### Apollo BBS Archive - June 11, 1991

           You're traveling through another dimension.  A dimension not only of
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    are that of imagination.  That's the sign post up ahead.   Your next stop -

           The [TWI]light Zone SIG....

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    Message: 4822
    Author: $ Bill Burkett
    Category: Up Yours
    Subject: Beau - To The Main
    Date: 06/11/91  Time: 07:23:09

    > I can't believe it.  The City Manager actually convinced Ortega
    > to take back his resignation.

    Let's go to the [M]ain BBS!

    Message: 4823
    Author: $ Roger Mann
    Category: Quickie
    Subject: Rod/fingers
    Date: 06/11/91  Time: 07:50:19

    No, in fact, they felt like they were never going to stop playing.

    Message: 4824
    Author: $ Michael James
    Category: Cosmos-Chatter
    Subject: drugs
    Date: 06/11/91  Time: 09:08:59

    What's a beta blocker?

    Message: 4825
    Author: $ Ann Oudin
    Category: Cosmos-Chatter
    Subject: Roger on 'Jane'
    Date: 06/11/91  Time: 09:31:24

    I too tried Marijuana years ago when it was the 'in thing to do' and was
    disappointed. Not that it wasn't pleasuable - the first time I tried it, I
    laughed for several hours - over nothing! The second time we tried it & the
    last, it was baked in brownies. It made me kind of sick to my stomach and I
    never tried it again. Could not see where it was better than booze and it
    was so much more expensive. But I guess the only thing I really didn't like
    was the 'coming down from it'! One minute you were high - the next - down
    low! Where with booze, it's a slow coming out of it - sometimes, painfully
    slow! :) *>>> ANN O. <<<*

    Message: 4826
    Author: $ Apollo SysOp
    Category: Up Yours
    Subject: Bill???
    Date: 06/11/91  Time: 10:44:42

            Re: "Let's go to the [M]ain BBS!"

    Errr, I hit [M] and got the [M]ain menu....  I think you either ment the
    'main [B]ulletin board' or the '[PUB]lic board'.  When ever one encloses
    a letter in the < and >, it means this is the sequence to be entered to get
    there or the place to be.

            You don't want to be 'Cub SysOp' forever...  do you?

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    Message: 4827
    Author: $ Roger Mann
    Category: Cosmos-Chatter
    Subject: beta blocker
    Date: 06/11/91  Time: 13:10:52

    Ah, the innocence of the young. A beta-blocker is used to control high blood
    pressure and to slow the heart rate of those who have had a heart attack. It
    is a depressent.

    Message: 4828
    Author: $ Roger Mann
    Category: Cosmos-Chatter
    Subject: Ann on 'Jane'
    Date: 06/11/91  Time: 13:11:57

    Quite so. As with any drug we all have different reactions. I prefer
    beta-blockers.

    Message: 4829
    Author: $ Michael James
    Category: Cosmos-Chatter
    Subject: beta blocker
    Date: 06/11/91  Time: 14:33:55

    I thought it was a new copy protection scheme for Sony VCRs.

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    Message: 1644
    Author: $ Melissa Dee
    Category: Junk Culture
    Subject: GT
    Date: 06/11/91  Time: 06:33:14

    Sorry you all missed it!  In total, there were 12 or 13 of us.  Dean H and
    Bonnie were there as well as Nick, Michael James, and Beau and myself.  The
    movie was great, of course, and many of the people there were seeing it for
    the first time.  Too bad many of them already knew the secret of "Rosebud".

    Peter, my friends have changed with my names, ya know.  Too bad you missed
    them.  Sharron and Dave, Dean, Randy, Kristi, Carol are pretty neat people.
    In fact, we had a Twin Peaks GT last night.  Anyone else see it?  Weird,
    frustrating stuff.  I saw that BOB took Windom's soul and that, even though
    we saw BOB in the mirror at the end, that it was Windom saying "How's
    Annie?" and laughing.

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    Message: 1794
    Author: $ Paul Savage
    Category: Chit-Chat
    Subject: Ann
    Date: 06/11/91  Time: 05:46:13

    Rod always seems to be right to you, probably because you are standing in
    the same mire with him.
     By the way, did you know that, according to World Health Organization
    figures, some 53,000 non-smokers died last year as a direct result of
    second-hand smoke? True fact. Scientifically observed and proven.
    Go pass the poison! (Somewhere else!)

    Message: 1795
    Author: $ Paul Savage
    Category: Chit-Chat
    Subject: Rod
    Date: 06/11/91  Time: 05:51:32

     Your suppositions are, of course, your own opinions, admitted by your own
    statement of "I believe". They are also unfounded by any scientific study.
     The effects of tobacco smoke, both direct and second hand, have been proven
    beyond a shadow of a doubt, by many, many scientifically conducted studies,
    held over long periods of time, and are not opinion, but documented
    evidence. These are facts that people like you and Ann would continue to
    sweep under the rug and ignore. The evidence keeps piling up, however, and
    the rug is exceedingly difficult to walk on.

    Message: 1796
    Author: $ Melissa Dee
    Category: Answer!
    Subject: Rod
    Date: 06/11/91  Time: 06:34:58

    By the way, Rod, I thought I'd let you know that your posts as of late have
    been great entertainment for me.  Thanks.  The tale of your first pot
    experience was a classic.

    Message: 1797
    Author: $ Ann Oudin
    Category: Shut Up Already!
    Subject: Mike on Rod & Ann
    Date: 06/11/91  Time: 09:36:49

    ... and you are in the same league with Cliff and Pauley - wrong all the
    time!
    I have came to the conclusion that the 3 of you are jealous of Rod and his
    free thinking/living. He is not hamstrung in life - is free to choose. You
    are not! *>>> ANN O. <<<*

    Message: 1798
    Author: $ Ann Oudin
    Category: Chit-Chat
    Subject: Pauley on mire.
    Date: 06/11/91  Time: 09:39:16

    Re: your "Rod always seems to be right to you, probably because you are
    standing in the same mire with him"!

    That's not mire ... it's S#*T and we're all standing in it! Just look down.
                             *>>> ANN O. <<<*

    Message: 1799
    Author: $ Apollo SysOp
    Category: Chit-Chat
    Subject: Ann
    Date: 06/11/91  Time: 11:06:48

            I am FREE in my thinking.  You are the one caught in the grip of a
    poison drug that is not free.  You dispute scientific fact and have no
    credentials to do so.  I assume it is your inner self trying to cover up the
    sickness and death your habit has caused others close to you.

            As for my FREE thinking, I got battered in the CHRistian SIG
    yesterday and fear to go there today or for the next week or so, all because
    of my free thinking.  You know not of what you speak!  I do speak my mind,
    and it was not destroyed like Rods on drugs.  I get high on life!

            Ingestion into the lungs is figured in parts per million.  I bet if
    I were to have the air in my computer room analyzed, there would be no
    harmful jet plane fuel found.  Or volcano ash.  In your smoking, there would
    be found high concentrations of tar and many other poisons that KILL people.

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    Message: 1800
    Author: $ Michael James
    Category: Chit-Chat
    Subject: all
    Date: 06/11/91  Time: 14:35:19

    You're all wrong wrong wrong wrong wrong wrong wrong wrong wrong wrong
    wrong!

    Message: 1801
    Author: $ Beauregard Dog
    Category: Answer!
    Subject: Michael/last
    Date: 06/11/91  Time: 20:46:40

    No, they're not.

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    Subject:Smoke Screen 1 of 2

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     1: it
    22:over a city that doesn't even recognize the threat and I again wondered.
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    Subject:SS # 2

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     1: asses with more than one
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    24:sheet of toilet paper as it is wasteful and messes up the environment.

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    Message: 1802
    Author: $ Rod Williams
    Category: Chit-Chat
    Subject: Smoke Screen 1 of 2
    Date: 06/11/91  Time: 21:28:10

    I was working out by the airport at 40th St. and University this morning.
    I was sitting in my van with my side door open making a key to a Ford
    ignition lock that was still in the column.

    A Chevy Blazer loaded with people pulled in and stopped just ahead of me,
    leaving the auto's exhaust pipe even with me and my open door.  Then the
    driver gets out and leaves the engine running.

    After a few seconds I became very aware of the harsh fumes that were
    enveloping me.  I immediately thought of the second hand smoke debate as I
    grabbed the column and my equipment and fled to a less (sic) polluted spot.

    I wondered how many smokers it would take to emit that amount of harsh
    fumes.

    It is this auto pollution more than burning plant material that is
    unhealthy but since most everyone in our society is dependent on the
    internal combustion engine for survival it is conveniently overlooked.

    Just then an airplane was taking off from Sky Harbor and I could see a
    large dark tail of ghastly smoke trailing behind the plane, spreading it
    over a city that doesn't even recognize the threat and I again wondered.

    Message: 1803
    Author: $ Rod Williams
    Category: Chit-Chat
    Subject: SS # 2
    Date: 06/11/91  Time: 21:28:46

    Picking on a small cigarette when our entire environment contains much
    deadlier, unseen quantities of pollutants is like blaming General George
    Armstrong Custer for being out of uniform after the Battle of the Little
    Big Horn.

    I too cannot 'get down' on auto pollutants as I depend on them for my
    living.  Even if I did not drive the food I eat is trucked or flown in and
    most everything else I depend on is also.

    So, I guess the chicken shit idea is to become a non-smoker of cigarettes
    and then bitch and complain to anyone who will listen.  Look at me, they
    say, I am a non-smoker and look how those who smoke are messing up my
    health.  If they want to complain then I suggest they go after more meatier
    matters and leave the smallest of the pollution problems alone.  Or is that
    their only hope in being heard because they know their power is limited to
    small inconsequential matters?

    I am reminded of security guards and such, people of little power who tend
    to abuse their position and push to the limit anything that will bring grief
    to others.  This gives a certain type of individual, the small, a feeling of
    power and satisfaction.

    While we are at it, let's stamp out wiping our asses with more than one
    sheet of toilet paper as it is wasteful and messes up the environment.

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    Subject:Final

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     1:This sig sure has become interesting of late.
     2:
     3:Paul, these statistics you mention are simply a smoke-screen to get your
     4:mind off real issues.  They were no doubt made up to look good.
     5:
     6:Since you are so into 'research' then how many of us are dying or being
     7:weakened by airplane, auto, and industrial pollution?
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     9:I still think you are cute although out of the ball park.
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    11:                                Rod
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    13:P.S.  Melissa, I'll try to keep you entertained.
    14:end

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    Message: 1804
    Author: $ Rod Williams
    Category: Chit-Chat
    Subject: Final
    Date: 06/11/91  Time: 21:33:31

    This sig sure has become interesting of late.

    Paul, these statistics you mention are simply a smoke-screen to get your
    mind off real issues.  They were no doubt made up to look good.

    Since you are so into 'research' then how many of us are dying or being
    weakened by airplane, auto, and industrial pollution?

    I still think you are cute although out of the ball park.

                                    Rod

    P.S.  Melissa, I'll try to keep you entertained.

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    Message: 75658
    Author: $ Bill Burkett
    Category: Politics
    Subject: Mike Breaks My Heart
    Date: 06/11/91  Time: 07:22:12

    Kwitcherbitchin!

    Government employees have the closest thing to assured income this society
    offers.  Sure, there have been some layoffs, but they're so rare as to be
    called "historic" when they happen.  The poor suckers at McDonnell-Douglas,
    U-Haul, wherever, are lucky to get 2 column-inches on page 6 of the Business
    section and their unemployment pay.

    Then there are those of us with businesses of our own, constantly watching
    the books to see if we'll have ANY income in the next month.

    > There's bound to be a cash-register charlie behind some bushes
    > at an insurance company parking lot waving his shiny radar gun
    > at me. Ready to explode from behind those bushes on his
    > Kawasaki to deliver his financial death penalty to me.

    Loved it, Mike.  You DO have a flair!

    Message: 75659
    Author: $ Bill Burkett
    Category: Politics
    Subject: Ortega's A Crybaby
    Date: 06/11/91  Time: 07:22:35

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    Subject:Cash-register charli

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     1:Excellent post Mike.
     2:
     3:I think we all have something in common.
     4:end

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    Message: 75659
    Author: $ Bill Burkett
    Category: Politics
    Subject: Ortega's A Crybaby
    Date: 06/11/91  Time: 07:22:35

    > I can't believe it.  The City Manager actually convinced Ortega
    > to take back his resignation.  I think that it should have been
    > accepted, and then the stupid new regulations should have been
    > rescinded.

    Agreed.  The proposed policy requiring notification of the City Manager on
    undercover operations was undoubtedly a bad idea.  But Ortega should have
    been told not to let the door hit him on the way out.  Ortega's crybaby act
    will serve only to embolden him; further removing the Police Department from
    control by the public.  We can only hope our Mayor and Council members have
    been sufficiently angered that THEY'LL pay closer attention to Ortega and
    his cronies.  Fat chance.

    > ...we're at status quo ante.

    When we're talking about government, shouldn't that be "status quo ante up?"

    Message: 75660
    Author: $ Beauregard Dog
    Category: Chit Chat
    Subject: Little
    Date: 06/11/91  Time: 07:41:11

    Yeah, I saw him zipping around the office a couple of times yesterday.
    Didn't get a chance to say 'hi' to him, though.

    Message: 75661
    Author: $ Apollo SysOp
    Category: Politics
    Subject: Ortega
    Date: 06/11/91  Time: 12:28:44

            Mr. Ortega of the Phoenix Police Department is going to be
    'history' come this friday.  Today he delivered his resignation to City
    Hall.

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    Message: 75662
    Author: $ Apollo SysOp
    Category: Politics
    Subject: Clean Gas?
    Date: 06/11/91  Time: 12:31:50

            Mobil Gas is going to sell de-oxygenated fuel YEAR round....

    I smell something political about this beyond the stench of the gas itself.

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    Message: 75663
    Author: $ Apollo SysOp
    Category: News Today
    Subject: Volcano
    Date: 06/11/91  Time: 12:34:47

            Subic Bay....  My brother's boy is there, after being in the Gulf.
    A mere 30 miles away is a volcano that may blow at any time.  If it blows
    big time, is 30 mile far enough?  I don't think so.....

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    Message: 75664
    Author: $ Roger Mann
    Category: Politics
    Subject: Ortega?
    Date: 06/11/91  Time: 13:08:04

    Again ?

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    Subject:Cliff/30 miles

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     1:If he isn't evacuated by the time it blows, 30 miles isn't far enough.
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    Message: 75665
    Author: $ Roger Mann
    Category: Politics
    Subject: Cliff/gas
    Date: 06/11/91  Time: 13:08:59

    What politics. Mobil said it was cheaper to keep the gas the same the year
    round. Or don't you believe it ? (Sounds fishy to me, too)

    Message: 75666
    Author: $ Apro Poet
    Category: Answer!
    Subject: Cliff #75663
    Date: 06/11/91  Time: 18:01:47

      That's in the Phillipines, right?  They evacuated the base
    nearest the volcano.  There's only essential personnel
    there now.

    Message: 75667
    Author: $ Apro Poet
    Category: Politics
    Subject: Robber Barons
    Date: 06/11/91  Time: 18:12:00

      It was the firm Drexel, Morgan and Company that was given
    a U.S. government contract to float a bond issue of $260
    million.  The government could have sold the bonds directly;
    it chose to pay the bankers $5 million in commission.
      On January 2, 1889, as Gustavus Myers reports:
         ... a circular marked "Private and Confidential" was
         issued by the three banking houses of Drexel, Morgan &
         Company, Brown Brothers & Company, and Kidder Peabody &
         Company.  The most painstaking care was exercised that
         this document should not find its way into the press or
         otherwise become public....  Why this fear?  Because
         the circular was an invitation ... to the great
         railroad magnates to assemble at Morgan's house, No.
         219 Madison Avenue, there to form, in the phrase of the
         day, an iron-clad combination.... a compact which would
         efface competition among certain railroads, and unite
         those interests in an agreement by which the people of
         the United States would be bled even more effectively
         than before.
    There was a human cost to this exciting story of financial
    ingenuity.  That year, 1889, records of the Interstate
    Commerce Commission showed that 22,000 railroad workers
    were killed or injured.
      In 1895 the gold reserve of the United States was

    Message: 75668
    Author: $ Apro Poet
    Category: Politics
    Subject: Robber Barons
    Date: 06/11/91  Time: 18:21:52

    depleted, while twenty-six New York City banks had $129
    million in gold in their vaults.  A syndicate of bankers
    headed by J.P. Morgan & Company, August Belmont & Company,
    the National City Bank, and others offered to give the
    government gold in exchange for bonds.  President Grover
    Cleveland agreed.  The bankers immediately resold the bonds
    at higher prices, making $18 million profit.
      A journalist wrote: "If a man wants to buy beef, he must
    go to the butcher....  If Mr. Cleveland wants much gold, he
    must go to the big banker."
      While making his fortune, Morgan brought rationality and
    organization to the national economy.  He kept the system
    stable.  He said: "We do not want financial convulsions and
    have one thing one day and another thing another day."  He
    linked railroads to one another, all of them to banks, banks
    to insurance companies.  By 1900, he controlled 100,000
    miles of railroad, half the country's mileage.
      Three insurance companies dominated by the Morgan group
    had a billion dollars in assets.  They had $50 million a
    year to invest -- money given by ordinary people for their
    insurance policies.  Louis Brandeis, describing this in his
    book *Other People's Money* (before he became a Supreme
    Court justice), wrote: "They control the people through the
    people's own money."

    Message: 75669
    Author: $ Apollo SysOp
    Category: Bulletins
    Subject: Shooting
    Date: 06/11/91  Time: 18:37:03

            My truck was shot at today 2:20pm and another car in the area had
    its window shot out.  The police think they know the house it came from.

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    Message: 75670
    Author: $ Apollo SysOp
    Category: Chit Chat
    Subject: Apro on Subic Bay
    Date: 06/11/91  Time: 18:38:59

            They evacuated the base 10 miles from the volcano.  Subic Bay is 30
    miles away and I have not heard if that was vacated or not.  Subic Bay is a
    very large Navy base... I have been there myself.

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    Message: 75671
    Author: $ Felix Cat
    Category: War!
    Subject: Mike
    Date: 06/11/91  Time: 19:31:01

    Re:  Between them, the Government and the IRS, I'm being bled to death.

    I know how you feel Mike.  I feel the same way.  Most people don't really
    know how much they pay the government because it is slowly deducted from
    their pay.  I have to pay quarterly in cash.  I also pay the full Social
    Security of over 15%.  And that's 15% of my gross income before any
    deductions are allowed.  Then I pay about 24% income tax, 6.7% sales tax,
    and a number of other little silly taxes.

    And then some people wonder why I get upset when the government spends
    $19,000,000 studying cow farts.

    Message: 75672
    Author: $ Felix Cat
    Category: Question?
    Subject: Cliff
    Date: 06/11/91  Time: 19:33:40

    Re:  I smell something political about this beyond the stench of the gas
    itself.

    You mean to say they're not doing it because they have a concern about the
    earth's environment?

    Message: 75673
    Author: $ Felix Cat
    Category: Question?
    Subject: Cliff
    Date: 06/11/91  Time: 19:35:06

    Re:  The police think they know the house it came from.

    You mean someone is actually dumb enough to shoot at cars from their own
    house?

    Message: 75674
    Author: $ Beauregard Dog
    Category: Chit Chat
    Subject: Clark AFB/Subic Bay
    Date: 06/11/91  Time: 20:43:33

    They moved the people from Clark and are housing them at Subic Bay...

    Message: 75675
    Author: $ Beauregard Dog
    Category: Chit Chat
    Subject: Mobil
    Date: 06/11/91  Time: 20:44:22

    Another interesting tidbit -- seems they're probably going to gasahol
    instead of the MTBE-additive stuff they've been selling here during the
    winter months.

    Message: 75676
    Author: $ Rod Williams
    Category: Chit Chat
    Subject: Cash-register charli
    Date: 06/11/91  Time: 21:36:42

    Excellent post Mike.

    I think we all have something in common.

    Message: 75677
    Author: $ Rod Williams
    Category: Chit Chat
    Subject: Cliff/30 miles
    Date: 06/11/91  Time: 21:39:01

    If he isn't evacuated by the time it blows, 30 miles isn't far enough.

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     1:Your posts entitled "Robber Barons" is excellent reading and something to
     2:remember.  That is why I sent the entire post to my printer.  Required
     3:reading.
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    Author: $ Rod Serling
    Category: Sight & Sound
    Subject: Twilight Zone
    Date: 09/03/90  Time: 20:14:08

            You're traveling through another dimension.  A dimension not only of
    sight & sound but of mind.  A journey into a wondrous land whose boundaries
    are that of imagination.  That's the sign post up ahead.   Your next stop -
            The Twilight Zone........

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    Author: $ Roger Mann
    Category: Sight & Sound
    Subject: Ch15
    Date: 09/04/90  Time: 09:42:03

    Channel 15 had a reprise of old TZ episodes, including some from the movie
    I must say that the originals are the best.

    Message: 3
    Author: $ Jeff Beck
    Category: Macabre
    Subject: To Serve Man
    Date: 09/04/90  Time: 17:57:28

    I prefer a nice orange sauce, myself.

    Message: 4
    Author: $ Melissa Dee
    Category: Sight & Sound
    Subject: Hello?
    Date: 09/05/90  Time: 23:04:45

    Hello
      Hello
         Hello....

    Echo
      Echo
         Echo....

    Just testing.

    Message: 5
    Author: $ Mike Carter
    Category: Sight & Sound
    Subject: Just ahead
    Date: 09/10/90  Time: 21:21:22

    ..is a floating carcass of a thimble doll with nylon hair...
    ..is a porcelan eye with horse hair eyelashes..
    ..is a mirror about to be smashed..
    ..is another episode of life in the black and white zone.

    Message: 6
    Author: $ Nick Ianuzzi
    Category: Bizarre
    Subject: Rod Serling
    Date: 09/12/90  Time: 03:34:07

    Rod Serling apparently had quite a sense of humor.  He once struck a deal
    with a major airline to allow him to place a cardboard cutout of an alien
    creature outside an aircraft window.  His plan was to tell his seat
    companion to look out the window, and then raise the window shade revealing
    the alien and scaring his neighbor to death.  Unfortunately, the draft from
    the engines ripped away the alien, so the joke didn't go over too well.

    Message: 7
    Author: $ James Hawley
    Category: Journey
    Subject: SIG
    Date: 09/19/90  Time: 00:15:44

    We do not exist.

    This is not real.

    Do not pass go, do not collect welfare.

    Message: 8
    Author: $ Ann Oudin
    Category: Dimension
    Subject: Me
    Date: 09/19/90  Time: 07:49:58

    Heck, I've been in the (a) Twilight Zone all my life and since I've joined
    Apollo, I've been in the other 'Zone' as well! -=*) ANN (*=-

    Message: 9
    Author: $ Evan Mecham
    Category: Bizarre
    Subject: The Primary
    Date: 09/19/90  Time: 23:40:47

            I just don't know what went wrong, I should have won!

    Symington is 90% bad, and Goddard is 100% bad for Arizona.

                           - E.M.-

    Message: 10
    Author: $ Paul Savage
    Category: Bizarre
    Subject: ?????
    Date: 09/20/90  Time: 08:28:41

     How did I get here? Am I caught in Steve's yellow sub-routine, or have I
    found a black hole? Never heard of this
    place............gee..............it's dark in here!
    shudder.........shake........shiver...........

    Message: 11
    Author: $ Todd Reese
    Category: Bizarre
    Subject: Dreamscapes....
    Date: 09/20/90  Time: 17:19:31

    I dreamt of the Borg last week.  I was a crew member, along with Captain
    Piccard and the others.  In my dream, the captain was, to our demise,
    permanently made a Borg.  The Borg successfully captured the Enterprise, and
    we had to surrender it to them along with the instruction manual (I don't
    know why, but the Enterprise had an instruction manual in my dream).  We
    were all moved to an underground prison of some sort while waiting our turns
    to be adapted to serve the Borg.

    For some reason the Borg remind me of Terry Goddard.

    Message: 12
    Author: $ Michael James
    Category: Sight & Sound
    Subject: I don't remember
    Date: 09/21/90  Time: 09:22:52

    I don't remember what I dreamt last night.

    Message: 13
    Author: $ Beauregard Dog
    Category: Sight & Sound
    Subject: Others
    Date: 10/01/90  Time: 19:51:36

    Serling, Rod

    Yes, you've entered... Cliff's Palace of Fun.

    Message: 14
    Author: $ Apro Poet
    Category: Journey
    Subject: Destiny
    Date: 12/17/90  Time: 17:42:51

    "You can never plan the future by the past."
                              - Edmund Burke

    Message: 15
    Author: $ Bill Burkett
    Category: Bizarre
    Subject: Ulp..
    Date: 12/18/90  Time: 08:39:37

    What the heck am I doing here?

    DUCK!  Here comes that door again...

    Message: 16
    Author: $ Gordon Little
    Category: Dimension
    Subject: Realities
    Date: 12/19/90  Time: 13:04:28

    Is this place real?  I have been here once before, but was too short of time
    (and also too bewildered) to think of anything to say.  Now once again I
    have stumbled through that crack in the cosmos, that electronic wormhole,
    and found myself here again.

    I cannot prove it is real.  I can look at the script of this logon session
    afterward and see "Twilight Zone", but for all I know I might have edited
    those words in myself while sleepwalking.

    But then, how do we know anything is real?  In front of me is a mirror.  To
    my right, another mirror.  I can see myself, balding spots and everything.
    On the table is a beer can, several boxes of diskettes, a printer, a box of
    Kleenex, a litter of papers, a glass of water, pencils and pens, a cassette
    recorder, a deck of cards, a litter of papers.  How do I know they are real?
    Only by the evidence of my senses, which are unreliable and detect only part
    of the electromagnetic and sonic spectrum.  For all I know there might be a
    host of alien life swarming around the room, visible only in the X-ray band.

    And how do I know that my senses can be relied upon?  There might be faulty
    wiring somewhere.  What I see, hear, feel, and even do might not be real.  I
    only *believe* it is real.  This doesn't worry me, because things happen
    more or less as I expect them to, and my life seems to work.  It is how I
    "know" that I am sane -- whatever that means.  But as I keep saying to
    everybody: beware of that "fact" -- it is *only a belief*!

    Message: 17
    Author: $ Roger Mann
    Category: Bizarre
    Subject: Back Again
    Date: 04/25/91  Time: 10:31:00

    It's baaacck.

    Message: 18
    Author: $ Michael James
    Category: Dimension
    Subject: Cable
    Date: 05/03/91  Time: 10:47:08

    Bill must have stumbled across the way to open the hidden door...

    Message: 19
    Author: $ Ann Oudin
    Category: Bizarre
    Subject: * I'll ...
    Date: 05/05/91  Time: 12:06:35

    ... be back"!     *>>> ANN O. <<<*

    * Quoting Arnold Swartznegger in the Terminator - worlds greatest movie.

    Message: 20
    Author: $ Melissa Dee
    Category: Bizarre
    Subject: Whewww.
    Date: 05/13/91  Time: 12:56:39

    I thought I was in the PHAntom Zone...

    Message: 21
    Author: $ Roger Mann
    Category: Dimension
    Subject: ST/NG
    Date: 05/14/91  Time: 13:03:00

    I saw ST/NG and Beverly Crusher kissed Riker. Now, Riker as of late has
    grown grossly obese and has quite puffy eyes. Watching Crusher kiss Riker
    was enough to make me turn off the television and enter the Twilight Zone.

    Message: 22
    Author: $ Beauregard Dog
    Category: Journey
    Subject: The Door
    Date: 05/16/91  Time: 21:59:53

    Yeah, I'd like to know why Cliff decides to turn it on, and then how Apollo
    manages to "decide" to let someone in.  This was my 1680th login, caller
    #160211, 21st caller today.   Time of login:  21:48:05

    If y'all would post this info and any other you can think of, perhaps future
    visitors can solve the puzzle?

    Message: 23
    Author: $ Cliff Kolostow
    Category: Journey
    Subject: Wow!
    Date: 05/17/91  Time: 13:26:41

            This is my first trip into this place as a regular user.  I found
    the experience to be fun.  My name of Cliff Kolostow does not give me any
    special powers.  I trigger the Zone just like the rest of you.  I do take
    exception with Dog's last post... Cliff turned on nothing, maybe one of the
    SysOps did, but don't count on them admitting anything, after all, this
    place does not officially exist.

            Now, I wonder when and if I will see a response to this lost in time
    post?   Till my next [J]ourney into the [TWI]light Zone....  I wish you all
    good health!

                                    clif- *=* Chairman of the Board *=*

    P.S. Yes, I was surprised to see the [TWI]light Zone message at log in.

    Message: 24
    Author: $ Bill Burkett
    Category: Sight & Sound
    Subject: I've got blisters...
    Date: 05/20/91  Time: 07:47:28

    ...on my fingers!

    Message: 25
    Author: $ Don Hicks
    Category: Imagination
    Subject: Hmmmm...
    Date: 05/22/91  Time: 19:39:39

    Oh no, not againnnnnnnnn...

    Message: 26
    Author: $ Felix Cat
    Category: Bizarre
    Subject: Huh?
    Date: 05/30/91  Time: 19:18:51

    Where did this place come from?  I thought it was something new until I
    noticed the dates going back to 9/3/90.

    Message: 27
    Author: $ Roger Mann
    Category: Journey
    Subject: Stats
    Date: 06/03/91  Time: 21:03:46

    160700, 24, 6/3/91

    Twilight Zone Bulletin Board command:?

    [$]  : Scan from when last on
    [$C] : Scan Continuous
    [$R] : Resume $tatus scan after abort
    [D]  : Display/set scan settings
    [E]  : Enter a message
    [F]  : Find author, category or subject
    [G]  : Goodbye
    [J]  : Journey to a SIG
    [M]  : Main Menu
    [O]  : Other SIG members
    [P]  : Post Office
    [R]  : Retrieve message
    [RC] : Retrieve Continuous (###-###)
    [S]  : Scan messages
    [SP] : Scan Prompted
    [U]  : Update a message
    [W]  : White pages
    [Z]  : Zap a message

    Twilight Zone Bulletin Board command:E

    Enter category, [?] for list:?

    [B]izarre                [D]imension
    [I]magination            [J]ourney
    [M]acabre                [S]ight & Sound

    Enter category, [?] for list:M

    You chose Macabre

    Subject:Death. my pretty

    Enter a line containing only an [*] to stop
     1:When I die I want the worms and maggots to consume my flesh, then belch.
     2:end

    Edit command:E0

     0: Subject:Death. my pretty
    Find text:Death.
    Replace text:Death,

     0: Subject:Death, my pretty
    Find text:

    Edit command:S

    Saving message...
    The message is 28

    Twilight Zone Bulletin Board command:R28

    Message: 28
    Author: $ Rod Williams
    Category: Macabre
    Subject: Death, my pretty
    Date: 06/11/91  Time: 21:45:54

    When I die I want the worms and maggots to consume my flesh, then belch.

    Twilight Zone Bulletin Board command:G

    Goodbye, Rod Williams
    You were on 24:30

    Please hang up now

    NO CARRIER

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