Apollo BBS Archive - March 1990

Apollo BBS Archive - March 2 - 3, 1990

Message: 63626
Author: $ Steven Carls
Category: Answer!
Subject: Yellow Front
Date: 03/02/90  Time: 01:17:52

There were supposed to be 2 yellow fronts left open in Tucson.  I went to
one of them yesterday and that one is closed.  The one in Benson is closed. 
The one in Benson was one of the biggest money making ones in S.E. AZ.  Well
I guess I will have to go to Poplar Surpluss or K Mart for my clothes now,
EH???
 " The ATARI WILDCAT "  Steven Carls

Message: 63627
Author: $ Zak Woodruff
Category: Chit Chat
Subject: People
Date: 03/02/90  Time: 02:23:43

Jeff Beck, refresh my Latin.
 
Daryl, I think I've heard that joke about 16 times in the last year.  Can't
you think of something funnier backwards?   How about the dyslexic
restaurant patrons who spit at their waiter?  (A bit tricky.)  How about
the dyslexic labor union whose motto was "Dyslexics Untie!"?  Let's move on
to new jokes, HE???
 
RE:  Yellow Front --  I don't care.  I don't know the difference between
Fry's, Bashas and Safeway, and I couldn't care less about Yellow Front.  
 
Yellow WHO?

Message: 63628
Author: $ Paul Savage
Category: Chit Chat
Subject: James/Yellow Front
Date: 03/02/90  Time: 05:33:17

 YF, Checker Auto, Hancock Fabrics, Sirloin Stockade and Gemco were at one
time all subsidiaries of the Lucky Stores conglomerate. Lucky divested all
of their companies several years ago, though, and those stores have either
been on their own, bought by another parent corp. or gone under.
 The way the economy is going, it won't be long before virtually all of the
major companies in the country are under a very small number of corporate
umbrellas, and chances are that those will be foreign, either Oriental or
Asian.

Message: 63629
Author: $ Paul Savage
Category: Chit Chat
Subject: Cliff/40% off
Date: 03/02/90  Time: 05:34:36

 Might be some good deals if you're looking for sporting goods or Levis.

Message: 63630
Author: $ Ann Oudin
Category: Chit Chat
Subject: Cliff
Date: 03/02/90  Time: 07:32:31

I think with Yellow Front going down the tube is just a sign of the times.
Some hardware stores went down too, like Omally's for example because of the
compitiveness of Home Depot. -=*) ANN (*=-

Message: 63631
Author: $ Melissa Dee
Category: Chit Chat
Subject: Daryl/Zak
Date: 03/02/90  Time: 08:17:54

I must be out of it cuz I thought it was hilarious and hadn't heard it
before.  But hey, after 55 log ons I could be fast approaching geekdom.
"Help, help - I'm becoming a geek!"

Message: 63632
Author: $ Melissa Dee
Category: Hard/Software
Subject: Modem
Date: 03/02/90  Time: 08:23:23

Yeah, I noticed!  About 8 or 9 last night when I tried to get on.

Message: 63633
Author: $ Beauregard Dog
Category: Hard/Software
Subject: last/modem
Date: 03/02/90  Time: 09:08:22

Perhaps it was you who broke it???

Message: 63634
Author: $ Apollo SYSOP
Category: Hard/Software
Subject: Dog on modem
Date: 03/02/90  Time: 10:09:05

        It was you users who broke it!   You guys are hard on everyone and
when the modem saw your posts, it died of fright!

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

Message: 63635
Author: $ Melissa Dee
Category: Hard/Software
Subject: Modem
Date: 03/02/90  Time: 12:44:47

Don't you hate personafication of inanimate objects?

Message: 63636
Author: $ Apollo SYSOP
Category: Hard/Software
Subject: Last by Dee
Date: 03/02/90  Time: 12:55:49

        Mr Slone's (the BBS) feelings are hurt!  Inanimate object, indeed!

How would you like this inanimate object to toss you in the PHAntom Zone?
(That's where Michy Moo Moo died)

                        Just kidding of course.....

*=* Mr Slone *=*   sniff(tm) of Dean McCarron  Registered with Apollo 1982,
1983,1984,1985,1986,1987,1988,1989,1990

Message: 63637
Author: $ Zak Woodruff
Category: Chit Chat
Subject: last
Date: 03/02/90  Time: 13:17:56

Wouldn't it just be easier to say 1982-1990?
 
Sort of like saying "The plasma center is open on Monday, Tuesday,
Wednesday, Thursday, and Friday.  And closed on Saturday, and Sunday."

Message: 63638
Author: $ Apollo SYSOP
Category: Hard/Software
Subject: Modem
Date: 03/02/90  Time: 15:09:47

        Another new modem is on the way.  I should have it by next Tuesday.

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

Message: 63640
Author: $ Beauregard Dog
Category: Chit Chat
Subject: Zak on hours
Date: 03/02/90  Time: 19:09:31

The hours for the plasma center are described that way because their clients
wouldn't understand any other description.

Message: 63641
Author: $ Daryl Westfall
Category: Chit Chat
Subject: Zak/Joke
Date: 03/02/90  Time: 19:37:47

Uh, excuse me. It was the first time that I'd heard it. I guess that it's
oft-repeated in YOUR circles, huh? (grin)

Message: 63642
Author: Jeff Beck
Category: Answer!
Subject: Zak
Date: 03/02/90  Time: 22:16:44

OK, but it sort of ruins the joke.  A "lusus naturae" is a sport (or freak)
of nature.  "Ignotum per ignotius" translates as "the unknown (explained) by
the still more unknown."
 
I'm your only friend
I'm not your only friend
but I'm a little glowing friend
but really I'm not actually your friend
but I am
blue canary in the outlet by the light switch
who watches over you
make a little birdhouse in your soul.

Message: 63643
Author: Tom Hudson
Category: Chit Chat
Subject: posts
Date: 03/02/90  Time: 22:26:52

The posts by Sananat Birnbach WERE excellent reading, to be sure.

Message: 63644
Author: $ Dean Hathaway
Category: Chit Chat
Subject: Mark
Date: 03/03/90  Time: 00:22:45

  I am aware that there are 26 letters in the alphabet. In the message I was
referring to the word zoophyte was a noun, leaving 25 adjectives
representing the remainder of the alphabet.
   See You Later
      Dean H.

Message: 63645
Author: $ Dean Hathaway
Category: Politics
Subject: Paul
Date: 03/03/90  Time: 00:29:04

   There are plenty of reasons to worry about the economy, but some stores
being driven out of business by better ones is not one of them. Neither is
the fact that foreign investors would rather put their money into America
than anywhere else. When this is no longer true it will be because
investments in American businesses no longer pay a decent return. Then you
will have more than ever to worry about.
   See You Later
      Dean H.

Message: 63646
Author: $ Melissa Dee
Category: Question?
Subject: JEFF BECK
Date: 03/03/90  Time: 00:55:46

Do you have the rest of the lyrics to that song?  I've been trying to figure
them out for a couple of weeks now. 

Message: 63647
Author: $ Zak Woodruff
Category: Chit Chat
Subject: They Might Be Giants
Date: 03/03/90  Time: 02:49:00

     ...But then again, they might not be.
 
JEFF BECK -- Now that I've ruined the joke by asking you to explain it, it's
not funny.  Isn't that a crying shame?
     By the way, I finally found my copy of _The Oxford Companion to the
Mind_.  It gives an excellent definition of psychology, if you remember our
"Psychology is/is not a science" debate.
 
DARLY, I MEAN DARYL -- My circles?  Honey, I don't have circles, because all
my friends are squares.  HAW HAW.
 
Did you hear the one about the dyslexic golfer?  When his friend told him he
needed to make par, he started to rhyme words rhythmically and did a
moonwalk.  HAW HAW.  Did I just make that up?  You know I did.
 
     Did you hear about the dyslexic churchgoer?  After services, they asked
everyone to put bucks in the tray.  So he drove his GMC into the lake.  HAW
HAW.
 
I think it's time to go to sleep.

Message: 63649
Author: Jeff Beck
Category: Answer!
Subject: Dee/lyrics
Date: 03/03/90  Time: 03:39:20

I'm your only friend/I'm not your only friend/but I'm a little glowing
friend/but really I'm not actually your friend/but I am/Blue canary in the
outlet by the light switch/who watches over you/make a little birdhouse in
your soul/Not to put too fine a point on it:/say I'm the only bee in your
bonnet/make a little birdhouse in your soul//I have a secret to tell/from my
electrical well/it's a simple message and I'm leaving out/the whistles and
bells/so the room must listen to me/filibuster vigilantly/My name is blue
canary one-note/spelled l-i-t-e/My story's infinite/like the Longines
Symphonette/it doesn't rest/blue canary in the outlet by the light
switch/who watches over you/make a little birdhouse in your soul/not to put
too fine a point on it:/say I'm the only bee in your bonnet/make a little
birdhouse in your soul//There's a picture opposite me/of my primitive
ancestry/which stood on rocky shores and/kept the beaches shipwreck
free/Though I respect that a lot/I'd be fired if that were my job/after
killing Jason off and/countless screaming argonauts/Bluebird of
friendliness/like a guardian angel it's/always near/blue canary in the
(and while your at it) outlet by the light switch (leave the nite light on
inside the birdhouse in your soul) who watches over you/make a little
birdhouse in your soul/not to put too fine a point on it:/say I'm the only
bee in your bonnet/make a little birdhouse in your soul...(etc.)

Message: 63650
Author: Jeff Beck
Category: Answer!
Subject: Zak
Date: 03/03/90  Time: 03:55:45

Not funny? Well, I suppose not, from your perspective: people in the eye of
a hurricane often fail to see the storm.
 
I'm not interested in what the Oxford Companion to the Mind (or whatever
it's called) has to say, regardless of how pithy or artful the definition
might be.  Let me again attempt to assert a fact in the face of your
astounding pig-headedness:
 
You cannot deduce thought or emotion from behavior.  Period.  You can't tell
what (if anything) I am feeling when I smile, frown, ejaculate, or whatever.
You make the assumption that if it looks like a duck, walks like a duck, and
quacks like a duck, then it is a duck, especially since (metaphorically) you
yourself are a duck, and who better to know a duck when he sees one?
 
You might just be sitting pretty, Howard.

Message: 63651
Author: Jeff Beck
Category: Answer!
Subject: Dean McCarron
Date: 03/03/90  Time: 04:03:55

Gack!  Hoist by my own petard (or something to that effect).
 
Be seeing you,
 
Jeff B.
 
P.S. The petard of medieval times wasn't a derrick, but a kind of crude hand
grenade or mine which attackers would attach to castle walls or gates.  The
word derives from the French "peter" (to break wind). Metal and bell shaped,
it contained an explosive charge that was fired by a slow burning fuse, but
it was often poorly constructed and went off prematurely, blowing up the man
who lit it as well as the castle wall.  Such a man was said to be hoist by
his own petard.

Message: 63652
Author: $ Paul Savage
Category: Chit Chat
Subject: YF stuff
Date: 03/03/90  Time: 05:46:14

 If anyone is interested, I spoke with Bob Hirsch, the outdoors writer, at
the sportsman's & RV show last night, and he feels that Yellow Front will go
down completely, so he has recently contracted with Smitty's to carry his
periodical publications and his little booklets on camping, camp cooking,
etc. If there are any campers, fishermen or outdoors people around here, you
ought to know that his works are very authoritative, especially when he
writes about the Arizona outdoors.
 Just in case you would like to know.

Message: 63653
Author: $ Paul Savage
Category: Hard/Software
Subject: Melissa/63635
Date: 03/03/90  Time: 05:47:52

 Don't you hate people who can't spell personification?

Message: 63654
Author: Hans Glans
Category: Chit Chat
Subject: Last
Date: 03/03/90  Time: 08:28:31

Don't you hate people that can't spell at all, even more?

Message: 63655
Author: $ Ann Oudin
Category: Chit Chat
Subject: Cliffy
Date: 03/03/90  Time: 09:22:58

Ah! It's SOOOOO nice to hear you threatening someone else with the Zone
besides myself. (Melissa) Not that I want her in a horrible place like that,
but ............! -=*) ANN (*=-

Message: 63656
Author: $ James Taranto
Category: Chit Chat
Subject: hi
Date: 03/03/90  Time: 13:37:43

hi
hows it going

Message: 63657
Author: $ Zak Woodruff
Category: Chit Chat
Subject: last
Date: 03/03/90  Time: 13:50:46

hi
pretty good
bye

Message: 63658
Author: $ Apollo SYSOP
Category: Chit Chat
Subject: Sigs to go
Date: 03/03/90  Time: 15:25:33

        The VOId and JT's sig looks like they are in line for deletion.
And...the ART sig...
                Any arguments?

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

Message: 63659
Author: Tom Hudson   *me
Category: Answer!
Subject: last
Date: 03/03/90  Time: 21:59:49

Not from me.

Message: 63660
Author: Jeff Beck
Category: Tales & Tall Stories
Subject: whatever
Date: 03/03/90  Time: 23:45:09

"More than 95% of a hotel's guests are there for some conference or
convention.  The individual tourist, the single guest without a card in his
lapel and briefcase stuffed with programs and memoranda, is as rare as a
pearl in the desert.  Besides our own group in Costa Rica, there was the
Plenary Council of Student Protest Veterans, the Convention of Publishers of
Liberated Literature, and the Phillumenist Society (matchbook collectors). 
As a rule, members of an organization are given rooms on the same floor, but
the Management, apparently wishing to honor me, offered me one on the
hundredth.  It had its own palm tree grove, in which an all girl orchestra
played Bach while performing a cleverly choreographed striptease.  I could
have done quite well without all this, but unfortunately there were no other
vacancies, so I was obliged to stay where they put me.  Scarcely had I taken
a seat at the bar on my floor when a broad-shouldered individual with a
jet-black beard (a beard that read like a menu of all the past week's meals)
unslung his heavy, double-barreled gun, stuck the muzzle right beneath my
nose and asked, with a coarse laugh, how I liked his papalshooter.  I had no
idea what that was supposed to mean, but I knew better than to admit it. 
The safest thing in such situations is to remain silent.  And indeed, the
next moment he confided in me that this high-powered repeater piece of his,
equipped with a laser-finding telescopic sight, triple action trigger and
self-loader, was custom made for killing popes.
 
(CONT)

Message: 63661
Author: $ James Hawley
Category: Answer!
Subject: Last
Date: 03/04/90  Time: 00:05:57

There are no hundred floor hotels in Costa Rica.  The Holiday Inn Aurola has
about thirty, but that's about it.

Message: 63664
Author: $ Ann Oudin
Category: Answer!
Subject: Cliff on sigs.
Date: 03/04/90  Time: 08:46:41

I wish you wouldn't get rid of the art sig. That kind of comes and goes with
people drawing and poetry. I wish we'd start another story soon. Or even
some keyboard drawings. The other two I'm not against getting rid of.
Although JT did log on today. -=*) ANN (*=-

Message: 63665
Author: $ Zak Woodruff
Category: Chit Chat
Subject: Hans Glans
Date: 03/04/90  Time: 12:56:09

Cliff, how can you tell if two callers are using the same modem?  Other than
by baud rate, that is.
 
"Hairy Genitals" may be gross and offensive, but I fail to see why "Hans
Glans" is borderline suggestive.  I guess I missed his joke.

Message: 63666
Author: $ Bob Thornburg
Category: Chit Chat
Subject: Annie
Date: 03/04/90  Time: 14:29:45

Re:  "Whats the matter with bears pray tell. Geeze!"

As I recall, I had a Teddy Bear when I was a little tyke.  He was a very
good bear.  I called him "Teddy".  He was as dead as a doornail.  But I used
to talk to him anyway.

Message: 63667
Author: $ Bob Thornburg
Category: Chit Chat
Subject: Annie
Date: 03/04/90  Time: 14:46:51

Re:  "I wish we'd start another story soon."

I remember starting a story once on a sub board, and I got thrown off for my
efforts.  There's no justice!

Message: 63668
Author: $ Paul Savage
Category: Chit Chat
Subject: Bob/Teddy bears
Date: 03/04/90  Time: 16:18:30

 "He was as dead as a doornail."
 Bob, Teddy bears are inanimate objects, therefore can be neither dead nor
alive. To the mind of a child, however, they can be anything the child
wants. Since they give comfort, as well as exercize the imagination of the
child, there's nothing wrong with them, for sure.

Message: 63669
Author: Philip Brookover
Category: Chit Chat
Subject: CHIT CHAT
Date: 03/04/90  Time: 22:23:53

WE AS HUMANITY OVER TIME HAVE INHEIRITED THE LEGACY OF OUR PAST
COLLECTIVELY. INDIVIDUALLY AND AS A MEMBER OF OUR INDIVIDUAL FAMILIES WE
CERTAINLY BRING TO A DEGREE OUR PAST INTO OUR PRESENT....SOON TO INFLUENCE
OUR FUTURE.WE AS CHRISTIANS OR ATHEISTS OR WHOEVER STILL CHOOSE TODAY.
WHAT SHALL OUR CHOICES BE? SOME SAID "HE WHO FORGETS THE PAST IS DOOMED
TO REPEAT IT."

Message: 63670
Author: $ Apollo SYSOP
Category: Answer!
Subject: Zak
Date: 03/04/90  Time: 23:24:12

        Hans Glans will be acceptable....  However, that other name with the
initials of H.G. will not be accepted.

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