Apollo BBS Archive

Apollo BBS Archive - May 27 - 28, 1991

Mail from Bill Burkett
Date: 05/28/91  Time: 08:03:50

I appreciate your being busy, Rod, and REALLY appreciate you taking time out
to dig up those files.  As I said the only one that has much importance to
me is the stuff re the Foundation grant.
 
> You are a good programmer of people.
 
Then why is it I can feel my 12-year old son clamming up on me the same way
I did on my parents?  Maybe I should lend him some of my magazines.  The
kind meant to be held with only one hand.
 
> Your efforts are well appreciated.
 
Thanks. Apollo feels a lot friendlier than it has in a while.  I hope I'm
making some contribution to that.
 
Just take it easy on Cliff, okay?  He's trying very hard to stay cool.
[A]bort, [C]ontinue, [I]nsty-reply or [Z]ap:Insty-reply

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 1:This evening I feel like my eyelids weigh ten pounds each.  I had a busy day
 2:and now I must pay.
 3:
 4:You definitely are making a contribution to Apollo.  The board has never 
 5:been this sane and I think you know that.  When Cliff had full rein there 
 6:was always great turmoil.  But you knew that.
 7:
 8:Say, I'd like to borrow some of those books you mention.
 9:
10:Later,  Rod

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Message: 7436
Author: $ Michael James
Category: Chit-Chat
Subject: last
Date: 05/28/91  Time: 14:54:10

Renata thought I might move the drumset I'm keeping for Tom into that room
and try banging on it for a while, but I don't think that will help the
situation any.  I got zapped by the 1938 wiring the last time I plugged my
guitar in.
 
Rod's suggestion would be useful if they had a sense of humor, but I suspect
they don't.
 
Does anyone have any real-life examples that happened to them?
 

Message: 7437
Author: $ James Hawley
Category: Answer!
Subject: Last
Date: 05/28/91  Time: 21:19:27

Well I do, but everybody knows about it already.  Cough.

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Subject:Head/drums

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 1:I'd love to come over some evening and play with the drums.  Perhaps they 
 2:are just retaliating from when I played them last.
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Message: 4784
Author: $ Apollo SysOp
Category: Up Yours
Subject: Rod / PUB 75423 cont
Date: 05/28/91  Time: 09:27:17

        
..... FRUITCAKE!

Message: 4785
Author: $ Ann Oudin
Category: Cosmos-Chatter
Subject: Cliff on Rod
Date: 05/28/91  Time: 10:07:10

Rod Williams is LESS of a fruitcake than anyone I know. *>>> ANN O. <<<*

Message: 4786
Author: $ Apollo SysOp
Category: Cosmos-Chatter
Subject: Last Ann's fruitcake
Date: 05/28/91  Time: 12:06:25

        Okay, so Rod is a nice Fruitcake....  And maybe we all are
fruitcakes.

        So what is your point?  Are you as anti fun, anti good feelings
about everything as Rod is?   And what few things Rod does call fun, I call
'sick'.

        The only reason he puts down what Christmas means to the MOST of us
is to try and spoil our joy.  He can't stand to see us happy!  I take it you
feel the same way?

                                clif-

Message: 4787
Author: $ Don Hicks
Category: Re-BuTTal
Subject: Ann on a Rod
Date: 05/28/91  Time: 16:54:41

Yea! Just what IS your point?

Message: 4788
Author: $ Sandy SysOp
Category: Who-dun-it
Subject: Where's the ....
Date: 05/28/91  Time: 17:27:24

        Jokes?

I'm in this Sig ..... lookin' for some entertainment. Reading people bashing
and slashing and stomping and cursing and back stabbing and spitting (mike's
favorite thing to do) and insulting and criticizing and taunting and
sneering and all that other wonderful stuff is not to my liking at the
moment.

        Did I ever tell you the one about why doctors slap babies on the
butt when they are born?
        If I have tell me.
        If I haven't, I'll tell you .......


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Subject:L.A. County

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 1:The new license plate holders for L.A. County have just come out.  They say,
 2:"Welcome to L.A. where every man is treated like a King."
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10:(Rodney King)
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Subject:Cliff/Fruitcake

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 1:Yes, I are a fruitcake.  I am as queer as a 3 dollar bill.  As Mary Richards
 2:says, I am impotent.  It's a good thing too because if I wasn't I'd probably
 3:had 40 children.  But then again, I may.
 4:
 5:I enjoy winter AND summer solstice even more than I, at one time, enjoyed 
 6:Xmas.
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 8:Peace be with you brother and sister of the universe.  Love,.
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Message: 75419
Author: $ Paul Savage
Category: Chit Chat
Subject: Bill/75398
Date: 05/28/91  Time: 05:15:48

 While we're remembering and praying (and I agree with you), let's pray that
the spirit of greed be eliminated from the human race, for, as long as it
exists among us, I'm afraid that war will always be an imminent danger.

Message: 75420
Author: $ Paul Savage
Category: Chit Chat
Subject: Ann/75402
Date: 05/28/91  Time: 05:22:12

 Again, you probably can be excused for your lack of depth here, but
"long-suffering" is a Biblical equivalent of "patience", and there's nothing
wrong with showing a little of that, is there? As for "sacrifice", the
sacrificial laws were fulfilled at Calvary. Not done away with. Fulfilled.
Paid in full. Completed. What was wrong then is still wrong now. While there
is really no excuse for flaunting the law in the face of God and mocking
Him, there is no sacrificial payment due from one who can plead the blood of
Jesus over a sin.

Message: 75421
Author: $ Paul Savage
Category: Chit Chat
Subject: Rod?
Date: 05/28/91  Time: 05:29:39

You eat daisies, roses and tulips?
May I respectfully decline the gracious dinner invitation that I know you
were just about to extend? Hehehe.

Message: 75422
Author: $ Bill Burkett
Category: War!
Subject: PAUL & I R PRAYING
Date: 05/28/91  Time: 08:02:31

> While we're remembering and praying (and I agree with you),
> let's pray that the spirit of greed be eliminated from the
> human race, for, as long as it exists among us, I'm afraid that
> war will always be an imminent danger.
 
Agreed.  But even better than praying, let's figure out what we can do to
bring it about.

Message: 75423
Author: $ Apollo SysOp
Category: Chit Chat
Subject: Rod??
Date: 05/28/91  Time: 09:24:08

        But the shortest day is on the 21st...  You are so confused.

        I also looked up Christmas in Black's Law and it is defined just
like ol'Webster has it, so even the LAW of the land has recognized what the
December 25th holiday represents.

        Note how you always look at the terror and negative side of
everything....  You are a (continued in the COSmos SIG)

Message: 75424
Author: $ Ann Oudin
Category: Question?
Subject: Rod on Mary
Date: 05/28/91  Time: 09:41:53

Uhhhh .... in that post to Mary, towards the end, you called her 'Mike'! Is
Mary - Mike Carter? Just curious. *>>> ANN O. <<<*

Message: 75425
Author: $ Ann Oudin
Category: Chit Chat
Subject: Rod on permits
Date: 05/28/91  Time: 09:55:15

No, I don't think them not having a permit to gas someone is punishable by
death - probably a $5.00 fine though! Why $5.00? Well, there are several
reasons..... 1. The small people in the Envirionment Quality agency must
show their power over the masses. They love to know they can hold up people
like Donald Trump, huge corporations, even possiably the president himself!
In other words, we can't 'wipe' without getting their permission first! 
2. It's more money for the coffers - doesn't seem like a lot granted, but if
you add up all the $5 that they collect for permits on just about
everything, it adds up to mucho bucks. 
 
Can you imagine the egos of these people - having the power to play god and
stop someone from dying just like that? Can you imagine the adrenaline that
flows after they put a big corporation to it's knees? Oh lordy lordy!
  
                       *>>> ANN O. <<<*
 
    :)   :)   :)   :)   :)   :)   (:   (:   (:   (:   (:   (:   (:

Message: 75426
Author: $ Ann Oudin
Category: Question?
Subject: Pauley on lack
Date: 05/28/91  Time: 10:03:52

Re: your .... "Again, you probably can be excused for your lack of depth!"

 
Oh, I get it - anyone that doesn't agree with you, lacks depth? 
Or is that .... anyone that questions the Bible lacks depth?
 
Sorry Pauley, no way can 'Long suffering' be interpreted as patience! 
You might have to have a little patience to be long suffering, but no way
are they the same thing! 
 
Where do you get all your Biblical interpretations by the way? Who told
you these things ... a minister - a preacher - priest or have you taken
years of ancient Hebrew in order to interpret the Bible correctly?? 
                             *>>> ANN O. <<<*

Message: 75427
Author: $ Roger Mann
Category: Chit Chat
Subject: Xmas
Date: 05/28/91  Time: 13:06:31

It is a known fact that RCC "borrowed" the pagan celebration of Winter
Soltice by placing Christ's birth on December 25th. Ever wonder why we use a
green "Christmas" tree ? The evergreen was the symbol used by our pagan
ancestors for the celebration of the winter soltice.
 
Also, did you know that the word Easter comes from the name of the goddess
Ishtar. The Vernal equinox celebration is likewise combined with the
celebration of Christ's resurrection. 

Message: 75428
Author: $ Apollo SysOp
Category: Chit Chat
Subject: Last/Roger
Date: 05/28/91  Time: 15:21:34

        I do not use a 'green Christmas tree'....  I don't believe in that
symbol.  It appears from your post you do, and I happen to know Rod kills
trees by doing the same.

        I do not buy your statement as 'Fact'...  how about PROOF to back up
your 'F' word?  You would think the solstice would be on the 21st.  You
would think it would be called 'Solstice Day'.  What I think happened is the
atheists have dug up this garbage as a supposed 'fact' and the doubters like
yourself have bought it hook line and sinker. You people have the strangest
ability to accept any other far fetched idea on its own merit (of merely
being stated) over that of the truth that there is a God and a Jesus Christ.

*=* the 'Mighty' Apollo SysOp *=*  <-clif- 

Message: 75429
Author: $ Apro Poet
Category: Answer!
Subject: Dean #75411
Date: 05/28/91  Time: 18:13:26

  Re. defaulting on savings bonds, etc.:  Do you think
they wouldn't limit the default to *foreign* debt?  Why?

America living without credit cards!  HAHAHAHAHAHAHAHAHAHA!
Sorry Valley girls!  It's cash on the barrelhead!  HAHAHAHA!

I don't think it will ever happen.  The third world would
love the precedent.

Message: 75430
Author: $ Apro Poet
Category: On the Lighter Side
Subject: Pollywanna
Date: 05/28/91  Time: 18:22:46

From "Feathered Friend," Reader's Digest:

"I'm going nuts here by myself," Pat Myers confessed to her
daughter, Annie.  Pat had been virtually confined to her
house for a year as she was treated for an inflamed artery
in her temple that affected her vision and stamina.
  A widow with two married children, she'd been happily
running a chain of dress shops.  But now that she had to
give up her business, her home began to feel oppressively
silent and empty.  Finally she admitted to Annie how lonely
she was.
  "Do you think I should advertise for someone to live with
me?"
  "That's such a gamble," Annie said.  "How about a pet?"
  "I haven't the strength to walk a dog," Pat said.  "I'm
allergic to cats, and fish don't have a whole lot to say."
  "Birds do," said her daughter.  "Why not get a parrot?"
And so it began.
  Pat and Annie visited a breeder of African Greys and were
shown two little featherless creatures huddled together for
warmth.  Pat was doubtful, but Annie persuaded her to put a
deposit down on the bird with the bright eyes.  When he was
three months old and feathered out, he was delivered to his
new owner, who named him Casey.

Message: 75431
Author: $ Apro Poet
Category: On the Lighter Side
Subject: Pollywanna
Date: 05/28/91  Time: 18:31:30

  A few weeks later Pat told Annie, "I didn't realize I
talked so much.  Casey's picking up all kinds of words."
  "I told you."  Her daughter smiled at the sound of 
pleasure in Pat's voice.
  The first sentence Casey learned was "Where's my glasses?"
followed by "Where's my purse?"  When she returned from an 
errand, he'd greet her with, "Holy smokes, it's cold out
there," in a perfect imitation of her voice.
  Casey disliked being caged, so Pat often let him roam the 
house.  "What fun it is to have him," she told Annie.  "It
makes the whole place feel better."
  "I think *you're* beginning to feel better too," said
Annie.
  "Well, he gives me four or five laughs a day -- they say
laughter's good for you."
  Once a plumber came to repair a leak under the kitchen
sink.  In the den, Casey cracked seeds in his cage and eyed
the plumber through the open door.  Suddenly the parrot 
broke the silence, reciting, "One potato, two potato, three
potato, four ...."
  "What?" asked the plumber.
  "Don't poo on the rug," Casey ordered, in Pat's voice.
  The plumber pushed himself out from under the sink and
marched to the living room.  "If you're going to play games,

Message: 75432
Author: $ Apro Poet
Category: On the Lighter Side
Subject: Pollywanna?
Date: 05/28/91  Time: 18:36:46

lady, you can just get yourself another plumber."  Pat 
looked at him blankly.  The plumber hesitated.  "That was 
you, wasn't it?"
  Pat smiled.  "What was me?"
  "One potato, two potato -- and don't poo on the rug."
  "Oh, dear," said Pat.  "Let me introduce you to Casey."
  Casey saw them coming.  "What's going on around here?" he
said.
  At that moment Pat sneezed.  Casey immediately mimicked 
the sneeze, added a couple of Pat's coughs at her allergic
worst and finished with Pat's version of "Wow!"  The plumber
shook his head slowly and crawled back under the sink.

(to be continued)

Message: 75433
Author: $ Beauregard Dog
Category: Politics
Subject: canceling the debt
Date: 05/28/91  Time: 21:37:00

Well, I've been dropping that bomb on people for the last couple of months
-- thought of it myself.  I hadn't considered the "this will keep us from
borrowing money" angle.  I'm not sure that I believe it, though, as people
who go bankrupt are subsequently considered good credit risks.
 
As to people, banks, etc., losing savings -- they'll make it back in a
reduced income tax rate?
 
The *only* way that I could see this could work is if Bush declared it, and
the Congress passed legislation approving it THE VERY NEXT DAY.  If,
instead, word gets around that something like this is going to happen, then
the cronies of the bigwigs in government are going to make sure that they
make a nice profit from the fallout.

Message: 75434
Author: $ Felix Cat
Category: Chit Chat
Subject: Peaches
Date: 05/28/91  Time: 21:56:14

Re:  I'll bet just about every person that calls themselves Christian will
be against it - calling it a sin! right?

Wrong again.  Most of the Christians I know disagree with you.

And again that's a great problem.  There's a lot of Christians and
non-Christians who don't know what the Bible really says.

So I will say again, There's nothing in the Bible against heavy petting and
masturbation.  (Masturbation has a "u" not a "e")  :-)

Message: 75435
Author: $ Rod Williams
Category: Chit Chat
Subject: Cat/last
Date: 05/28/91  Time: 22:42:38

I hope you are correct in your last message, Felix.  Otherwise I be spending
my forever burning.

I'm having trouble staying awake and I refuse to drink coffee because I
don't want to look like a coffee bean.  I owe some answers here and I'll
make some up after a bit of a rest (now what did I do with that crystal
ship?).

If you don't understand what I am saying then don't try.