### Apollo BBS Archive - Feburary 26 - 28, 1990

    Message: 63559
    Author: $ Zak Woodruff
    Category: Answer!
    Subject: Daryl's question
    Date: 02/25/90  Time: 00:23:29

         People will refer to something as "The bible of XXXXX" for the same
    reason that people say, "Oh GOD!  Not again!"  It's a part of culture.  I
    don't have to believe in the bible's authority for me to be able to refer to
    something as a "bible."  I'm just making a point:  "Other people regard
    such-and-such grammar book as a source of authority."

          In other words, I needn't believe the bible in order to note that many
    people regard it as a source of authority.

         Got it, punk?

    Message: 63560
    Author: Gary Chambers
    Category: Chit Chat
    Subject: LAWS
    Date: 02/25/90  Time: 19:10:15

    SOME PEOPLE CAN'T CONTROL THEIR ACTIONS*
    THEY NEED HELP *
    SUICIDE IS A PLEA FOR HELP THAT COMES TO LATE

    Message: 63561
    Author: $ Daryl Westfall
    Category: Chit Chat
    Subject: Zak/Question
    Date: 02/25/90  Time: 20:37:27

    It was rhetorical.

    Message: 63562
    Author: $ Zak Woodruff
    Category: Chit Chat
    Subject: last
    Date: 02/25/90  Time: 21:11:43

    Well Peter Piper picked a pepper!  Ooop!

    Message: 63563
    Author: $ Roger Mann
    Category: Chit Chat
    Subject: Nicauragua Revolts !
    Date: 02/26/90  Time: 13:41:27

    In a surprise, the UNO party has defeated the minions of Satan, the
    Sandinistas in the first fair election held in Nicaragua in a long time.
    Now the question is: Will Ortega relinquish power in two months ? If he
    doesn't, what will the US do ? Will we invade Nic. as we did Panama to
    install the legally elected president ? There is a precedent now for doing
    such a thing ?

    Message: 63564
    Author: Jeff Beck
    Category: Answer!
    Subject: Roger
    Date: 02/26/90  Time: 21:34:29

    Poor Roger...ever the sniveling galactophage.  Take care that your mirkin
    doesn't obstruct your already perilously pedicular vision.  Your
    quakebuttock pusillanimity is not, I hope, a bellwether for my own
    quadragenarian years.  To see you indulge in these quotidian quodlibets is
    most rebarbative. Like the rasorial behavior of a steatopygous hen, your
    sermocination only serves to reveal the extent of your sciolism.  Cease your
    mussitation, your multiloquous muliebrity, heed the luminary examples of
    your betters (i.e. me).

    Ahem.

    Message: 63565
    Author: $ Dean Hathaway
    Category: Chit Chat
    Subject: Last
    Date: 02/26/90  Time: 22:02:23

      I don't think you need to worry about your later years making you any less
    palatable to the rest of society.
       See You Later
          Dean H.

    Message: 63566
    Author: $ Dean Hathaway
    Category: Question?
    Subject: Usage
    Date: 02/26/90  Time: 22:06:01

      Were all the calls to this BBS coming from people in the Nicaraguan
    government who are now too busy with other things to place a call?
       See You Later
          Dean H.

    Message: 63567
    Author: $ Dean Hathaway
    Category: Drug Talk
    Subject: Book
    Date: 02/26/90  Time: 22:18:21

      I am reading Abbie Hoffman's 1987 book, 'Steal This Urine Test'. I don't
    always agree with Hoffman's viewpoint on peripheral issues, but he makes a
    very good effort here at minimizing outside comments and sticking to the
    book's main focus. I have learned a few things already. The poppies from
    which opium is derived were once grown right here in Arizona, for instance.
    He details a lot of information on how drug operations really work, in
    contrast to the way the media portrays drug labs, dealers, users,
    interdiction efforts, and pricing/profit issues. I have only read about 20
    percent of the book so far. It costs $5.95 in paperback and is available
    from the Royal Bookstore. It will also be availble from me as a loaner when
    I finish reading it.
       See You Later
          Dean H.

    Message: 63568
    Author: $ Daryl Westfall
    Category: Chit Chat
    Subject: Dean/Last
    Date: 02/26/90  Time: 23:16:41

    Reminds me of the song that Mojo Nixon did on "Bo-Day-Shus!"

    Message: 63569
    Author: $ Apollo SYSOP
    Category: Chit Chat
    Subject: Smith & Wesson
    Date: 02/27/90  Time: 00:41:52

            Got my NEW 625-3 Smith & Wesson wheel gun (Six shooter) today.
    This has a five inch barrel and uses 45 acp ammo.....   Scary looking to say
    the least.  Makes my 357 look 'small'.

    *=* the 'Mighty' Apollo SYSOP *=* with a BIGGER gun!

    Message: 63570
    Author: $ Peter Petrisko
    Category: Question?
    Subject: MESSAGES
    Date: 02/27/90  Time: 01:13:04

    What happened to mss. #63531 & 63534?  Both were evidently replied to, but
    these replies look kind of silly now.

    Some things just shouldn't be said.

    Censor yourself before someone else does it for you.

    Message: 63571
    Author: $ Peter Petrisko
    Category: Answer!
    Subject: CLIFF/JUST SAY NO
    Date: 02/27/90  Time: 01:24:31

         The "Just say No" campaign came from the Reagan administration.  The
    beginnings of the gov't 'war on drugs' came from this "Just Say No"
    propaganda.
         Last week, two kids came up to me and asked if I'd like to buy a candy
    bar.  Part of this money, they explained, would aid the war on drugs.  The
    wrappers had "JUST SAY NO" emblazoned across them in big red letters.
    I asked the older kid (about 12 or 13) if he had tried drugs.  He admitted
    he had sneaked some marijuana from his mom's stash on a few occasions.
         Not only is the "Just say No" campaign non-effective, it is helping to
    shape a country of snitches & hypocrites.
         Catch phrases only help to sell products.  By the way, I didn't buy the
    candy.  I'm not going to help the gov't sponsor a 'war' that has already
    been lost.  Directly or indirectly.

    Message: 63572
    Author: Jeff Beck
    Category: Answer!
    Subject: Dean
    Date: 02/27/90  Time: 01:48:00

    Sir, you are an apogenous, bovaristic, coprolalial, dasypygal, excerebrose,
    facinorous, gnathonic, hircine, ithyphallic, jumentous, kyphotic, labrose,
    mephitic, napiform, oligophrenial, papuliferous, quisquillian, rebarbative,
    saponaceous, thersitical, unguinous, ventripotent, wlatsome, xylocephalous,
    yirning, zoophyte.

    Hang loose, bro'.

    P.S. After seeing that somewhat cryptic message you left to Rod about "that
    magazine," I decided that it was my duty as a loyal, patriotic American to
    report you to the appropriate authorities.  Your name is now on the list of
    people suspected to be interested in subscribing to probably seditious
    periodicals.  As you well know, Dean, the government keeps many such lists
    on us all...they're watching us all...they know when you've been good or
    bad, so be good for goodness sake.  These lists are cross-referenced, filed,
    tabulated, computerized, sorted, shuffled, juggled, folded, stamped and
    examined by three sworn witnesses, prior to being copied in triplicate, the
    third copy of which is promptly shredded.  Big Brother is watching you,
    Dean...Uncle Sam is a stern taskmaster, and he doesn't approve of pseudonym
    using Libertarian troublemakers.  You think the people at Royal book store
    sympathize?  Think again, bucko!  Royal Bookstore is run by government
    stooges; every purchase is catalogued, every customer is
    photographed...fingerprints are collected, hair collected and analyzed...
    One look at your hair and THEY know what you had for breakfast last Tuesday!

    Message: 63574
    Author: Jeff Beck
    Category: Chit Chat
    Subject: Babblefest II
    Date: 02/27/90  Time: 02:16:56

    It was smart of you not to directly mention the name of the probably
    seditious periodical...government spies and toadies are everywhere,
    Everywhere, EVERYWHERE!!!  The government routinely monitors local bulletin
    boards for signs of rebellious malcontents, LIKE YOU, who are then promptly
    added to the appropriate list(s).  Just because you're paranoid doesn't mean
    they're not out to get you! I suggest you go underground a while...use those
    phony I.D.s based on the dead infant birth certificate ploy you got from The
    Paper Trip; you know, the virgin sets you keep in your safe deposit
    box...Fool!  Do you REALLY think it's safe there?  The government figures
    that anything put into a safe deposit box must contain something of interest
    at the very least; why else would people feel the need to HIDE it?  What?
    You don't trust banks?  Good, good...but THEY know all about your concealed
    hiding places...the tunnel, the bunker...it's all been wired for months now,
    every word, recorded, indelibly.  Your very THOUGHTS, Dean, are being
    monitored at this very moment.  While Jackie Gleason bellows at Art Carney,
    secret rays are projected from the TV...the manufacturers are all in league
    with the government...rays, Dean, probing your mind...they know that you're
    DIFFERENT...and they don't like it!  Pariah!  It's only a matter of time
    until they use the spores...

    Message: 63575
    Author: $ Paul Savage
    Category: Chit Chat
    Subject: Roger/Ortega
    Date: 02/27/90  Time: 05:52:35

     Apparently Ortega has stated that he will respect the will of the majority
    of Nicaraguans. We can presume, or at least hope that he will keep his word
    and step down. If he doesn't, I think that, while we could bring pressures
    against him to do so, an invasion would be improper. I do not believe that
    Panama set any precedent, since we had an interest in Panama that we do not
    have in other South or Central American countries.
     This situation, however, if it develops into a confrontation, could be a
    litmus of just how imperialistic the Bush administration is.
     In the same vein, if Panama is a precedent, how come we haven't invaded
    Cuba yet? We still have a large Naval base there, don't we?

    Message: 63576
    Author: $ Daryl Westfall
    Category: Chit Chat
    Subject: Peter/Candy/Drugs
    Date: 02/27/90  Time: 08:01:18

    You should have bought the candy bar. The kid didn't say what he DID with
    the candy; perhaps he was doing you a favor and laced it. If not, you should
    have done your duty, and reported that child to the Miniyouth. B.B. would be
    proud.

    Message: 63577
    Author: $ Daryl Westfall
    Category: Chit Chat
    Subject: Where is Lippard?!?
    Date: 02/27/90  Time: 08:06:20

       It's just like him. Posts a mini-barrage of anti-Christian tirades, which
    have been refuted quite well by some of the users on this board (yes, I
    guess I am patting myself on the head a LITTLE, but it wasn't just me), and
    da garbonzo doesn't even log on to get his responses. Wonder if he is just
    waiting for them to scroll off before he calls back, so he can say that he
    STILL hasn't gotten any response as to why us 1990 Christians shouldn't be
    taking full responsibility for the Inquisition, the Salem witch trials, the
    Christian militia, etc. etc. ad nauseum. JIM, CALL BACK YA SPUD!

    Message: 63578
    Author: $ Roger Mann
    Category: Answer!
    Subject: Jeff
    Date: 02/27/90  Time: 08:12:41

    Huh?

    Message: 63579
    Author: $ Roger Mann
    Category: Chit Chat
    Subject: Paul/Cuba
    Date: 02/27/90  Time: 08:16:58

    Both Panama and Nicaragua had free elections in which the party in power
    was voted out. Noriega refused to step down. If Ortega does the same,
    then we have established a precedent of interfering in the internal affairs
    of another country. Cuba, as far as I know has never had a free election.

    Message: 63580
    Author: $ Apollo SYSOP
    Category: Chit Chat
    Subject: Roger/Panama
    Date: 02/27/90  Time: 10:30:47

    Re: If Ortega does the same, ........

            But Noriega also declared WAR on the U.S.   I think he got what he
    asked for....  He was also wanted on drug charges.   I don't see any
    parallel between the two countries.   "ifs" don't count as in:  "IF" the dog
    hadn't  stopped to $#!+, he would have caught the rabbit.

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

    Message: 63581
    Author: Steve Hodode
    Category: Joke
    Subject: language
    Date: 02/27/90  Time: 11:08:37

            THE  PARANOID SCHIZOPHRENIC'S DICTIONARY
                                    .
    BUCK FEVER  : THE CONDITION OF SUDDENLY BEING GIVEN ONE'S GREAT
                  OPPORTUNITY AND BEING UNABLE TO ACT APPROPRIATELY.
          IF YOU DON'T DRESS RIGHT YOU COULD CATCH BUCK FEVER.
                                   .
    RAP  : TO CRITICIZE SHARPLY.
     MY BOSS TOLD ME THAT IF I DIDN'T DO BETTER I WOULD HAVE TO LISTEN
     TO THE RAP MUSIC.
                                   .
    TANG : A FAINT SUGGESTION.
         I HAVE TANG EVERY MORNING BEFORE GOING TO WORK AS I LISTEN TO THE
         RADIO.
         I GAVE HER TANG BUT SHE TURNED ME DOWN.

    Message: 63582
    Author: $ Zak Woodruff
    Category: Chit Chat
    Subject: Moscow Circus
    Date: 02/27/90  Time: 15:25:07

         This morning at work I was surprised to see somebody walking a furry
    Russian bear outside where I work.  Apparently they were doing some sort of
    promotion thing at Magic 101; they were walking the bear around the complex
    a little.  He was gentle and cute.
         I just looked out the door, and there was a bear.

    Message: 63583
    Author: $ Bob Thornburg
    Category: Chit Chat
    Subject: Zak
    Date: 02/27/90  Time: 16:31:30

    Re:  "they were walking the bear around the complex a little.  He was gentle
    and cute"

    The only good bear is a dead bear!

    (Nothing personal Shirley!)

    Message: 63584
    Author: $ Beauregard Dog
    Category: Chit Chat
    Subject: Zak/bear
    Date: 02/27/90  Time: 17:38:11

    photo in today's repugnant. Looks like the bear and trainer are staying at
    the Hotel Westcourt in Metro Center.

    Message: 63585
    Author: $ Beauregard Dog
    Category: Chit Chat
    Subject: Daryl on Jim
    Date: 02/27/90  Time: 17:38:45

    He only reads Apollo when he comes to Phoenix from Tucson (where he lives
    and goes to school).

    Message: 63586
    Author: $ Daryl Westfall
    Category: Chit Chat
    Subject: Beau/Last
    Date: 02/27/90  Time: 20:17:30

    I better capture my post and repost it later, then.

    Message: 63587
    Author: $ Dean Hathaway
    Category: Chit Chat
    Subject: Bear
    Date: 02/27/90  Time: 23:16:10

      I did some work in the building on 7th St. & Missouri this morning and saw
    a bear attacking the fruit trees in front of the place as I drove in.
       See You Later
          Dean H.

    Message: 63588
    Author: $ Dean Hathaway
    Category: Chit Chat
    Subject: Mark
    Date: 02/27/90  Time: 23:18:57

         You obviously don't know me well enough to define me, particularly
    with twenty-five adjectives. If I were a zoophyte I would have no choice
    but to hang loose, but that is not the case.
         That alphabetical banquet containing dictionary eccentricities
    featured garish, hieroglyphical, ill-bred, jejune, knotted, largish,
    maladapted, nebulous, obfuscatory, polysyllabic, quizzical, recondite,
    stultifying, turbid, unutterable, vertiginous, whorled, xenolithic,
    yowling zealotry.
         Thanks for reminding me about the problem of being on mailing lists
    for subversive literature. I had decided to get a post office box to
    receive it, so as to protect my security clearance, but hadn't decided
    how to handle the post office requirement of an actual address for their
    files. Now I can safely get all the anarchist, marxist, skinhead, deviant
    literature there is. I just subscribe in your name and have it all mailed
    to a post office box I rented in your name and your home address is on
    file at the post office in case anyone should inquire. You obviously won't
    mind since you made such fun of the idea that anyone could ever try to hold
    a person's reading material against them in any way. You're right of
    course, that would be like someone publicizing what video tapes a candidate
    for office had rented. Never happen. Thanks again, and have a nice day.
      See You Later,
         Dean H.
     p.s.(No I didn't really do it.)

    Message: 63590
    Author: Ralph Moffin
    Category: On the Lighter Side
    Subject: ofcriticism
    Date: 02/28/90  Time: 03:10:17

    TO ---> Paul Savvage, Ann oudin, Darrel Westfall, Dean McCarrow

      It looks like you all were right and me wrong!!!! I wanted to say
    something about how people react to other poeple without very much thouhgt
    or giving time to think about there ideas......like not trying  hard to
    consider wher the other person is coming from....not being able to learn
    from one-another.....thats all. Maybe I was being imbicillic or maybe you
    missed what my point was....Im not sure.....but if I am right then your
    criticques of my bulletinn only enhance my point!!!!! (if not thats life)

      Ann Oudin I dont think I said the sysop isn't supposed to express himself.
    You mis-read my post!!!! (it refeers to him tampering with me ---->NOT
    REFERS TO WHAT HE SAYS IN HIS OWN MESSAGES!!!!))  I hate B.B.S.'s where the
    sys-op plays 'God' while your trying to contribute!!!!!!!!!

     ......also some people think I am other people I have never heard of
    before. All I can say is Sorry Charlie! I am who I am.....toot toot....

    <<>>

    P.S. Paul I already heard about Jesus 200 times I dont need a bumpr stikcer
    to remind me what I already know!!!! People want too much other people to
    beleive the same as them.

    Message: 63591
    Author: $ Paul Savage
    Category: Chit Chat
    Subject: Zak/bear
    Date: 02/28/90  Time: 05:43:41

     According to the news, the bear and it's trainer are staying at the
    Westcourt while acting as an advance PR team for the Moscow circus.
     You work at or near the Westcourt?

    Message: 63592
    Author: $ Paul Savage
    Category: Answer!
    Subject: Ralph Muffin
    Date: 02/28/90  Time: 05:49:29

     So you already "know" Jesus, eh? So does Satan, and he quakes at the
    thought of Him.
     What you need to know is Jesus as your personal saviour, and Lord of your
    life, but I guess you've already heard that 200 times as well. Apparently
    the truth of that statement hasn't hit home yet. I hope it does before it's
    too late. Eternity is one terrible price to pay for a season of doubt and
    criticism here.
     God bless.

    Message: 63593
    Author: $ Ann Oudin
    Category: Chit Chat
    Subject: Bob on bears
    Date: 02/28/90  Time: 09:25:05

    Re: "the only good bear is a dead bear" === where did you come up with that
    one? Whats the matter with bears pray tell. Geeze! -=*) ANN (*=-

    Message: 63594
    Author: $ Apollo SYSOP
    Category: Chit Chat
    Subject: Ralph Moffin
    Date: 02/28/90  Time: 10:07:39

            I am not trying to play God....  I just want you to keep my name out
    of your slimmy anti-Christian posts and slams.

            I also do not believe you are whom you say you are....  Your logic
    smacks of Williamisim.

    Message: 63595
    Author: $ Apollo SYSOP
    Category: Question?
    Subject: Yellow Front
    Date: 02/28/90  Time: 10:15:26

            How many people will miss Yellow Front?   What does this mean for
    the economy?  Now, people will have to step UP to K-Mart.

            Inside word has it that Yellow Front lost millions to employee
    theft and is one of the factors in its shutdown.

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

    Message: 63596
    Author: $ Zak Woodruff
    Category: Chit Chat
    Subject: the bear
    Date: 02/28/90  Time: 14:19:24

    I work on 7th St. just south of Camelback, in the Valley Commerce Center.
    That's a hop, skip and a jump away from where Dean said he saw the bear.

    Message: 63597
    Author: $ Shirley Bear
    Category: Chit Chat
    Subject: Bob / bears
    Date: 02/28/90  Time: 16:32:53

    It is a good thing you put that little notetation on that post other
    wise you would be in BIG TROUBLE.  <*>Smile<*>
                                  ***** Shirley *****

    Message: 63599
    Author: Jeff Beck
    Category: Chit Chat
    Subject: I want a rock
    Date: 02/28/90  Time: 17:27:47

    If I were a carpenter, I'd hammer on my piglet, I'd collect the seven
    dollars and I'd buy a big prosthetic forehead and wear it on my real head.

    Message: 63600
    Author: Jeff Beck
    Category: Answer!
    Subject: Dean
    Date: 02/28/90  Time: 17:48:29

    Stout fellow.

    P.S. What do you mean, "twenty-five" ?

    Message: 63601
    Author: $ Dean Hathaway
    Category: Answer!
    Subject: last
    Date: 02/28/90  Time: 18:35:44

      I mean two dozen plus one.
       See You Later
          Dean H.

    Message: 63602
    Author: $ Daryl Westfall
    Category: Chit Chat
    Subject: Yellow Front
    Date: 03/01/90  Time: 00:22:29

    What is there at Yellow Front to steal? Unless, that is, you are an outlaw
    camper.