### Apollo BBS Archive - August 14, 1989

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    Message: 5788
    Author: $ Todd Reese
    Category: Question?
    Subject: Cliff
    Date: 08/13/89  Time: 12:33:19

    Did you get the virus in Ann's COMMAND.COM like we planned?

    Message: 5789
    Author: $ Ann Oudin
    Category: Chit-Chat
    Subject: Toddy/last
    Date: 08/14/89  Time: 10:31:06

    Cliff would never do such a thing fellow! He should have the nick name of
    'Mr. Perfect' as far as computers go. You'll have to ask Sandy if he's Mr.
    Perfect otherwish! Heh. -= *) ANN (*=-

    Message: 5790
    Author: $ Apollo SYSOP
    Category: Chit-Chat
    Subject: Perfect?
    Date: 08/14/89  Time: 10:53:52

            Not I!!!  I wish I was, but I fall far short of the word 'perfect'.

    If I was I could say.... *=* the 'Perfect' Apollo SysOp *=*

            But that would be a lie.   sniff (tm)

    Message: 5791
    Author: $ Todd Reese
    Category: Chit-Chat
    Subject: Ann
    Date: 08/14/89  Time: 22:17:29

    Didn't you know?  Dean McCarron is the perfect one.

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    Message: 2418
    Author: $ Todd Reese
    Category: Short Story
    Subject: cont.
    Date: 08/13/89  Time: 12:35:38

        "I'm going down to 7-11.  Anybody want a Big Gulp?"
    ...but then, surprising them all, ...

    Message: 2419
    Author: $ Sandy SYSOP
    Category: Short Story
    Subject: Cont
    Date: 08/13/89  Time: 15:31:56

                  ...... Rod, the Prophet of Bob, walks through the wall of the
    bathroom. Speaking in the name of Bob, Rod the Prophet, announces how proud
    Bob is of all present.
                  With authority, Rod the Prophet proclaims, "Bob, the god of
    NO GOOD, has seen his children at work ...... he has seen their vile
    intentions, their vulgar actions and he is well pleased."
                  Realizing the enormity of their transgressions they .......

    Message: 2420
    Author: $ Daryl Westfall
    Category: Chit-Chat
    Subject: The Family Lives
    Date: 08/13/89  Time: 23:01:33

    Looking in from the outside
    At faces that I used to know
    So sad that friendships wither
    And are tramped into desolate snow
    Your faces all look the same
    But I know some things have changed
    The family lives, the circle lives
    The order is rearranged
    Faces that I trusted so
    Now glare as cold as stone
    Except when family's near at hand
    You've left me all alone
    You say it's time for you to leave
    I'm such a tiresome bore
    Be careful that you are not struck
    By my quickly closing door.

                            - To La Sagrada Familia II

    Message: 2421
    Author: $ Ann Oudin
    Category: Short Story
    Subject: Cont.
    Date: 08/14/89  Time: 10:36:28

    .... and worshipped the god Rod/Bob! They called out his name in glory and
    he basked in this glory, deserving it fully. He walked toward the little
    group, his silken robes making rustling sounds in the tiled bathroom. All
    had their heads to the floor in a position of servitude and repentence. "Oh
    most holy one - save us please" cried .........

    Message: 2422
    Author: $ Sandy SYSOP
    Category: Short Story
    Subject: Still More ...
    Date: 08/14/89  Time: 13:39:40

            ..... cried the group in unison.
            Feeling the group's anquish, Rod the Prophet, replied, "Well, Yes, I
    will help you ................ Here ............... Have a Brownie."
            As Rod was passing out his special Brownies, Sandy the sexy,
    stupendous, smart she-SySop, walks in. Upon seeing Rod passing out his
    special Brownies, again; seeing Cliff with his pants down, again; noticing
    the Pool Man naked, again; and glaring at Ann's naked body, again; she ...

    Message: 2423
    Author: $ Gary Jones
    Category: Short Story
    Subject: more
    Date: 08/14/89  Time: 15:55:49

    threw up all over Rod and the brownies.  At this our Hero, Cliff crawls to
    his feet and.....................

    Message: 2424
    Author: $ Todd Reese
    Category: Short Story
    Subject: more more more
    Date: 08/14/89  Time: 22:20:17

    says, "Hmmmm... there's something strange about all of this."  He whips out
    his trusty magnifying glass, and summons the group.  There, sitting in vomit
    is a .............

    Message: 2425
    Author: $ Sandy SYSOP
    Category: Short Story
    Subject: latter middle
    Date: 08/15/89  Time: 00:14:06

            ....... a note. Upon closer examination Eagle Eye Cyclops Cliff
    noted a familiarity in the writing.
            The name James Hawley came immediately to mind.
            In big coarse letters was inscribed the message .....

                         I LOVE A GOOD JOKE!

            All present stared at the note, their faces turning a darker shade
    of red as the minutes passed. Each looked at the other not knowing what to
    say. Finally the ducky waddled into the midst of this shocking circular
    assemblage of statuesque figures and asked each one of them if they had each
    received a note and if this note resembled the hand scribbles on this vomit
    soaked piece.

            Master of All of Apollo, Syslop Cliff replied without hesitation,
    "Yup, I did. My note was supposed to be from Ann asking me to come over to
    her house and fix her computer, ...... again." With that Cliff looked down
    to satisfy himself that his britches were indeed up and secure.

            The Pool Man .........

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    Message: 3332
    Author: $ Sandy SYSOP
    Category: Question ?
    Subject: Rod
    Date: 08/13/89  Time: 14:48:09

            What were you doing on your dogs?

    Message: 3333
    Author: $ Sandy SYSOP
    Category: Jokes & Ha Ha's
    Subject: Good Sport
    Date: 08/13/89  Time: 14:52:22

            A young man answered the phone. At the other end was a woman from
    his past. She asked him if he remembered her. He asked her if she was the
    Red head who was such a good sport, the one he spent the night with after
    the party. She said she was. She also said she was pregnant and was going to
    commit suicide. The young man replied, "My, you are a good sport!"

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    Subject:Sandy/dogs

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     1:Just walking them.
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    Message: 302
    Author: $ Todd Reese
    Category: Chit-Chat
    Subject: Chris Zagar
    Date: 08/13/89  Time: 12:38:10

    Does anybody know who this guy is besides Cliff?

    Message: 303
    Author: $ Sandy SYSOP
    Category: SYSOP Speaks
    Subject: Tadd
    Date: 08/13/89  Time: 14:54:47

            Can you keep a secret? ...................

    Message: 304
    Author: $ Sandy SYSOP
    Category: SYSOP Speaks
    Subject: Good
    Date: 08/13/89  Time: 14:55:59

            Well, ...........................................

    Chris does not really exist.
    Neither does this Pewter Star Ship.

    We just want you money that's all.
    Gotta problem with that?

    Message: 305
    Author: $ Peter Petrisko
    Category: Chit-Chat
    Subject: GT
    Date: 08/13/89  Time: 16:20:29

        I will not be able to make it to the GT as I have a gallery opening on
    the 26th.
        Cliff, I'll be in touch before the GT.

    Message: 306
    Author: $ Apollo SYSOP
    Category: Chit-Chat
    Subject: Last
    Date: 08/13/89  Time: 21:50:34

            There goes the 8 x 10 color glossy picture idea.  Well, what day can
    you make it?

    Sigh!

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    Message: 307
    Author: $ Ann Oudin
    Category: Chit-Chat
    Subject: Cliff
    Date: 08/14/89  Time: 10:38:11

    Maybe Paul will come and bring his 3-D camera eh?

    Message: 308
    Author: $ Apollo SYSOP
    Category: Chit-Chat
    Subject: Paul
    Date: 08/14/89  Time: 10:56:29

            He is NOT a member of the Elite Apollo users.  Besides, I don't
    think we could afford to get all the members a copy of such a photograph.

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

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    Message: 1664
    Author: $ Apollo SYSOP
    Category: Insomniac & inspired
    Subject: Peter
    Date: 08/11/89  Time: 00:21:35

    I heard he is creating a new and bigger 'THANG' for Ann.

    (Don't worry, Ann never logs in at night, so she can't see this post)

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

    Message: 1665
    Author: $ Peter Petrisko
    Category: Chit-Chat
    Subject: LAST
    Date: 08/15/89  Time: 00:21:49

    From what I hear, the THANG is in Costa Rica.

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    Message: 60314
    Author: $ Bob Thornburg
    Category: Chit Chat
    Subject: Rod
    Date: 08/13/89  Time: 14:10:39

    Re:  "The military fighting man is the
    most brain-washed of all people and understandable so."

    Gee, I used to be in the Air Force!  Does that mean my brain has been
    washed?  How can I correct this situation?

    Message: 60315
    Author: $ Bob Thornburg
    Category: Chit Chat
    Subject: Ann/Rod
    Date: 08/13/89  Time: 14:15:52

    Re:  "the taxes keep
    rising, the politicians become more criminal every year, pollution keeps
    right on going strong and the prisons keep full and new laws being passed
    daily taking away another of our little freedoms in the name of 'safty' or
    for the minority or supposedly for the betterment of the country!"

    But!  The American people have within their power to do something about it!

    If during the next major election, everyone refused to vote for the
    incumbent, we could radically turn around the corruption in the government
    we all find so repulsive.

    Message: 60316
    Author: $ Sandy SYSOP
    Category: Question?
    Subject: Last/Bob
    Date: 08/13/89  Time: 15:09:16

            So, how do you propose to get everyone to refuse to vote for the
    incumbent?
            A nice idea, however, the forces in power know how to 'divide and
    conquer'.
            That, plus they have the "NEWS" media in their pockets.
    They control the communications.

    Message: 60317
    Author: $ Peter Petrisko
    Category: Chit Chat
    Subject: FARMER
    Date: 08/13/89  Time: 16:35:19

         I saw Phranc live a few years back.  She performed a song about female
    mud wrestlers.  It was a sing-along.
         I haven't seen K. D. Lang.  Then again, I don't have to!

    Message: 60318
    Author: $ Peter Petrisko
    Category: Tales & Tall Stories
    Subject: GOODBYE
    Date: 08/13/89  Time: 16:37:46

         My log-ons will be far and few between in the near future, so I'll
    "see" you all later.

    Be good, JT.

    Message: 60319
    Author: $ James Taranto
    Category: Chit Chat
    Subject: Kielsky
    Date: 08/13/89  Time: 19:27:25

    It's amusing to see someone who is naive enough to try arguing with Rod
    Williams.

    Message: 60320
    Author: $ Apollo SYSOP
    Category: Question?
    Subject: Peter P?
    Date: 08/13/89  Time: 21:56:08

            Now why is he leaving the system?  Did I say something that upset
    him?    There goes another valuable user...  sniff

    Sysop

    Message: 60321
    Author: $ Daryl Westfall
    Category: Chit Chat
    Subject: ...
    Date: 08/13/89  Time: 22:52:16

    Hello.

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    Subject:JT/argue

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     1:I'm not arguing.  I'm just expressing thoughts.  I realize that I could have
     2:been born in a country that is much worse off than the U.S.  There are a lot
     3:of them.
     4:end

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    Subject:Bob

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     1:I was speaking more for the fighting man.  The grunts are taught how to kill
     2:and are given prejudices for the enemy.  Their lives are never the same
     3:after indoctronation.  It is like raping the mind of a young man.
     4:end

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    Message: 60324
    Author: $ Ann Oudin
    Category: Chit Chat
    Subject: Bob
    Date: 08/14/89  Time: 10:24:49

    Re: "If during the next major election, everyone refused to vote for the
    incumbent, we could radically turn around the corruption in the government
    we all find so repulsive"..
    I did not vote for the imcumbent and it didn't make one bit of difference.
    I am coming to believe that in most cases, the American voters does NOT have
    any power anymore! The key word in your post is 'everyone' - and that just
    doesn't happen - if it ever did. Minorities are ruling basically now.Take
    the case of the drownings in the valley - according to this morning's paper
    they polled 122 people that had small children under four. The majority of
    the minority wanted a law passed to fence pools (around the pool itself!)
    This means that the thousands of people that have pools and doesn't have
    little children must comply with this very small minority if this law is
    passed! I feel that something as big as this issue should be put to the
    voters. How this all is going to turn out is a mystery right now, but if
    they do pass such a law - I WIL move from this county and maybe even the
    state. That much I do have power over at least! See you later. -=*)ANN(*=-

    Message: 60325
    Author: $ Ann Oudin
    Category: Chit Chat
    Subject: Rod/armed forces
    Date: 08/14/89  Time: 10:29:27

    My husband agrees with you. He was in the Korean war in the navy. He said
    their major objective was to brain wash immediately! He said the worse thing
    was those above the next guy playing god above the little guy.
                         -=*) ANN (*=-

    Message: 60326
    Author: $ Apollo SYSOP
    Category: Chit Chat
    Subject: Users?
    Date: 08/14/89  Time: 11:11:52

            Where are all you users?  A whirlwind trip by Spaz Brown though
    Apollo has change your minds to silly putty and tied your tongues.

            There must be world news worthy of mention....

            Has anyone else gone to see the movie 'ABYSS'?   Quite the
    adventure....

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

    Message: 60327
    Author: $ James Taranto
    Category: Chit Chat
    Subject: Last
    Date: 08/14/89  Time: 15:11:36

    My mind was silly putty to begin with.

    Message: 60328
    Author: $ Gary Jones
    Category: Chit Chat
    Subject: Flamingos
    Date: 08/14/89  Time: 15:51:52

    Looks like the flamingo conversation is back where it started.  Didn't
    someone suggest that the stupid birds stood on one leg to imitate a tree and
    fool the fish?  I think flamingos are OK, baked, with cornbread stuffing.
    Except they taste a little fishy.

    Message: 60329
    Author: $ Bob Thornburg
    Category: Answer!
    Subject: Sandy
    Date: 08/14/89  Time: 16:36:32

    Re:  "So, how do you propose to get everyone to refuse to vote for the
    incumbent?"

    Easy, I just get Ralph to shoot everyone who refuses!

    Hmmmmmm.  I got that backwards.

    Easy, I just get Ralph to shoot everyone who refuses to refuse!

    Hmmmmmm.  Maybe the first one was right?

    Message: 60330
    Author: $ Bob Thornburg
    Category: Chit Chat
    Subject: Rod
    Date: 08/14/89  Time: 16:38:04

    Re:  "It is like raping the mind of a young man."

    You mean my brains have been violated?

    Message: 60331
    Author: $ Apollo SYSOP
    Category: Chit Chat
    Subject: JT # 60327
    Date: 08/14/89  Time: 17:59:08

    Re: Silly putty

            We all knew that anyway.  Tell us something new!

    Message: 60332
    Author: $ James Taranto
    Category: Chit Chat
    Subject: Last
    Date: 08/14/89  Time: 18:24:56

    Don't you know how Silly Putty works?  It is incapable of doing anything
    original.  All it can do is reproduce images from the world around it, and
    only in reverse.

    Message: 60333
    Author: $ Apollo SYSOP
    Category: Question?
    Subject: Last on JT
    Date: 08/14/89  Time: 18:39:25

            Are you tring to tell us you are incapable of an original thought?
    You can reproduce only what some one has told you, and you still can't get
    it right because you do it in reverse?

            Brag on JT...  I want to hear more!

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

    Message: 60334
    Author: $ James Taranto
    Category: Chit Chat
    Subject: Last
    Date: 08/14/89  Time: 19:19:42

    No, what I am trying to tell you is that I'm incapable of original thought.
    So shut up already!

    Message: 60335
    Author: $ Apollo SYSOP
    Category: Chit Chat
    Subject: last
    Date: 08/14/89  Time: 20:07:31

    Again...
            As I *SAID*, we knew that already.....

    Your "So shut up already" drives home that point very clearly.

            So....  'DITTO'!

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

    Message: 60336
    Author: Mike Carter
    Category: Answer!
    Subject: Daryl Westfall
    Date: 08/15/89  Time: 00:43:13

    Hi there!
    I'll be dropping in sometime to your store.
    I pass by it every so often.
    But it's always closed when I do.
    L8r

    Message: 60337
    Author: Mike Carter
    Category: Answer!
    Subject: Cliff
    Date: 08/15/89  Time: 00:44:49

    Silly putty goes stale and hardens after awhile, making it
    immune to outside forces and therby rendering it
    quite useless.
    Such can be said of many of our elected officials.

            -Mike

    Message: 60338
    Author: $ Rod Williams
    Category: Chit Chat
    Subject: Stupid Silly Putty
    Date: 08/15/89  Time: 01:00:45

    I am somewhat an authority on locks and locksmithing because I have been
    'living' it for the past thirteen years.  I have studied it.

    However, on any other subject (except being a father) I am not really sure
    of what in the hell I am saying.  I do not nor have I had the time necessary
    to make a habit of studying, in depth, all that which I talk about.

    But there is such a thing as debate and playing the Devil's (bless him)
    advocate in order to learn, have fun, whatever.

    Well, I lied, cause I am somewhat of a minor (with major leanings) authority
    on being an atheist.  That's because I've been one for a long while and I
    have given that lots of thought and condideration.

    But when it comes to world interests and political systems, all my thoughts
    on the subject comes from bits and pieces that were gleaned from here and
    there.  Like, I might catch the tail end of a commentary or overhear a
    conversation or two.  Other than that I humbly admit that I am not a scholar
    on any of the recent conversations I have had the pleasure of debating in.
    However, I do find it an interesting past time and I have learned a tad here
    and there from said debates.

    Are you now happy, JT?  Can I go on with my life?
    Thank you.

    Message: 60339
    Author: Lee Nicholson
    Category: Entertainment/Movies
    Subject: The Abyss
    Date: 08/15/89  Time: 01:09:15

    I saw The Abyss at Cine Capri, in 70mm Dolby.  The nice thing is, any show
    before 6:00 pm any day costs only $3.00
    Oh, by the way, the theatre, which holds 800 people, was sold out the day I
    saw it (Sunday, the 4:05 showing).

    The breathable fluid featured in the film does exist, by the way.  Rather
    strange, but as they say in the movie, we all breath fluid for nine months.

    Message: 60340
    Author: Lee Nicholson
    Category: Chit Chat
    Subject: Chinese
    Date: 08/15/89  Time: 01:15:28

    I was reading an article in "World Monitor" about Chinese calligraphy and
    art, and the story was told of a (now quite popular) artist, who during the
    "cultural revolution", painted a picture of a rooster for chairman Mao's
    wife.  Well, it seems that the ink was too dark, the rooster looked straight
    at the viewer (of the painting), and the rooster's tail curved to the right,
    all of which proved that the artist was a capitalist
    sympathizer/counter-revolutionary.  He was sent away to prison for years.

    Message: 60341
    Author: $ Rod Williams
    Category: Chit Chat
    Subject: Bob/brainwashed
    Date: 08/15/89  Time: 01:20:49

    If you took basic training in the military of this country (or any
    other country ('cept Costa Rica) then I would say that your brains have
    been violated.  And it appears, from your 'get-even' attitude that they
    have.

    You come up with this eye for an eye stuff all the while saying you
    are a Christian.  Yup, Bobbie, they've been violated, I'd say.

    Now, say ten hell Marys and perhaps the lard will actually forgive
    you.  -Rod

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