1 If you are in need of help, you need but ask.... 2 ************************* INSTALLED: 3 FEB 87 ************************ 3 Welcome to BWMS (BackWater Message System) Mike Day System operator 4 ************************************************************ 5 GENERAL DISCLAIMER: BWMS IS NOT RESPONSIBLE FOR ANY INFORMATION 6 PLACED ON THIS SYSTEM. 7 BWMS was created as an electronic bill board. BWMS is a privately owned 8 and operated system which is currently open for use by the general public. 9 no restrictions are placed on the use of the system. As the system is 10 privately owned, I retain the right to remove any and all messages which 11 I may find offensive. Because of the limited size of the system, it will be 12 periodically purged of messages. (only 629 lines of data can be saved) 13 to leave a message, type 'ENTER' and use ctrl/C or break to get out of the 14 ENTER mode. The message is automatically stored. If after entering the 15 message you find you made a mistake, use the replace command to replace 16 the line. To exit from the system, type 'OFF' then hang up. 17 type 'HELP' to see other commands that are available on the system. 18 *********************************************************** 19 20 Male cadavers are incapable of yielding any testimony. 21 *************** 22 Does anyone have a Commodore 1541 disk drive for sale for $125.00 or 23 less? Call me at 774-xxxx after 5:00 pm during the week. 24 25 David Moore 26 27 off 28 exit 29 I am contacting Backwater for the first time . Yesterday the message conce 30 rn the reagnomics What will happen in 1987 and 1988 31 male cadavers may yeild no testimony, but the autopsy is a critical stage 32 of the criminal proceeding. 33 stop 34 del FAT 35 NOW FOR RADIO FREE SOUTH AMERICA 36 THANK YOU FOR YOUR TIME 37 38 ---- It was organized as a government office for the investigation of 39 crimes that trailed across the nation. The nation spread from ocean to ocean 40 at that point and was growing. National freeways were crossing the nation. The 41 cheap Ford automobiles had given crime an element of motion that trains or 42 horses rarely provided. Industry had arisen all over the world. So had 43 corporations. So had banks. Each one depended on great sums of capital. 44 Protecting this capital proved to be the weakest link in the industrial link. 45 Robbers and theives made off with enormous hauls. Loot funded developing 46 interests of organized crime in America. Thus was the Federal Bureau of 47 Investigation, FBI, founded. 48 49 Now the aim was just a bit off the old mark. 50 51 ---- Rodrigo rubbed his fingers together as if they were wet. It was too 52 hot for that. His saliva dried up in the seconds it took to rub them together. 53 No use in even trying. But he was bored. I was chewing on thin toothpicks so I 54 had no room to talk. Even the women in the streets were starting to frustrate 55 me with boredom. They would pass secure knowing I could not have them. I was 56 about to leave for home that afternoon when Rodrigo bumped my elbow. 57 58 His car radio was up too far for me to ask what. The breifcase 59 attracted my attention when a glint struck my eye. It was honed metal. No 60 idiot would be wearing a suit today, but here was the idiot who would. He was 61 not the brightest agent in the country, but he did his job. Everyone knew he 62 worked for the Columbians. One thing about the Costa Ricans is that each of 63 them is keenly aware they have no army. So when Brazil moved tank columns up 64 and took the Canal, they wisened up fast. The man in town who spoke Portugese 65 was fast spotted as a plant. I was sent down here just to watch over him. 66 67 ---- The Central Intelligence Agency had been crippled in a series of 68 scandals and deaths that would have been called a purge if it had taken place 69 in Europe or Asia. The New York Times had shown it's strength as the fourth 70 branch of government and sent the entire foreign service into resignation or 71 retirement. Weapons markets in Pakistan were the subject of an entire series. 72 The finances of former State Department drivers were audited. The contents of 73 many sealed diplomatic pouches were found to be the most secure means of 74 importing methadone and hash into the country. The New York Times won the 75 Pulitzer Prize four years in a row. Leaving the intelligence services of the 76 United States in a state of anarchistic competition to leave the least traces. 77 78 ---- The idiot with the case walked up to a food stand and asked for a 79 beer. The big, dirty man behind the counter snapped open the can and gave it 80 to him. Idiot put it to his lips while his neck never moved. He wasn't 81 drinking. He must have been waiting then. 82 83 "It is Mexican beer and he wastes it?" 84 "Let him stand there a while, he'll drink it." 85 86 He was wearing tight shirt. His dark skin showed where the wrinkles 87 touched his chest. His face needed shaving. His outfit needed less gold 88 chains. I needed anything interesting to happen. Four months of waiting for an 89 agent to pass a secret is enough to rile any guy. And it was rapidly 90 approaching five months for me. 91 92 Kids in the Philipines play with these yo-yos. They aren't like the 93 Duncan Yo-Yos we had when the Iranians had hostages. They have weighted balls 94 and are used almost like bolos. Gauchos use them too, or so said National 95 Geographic a few year back. Maybe twenty years back, since it is so hard to 96 tell one aging yellow mag from another. In any case, the cords are the part 97 that you should watch out for. Thinner wires then you would think hold the 98 balls and use centrifugal force to cut through anything. 99 100 I saw his nipples in his shirt. I saw his hair too. Guess I could even 101 smell the stench of his after shave. Whatever I was thinking in those last 102 minutes of my assignment was lost fast when the blood started to stain the 103 white shirt. He fell down fast and straggling kids ran down the street. I was 104 already out the side door when Rodrigo turned the car on and cruised around 105 the corner after them. His metal case was under him. He had fallen on it and 106 it probably saved the case for me. 107 108 ---- The bureau took over operations on the continent of North America, 109 then South America also, as soon as the Brazillians took Panama. The Times was 110 too busy investigating shifty government to notice the new junta or the 111 military it was fostering for the eventual invasion of Canada. So it was up to 112 the bureau to move into the north of the wars, and stall the intelligence 113 outflow long enough for the press to allow the CIA a free hand in Rio. I was a 114 part of this delay contingent. 115 116 We did a good job. 117 118 ---- I pushed him off it while grabbing my wallet. I showed the man behind 119 the counter my badge. Americans are liked in the pecking order of Free 120 American States. We are wealthier than any others but are also older. We 121 actually do believe in democracy and the right of the vote. Besides, most of 122 the stories the Times satellites around the world are reports of ingenious 123 plots devised by the upper echelon of the CIA and DIA. Americans have 124 prestige. So did my badge. I was left alone. 125 126 Opening the case wasn't easy. The tag was still tied to the handle 127 from when he bought it. He never figured out to take the tag off or set the 128 combination. In it were details of American port layouts in New Orleans. Cuban 129 naval markings were all over the papers. It amazed me to think of the military 130 damage that had just been averted. 131 132 Then it occured to me to ask why this guy had to die. The papers would 133 have helped the Brazillians months later, and they might even have gotten 134 above Corpus Christi if they had taken New Orleans. I would have gone to my 135 superiors about it but then I remembered the New York Times was just waiting 136 for a fifth Pulitzer Prize. I kept silent about it. Until now. None of us are 137 going to tell, are we? 138 139 ---- The efforts of the bureau and the agency in Latin America averted the 140 greatest thrust of the Brazillian war machine. The first infringement of 141 Venezeulan air space had been in October and the last battle within the 142 borders of the United States was in the following August. Austin was the 143 turning point of the war. The Free American States had taken Rio in a naval 144 invasion during the next few weeks. 145 146 It showed the capability of the shrewd American armed forces and 147 intelligence agencies, who then turned their attentions to the Warsaw Pact 148 with renewed vigor. 149 150 O\=<([V2V])>=/O 151 *%_)#@*%@_)#*%+)@#*%_)@*^%_)+!*^_)#*^)#!+_*^_)#*^_)#*^_)#(^_)#*^_)#*^_)*^_)#$(^_)#!*^ 152 Leonard: 10? This is getting out of hand. But in the event of a major crash 153 at Rock Creek, I know where I can go for a loan, right? 154 Milch: Good luck on your exams. Midterms are especially painful because of 155 their abruptness. They hit you. They are gone. But so much rests on their 156 outcome. They set the tone for the rest of the term. A tone of calm or panic, 157 it all depends on how you do and how just the professor, or the scantron reader, 158 can be. Bon chance! 159 All who care: Disks will be delivered Thursday night. Could we have a show of 160 hands for all those who will show up at P.C.S.? 161 Friar: I am sorry, but your existence is a little questionable right now :-). 162 %*#@_)*%#@)_*%)!_*%_)&!)#_%*!_)@ L'homme sans Parity *%_@#*%_)*%!_)%*_)!%*_)#!%*@_)*% 163 164 -______________________________________________________________________- 165 MOVIE QUOTE of the day: 166 "What do you mean 'Flash Gordon approaching?' 167 Open fire!" 168 _----------------------------------------------------------------------_ 169 L'homme: I'll be there. 170 As for the 10, well, as you know one is effectively dead (but when 171 I have the equipment to work on it, I'll learn a *lot*). Another 2 are the 172 (oops!) are going to become *one* at some point (they both have problems 173 but *different* ones, so I'll canibalize one to get the other going). 174 But even allowing for that, I'm well equipped. (lessee.. hi-speed heavy 175 duty 'draft' unit, hi-speed letter quality, 'plotter', color graphics, 176 a 'odd job' unit, and a couple spares). 177 Of course, I have problems you'll never have... like figuring out the 178 optimal interconnect method... 179 Hmmm... this is ridiculous... check this: 180 Computers: 7 181 Printers: 10 182 Modems: 3 183 Terminals: 2 184 misc support gear: (don't ask!) 185 186 Gee, if you have a crash, I'll just loan you the MC-10! :-) 187 ____02/04/87__________Leonard_JD 2446831.7002_________20:48:25_PST_________ 188 lurk... lurk... lurk... 189 Whoa! Heckle-be-hide. Huppa duke. But oblivion lurks. 190 And then came the ubiquitious rarities oblivious to the screaming team. 191 O\=<([V2V])>=/O 192 [][][][][][][][][][][][][][][][][][][][][][][][][][][][][][] 193 I think, therefore I am. I think. Or at least I think that 194 I am. Maybe not. 195 [][][][][][][][][][][] Friar [][][][][][][][][][][][][][] 196 197 RADIO FREE NORTHERN EUROPE ASKS YOU FOR YOUR TIME 198 I was a flyboy. Our post was in the North Sea. Finnish shores were always 199 three minutes away. Knowing this kept us on edge, even asleep. We felt like 200 kids doing something wrong whenever we overflew the coastline and started 201 avoiding radar sweeps. 202 Movies would flash through my head. Lines on the displays would form 203 screens for scenes to be played out like in a movie house. Watching those 204 movies kept me relaxed while there were no real enemies. Moriarity was my 205 favorite. He would explain how he was going to scientifically kill Holmes by 206 tapping his veins when the speakers would cackle out warnings. Next I was 207 dodging fighters in the freezing cold of the European altitudes. 208 It was harsh once. Our flight suits were not designed for warmth. Mesh 209 nets were meant to keep us in. No white suited scientist ever gave any thought 210 to the piecing winds that tore through the craft at high speeds. They designed 211 those suits to keep us strapped in the nose of a dart flying faster than a 212 scream, not warm. 213 I had gotten used to the cold after the first months of the war. Our old 214 station was New Orleans, Louisiana. Back home everyone heard about our cruise 215 to the North Sea before we did. A guy in my cabin got a newsclip from the New 216 York Times that said more about our station than the Admiral of the carrier 217 ever did and we had been out there for two years when the ship got hit the 218 last time. 219 The flyboys were over Oslo to tenderize the place for Norwegian infantry 220 when a submarine was spotted off the carrier. It was in the face down before 221 we got back within a thousand klicks. Our fuel lasted long enough to get to 222 the new airstrips on Franz Josef islands. 223 Two of us were hit over Oslo, and three of us never made it out to the 224 coast. In movies, planes get hit with a bullet that happens to hit the engine. 225 Then a trail of smoke curls across the sky as the plane starts to descend. It 226 glides long enough to hit the water after the pilot gets out. I wish. If a 227 dart even gets knocked four feet of course the computers crash and the reverse 228 wing design cannot be kept up. The plane shatters in the air for trying to fly 229 like an arrow. I still think the dart is the best machine for the purpose we 230 had. We hit eighty migs for every flyboy shot down. 231 Well, myself and Rodgers were the only ones who made it back from the 232 Forrestal. Even we had nothing to be debreifed of when we got out of the 233 hangars. We flew off the ship and left it in the ocean and then flew over it 234 belly-up on the way back to Franz Josef. 235 I can still see the way he was smoking and kept saying no. Rodgers was 236 cool. He had this way of saying things with an accent from either Alabama or 237 California but you could never figure out which. Whenever anyone asked him 238 where he was from, he'd just say a lie. 239 He had Akuri fighting Tomlins for two days once over a bet they made. Each 240 one thought Rodgers was from either Phoenix or Mobile. Akuri was a storage 241 techinician and he faked his way into repair the central terminal on the 242 bridge. The Navy didn't even know where he was born. Akuri told Tomlins he was 243 from Phoenix and Tomlins knew not to trust him as far as he could throw him in 244 flight suits. Rodgers was the only one of them alive now and he just seemed to 245 know it. 246 Rodgers and I spent three hours in that room with a fat spic. We could 247 have been sleeping or eating but this idiot had the idea we where there for 248 every minute on the bridge. We had enough problems dealing with our loss of 249 station without figuring out how to get this spic off our backs. I kept saying 250 what the migs were doing on my back and told exactly how all the rest of the 251 flight died in the air but he never gave up. The spic thought I was in shock 252 but he never got better answers of Rodgers. We got out of there because the 253 spic wanted to go get more fat. 254 I was tired. Eating sounded miserable. So I just sat in the chair. It was 255 one of the ones we had in school with a desk put on the side and I had feet up 256 on this one too, only the theater of war had changed. The only other flyboy in 257 the room smashed a cigareete under his heel and left the room. He lit another 258 one in the doorway and said later. I told him to fuck off. 259 No one else in the flight was on my social calendar and he was going to 260 have to reschedule for when I wasn't busy getting wasted and sleeping. 261 It had a Red Star on it. It had a few labels on it but they were the 262 normal ones about misuse of army material. The Red Army had lost the Franz 263 Josef islands early in the war. They were the first things that had NATO 264 seized and the only thing they had managed to retain for the entire war. It 265 must have been left there before the seizure. Two year old war surplus from 266 before the war. This was going to be good. 267 I opened it and let the cartidge slip out. It was plain metal. Film 268 cartidges for my camera had felt like that. They were cheap wraps of tin with 269 points welded into place. Sturdy for a product of a nation under war from 270 every other nation on the planet. I tried to slip the cover down and look at 271 the disk. It refused to click down and I gave up. It would be better to go 272 have a look at what was on it with the`Agats we captured with the island. 273 I stood up with the decision to find the captured stores hangar. Every 274 island had one. They were usually the source and the end of the black markets 275 on every base. Soviet computers would never sell to Americans. I was about to 276 turn off the fluorescent tubes in the debreifing hangar when the loudspeakers 277 announced that the swing into Oslo had failed miserably. I shut off the lights 278 and left the last official function of the Forrestal flight behind. 279 Jason was blond. He had thin hair and it stood up whenever he took his cap 280 off. He also had the looks of a farm boy. He looked like an honest but awkward 281 kid from the Plains. So it was natural he sold heroin to footsloggers before 282 they landed on the beach. He sold me an Agat for three bucks and a gun for my 283 own preservation. Preservation was more expensive. I put the gun in my boot 284 and carried the Agat to the hangar my dart was in. 285 I took an extension power cord and plugged it in. It took a while to start 286 and I spent a large part of the time walking around the sides of my dart. It 287 had been pierced a few times. Cracks in the fiberglass were developing and 288 would have torn off chunks if Rodgers and I had flown for one of the other 289 islands. It was starting to scare me just as the Agat started real operation. 290 We all learned conversational Russian in the training school for officers. 291 It took another three weeks to learn elements of the written language and I 292 spent it. So the computer was alright, even if typing on it was hell. I put 293 the cartridge in the door and shut it in. I was expecting to find a load of 294 useless programs or a diary from a nurse. I had not predicted what was on it. 295 Not even close. 296 THIS HAS BEEN RADIO FREE NORTHERN EUROPE 297  298 :::::::::::::::::::::::::::::::::::::::::::::::::::::::::::::::::::::::::::::: 299 300 Friends, 301 It is with great paternal pride I announce the 302 conversion of a pseudonym to reality. Alexander Thomas Ramsey arrived at 303 eight pounds nine ounces, 06:38 2/6/87. Both mother and ex-pseudonyn 304 doing well. 305 306 :::::Alex::::::::::::::::::::::::::::::::::::::::::::::::::::::::::::::::::::: 307 308 309 O\=<([V2V])>=/O 310 Mike? The Star Trek disk was a joke, right? If not, we have a minor problem 311 The disk is properly formatted and has a boot sector, FAT(s) and a directory 312 Beyond that is *nothing*.... empty tracks.... ("on a clear disk you can seek 313 forver")... 314 ____02/06/87__________Leonard_JD 2446833.6770_________20:15:00_PST_________ 315 316 ttt Alex, congratulations on the birth of your son! One of these days I may 317 know how you feel now. Here's to Alex, both of you! ttt 318 319 Call The Alternative Factor BBS 320 321 24 Hours. Great FMessage Base. 322 323 285-xxxx 285-xxxx 285-xxxx 285-xxxx 324 /ex 325 326 327 328 WHO CARES? 329 IRV CARES, AND DAMN YOU IF YOU SAY DIFFERENT. 330 EVENING ONCE AGAIN FROM RADIO FREE ASIATIC RIM 331 was August and the fleet was in port. My car was black and the vinyl was 332 burning the backs of my calves. Wearing shorts before driving in the Triumph 333 was a poor idea. The dark blue towel under my legs was not in the right place 334 and was hot anyway. I should have bought a new top for the machine that spring 335 but it had never seemed the right time. Until I was roasting, it had never 336 actually been the right time. 337 A Japanese sailor was crossing the street in a hurry. He had a reputation 338 to live up to and the Rose Festival was over in only three days. His uniform 339 looked dumb but at least it held to the tradition of the Rose Festival. 340 Portland is a Pacific Rim port. It had started having a fair in the Summers 341 years ago, and the military fleets of every Western Power in the Pacific were 342 invited into the port to help the citizens celebrate nothing in particular. 343 Americans, Canadians, Japanese, and a solitary Chinese destroyer were in port. 344 It was more of a liberty port for those two weeks than any other port in the 345 hemisphere. So, there went the nip off to prove how much liberty he could 346 secure in his stay. 347 Three local kids took off after him, they were in a truck with huge 348 wheels. Guess they wanted a chance to win the war again or something, but the 349 nip had few chances of evading their red neck fun. A contest between a soldier 350 and three punks would have been interesting to watch but I had somewhere to go 351 and three minutes to get there in. 352 I was late out to the National Guard base. The air police were jotting 353 down my name as the Phantoms came down for a landing on the tarmac a quarter 354 mile distant. I was pulling up to the field when he got out of the jet and 355 pulled off his helmet. He might not have noticed that I had not gotten there 356 until then, cause I got the idea the landing had not been easy for him. He was 357 on the base partly to get treatment at the Providence medical center for an 358 eye disfunction, and partly to serve as the squadron leader for the aircraft 359 that flew watch over the ships as they came down the river to put anchor in 360 Portland. He was just shy of getting his ace when his carrier was sunk 361 underneath him and since then his flying had gone to Hell. At least that was 362 how he set it out in the letter he sent. 363 I was putting on my sunglasses and trying to look cool when he got within 364 speaking distance of me. He had to go record his flight and see to his plane 365 so it was only going to be a quick visit. We would see one another later at a 366 pub on the waterfront, but I wanted to see him as he got into town. He reached 367 out his hand to shake mine, or so I though. But he was actually passing a 368 cartridge to me. It was black, and had Russian markings on it. He must have 369 brought this with him from the war in Europe. What the Hell did he bring it to 370 me for, I still wonder. Unless it had something to do with the latest Intel 371 processors, my chance of finding out anything about it was just about nil. We 372 said goodbye for then and I took the black box with me out to an apartment on 373 the East Bank. 374 375 Everyone has a nemesis in their lives. Mine came from out at work. We had 376 entered the company at the same time, and then a race started to see who could 377 rise up quicker than the other. We didn't hate. We didn't even care about each 378 other much. But we knew that no matter what we did, the other would come out 379 smelling like a rose and smiling. It was cool. I had won the most recent match 380 by forming a consultant group of department heads from all over Intel, to 381 provide ideas for each head from all the others. It was doing wonders. This 382 scrutiny over a flight system for Boeing had given it a speed enhancement of 383 about the factor of three. He came out smelling like a rose for marketing it 384 at a price enhancement of around the factor of two, and he smiled. 385 Usual custom would be to have a beer and toast our race. This time, we had 386 the beer and steaks, over a wry conversation of the Russian cartridge. It was 387 a laser cart under a copy of an operating system that was obsolete four years 388 before the Russians managed to copy it. The programs for the thing had been in 389 the public domain for two. Aside from the program thing, the Russians had been 390 swift in making their copy, as such things go. The trouble would be in buying 391 a minicomputer with the right cart drive, and getting someone to do the mods 392 to it for us. We decided to go the corporate route. 393 Monday was when we did it. I suggested to each of the department heads 394 they compose a list of the machines around their departments. Intel has a 395 talent for designing a machine for an obscured purpose in the company and then 396 letting it collect dust for a decade before replacing it. Before noon, I had 397 the lists in my office, and by one, the right machine was waiting in the 398 repair center. Nemesis had the mods to the cartridge pack made by a company 399 technician to read just about accurately from the Russian cart. After we got 400 done with work we headed down to the repair center to see whether our scheme 401 had worked. No one else in the place was looking over our should and we went 402 to work. 403 Nemesis had taken Russian in high school. He carefully pronounced the 404 screen at every new blurb, and then translated it. Why he had to point to the 405 screen was of no pressing importance. Just that he did it annoyed me. It was 406 good to be there and everything, he was even witty, but I guess he had me at 407 an advantage and having his finger at the screen reminded me of it even when I 408 did not want to know. 409 We left that night nervous and just about unable to sleep. We had been 410 given a cart jam packed with schematics and designs for a new generation 411 Soviet aircraft, with no pilot to be strapped in, but a heuristic algorithm 412 for fighting at mach two. Imagining the havoc this could wreak in the war on 413 Europe was scary, imagining the havoc this could wreak on the Western powers 414 attacking the Russian was frightening, but the estimated production date of 415 three months ago was indescribable. 416 RADIO FREE ASIATIC RIM WISHES YOU AND YOURS PEACE FOR THIS NEW YEAR 417 418 '' 419 OFF 420 NEW 421 START 422 STOP 423 ^C^[^[^[ 424 All - 425 Does anyone know where ethics leaves off and obstinance takes over? 426 This has been bothering me ever since the end of the last disk, 427 and I can't see and end in sight. -- Confused in Corpus Christi 428 429 430 RADIO FREE ASIATIC RIM NOW STARTS ITS BROADCASTING DAY 431 We should have notified the Department of Defense as soon as we figured it 432 out. And yet the cart was the property of a pilot just out of the war, and we 433 agreed to take it up with him at the pub the next morning. After not being 434 able to sleep, I figured I should pretend to wake up after dawn. I called the 435 office and after postponing a pending trip to New York for a press 436 announcement, I rang up the National Guard base. We decided to meet at a 437 restaurant near the financial district. He and I had gone through our 438 adolescence in Portland and we knew how to get just about everywhere in thirty 439 minutes or less. 440 Nemesis was in marketing. He had to go to New York without me. He had 441 taken the cart with him, and a note I found waiting for on the dominant 442 computer at work said he was going to ask a friend at the Strategic Studies 443 rtment at Amherst if the Soviets could produce a dart to those 444 specifications within the time limit they had described. It was a fine plan. 445 If he had not lost the cart in a mugging that night, we might still have it to 446 this day. As it was, we only had the copies on the machine at work. 447 He wore his pilot glasses into the place and sat down. He had been gone a 448 long time, it was good to see him. Ordinarily we might have shaken hands or 449 even embraced, but the cartridge had changed everything. He told me he had 450 found it tucked in a desk at an occupied Soviet military installation and that 451 it must have been there for three years or more. He also said he though an 452 agent had left it there in the evacuation hoping it would get to the right 453 staffers at the base. It had not. It was tucked to far away and no one had 454 found it. 455 We were talking over the capabilities of this new dart and whether NATO 456 forces could defeat them over time when in New York, two men with dingy rags 457 for outfits and perfect manicures stole the Russian cartridge under the neon 458 of a Japanese corporate marquis. 459 We had the plans and took them to the Department of Defense, but agents of 460 Japanese industrial espionage in the States also had these plans. I was not 461 sure what that meant to the world scene, but the Chinese were applying 462 pressure to the State Department about American joint intelligence ventures 463 with the Japanese in Chinese Hong Kong and it was plain that stopping these 464 plans from getting into nip hands was the thing to do. 465 RADIO FREE ASIATIC RIM ASKS YOU TO RALLY TO THE SOVIET WAR AND LIBERTY 466 467 At least there is no dicotomy in the last statement. SOVIET WAR, and soviet LIBERTY are 468 one and the same ```````````````Mr. Interceptor```````````````````` 469 ++++++++++++++++ In lurk mode: a mage named Milchar +++++++ 7 Feb 887 ++++++++ 470 post script; make that 1987. *Sigh* +++ Milch +++ 471 O\=<([V2V])>=/O 472 I've seen these happy faces :-) ;-) or was it -:) -;) all over 473 the place. What are they supposed to look like? Are they happy faces. 474 er, mouths or what? How many different ones are there and what do they 475 mean?? 476 [BRACKETS] 477 [ ] [ ] [ ] [ ] [ ] [ ] 478 orf orf, bingle bingle ban doe ver bokentoft. Reconentense da verhoeffen bre 479 spreck. Gordenkompft. 480 ============================================================================== 481 [][][][][][][][][][][][][][][][][][][][][][][][][][][][][] 482 Is all of this connected with brazil ? 483 [][][][][][][][][][] Friar [][][][][][][][][][][][] 484 ____02/08/87__________________JD 2446835.5140_________16:20:11_PST_________ 485 Here are some accessable online services 486 BITBUCKET-254-xxxx 487 488 THE BULLITEN BOARD-659-xxxx 489 490 APPLEPHILIA-244-xxxx 491 492 -------------------------------------------------------------------------------- 493 I would like to know as many local (Portland) online services as possible if 494 you know of any please post them. 495 496 --------------------------------------------------------------------------------enter 497 de14 498  499 HH 500 501 502  503 504  505 .-.-.-.-.-.-.-.-.-.-.-.-.-.-.-.-.-.-.-.-.-.-.-.-.-.-.-.-.-.-.-.-.-.Emu 506 (*)(*)(*)(*)(*)(*)(*) 507 508 (&)(&)(&)(&)(&)(&)(&)(&)(&)(&)(&)(&)(&)(&)(&)(&)(&)(&)(&)(&)(&)(&)(&)(&)(&) 509 Well, Friar, the way I read it, it goes something like this: 510 A Reed College kid stumbles onto a diary from the wife of a Nazi 511 diplomat, who convinced the Brazillians fifty years ago how cool it would 512 be to tussle with the U.S. The war never quite clicked until some vague 513 point in modern times. The New York Times had crippled U.S. intelligence 514 operations everywhere but the FBI was doing a fine job of killing Brazil's 515 spies and stalling the Brazillian wermacht. New Orleans fell under naval 516 attack but the U.S. won and with the cooperation of the Organization of 517 American States, took Rio soon. After the war, the U.S. was still feeling 518 mighty itchy and with NATO, launched a conventional assault on Eastern 519 Europe. The war went on for two years when a pilot at a captured Soviet 520 naval base found a Soviet disk of sorts. It was analyzed by friends of 521 the pilot and found to hold design notes on a new Soviet fighter. Japanese 522 spies lifted the plans in New York and the U.S. decided to get them back 523 to prove to the Chinese how much they hated the Japanese. So the hot 524 war in Eastern Europe is raging, and the cold war with Japan is going to 525 get a bit more frigid. And the story isn't over yet. 526 Isn't it weird? 527 (&)(&)(&)(&)(&)(&)(&)(&)(&)(&)(&)(&)(&)(&)(&)(&)(&)(&)(&)(&)(&)(&)(&)(&)(&) 528 529 P.C.S. (PORTLAND COMPUTER SOCIETY) - February Meeting 530 Thursday February 12, 1987 at 7:30 PM 531 Child Services Center (old Washington HS); 532 533 Speaker: Jay Becker, Physicians Medical Lab. 534 Topic: Data Processing Aspects of the Clinical Laboratory 535 UP 10 536 PRINT 537 WORD OF THE WISE FOR TODAY! 538 REAL PROGRAMMER'S DON'T DOCUMENT 539 IF IT WAS HARD TO WRITE IT SHOULD 540 BE HARD TO UNDERSTAND. 541 542 YOU CAN'T HAVE A BABY IN ONE MONTH 543 BY GETTING NINE WOMEN PREGNANT. 544 545 - ENJOY 546 (*)(*)(*)(*)(*)(*)(*)(*)(*) 547 ```````````````````````````````````````` 548 also, you can't have one baby by getting 549 a nine year old woman pregnant. 550 ``Mr. Interceptor``````````````````````` 551 disgusting!!!!!!!!!Q A man who confer 552 "Mr." on himself isn't. 553 :=( )=: 554 555 SLIME PIT MINDS RULE THE UNIVERSE 556 SLIME PITS RULE THE UNIVERSE, MIND? 557 MINDS RULE THE SLIME PIT UNIVERSE 558 559 SLIME PIT UNIVERSE RULES THE WORLD 560 *%%!%**_^*@)^()#@@*^_)*!%_)^*)#&_*^#_#%)#+^*_)*@%^+*(^*_^*#^_)%*(*@(^*_@_^$$_^*_)^@#^ 561 Slime Pits et all: The more things change the more things stay the same. We have 562 already programmed the complete permutations of the SLIME PIT phrase and posted them 563 to national computer systems. 564 Alex: Congratulations! I love the choice of a name. Did you have any problems 565 convincing other interested parties of the selection? Again, congratulations. 566 Leonard: With that much equipment you should be eligible for a slot on the 567 New York Stock Exchange. 568 Friar: Thinking is merely a restatement of the unreality of your situation. If you 569 think, you are merely furthering the cause of non-existence everywhere. 570 *&(%#$*%_@#%(*#%@^&#@_&#_%*@#^&@_@ L'homme sans Parity *%)#*#%_@@#&^)!&_^&_)^&@_*&^@^ 571 572 +++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++ 573 I always liked the sound that leather makes when it is worn. When a 574 friend had offered to let me wear his leather jacket for a few days, I said 575 yes and eagerly put it on. He said there was nothing in the pockets worth 576 anything, and I never even checked in them. That day I was bored enough that 577 it surprises me I had not even felt in them. Aside from the jacket there was 578 nothing else notable as far as dress. White leather sports shoes, white shirt, 579 charcoal suit pants worn every few days. About the only thing that strikes me 580 about what I looked like for that day, is the worried wrinkles of my forehead 581 and my clenched eyebrows. 582 It was at a night club that I met Kim, about a month previous. Our 583 eyes met across a crowded dance floor, like the romantic scenes of a thousand 584 poor movies from past decades. We danced together. I gave her the initiative 585 and she gave me a phone number. Since then we had met a few times, spending a 586 lot of time with one another at each chance. We went to distant schools. 587 Neither of us had time after school to even meet in one of the places in the 588 markets downtown. I had classes taken at night, she had children she was paid 589 to watch over. The best time we ever had was when we chased one another 590 through the aisles at an enormous book store. We kissed the first time in a 591 darkened nook that had been unaccounted for in the architects envisioning. It 592 was a perfect time. If I ever spent as nice a time with a girl, it has been 593 obscured in the dust rapidly raining down on my mind. 594 It was a sham, to tell the truth. My captaincy of the fencing team was 595 a clever ruse worked out by two confederates and myself. Our school was not in 596 the practice of giving students letterman jackets. We wanted some, and we 597 arranged with the staffers which swiss inserts we could get. I had planned to 598 be captain of the fencing team, a pitcher for the baseball team, and one of 599 the radio engineers. None of the roles was entirely false. It was the idea of 600 teams that we built up around the bare framework of a poor school without such 601 affairs. I fenced, played baseball, and did a radio show with a friend from 602 another school. Well, anyway, I had this plan to get a letterman sweater and 603 give it to her. Guess I read about it once in a short story, and I saw it on 604 television. I desperately wanted to give it to her though. It would be a real 605 proof of our adoration, and I use the word with sparing concern. We had no 606 idea where we fit into the arrangement of words used for teen love, or teen 607 lust, and you can understand. So my poorly deserved letterman sweater would be 608 a tether for me to her world, her school, her daily life. 609 She asked me if I wanted to go with her to the Queen of Hearts dance 610 at her school. I eagerly accepted and we made plans to meet, and then meet 611 eight of her friends for the night of the dance. Her closest friend had not 612 been able to ask the one she admire, so she was without a date the night. I 613 asked Kim if she was going to have trouble having a date around her friend. 614 She said no, and we talked about it. 615 The night of the dance came. I had the sweater and it was cleverly 616 tucked away in my bag, waiting for me to give it to her during the night. I 617 met her, and seven of her friends, and her date. 618 +++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++ 619 JERKS PRACTICE MAZISM AND LASHES 620 PRACTICE NAZISMS AND JERK LASHES 621 (L'HOMME, THE MORE THINGS CHANGE, THE MORE THEY STAY THE SAME....) 622 623 (*)(*)(*)(*)(*)(*)(*)(*) 624 ++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++Milchlurk 625 626 * NO LINES LEFT * TOTAL NUMBER OF LINES = 626