Apollo BBS Archive

Apollo BBS Archive - May 14, 1989


Mail from Nick Ianuzzi
Date: 05/14/89  Time: 05:28:34

Maybe this cold fusion thing will end up being feasible. I might even trade
in my Vega wagon for a fusion powered car.
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 1:        I haven't been following the 'cold fusion' news.  But if it did work
 2:for the personal car that would be great in some respects.  I think that 
 3:cities should limit speed on auto's to something like 45mph.  A switch could
 4:be flipped for highways that would allow more speed.  My objection is not 
 5:only the pollution that gets in my nose but the damage to spinal cords from 
 6:accidents.  Also children are being kept virtual prisioners of their blocks 
 7:because of the automobile.  I'd like to see auto-free neighborhoods.  I also

 9:P.S.  Have you read the stories that were entered in the Kontest?  J.T. says
10:he hasn't read any of them.  And did you notice a new $tatus member by the 
11:name of Robert Knee?  And did you notice that Jeannie IN A FUCKING JUG and 
12:Sandy Syslop are similiar in many ways?  
13:        If you did read the stories, did you notice how Dean's story 
14:confused Paul Savage?  -Rod

Mail from James Taranto
Date: 05/14/89  Time: 07:48:59

The stories sounded silly so I did not read them.
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 1:        That's bullshit.  "The stories sounded silly so I did not read 
 2:them."  Well, in a way you are correct but please read Dean's story.  In its
 3:silliness, it is prophetic.  Then perhaps you can explain the meaning to 
 4:Paul.  It is only 6K.

Mail from Ann Oudin
Date: 05/14/89  Time: 09:11:22

Cliff recommended Paul not read your story??? That is ridiculas! If
anything, mine would offend Paul, not yours.
Why do I think you will win? (1.) It was very well written and completely
understandable - not like Dean's for instance. (2) It was closer to being a
'real' story. (and I'm not talking length here) (3) You put the characters
of Apollo in their places to perfection and you stuck to the thyme of our
posts. (4) Your ending was excellent and a surprise, like a good story
should have. I liked all the posts and they had their merits but I think
when Gary mentioned that only one of the stories was professionaly written,
I'm positive he meant yours, even though he didn't say who he meant. I don't
know who is going to vote for the winner, but if it's Cliff, I'm sure Dean
will win because he really seemed to like it and it wasn't 'controversial'!
See? -=*) ANN (*=-
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 1:        I only liked your story and Deans.  The others iritated me because 
 2:of the way they used your character.  I was pissed off and to date I have not
 3:commented on any of them.  Oh well.  Since I wrote that story I have been 
 4:thinking about it and have a few more paragraphs to add someday.  
 5:(Meanwhile, down on the planets surface, in the short time the inhabitants 
 6:had left, many people were praying to their God.  The Christians were sure 
 7:the rapturte had come.....etc.
 8:        Take care,  -Rod

Mail from James Taranto
Date: 05/14/89  Time: 14:36:53

I don't even know how to read the stories.
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 1:"I don't even know how to read the stories."  What exactly does that mean?  
 2:Are you drunk or stoned?  Lose your glasses?  What?
 3:
 4:        Do you stay off the streets of D.C. at night or do you go out and do
 5:what you want?  


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Message: 5486
Author: $ Paul Savage
Category: Chit-Chat
Subject: Stories
Date: 05/14/89  Time: 06:49:33

 The only reason I read Ann's and Dean's was because they were recommended
to me by Cliff, who said that I was part of them.
 As a rule, time does not permit me more than to log on, read and respond to
messages and get on with other things. I'm sure that they're all excellent,
but I'm no judge. Congratulations to all contestants. If you can write
legibly and intelligently, you're all winners in my book!

Message: 5487
Author: $ Ann Oudin
Category: Chit-Chat
Subject: Cliff/#5484
Date: 05/14/89  Time: 09:49:26

Thank God for proof readers then cause I'm writting a book! And not in a
bikini either! -=*) ANN (*=-

Message: 5488
Author: $ James Hawley
Category: Question?
Subject: Last
Date: 05/14/89  Time: 11:01:40

Naked, then?

Message: 5489
Author: $ Rod Williams
Category: Chit-Chat
Subject: Paul
Date: 05/14/89  Time: 13:18:30

        Hey Paulie, sweetheart, you'se in my story.  I has a special
sentence in there, just for you.      -Rod

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Message: 2237
Author: $ Ann Oudin
Category: Answer!
Subject: Bribe
Date: 05/14/89  Time: 09:57:06

I take it back. If it sounded as such, it wasn't meant that way. Ralphy is
my dear friend and is always on my side except where it comes to piercing
his ear and growing long hair. -=*) ANN (*=-

P.S. A MONTH in the Zone??? Do you want to kill me? Ruin my life? Make me go
crazy(er)? Send me to a mental institute? My life is in your hands oh Mighty
Sysop who is handsome and intelligent and oh so charming!

Message: 2238
Author: $ Rod Williams
Category: Chit-Chat
Subject: last
Date: 05/14/89  Time: 13:19:34

Lying will also get you in the 'Zone'.

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Message: 3089
Author: $ James Hawley
Category: Answer !
Subject: Sandy
Date: 05/14/89  Time: 03:27:04

There were at least three D.D.D.'s.  Maybe even four.  And that's not
even counting the ripoffs.  (Debbie Duz Dishes, etc.)  I have D.D.D. 1 if
you're interested.  Cliff doesn't have to know a thing about it.

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Message: 58707
Author: $ Apollo SYSOP
Category: Chit Chat
Subject: Mothers...
Date: 05/13/89  Time: 21:35:14

        If I wrote about my Mom the way I feel about her... you guys would
have me tossed in the PHAntom ZONE for a year.  And you think swearing is
rough in the COSmos or RGB SIG.  You ain't seen nothing!

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

Message: 58708
Author: George Wright
Category: Answer!
Subject: Ubiquitous sex
Date: 05/14/89  Time: 02:23:27

I can only think of one thing that has nothing whatsoever to do with sex;
Cameron Harper.

Message: 58709
Author: $ James Hawley
Category: Answer!
Subject: Cliff/basketball
Date: 05/14/89  Time: 03:30:32

You could teach a three foot person to beat a 7 foot person at basketball. 
Especially if the 7 footer is Manute Bol.  Look at Spud Web.  He's the
shortest player in the NBA, but also one of the most outstanding ones.  YOU
are taller than Spud is, Cliff.

Message: 58710
Author: $ Paul Savage
Category: Answer!
Subject: Ann
Date: 05/14/89  Time: 06:40:09

Why don't I buy a magazine instead of girl watching?
Simple answer.
Pictures don't wiggle.

Message: 58711
Author: $ Ann Oudin
Category: Answer!
Subject: JT/freedom
Date: 05/14/89  Time: 09:27:39

If women are used OUT OF CONTENT in an advertizement such as I've mentiond
in previous posts, our freedoms are diminished considerably because we will
not be taken seriously in other fields! I hardly think that a beauty contest
winner will ever be thought of by men as anything other than that regardless
of her mental capabilities or ambitions. I've met SO many men that think
women were put her for just their enjoyment and nothing else and they treat
them as so! What is the purpose of a beauty contest? It's certainly for the
men and not women! I can picture this winner going into a career and trying
to make her way to the top and all along, she is NOT taken seriously because
she won a stupid beauty contest! Woman speak of harassment all the time in
their jobs as it is. Can you see a B-contest winner taking up driving truck
for a living? She might be able to drive that truck as good as any of her
male co-workers, but that won't matter in the least to the drooling guys
that want a conquest with a legitimate Beauty contest winner! BUT - she
deserves this harassment. After all, she took off her clothes and paraded
around so the audiance and the judges can see every square in of her body!
Come on James. Would you take her seriously other than trying to make a
conquest? -=*) ANN (*=-

Message: 58712
Author: $ Ann Oudin
Category: Answer!
Subject: Mr. Knee
Date: 05/14/89  Time: 09:32:26

Again, someone explained it better than I and I thank you! JT: Please read
this post because this answers your questions to me perfectly and you
shouldn't have any more. -=*) ANN (*=-

Message: 58713
Author: $ Ann Oudin
Category: Chit Chat
Subject: Rod/#58695
Date: 05/14/89  Time: 09:40:16

I agree that everything has to do with sex, but lets spread it around a bit
and have more males exposing themselves --- OOPS! I mean showing more of
themselves --- OOPS! I personally WOULD look at a commercial of a guy in a
bikini pouring Toilet bowl cleaner down the stool - but only IF he was
perfect, air brushed and had a body like Arnies! Then I would figure that
ALL men should look like this and I want one! Then I would divorce my
husband because he doesn't look like that and start searching for one that
did. I would find many that did, but they wouldn't want to appear in a
toilet bowl commercial wearing a bikini and be exploited! So I would grow
old alone, my dream flushed down a toilet! 

                 ** THE END ***

Message: 58714
Author: $ Ann Oudin
Category: Chit Chat
Subject: Bob/#58698
Date: 05/14/89  Time: 09:42:35

He doesn't! That's why he has seven children! (wink) -=*) ANN (*=-

Message: 58715
Author: $ Ann Oudin
Category: Chit Chat
Subject: James H./paste
Date: 05/14/89  Time: 09:47:45

If toothpaste has a lot to do with sex (and I do see your point) then why
don't men appear in the ads half undressed with lust on their face?
Arn't men the other half of sexual exchange? -=*) ANN (*=-

Message: 58716
Author: $ Rod Williams
Category: Chit Chat
Subject: Paul/wiggle
Date: 05/14/89  Time: 13:22:35

        Yes, pictures can be made to 'wiggle', Paul.  Just put them in front
of a fan.  P.S.  This is for shut-ins.     -Rod

Message: 58717
Author: $ Rod Williams
Category: Chit Chat
Subject: Ann/toilet
Date: 05/14/89  Time: 13:30:41

        I agree, bikini clad woman in a toilet cleanser commercial is stupid
as are a lot of other ads with sexual innuendos.  But there would be a lot
of women without jobs if this was cut out.  But I don't have to complain
because when I watch tv, I scan.  When a commercial comes on to break up a
show, I look for another channel that has something interesting and I may
never get back to the show I was watching.  Besides I usually just watch
movies on the cable channels.  They have their own way of doing a commercial
in that they will show a box of Kellog's Bran Flakes on the kitchen table or
another product they were paid to show.  I like that method better. 


Message: 58718
Author: $ James Taranto
Category: Chit Chat
Subject: Oudin
Date: 05/14/89  Time: 14:52:20

So, your objection to beauty contests and the like is that (for example)
winners will not be taken seriously as truck drivers?  In the first place, I
do not know of too many beauty contestants who seek careers as truck
drivers.  Most, I think, want to be models or actresses or the like, and
being a beauty contestant fits quite well into those career plans.
Imagine if Ronald Reagan decided to become a truck driver?  Do you think
he'd be treated just like any other truck driver?  I doubt he'd be able to
live down the fact that he's a former president.  Does this mean that the
existence of the office of President diminishes our freedoms?  I think not.
Also, what makes you think prostitutes or porn stars will be taken any more
seriously as truck drivers than will beauty contest winners?  Finally, your
claim seems to be that beauty contests and the like somehow diminish the
freedom of all women, not just those who participate in them.  If being
taken seriously as a truck driver is the standard of freedom, what evidence
do you have that a ban on beauty contests would cause women in general to be
taken more seriously as truck drivers?

(A side note: I do not think of women as "conquests," and I think men who do
are morally deficient.  I do, however, enjoy looking at beautiful women, and
I don't think this means I take women any less seriously.)

Message: 58719
Author: $ James Taranto
Category: Chit Chat
Subject: Oudin/Knee
Date: 05/14/89  Time: 14:52:56

Will one of you please explain how beauty contests caused the rape in
Central Park?  This should be good.

Message: 58720
Author: $ Beauregard Dog
Category: Chit Chat
Subject: Sexy men in ads
Date: 05/14/89  Time: 15:55:44

Hey, Ann, remember the White Tornado and similar ads? Don't you think that
those were appealing to women's prurient interests?
 ]

Message: 58721
Author: $ Apollo SYSOP
Category: Chit Chat
Subject: Ads
Date: 05/14/89  Time: 16:31:17

        I can recall a "Brawny" ad with a muscle bound male and a Mr Clean.
Somehow I don't feel deminished in any way.

Message: 58722
Author: Jack Carper
Category: Sex & Love
Subject: date
Date: 05/14/89  Time: 18:01:25

to whoever wants a real date call me! (females only)

Message: 58723
Author: $ Bob Thornburg
Category: Chit Chat
Subject: Ugly/Rod
Date: 05/14/89  Time: 19:21:41

I agree with everything you said in post 58706.

Message: 58724
Author: $ Rod Williams
Category: Chit Chat
Subject: the Bob
Date: 05/14/89  Time: 20:01:07

        Does being grossly ugly have anything to do with you agreeing with
me?  Or is it just that you can't wait to get to sleep in order to start a
'new adventure'?
   Rod
 
 
 
 
 
(GRIN)


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Message: 361
Author: $ Ann Oudin
Category: Chit-Chat
Subject: Rod/last
Date: 05/14/89  Time: 09:59:41

WORSHIT???? Hahahahahahahahahahahaha

Message: 362
Author: $ Rod Williams
Category: Chit-Chat
Subject: Ralph
Date: 05/14/89  Time: 13:35:01

      I want to see your story in the Kontest.  Don't tell me, everyone gets
shot, right?

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Last name:OUDIN
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 1:        Haven't you noticed something unusual recently.  $ Robert Knee all 
 2:of a sudden, out of nowhere, shows up as a $tatus member, leaves a good 
 3:message and you comment.  Cliff didn't announce his joining.
 4:
 5:        Ann, look in that book I sent you.......remember?   Who is Robert 
 6:Knee?  Do you remember now?  I checked the (W)hite Pages and it shows that 
 7:Knee has logged on 169 times.  This I do not understand.  It also shows that
 8:he has an IBM clone.   What do you think?   -Rod