### Apollo BBS Archive - May 4, 1998

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    Message: 3437
    Author: $ James Taranto
    Category: Chit-Chat
    Subject: Rod, you idiot
    Date: 05/03/88  Time: 21:27:30

    Ethiopia is ruled by a communist dictator who is purposely starving people
    to death.

    Message: 3438
    Author: $ Robert Simpson
    Category: Chit-Chat
    Subject: Last
    Date: 05/03/88  Time: 21:36:27

    I heard that the government holds all that food we send them at the docks
    for months at a time just for the hell of it.

    Message: 3439
    Author: $ Beauregard Dog
    Category: Chit-Chat
    Subject: Last
    Date: 05/03/88  Time: 22:09:01

    The rebels also destroy food cargoes, though I personally think the
    government causes most of the problems.

    Rev. Beau

    Message: 3440
    Author: $ Ann Oudin
    Category: Chit-Chat
    Subject: Beau Dog
    Date: 05/04/88  Time: 08:33:02

    Governments cause most problems! =*--ANN--*=

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    Subject:Food/Ethopia

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     1:        It was just a thought.

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    Message: 52034
    Author: $ James Taranto
    Category: Question?
    Subject: KFYI
    Date: 05/03/88  Time: 21:26:00

    Is there any truth to the rumor that a journalist from California has
    arranged for a bomb to be planted at KFYI later this week?

    Message: 52035
    Author: $ Robert Simpson
    Category: Chit Chat
    Subject: Typical plug..
    Date: 05/03/88  Time: 21:40:33

    Yes, it's about that time of year again...(I know, Cliff, you probably hate
    me for this, but oh well...man's gotta make a living, you know!)

    Here goes..."The Black Castle BBS version 4.2 300/1200  843-6782"  The
    fastest Commodore BBS you've ever seen...and, in my opinion, the best!  (But
    I wrote it, so I'm biased.)
         Give it a call...You'd swear it was an IBM board.

    Oh...That's NOT the only good thing about it--it's just that it's so rare to
    see a fast Commodore board (kinda like seeing a three legged dog walk
    backwards on a tightrope while barking the tune from Meow Mix.)

    Message: 52036
    Author: $ Pat Stoddard
    Category: War!
    Subject: KFYI
    Date: 05/03/88  Time: 22:20:10

    Did anyone hear Fred Weber's editorial, read at the beginnig of every shift
    change of hosts? My father said he heard it and Weber claims that some of
    the people protesting against KFYI have threatened harm to the persons and
    property of the station and some of the sponsors, and that is why the
    superior court issued the court order?

    Later...                                                    Pat

    Message: 52037
    Author: $ Paul Savage
    Category: War!
    Subject: Alan/KFYI
    Date: 05/04/88  Time: 05:28:59

    Who was it said "I do not agree with a word you say, but I will defend to
    the death your right to say it."?
    You may be right in saying that I would not have much area of agreement with
    Tom Leykis, but to deny him his basic rights, and further, todeny those who
    would support him their basic rights, is the most outrageous thing I have
    heard in ages.
     Thanks for the info, and thank you Peter for the letter. I think I shall
    join the fray.

    Message: 52038
    Author: Mike Stackpole
    Category: War!
    Subject: KFYI
    Date: 05/04/88  Time: 06:31:24

    Voltaire said I may not like what you have to say, but I will defend to the
    death your right to say it.
      Fred Weber's editorial did not accuse any of the people named in the suit
    of threatening "property" of the station or sponsors.  He said the people
    named had threatened the station and the sponsors -- and this is true.  They
    threatened a boycott.  I none of the sample letters I saw was there ever a
    threat to damage the station or sponsors.  At no time did I see a move tp
    pressure  sponsors to break their contracts with the station.  The letters
    did state that the sponsors would not be patronized because Tom was not on
    the air, but the desire was for sponsors to report this fact to the station.
     If Fred Weber chooses to interpret this as a move toward a secondary
    boycott, well, there's nothing we can do about it except pay for lawyers.
      Let's keep the pressure on, folks.  It's our rights at stake.

    Message: 52039
    Author: Mike Stackpole
    Category: Chit Chat
    Subject: Anne/Bards/life
    Date: 05/04/88  Time: 06:34:10

    Mike Cranford did Bards 1 and 2.  He left Interplay so they brought me in to
    pinch hit for Bards 3.  Wasteland was the first computer game I did, and
    reviews have just begun to hit for it.  So far, so good.
      As for having an interesting life, if sitting around waiting for royalty
    checks sounds interesting, um, you're welcome to it.  The greatest thing
    about being a freelancer is that I don't have a boss to hate and I get to
    work on projects I like.  I guess that's worth the hassle of waiting for
    payment...
    Mike

    Message: 52040
    Author: $ Alan Hamilton
    Category: War!
    Subject: KFYI
    Date: 05/04/88  Time: 07:57:06

        It was the Mechamites that Weber said threatened his personel and
    station.  To answer his question, "What does he [Pat Murphy] mean when he
    says where were you when the Mecham supporters were trying to shut down our
    newspapers?" Murphy ment, when a group was using the same tactics or worse
    that the Friends of Tom Leykis were using, you didn't sue them.  Why the
    selective prosecution?

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    Message: 52041
    Author: $ Ann Oudin
    Category: Chit Chat
    Subject: Mike/Royalties
    Date: 05/04/88  Time: 08:30:24

    Would just love sitting around waiting for royalty checks on a best seller I
    wrote! OF couse, I've got to start the book first. =*--ANN--*=
    P.S. I'll bet you play D & D don'tcha?

    Message: 52042
    Author: Apro Poet
    Category: Chit Chat
    Subject: Reality Club
    Date: 05/04/88  Time: 17:30:30

      Steven Levy: I think we'd better begin by explaining what
    the Reality Club is.
      John Brockman: The motto of the Reality Club is "to arrive
    at the edge of the world's knowledge, seek out the most
    complex and sophisticated minds, put them in a room
    together, and have them ask each other the questions they're
    asking themselves."  We hold free-for-all meetings once or
    twice a month, usually in New York.  The evening consists of
    a talk or a presentation by a speaker of about one hour to
    Reality Club members.  The talk is followed by lively and
    often impolite discussion.  We charge the speakers to
    represent an idea of reality by describing their creative
    work, life, and the questions they're asking themselves.  We
    also want them to share with us the boundaries of their
    knowledge and experience.
      SL: Who are these people?
      JB: We have a simple criterion for choosing speakers.  We
    look for people whose exceptional creative work has expanded
    our notion of who and what we are.  In addition to the 14
    contributors in this issue of *Whole Earth Review*, the 75
    speakers have included psychologist Rollo May, zen master
    Richard Baker-Roshi, Abbie Hoffman, poet Michael McClure,
    essayist Annie Dillard, poet Gerd Stern, energy experts
    Amory and Hunter Lovins, Ellen Burstyn, Betty Freidan,

    computer scientist Edward Feigenbaum, plant physiologist
    Rupert Sheldrake, physicist Fritjof Capra, religious
    historian Elaine Pagels, anthropologist-shaman Michael
    Harner, director Richard Foreman, gerontologist Roy Walford,
    sociologist Sherry Turkle, and Stewart Brand.
      SL: How did the Reality Club get started?  What led to
    this thing happening?
      JB: James Lee Byars, the conceptual artist, and I used to
    spend a part of every day walking in Central Park.  He had
    a very interesting theory that reality was something you
    took off the tongue.  I was intrigued with the idea that the
    words of the world are the life of the world.  And that
    nature is not created, nature is said.  Reality is a process
    of decreation.  It's what people say it is.  The world, the
    world that we know, is not necessarily out there, it's
    invention - human invention - an invention created by a
    finite number of people throughout history.  I thought it
    would be interesting to track such people living today and
    find out what they're thinking about.

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    Subject:Astrologers

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     1:        Astrologers are a funny lot, to be sure.  They must all be
     2:pro-abortionists because to them life does not begin until the fetus is out
     3:in the world because that is when they start their 'charts'.  If they
     4:recognized a fetus as being alive in the first, second or third term then
     5:that would be the time to do it.
     6:        I think it was Carl Sagan who said, The delivery room lights have
     7:more direct influence on the baby than some crummy planet.
     8:        Also according to these astrologists, there are only twelve distinct
     9:type of people on this planet per the 12 signs of the Zodiac.  Hmmmmm.
    10:        Except I asked Petrisko what sign he was and he replied, "Neon".
    11:Hmmmmm.
    12:        Me, I am the little known, thirteenth sign, the sign of the
    13:Chipmonk.

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