### Apollo BBS Archive - August 25 - 26, 1988

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    Message: 4078
    Author: $ Beauregard Dog
    Category: Chit-Chat
    Subject: thang category
    Date: 08/26/88  Time: 20:06:50

    Well, we won't need a desk category, as it has been delivered (though not
    assembled). Thanks, Cliff and James.

    Message: 4079
    Author: $ Zak Woodruff
    Category: Chit-Chat
    Subject: Ann
    Date: 08/26/88  Time: 22:40:29

    Why is that whenever you find a big dong you think it's me?

    Message: 4080
    Author: $ Daryl Westfall
    Category: Chit-Chat
    Subject: Last
    Date: 08/27/88  Time: 01:20:03

    I find myself asking the same question.

    Message: 4081
    Author: $ James Hawley
    Category: Answer!
    Subject: Zak/Ann
    Date: 08/27/88  Time: 04:31:52

    You seem to have that effect on women.

    Message: 4082
    Author: $ David Burkhart
    Category: Chit-Chat
    Subject: Zak
    Date: 08/27/88  Time: 04:42:22

    It's OK Zak, most of us don't think you're a big dong.

    Message: 4083
    Author: $ Ann Oudin
    Category: Chit-Chat
    Subject: Big THANG
    Date: 08/27/88  Time: 11:27:45

    So - it's you LLoyd Pulley! Your THANG just got up and walked away eh?
    Does it have feet? If you discribe it - then you can come get it! It is
    still ticking! =*--ANN--*=

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     1:        Has it 'came', yet?
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    Message: 987
    Author: $ Sandy SYSOP
    Category: Chit-Chat
    Subject: creative suicide
    Date: 08/26/88  Time: 19:02:28

            It would be more creative
                    to jump
               out of the airplane
                  in scuba gear.

    Message: 988
    Author: $ Zak Woodruff
    Category: Chit-Chat
    Subject: suicide
    Date: 08/26/88  Time: 22:36:48

    How about running into a scuba gear store at 150 mph with a plane, while not
    wearing a parachute?
    How about eating scuba gear while jumping off of a motorcycle going 150 mph
    at the airport?
    How about jumping off of a pile of scuba gear while wearing a parachute made
    out of a brick wall?

    Message: 989
    Author: $ David Burkhart
    Category: Chit-Chat
    Subject: Sandy
    Date: 08/27/88  Time: 04:43:18

    Nice haiku.

    Message: 990
    Author: $ Sandy SYSOP
    Category: Review/Critique
    Subject: David
    Date: 08/27/88  Time: 10:40:13

            Does this mean that since I am bigger than the average Jap. I was
    allowed the extra line and the extra syllable?

    Message: 991
    Author: $ Sandy SYSOP
    Category: Chit-Chat
    Subject: Zak
    Date: 08/27/88  Time: 10:41:47

            Suggestions worthy of the Creative Corner.

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    Message: 1887
    Author: $ Daryl Westfall
    Category: Cosmos-Chatter
    Subject: Last
    Date: 08/27/88  Time: 01:22:20

    I cannot tell a lie...it wasn't Rod either.

    Any leads on the fingerprints yet, Ann? This could be interesting. (Trust
    me, if I were to spend my time sculpting anything reproductive, it certainly
    wouldn't be a THANG.)

    Message: 1888
    Author: $ Apollo SYSOP
    Category: Thang!
    Subject: Not Me....
    Date: 08/27/88  Time: 01:44:39

            It was not I that put the Thang in Ann's yard.

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    Message: 1889
    Author: $ James Hawley
    Category: Thang!
    Subject: Last
    Date: 08/27/88  Time: 04:33:29

    Oh, no, he even created a category for it.

    Message: 1890
    Author: $ David Burkhart
    Category: Thang!
    Subject: Hmm
    Date: 08/27/88  Time: 04:44:21

    I can't claim credit, either.  But save that $10 for me, Ann.

    Message: 1891
    Author: $ Zak Woodruff
    Category: Thang!
    Subject: Ann
    Date: 08/27/88  Time: 08:05:41

    With your $10, you ought to buy the THANG its own $tatus.

    Message: 1892
    Author: $ Sandy SYSOP
    Category: Thang!
    Subject: Ann
    Date: 08/27/88  Time: 10:45:11

            A catagory to make your day .....
            and where are you?

    Message: 1893
    Author: $ Ann Oudin
    Category: Thang!
    Subject: All of youse!
    Date: 08/27/88  Time: 11:39:00

    I've come to the conclusion it was a 'group effort' and all of you are the
    guilty parties! I guess it was a matter of time that THANG got his own
    category! I'll give $10 to anyone that can give me a good answer on WHY
    someone/everyone keeps sending me big dicks? I have pointed out SOOOOO many
    times how pure and sinless I am and no one believes me. WHY? What can I do
    to prove it?

    The reward has be upped to $20 - to anyone who can give me absolute proof on
    who did it! Not just accusations either - PROOF! =*--ANN--*=
    P.S. You know - Cliff is going out of business and has nothing else to do at
    Gemini but sit around. He would have all the time and talent in the world to
    create a monstrous THANG! Anyone think it's him? I know that dear Sandy
    could have some infulence on him - when she saw THANG the other day - I had
    to pry her off of it! Perhaps it was an old friend eh????

    Message: 1894
    Author: $ Apollo SYSOP
    Category: Who-dun-it
    Subject: Thang?
    Date: 08/27/88  Time: 12:00:38

            Again let me say this about that...  Not I!

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    Message: 53909
    Author: $ Dean Hathaway
    Category: Politics
    Subject: Carter/Deficit
    Date: 08/26/88  Time: 17:04:54

      There are two ways for the government to spend more than it takes in. One
    is to run a deficit which later taxpayers will have to pay (plus interest),
    the other is to print money. Printing money destroys the value of all the
    money already in circulation and causes inflation.
      If Carter reduced the deficit, but destroyed the dollar at home and abroad
    then he forced his successors to choose between a deficit and even worse
    inflation. The total money spent by government is a more accurate indicator
    of a nation's economic health than deficits because the more a government
    spends, the less is available for useful purposes like capital investment.
    When a government spends more than it has you must add either the cost of
    the credit (deficit route) or the cost to the currency (printing route).
      Economic growth was the only possible escape from this disaster and a
    continuation of Carter's inflation would have never allowed this.
       See You Later
          Dean H.

    Message: 53910
    Author: $ Dean Hathaway
    Category: Politics
    Subject: Alan H./Spending
    Date: 08/26/88  Time: 17:15:41

      Congressmen DO NOT answer for their YES votes on unnecessary spending in
    other areas because all the spending is bundled together in huge
    appropriations bills. If the President could veto specific pork-barrel items
    within the bill, then the Congressman would be forced to go on record as
    voting in favor of that specific pork-barrel item in order to over-ride a
    veto. The deals made call for each Representative to support the wasted
    spending of the others in order to get their own passed. If they had to do
    this on a specific, recorded vote their constituents would be able to see
    exactly what their taxes were being thrown away on, and by whom. The fact
    that voters might support excess spending in their own district, but not in
    others, would then work to reduce overall spending instead of increase it.
       See You Later
          Dean H.

    Message: 53911
    Author: Tom Leykis
    Category: Chit Chat
    Subject: Sheriff
    Date: 08/26/88  Time: 19:44:02

    To all good Republicans; it is self evident that the only choice
    for Sheriff of Maricopa County is DICK God Be Here.

    Message: 53912
    Author: $ Beauregard Dog
    Category: Chit Chat
    Subject: last
    Date: 08/26/88  Time: 20:05:51

    What are you trying to do, make the citizens of this fine county pay for
    your bad relations with your management?

    Message: 53913
    Author: $ Daryl Westfall
    Category: Chit Chat
    Subject: Last 2
    Date: 08/27/88  Time: 01:27:18

    I doubt that he has anything to complain about anymore. He went from a two-
    bit (snooz) news station, to a 50,000 watt AM-STEREO Talk Super-Station! (An
    AM-STEREO Talk Station? Wait a second, here...) Anyhow, it's true!

    Message: 53914
    Author: $ David Burkhart
    Category: Chit Chat
    Subject: Dean
    Date: 08/27/88  Time: 04:50:00

    It is that "getting them on the record" that makes a line-item veto such an
    attractive proposition -- even if they had a one-third over-ride instead of
    the two-thirds needed for an override of a total veto.

    Message: 53915
    Author: $ Apollo SYSOP
    Category: Commercial
    Subject: almost the end....
    Date: 08/27/88  Time: 10:30:11

            Sniff....  Still some GOOD items left.....
    I will be OUT OF BUSINESS here in a few more days.
    Come visit...

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    Message: 53916
    Author: $ Sandy SYSOP
    Category: War!
    Subject: Last
    Date: 08/27/88  Time: 10:49:03

            Yes, let's get this SALE over with ......
    The sooner you all out there buy everything,
    the sooner I can spend an entire day at home.

    Message: 53917
    Author: $ Apollo SYSOP
    Category: Vote
    Subject: The Vote?
    Date: 08/27/88  Time: 12:07:02

    If the election where held today, I would vote for

     Michael Dukakis and Lloyd Bentson (Democrat)
     George Bush and Dan Quayle (Republican)
     Ron Paul and Andre Marrou (Libertarian)

    Poll results to date:
     7     18    9

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    If you have not oted, please do so.

    Note:   The Republicans seem to be winning!!!

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    Message: 146
    Author: $ Sandy SYSOP
    Category: Mighty SYSOPs
    Subject: Last
    Date: 08/26/88  Time: 19:07:54

            No wonder you act the way you do.....
    Worlds are pretty hard to swallow, you know.
    It would take more than a crutch to help you
    if you swallowed this world.

    It would take one gigantic Alka-selser ......
    and I am afraid you would not have any room
    left to take it ..........

    A catch 22 or a 'taste' of hell?  hmmmmmmm....

    Message: 147
    Author: $ Daryl Westfall
    Category: Daryl DickHead
    Subject: Sandy/Cross
    Date: 08/27/88  Time: 01:32:20

    Well, for the pearl, I see several years of pain and irritation for a clam,
    even more pity for one that is subject to the production of an industrial
    pearl.

    Seriously, why isn't the symbol of Christian religion a halo? Or an
    outstretched hand? Or a rainbow? Why must it be a representation of a wooden
    crucifix in which a body is nailed onto, severing blood vessels, bone,
    tendons, muscle, and other living tissue?

    Message: 148
    Author: $ Zak Woodruff
    Category: Zak Drools
    Subject: last
    Date: 08/27/88  Time: 08:12:28

    Pretty appropriate, I'd say.

    Message: 149
    Author: $ Sandy SYSOP
    Category: Mighty SYSOPs
    Subject: Cross
    Date: 08/27/88  Time: 10:58:06

            The Death of Jesus and His victorious duel with the devil seem to be
    the crux of the Christian faith. This point of the Christian faith is
    attacked most by the 'unbelievers' and Rod (hehe). To emphasize the fact
    that the Resurrection of Jesus indeed happened the Christians were forced to
    proclaim such Resurrection in a more outwardly fashion.
            The blame lies with the world (hehe)...........

            Now if Jesus was pushed off a rainbow, died, and rose again, the
    Christians would be forced to outwardly proclaim their belief by wearing a
    rainbow.

    Message: 150
    Author: $ Ann Oudin
    Category: Annie the ASSp
    Subject: Daryl/cross
    Date: 08/27/88  Time: 11:48:18

    The cross symbolizes the reason Christ was born - to die for our sins. To a
    Christian - this should mean happiness - joy - life! If the halo was the
    Christian symbol it would not be appropriate because saints can have halos.
    The cross is a positive symbol, not a negative one. Even one with Jesus on
    it. Ta Ta =*--ANN--*=

    Message: 151
    Author: $ Ann Oudin
    Category: Annie the ASSp
    Subject: Dying on cross
    Date: 08/27/88  Time: 11:55:31

    It is one of the worse ways there is to die. It is neither swift or
    painless. It was made worse buy nailing Him to it which was not usually the
    way - they were usually tied, with their arms slung over the cross beam.
    To die that way is by aphixiation - those that were tied could pull
    themselves up to breath and prolong dying - if He pulled Himself up, it
    ripped at His hands and feet, causing extreme pain. It probablly took all
    day or most of it! There are better ways to die!

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     1:        Actually, having nails driven into thy hands and feet made it much
     2:easier to die.  A more lingering and painful death would be to just hang
     3:there waiting for death, becoming thirsty and hungry.
     4:        Shock would set in when spikes were driven into the flesh thus
     5:making the end come sooner.  Shock takes away pain.
     6:
     7:        What gave this God fellow the right to create me?  I resent that
     8:very much.  It is as if I have no importance of my own, that I am just a
     9:thing that can be done with as pleased.  I would very much like to punch
    10:this fellow God in the face.  What right does He have to create these angel
    11:characters, never they suffer a moment in their life and then He creates all
    12:these very imperfect, ugly, humans who fight and kill, hate, fuck, have a
    13:totally irrational world?  I again resent that.
    14:        On the other, more rational hand, I am an atheist and I understand
    15:this world more on a scientific level than on a fairy tale level.  We humans
    16:may actually get our shit together....perhaps a thousand years from now.
    17:        Religion is just one of many reasons why we humans are not together
    18:people.  But I do understand why so many cling so desparately to it.
    19:Because they have gone insane from everyday reality, that is why.
    20:        Oh well.  * - *  See You Around The Universe * - *       Rod
    21:end

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    Message: 152
    Author: $ Rod Williams
    Category: Rod - 60's Hippie
    Subject: Cross
    Date: 08/27/88  Time: 12:35:13

            Actually, having nails driven into thy hands and feet made it much
    easier to die.  A more lingering and painful death would be to just hang
    there waiting for death, becoming thirsty and hungry.
            Shock would set in when spikes were driven into the flesh thus
    making the end come sooner.  Shock takes away pain.

            What gave this God fellow the right to create me?  I resent that
    very much.  It is as if I have no importance of my own, that I am just a
    thing that can be done with as pleased.  I would very much like to punch
    this fellow God in the face.  What right does He have to create these angel
    characters, never they suffer a moment in their life and then He creates all
    these very imperfect, ugly, humans who fight and kill, hate, fuck, have a
    totally irrational world?  I again resent that.
            On the other, more rational hand, I am an atheist and I understand
    this world more on a scientific level than on a fairy tale level.  We humans
    may actually get our shit together....perhaps a thousand years from now.
            Religion is just one of many reasons why we humans are not together
    people.  But I do understand why so many cling so desparately to it.
    Because they have gone insane from everyday reality, that is why.
            Oh well.  * - *  See You Around The Universe * - *       Rod

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