### Apollo BBS Archive - March 2 - 3, 1990

    Message: 63626
    Author: $ Steven Carls
    Category: Answer!
    Subject: Yellow Front
    Date: 03/02/90  Time: 01:17:52

    There were supposed to be 2 yellow fronts left open in Tucson.  I went to
    one of them yesterday and that one is closed.  The one in Benson is closed.
    The one in Benson was one of the biggest money making ones in S.E. AZ.  Well
    I guess I will have to go to Poplar Surpluss or K Mart for my clothes now,
    EH???
     " The ATARI WILDCAT "  Steven Carls

    Message: 63627
    Author: $ Zak Woodruff
    Category: Chit Chat
    Subject: People
    Date: 03/02/90  Time: 02:23:43

    Jeff Beck, refresh my Latin.

    Daryl, I think I've heard that joke about 16 times in the last year.  Can't
    you think of something funnier backwards?   How about the dyslexic
    restaurant patrons who spit at their waiter?  (A bit tricky.)  How about
    the dyslexic labor union whose motto was "Dyslexics Untie!"?  Let's move on
    to new jokes, HE???

    RE:  Yellow Front --  I don't care.  I don't know the difference between
    Fry's, Bashas and Safeway, and I couldn't care less about Yellow Front.

    Yellow WHO?

    Message: 63628
    Author: $ Paul Savage
    Category: Chit Chat
    Subject: James/Yellow Front
    Date: 03/02/90  Time: 05:33:17

     YF, Checker Auto, Hancock Fabrics, Sirloin Stockade and Gemco were at one
    time all subsidiaries of the Lucky Stores conglomerate. Lucky divested all
    of their companies several years ago, though, and those stores have either
    been on their own, bought by another parent corp. or gone under.
     The way the economy is going, it won't be long before virtually all of the
    major companies in the country are under a very small number of corporate
    umbrellas, and chances are that those will be foreign, either Oriental or
    Asian.

    Message: 63629
    Author: $ Paul Savage
    Category: Chit Chat
    Subject: Cliff/40% off
    Date: 03/02/90  Time: 05:34:36

     Might be some good deals if you're looking for sporting goods or Levis.

    Message: 63630
    Author: $ Ann Oudin
    Category: Chit Chat
    Subject: Cliff
    Date: 03/02/90  Time: 07:32:31

    I think with Yellow Front going down the tube is just a sign of the times.
    Some hardware stores went down too, like Omally's for example because of the
    compitiveness of Home Depot. -=*) ANN (*=-

    Message: 63631
    Author: $ Melissa Dee
    Category: Chit Chat
    Subject: Daryl/Zak
    Date: 03/02/90  Time: 08:17:54

    I must be out of it cuz I thought it was hilarious and hadn't heard it
    before.  But hey, after 55 log ons I could be fast approaching geekdom.
    "Help, help - I'm becoming a geek!"

    Message: 63632
    Author: $ Melissa Dee
    Category: Hard/Software
    Subject: Modem
    Date: 03/02/90  Time: 08:23:23

    Yeah, I noticed!  About 8 or 9 last night when I tried to get on.

    Message: 63633
    Author: $ Beauregard Dog
    Category: Hard/Software
    Subject: last/modem
    Date: 03/02/90  Time: 09:08:22

    Perhaps it was you who broke it???

    Message: 63634
    Author: $ Apollo SYSOP
    Category: Hard/Software
    Subject: Dog on modem
    Date: 03/02/90  Time: 10:09:05

            It was you users who broke it!   You guys are hard on everyone and
    when the modem saw your posts, it died of fright!

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

    Message: 63635
    Author: $ Melissa Dee
    Category: Hard/Software
    Subject: Modem
    Date: 03/02/90  Time: 12:44:47

    Don't you hate personafication of inanimate objects?

    Message: 63636
    Author: $ Apollo SYSOP
    Category: Hard/Software
    Subject: Last by Dee
    Date: 03/02/90  Time: 12:55:49

            Mr Slone's (the BBS) feelings are hurt!  Inanimate object, indeed!

    How would you like this inanimate object to toss you in the PHAntom Zone?
    (That's where Michy Moo Moo died)

                            Just kidding of course.....

    *=* Mr Slone *=*   sniff(tm) of Dean McCarron  Registered with Apollo 1982,
    1983,1984,1985,1986,1987,1988,1989,1990

    Message: 63637
    Author: $ Zak Woodruff
    Category: Chit Chat
    Subject: last
    Date: 03/02/90  Time: 13:17:56

    Wouldn't it just be easier to say 1982-1990?

    Sort of like saying "The plasma center is open on Monday, Tuesday,
    Wednesday, Thursday, and Friday.  And closed on Saturday, and Sunday."

    Message: 63638
    Author: $ Apollo SYSOP
    Category: Hard/Software
    Subject: Modem
    Date: 03/02/90  Time: 15:09:47

            Another new modem is on the way.  I should have it by next Tuesday.

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

    Message: 63640
    Author: $ Beauregard Dog
    Category: Chit Chat
    Subject: Zak on hours
    Date: 03/02/90  Time: 19:09:31

    The hours for the plasma center are described that way because their clients
    wouldn't understand any other description.

    Message: 63641
    Author: $ Daryl Westfall
    Category: Chit Chat
    Subject: Zak/Joke
    Date: 03/02/90  Time: 19:37:47

    Uh, excuse me. It was the first time that I'd heard it. I guess that it's
    oft-repeated in YOUR circles, huh? (grin)

    Message: 63642
    Author: Jeff Beck
    Category: Answer!
    Subject: Zak
    Date: 03/02/90  Time: 22:16:44

    OK, but it sort of ruins the joke.  A "lusus naturae" is a sport (or freak)
    of nature.  "Ignotum per ignotius" translates as "the unknown (explained) by
    the still more unknown."

    I'm your only friend
    I'm not your only friend
    but I'm a little glowing friend
    but really I'm not actually your friend
    but I am
    blue canary in the outlet by the light switch
    who watches over you
    make a little birdhouse in your soul.

    Message: 63643
    Author: Tom Hudson
    Category: Chit Chat
    Subject: posts
    Date: 03/02/90  Time: 22:26:52

    The posts by Sananat Birnbach WERE excellent reading, to be sure.

    Message: 63644
    Author: $ Dean Hathaway
    Category: Chit Chat
    Subject: Mark
    Date: 03/03/90  Time: 00:22:45

      I am aware that there are 26 letters in the alphabet. In the message I was
    referring to the word zoophyte was a noun, leaving 25 adjectives
    representing the remainder of the alphabet.
       See You Later
          Dean H.

    Message: 63645
    Author: $ Dean Hathaway
    Category: Politics
    Subject: Paul
    Date: 03/03/90  Time: 00:29:04

       There are plenty of reasons to worry about the economy, but some stores
    being driven out of business by better ones is not one of them. Neither is
    the fact that foreign investors would rather put their money into America
    than anywhere else. When this is no longer true it will be because
    investments in American businesses no longer pay a decent return. Then you
    will have more than ever to worry about.
       See You Later
          Dean H.

    Message: 63646
    Author: $ Melissa Dee
    Category: Question?
    Subject: JEFF BECK
    Date: 03/03/90  Time: 00:55:46

    Do you have the rest of the lyrics to that song?  I've been trying to figure
    them out for a couple of weeks now.

    Message: 63647
    Author: $ Zak Woodruff
    Category: Chit Chat
    Subject: They Might Be Giants
    Date: 03/03/90  Time: 02:49:00

         ...But then again, they might not be.

    JEFF BECK -- Now that I've ruined the joke by asking you to explain it, it's
    not funny.  Isn't that a crying shame?
         By the way, I finally found my copy of _The Oxford Companion to the
    Mind_.  It gives an excellent definition of psychology, if you remember our
    "Psychology is/is not a science" debate.

    DARLY, I MEAN DARYL -- My circles?  Honey, I don't have circles, because all
    my friends are squares.  HAW HAW.

    Did you hear the one about the dyslexic golfer?  When his friend told him he
    needed to make par, he started to rhyme words rhythmically and did a
    moonwalk.  HAW HAW.  Did I just make that up?  You know I did.

         Did you hear about the dyslexic churchgoer?  After services, they asked
    everyone to put bucks in the tray.  So he drove his GMC into the lake.  HAW
    HAW.

    I think it's time to go to sleep.

    Message: 63649
    Author: Jeff Beck
    Category: Answer!
    Subject: Dee/lyrics
    Date: 03/03/90  Time: 03:39:20

    I'm your only friend/I'm not your only friend/but I'm a little glowing
    friend/but really I'm not actually your friend/but I am/Blue canary in the
    outlet by the light switch/who watches over you/make a little birdhouse in
    your soul/Not to put too fine a point on it:/say I'm the only bee in your
    bonnet/make a little birdhouse in your soul//I have a secret to tell/from my
    electrical well/it's a simple message and I'm leaving out/the whistles and
    bells/so the room must listen to me/filibuster vigilantly/My name is blue
    canary one-note/spelled l-i-t-e/My story's infinite/like the Longines
    Symphonette/it doesn't rest/blue canary in the outlet by the light
    switch/who watches over you/make a little birdhouse in your soul/not to put
    too fine a point on it:/say I'm the only bee in your bonnet/make a little
    birdhouse in your soul//There's a picture opposite me/of my primitive
    ancestry/which stood on rocky shores and/kept the beaches shipwreck
    free/Though I respect that a lot/I'd be fired if that were my job/after
    killing Jason off and/countless screaming argonauts/Bluebird of
    friendliness/like a guardian angel it's/always near/blue canary in the
    (and while your at it) outlet by the light switch (leave the nite light on
    inside the birdhouse in your soul) who watches over you/make a little
    birdhouse in your soul/not to put too fine a point on it:/say I'm the only
    bee in your bonnet/make a little birdhouse in your soul...(etc.)

    Message: 63650
    Author: Jeff Beck
    Category: Answer!
    Subject: Zak
    Date: 03/03/90  Time: 03:55:45

    Not funny? Well, I suppose not, from your perspective: people in the eye of
    a hurricane often fail to see the storm.

    I'm not interested in what the Oxford Companion to the Mind (or whatever
    it's called) has to say, regardless of how pithy or artful the definition
    might be.  Let me again attempt to assert a fact in the face of your
    astounding pig-headedness:

    You cannot deduce thought or emotion from behavior.  Period.  You can't tell
    what (if anything) I am feeling when I smile, frown, ejaculate, or whatever.
    You make the assumption that if it looks like a duck, walks like a duck, and
    quacks like a duck, then it is a duck, especially since (metaphorically) you
    yourself are a duck, and who better to know a duck when he sees one?

    You might just be sitting pretty, Howard.

    Message: 63651
    Author: Jeff Beck
    Category: Answer!
    Subject: Dean McCarron
    Date: 03/03/90  Time: 04:03:55

    Gack!  Hoist by my own petard (or something to that effect).

    Be seeing you,

    Jeff B.

    P.S. The petard of medieval times wasn't a derrick, but a kind of crude hand
    grenade or mine which attackers would attach to castle walls or gates.  The
    word derives from the French "peter" (to break wind). Metal and bell shaped,
    it contained an explosive charge that was fired by a slow burning fuse, but
    it was often poorly constructed and went off prematurely, blowing up the man
    who lit it as well as the castle wall.  Such a man was said to be hoist by
    his own petard.

    Message: 63652
    Author: $ Paul Savage
    Category: Chit Chat
    Subject: YF stuff
    Date: 03/03/90  Time: 05:46:14

     If anyone is interested, I spoke with Bob Hirsch, the outdoors writer, at
    the sportsman's & RV show last night, and he feels that Yellow Front will go
    down completely, so he has recently contracted with Smitty's to carry his
    periodical publications and his little booklets on camping, camp cooking,
    etc. If there are any campers, fishermen or outdoors people around here, you
    ought to know that his works are very authoritative, especially when he
    writes about the Arizona outdoors.
     Just in case you would like to know.

    Message: 63653
    Author: $ Paul Savage
    Category: Hard/Software
    Subject: Melissa/63635
    Date: 03/03/90  Time: 05:47:52

     Don't you hate people who can't spell personification?

    Message: 63654
    Author: Hans Glans
    Category: Chit Chat
    Subject: Last
    Date: 03/03/90  Time: 08:28:31

    Don't you hate people that can't spell at all, even more?

    Message: 63655
    Author: $ Ann Oudin
    Category: Chit Chat
    Subject: Cliffy
    Date: 03/03/90  Time: 09:22:58

    Ah! It's SOOOOO nice to hear you threatening someone else with the Zone
    besides myself. (Melissa) Not that I want her in a horrible place like that,
    but ............! -=*) ANN (*=-

    Message: 63656
    Author: $ James Taranto
    Category: Chit Chat
    Subject: hi
    Date: 03/03/90  Time: 13:37:43

    hi
    hows it going

    Message: 63657
    Author: $ Zak Woodruff
    Category: Chit Chat
    Subject: last
    Date: 03/03/90  Time: 13:50:46

    hi
    pretty good
    bye

    Message: 63658
    Author: $ Apollo SYSOP
    Category: Chit Chat
    Subject: Sigs to go
    Date: 03/03/90  Time: 15:25:33

            The VOId and JT's sig looks like they are in line for deletion.
    And...the ART sig...
                    Any arguments?

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

    Message: 63659
    Author: Tom Hudson   *me
    Category: Answer!
    Subject: last
    Date: 03/03/90  Time: 21:59:49

    Not from me.

    Message: 63660
    Author: Jeff Beck
    Category: Tales & Tall Stories
    Subject: whatever
    Date: 03/03/90  Time: 23:45:09

    "More than 95% of a hotel's guests are there for some conference or
    convention.  The individual tourist, the single guest without a card in his
    lapel and briefcase stuffed with programs and memoranda, is as rare as a
    pearl in the desert.  Besides our own group in Costa Rica, there was the
    Plenary Council of Student Protest Veterans, the Convention of Publishers of
    Liberated Literature, and the Phillumenist Society (matchbook collectors).
    As a rule, members of an organization are given rooms on the same floor, but
    the Management, apparently wishing to honor me, offered me one on the
    hundredth.  It had its own palm tree grove, in which an all girl orchestra
    played Bach while performing a cleverly choreographed striptease.  I could
    have done quite well without all this, but unfortunately there were no other
    vacancies, so I was obliged to stay where they put me.  Scarcely had I taken
    a seat at the bar on my floor when a broad-shouldered individual with a
    jet-black beard (a beard that read like a menu of all the past week's meals)
    unslung his heavy, double-barreled gun, stuck the muzzle right beneath my
    nose and asked, with a coarse laugh, how I liked his papalshooter.  I had no
    idea what that was supposed to mean, but I knew better than to admit it.
    The safest thing in such situations is to remain silent.  And indeed, the
    next moment he confided in me that this high-powered repeater piece of his,
    equipped with a laser-finding telescopic sight, triple action trigger and
    self-loader, was custom made for killing popes.

    (CONT)

    Message: 63661
    Author: $ James Hawley
    Category: Answer!
    Subject: Last
    Date: 03/04/90  Time: 00:05:57

    There are no hundred floor hotels in Costa Rica.  The Holiday Inn Aurola has
    about thirty, but that's about it.

    Message: 63664
    Author: $ Ann Oudin
    Category: Answer!
    Subject: Cliff on sigs.
    Date: 03/04/90  Time: 08:46:41

    I wish you wouldn't get rid of the art sig. That kind of comes and goes with
    people drawing and poetry. I wish we'd start another story soon. Or even
    some keyboard drawings. The other two I'm not against getting rid of.
    Although JT did log on today. -=*) ANN (*=-

    Message: 63665
    Author: $ Zak Woodruff
    Category: Chit Chat
    Subject: Hans Glans
    Date: 03/04/90  Time: 12:56:09

    Cliff, how can you tell if two callers are using the same modem?  Other than
    by baud rate, that is.

    "Hairy Genitals" may be gross and offensive, but I fail to see why "Hans
    Glans" is borderline suggestive.  I guess I missed his joke.

    Message: 63666
    Author: $ Bob Thornburg
    Category: Chit Chat
    Subject: Annie
    Date: 03/04/90  Time: 14:29:45

    Re:  "Whats the matter with bears pray tell. Geeze!"

    As I recall, I had a Teddy Bear when I was a little tyke.  He was a very
    good bear.  I called him "Teddy".  He was as dead as a doornail.  But I used
    to talk to him anyway.

    Message: 63667
    Author: $ Bob Thornburg
    Category: Chit Chat
    Subject: Annie
    Date: 03/04/90  Time: 14:46:51

    Re:  "I wish we'd start another story soon."

    I remember starting a story once on a sub board, and I got thrown off for my
    efforts.  There's no justice!

    Message: 63668
    Author: $ Paul Savage
    Category: Chit Chat
    Subject: Bob/Teddy bears
    Date: 03/04/90  Time: 16:18:30

     "He was as dead as a doornail."
     Bob, Teddy bears are inanimate objects, therefore can be neither dead nor
    alive. To the mind of a child, however, they can be anything the child
    wants. Since they give comfort, as well as exercize the imagination of the
    child, there's nothing wrong with them, for sure.

    Message: 63669
    Author: Philip Brookover
    Category: Chit Chat
    Subject: CHIT CHAT
    Date: 03/04/90  Time: 22:23:53

    WE AS HUMANITY OVER TIME HAVE INHEIRITED THE LEGACY OF OUR PAST
    COLLECTIVELY. INDIVIDUALLY AND AS A MEMBER OF OUR INDIVIDUAL FAMILIES WE
    CERTAINLY BRING TO A DEGREE OUR PAST INTO OUR PRESENT....SOON TO INFLUENCE
    OUR FUTURE.WE AS CHRISTIANS OR ATHEISTS OR WHOEVER STILL CHOOSE TODAY.
    WHAT SHALL OUR CHOICES BE? SOME SAID "HE WHO FORGETS THE PAST IS DOOMED
    TO REPEAT IT."

    Message: 63670
    Author: $ Apollo SYSOP
    Category: Answer!
    Subject: Zak
    Date: 03/04/90  Time: 23:24:12

            Hans Glans will be acceptable....  However, that other name with the
    initials of H.G. will not be accepted.

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

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