Apollo BBS Archive - October 1988

Apollo BBS Archive - October 6, 1988



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Message: 4397
Author: $ Chris Neal
Category: Chit-Chat
Subject: Rod/My shirt
Date: 10/06/88  Time: 01:27:03

That is a great idea!!!!  The only problem is I don't know anyone with a
silkscreen machine......

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Message: 4398
Author: $ Ann Oudin
Category: Chit-Chat
Subject: David/Calif.
Date: 10/06/88  Time: 05:55:24

Yes - I'm sure it's changed since I've been there - can you honestly say for
the better though? And hey fellow, I had plumbing when I was a kid living in
downtown L.A. But we didn't have smog! Yes - I know some places are banning
smoking entirely and when that does happen, I will open up a restaurant or
bar and allow smoking and will make a fortune! Right now we quit going to
restaurants in Scottsdale because they have banned it. Damn if their going
to get my money when they won't let me smoke after a meal! 
But you can have California. It is however the most beautiful state on a
whole than I've ever seen, but the southern coastal cities are ruined and
that includes San Diego too! Ta, ta. =*--ANN--*=

Message: 4399
Author: $ Paul Savage
Category: Chit-Chat
Subject: Rod/World
Date: 10/06/88  Time: 06:13:44

That headline was probably followed by a story from divorce court, and was
the woman's opinion of her ex.
You probably lean heavily on the "news" in the National Enquirer too, huh?


Message: 4400
Author: $ Paul Savage
Category: Chit-Chat
Subject: Cliff/1967
Date: 10/06/88  Time: 06:14:28

Yeah, but you moved!
Rod is still in San Francisco in 1967!

Message: 4401
Author: $ Ralph Blehm
Category: Answer!
Subject: Paul Savage
Date: 10/06/88  Time: 07:22:36

Paul, Don't you that the supermkt rags are the only truth we can read.
Do you think the truth is in our local paper?
                        Ralph

Message: 4402
Author: $ Traci Sibel
Category: Chit-Chat
Subject: Daryl/Tylenol
Date: 10/06/88  Time: 09:56:16

That is sick!! 

(sniff, sniffle)

Message: 4403
Author: $ James Hawley
Category: Answer!
Subject: 1967
Date: 10/06/88  Time: 11:24:48

I was in Phoenix.

Message: 4404
Author: $ Gary Jones
Category: Chit-Chat
Subject: California
Date: 10/06/88  Time: 13:51:20

I drank a California Cooler once.  (Didn't like it, though!)

Message: 4405
Author: $ Sandy SYSOP
Category: Question?
Subject: California
Date: 10/06/88  Time: 21:41:19

        Wonder what happens when you are stopped and make to walk the white
line during one of the many earthquakes?
        Or are the white lines in California WIDE?

Message: 4406
Author: $ Rod Williams
Category: Answer!
Subject: Chris/silkscreen
Date: 10/06/88  Time: 23:06:08

        Peter Petrisko has the necessary equipment.

Message: 4407
Author: $ Rod Williams
Category: Answer!
Subject: Paul/Enquirer
Date: 10/06/88  Time: 23:07:49

        It is the ONLY 'rag' I read.  It has all the latest news and
includes the stories which are supressed by other papers and news media.  I
read it from cover to cover.  I don't think they stretch the truth, do you?
                                Rod

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Message: 1036
Author: $ Zak Woodruff
Category: Chit-Chat
Subject: last
Date: 10/06/88  Time: 00:39:22

He liked it!  Hey Mikey!

Message: 1037
Author: $ Ralph Blehm
Category: Chit-Chat
Subject: Mike
Date: 10/06/88  Time: 07:25:40

If you'r posts were as nice as you'r art ,you could be a good little boy.
                                Ralph

Message: 1038
Author: $ Traci Sibel
Category: Chit-Chat
Subject: Mike
Date: 10/06/88  Time: 09:57:16

Pretty!!!

Message: 1039
Author: $ Gary Jones
Category: Chit-Chat
Subject: Mike/pix
Date: 10/06/88  Time: 13:48:51

OK!

Since the weathervane was pointing to the right, does that make your picture
political art?

OK, anyway!!!

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Message: 2079
Author: $ Chris Neal
Category: Cosmos-Chatter
Subject: D-dog/Peace
Date: 10/06/88  Time: 01:24:12

More Bullshit!  *******WE******* CAN THINK! Yes, this is true. Myself, Ann,
You, Cliff, Sandy, Todd, Paul, Mike, Pat, and just about everyone else that
uses this board CAN THINK, WHY THE FUCK DO YOU THINK WE COME HERE TO
SOCIALIZE(SP)???????????????????????????????????????????????????????????
>>>>>>>>>>>>>>>>>>>>>>>>>>>>BUT<<<<<<<<<<<<<<<<<<<<<<<<<<<<<<<<
 
I believe we have PRISONS, INSANE ASYLUMS, JUVENILE DETENTION CENTERS, and
other places like this, TO PROTECT *US* (Yes, YOU *AND* I) from those who
can not think, or think for themselves!!!!!!!!!!  It is these people, and
the ones still on the street THAT I, *MYSELF* am worried about!!!!!!!!!!!

I *CHOOSE* to *THINK* about how I want to live, there for I *CHOOSE* to be
protected from these people!!!!!!   YOU can bet YOUR A$$ that I don't want
to die in a nuclear explosion, or incedent for that matter, BUT AS LONG AS
THERE IS A **THREAT** the bad guys will always wonder WHO is watching!!!!
 
I have spent alot of time thinking about this, and I will stand my ground on
my thoughts and reasons.....
 
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Ann, have you anyhting to add? Anyone else?

Message: 2080
Author: $ Ann Oudin
Category: Cosmos-Chatter
Subject: Chris/last
Date: 10/06/88  Time: 06:37:19

You've said it all. =*--ANN--*=

Message: 2081
Author: $ Ann Oudin
Category: Cosmos-Chatter
Subject: THANG/condum
Date: 10/06/88  Time: 06:40:10

But he does have one on - a big giant green trashbag! I could not find one
of his size in the local drug store! When I ask the druggest for that
gigantic size - he looked at me and said "Lady, I sure want to meet you
husband!" I left in a hurry and improvised with the trashbag. =*--ANN--*=

Message: 2082
Author: $ Ann Oudin
Category: Cosmos-Chatter
Subject: All of youse
Date: 10/06/88  Time: 06:40:52

I think Cliff needs cheering up! 

Message: 2083
Author: $ Ann Oudin
Category: Cosmos-Chatter
Subject: Cliffy
Date: 10/06/88  Time: 06:41:10

Smile! We all love you. =*--ANN--*=

Message: 2084
Author: $ Ralph Blehm
Category: Answer !
Subject: cliff
Date: 10/06/88  Time: 07:32:50

Even I The Old Fart Ralph loves you. So you can smoke that two.

Message: 2085
Author: $ Jim Lippard
Category: Cosmos-Chatter
Subject: 2079/Neal
Date: 10/06/88  Time: 11:18:25

You didn't answer the question about where in the Soviet Constitution it
says anything about "they will do their best to own the world at any cost."

Message: 2086
Author: $ Gary Jones
Category: Cosmos-Chatter
Subject: Cliff
Date: 10/06/88  Time: 13:54:43

Cwiff.

We all wuv you.

Some of us obviously more than others!

Message: 2087
Author: $ Chris Neal
Category: Cosmos-Chatter
Subject: Russia's Const...
Date: 10/06/88  Time: 16:18:16

I don't know what it says exactley, nor do I have time to look it up...  You
folks that have such a hard time believing that it is true should take some
time to go to the local library and look it up yourselves!!!  Even if I
wrote it chapter and verse on here there are some who would STILL deny
it!!!!
 
Any questions?
 
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P.S.  My source is Channel 8.

Message: 2088
Author: $ James Taranto
Category: Cosmos-Chatter
Subject: USSR
Date: 10/06/88  Time: 17:55:53

Chris Neal may be an idiot, but what he is saying is essentially true. 
Dunderheads like Ron Harvey must share the blame for most of the atrocities
that have been committed throughout history.

Message: 2089
Author: $ Beauregard Dog
Category: Cosmos-Chatter
Subject: Last/atrocities
Date: 10/06/88  Time: 23:03:10

Yeah, like wars and genocides.

Message: 2090
Author: $ Rod Williams
Category: Answer !
Subject: Chris
Date: 10/06/88  Time: 23:15:18

        Your post is SICK.  Hey, I got it, let's build many more prisons and
fill 'em up with the people on the street.  Yeah, let's jail them and in
that way we can ignore the problems which cause rape, robbery, murder and
generally stressed out people.  Good idea.  
        Are you planning to run for public office?
        Just one of the reasons we have big problems is the news that is
thrown at us each hour of the day concerning war and the military.  
        Many of the leaders belong in insane asylums.
        By the way, many of the people who are in institutions are there in
order to excape a cruel world.  They just can't handle the reality we
created.  I don't blame them.
                                Rod

Message: 2091
Author: $ Rod Williams
Category: Cosmos-Chatter
Subject: Chris
Date: 10/06/88  Time: 23:17:31

        The odds are that you will die in a nuclear war if changes in our
basic thought patterns are not forthcoming.  Mankind is a weak, paranoid,
animal.

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Message: 1569
Author: $ Beauregard Dog
Category: Yawn...
Subject: last
Date: 10/06/88  Time: 23:03:44

Gee, and I thought I was tired.

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Message: 54483
Author: $ Zak Woodruff
Category: Chit Chat
Subject: last
Date: 10/06/88  Time: 00:53:52


Aw Cliff, I'm sorry if I offended you.  C'mon, smile!  Seriously, you're not
a bad sysop....well, not bad when you're sober, that is.

By the way, I don't mind being told to put something up my ass and smoke it.
I used to do that at parties anyway.  But please, please, don't call me
Zakko.  It sounds like a Marx Brother or something.

Message: 54484
Author: $ Peter Petrisko
Category: Answer!
Subject: ZAK/54483
Date: 10/06/88  Time: 01:06:08

There's no substitute for careful analysis.

Message: 54485
Author: $ Chris Neal
Category: Chit Chat
Subject: Rod/Your advice
Date: 10/06/88  Time: 01:29:54

So what you are saying is that you didn't mean it 'THAT' way...
C'mon, I wasn't born yesterday!!!!!!!!!!!
 
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Message: 54486
Author: $ Ann Oudin
Category: Chit Chat
Subject: Cliff the MIghty
Date: 10/06/88  Time: 05:21:32

Do you realize you cussed on this board (Bastards & Assholes) -- something
you have forbidden us to do! Ralph used the word fart the other day and I
told him you didn't like that and would reprimend him if he continued to do
it on the BB. Did Zak make you THAT mad? (grin) =*--ANN--*=

Message: 54487
Author: $ Ann Oudin
Category: Answer!
Subject: Chris/M advice
Date: 10/06/88  Time: 05:22:07

Vote Libertarian! =*--ANN--*=

Message: 54488
Author: $ Ann Oudin
Category: Chit Chat
Subject: Robert on Ralph
Date: 10/06/88  Time: 05:23:22

Ralph is still that warm, gentle human being he always was - he's just
working on his sense of humor! =*--ANN--*=

Message: 54489
Author: $ Ann Oudin
Category: Chit Chat
Subject: The debate
Date: 10/06/88  Time: 05:40:38

I thought Bentson clearly won that debate last night! But then again, he is
a polished politician with a plastic face that is used to the press, TV and
making public addresses. His mouth is probably permenently puckered from
kissing so many babies! Quayle on the other hand is certainly a pleasure to
look at, (What beautiful teeth!) but he stammered and was hesitant too much.
Comparing himself to Kennedy was a big joke though. Not even close! He may
improver however. Bentson will never improve - he already has everything
down pat like a good politician should. My opinion is I wouldn't want either
for president, but then again, I don't want Ducaca or Bush! Not that I would
vote for them - but a Bush/Bentson ticket would be better. I still say this
is 'slim pickings' - but who ever gets in, I have hope! Why not? IF one of
the presidential candidates wins - I still hope it's Ducaca - but Bush will
get it! Me - I'm still voting Libertarian. =*--ANN--*=

Message: 54490
Author: $ Paul Savage
Category: Chit Chat
Subject: Ann on Cliff
Date: 10/06/88  Time: 06:07:38

Don't you know, Ann, that Cliff is not subject to his own rules?
Those are just for the rest of us grunts.
After all, it's his toy. If we don't like it, he can just pick it up and go
home!
I'm just glad my grandaughters aren't out here watching this, as the
sometimes are.
Good display of vocabulary Clifford! Do ou know any more nice words?

Message: 54491
Author: $ Michael James
Category: Chit Chat
Subject: debate
Date: 10/06/88  Time: 10:29:22

I'd rather spend the next four years worrying about Bush's health than
hoping Dukakis dies.

Message: 54492
Author: $ Apollo SYSOP
Category: Answer!
Subject: Paul on Ann on Cliff
Date: 10/06/88  Time: 10:44:55

        Paul, You know you have double standards... When Zak called me an
ASSHOLE on this BBS last week, you commended him for great wisdom...
You can find them words in the PHOENIX Repulsive as well.. They are not on
my list of 8 No-No words.  I do not condone there use either....
        Lighten up Paul, or your face will crack!

*=* SYSOP Cliff *=*
P.S. Oh, Zak called me an "ARROGANT ASS"   My mistake!  Still no big deal.

Message: 54493
Author: $ James Hawley
Category: Answer!
Subject: Last
Date: 10/06/88  Time: 11:30:50

No, a bitch is a female dog.

Message: 54494
Author: $ Gary Jones
Category: Chit Chat
Subject: Apro Poet
Date: 10/06/88  Time: 13:46:50

My only reason for commenting about your sources was that since most
of us poor miguided Americans have so little access to the real, un-censored
news, I was hoping that you could find it in your heart to enter some of the
uncensored news from the same, obviously unbiased, source which was slanted
to the right instead of the left.

I only know what I read, and since I have only the obviously censored
American media to draw upon, I am dependent on your enlightened and unbiased
posts to tell me what the rest of the world is saying.

Message: 54495
Author: $ James Taranto
Category: Chit Chat
Subject: Cliff
Date: 10/06/88  Time: 17:47:18

What are the "8 no-no words"?

Message: 54496
Author: $ James Taranto
Category: Chit Chat
Subject: Head
Date: 10/06/88  Time: 17:47:30

I like that.

Message: 54497
Author: $ James Taranto
Category: Chit Chat
Subject: The debate
Date: 10/06/88  Time: 17:48:46

I'm still worried about those 65 MILLION children living in poverty.

Message: 54498
Author: Apro Poet
Category: Politics
Subject: Project Censored
Date: 10/06/88  Time: 18:14:42

Decline in genetic diversity spells disaster

  Diversity in the gene pool is shrinking at an alarming
rate and could lead to what the science editor of the
*Christian Science Monitor* calls "a mass extinction of
Earth's plant and animal species."  Species extinction of
both plants and animals has accelerated rapidly in the 20th
century and now has reached a state of crisis.  From 1600 to
1900, one species disappeared every four years; but now
perhaps 1,000 species become extinct each year.  The June
1987 Worldwatch Institute pamphlet on conserving the diversity
of life predicts that the extinction rate in 20 years will
reach more than 100 species per day.
  The loss of life-forms is more than an aesthetic issue.
The rapid extinction of food crop germplasm represents a
disaster in the making.  Unless the trend is slowed, we 
could see famine on a global scale.  The International
Board for Plant Genetic Resources warns that the genetic
diversity of many of the world's staple food crops such as
wheat, rice, barley, millet, and sorghum are imperiled.
Seventy-two percent of the U.S. potato crop is concentrated
in four genetic strains.  Six varieties account for 71 
percent of the corn crop.  Of the catalogued vegetables
grown in The U.S. from 1901 to 1902, less than 4 percent
still existed in 1985.
  Genetic diversity is a prerequisite for agricultural
success.  Genetic uniformity makes crops vulnerable to
environmental threats such as pests, blight, and drought.
The 19th century Irish potato famine was the result of 
genetic uniformity, as was the 1953 and 1954 loss of 75
percent of the U.S. durum wheat crop and of half the 1970
corn crop.
  The reduction of diversity has lead to what some 
researchers call the global "seed wars."  As plant species
disappear around he world, access to and control over the
preservation of plant genetic resources becomes a matter of
international concern and conflict.  Most of the world's
genetic resources are concentrated in the Third World.  To
prevent crop strains from becoming too inbred, industrial
nations resort to "germplasm appropriation" - collecting
plant genetic material from Third World countries.  The fact
that those countries are not compensated for this 
"collection" further exacerbates tensions between industrial
and developing nations.
  The Plant Variety Protection Act of 1970, which allowed
corporations to patent seed varieties, has accelerated the
extinction rate of food crop germplasm.  Germplasm 
appropriated from the Third World is sold back to developing
countries in the form of hybridized, patented seed.  Farmers
in the world's centers of diversity are planting genetically
uniform crops more and more frequently, thus causing further
loss of indigenous seed.  The United Nations Food and
Agriculture Organization estimates that two-thirds of all
Third World crops will be from uniform strains by the year
2000.

Sources: *Utne Reader*, Jan./Feb. 1988, "Conserving the
Diversity of Life," by Jeremiah Creedon; *Mother Jones*,
December 1987, "Seeds of Disaster," by Mark Schapiro.

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Message: 341
Author: $ Ann Oudin
Category: Christian Rod!
Subject: Cliff/last
Date: 10/06/88  Time: 06:43:58

I love it when your drunk! But it's someone else's turn to contribute. I
don't want to hog it all. What have you done with Sandy? Tied her to the
bedpost again??? Hahahahahha.

Message: 342
Author: $ Ann Oudin
Category: Annie the ASSp
Subject: Daryl the dick (big)
Date: 10/06/88  Time: 06:48:50

From that last post of yours, I get the opinion you have completely went off
your rocker or perhaps you got drunk with Cliffy eh? I will personally
escort you to the mental hospital on Van Buren and commit you. Also, while
I'm there, I can pick up a few extra bucks. Been away from the profession
for a while now and miss it. Ta, ta. =*--ANN--*=

Message: 343
Author: $ Ralph Blehm
Category: Annie the ASSp
Subject: Van Buren
Date: 10/06/88  Time: 07:37:31

Gee Annie when we were down that way it cost you money, why do you think a
few blocks woud make a difference?
                       The Old Fart Ralph

Message: 344
Author: $ Apollo SYSOP
Category: Mighty SYSOPs
Subject: Drunk?
Date: 10/06/88  Time: 10:56:15

        SYSOP's do not get DRUNK!!!!  Just a little Zonked!

Get that straight...or do you wish to visit the Zone again?

Message: 345
Author: $ James Hawley
Category: Daryl DickHead
Subject: Last
Date: 10/06/88  Time: 11:32:00

Hey, I hear Cliff got drunk.

Message: 346
Author: $ Sandy SYSOP
Category: Tawdry Tales
Subject: Story/finally
Date: 10/06/88  Time: 21:36:47

        Time ticked by slowly as the remaining Apolloites were deciding when
to hold the EMERGENCY meeting. Where was obvious, but the when kept eluding
everyone still alive; a long standing tradition among the Apollo BBS $tatus
Users.
        The news of Digger sped things up a bit though. Now assembled in the
safe and secure abode of the Mighty SySops the remaining Apolloites, with
the exception of Ann, she disappeared again, started discussing WHO the
twisted mind was behind all these brutal slayings.
        Sandy, the quick witted of the SySops, offers everyone present a
Rum and Coke knowing that calm minds think better. Zak, of course, takes
two. Rod asks for a straw. Dean and Alan shyly take one placing the drink
between their legs in hopes the others present will not notice. Daryl takes
three not wanting to be out done by Zak. 
        With nerves calmed the meeting begins. But before Sandy could
announce who she thought the mentally disturbed maniac was a loud bang was
heard outside rattling the gate. No sooner than the sound ceased a figure
could be seen smashing its way through the iron gates. All present stood up
in horror. Were they all to perish? Is this the end of the Apolloites?
Where is there Savior? Who can save them from this hour of death? Will the
members present be able to make a decision soon enough to save themselves?
        As the SySop's solid oak door was torn into splinters .........
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 1:        Petrisko dropped over last evening and gave me a copy of the letters
 2:between you and the congressman.  Bravo!  I am happy there is such a person 
 3:as you on this planet.  I really mean that even though being here could be 
 4:viewed as a sentence of sorts.
 5:        I think I will write a letter to Mr. Kyl.
 6:        Keep up the good work and perhaps you will get to go to heaven.
 7:                                Love
 8:                                Rod
 9:P.S.  Say hi to Zakko.  I think he may have learned what power his pen has 
10:from his summation of some of the BBS writers.  Ouch!