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Apollo BBS Archive - May 4, 1998



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Message: 3437
Author: $ James Taranto
Category: Chit-Chat
Subject: Rod, you idiot
Date: 05/03/88  Time: 21:27:30

Ethiopia is ruled by a communist dictator who is purposely starving people
to death.

Message: 3438
Author: $ Robert Simpson
Category: Chit-Chat
Subject: Last
Date: 05/03/88  Time: 21:36:27

I heard that the government holds all that food we send them at the docks
for months at a time just for the hell of it.

Message: 3439
Author: $ Beauregard Dog
Category: Chit-Chat
Subject: Last
Date: 05/03/88  Time: 22:09:01

The rebels also destroy food cargoes, though I personally think the
government causes most of the problems.
 
Rev. Beau

Message: 3440
Author: $ Ann Oudin
Category: Chit-Chat
Subject: Beau Dog
Date: 05/04/88  Time: 08:33:02

Governments cause most problems! =*--ANN--*=

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Subject:Food/Ethopia

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Message: 52034
Author: $ James Taranto
Category: Question?
Subject: KFYI
Date: 05/03/88  Time: 21:26:00

Is there any truth to the rumor that a journalist from California has
arranged for a bomb to be planted at KFYI later this week?

Message: 52035
Author: $ Robert Simpson
Category: Chit Chat
Subject: Typical plug..
Date: 05/03/88  Time: 21:40:33

Yes, it's about that time of year again...(I know, Cliff, you probably hate
me for this, but oh well...man's gotta make a living, you know!)
 
Here goes..."The Black Castle BBS version 4.2 300/1200  843-6782"  The
fastest Commodore BBS you've ever seen...and, in my opinion, the best!  (But
I wrote it, so I'm biased.)
     Give it a call...You'd swear it was an IBM board.
 
Oh...That's NOT the only good thing about it--it's just that it's so rare to
see a fast Commodore board (kinda like seeing a three legged dog walk
backwards on a tightrope while barking the tune from Meow Mix.)

Message: 52036
Author: $ Pat Stoddard
Category: War!
Subject: KFYI
Date: 05/03/88  Time: 22:20:10

Did anyone hear Fred Weber's editorial, read at the beginnig of every shift
change of hosts? My father said he heard it and Weber claims that some of
the people protesting against KFYI have threatened harm to the persons and
property of the station and some of the sponsors, and that is why the
superior court issued the court order? 
 
Later...                                                    Pat

Message: 52037
Author: $ Paul Savage
Category: War!
Subject: Alan/KFYI
Date: 05/04/88  Time: 05:28:59

Who was it said "I do not agree with a word you say, but I will defend to
the death your right to say it."?
You may be right in saying that I would not have much area of agreement with
Tom Leykis, but to deny him his basic rights, and further, todeny those who
would support him their basic rights, is the most outrageous thing I have
heard in ages. 
 Thanks for the info, and thank you Peter for the letter. I think I shall
join the fray.

Message: 52038
Author: Mike Stackpole
Category: War!
Subject: KFYI
Date: 05/04/88  Time: 06:31:24

Voltaire said I may not like what you have to say, but I will defend to the
death your right to say it.
  Fred Weber's editorial did not accuse any of the people named in the suit
of threatening "property" of the station or sponsors.  He said the people
named had threatened the station and the sponsors -- and this is true.  They
threatened a boycott.  I none of the sample letters I saw was there ever a
threat to damage the station or sponsors.  At no time did I see a move tp
pressure  sponsors to break their contracts with the station.  The letters
did state that the sponsors would not be patronized because Tom was not on
the air, but the desire was for sponsors to report this fact to the station.
 If Fred Weber chooses to interpret this as a move toward a secondary
boycott, well, there's nothing we can do about it except pay for lawyers.
  Let's keep the pressure on, folks.  It's our rights at stake.

Message: 52039
Author: Mike Stackpole
Category: Chit Chat
Subject: Anne/Bards/life
Date: 05/04/88  Time: 06:34:10

Mike Cranford did Bards 1 and 2.  He left Interplay so they brought me in to
pinch hit for Bards 3.  Wasteland was the first computer game I did, and
reviews have just begun to hit for it.  So far, so good.
  As for having an interesting life, if sitting around waiting for royalty
checks sounds interesting, um, you're welcome to it.  The greatest thing
about being a freelancer is that I don't have a boss to hate and I get to
work on projects I like.  I guess that's worth the hassle of waiting for
payment...
Mike

Message: 52040
Author: $ Alan Hamilton
Category: War!
Subject: KFYI
Date: 05/04/88  Time: 07:57:06

    It was the Mechamites that Weber said threatened his personel and
station.  To answer his question, "What does he [Pat Murphy] mean when he
says where were you when the Mecham supporters were trying to shut down our
newspapers?" Murphy ment, when a group was using the same tactics or worse
that the Friends of Tom Leykis were using, you didn't sue them.  Why the
selective prosecution?
 
     /
 /  *  /  Alan
*     *

Message: 52041
Author: $ Ann Oudin
Category: Chit Chat
Subject: Mike/Royalties
Date: 05/04/88  Time: 08:30:24

Would just love sitting around waiting for royalty checks on a best seller I
wrote! OF couse, I've got to start the book first. =*--ANN--*=
P.S. I'll bet you play D & D don'tcha?

Message: 52042
Author: Apro Poet
Category: Chit Chat
Subject: Reality Club
Date: 05/04/88  Time: 17:30:30

  Steven Levy: I think we'd better begin by explaining what
the Reality Club is.
  John Brockman: The motto of the Reality Club is "to arrive
at the edge of the world's knowledge, seek out the most 
complex and sophisticated minds, put them in a room 
together, and have them ask each other the questions they're
asking themselves."  We hold free-for-all meetings once or
twice a month, usually in New York.  The evening consists of
a talk or a presentation by a speaker of about one hour to
Reality Club members.  The talk is followed by lively and
often impolite discussion.  We charge the speakers to 
represent an idea of reality by describing their creative
work, life, and the questions they're asking themselves.  We
also want them to share with us the boundaries of their
knowledge and experience.
  SL: Who are these people?
  JB: We have a simple criterion for choosing speakers.  We
look for people whose exceptional creative work has expanded
our notion of who and what we are.  In addition to the 14
contributors in this issue of *Whole Earth Review*, the 75
speakers have included psychologist Rollo May, zen master
Richard Baker-Roshi, Abbie Hoffman, poet Michael McClure,
essayist Annie Dillard, poet Gerd Stern, energy experts
Amory and Hunter Lovins, Ellen Burstyn, Betty Freidan,

computer scientist Edward Feigenbaum, plant physiologist
Rupert Sheldrake, physicist Fritjof Capra, religious 
historian Elaine Pagels, anthropologist-shaman Michael 
Harner, director Richard Foreman, gerontologist Roy Walford,
sociologist Sherry Turkle, and Stewart Brand.
  SL: How did the Reality Club get started?  What led to 
this thing happening?
  JB: James Lee Byars, the conceptual artist, and I used to
spend a part of every day walking in Central Park.  He had
a very interesting theory that reality was something you 
took off the tongue.  I was intrigued with the idea that the
words of the world are the life of the world.  And that 
nature is not created, nature is said.  Reality is a process
of decreation.  It's what people say it is.  The world, the
world that we know, is not necessarily out there, it's 
invention - human invention - an invention created by a 
finite number of people throughout history.  I thought it 
would be interesting to track such people living today and
find out what they're thinking about.

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Subject:Astrologers

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 1:        Astrologers are a funny lot, to be sure.  They must all be 
 2:pro-abortionists because to them life does not begin until the fetus is out 
 3:in the world because that is when they start their 'charts'.  If they 
 4:recognized a fetus as being alive in the first, second or third term then 
 5:that would be the time to do it.
 6:        I think it was Carl Sagan who said, The delivery room lights have 
 7:more direct influence on the baby than some crummy planet.
 8:        Also according to these astrologists, there are only twelve distinct
 9:type of people on this planet per the 12 signs of the Zodiac.  Hmmmmm.
10:        Except I asked Petrisko what sign he was and he replied, "Neon".  
11:Hmmmmm.
12:        Me, I am the little known, thirteenth sign, the sign of the 
13:Chipmonk.