From: CHARLES DITTELL     
To: SAURON              
Subject: State of Being 
Date & Time: 11/24/89 17:29:53
Message Number   401

I'm fine!! Yeah, that's it; fine!! -- never better--that's the
ticket!  And yourself??
by the bye, c'mon and visit! Suncoast City BBS, 953-5505
=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=
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From: BEATLE              
To: TURTLE              
Subject: Storyboard...  
Date & Time: 11/24/89 20:44:11
Message Number   402

   Why worry about covering your ass legally? Tyler and Rocky haven't, 
well, mostly Tyler, who's a 15 year old dweeb...so whatever,,,
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From: BEATLE              
To: TURTLE              
Subject: A grave issue  
Date & Time: 11/24/89 20:45:54
Message Number   403

   We all should write to our Congressmen and ask for new artificial 
pimen toes! They will lack something, but my favorite part is the green
outside anyway...
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From: BEATLE              
To: SAURON              
Subject: Abortion       
Date & Time: 11/24/89 20:48:41
Message Number   404

   A person's car or a person's credit areless important than abortion. 
Your idea is totally irrelevant.
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From: BEATLE              
To: CHIP P. UNICORN     
Subject: Farm animal?   
Date & Time: 11/24/89 20:53:35
Message Number   405

  First, I've been gone from here a while, and I am no longer "Lt.
Commander Derek". But to explain what that meant:
  I am on the Commodore user service Q-Link. I joined a Star Trek club 
whose members got a rank and duties, etc. I was a Lt. Commander.
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From: BEATLE              
To: CHIP P. UNICORN     
Subject: Farm animal?   
Date & Time: 11/24/89 20:56:11
Message Number   406

 Second, I WAS KIDDING!!! heheh I never thought that science fiction 
ideas would be true. It was just a JOKE!_!
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From: BEATLE              
To: ANGEL               
Subject: Misogeny       
Date & Time: 11/24/89 20:58:56
Message Number   407

   Would you be happy to know that I respect intelligent women? Good 
point tho. I don't know anyone who would make comments like that (about 
the brain cells thing) but I know if I did, it certainly would get me in
a heap of trouble...
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From: BEATLE              
To: TURTLE              
Subject: Phone exsex    
Date & Time: 11/24/89 21:02:22
Message Number   408

  The exorcism seems pretty simple...did you get it before it puked pea
soup in your face???
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From: BEATLE              
To: TURTLE              
Subject: Half human?    
Date & Time: 11/24/89 21:08:04
Message Number   409

  You must be one damn big reptile! Anyway, how do you plan on looking
like a person to appear at the whatever (MSTF??) meeting that they're 
having?
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From: BEATLE              
To: RUFUS               
Subject: furry pumpkins?
Date & Time: 11/24/89 21:13:39
Message Number   410

  BEANS! I miss him! Alas, he was a casualty of early Fox cancellations.
  Also found it amusing on the cancelled Fox show "Women in Prison" when
Wendie Jo Sperber said "Is this a Spielberg film or something" when she 
has been in a few of 'em...
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From: BEATLE              
To: CHIP P. UNICORN     
Subject: fuzzy pumpkins?
Date & Time: 11/24/89 21:19:40
Message Number   411

  Well, Killer Klowns was one of those products of the meetings where 
they say: "OK, what's the weirdest idea you can come up with. Drugs are
optional." Well, we get stuff like "Killer Klowns From Outer Space" 
"Sorority Babes In the Slimeball Bowl-O-Rama (in which NOBODY bowls)" 
and "Hollywood Chainsaw Hookers"
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From: BEATLE              
To: ANGEL               
Subject: Zsa-zsa        
Date & Time: 11/24/89 21:23:10
Message Number   412

 Oohhhh......I taste corn! (don't ask.....)
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From: BEATLE              
To: CHIP P. UNICORN     
Subject: Randomness     
Date & Time: 11/24/89 21:24:04
Message Number   413

  >Did you hear they're cancelling Easter next year? They found the body
 
 Did I miss something? Explain this...
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From: BEATLE              
To: TURTLE              
Subject: Noah           
Date & Time: 11/24/89 21:25:44
Message Number   414

   You forgot to credit Bill Cosby for the inspiration for that Noah bit
....
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From: BEATLE              
To: TURTLE              
Subject: Easter         
Date & Time: 11/24/89 21:26:44
Message Number   415

  Well, if there is no Easter, then the kids will believe that the 
Easter Bunny was hit by a truck. Tell them it was a speeding UPS truck
during a busy holiday season...
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From: BEATLE              
To: SAURON              
Subject: HER            
Date & Time: 11/24/89 21:28:44
Message Number   416

   I'll be happy to "srew" Ann Landers when you tell us how. 
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From: BEATLE              
To: ROCKY               
Subject: Movies....     
Date & Time: 11/24/89 21:32:05
Message Number   417

  Hey, animation is making a comeback, so don't feel stupid... Anyway, I
would see ANYTHING to do with Lucas or Spielberg. Which makes it sorta 
strange. My 3 favorite directors (Lucas, Spielberg, and Zemeckis) were 
all involved in animation projects in the same year. Kinda weird, since 
major directors don't do cartoon stuff.
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From: BEATLE              
To: TURTLE              
Subject: Movies....     
Date & Time: 11/24/89 21:34:40
Message Number   418

    Yes, I found "Alien" very touching and sentimental. 
    
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From: BEATLE              
To: TURTLE              
Subject: Movies....     
Date & Time: 11/24/89 21:36:12
Message Number   419

TURTLE, you're in luck! "Fantasia" will be released for it's 50th 
anniversary soon. It's gonna use
it's original surround soundtrack too...
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From: BEATLE              
To: BARTHOLOMEW FOX     
Subject: Movies....     
Date & Time: 11/24/89 21:37:48
Message Number   420

  Evidently, you don't know how Disney movies were ORIGINALLY made. When
stuff like "Snow White", "Peter Pan" and "Bambi" were made, the screen 
ratio matched the TV. Letterboxing helps movies like "Ghostbusters"
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From: BEATLE              
To: BARTHOLOMEW FOX     
Subject: Fox & Dinosaur 
Date & Time: 11/24/89 21:39:41
Message Number   421

 I hate to tell ya this, but "The Family Dog" was a 24 minute cartoon 
episode of Spielberg's Amazing Stories TV series. You got jipped outta 
the other 14 minutes.
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From: KEN OBER            
To: SAURON              
Subject: Hey!!          
Date & Time: 11/24/89 22:46:43
Message Number   422

Where the hell are you?  You don't call me anymore!  ACK!
 
HI EVERYONE!  I'M GONNA'BEAT RUFUSCON NOW!  WITH MY CAMERA, SO LOOK GOOD
!!!!!!!!!
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From: SPELLWIND           
To: SCUM OFDE EARTH     
Subject: great movie    
Date & Time: 11/24/89 23:00:16
Message Number   423

  Scum of de Earth, great movie. I just invented it.
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From: TURTLE              
To: BEATLE              
Subject: Misogeny       
Date & Time: 11/25/89 00:49:28
Message Number   424

It's actually pretty amazing how many people in this country in 1989
really believe that females are inherently inferior to males...female
liberation being what it is, though, it's always good to se that
the reverse is also true. ANYWAY, I suspect Sauron is just yanking
people's chains, and doesn't actually subscribe to the women-are-just-
dumber-than-men "thang" (at least, I hope not...but SHHH! I'm giving his
secret away!)
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From: TURTLE              
To: BEATLE              
Subject: Turtle!!!      
Date & Time: 11/25/89 00:51:54
Message Number   425

>You must be one damn big reptile!
 
Not really; Turtle stands about four-foot-eight (a great deal shorter
than Murr...go read the storyboard on Courts of Chaos if you're con-
fused!). Certainly no T. Rex...but not exactly a wimp either. 
('Specially when he's carrying his .75 recoilless around with him...)
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From: TURTLE              
To: BEATLE              
Subject: Movies....     
Date & Time: 11/25/89 00:55:20
Message Number   426

Sorry...old movies weren't shot in Cinemascope, sure, but they weren't
ever shot to the same proportions of a television screen, either.
The screen ratio of old films is still considerably wider than a TV,
and letterboxing is still a good idea if you want to see the entire
picture. (I don't think I could stand to watch a videotape of, say,
Fantasia, unless it was letterboxed...)
                       --An ex-projectionist Turtle
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From: TURTLE              
To: KEN OBER            
Subject: Hey!!          
Date & Time: 11/25/89 00:57:38
Message Number   427

>I'M GONNA'BEAT RUFUSCON NOW!
 
Tyler, how violent! For shame! Are you gonna beat RufusCon all at once,
or one person at a time...??...??
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From: TURTLE              
To: CHARLES DITTELL     
Subject: You know...    
Date & Time: 11/25/89 00:59:47
Message Number   428

You bear a striking resemblance to the lead singer from the Grateful
Dead, whose mug I am being treated to a real nice close-up shot of right
now as I sit watching MTV (or Empty-Vee, if you're looking for
profundity; a walk through the ocean of meaning of most rock videos
would barely get your feet wet...) It occurs to me, I've never seen
the two of you together...hmm. You been sidelining as a rock singer
when you're not running SCBBS or what? (AHA, maybe THAT'S why you're
never around!) Don't worry, though; your secret is safe with me; I would
never speculate about it aloud on a public-access message base or 
anything like that...
                       --A musing Turtle
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From: DONTHEN             
To: BEATLE              
Subject: Movies....     
Date & Time: 11/25/89 08:04:13
Message Number   429

The screen ratio for movie screens was always slightly higher than that
of television (TV has a ratio of 1.2:1, I think, and conventional movies
had one of around 1.25 or 1.3:1.  Letterboxing would help movies such as
"Snow White", too.  "Peter Pan" and "Bambi" were both made in the 50's
if I'm not mistaken, which means they had already gone to the modern
screen ratio.  In fact, Walt Disney made all of their animated movies in
Cinemascope when the process became available, and before that, did a
lot of work on 70mm film -- both of which widen the width-to-height
ratio considerably.
===========

From: BARTHOLOMEW FOX     
To: TURTLE              
Subject: Arf!           
Date & Time: 11/25/89 11:58:29
Message Number   431

Well, this iss how it ended upo :
 
GBBS Pro V1.3j         NO
Fox & The Hound        YES (really lousy quality, tho... like no sync)
Fantasia               NO  (something about guns and death and stuff)
Furversions            NO  (but Donthen will bring his)
FurryArt folders       YES
MSTF applications      NO  (just that stupid old version with sp errors)
MSTF diskette          YES (source code to the MSTF forms AA-G & AA-K)
Other tapes            YES
  The Secret of NIMH
  Star Trek Bloopers
  STTNG Electronic Press Kit
  101 Dalmations (that's on THE TAPE with The Fox and the Hound)
 
PERKINS                YES (see ya at 1330)
                                                                 Arf!
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From: BARTHOLOMEW FOX     
To: TURTLE              
Subject: Old MSTF Form  
Date & Time: 11/25/89 12:05:15
Message Number   432

That reminds me... I found the original MSTF application form (a ratty
copy) and figgured out how the whole thing fit on six pages.  It's not
spaced quite as generously.  That, and the questions about the large
household appliances were missing from the first version.  I'm amazed
that such an important question was left off of the original....
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From: BARTHOLOMEW FOX     
To: BEATLE              
Subject: Big Time       
Date & Time: 11/25/89 12:12:21
Message Number   433

Spielberg & Mitchroney have recently finished a project know as "Tiny
Toons."  With Mitch in there, should be kinda funny...
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From: BARTHOLOMEW FOX     
To: BEATLE              
Subject: Movies....     
Date & Time: 11/25/89 12:13:50
Message Number   434

> Evidently, you don't know how Disney movies were ORIGINALLY made.
 
Evidently, you don't know how Disney movies were originally made. (grin)
Some of them used a 1.33:1 aspect ratio.  The rest used what was common
at the time, which is still wider than television (which is something
like 1.2:1... I'd hafta look it up and I'm 100 km from my room, so that
would be dificult).  Once cinemascope came out, Disney went with it.
Letterbox would make any of those look MUCH better, but I doubt Disney
(Inc) would do that... the way it is, people will still pay to see their
movies in the theater at re-release for the larger, wider-aspect screen
and big sound.  Arf!
===========

From: BARTHOLOMEW FOX     
To: BEATLE              
Subject: Family Dog     
Date & Time: 11/25/89 12:18:13
Message Number   435

Heh.  Well, the short I saw was terribly funny.  It was perfect for 10
minutes, and was REALLY well done, even with the rough-style animation.
 
You gonna be at RufusCon tonite?  I'd tell ya what movie I'm bringing,
but since it doesn't exist on tape yet, I'd bette not so as to avoid
lawsuits and such. (grin)
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From: BARTHOLOMEW FOX     
To: TURTLE              
Subject: Turtle!!!      
Date & Time: 11/25/89 12:22:06
Message Number   436

"God, I LOVE BEING A TURTLE!"
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From: TURTLE              
To: THE TAPPERS         
Subject: Hey!           
Date & Time: 11/25/89 13:18:11
Message Number   437

     To The Individuals Who Are Tapping My Phone:
     You know, you could save a good deal of time and effort by simply
calling this system and becoming users. As I'm sure you've probably
noticed, I run an open-access system here; by becoming BBS users, you
could still keep an eye on things--for whatever reason you find it
necessary--and you'd have the opportunity to contribute something, too.
I believe quite firmly in the free exchange of ideas and opinions, and
I think you might do a lot to make this BBS more interesting and
stimulating. I for one would be very interested in anything you had to
say, and I'm sure I have other users who would feel the same way.
At least think about it; it could be a mutually profitable experience.
 
              --Franklin Veaux, Sysop, aLTER rEALITY BBS
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From: KEN OBER            
To: TURTLE              
Subject: RufusCON'89    
Date & Time: 11/25/89 13:31:00
Message Number   438

I Dunno...it sems, that if Iam typing too fast, and Iput a capital,
<<< like back there <<<< If I'm not careful, my space doesn't register,
but it only seems to happen on THISboard, and Idunno' why....oohh well,
<GRIN> and bear it is what I say!
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From: CYBERPUNK           
To: ALL                 
Subject: i dont know    
Date & Time: 11/25/89 15:58:36
Message Number   439

hey all, why dont we go and rent Batman and watch it 150 times over
and puke up all over the TV??  and then record Killer Clowns From Outer
Space over it and return it? and then ask the video cleark if they found
the free popcorn that we left there? and then go to Tylers House and kil
l his camera, fun stuff right???
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From: ALICE COOPER        
To: CYBERPUNK           
Subject: i dont know    
Date & Time: 11/25/89 16:04:31
Message Number   440

  You'd giftwrap a leper and send him to your aunt jane, and you,can go 
===========

From: SPELLWIND           
To: BADFILM WATCHERS    
Subject: Deathrace 2000 
Date & Time: 11/25/89 16:08:14
Message Number   441

  Well, I rented Death Race 2000 and Toxic Avenger, plus I'm bringing  
C.H.U.D , Alice Sweet Alice and some other flops.
===========

From: TURTLE              
To: CYBERPUNK           
Subject: i dont know    
Date & Time: 11/25/89 16:24:51
Message Number   442

Sounds like a plan! I bet the people at the video rental place would
be less than amused, though.
 
I'm going to go waaaay out on a limb here and guess that you're not a
big Batman fan...
===========

From: CHIP P. UNICORN     
To: RUFUS               
Subject: New additions  
Date & Time: 11/25/89 18:05:13
Message Number   443

Stuff in a twinkie:
    Trust me; you don't want to know. The last person who found out
what's REALLY in a Twinkie is now in the "Happy Honkers Home for the
Terminally Valley-Girlish."
              Chip P. Unicorn
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From: CHIP P. UNICORN     
To: BEATLE              
Subject: Abortion       
Date & Time: 11/25/89 18:09:44
Message Number   444

Why worry about abortion? I press the BREAK key on my 'pooter all
the time... 
             Chip P. Unicorn
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From: CHIP P. UNICORN     
To: BEATLE              
Subject: Farm animal?   
Date & Time: 11/25/89 18:10:34
Message Number   445

I'm sorry.
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From: CYBERPUNK           
To: ALICE COOPER        
Subject: i dont know    
Date & Time: 11/25/89 18:42:03
Message Number   446

hey, who the hell are you and what the heck are you talking about, and 
why are you saying it to me???
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From: CYBERPUNK           
To: CYBERPUNK           
Subject: story          
Date & Time: 11/25/89 18:44:17
Message Number   447

then all the sudden , Talon finally realized that he is in this bar
and he flashed back to reallity and said, gimmie a beer!
===========

From: MARTY               
To: AMERIKANERS         
Subject: Anti-Glasnost  
Date & Time: 11/25/89 18:52:45
Message Number   448

  The Strategic Defense Initiative was a betrayal!
 The Americans will NOT keep their promise of annual missle destruction!
We must hit our targets before the year ends!
 Seattle, Calif, Rhode Island, WE MUST ATTACK!
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From: MARTY               
To: CYBERPUNK           
Subject: Amerikaner     
Date & Time: 11/26/89 00:27:32
Message Number   449

  You cocaine cowboy! Amerikans are infiltrated by evil poisons!
===========

From: RADAGAST            
To: ALL                 
Subject: *.*            
Date & Time: 11/26/89 01:51:54
Message Number   450

At about the same time Talon walks in, a previosly un-noticed pair of 
eyes move forward out of a dark corner and resolve into the tall, gaunt
shape of Radagast. He takes a seat at the bar orders a drink, and 
glances around.  He notices Stripes  rather large looking gun and begins
fingering his own  pistol.  'Hey ralph, gimme a jug of your best mead.' 
he says, and throws a few coins onto the bar.
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From: PSYCHE              
To: ALL                 
Subject: RufusCon       
Date & Time: 11/26/89 04:11:20
Message Number   451

   FIRST OF ALL, I WOULD LIKE TO THANK TURTLE AND RUFUS FOR THEIR INCRED
IBLE HOSPITALITY, AND WOULD LIKE TO THANK EVERYONE ELSE WHO SHOWED UP 
FOR LETTING THEMSELVES BE KNOWN.  i also am grateful that now i have a 
face to place with all these weird names and different writing styles.
cOOl.  ThAt Is So NeAt.  I just wish people would stop 
    PICKING ON ME!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!
++++
 NO CARRIER
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From: CHIP P. UNICORN     
To: RUFUSCON '89        
Subject: Thanks!        
Date & Time: 11/26/89 04:43:29
Message Number   452

   This is just a quick note (at 4:30) to say 'THANK YOU' to all
of y'all who made RufusCon truly, uh... surreal. It was a unique
experience, and we'll have to do it again sometime. Just dion't make
it... too soon. 
   Suggestions for next time:
     1. Have a list of people who actually plan to come. It would
        have been a lot easier for me to make up nametags. (No
        offense, Angel!)
     2. Actually pulverize the rutabega. And actually have the syn-
        chronized jumping contest. And, PLEEEEEZE bring some foxes
        for the juggling foxes.
     3. Bring Bart and me together more for questions; he can chirp
        "yip!" while I whinney "neigh!"
                           Chip P. Unicorn
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From: RUFUS               
To: CHIP P. UNICORN     
Subject: Thanks!        
Date & Time: 11/26/89 11:45:14
Message Number   453

We couldn't find anything heavy and strong enough to pulverize the
rudabega. Next year we may get a tank.
 
Ribbit...
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From: DONTHEN             
To: ALL                 
Subject: Ralph sez...   
Date & Time: 11/26/89 13:04:06
Message Number   454

... "What in the /hell/ are you talking about?"  The fox's question--
and quizzical look--are directed towards Radagast.  [Mead?  In an 1870's
tavern?  No, I don't think so.  While we're at it, I sincerely doubt
Butch is playing Billy Joel's "Piano Man," with harmonica or without.]
"If that's some type of northeastern beer, we don't have it here.  We
sometimes get some kegs from that German fellow out in Colorado, but we
brew better stuff right here in Hell's Bluff, and cheaper too."
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From: SPELLWIND           
To: TURTLE              
Subject: my fuckin phone
Date & Time: 11/26/89 21:18:07
Message Number   455

  My fucking phone is fixed, okay?
===========

From: CRYSTAL             
To: SPELLWIND           
Subject: Language       
Date & Time: 11/26/89 22:34:55
Message Number   456

     Please watch your language.  I for one do not need to see that on a
public BBS.  Saying "My phone is fixed." would have been sufficiant.
Thank you again..  
     But tell me other readers,  am I asking too much?
                     * CRYSTAL *
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From: CRYSTAL             
To: ALL                 
Subject: RUFUS CON '89  
Date & Time: 11/26/89 22:41:14
Message Number   457

     I would like to thank all that attended our get to gether.  It 
tryly was an experience.  I do appologize for the paranoid hush hush all
the time, if you knew our neighbors you to would be paranoid.  Again
thank you for attending, when Turtle and I get a house or rent an hall
then I wouln't be so paranoid about noise.  
                              * CRYSTAL *
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From: BENN                
To: SALOON BOYS         
Subject: Gotta run      
Date & Time: 11/26/89 23:08:05
Message Number   458

  Benn feels a tap on his shoulder. Before the hand can be drawn back,
 the bear has a large barreled gun at the owner's head. Louie freezes,
and Benn says, " What h*ll you doin sneakin up on me for boy?" Louie
wipes beads of sweat from his head and says " It's time we git a movin
sir...". Benn stands and says to Stripe, " Continue with your game, me
an the boys gonna ride up an' make sure the stagecoach makes it to town
safe. We'll be back right soon."
===========

From: ANGEL               
To: DONTHEN             
Subject: Movies....     
Date & Time: 11/26/89 23:56:21
Message Number   459

   Okay, I give.  What's letterboxing?  Is it like shadow-boxing through
the U.S. mail?
===========

From: ANGEL               
To: MARTY               
Subject: Anti-Glasnost  
Date & Time: 11/27/89 00:01:09
Message Number   460

> Seattle, Calif, Rhode Island, WE MUST ATTACK!
  I can understand taking out California (must destroy those left-wing
pinkos) and even Rhode Island (Mystic Seaport is too high-tech to live)
but why just Seattle and not the whole state of Washington?  Seems a
wee bit too discriminating for nuclear weapons.  But, a good choice,
none the less, any city that would be a setting for a Bobby Sherman
serial deserves to glow.
===========

From: ANGEL               
To: CHIP P. UNICORN     
Subject: nametags       
Date & Time: 11/27/89 00:05:24
Message Number   461

  No offense taken.  You couldn't have fit Angel's full name on those
tiny nametags anyway ... Hecuba Angeline Margaret Robinson aka Angel ...
I would have needed two chests for that long name!
===========

From: ANGEL               
To: CRYSTAL             
Subject: RUFUS CON '89  
Date & Time: 11/27/89 00:07:39
Message Number   462

   Thank you for playing host to this melange of strange BBSers.  'Twas
a pleasure meeting you.  And I hope you don't get evicted, but if you
do, wasn't it one heck of a party to get thrown out on your bum for?
===========

From: PSYCHE              
To: CRYSTAL             
Subject: Language       
Date & Time: 11/27/89 00:29:54
Message Number   463

Certainly not.  Many BBSes have XXX sub-boards and such these days, and
if TURTLE chooses not to accomodate these foul-mouthed (foul-fingered?)
users, well, that is his perogative.  I'm sure that most of us have 
plenty to say to Spellwind, but we'd rather watch our language.
===========

From: PSYCHE              
To: SPELLWIND           
Subject: my fuckin phone
Date & Time: 11/27/89 00:35:14
Message Number   464

   My cat is fixed to alleviate that problem.  You should get your money
back from whoever fixed you phone and have it done right, or pretty 
soon you'll be up to your ears in those little critters.
   
   The line noise might just be unbearable.
===========

From: RADAGAST            
To: DONTHEN             
Subject: Ralph sez...   
Date & Time: 11/27/89 12:23:11
Message Number   465

'errr...excuse me, beer, i mean..'  radagast corects himself, mumbleing 
somthing about jet lag, and inter dimensional travel...
===========

From: CHIP P. UNICORN     
To: BEATLE              
Subject: Randomness     
Date & Time: 11/27/89 13:25:08
Message Number   466

Yes, you did miss something. Meditate on the true meaning of Easter
(and I don't mean the Easter bunny!) If that doesn't work, stare at
your navel (assuming, of course, you have one) for a few hours.
                 Chip P. Unicorn
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From: CHIP P. UNICORN     
To: BARTHOLOMEW FOX     
Subject: Big Time       
Date & Time: 11/27/89 13:30:13
Message Number   467

Space Ark meets Land Before Time? I've GOT to see them...
               Chip P. Unicorn
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From: CHIP P. UNICORN     
To: CYBERPUNK           
Subject: i dont know    
Date & Time: 11/27/89 13:32:36
Message Number   468

Are you feeling okay, Cy?
           Chip P. Unicorn
===========

From: CHIP P. UNICORN     
To: PSYCHE              
Subject: RufusCon       
Date & Time: 11/27/89 13:34:43
Message Number   469

QUIT SHOUTING!
 oh, now quit whispering. MaKe Up YoUr MiNd!
                And quit with those <BANG!>s.
           Chip P. Unicorn
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From: CHIP P. UNICORN     
To: CRYSTAL             
Subject: Language       
Date & Time: 11/27/89 13:36:41
Message Number   470

Language tells loads about people. If they feel they need to use
four-letter explicatives to make a point, then the point probably is
not worth making. Some youngsters feel four-letter words make them
look more adult. It really shows their stupidity.
                         Chip P. Unicorn
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From: CHIP P. UNICORN     
To: ANGEL               
Subject: nametags       
Date & Time: 11/27/89 13:39:59
Message Number   471

Or, next year, I'll make your name in four-point type... 
"Hecuba Angeline Margaret Robinson aka Angel..." hmmm... maybe I
could shorten it to H. A. M. Robinson aka Angel?
                Chip P. Unicorn
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From: CHIP P. UNICORN     
To: COWBOYS             
Subject: Story...       
Date & Time: 11/27/89 13:43:41
Message Number   472

   Roc' notices the two leaving on the pretense of making sure the
stagecoach arrives safely. Hmmm... why doesn't he believe them? 
The coach should be passing into town in the next ten minutes, and
it should pass by the saloon. If anything was amiss, he'd notice.
   Nobody seemed to be touching the cards. Roc' picked them up, 
and shuffled them twice himself. "Ante up," he said, throwing in a
dollar.
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From: CYBERPUNK           
To: SPELLWIND           
Subject: my fuckin phone
Date & Time: 11/27/89 14:59:39
Message Number   473

are you asking him about it??? ???
 
>My fuckin phone is fixed, okay?
 
see what i mean?
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From: CYBERPUNK           
To: ANGEL               
Subject: RUFUS CON '89  
Date & Time: 11/27/89 15:02:56
Message Number   474

who were you??  
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From: CYBERPUNK           
To: CHIP P. UNICORN     
Subject: i dont know    
Date & Time: 11/27/89 15:04:16
Message Number   475

ya, im fealing alittle better now..   but i felt like i got hit over
the head with that rudabega....   i think Spellwind might have done it
,.....  hehehe   just joking Spellwind...
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From: MARTY               
To: ANGEL               
Subject: Anti-Glasnost  
Date & Time: 11/27/89 15:12:47
Message Number   476

 I have someting personal against Seattle.
 
     Down with America and Yugos!!
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From: SAURON              
To: TURTLE              
Subject: MSTF phones    
Date & Time: 11/27/89 18:00:18
Message Number   477

  Some scary shit.
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From: SAURON              
To: TURTLE              
Subject: oops           
Date & Time: 11/27/89 18:01:01
Message Number   478

  Well, mine was okay, except for the toast of "Jumping Vaginas and 
Leaping anchor bolts...the grub looks good, but the Hostess looks like
a Jehovah's Witness"
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From: SAURON              
To: CHARLES DITTELL     
Subject: State of Being 
Date & Time: 11/27/89 18:03:41
Message Number   479

  I tried Charles, but there was some guy named Lothar there in a 
Leopard-skin Italian-style T shirt who kept telling me "This Be
restricted to humans..Oh woe..."
===========

From: SAURON              
To: BEATLE              
Subject: A grave issue  
Date & Time: 11/27/89 18:07:07
Message Number   480

  Yuchhh! Don't you just hate when those piments get pushy?
===========

From: SAURON              
To: BEATLE              
Subject: Abortion       
Date & Time: 11/27/89 18:08:18
Message Number   481

areless ?  methinks YOU'RE totally irrelevant, Beatle.
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From: SAURON              
To: BEATLE              
Subject: Misogeny       
Date & Time: 11/27/89 18:09:48
Message Number   482

>intelligent women
     
 That's self-defeating...like "Army Intelligence. No such animal. Care
to comment, Angel?
===========

From: SAURON              
To: BEATLE              
Subject: HER            
Date & Time: 11/27/89 18:12:28
Message Number   483

...Well, you simply insert your...oh - sorry. I forgot you don't have 
one.
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From: SAURON              
To: TURTLE              
Subject: Vulvas         
Date & Time: 11/27/89 18:15:27
Message Number   484

  Actually, I have nothing against females. They're great for a 
half-hours diversion. Just don't ask them anything more complex than
what shade of makeup they're wearing tomorrow.
===========

From: SAURON              
To: DONTHEN             
Subject: Movies....     
Date & Time: 11/27/89 18:19:36
Message Number   485

  ...and "Fantasia" was made in genuine stereo sound - in 1939, arguably
the finest year for the cinema ever.
===========

From: SAURON              
To: ALICE COOPER        
Subject: aunt jane      
Date & Time: 11/27/89 18:22:48
Message Number   486

  That's funny! (giftwrapping Lepers)
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From: SAURON              
To: CHIP P. UNICORN     
Subject: New additions  
Date & Time: 11/27/89 18:24:13
Message Number   487

  The stuff in a Twinkie is python sperm.
===========

From: DONTHEN             
To: ANGEL               
Subject: Movies....     
Date & Time: 11/27/89 18:37:30
Message Number   488

No, "letterboxing" is preserving the screen aspect ratio of a movie on
its TV version by putting black bars at the top and bottom of the
screen.  The total image is smaller, but you don't lose the sides like
you do in a normal TV edit.  There are a few companies that produce
letterbox versions of movies on laserdisc (always in Dolby Stereo,
Surround Sound, etc., etc.), although it's extremely uncommon on major
commercial videotape releases -- "The Color Purple" comes to mind as
one, but I can't think of any others offhand.  A Japanese company has
produced letterbox versions of "2001," "Star Wars," "Close Encounters,"
"Blade Runner" and several other sf classics, but they're not widely
available in the US.
===========

From: RUFUS               
To: CRYSTAL             
Subject: Language       
Date & Time: 11/27/89 18:53:04
Message Number   489

No, your not asking too much.  If Turtle had set up this message base as
a "Feel free to say anything you want" then fine, but seeing how it 
isn't, Spellwind should watch his language.  Oh yes, your making the
cake for all the conventions!  :)  It was good, esp. for breakfast.
===========

From: RUFUS               
To: ANGEL               
Subject: Anti-Glasnost  
Date & Time: 11/27/89 18:55:45
Message Number   490

>but why just Seattle and not the whole state of Washington? seems a
>wee bit too discriminating for nuclear weapons....
 
Any continent is a wee bit too discriminating for nuclear weapons.
===========

From: RUFUS               
To: ANGEL               
Subject: RUFUS CON '89  
Date & Time: 11/27/89 18:57:30
Message Number   491

We've drawn up the "If Turtle and Crystal get Evicted Plan."  First
we get rent a large crane, drive it into the parking lot of the
apartment complex, next we lift a large, very heavy boulder with it.
Then we position to boulder over the neighbors apartment...
===========

From: RUFUS               
To: CHIP P. UNICORN     
Subject: Randomness     
Date & Time: 11/27/89 18:59:56
Message Number   492

You never taught me how to play 'Go'.  Seems the pizza arrived at the
wrong time ( that darned fox messes up EVERYTHING! ).  O.K., so when
is GoCon?  :)
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From: RUFUS               
To: CYBERPUNK           
Subject: RUFUS CON '89  
Date & Time: 11/27/89 19:02:11
Message Number   493

I'll answer your question for her.  She was the one who arrived at about
1 a.m., long after you left.
===========

From: RUFUS               
To: DONTHEN             
Subject: Movies....     
Date & Time: 11/27/89 19:05:16
Message Number   494

Innerspace was letterboxed.
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From: TURTLE              
To: SAURON              
Subject: Misogeny       
Date & Time: 11/27/89 23:04:38
Message Number   495

Just in case Angel doesn't feel like responding, I will. Okay, here we
go (sigh):
 
The phrase "intelligent women" is a meaningful one, as any well-adjusted
and secure male well knows (assuming he thinks with the right head).
Case in point: the person who used to live next door to me; she is now
23, has a master's degree in psychology and a couple of bachelor's de-
grees in clinical psych and human physiology, and who was in 1985 the
top-ranked amatuer chess player in Florida (she learned to play the game
in 1982). Presumably, this particular individual could be called 
"intelligent" with a fair degree of certainty. Are you still with me?
Good. I'd introduce the two of you sometime if I didn't think you'd be
intimidated to death.
                   --A secure and well-adjusted Turtle
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From: TURTLE              
To: SAURON              
Subject: Vulvas         
Date & Time: 11/27/89 23:12:07
Message Number   496

Did your mother beat you as a young child or what?
===========

From: TURTLE              
To: ALL                 
Subject: Language       
Date & Time: 11/27/89 23:13:29
Message Number   497

OK, here, it is: the Official Policy on Language (such as it is). I
won't throw you off for exhibiting your entire collection of four-
letter expletives in the public message bases, assuming you're not
just doing it to piss me off; I refuse to be put into a position where
I have to police this board and censor people for using naughty words.
However, I do ask that the swearing be kept down to a minimum, and if
you are going to do it at least do it creatively. In other words, I'm
operating on the rough assumption that all of you are more or less
adults and can be expected to behave as such. I may be way off-base here
(time will tell), but I sincerely hope not.
                               --A pontificating Turtle
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From: TURTLE              
To: BARTHOLOMEW FOX     
Subject: Zap!           
Date & Time: 11/27/89 23:17:37
Message Number   498

Do you suppose a 1.1 Farad capacitor can suck a twelve-volt car battery
dry? It'd be fascinating to see what one of those puppies could do if
you could release all the chemical energy stored in it all at once.
                        --A curious Turtle
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From: TURTLE              
To: DONTHEN             
Subject: Letterboxing   
Date & Time: 11/27/89 23:20:26
Message Number   499

I've heard tell that "Aliens" is available in letterboxed format on
videotape, but I don't know if it's true or not. (I can't even remember
where I heard it.) Any ideas?
===========

From: CYBERPUNK           
To: RUFUS               
Subject: RUFUS CON '89  
Date & Time: 11/28/89 09:08:17
Message Number   500

oh, a, ok, sorry..
===========

From: CYBERPUNK           
To: ANYONE              
Subject: animie         
Date & Time: 11/28/89 09:10:34
Message Number   501

hiya all, do any of you guys know where i can get a copy of "Project 
A-ko" ???  if any of know what it is, it's a animie film, kinda like
Iczer-1.... thanks!!
===========

From: DONTHEN             
To: TURTLE              
Subject: Letterboxing   
Date & Time: 11/28/89 12:20:02
Message Number   502

Both "Alien" and "Aliens" are available in letterbox format with
digital stereo and Dolby Surround... on laserdisc.  I believe they are
from the same Japanese company I mentioned before (apparently the
video equivalents of Mobile Fidelity Sound Labs).
===========

From: DONTHEN             
To: CYBERPUNK           
Subject: animie         
Date & Time: 11/28/89 12:22:38
Message Number   503

You can try the Manasota Anime Group; I don't know Mark whathisname's
number (or last name, obviously), but he's around the Time Machine a lot
and there are usually some flyers there for it.  Beyond that, I can't
come up with anything immediately, but there's at least one large anime
group in Tampa and several around the country.  The Den's resident anime
expert stopped calling a while ago (the LD bills from California were
probably getting to him), or else I'd tell you to leave a message for
him....
===========

From: CYBERPUNK           
To: DONTHEN             
Subject: animie         
Date & Time: 11/28/89 17:50:09
Message Number   504

well, if there is a groupe, is it like a fan club where you get a 
newsletter, or go to a meating? because if the onlt animie groupe closet
oops, closest to me is in Tampa, i cant accually drive up there every 
month to meat.... 
===========

From: PSYCHE              
To: RUFUS               
Subject: GoCon          
Date & Time: 11/28/89 22:49:54
Message Number   505

   Chip introduced me to GO when he was rather new to the game himself;
now that we're both about equally experienced, our games can go either
way depending on our frame of mind.  For the most part, I am more of a
two-player game freak than he is, and will arrive early at GoCon. 
 
   Turtle - How about it (with maybe a little chess)?
            The DEN game will continue very shortly.  Do you need a
             a record of the moves so far?  You may well have thrown
             them out - sorry for the delay.
===========

From: CHIP P. UNICORN     
To: CYBERPUNK           
Subject: RUFUS CON '89  
Date & Time: 11/29/89 00:46:27
Message Number   506

>who were you??
   
Why, she was Angel, of course! Who else would she be?
               Chip P. Unicorn
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From: CHIP P. UNICORN     
To: SAURON              
Subject: Vulvas         
Date & Time: 11/29/89 00:49:49
Message Number   507

I'll have to introduce you to several female friends I have, none of
whom have an I.Q. of less than 160...
              Chip P. Unicorn
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From: CHIP P. UNICORN     
To: RUFUS               
Subject: Randomness     
Date & Time: 11/29/89 00:52:02
Message Number   508

   :) We really don't need a convention to teach ya how to play Go.
Next time you plan to be in the New College area (and can give me 48
hours warning!) I'll send you my room # by E-mail. (If you already
know it, PLEEEEEEEEZE don't repeat it over general mail. My neighbors
think I'm strange enough already.)
                 Chip P. Unicorn
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From: CHIP P. UNICORN     
To: TURTLE              
Subject: Language       
Date & Time: 11/29/89 00:55:02
Message Number   509

Dear Turtle,
   As I've said on another board (I think to you!): if a message
requires four-letter words to make an impact, it's probably not much
of a message to begin with.
                 Chip P. Unicorn
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From: ANGEL               
To: CHIP P. UNICORN     
Subject: H.A.M.         
Date & Time: 11/29/89 01:01:32
Message Number   510

  Excellent, my equine friend!  I invented that name for my character
in the last show I did, and in a cast of 32 no one caught the 'ham'
in the lady.  You win the kwepie doll!
===========

From: ANGEL               
To: CYBERPUNK           
Subject: RUFUS CON '89  
Date & Time: 11/29/89 01:03:35
Message Number   511

> who were you??
 
The same person I am now.  Is this an existential question?  I'm not
very good at the meaning of life -- but I'm hot at final Jeopardy.
===========

From: ANGEL               
To: SAURON              
Subject: Misogeny       
Date & Time: 11/29/89 01:06:12
Message Number   512

> Care to comment, Angel?
 
Not really.
===========

From: ANGEL               
To: SAURON              
Subject: diversions     
Date & Time: 11/29/89 01:07:51
Message Number   513

> Actually, I have nothing against females. They're great for a
> half-hours diversion.
 
A half-hour?  I guess it's true what they say, younger men have more
stamina.
===========

From: TURTLE              
To: PSYCHE              
Subject: GoCon          
Date & Time: 11/29/89 03:03:16
Message Number   514

GoCon, hmmm? I dunno; never played the game myself. (I keep meaning
to talk Chip into teaching me how to play, but I never seem to
have time...) Well, I suppose a gaming get-together is not totally
out of the question, but for the sake of my continued residence here
at Shadowood it should probably be somewhere else. I still have the
board with our Wyvern's Den game set up; so I guess we just pick
up where we left off. I'll have to give this GoCon thing some
consideration...and perhaps learn how to play BEFORE it happens...
===========

From: TURTLE              
To: CHIP P. UNICORN     
Subject: Language       
Date & Time: 11/29/89 03:06:53
Message Number   515

I don't know if I necessarily agree with that; I would tend to argue
that a statement is valid or invalid regardless of the language used to
express it, or even the personality of the person making it. And, like
I said before, I refuse to start policing this board because some
people can't watch what they say. If the problem gets to be TOO
serious I may be forced to start editing things that appear here, but
I sincerely doubt things will get that bad. (I don't approve of
gratuitoius swearing, but I also don't approve of censorship, and I tend
to have a certain amount of scorn for those people whose sensibilities
are so delicate that they run screaming in terror whenever they see a
four-letter word on a bumper sticker, or a T-shirt...or a BBS.)
===========

From: CORWYN OF AMBER     
To: SAURON              
Subject: BLB            
Date & Time: 11/29/89 04:45:14
Message Number   516

Yea, spiderman was a whole 35c I think..Must have go that one when
I wasn't quite five or so, somewhere around '76. He fights a giant 
scorpion.. that's all I can remember.
	                - Corwyn
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From: CORWYN OF AMBER     
To: TURTLE              
Subject: New additions  
Date & Time: 11/29/89 04:49:02
Message Number   517

My word We are being sarcastic aren't we.. the REPUBLICAN party? Gasp
choke, squeal.. Do yourself a favor think it over.. If you still plan 
on joining, try Crack Cocaine first.
                 - Corwyn
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From: CORWYN OF AMBER     
To: TURTLE              
Subject: Language       
Date & Time: 11/29/89 05:09:01
Message Number   518

Only if you promise not to use words like pontificating... Just say no
Turtle, I know you can do it.
                    - Corwyn
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From: CORWYN OF AMBER     
To: CHIP P. UNICORN     
Subject: Strange Nebors 
Date & Time: 11/29/89 05:11:07
Message Number   519

Do you live in Pei dorms... I'm in first court...
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From: DONTHEN             
To: CYBERPUNK           
Subject: animie         
Date & Time: 11/29/89 07:13:04
Message Number   520

The Manasota Anime Group does have monthly meetings, which used to be
held at the Selby Public Library.  They may still be, but I'll have to
poke around and see.
    The Tampa ones I'm not too sure about.  I know that Neal Wingate
used to be effectively in charge of a Tampa CFO (Cartoon Fantasy
Association) group, but ended up going out and forming his own.  I don't
have any real info on either one, though.
===========

From: CYBERPUNK           
To: CHIP P. UNICORN     
Subject: RUFUS CON '89  
Date & Time: 11/29/89 07:36:58
Message Number   521

well, i left before she got there....  sorry...
 *Cy*
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From: CYBERPUNK           
To: ANGEL               
Subject: RUFUS CON '89  
Date & Time: 11/29/89 07:38:48
Message Number   522

ya, i know, you arrived at RufusCon after i left...  now i know you
you the one i never met!!  whell, hi im Cyberpunk  a.k.a. Cyberpunk
(reaching out to handshake)
  hehe    *Cy*
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From: CYBERPUNK           
To: DONTHEN             
Subject: animie         
Date & Time: 11/29/89 07:42:12
Message Number   523

oh,ok, thanks!!  (whatever)
 *Cy*
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From: LORELEI             
To: SAURON              
Subject: DOLPHINS       
Date & Time: 11/29/89 15:38:02
Message Number   524

 1. Who the heck is Don Shula?
 2. Do you have a microscope I can borrow?
 3. Do you have a dolphin that I can borrow?
===========

From: LORELEI             
To: CHRIS DAVIS         
Subject: Hello          
Date & Time: 11/29/89 15:42:20
Message Number   525

Hey there, Chris. Surprise, surprise.(And if you can't guess who 
Lorelei is, I can give you one hint: dolphins. Franklin gave me a
modem because I was never able to get through to him on the phone.
So, how is DC? I relly think you ought to come back to FL for a visit.
Guess what? For ISP I got a volunteer job at the Dolphin Research
Center in the Keys. One whole glorious month with 17 dolphins. I can
hardly wait. Well, I don't even know if you check your mail, so I'll
wait to hear from you before I tell you everything that's going on in 
my life. Leave me a message if you get a chance, and I'll keep in touch
I miss you a lot, Chris. Hopefully, I'll see you soon. (Answer me,da
mmit!) And sorry about all the errors-I'm not used to typing yet.
===========

From: RADAGAST            
To: *.*                 
Subject: ..             
Date & Time: 11/29/89 16:42:57
Message Number   526

  Hmmm,  its awfully quiet around here, eh barkeep?"  I remark suddenly.
'kinda makes ya wonder...'  I say, as I finish my..beer, and step toward
the door, and peer outside. Tumbleweed drifts past as I listen to the
silence that has settled across the town. ' Is that hoofbeats I hear?"
===========

From: RUFUS               
To: PSYCHE              
Subject: GoCon          
Date & Time: 11/29/89 20:41:46
Message Number   527

You know what games I like.  Othello is a favorite of mine, and 
Connect 4, which does require one to think ahead somewhat.  Now, who 
wants to teach me to play Chess?  ( yea, I don't know how to play )
===========

From: RUFUS               
To: CHIP P. UNICORN     
Subject: Randomness     
Date & Time: 11/29/89 20:43:36
Message Number   528

O.K.  I won't mention your room is 678.  Of course, if it really is, 
OPPS!  Anyways, you can teach me Chess too.
===========

From: RUFUS               
To: ANGEL               
Subject: H.A.M.         
Date & Time: 11/29/89 20:45:04
Message Number   529

I know you write plays.  Have any ever been 'done'?  And what else do 
you do?  Sing?  Dance?  Act?  Juggle foxes?
===========

From: RUFUS               
To: ANYONE              
Subject: Wyvern's Den   
Date & Time: 11/29/89 21:07:26
Message Number   530

Anyone know why I get a "Doo doo dooO, this number has been disconnected
if you think you have reached this number in error...etc, etc." when I
call the Wyvern's Den.
===========

From: KEN OBER            
To: TURTLE              
Subject: GoCon          
Date & Time: 11/29/89 21:48:56
Message Number   531

Gee, we should organize a new con every month....
 
DECEMBER - Billionaire Boy CON
JANUARY  - Cyberpunk CON
FEBUARY  - Turtle CON
MARCH    - Donthen CON
APRIL    - Sauron CON
MAY      - Angel CON
JUNE     - Crystal CON
JULY     - Chip CON
AUGUST   - Beatle CON
SEPTEMBER- Random CON
OCTOBER  - <<OPEN CON>>
NOVEMBER - Rufus CON
 
What does everyone think?  hehehe
===========

From: DONTHEN             
To: RUFUS               
Subject: Wyvern's Den   
Date & Time: 11/29/89 22:13:19
Message Number   532

Yes, I know!  Because the number has been disconnected!  I got home at
7:00 today and somebody had been on the BBS about a half-hour before.
I did some fiddling around and tried to call a BBS at around 8:00, and
the line was dead.  While I'm eternally late with my phone bill, the
last one I got said it wasn't due until December 6th.  Nevertheless,
this screws me up in a rather serious way, since I won't have the money
to /pay/ that phone bill until the 6th comes around, unless there is
some cash lying around somewhere I'm not aware of.  I will probably be
stupid and try to pay all of it in full tomorrow, which will cause
problems with other creditors because it screws up the pitiful excuse
for a payment schedule I was working on.  Shit, shit, shit.  This is
all, of course, assuming they did disconnect it around 7:00 pm today,
which seems like a mighty weird time to be doing it -- but I don't see
any alternative explanation, barring a horrendous screwup on	 GTE's
part.
    Oh yes.  The Wyvern's Den is down until further notice.
===========

From: CHIP P. UNICORN     
To: ANGEL               
Subject: H.A.M.         
Date & Time: 11/29/89 23:38:55
Message Number   533

   You're welcome! Being a lady of such fine tastes (obviously),
in which plays have you performed? And, when will you be performing
again? (If you reply openly, you might get a huge cheering section of
fans from this BBS...)
                        Chip P. Unicorn
  
By the way, what is a kwepie doll?
===========

From: CHIP P. UNICORN     
To: TURTLE              
Subject: GoCon          
Date & Time: 11/29/89 23:42:28
Message Number   534

Turtle,
   The rules for Go are extremely easy to learn... they can be taught
in about five minutes. To master the game requires five lifetimes.
                 Chip P. Unicorn
===========

From: CHIP P. UNICORN     
To: TURTLE              
Subject: Language       
Date & Time: 11/29/89 23:43:48
Message Number   535

And I stand by what I said. I don't approve of censorship, either; I
wasn't advocating that. But, as I said, if someone feels their point
can't be made without using a four-letter word, the point probably isn't
worth making.
                  Chip P. Unicorn
===========

From: CHIP P. UNICORN     
To: CORWYN OF AMBER     
Subject: Strange Nebors 
Date & Time: 11/29/89 23:46:00
Message Number   536

Yup; I live in the Pei dorms. You'll recognise me if I give you this
hint: look for a fellow who occasionally wears a cloak and lives on
campus. I'm the only one who fits that description.
                 Chip P. Unicorn
===========

From: CHIP P. UNICORN     
To: LORELEI             
Subject: DOLPHINS       
Date & Time: 11/29/89 23:48:05
Message Number   537

Response to question three:
   No, but next time I see one, I'll tell him about you. (Saw one
last night!)
                Chip P. Unicorn
===========

From: CHIP P. UNICORN     
To: RUFUS               
Subject: GoCon          
Date & Time: 11/29/89 23:49:13
Message Number   538

>Who wants to teach me to play chess?
   
Don't say those words to Psyche... pleeeeeze don't say those words to
Psyche.... before you know it, he'll have dragged out twenty-seven
manuals teaching the exact best way to defend against the Caro-Kann
Offense, thirty-three manuals about how to defeat Casablanca, and one
hundred and thirty-two about the Red Indian Defense. And you still
won't know how the little horsey moves...
                 Chip P. Unicorn
   
Seriously, Psyche will be more than glad to teach you chess. He's 
a patient and kind teacher. That is, until he gets on the other side
of the board...
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From: CHIP P. UNICORN     
To: RUFUS               
Subject: Randomness     
Date & Time: 11/29/89 23:52:48
Message Number   539

>Anyways, you can teach me chess...
   
Sure thing! The little horsey is, of course, the most important piece.
Heck! yo don't need any of those -human- pieces... just give me the
knights.
   Seriously, be glad to show you the next time we get together. As
well as Go.
                      Chip P. Unicorn
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From: CHIP P. UNICORN     
To: KEN OBER            
Subject: GoCon          
Date & Time: 11/29/89 23:55:07
Message Number   540

Switch the <<OPEN CON>> and the Chip Con's position. My birthday was
in October; I'm rarely in the country during July.
    
...and, oh, yeah... the locations of the cons have switched. They're
going to be at your place.
               Chip P. Unicorn
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From: CHIP P. UNICORN     
To: CORWYN OF AMBER     
Subject: Who am i?      
Date & Time: 11/29/89 23:58:52
Message Number   541

If my cryptic comment about walking around in a cloak doesn't give you
enough clues as to who I am, here's a few more:
    
         Real Name: Brent Edwards
         Campus Room: 238
         Box Number: 250
         Major: Math / Computer Science
    
   By the way, who are you?
                Chip P. Unicorn
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From: PSYCHE              
To: RUFUS               
Subject: GoCon          
Date & Time: 11/30/89 00:44:14
Message Number   542

   Sure... I'm always willing to promote the wonderful, Godlike game of
chess.  I'll even teach it to someone unfortunate enough not to know how
to play.  The only problem is finding a time when we are both free; if 
we can figure that out, you'll be able to defeat Chip P. Unicorn with 
your eyes closed and your belly full of alcohol.  
   Seriously, though - I'd be glad to teach you how to play, and I'm 
sure Chip would teach you how to play GO! if you asked him real nice.
But let me teach you the royal gane first, and at least you'll be good 
at something.
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From: PSYCHE              
To: CHIP P. UNICORN     
Subject: GoCon          
Date & Time: 11/30/89 00:50:49
Message Number   543

   Thpt.  I do not have any manuals on the Caro-Kann Offense, because 
no such opening exists.  I can let you borrow a few on the Caro-Kann
Defense, though.  And there is a King's Indian and a Queen's Indian
Defense, but no Red Indian Defense.  And I can teach you any one of 
them.  Hell... you say you want to beat Kasparov?  No problem.  Just
send a check or money order for $139.95 to...
   I'm not egotistical, just great.
 
   (The little horsey moves in an "L" shape, one or two squares horizon-
tally or vertically, and then one or two squares perpendicular to the
original direction of movement.  It should always be the first piece to
come out after the center pawns have advanced, and are best places at 
the squares c3 and f3 for white, c6 and f6 for black, except in some 
variations of the Queen's Gambit and King's Indian Defense where it is 
fatal to develop the king night as white before castling queenside.  Of
course, remember not to capture the QNP with your knight of queen if
castles kingside - it opens a file directly, ripe for a bishop sacrifice
on h3 or h6.  
   Remember:  even the knights are better, since you found me.)
 
   Scheduled for next week - Philidor's Defense.
   Don't believe what they say: "The Philidor is a Horrible Bore;" 
you'll love it.
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From: TURTLE              
To: RUFUS               
Subject: Go where?      
Date & Time: 11/30/89 01:22:09
Message Number   546

>Othello is a favorite of mine,...
 
We'll have to play sometime. I haven't found TOO many people who can
beat me consistently, ever since I really started getting into the
game (which I did, ironically enough, as a result of a homework assign-
ment in my programming course: Write a program that plays Othello. And
the program I wrote plays a /really/ good (if slow) game, too...)
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From: TURTLE              
To: PSYCHE              
Subject: Chess          
Date & Time: 11/30/89 01:31:14
Message Number   547

If you ever get a sore throat, will you then be a hoarse chess nut??
Anyway, I'm game; what are the King's Indian and Queen's Indian
defenses? And, if this isn't too oblique a question, why are those
little horsies always raved about as though they were the next best
thing to two gods on a plate? I always assumed they were roughly
equivalent to the bishops...
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From: TURTLE              
To: LORELEI             
Subject: Hello...       
Date & Time: 11/30/89 01:34:47
Message Number   548

Well, I guess you can't really say that /noone/ leaves you messages at
all any more...Remind me to write a routine to let you copy stuff to
the printer next time I tinker with your terminal program. That way
you'll be able to get a listing of the aLTER rEALITY BBS list and you'll
/really/ get hooked on this BBS thing. (He he he...) I'd just give it
to you, but that'd be too simple. Besides, this way you'll have another
excuse to call...
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From: SPELLWIND           
To: KEN OBER            
Subject: Con            
Date & Time: 11/30/89 03:45:10
Message Number   549

 February will be my turn, that's when my BBS is hitting the 
air.............................
 
   WOW! Having two speakers next to my ears and chucking out Appetite
For Destruction at full volume has left me deaf.
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From: SPELLWIND           
To: CHIP P. UNICORN     
Subject: Kwexxis        
Date & Time: 11/30/89 03:49:58
Message Number   550

    What the hell is a Kwexxis?????
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