, we could always rent a car. We'd just make sure to get all the extra
coverages.

The new restaurant and gallery are near Carefree on Scottsdale Road, just
south of the Boulders resort. I'm not tending bar anymore -- I'm working in
the gallery instead.

Intelligent, attractive females seem to be in short supply.
[A]bort, [C]ontinue, [I]nsty-reply or [Z]ap:Insty-reply

Enter a line containing only an <*> to stop
 1:        I have five daughters.  Take your pick.  Ohhhhh Nick, buy me a car!
 2:
 3:Renting a car sounds like a good idea.  I'll chip in for the project.  I 
 4:have a client who rents Corvettes.  But we would have to leave the keys in 
 5:the car.                -Rod
 6:end

Mail from Bob Thornburg
Date: 03/06/89  Time: 17:11:01

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I am losing my good graces at KMEO.  My future there is questionable. 
Besides, I couldn't get you equal time or unequal time for that matter. 
Radio stations have funny ideas about what they air.  I was doing
maintenance late one night and gave the wrong call sign.  Boy, talk about
being upset!  You would have thought I said a 4 letter word instead of a
call sign.  Actually, the call sign was 4 letters long.  Maybe I could get
you a bumper sticker instead?  You could use it to cover some of the rust. 
(I forgot, no rust in Arizona.)
[A]bort, [C]ontinue, [I]nsty-reply or [Z]ap:Insty-reply

Enter a line containing only an <*> to stop
 1:        Have you thought of going into business for yourself?  Do you repair
 2:electronic equipment?  Wanna join an atheist organization?  Wanna visit an 
 3:intelligent planet, a place where world peace has existed for ten thousand 
 4:Earth years?  I do.
 5:                                        Rod
 6:P.S.  Good luck

Computer Hacker SIG Bulletin Board command:$C

Message: 115
Author: $ Apollo SYSOP
Category: SYSOP Speaks
Subject: Computers/etc
Date: 03/06/89  Time: 20:41:08

I no longer work on or sell computer equipment...  I do not give advice
either.   Here for the last 4 months I have been selling at cost practicly
and I have gotten no sales...  I am not renewing my resale license.
If you want repairs from my brother Bob, contact him directly... do not
go though me.

Pirate away...

Cliff Winters

Message: 116
Author: $ Rod Williams
Category: Bit Bucket Talk
Subject: last
Date: 03/06/89  Time: 21:15:08

        Will you be shortly changing your name to Spring?

The outer COSmos Bulletin Board command:$C

Message: 2875
Author: $ Daryl Westfall
Category: Cosmos-Chatter
Subject: Rod/2871
Date: 03/06/89  Time: 02:01:25

Well, I would get into this subject with you, but you would not respect my
views and what I believe on the subject, so I won't waste my breath.

Message: 2876
Author: $ Daryl Westfall
Category: Cosmos-Chatter
Subject: Rod/Ann
Date: 03/06/89  Time: 02:09:52

What's good about our bodies?
 
 * We have eyes to enjoy the color and beauty of a flower.
 
 * We have ears to enjoy the wonderful song of a bird, or the uplifting
   sound of a comforting word or a pleasant song.
 
 * We have a nose to smell good old home cooking, the gentle fragrance of
   a rose, or the fresh smell of the morning after a good rain.
 
 * We have minds to think, to reason, to understand.
 
 * We have hands to create, to write with, to touch with.
 
 * We have arms to hug with.
 
 * We have lips to smile with.
 
 * We have bodies that can enjoy the ecstasy of lovemaking.
 
 * We have reproductive organs that, through the ecstasy of lovemaking,
   are the means that make the miracle of birth possible!
 
I think I came up with more good things than you did bad. So there. Plbth.

Message: 2877
Author: $ Ann Oudin
Category: Cosmos-Chatter
Subject: Daryl/last
Date: 03/06/89  Time: 06:24:38

And ALL of those things won't mean one damn thing if a person gets a
wasting, painful disease like cancer. Go to a nursing home or retirement
home for the elderly - you won't see smiles or anyone hugging anybody there.
They can't even get out to smell the flowers, much less the ecstasy of love
making! Half of them wear diapers and drool. Their good old bodies gave out
on them long ago. But I will say one thing - you'd better do all those
things you stated in your last post while you can. Keep the old mind active
into old age and at least you've got something - even if your bed ridden! 
                          -=*) ANN (*=-

Message: 2878
Author: $ Michael James
Category: Cosmos-Chatter
Subject: ROD
Date: 03/06/89  Time: 09:22:27

Your complaints amaze me sometimes.  The body works better than any machine
we've ever designed.

Message: 2879
Author: $ Daryl Westfall
Category: Cosmos-Chatter
Subject: Ann/2877
Date: 03/06/89  Time: 15:59:34

Ann, I think it would be best for you to stop being a fatalist and take your
own advice. Get out there and enjoy life while you can, instead of
complaining about illnesses and diseases that you don't even have! If you
want to be miserable while you are healthy as well as later on in life, then
that's your prerogative. I know that it is terrible once you grow old (esp.
if you do get cancer later on in your years), but this is NOW. If you seem
so concerned about people who are rotting away in nursing homes, tell me;
when was the last time you took several hours out of your day to stop at a
nursing home and brighten up someone's day? I tell you, if you plan on doing
it though, you better get a cheerier outlook on life first. Otherwise, you
might depress them more than they already are.

Message: 2880
Author: $ Daryl Westfall
Category: Cosmos-Chatter
Subject: Michael/2878
Date: 03/06/89  Time: 16:01:19

Agreed! Sure we all have our shortcomings (and those of us with a good
outlook on life can use those shortcomings to their benefit!), but on the
whole, the body is an amazing creation!

Message: 2881
Author: $ Rod Williams
Category: Cosmos-Chatter
Subject: Ugh!
Date: 03/06/89  Time: 21:20:18

        Smell that good home cooking eh!  Yes, bacon smells about the best. 
Too bad for the pig though.
        I worked in an extended care home, a place for retired people who
were tired and couldn't care for themselves.  Wow, those places should be
shut down.  The people who pay all they have to stay there would make nice
Soylent Green.  Now I bet that smells as good as pig.  Betcha!

Message: 2882
Author: $ Rod Williams
Category: Cosmos-Chatter
Subject: MJ/body
Date: 03/06/89  Time: 21:22:32

        Who in the hell was complaining.  You know there is a difference
between pointing facts out and bitchin about them.  I wasn't bitching, I was
smiling when I posted them.  Fact is, when I post to Daryl, I smile a lot.
        So this is what is wrong with the printed word.  Much meaning is not
relayed and just to think all them books I've read in the past, I've put my
own meanings to them as to the authors attitude.  Tch, tch.-Rod

Bulletin Board command:$C

Message: 57377
Author: Mark Samwick
Category: Chit Chat
Subject: Support A Local BBS!
Date: 03/05/89  Time: 17:06:09

Looking for a way to support a local BBS without having to charge 
user-fees?   Telecom Xpress, Inc. can provide you a way to support that 
bulletin board, non-profit organization or church in a painless fashion!
TXI is a licensed utility company that sub-contracts out the long-
distance lines of major carriers such as AT&T and Sprint, much to their 
chagrin, but with the blessings of Congress in its 1984 divestiture 
rulings.  Instead of spending mega-bucks on print & tv ads (how much do 
you think it costs AT&T each time they show that mime ad nationally?), 
TXI pays YOU and your non-profit organization a commission of 1% of the 
monthly phone bills of the folks that you get to change over to TXI 
"dial 1" long distance phone service.
For example, a BBS sysop signs up for TXI long distance service.  That 
sysop will receive 1% of the monthly phone bills of those callers that 
sign up for TXI.  I'm giving my BBS users the option of signing up for 
TXI, or paying a yearly user fee.  If the BBS caller then signs up a 
friend with TXI, both the caller AND the sysop receive 1% of the 
friend's monthly bill.  And so on, down through 5 levels of "downline."  
 Want more information?  Drop a note/postcard to:
Mark Samwick, W80 COMMUNICATIONS 1605 Princess St., Wilmington, NC 28401
 Or e-mail to MASAMWICK on GEnie; 71366,253 on CompuServe!

Message: 57378
Author: $ Apollo SYSOP
Category: Chit Chat
Subject: Mychele Nickels
Date: 03/05/89  Time: 17:49:56

        First off, that poem of yours was profain and on the wrong SIG.  You
either post them on the COSmos SIG or keep them off my board...
        Second... I did NOT ZAP them... there are other SYSOPs on this board
other then myself....   You know my rules about profanity on the PUBlic
board!

*=* SYSOP Cliff *=*

Message: 57379
Author: $ Apollo SYSOP
Category: Chit Chat
Subject: Michelle/Church...
Date: 03/05/89  Time: 17:58:35

        What did I have to do with Michelle Reynolds saying we should go to
Church?   What is your problem... I did not post that..you have a problem
Mizz Nickles!
        I would not ZAP your post on taking orders for your 'suggestive'
poems since there is no profane message being given in your post.

Are they free to Kinder Garden kiddies too?    (ha ha ha)

*=* SYSOP Cliff *=*

Message: 57380
Author: $ David Burkhart
Category: Chit Chat
Subject: Hello.
Date: 03/05/89  Time: 19:45:20

Hello.  I don't have much time to log on here anymore, since I have the
Opinion editorship and several clubs (not to mention school) taking up my
time.
I'll try to log on and so hello every so often, though.  I'll also be back
in Phoenix the last two weeks of March, so if anyone wants a GT...

Message: 57381
Author: $ Paul Savage
Category: Chit Chat
Subject: Alan/Valtrans
Date: 03/06/89  Time: 04:59:09

After reading as much real information as I could find, (and that's not
much), I'm inclined to agree that this plan is not the answer to the
Valley's transportation problems.
I'm prety much decided to vote no.

Message: 57382
Author: Mychele Nickels
Category: Chit Chat
Subject: Sysop
Date: 03/06/89  Time: 10:37:29

How silly of me to assume that YOU were the sysop.  Profane, eh?  I happened
to post that poem on here about a year and a half ago, on the PUBlic board,
and it wasn't deleted.  Besides, how do you know it's "profane"?

Message: 57383
Author: $ Apollo SYSOP
Category: Chit Chat
Subject: SYSOPs
Date: 03/06/89  Time: 10:48:26

        The SYSOPs on this board are SYSOP Chris Zagar (always has been) and
Sandy SYSOP, SYSOP Travis and myself.
        I can not recall her profain poem about some girl sitting on the
face of some guy last year.  But then a year and a half ago, she was a
member and could have posted it on a sig that allowed that kind of post.
But if it had been PUBlic board, I am sure it was zapped then also.
        Sandy showed it to me...  that is how I knew it was profain.
        Does anyone remember seeing it on this [PUB]lic board?

*=* SYSOP Cliff *=*

Message: 57384
Author: $ Apollo SYSOP
Category: The SYSOP Speaks
Subject: Nickels
Date: 03/06/89  Time: 12:05:23

        I have just told Mychele Nickels that she is no longer to use
Apollo.  I do not wish to have her poems that give a profain message to be
plastered all over Apollo.  I tried to explain that we have a special SIG
for that type post...but she spat back at me that was 'Bull'.  I offered to
have her upload them to me in mail and I would put them on the COSmos SIG
for her since she could not afford $tatus membership.... but, she refused
that offer as well.  Since we have a board filled with Kinder people, People
with understanding and Christians, I feel she will not fit in, and I don't
want to put up with her no longer. I don't have the patients for that kind
of crap....  Mychele Nickels is banned from Apollo...and anyother name she
might use. 

*=* SYSOP Cliff *=*

Message: 57385
Author: $ Peter Petrisko
Category: Chit Chat
Subject: LAST
Date: 03/06/89  Time: 12:28:53

      Boy, people like that make me want to take my slices of pizza and go
home.
   
     Would this be a bad time to reiterate what Cliff said last week?
Remember folks, with our regular users vanishing at an alarming rate, it
is time to attract potential $tatus users.

Message: 57386
Author: $ Peter Petrisko
Category: Religion
Subject: HMMM...
Date: 03/06/89  Time: 12:34:19

     Any comments regarding the rash of religious outrage lately?
 
Specifically I'm speaking of the yucca incident, the Salman Rushdie book,
the new Madonna video, warning stickers being placed on Gideon Bibles....
  

Message: 57387
Author: $ Steve MacGregor
Category: Religion
Subject: Last
Date: 03/06/89  Time: 13:31:37

  I haven't heard anything about stickers on Gideon Bibles.  What's *that*
all about?

     =========  Pascal  #(O,O)#  Hoot!  MacProgrammer  =========

Message: 57388
Author: $ Daryl Westfall
Category: Chit Chat
Subject: Cliff/57351
Date: 03/06/89  Time: 16:06:14

Cliff, I guess you are one of those (like Mecham) that think that
"pickanniny" is a term that Blacks like to use in reference to themselves,
much less have white people refer to them as. Ok, that one out of the way,
next topic: homosexuals. I believe what the Bible has to say condemning
homosexuality. But Mecham's request to know the names of all the homosexuals
in public office serves no good purpose except to give Mecham a list of
people that he probably would have ousted out of office one way or another.
I do not condone homosexual activity at all, but Mecham's request served no
purpose except potential political blackmail.
 
Next?

Message: 57389
Author: $ Daryl Westfall
Category: Chit Chat
Subject: Cliff/57352
Date: 03/06/89  Time: 16:11:12

I equate your stand against bicycles as a move towards isolation, much as I
would a stand for banning all windows as a means of bringing communities
together. Of course you are going to have people that are going to rob and
cheat and steal and lie and murder whether you rely on a car or a bike or a
water bufallo for transportation. Remember the story of Cain and Abel? And
that was during a time when there was no such thing as transportation. Your
argument strays from the initial discussion on the cleaning-up of the air.

Message: 57390
Author: $ Daryl Westfall
Category: Chit Chat
Subject: Rod/Your Word?
Date: 03/06/89  Time: 16:12:14

I fear that would be hazardous to my mental health. Here, I bought you a
hookah for your troubles, though.

Message: 57391
Author: $ Daryl Westfall
Category: Chit Chat
Subject: Cliff/57378
Date: 03/06/89  Time: 16:21:28

Re: Mychele posting her poem on the [COS] SIG.
 
 
Nice trick if she could do it. I see no $ before her name.

Message: 57392
Author: $ Daryl Westfall
Category: Chit Chat
Subject: Subject Matter
Date: 03/06/89  Time: 16:27:56

Cliff, post 57383 is profane. It talks about sexual activity that shouldn't
be discussed on a family board. Thank you in advance.

Message: 57393
Author: $ Apollo SYSOP
Category: Chit Chat
Subject: Pickanniny..
Date: 03/06/89  Time: 17:56:50

        Mecham did not even say the word "Pickanniny" or call anyone that.
He referred to a book that had the word in it...the midia did the rest. You
read the jokes and you take it as real.  I may agree with Mecham... I don't
want to deal with aids carriers in government.  I don't want them teaching
morals in schools to our children.  I don't want them in government.  What
are you going to do about it?  Tell me I have no right to my opinion?  That
is what you are telling Mecham....
        Funny how people are... they don't want their politician caught in
bed with the opposite sex (Gary Hart for example) but don't mind if they
mess around with the same sex as Gays do.  So gays in government is okay and
normal red blooded males are out!
        People like you are so screwed up by the midia, that you reverse
discriminate.
        Another thing... Mecham told it like he saw it.  There were no
secrets, you knew what he thought.  Now take the current Governor.... she
tells you what you want to hear and spends your money on everything the
Phoenix 40 wants.  A real wish washy politician...and I don't like or trust
her.  She also wants to remove guns from the people of Arizona with saying,
"Why do we NEED them"....  well it is our right... I may ask, Why do we NEED
the freedom of Religion.  Why do we NEED the right to assemble?   I mean why
do we NEED any of our rights?  Because we earned them with BLOOD!  I will
fight for all of them.

*=* SYSOP Cliff *=*

Message: 57394
Author: $ Apollo SYSOP
Category: Chit Chat
Subject: Daryl on $
Date: 03/06/89  Time: 17:59:10

        I told her I would put them there if she would send them to me in
mail.  But because she does not have $tatus, I assume you are saying that
gives her the right to break the rules...Right?

*=* SYSOP Cliff *=*

Message: 57395
Author: $ Apollo SYSOP
Category: Chit Chat
Subject: Daryl on 57383
Date: 03/06/89  Time: 18:04:13

        I was talking about her post that was in much more verbal detail. 
Believe me, my discription is far short of the poem she posted.  And another
thing Mr Westfall...it is the SYSOPs of Apollo who decide what is profane.
As you once said...it is MY board, and I can do anything I damn well please,
and Zapping gross poems pleases me.  (Not really), I am sorry she posted
it...  but we SYSOPs could not let that one though... and I am very liberal
when it comes to posts.

*=* SYSOP Cliff *=*

Message: 57396
Author: $ Apollo SYSOP
Category: The SYSOP Speaks
Subject: Sigh....
Date: 03/06/89  Time: 20:28:37

        Guys, I really want out....  I mean I want Apollo to die!  I am
tired of SYSOPing and having you people judge me... either I let to much in
or I don't filter out enough.  No matter what I do, I am condemned.  I can't
state my ideas without being called a 'Half Wit' or someone stomping on my
spelling.
        If you want, consider Sandy the 'SYSOP' of Apollo...  she is not as
burnt out as I am.   

        Cliff Winters of Gemini Machine Shop.

Message: 57397
Author: $ Rod Williams
Category: Chit Chat
Subject: last 20
Date: 03/06/89  Time: 21:31:07

Whew!

Rod, God & Bob Bulletin Board command:$C

Message: 193
Author: $ Beauregard Dog
Category: Chit-Chat
Subject: IRS
Date: 03/05/89  Time: 22:51:53

states don't have to ratify laws.  Perhaps there was something strange about
an amendment to the constitution?

Message: 194
Author: $ Ann Oudin
Category: Chit-Chat
Subject: Rod/IRS
Date: 03/06/89  Time: 06:32:11

I've read that it is illegal - but it doesn't make one bit of difference to
our government if it's legal or not! They brake the law all the time - but
we can't get away with it. Hell, we can't even sue them without their
permission. Now that's what I call fair! Ha. To be honest, I believe in
taxes to a certain extent - but the bleeding that's done now is coertion of
the first class. -=*) ANN (*=-

Message: 195
Author: $ Rod Williams
Category: Chit-Chat
Subject: Ann/Taxes
Date: 03/06/89  Time: 21:34:55

        Yes, like a nice 10 per-cent of our earnings for the running of our
government.  That would be a bit more fair that nearly 40 per-cent.  I get
the 40 per-cent figure from the group that each year figures out how many
days a person has to work in order to pay ALL the taxes that are put upon
them.  We are asked to pay and pay.  I hate this fucking world sometimes.
        -Rod