### Apollo BBS Archive - December 8 - 9, 1988

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    What about on CURRENCY from the U.S. Mint... Should it contain the words
    "In God We Trust"?

    [A] It should remain as is!
    [B] It should be removed!

    Poll results to date:
    [A] 18   [B] 10

    $tatus Club Bulletin Board command:$C

    Message: 4886
    Author: $ Beauregard Dog
    Category: Answer!
    Subject: Skydiving
    Date: 12/07/88  Time: 18:01:11

    Yeah, for some reason, the FAA takes a dim view of planes dropping things
    out of the sky.  The USPA licenses people, and the FAA is happy as long as
    these people follow the FAA and USPA rules for skydiving.

    Message: 4887
    Author: $ Paul Savage
    Category: Chit-Chat
    Subject: Ann's poem
    Date: 12/08/88  Time: 05:49:09

    I'm not usually one to read much poetry, but that was beautiful. I felt it
    as I read it, and that is significant.
    Congratulations.

    Message: 4888
    Author: $ Ann Oudin
    Category: Chit-Chat
    Subject: Poem
    Date: 12/08/88  Time: 07:07:19

    Thank you all for liking my poem - but I really don't know if that's poetry
    or not. I always thought poems had to rhyme to be called that. -=*) ANN (*=-

    Message: 4889
    Author: $ James Hawley
    Category: Answer!
    Subject: Last
    Date: 12/08/88  Time: 10:05:30

    Well if you really feel that way perhaps you should send the $200 back to
    them.

    Message: 4890
    Author: $ David Burkhart
    Category: Chit-Chat
    Subject: Ann
    Date: 12/08/88  Time: 13:45:46

    Very good.  As Paul said, it is full of emotion.

    Message: 4891
    Author: $ Nick Ianuzzi
    Category: Question?
    Subject: Music SIG
    Date: 12/09/88  Time: 04:27:14

    Why did you get rid of the Music SIG? It got plenty of use, particularly
    when there was something new and noteworthy on the market.

    Message: 4892
    Author: $ Paul Savage
    Category: Chit-Chat
    Subject: Ann/poetry
    Date: 12/09/88  Time: 04:51:06

    I always thought that poetry had to rhyme also, but lately (the last several
    years) another school of thought has developed, in which ideas, thoughts,
    dreams, whatever, can be put on paper in a way that, even though it has no
    rhyme, the reader actually feels as well as reads the thoughts of the
    writer. I'm certainly no expert on the subject, but I do know that your poem
    made me feel what I am sure you felt as you wrote it. Your husband must have
    grown a few feet the first time he read it. God bless.

    Message: 4893
    Author: $ Ann Oudin
    Category: Chit-Chat
    Subject: Paul/last
    Date: 12/09/88  Time: 07:04:33

    Yes, I always thought poetry should rhyme - but I feel odd tring to do that
    - you know - what rhymes with cat? - bat, tat, hat, etc. I just put down
    what I feel at the moment. -=*) ANN (*=-

    Message: 4894
    Author: $ Jeannie Innajug
    Category: Chit-Chat
    Subject: poetry
    Date: 12/09/88  Time: 07:32:00

    About..............Poetry..........

    When I was in school in English Lit the teachers tried to convince me that
    poetry called blank verse was the wave of the future.  It's supposed to have
    meter (the da dah da dah da dah beat) but doesn't have to rhyme.

    Guess I'm old fashioned, but if it neither rhymes nor has a meter I feel its
    just prose.  If it has meter but no rhyme I may read it once or so, but it
    doesn't grab me.  Oh well..........

    See Y'aa..............

    Jeannie

    Message: 4895
    Author: $ Gary Jones
    Category: Question?
    Subject: Sigs
    Date: 12/09/88  Time: 15:12:35

    So, Cliff, what is this mysterious RGB SIG?

    Message: 4896
    Author: $ Rod Williams
    Category: Answer!
    Subject: Gary/RGB
    Date: 12/09/88  Time: 16:46:24

            For people who have RGB monitors.

    Creative Corner Bulletin Board command:$C

    Message: 1985
    Author: $ Gary Jones
    Category: Poetry
    Subject: poems....
    Date: 12/07/88  Time: 16:32:15

    (sigh)

    Sure wish someone would post a $200 poem on *this* sig.

                                                       ****  Gary   ****

    Message: 1986
    Author: $ Apollo SYSOP
    Category: Kontest
    Subject: Santa?
    Date: 12/08/88  Time: 00:08:01

            Who can do the best ASCII Santa?

    Anyone interested?  This is the ART SIG you know!

    *=* SYSOP Cliff *=*

    Message: 1987
    Author: $ Joe Bottomlee
    Category: Answer!
    Subject: Sound Blue
    Date: 12/08/88  Time: 03:34:28

    The color blue sounds sad. While the color yellow is bright and cheery, and
    the color green has a fresh and springy sound.

                                     <<< Joe >>>

    Message: 1988
    Author: $ Ann Oudin
    Category: Chit-Chat
    Subject: Rod - the war
    Date: 12/08/88  Time: 07:08:25

    Would you be willing to show us the scar? -=*) ANN (*=-

    Message: 1989
    Author: $ Ann Oudin
    Category: Question?
    Subject: Cliff #1986
    Date: 12/08/88  Time: 07:10:04

    Does that post mean we are having a Santa Kontest? -=*) ANN (*=-

    Message: 1991
    Author: $ Ann Oudin
    Category: Poetry
    Subject: Another poem
    Date: 12/08/88  Time: 09:07:14

                                   The Faceless One.

    Not knowing who your are,
    I still despise you greatly.
    The mysteries you possess,
    I envy you in my ignorance.

    Lives are spent in fear of you.
    We wait for your arrival
    like the sheep wait for the Jackal,
    trembling with an unknown ancient dread.

    Love and possessions  have no meaning to you.
    You rob, steal and cheat,
    yet, no law can hold you in it's grasp.
    You are a law above all laws.

    In complete happiness,
    you are there, waiting.
    In the joy of a new born,
    you can not be put asunder.

    You miss nothing.
    The oak bends to your will.
    You have no mercy.
    I shake my fist in your face.

    Your ears are deaf to pleading.
    Prayer is futile.
    Righteous anger holds little meaning.
    Promises fall at your feet.

    Yet, what is this I feel?
    Side by side with my hatred and anger,
    is another subtle evasive thing.
    It has not formed fully.

    Such thoughts I must put aside.
    The sky is beautiful.
    The wind is clean.
    Stay away. Don't come near.

    But, no.
    You are still there.
    The wind cannot disperse you.
    It only scatters your seeds.

    Oh, dreaded death,
    can it be that someday
    I will embrace you?
    Will my arms be welcoming?

    My soul trembles with these heavy thoughts.
    Your mysteries still prevail.
    Be it truth, I will except.
    But until then, I hate you.

    Message: 1994
    Author: $ Ann Oudin
    Category: Poetry
    Subject: More poem
    Date: 12/08/88  Time: 09:09:55

                            LATE SUMMER - EARLY FALL

    The shadows grow longer.               Wood smoke is ready.
    Leaves, still green,                   The clouds grow heavier.
    flutter in the breeze                  Can the merriment of
    and sometimes spin away.               children be heard?

    The water is sharp                     Late summer and early fall.
    with mazes of brightness.              It makes two promises.
    It seems to have more substance.       One of death!
    It closes in around me.                One of new life!

    The sounds have changed somehow.
    The bird's song is more muted
    and mellow - less crisp.
    The flowers look tired.

    The insects seem to be looking
    for one last feast.
    Their job almost done.
    It is time for rest.

    Message: 1995
    Author: $ Mike Carter
    Category: Question?
    Subject: What does..
    Date: 12/09/88  Time: 01:07:12

    The smell of reflected moonlight taste like ?

    Message: 1996
    Author: $ James Hawley
    Category: Answer!
    Subject: Last
    Date: 12/09/88  Time: 03:44:54

    Stale cheese.

    Message: 1997
    Author: $ Jeannie Innajug
    Category: Chit-Chat
    Subject: Hawley/Carter/last
    Date: 12/09/88  Time: 07:34:01

    Hey..........You guys..........

    Don't youse guys got no poetry in your souls?

    Jeannie

    Message: 1998
    Author: $ Rod Williams
    Category: Question?
    Subject: Ann/1st Poem
    Date: 12/09/88  Time: 16:48:59

            Was that an anti-religious poem.  Very good.

    The outer COSmos Bulletin Board command:$C

    Message: 2411
    Author: $ Gary Jones
    Category: Cosmos-Chatter
    Subject: Sandy/bullseye?
    Date: 12/07/88  Time: 16:34:16

    Sandy,

    Are you sure it was bullseye?  and not bulls...?

    Just checking!

                                                       ****  Gary   ****

    Message: 2412
    Author: $ James Hawley
    Category: Answer !
    Subject: Rod
    Date: 12/07/88  Time: 17:00:57

    I don't believe in Santa Claus.  (Now the tooth fairy is another matter.)

    Message: 2413
    Author: $ Beauregard Dog
    Category: Cosmos-Chatter
    Subject: Hawley/tooth fairy
    Date: 12/07/88  Time: 18:03:28

    You and Jim Lippard

    Message: 2414
    Author: $ Ralph Blehm
    Category: $#!+
    Subject: Sandy
    Date: 12/08/88  Time: 06:05:56

    What in the world are you going to do with a BULL"S EYE?????????
                         !!! SHOOT THEM ALL RALPH !!!
                                 :-)

    Message: 2415
    Author: $ Ann Oudin
    Category: Cosmos-Chatter
    Subject: THANG culprit
    Date: 12/08/88  Time: 07:12:40

    Yeah - Hawley is high on my list of suspects! And yes, my mail box excites
    me now! Hahahahaha. -=*) ANN (*=-

    Message: 2416
    Author: $ Ann Oudin
    Category: Thang!
    Subject: More Santagram
    Date: 12/09/88  Time: 07:21:30

    Got another one and it reads ---
    Dear Ann,
       "Who ever is doing this is very clever. I wish the persons(s) would come
    forward and make themselves known - however, I'm pretty sure who it is - but
    then again, there is a slightest doubt ....?" (The latter was from one of my
    posts)
    A slightest doubt about what? I sent the letter - I know how badly you want
    to find out about who is sending the red THANGS to you? If you would like to
    find out, maybe you ought to follow your instincts, and confront the
    culprits publically - again! Be a good girl and your Christmas wishes will
    be fulfilled!

                       HO!  HO!  HO!

                      Santa Claus
    So, the mystery starts to narrow down - this Santagram states that it is
    'culprits' not A culprit that is doing it - it also hints that I have met
    this person(s) before. It also proves it definitely is someone on Apollo
    because it quotes one of my messages. Does any one have comments on who they
    think it is? Sigh. -=*) ANN (*=-

    Message: 2417
    Author: $ Jeannie Innajug
    Category: Cosmos-Chatter
    Subject: Thang/letter
    Date: 12/09/88  Time: 07:36:48

    Hey...............Annie...........

    Do any of your letters have California postmarks?

    I do a lot of silly things, but Santagrams in my sleep????  Noooooop!

    See Y'aa..............

    Jeannie

    Message: 2418
    Author: $ Gary Jones
    Category: Cosmos-Chatter
    Subject: Way Below Normal
    Date: 12/09/88  Time: 15:17:57

    So now we know.  The WBN SIG was abolished because all of us COS siggers
    were already way below normal anyway!  Now I have to ask, just what was
    going on on that now defunct SIG that was (or wasn't) so terrible?  I never
    asked to join because I thought I was supposed to beg somebody to join.

                                                       ****  Gary   ****

    Message: 2419
    Author: $ Rod Williams
    Category: Answer !
    Subject: Gary/WBN
    Date: 12/09/88  Time: 16:55:05

            In order to get $tatus on that SIG, you had to be a complete
    asshole.

    Bulletin Board command:$C

    Message: 55921
    Author: $ Apollo SYSOP
    Category: Chit Chat
    Subject: Last few
    Date: 12/07/88  Time: 15:53:10

    The use of News Print for wrapping paper is just to give multiple use to a
    product already plentiful.

    CHRISTmas trees are just that!  They are not called Solstice Trees

    *=* SYSOP Cliff *=*

    Message: 55922
    Author: $ Apro Poet
    Category: Politics
    Subject: Chomsky
    Date: 12/07/88  Time: 18:21:24

      Interventionism was theoretically renounced by Presidents
    Hoover and Roosevelt in favor of the Good Neighbor policy,
    though the renunciation was conditional on good behavior; the
    Roosevelt Administration relied on the threat of force to
    install the dictatorship of Fulgencio Batista in Cuba when it
    was feared that US commercial interests might be threatened
    by the civilian government of Dr. Ramon Grau San Martin.  But
    this was an exception.  By that time, European competition -
    the major concern - had been effectively contained, and the
    US reigned unchallanged, capable of attaining its objectives
    by political and economic power.  Furthermore, domestic
    military forces trained and supplied by the US could impose
    order and stability - that is, could guarantee the Fifth
    Freedom - without the Marines.  Dictatorships, however brutal
    and corrupt, were acceptable to the Hoover and Roosevelt
    Administrations as long as they satisfied this condition.
      By the time the Good Neighbor policy was officially
    announced, Nicaragua was effectively controlled by the most
    important of these domestic guardians of order, Somoza's
    National Guard, while the Trujillo dictatorship ruled in the
    Dominican Republic through the medium of the National Guard,
    also established as a result of US intervention.  Martinez
    had taken over in El Salvador after the *Matanza*, soon to be
    recognized by the US, and most of the rest of the region was
    also in safe hands by 1940 as the US replaced France and
    Britain.  Meanwhile Roosevelt created the Export-Import Bank
    to subsidize US exports and in general acted to increase the
    dependency of the Central American nations on the US for
    food, as they shifted to export crops to the US, with grim
    long-term effects.  The Good Neighbor policy relied on
    regimes which occasionally went through the forms of
    elections for propaganda purposes, meanwhile maintaining a
    status quo in which the Fifth Freedom was preserved and "2
    percent or less of the population in four of the five Central
    American nations controlled the land and hence the lives of
    the other 98 percent."  Dictatorships were thus "not a
    paradox but a necessity for the system, including the Good
    Neighbor policy," which "carried on interventionism in
    Central America and tightened the system far beyond anything
    Theodore Roosevelt and Woodrow Wilson probably imagined."
    The good Neighbor policy was summed up by journalist William
    Krehm, who observed its effects on the spot: "First there had
    been intervention to impose a puppet and then - in the name
    of non-intervention - propaganda, funds, and connivance to
    keep him in the saddle."
      Quite generally, state policy served to guarantee business
    interests.  In the rare conflicts between them, the state
    generally prevailed, a consequence to be expected, as LaFeber
    aptly observes, "if a *system* was to be maintained."  This
    pattern is quite a regular one.  The state is concerned to
    maintain a system based on the Fifth Freedom, and the
    parochial interests of particular corporations, even major
    ones such as the oil companies, sometimes conflict with this
    end, in which case the state, representing the long-term
    global interests of US capitalism, generally prevails.  At
    times, the very same individuals will reach different
    decisions in their institutional roles as corporate
    executives or state managers, not surprisingly, given the
    different framework of planning guided by essentially the
    same interests.  Such cases may foster a conception of
    independence of the state from dominant business interests,
    largely an illusion, though not entirely so as a close
    examination indicates.

    Message: 55925
    Author: $ Apollo SYSOP
    Category: Chit Chat
    Subject: IGWT one more time
    Date: 12/07/88  Time: 20:20:46

    United States Code Annotated:  Title 31 Money and Finance
    ref Section 324a. Inscription on currency.
    1. Constitutionality   (Case Law)
    This section and section 186 of Title 36 requiring that inscription "In God
    We Trust" appear on all United States currency and coins, and declaring
    national motto of the United States to be "In God We Trust," have nothing to
    do with the establishment of religion, and merits of claim of
    unconstitutionality were insubstantial.  Aronow  v.  U.S., C.A. Cal. 1970,
    432 F.2d 242

    Message: 55926
    Author: $ Apollo SYSOP
    Category: Chit Chat
    Subject: New users...
    Date: 12/07/88  Time: 21:17:58

            You do not need to have $tatus to post or start discussions on this
    PUBlic board.
            You may also use the ost office without being a member.....
    Give us a try, we want you to join us!

    *=* SYSOP Cliff *=* "Cliff Winters"

    Message: 55928
    Author: $ Ann Oudin
    Category: Chit Chat
    Subject: Alan/trees
    Date: 12/08/88  Time: 07:03:44

    The trees that have the tops cut off are usually used for lumber later. Also
    when you cut the top off a tree - it grows out fuller. However - I have two
    wierd trees that I continuely cut the tops off them - they do not get fuller
    and keep growing the tops back. -=*) ANN (*=-

    Message: 55929
    Author: $ Jeannie Innajug
    Category: Chit Chat
    Subject: Christmas Tree
    Date: 12/08/88  Time: 07:29:02

    Hey..........Everyone

    I put up a Christmas tree every year for the kids.  I have an artificial
    tree that I've used for several seasons.  To get the evergreen smell, I buy
    an armful of cut off branches at a tree lot.

    As far as symbolism, I have taught my youngsters that the Christmas tree is
    merely a symbol, much like a birthday cake is, of the more important event
    that we are celebrating, the anniversary of the birth of the Messiah.

    As for any irreligionists and so-called atheists, thank you for lighting
    your tree every year to help us commemorate the birth of the Son of God.  I
    know the origins of the festival go back to pagan times, but I feel that if
    you were really against the concept of God, you would celebrate the
    solstice on the 21st, and stay at work on the 25th of December!

    See Y'aa..............

    Jeannie

    Message: 55930
    Author: $ Jeannie Innajug
    Category: Question?
    Subject: Hey!!!!!
    Date: 12/08/88  Time: 07:33:42

    Hey...............Cliffie.........

    Have you been playing with the sigs lately?

    I seem to have mislaid a couple.  (DOS and Way-out)

    See Y'aa..............

    Jeannie

    Message: 55931
    Author: $ David Burkhart
    Category: Chit Chat
    Subject: last
    Date: 12/08/88  Time: 13:51:09

    Yeah, what gives?

    Message: 55932
    Author: $ Jim Lippard
    Category: Chit Chat
    Subject: 55929
    Date: 12/08/88  Time: 15:12:15

    Until the fourth century, the celebration which occurred on December 25th
    was the festival of Natalis Invictus (celebrated by members of the cult of
    Sol Invictus).  Emperor Constantine merged the celebration of the birth of
    Jesus with this festival.  Before then, Jesus' birth was celebrated on
    January 6th.

    Message: 55933
    Author: $ Apro Poet
    Category: Politics
    Subject: Chomsky
    Date: 12/08/88  Time: 18:21:08

    4 Planning For Global Hegemony

      As World War II came to an end, US ideas concerning Latin
    America were clarified by Secretary of War Henry Stimson (May
    1945), in a discussion of how we must eliminate and dismantle
    all regional systems dominated by any other power,
    particularly the British, while maintaining and extending
    our own.  With regard to Latin America, he explained
    privately: "I think that it's not asking too much to have our
    little region over here ((namely, Latin America)) which never
    has bothered anybody."
      It should be noted that US officials had a ready explanation
    for the distinction between control by the US and by other
    powers.  As Abe Fortas explained with regard to US
    truseeship plans in the Pacific, which Churchill regarded as
    a cover for annexation: "When we take over the Marianas and
    fortify them we are doing so not only on the basis of our own
    right to do so but as part of our obligation to the security
    of the world...  These reservations were being made in the
    interest of world security rather than of our own security...
    what was good for us was good for the world."  On such
    assumptions, naturally regarded highly by US officials and
    ideologists, quite a range of actions became legitimate.
      In keeping with Stimson's conception, the Joint Chiefs of
    Staff, through 1945 and early 1946, insisted that
    non-American forces must be kept out of the Western
    Hemisphere, which "is a distinct military entity, the
    integrity of which is a fundamental postulate of our security
    in the event of another world war."  In January 1947,
    Secretary of War Patterson added that the resources of
    Latin America were essential to the US because "it is
    imperative that our war potential be enhanced...during any
    national emergency."  Patterson gave an expansive
    interpretation of the Monroe Doctrine, consistent with the
    Wilson corollary: the Docrine meant "that we not only refuse
    to tolerate foreign colonization, control, or the extension
    of a foreign political system to our hemisphere, but we take
    alarm from the appearance on the continent of foreign
    ideologies, commercial exploitation, cartel arrangements, or
    other symptoms of increased non-hemispheric influence."  The
    US must have "a stable, secure, and friendly flank to the
    South, not confused by enemy penetration, political, economic
    or military."  The prime concern was not the USSR but rather
    Europe, including sales of arms by the British to Chile and
    Ecuador, by Sweden to Argentina, and by France to Argentina
    and Brazil.

    Message: 55935
    Author: $ Apollo SYSOP
    Category: Chit Chat
    Subject: 55932
    Date: 12/08/88  Time: 19:00:29

    Natalis Invictus... Is that the "Birth of the Unconquered"?
    Sol Invictus, Is that the "Sun God (of the ancient Romans) Unconquered"?
    Now it's "Natal Christ Invictus" or "The birth of Christ the unconquered",
    thank you.... and Amen

    *=* SYSOP Cliff *=*

    Message: 55936
    Author: $ Bob Thornburg
    Category: Religion
    Subject: What happened to the
    Date: 12/08/88  Time: 22:07:17

    Christian SIG??

    Message: 55937
    Author: $ Todd Reese
    Category: Chit Chat
    Subject: last
    Date: 12/08/88  Time: 22:50:47

    Cliff's an athiest now.

    Message: 55938
    Author: $ Apollo SYSOP
    Category: Religion
    Subject: Bob...
    Date: 12/08/88  Time: 22:57:51

            We need to reorganize the CHRistan SIG...  Got any Ideas?
    We were not getting enough input nor enough Christian members.

    *=* SYSOP Cliff *=*

    Message: 55939
    Author: $ Apollo SYSOP
    Category: Chit Chat
    Subject: 55937/Todd
    Date: 12/08/88  Time: 23:00:45

    Not on your life!   I am a CHRISTian, and darn proud of it!

    *=* In God We Trust *=*

    Message: 55940
    Author: $ Apollo SYSOP
    Category: Entertainment/Movies
    Subject: E.T. on Laser Disk
    Date: 12/08/88  Time: 23:04:51

    Real neat in Stereo and... the Laser Version is "Letterboxed" to preserve
    the artistic integrity intended by the filmmakers, this film has been
    transferred in the original aspect ratio.

    Resolution...out of this world....

    *=* SYSOP Cliff *=*

    Message: 55941
    Author: $ Paul Savage
    Category: Chit Chat
    Subject: Cliff/CHRSIG
    Date: 12/09/88  Time: 04:46:14

    We may not have had a large number of people, but we did have some quality
    messages, without the usual harrassment from the atheist left.
    If we are taking any kind of vote here, I am for restoring it as was and as
    is immdeiately. If we are running a dictatorship, forget I said anything.
    Jesus Christ is Lord, in God we trust, and may he smile on Apollo and sysops
    all day.

    Message: 55942
    Author: $ Ann Oudin
    Category: Question?
    Subject: Cliff
    Date: 12/09/88  Time: 07:01:53

    How about the Way Below Normal sig?  Where else has our little group got to
    go? Ha -=*) ANN (*=-

    Message: 55943
    Author: $ Jeannie Innajug
    Category: Chit Chat
    Subject: sigs
    Date: 12/09/88  Time: 07:27:02

    Hey.........Cliffie................

    And what is this RGB sig?  do you need an RGB monitor on your PC to
    join?

    Huh?

    See Y'aa..............

    Jeannie

    Message: 55944
    Author: $ Apollo SYSOP
    Category: Chit Chat
    Subject: SIGs
    Date: 12/09/88  Time: 10:05:55

            The WAY Below Normal SIG was just another COS SIG... A duplication
    and a waste of space....   If you want, we can re-name the COS SIG to the
    WAY Below Normal SIG.

            The RGB SIG has nothing to do with Monitors....

            The MUSic SIG: Well the leader of that SIG went silent and I felt
    the SIG was slowing down...  If I am wrong, I am sure you guys will let me
    know.  However, a MUSIC category has been added to the  SIG.  Music is
    a form of art you know... Why have a special sig.  Burkhart thinks we should
    have no sigs... he he he

            The CHRistian SIG will be restructured...  I am looking for IDEAs
    here from "Christians" only.

    But what did not seem to be working, you knock down and try something else,
    till you find the right formula.

    *=* SYSOP Cliff *=*

    Message: 55945
    Author: $ Rod Williams
    Category: Chit Chat
    Subject: ME
    Date: 12/09/88  Time: 17:00:48

            I am an atheist and damn proud of it!

    *=* Rod, God & Bob Bulletin Board entered *=*

    Rod, God & Bob Bulletin Board command:$C

    Message: 1
    Author: $ Apollo SYSOP
    Category: Chit-Chat
    Subject: New SIG
    Date: 12/08/88  Time: 12:16:02

            Anyone who wants access to this SIG, please leave me mail.
    But be warned, you may have to listen to ROD, God and Bob!

    *=* SYSOP Cliff *=*  In God We Trust!

    Message: 2
    Author: $ James Hawley
    Category: Chit-Chat
    Subject: Last
    Date: 12/09/88  Time: 03:48:57

    Just take out the God and everything will be fine.

    Message: 3
    Author: $ Apollo SYSOP
    Category: GOD's Word!
    Subject: Genesis
    Date: 12/09/88  Time: 10:13:25

    In the beginning God created the heaven and earth.
    And the earth was without form, and void; and darkness was upon the face of
    the deep.  And the Spirit of God moved upon the face of the waters.
    And God said, Let there be light: and there was light.

    Message: 4
    Author: $ James Hawley
    Category: Chit-Chat
    Subject: Last
    Date: 12/09/88  Time: 13:36:09

    I really don't think that Rod (or Bob for that matter) would want their
    names associated with this god dude.

    Hawley, James
    Ianuzzi, Nick
    Williams, Rod

    Message: 5
    Author: $ Rod Williams
    Category: Rod's thoughts
    Subject: Damn
    Date: 12/09/88  Time: 17:04:16

            In the beginning there was Rod and after eating a whole lot of space
    crap, he found he had to take a shit.  Well, He did and that is how planet
    Earth was created.  The creatures who dwell on this ball of shit aren't too
    bright.  In fact the less bright you are the more you like it here.  That is
    why I am all for frontal lobotomies.
                                    Rod

    Message: 6
    Author: $ Rod Williams
    Category: Shit-Chat
    Subject: Oh damn.
    Date: 12/09/88  Time: 17:08:08

            The river, lakes and oceans were created when Rod had to take a pee.
    He pissed for days and it filled all of the crevices in the earth.  Now
    people go swimming and bathing in His pee.  They like it.
            Rod is making the Russians nice.  He is making them much nicer than
    the Americans in order to make the U.S. look bad in the eyes of the world.
    Rod would like to pork anything that moves on the firmament.

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     1:        Interesting SIG, this RGB.....hmmmmmmmmmm.  Happy Solstice, Cliffy
     2:and Sandy.

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     1:        You mentioned the time zones when we were chatting and I took an
     2:extra step.  As we know this planet is divided into 24 zones and going on
     3:that information I divided each zone into 60 minutes each.  I have realized
     4:the knowledge that across the street from my house (west), it is one minute
     5:earlier.
     6:        Does this mean that if something bad would happen to me I could run
     7:quickly across the street and watch it?
     8:        With love,
     9:                                Rod
    10:Happy Solstice
    11:

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     1:        Please ask Cliff to put you in the RGB SIG.
     2:                        Rod
     3:P.S.  Happy Solstice

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     1:Boo!  Bob eats shit.
     2:                Rod
     3:Happy Solstice