Apollo BBS Archive - October 1989

Apollo BBS Archive - October 1, 1989


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Message: 61324
Author: Jeff Beck
Category: Chit Chat
Subject: provocative
Date: 09/30/89  Time: 17:23:34

I was told Apollo had some lively discussions, and I must say, I wasn't
dissapointed.

Message: 61325
Author: $ Beauregard Dog
Category: Religion
Subject: Going to hell
Date: 09/30/89  Time: 17:37:03

So, what does John 3:16 mean to *you* ???

Message: 61326
Author: $ Jim Lippard
Category: Chit Chat
Subject: baptism
Date: 09/30/89  Time: 21:36:00

Any Catholic.

Message: 61327
Author: $ Jim Lippard
Category: Chit Chat
Subject: SubG net clench
Date: 09/30/89  Time: 21:47:51

Date: Wed, 27 Sep 89 12:29:14 edt
From: Eric Haines 
Message-Id: <8909271629.AA00325@spruce>
Subject: new view from the ledge
 
The latest "View From The Ledge" is out, with lots of weird 
news.  You get a free subscription if you send strange story
clippings to Chuck Shepherd, c/o Deadfromtheneckup, Inc, PO
Box 57141, Washington, DC  20037.  Also, by mid-November at 
the latest, Plume Books (an imprint of NAL Penguin) will release
_News of the Weird_, a "quality paperback" collection of
over500 of the strangest news stories of the last fifteen years
 
Some bits from the latest "View From The Ledge" (#29):
 
- Newlywed Darrell W. Lewis, 67, got a court order in North
Kingston, R.I., to keep wife Diane, 24, away from their home
after she threatened him when he found her kissing a
photograph of Johnny Mathis.
 
- Robert Cerney and Debbie Burmeister had to be rescued from
their folded-up sofa bed in Winona, Minn., after trying a "stupid
human trick" they were sure would get them an invitation to
appear on "Late Night with David Letterman."

Message: 61328
Author: $ Jim Lippard
Category: Chit Chat
Subject: from SubG network
Date: 09/30/89  Time: 21:50:22

- In Stockholm, a 92-year-old man, claiming his doctor had
made him blind, set out to murder him but mistakenly shot and
killed the wrong man in a medical center.
 
- Jim C. Brady, well-known creationist in Pensacola, Fla., pleaded
guilty to driving through a residential neighborhood and tossing
nude photos of himself out the window to children.
 
- Richard Rubin, 29, won $10,000 from K-Mart as a result of a
1987 incident in a Boynton Beach, Fla., store.  Rubin accidentally
shot himself with a gun the clerk was showing him, but he had
difficulty proving damages for being out of work since he had
not filed income-tax returns for the last 7 years.  Rubin
intended the gun as a "first-grade graduation present" for his
son, 8.
 
- A Greenville, S.C., jury gave Evelyn Kuykendall, 67, $300,000
for injuries suffered when faith healers Charles and Frances
Hunter failed to catch her when she fell backward after having
the spinal-injury demons exorcised from her body; the fall
broke her back.
 
All for now,
Eric Haines

Message: 61329
Author: $ James Taranto
Category: Chit Chat
Subject: Eric haines
Date: 09/30/89  Time: 22:17:33

Goody, a Weekly World News subscriber.

Message: 61330
Author: $ Paul Savage
Category: Politics
Subject: Cliff's list
Date: 10/01/89  Time: 06:03:48

Amen. The only problem I have with it is that , sadly, we in District 3 have
no choice. Paul Johnson has lied to me and to other people he is supposed to
be serving, is a big proponent of such money wasters as the amphitheater,
the Suns arena, the downtown stadium, patriot's park, etc., and we have no
choice because nobody is running against him. I will not vote for him simply
because it is my habit not to vote for unopposed candidates.
 The mayoral race is something else. We have a choice between Terrible
Terry, a Mecham troglodyte and a real estate peddler who doesn't have a clue
as to what's going on around him. Some choice! How about a space on the
ballot for "none of the above"?
 Anyway, NO! on 1, a bigger NO!!! on the prop that doubles the concil's and
mayor's salaries, NO! on 106 and YES!!! on 200.
 No also on the props dealing with historic places, etc. Such a thing, if it
is to be done, should be done with private money, just as sports arenas,
etc. should be built with private funds. If big money is not willing to
invest in such things, there can be only one reason. They're losers, which
means the initial investment is only he beginning folks. We will be
subsidizing these monsters for years to come! Watch your money! The council
isn't!

Message: 61331
Author: $ Ann Oudin
Category: Chit Chat
Subject: Bob/the Bible
Date: 10/01/89  Time: 07:13:14

Gads, your gonna force me to open it. -=*) ANN (*=-

Message: 61332
Author: $ Ann Oudin
Category: Chit Chat
Subject: Cliff/voting
Date: 10/01/89  Time: 07:17:45

Do not vote for Skip Rimsza. My husband has been doing business with that
realty for two years - according to him, since Skip has decided to run, he's
gotten impossible - gotten on an ego trip and his business has gone to hell.
In other words, he has turned into a typical politician - not for the
people, but for himself - his grandizement, glory, laud and honor!
                        -=*) ANN (*=-

Message: 61333
Author: $ Apollo SYSOP
Category: Politics
Subject: Paul on Paul Johnson
Date: 10/01/89  Time: 08:35:47

        Sorry to hear that Paul...  He was rated an 'A' by the 2nd Amendment
people.   I also thought that those who spoke at the rally were all against
the "Base Ball arena"....  They sure cheered when it was mentioned as a
thing to Vote...DOWN! (mentioned by Joe Abodeely of KFYI in his speech).
        Since he is running Un-Opposed.... I would skip him too!

        You are really down on anyone who knows Mecham???  Mecham's ideas
about NOT spending and NOT buying unless the money was already there...
were not bad ideas...  It was his big mouth that got him in trouble... And
of course, some of it taken out of context by the News Paper that I no
longer get in protest (and they damn well know it too!)  News media should
print the news...not make it or write it in such a way as to sway the
public.... because what you believe to be Mecham...is not really correct.

        To each his own... ha ha ha.  I am going to vote for Burt Kruglick,
just because I can't stand TERRY TOON GODDARD anylonger.... and his CrAzY
spending fling!  Not that I think Burt is all that great...  But to NOT Vote
will surly let Terry in again.... Almost like a YES vote for him...  (sic)
I wish they we had someone better though.....  sigh!

VOTE YES on 200... Pretty safe with a NO on everything else...
Can anyone say anything about 104 and 105?

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

Message: 61334
Author: $ Apollo SYSOP
Category: Politics
Subject: Ann on Skip
Date: 10/01/89  Time: 08:42:45

        Well Ann... the others running in district 1 are not that great on
the 2nd amendment..other than Peter Barnett who also is rated an 'A'.
There is Frances Barwood who is rated a 'B'.... but stay clear of the
others.... They want your GUN and your pool fenced and your yard inspected
yearly by the state.  And...believe it or not, they think you should not be
allowed to even DEFEND yourself lawfully!
        Sorry Ann...but Skip was rated the top spot in that district!?

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

Message: 61335
Author: $ James Taranto
Category: Chit Chat
Subject: Barney Frank
Date: 10/01/89  Time: 09:12:56

It seems Barney Frank is holding a news conference on Capitol Hill.  As he's
answering a question, he sees a gorgeous woman walking by -- blonde,
mini-skirted, a perfect figure, an unblemished face.  Barney is mesmerized. 
He gazes at her until she's out of sight, then mumbles, "Boy, you know, it's
times like this when I wish I were a lesbian."

Message: 61336
Author: Jeff Beck
Category: Chit Chat
Subject: Paul Johnson
Date: 10/01/89  Time: 11:16:58

I once picked up a hitchhiker who claimed to be Paul Johnson's son.  It
seems that the pair of them had a falling out, and now the junior Johnson
roams the streets of Phoenix inebriated and wearing blue pants several sizes
too large.  
Oh, he also mentioned that he was an architect trained by Frank Lloyd
Wright, who can't find work in either L.A. or New York because his designs
are too avant-garde.

Message: 61337
Author: $ Beauregard Dog
Category: Chit Chat
Subject: The ote
Date: 10/01/89  Time: 11:46:19

It looks like it is a dead heat.

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Message: 61338
Author: $ Rod Williams
Category: Chit Chat
Subject: Nostalgia/JT
Date: 10/01/89  Time: 11:51:05

Here is a JT message from those thrilling days of yesteryear. 

Message: 22097
Author: JAMES TARANTO
Category: Chit Chat
Subject: GUNS AND FREEDOM
Date: 10/30/84  Time: 01:10:10

It was terrible.  People were at the mercy of their
governments until someone invented guns.

Message: 22098
Author: JAMES TARANTO
Category: In search of
Subject: BOB THORNBURG
Date: 10/30/84  Time: 01:14:14

Alan, where are you?

.......well, JT, now you know where you were on that date.  Just thought
that you would enjoy something from the past.  -Rod

Only Arizona residents need ote this one:
        
Recently the State of Arizona got its own "King Holiday"....  What best
fits your thoughts on this:

[A]  We needed it, and I am for it!
[B]  We did not need this holiday.
[C]  We could have picked a better person to honor than M.L.K.
[D]  We needed it, but I don't like the way it was implemented (Greed)

[E]  I am not going to [V]ote this question!  (sulk)

How do you vote [A-E] or [CR] to abort:$

Poll results to date:
[A] 6    [B] 3    [C] 5    [D] 2    [E] 4

Message: 61339
Author: $ Rod Williams
Category: Chit Chat
Subject: Vote
Date: 10/01/89  Time: 11:54:02

I voted (E) because the truth of the matter is that it doesn't matter one
bit to me whether there is a MLK day or not.  If there was a choice which
said:  I don't care one way or the other, I would have voted it that way.


Message: 61341
Author: $ James Taranto
Category: Chit Chat
Subject: Rod
Date: 10/01/89  Time: 16:57:54

Well, some of us have changed in the last five years...

Message: 61342
Author: $ Bob Thornburg
Category: Chit Chat
Subject: JL
Date: 10/01/89  Time: 19:31:23

Re:  "I am saying that there is no inconsistency between God creating
people who have free wills and God only creating people who are morally
perfect (i.e., never choose to do evil acts)."

I don't believe that!

Message: 61343
Author: $ Bob Thornburg
Category: Chit Chat
Subject: Rod
Date: 10/01/89  Time: 19:35:51

Re:  "to his most recent, I'd say that his demeanor has been great.  I'd
like to nominate him to the Christians of Apollo, Hall of Fame."

Oh shucks Rod!  You made my day.

Message: 61344
Author: $ Bob Thornburg
Category: Chit Chat
Subject: Dog
Date: 10/01/89  Time: 19:40:24

Re:  "So, what does John 3:16 mean to *you* ???"

John 3:16  "For God so loved the world that he gave his one and only Son,
that whoever believes in him shall not perish but have eternal life."

Hmmmmm.  I don't see anything about unbaptized babies going to hell.  Which
part don't you understand?

Message: 61345
Author: $ Bob Thornburg
Category: Chit Chat
Subject: JL
Date: 10/01/89  Time: 19:43:04

Re:  "Any Catholic."

Catholics believe lots of things that are not in the Bible.  Like praying to
dead people, purgatory, letters of indulgence, etc.

I think they might have thrown out the "letters of indulgence" because of
all the flack they caused.

Message: 61346
Author: $ Bob Thornburg
Category: Chit Chat
Subject: Ann
Date: 10/01/89  Time: 19:46:49

Re:  "Gads, your gonna force me to open it."

Good show Ann!  Good show!  Or, "Good shoe!" as Ed Sullivan would say.

Message: 61347
Author: $ Rod Williams
Category: Chit Chat
Subject: Bob/Bible
Date: 10/01/89  Time: 22:06:22

The Bible that you use came from the Catholics of ages past.