### Apollo BBS Archive - December 23, 1991

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    Message: 80796
    Author: James Matlock
    Category: Question?
    Subject: New Times article
    Date: 12/24/91  Time: 02:59:49

    So, is anyone going to fill the rest of us in, or must we endure a series of
    cryptic allusions?

    Message: 80797
    Author: James Matlock
    Category: In search of
    Subject: Steve MacGregor
    Date: 12/24/91  Time: 03:02:30

    Just when you thought it was safe to go back into the water...TRANSFINITE
    ORDINALS!!!   They're back, and they're noncommutative!  Coming soon to a
    theatre near you.

    Message: 80798
    Author: $ Paul Savage
    Category: Chit Chat
    Subject: Christmas eve!
    Date: 12/24/91  Time: 06:03:08

     It's the night before Christmas, folks!
     Make sure that  your stockings are hung by the chimney with care, and don't
    forget to leave some cookies and milk out for Santa!
     While I'm at it, don't forget that, whether you believe it or not, JESUS is
     the reason for the season. May the joy and peace of GOd made man dwell with
    you all tonight, and throughout the coming year.
     Merry Christmas to all, and to all a good day!

    Message: 80799
    Author: $ Bill Burkett
    Category: On the Lighter Side
    Subject: Happy...
    Date: 12/24/91  Time: 08:17:29

    Christmas/Solstice, all!

    Message: 80800
    Author: $ Ann Oudin
    Category: Chit Chat
    Subject: Archi Medes
    Date: 12/24/91  Time: 09:04:03

    Re: your post #80776 ... thats true. One time we wanted to withdraw $10,000
    from the bank in cash and they acted like I was a crook and warned me
    several times what a dangerous thing it was for me to do. Then after they
    finally counted it out and gave it to me, they tell me they had to report it
    to the IRS and I ask why, and the lady told me because that's how the keep
    an eye on drug pushers et al. She claimed that if I had withdrawn only
    $9,999, she wouldn't have to report it. I think that's changed now to a
    lower figure. She also ask me several times what I intended to do with the
    money and I evaded the subject. She wanted me to put in writing what I was
    going to do with it - for the IRS - said it wasn't the law but it looked
    'good' - 'sincere'?? to the boys at the IRS. I refused and told her that we
    were taking the money to Vegas and blowing it! Several weeks later, we put
    the money back and I went through a simular hassel - only this time, they
    wanted to know where we got it. I flat told them it wasn't their business.
                               -=*) ANN (*=-

    Message: 80801
    Author: $ Ann Oudin
    Category: Chit Chat
    Subject: All
    Date: 12/24/91  Time: 09:10:09

    Have a Merry Christmas one and all. -=*) ANN (*=-

    Message: 80802
    Author: $ Archi Medes
    Category: Chit Chat
    Subject: TEFRA
    Date: 12/24/91  Time: 09:23:55

    Good for you!  You mentioned that experience before, and it is very common
    these days.  I also read, recently, that over the Christmas season the IRS
    was "keeping an eye on" retail outlets, looking for sales of big ticket
    items so they could investigate the source of the money used to buy those
    items.  Talk about an invasion of privacy!  It is criminal.  But then, that
    is to be expected; the IRS is by nature and by law a criminal organization.

    Message: 80803
    Author: Sandi Marlin
    Category: Chit Chat
    Subject: Merry Christmas...
    Date: 12/24/91  Time: 09:49:56

    Hey, Merry Christmas everyone!
    Just happened to be up in town for the holidays (given that 50% of my living
    relatives are around here somewhere) and to check out a job opportunity in
    Scottsdale(after graduation, of course).
    Well, I've survived my first semester at "the other place" and I have
    another year to go in that hellhole of a burg down there.
    Anyway, I hope everyone's year has been great and that 1992 will just be an
    improvement...

    Message: 80804
    Author: $ Green Lantern
    Category: Chit Chat
    Subject: Merry Christmas
    Date: 12/24/91  Time: 12:14:30

    to everyone and a Happy New Year.

    Message: 80805
    Author: $ Apollo SysOp
    Category: Chit Chat
    Subject: Christmas
    Date: 12/24/91  Time: 14:26:31

            Merry Christmas to ALL Apollo's good users... Everyone of you!

            (even to the low life heathens)  joke...joke...

    *=* the 'Mighty' Apollo SysOp *=*  <-clif- Full of Cheer!

    Message: 80806
    Author: $ Fred Smith
    Category: Chit Chat
    Subject: Ann/10 Grand
    Date: 12/24/91  Time: 16:38:25

    People have been prosecuted for taking out less then $10,000 at a time but
    that added up to $10,000 or more over a short period.  One guy was convicted
    of "Structuring" (that's the legal term) for doing that.  Even though he did
    absolutely nothing illegal to get the money, or with the money, or to the
    money, the mere fact that he *appeared* to be structuring resulted in his
    arrest.  And he was convicted.  How they could possibly convict him is
    beyond me but he was since, I suppose, he technically *had* structured even
    if that was not his intent.

    Message: 80807
    Author: $ Rod Williams
    Category: Chit Chat
    Subject: Paul
    Date: 12/24/91  Time: 18:03:54

    Sorry Paul, but your Jesus has nothing whatsoever to do with this season.
    The Sun is coming back, not the Son.  That date for the birth of your
    saviour was picked at random, nothing more.  Easter season is another day
    that was usurped by Jesus.  It is the season when the shoots are coming out
    of the ground, Spring Festival.  People, at least in my environment, no
    longer beat on a drum to entice the Sun to return.  We know better.

    The whole evolution of religion is, in my humble opinion, evil.

                                    Rod