### Apollo BBS Archive - June 9, 1991

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    Drugs... right or wrong?

    [A] I am for the legalization of marijuana
    [B] I am against legalization of marijuana
    [C] I am undecided

    Poll results to date:
    [A] 13   [B] 7    [C] 0

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    Message: 4808
    Author: $ Apro Poet
    Category: Shit-Chat!
    Subject: Underground History
    Date: 06/08/91  Time: 19:06:48

    Lincoln took a drink

    Told by Otho Pratt, Verona, Mo., July, 1951.  He heard it
    near Horse Creek, in Stone County, Mo., about 1914.

    One time there was an old man lived at the mouth of Horse
    Creek, and he used to tell a story about Abe Lincoln.  The
    old fellow claims he seen it in the Saint Louis
    *Post-Dispatch*, but that must be a lie because everybody
    knowed he didn't have no book-learning, so how could he read
    anything out of a newspaper?  And also they got a law
    against things like that, and a dirty story couldn't be
    printed in the paper anyhow.
      But the way old Horse Creek told it, Abe Lincoln went into
    a saloon.  "What will you have this morning?" says the
    bartender.  Abe Lincoln ordered up an eggpoop, and the man
    mixed it for him.  Just then a country fellow sidled up to
    the bar, and the bartender asked what he wanted.  "I'll take
    the same as Mister Lincoln," says the country boy.
      The saloon keeper stirred up something in a glass and set
    it on the bar.  The country fellow took a swig, and then he
    made a terrible bad face.  "Mister Lincoln," says he, "maybe
    that bartender just pooped in your drink.  But he sure as
    hell shit in mine!"  And with that the country boy walked

    Message: 4809
    Author: $ Apro Poet
    Category: Shit-Chat!
    Subject: Underground History
    Date: 06/08/91  Time: 19:17:26

    right out of the saloon.
      The old man that lived on Horse Creek says Abe Lincoln
    told the story himself, and that's why they put it in the
    Saint Louis *Post-Dispatch*.  But it don't seem likely the
    President would go around telling tales like that, while
    there is a big war going on.  So the folks figured that the
    old man just made it up out of his own head, and President
    Lincoln never even heard of such a thing.

      Abraham Lincoln's humble origins and his unaffected manner
    have made him the subject of an entire cycle of jokes and
    stories, many of them quite earthy.  Another example from
    the cycle may be found in Hall, *Anecdota*, I, No. 340, in
    which Lincoln is introduced to the Bates family, concluding
    with young Master Bates.  Turning to the father, Lincoln
    says, "Make him stop.  It's a bad habit."  *Anecdota*, II,
    No. 16, is a variant of Randolph's story about Lincoln.  A
    country boy trying to appear sophisticated steps up to a bar
    and asks for a "billiard."  The bartender winks to the other
    customers, goes to the back room, and urinates into a glass.
    The boy blows off the foam, drinks it down, and then remarks
    that if he hadn't been drinking billiards for years he'd
    have sworn that was piss.

    Message: 4810
    Author: $ Roger Mann
    Category: Cosmos-Chatter
    Subject: Good Feelings
    Date: 06/08/91  Time: 19:49:26

    I get a real rush playing the pipe organ. Today, I played for a wedding
    and played the "Echo Noel" by Daquin. There must be a tremendous release
    of endorphins because it is real high when you move your fingers and hands
    and the sound comes out from every direction and you hear it and you react
    and play even better.

    Message: 4811
    Author: $ Bill Burkett
    Category: Re-BuTTal
    Subject: Roger's High!
    Date: 06/09/91  Time: 08:57:37

    I believe playing the pipe organ should be outlawed.  You certainly didn't
    drive after the wedding, I hope.

    Message: 4812
    Author: $ Roger Mann
    Category: Cosmos-Chatter
    Subject: Bill's Concern
    Date: 06/09/91  Time: 10:28:35

    I admit I drove all the way home.

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    Subject:Pipe Organ

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     1:Playing music leads to smoking pot.
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    Message: 1638
    Author: $ Peter Petrisko
    Category: Chit-Chat
    Subject: LAST
    Date: 06/08/91  Time: 21:54:02

         Cliff "owns" this SIG.  Cliff "owns" all the SIGs.  So watch yourself.

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    Message: 1787
    Author: $ Paul Savage
    Category: Blowing Smoke
    Subject: Rod
    Date: 06/09/91  Time: 06:03:55

    "This second hand plant smoke crap is just that, crap that was started by
    some yellow journalist to take prissy people's minds from the real issues."
     Bullshit, Rod, and you know it!
     Ignorant, unfounded statements such as yours are the product of sick minds
    who consistently refuse to accept scientifically documented FACTS,
    preferring to fly in the face of truth for the sake of some warped
    ideological and illogical fallacies born out of burnt out minds and
    semi-destroyed psyches.
     Get off your "drugs are wonderful" soap box and shut the hell up!
    And before you jump on it, YES! that is a "Christian" attitude! I never said
    I was perfect!

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    Subject:Paul

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     1:You're cute but that doesn't make you right.
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    Message: 75640
    Author: Bryan Cash
    Category: Chit Chat
    Subject: HELLO?
    Date: 06/08/91  Time: 21:48:45

            Hello to anyone who will listen to me jabber.  I just got a modem to
    see what it can do.  I'm on some other BBS's but I still only know one
    really well because when I got stuck the Sysop broke in and helped
    tremundusly (spelling isn't one of my strong points.).  Iorn Horse is the
    name.  If you haven't tried it you might try it.  Great games and more
    importantly friendly people.  Somebody please write me and tell me what I'm
    supposed to be doing!  Maybe the Sysop can take me through a crash course
    next time I log on and he's paying attention.  Any help is greatly
    appreciated.

    Message: 75641
    Author: $ Daryl Westfall
    Category: Chit Chat
    Subject: Beau / 75631
    Date: 06/08/91  Time: 23:00:55

        It was MY message, and I can revise it if I want to. Plbrfst.

    Message: 75642
    Author: $ Apollo SysOp
    Category: Answer!
    Subject: Bryan on Help
    Date: 06/09/91  Time: 00:50:02

            You entered a post just fine....  Apollo is a simple BBS to use and
    all I can suggest, is play around, don't worry about making a mistake or
    two.  I hardly ever sit here and watch the monitor, after almost 9 years on
    line, it gets old.

            If you do have a question, just leave me mail in the [P]ost office.

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    Message: 75643
    Author: $ Bill Burkett
    Category: Answer!
    Subject: Hi, Bryan!
    Date: 06/09/91  Time: 08:56:53

    Hi, Bryan!

    You won't find any on-line games or such here.  Apollo is mostly a
    discussion board; we like to get on each other's nerves by discussing "the
    issues of the day."  Sometimes it's pretty weighty and others it's pretty
    stupid.

    Your best bet is to get involved.  Just pick a topic and get involved.  And
    if Apollo looks good to you, be sure to check out the [$]tatus command.  It
    tells how to gain access to all the non-public areas of the system.

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    Goodbye, Rod Williams
    You were on 07:39

    Please hang up now
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