From: THE SPECIALIST      
To: MAX                 
Subject: Computer Values
Date & Time: 07/27/90 17:02:27
Message Number  9301

M>Don't be a weenie.
  
It bugged me that you were so cocksure, that's all.  You should have 
seen the *first* reply I wrote...I aborted it because I was trying
NOT to be a weenie.
===========

From: THE SPECIALIST      
To: SPELLWIND           
Subject: Ugh....        
Date & Time: 07/27/90 17:04:57
Message Number  9302

SP>I'm sure the world woud be better...without THEM ruling...
 
Amen!
===========

From: MAX                 
To: THE SPECIALIST      
Subject: Computer Values
Date & Time: 07/27/90 18:35:27
Message Number  9305

I *wasn't* being cocksure.  It's not like I was saying "99% of X" with
factual backup; I thought it was fairly obvious that I was exaggerating
and being a bit sarcastic.
   You're not the only person who completely misses it when I'm not
being particularly serious, which is (believe it or not) most of the
time.  While there's something humorous in knowing I can spit out the
wildest claptrap and, if I do it in a somber enough "tone," get back a
whole slew of "HOW could you REALLY BELIEVE that!" messages for the next
3,000 or so posts, people should pay a wee bit more attention	 to the
context of my messages.  (So sue me for being subtle....)
===========

From: BURNEY              
To: ALL                 
Subject: Conferences    
Date & Time: 07/27/90 19:47:52
Message Number  9307

As a new user to this bbs, I find it very interesting to see all this 
chit chat about god knows what.  The issues that are discussed are e
enlightening and informative (snicker, snicker).  How does one get 
involved by putting  in his two   cents worth.  (kind of answered my 
own question huh..).  As far as
Saudi Arabiand Kuwait is concerned, Its almost (uh oh here 
comes)ARMAGEDON time. This is possibly a new topic of discussion.
Also the best branch of the armed forces is all of them.  Without one, 
the others would be like a hand with no thumb.  The job would get done
but with greater difficulty and 
greater cost (lives).  Last but not least the discussion on computer 
equipment.  I could tell you I have an expensive IBM with all th
latest attachments or a TANDY with all the (same as above) attachments
but all the SYSOP has to do is look me up and...ta-dah...he knows I'm 
a liar.  For the sake of stupidity, I'll reveal my (chocomputer.
I'll prepare for the inevitable   bashing now (lowers head in shame).
It's a (gulp)Commodore 64.  With a little compasion on everyones part,
I'll live through (I'm reasonably sure) the bashing that is to come.....
===========

From: MMA                 
To: MAX                 
Subject: authors        
Date & Time: 07/27/90 23:39:09
Message Number  9308

Thanks for letting me know. I've never been too interested in sci-fi,
thus mygap in knowledge of authors. The titles peak my interest,so I'll 
check them out at the library.
My literary interests lie un the area of mystery,espionage,and the like.
I have learned a lot of what I know through reading. I cannot imagine 
what it's like to be illiterate.
 
MMA
===========

From: MMA                 
To: YNGLING             
Subject: Clarke         
Date & Time: 07/27/90 23:43:58
Message Number  9309

Get tha bandages out! Max told me what he wrote.
I've never had much interest in Sci-fi,thus my lack of knowledge in that
area.
As I promised Max,I WILL read some of his books.
That way,I can escape your sarcasm and,maybe save your life. :)
MMA
===========

From: TURTLE              
To: MAX                 
Subject: Something      
Date & Time: 07/28/90 15:31:48
Message Number  9316

>Well, I've met yuppies who weren't that bad.
 
Is that like a case of pneumonia that's "not too serious"? :)
===========

From: TURTLE              
To: BURNEY              
Subject: C64            
Date & Time: 07/28/90 15:32:22
Message Number  9317

>Whats wrong with my little C64.
 
The architecture.
===========

From: TURTLE              
To: SPELLWIND           
Subject: Ugh....        
Date & Time: 07/28/90 15:34:13
Message Number  9319

>If 'Christians' don't rule the world, Someone else will...
 
...like, say (gasp), NON-Christians?? Horrors!
 
Actually, last time I looked, nobody ruled the world, although a lot of
people have laid claim to parts of it. Just think, though; if the
Communists don't rule the world, someone else will! Same for the
fascists, the Muslims, the IBM fanatics... The logic is indisputable,
but it's also kind of silly.
===========

From: TURTLE              
To: BURNEY              
Subject: Conferences    
Date & Time: 07/28/90 15:41:22
Message Number  9320

>With a little compasion on everyones part, I'll live through (I'm
>reasonably sure) the bashing that is to come.....
 
Well, it could be worse. You could have a PS/1. (The number of people on
this system who /like/ IBM can just about be counted on the fingers of
one thumb...smirk, wince, wait for fallout).
===========

From: BURNEY              
To: TURTLE              
Subject: Stuff          
Date & Time: 07/28/90 17:25:41
Message Number  9322

Well its been one day since I left my last message with only one 
(count'm) one reply to my comments about Saud.Ar./Kuwait, computers, etc
I expected more "fallout" than that.  I guess its not so bad after all 
in aLTER rEALITY land.  (I did expect more [in fun I hope]).  Long live 
A.R. and all its inhabitants. 
===========

From: THE SPECIALIST      
To: BURNEY              
Subject: Conferences    
Date & Time: 07/28/90 18:40:54
Message Number  9324

B>Also the best branch of the armed forces is all of them. Without one,
B>the others would be like a hand with no thumb.
  
Hmmm.  As a Army Dog, I can say with conviction that if what you 
described (one hand washing the other) was actually true, then the
armed forces would be *really* kick ass.  Unfortunately, there is
squabbling at the really high echelons.  This I know, because they 
can't all agree on something as simple as COMMUNICATIONS GEAR! If
the Air Force wants in on an Army net, do they train thier Flyboys
to operate Army equipment?  Hell no, they get a detachment of 
Army to stay at an AF base and work the equipment for them!  (And 
make the Army pay for it!!)
  
B>...Armageddon...
  
Ha!  Have you all been watching the Christian networks?  If you listen
to them for just 15 minutes you can hear more bullshit than all the 
networks combined can throw at you (and that includes CNN)!  Thay
try to make impossible connections between what's going on in Iraq
with Armageddon by correlating the happenings there to ambiguous 
(and I do mean, really ambiguous...the kind of wording that makes
*ABSOLUTELY* no sense whatsoever no matter what you connect it with)
wording from the bible.  And try to say that all the forces there and
the whole world ("nations will unite") are all there actually to 
attack ISRAEL...c'mon!  Don't flatter yourselves.
===========

From: ODEN                
To: MMA                 
Subject: C64            
Date & Time: 07/28/90 22:32:42
Message Number  9327

Hey.. did I see someone being ashamed of having a commodore 64?!? gee, i
... if ya ask me, its the best computer for under $100 and unless you 
are at 300 baud, theres nothing to be ashamed of. Commodore 64/128s will
never go 'out' (er, all the way... ma> Soylent Green.  That was a rediculous movie...
 
  I could disagree with you, but the only part of the film I remember is
the part where the guy gets squashed by the front of one of them big 
construction vehicles... things like that stick with ya when you're 
seven...
 
  I should have watched it when WTBS ran it following "Logan's Run" (an
inexplicable favorite), but I didn't...
===========

From: DIONYSUS            
To: SPELLWIND           
Subject: SP FOR PREZ... 
Date & Time: 07/28/90 23:06:33
Message Number  9328

Hell - in that case, why don't we all chip in and just give him the
money?
===========

From: DIONYSUS            
To: THE SPECIALIST      
Subject: help           
Date & Time: 07/28/90 23:14:30
Message Number  9329

Roofs are great.  They help keep you dry on rainy nights like tonight,
and they help keep you cool when the air conditioner is on.  Rufus, I
suppose, could do the same thing were he positioned right, but roofs do
the job much more efficiently.
===========

From: DIONYSUS            
To: THE SPECIALIST      
Subject: help           
Date & Time: 07/28/90 23:16:41
Message Number  9330

You know what they say: With a name like Smucker's, it has to be good.
===========

From: BEATLE              
To: KEN SABLE           
Subject: Computer Values
Date & Time: 07/28/90 23:53:48
Message Number  9332

> You actually /want/ people... blah blah
 
  **heavy annoyed sigh**
 
  I /said/ that the original message clearly said f I asked the people
on Beyond Chaos, I would get a lot about how good the Amiga is...". 
Which would set something off in my head saying: "This person is not 
interested in hearing about the Amiga"... THINK!!! If he just wanted to 
know my opinion about the best computer, I would pick the Mac II FX or 
any Amiga. Maybe he wanted a different type of computer. I don't know. 
 
===========

From: BEATLE              
To: RUFUS               
Subject: Something      
Date & Time: 07/29/90 00:01:36
Message Number  9333

 
 > Wrong dude. Sugar is number two on the list of ingredients.
 
  By god you're right!!! 
 
  Burn corn flakes!! Burn corn flakes!! 
===========

From: BEATLE              
To: DAVID MILLER        
Subject: offensive?
Date & Time: 07/29/90 00:04:34
Message Number  9334

 
  What????? That message was too odd to make sense of.
===========

From: BEATLE              
To: THE SPECIALIST      
Subject: Ray Bradbury   
Date & Time: 07/29/90 00:07:18
Message Number  9335

 
  I think the book you're thinking of is "Something Evil This Way Comes"
It was turned into a Disney film about 8 to 10 years ago.
 
> Now, how about Clarke?
 
  Arthur C.??
===========

From: BEATLE              
To: SNAKEBYTE           
Subject: Barb's         
Date & Time: 07/29/90 00:10:34
Message Number  9336

  That's the same one I go to. Didn't I tell you I lived out that way??
 
> I could of swore a few were about 15-16 range...
 
  Well, are you referring to the blond girl who looks like a bimbo?? And
the guy who is thin and is there all the time?
===========

From: BEATLE              
To: TURTLE              
Subject: Huh, The Sequel
Date & Time: 07/29/90 00:16:09
Message Number  9337

 
  And to think, none of that had anything to do with what I said... but 
that's okay, since "Goo Goo Gjoob" was part of the original concept, and
that makes about as much sense as your response...
===========

From: BEATLE              
To: RUFUS               
Subject: help           
Date & Time: 07/29/90 00:17:36
Message Number  9338

> Well, what warranted that comment?
 
  I'd just like to know what it means. How do you suck a "smuck"?? Does
that have something to do with Smucker's (TM) Jelly????
===========

From: BEATLE              
To: MMA                 
Subject: authors        
Date & Time: 07/29/90 00:22:29
Message Number  9339

> The Bourne Identity, the bourne Supremacy, and The Bourne Ulimatum. 
> He has also written a great many other books.
 
  Oh, like Bourne Free?
 
  **ducking tomatoes and comments about making no sense**
===========

From: BEATLE              
To: RUFUS               
Subject: Previous Msg   
Date & Time: 07/29/90 00:25:07
Message Number  9340

> Okay, so she didn't say that, but I suppose she might.
 
 Oh, sure, ya just gotta give her some money. She had a lot of free time
this week, since she wasn't on ANY episodes of "Tiny Toon Adventures".
Strangely enough, Elmira was on ALL of them... sense some odd things 
going on over at WB??
===========

From: BEATLE              
To: TURTLE              
Subject: SP FOR PREZ... 
Date & Time: 07/29/90 00:28:47
Message Number  9341

> Maybe we could charter a bus...
 
 Yeah!! That's a great idea. More and more are seeing the way of the 
aardvark and going anti-Spellprez...  
 
>...could he really be worse  than  Reagan?
 
  What do YOU think?
===========

From: YNGLING             
To: MMA                 
Subject: Clarke         
Date & Time: 07/29/90 00:38:28
Message Number  9342

Since your tastes lean towards the mystery/espionage genre let me recom-
mend "The Brotherhood of the Rose," "The Fraternity of the Stone," & 
"The League of Night & Fog" by David Morrell.  Excellent books!  However
avoid anything else he has written.  Sometimes I'm amazed that an author
can be both brilliant and retarded...another example being Clancy's
"Cardinal of the Kremlin." Dreck! Which was then followed by a"A Clear
and Present Danger" which is probably his best to date.
   BTW - for those who enjoy good novels re: the Vietnam War: "The Fire
Dream" by Franklin Allen Leib recently released in mass market ppbk at
$5.95 is /very/ good [so far anyway, I'm 1/2 way thru it].
                                The Yngling
===========

From: THRUD               
To: THE SPECIALIST      
Subject: Military Servic
Date & Time: 07/29/90 05:47:38
Message Number  9343

How did I get to be a retired specialist? Easy....I broke into 
hysterical laughter when the re-enlistment NCO said he wanted to
talk to me. I'm really glad I did my three years (and three in the 
reserve), but I'm not a lifer type - seemed a contradictiNothing like that. But True Germans think I'm from Italy when I speak.
===========

From: THRUD               
To: SNAKEBYTE           
Subject: tact           
Date & Time: 07/29/90 06:01:29
Message Number  9344

I've made a lifetime hobby out of correcting people, but it took
years to learn to do it tactfully - I clearly remember in 6th grade
when Sister Mary Margaret congratulated me for saying "Excuse me"
before I pointed out her arithmetic mistakes. Most people will
completely ignore your advice and wisdom, no matter how right you
might be, if they feel they're being attacked. 'Tis one of my own
biggest problems - little patience for the utterances of fools, and 
there seems to be a preponderanc of them about....
SSC - Sudden Subject Change - I'm not so sure I want to have another
kiddo, even if I was sure it would be a boy. I think the source of 
many of the worlds problems is that children are born into situations
where the resources to feed and rear them properly are inadaquate.
With two daughters, my resources and my hair are getting pretty thin.
                                THRUD
===========

From: THRUD               
To: MAX                 
Subject: war movies     
Date & Time: 07/29/90 06:12:54
Message Number  9345

Yer right, the way the military is presented in movies and on
TV has little bearing on reality. Part of the reason for this is that
the service can be far more boring than an audience could handle -
lots of waiting, maintenence and screwing off. There ar you're 
seven...
 
  I should have watched it when WTBS ran it following "Logan's Run" (an
inexplicable favorite), but I didn't...
===========

From: RUFUS               
To: TURTLE              
Subject: Infinity       
Date & Time: 07/29/90 10:12:10
Message Number  9346

>Ahem! Lawyers representing Infinity Ltd. will be contacting you soon
>about a potential copyright conflict with "Infinity, Inc."...
 
Smart move, dude.  And bring the wrath of the Aardvark of Happiness upon
your family for generations to come.
===========

From: RUFUS               
To: MAX                 
Subject: Something      
Date & Time: 07/29/90 10:19:47
Message Number  9347

Yes, fringe yuppies, the tormented souls of the world.  They sometimes
think twice about buying that $60 dollar tennis shirt, or those $150
dollar shoes.  And sometimes think "Gee, why'd I buy this Volvo"?
 
 ...and every once in a while they leave the car phone at home!
===========

From: RUFUS               
To: KEN SABLE           
Subject: Computer Values
Date & Time: 07/29/90 10:22:39
Message Number  9348

>I really didn't mean to get you pissed about saying you should rub Opus
 
The rubbing of anthropomorphic penguins is illegal in 23 states!
 
>I'll try not to get you pissed off in the near future, since you are a
>good friend and I don't want friends mad at me ...
 
I'm cutting that out and sticking it in my wallet.  Hell, maybe Ann
Landers should use it as a gem of the day.
===========

From: BEATLE              
To: BEATLE              
Subject: Ray Bradbury   
Date & Time: 07/29/90 12:14:22
Message Number  9349

> "Something Evil This Way Comes"...
 
  Gee, Beatle, you must have been half asleep last night!!!! That's 
"Something Wicked This Way Comes".... Grrr... I think I shall tell 
myself to crawl into a corner or something now.
 
 >> Clarke.
 > Arthur C.??
 
  Yep, now  I know that's who was being spoken about. I've only read one
of his books tho...
===========

From: THRUD               
To: BURNEY              
Subject: Stuff          
Date & Time: 07/29/90 16:44:51
Message Number  9350

Jeez, when you covered so many topics in one message, I just assumed
that you didn't have anything else to say. Feel better now?
===========

From: THRUD               
To: TURTLE              
Subject: Debate!        
Date & Time: 07/29/90 16:58:38
Message Number  9351

Damn.....I thought the Old Testament was written in assembly language...
===========

From: THRUD               
To: MMA                 
Subject: C64            
Date & Time: 07/29/90 17:04:26
Message Number  9352

Smartass at large? Is that anything like a large smartass?
===========

From: RUFUS               
To: BEATLE              
Subject: Something      
Date & Time: 07/29/90 18:51:51
Message Number  9353

ME> Wrong dude. Sugar is number two on the list of ingredients.
BEATLE> By god you're right!!!
BEATLE> Burn corn flakes!! Burn corn flakes!!
 
Why?  I like Corn Flakes, if you add sugar or bananas.  But if you add
bananas, you have to slice 'em real thin, else the milk hits 'em
and splatters all over.  Now Corn Flakes floating in Mountain Dew...
Could be good (or could be vile).
===========

From: BURNEY              
To: THE SPECIALIST      
Subject: Armag.         
Date & Time: 07/29/90 20:01:42
Message Number  9355

Just a quick bit of RELIGIOUS 
trivia, Do you remember the nuclear disaster in the Soviet Union at
Cherynobel (not sure of spelling). That word (cherynobel) is translated 
in either Hebrew or Greek as       "wormwood" which is used in the (here
comes that word)Bible in the book of Revelations in a description of the
judgements of God in the last days.  (I heard this from 60 MINUTES, a
reputable news organization.  Now I'm not saying these are the end times
but that is quite a coincidense   don't you think?
As far as the military is concerned,  I'll admit the administration 
of the armed forces does leave something to be desired, and I do see you
r point. Can you imagine how difficult it would be to deal with the Mid 
East Problem without the Navy to get a great deal of the supplies that 
 to heavy for planes, over to the desert.
TURTLE:
>only the architecture
yes I'll agree with that but unfortunately at this time, I cannot afford
a better system.  Besides, I like to write my own programs and that is 
easy with the C64
===========

From: BURNEY              
To: DIONYSUS            
Subject: $              
Date & Time: 07/29/90 20:19:25
Message Number  9356

Sounds good to me!
===========

From: BURNEY              
To: YNGLING             
Subject: Clarke         
Date & Time: 07/29/90 20:25:05
Message Number  9357

The book "Brotherhood o Rose" was also made into a mini-series that 
aired either last year or the year before.  I didn't read the book, 
(haven't been able to find it) but going on the premise that most movies
that were maFROM a book are    never as good AS the book, it should be
(im my opinion) very, very good.    (But what do I know, I'm just a new 
user).
===========

From: BURNEY              
To: THRUD               
Subject: Stuff          
Date & Time: 07/29/90 20:38:36
Message Number  9358

>Jeez with so many messages..
My apologies for being so type-ative.  I was just (sniffle) trying to 
address most subjects under discussion all at once.  Next time I'll 
take two aspirin and call you in the morning (now I feel better)
===========

From: SNAKEBYTE           
To: RUFUS               
Subject: Barb's         
Date & Time: 07/29/90 22:58:00
Message Number  9361

>...count the rings....
  
Don't know about that, but if you take the gray hairs and divid by
the weight of the person and then subtract 4, you will have the
number of kids they have. Oooops, just confirmed that by my own
head...make that subtract 3 rather then 4 <grin>.
===========

From: SNAKEBYTE           
To: TURTLE              
Subject: Orders, orders 
Date & Time: 07/29/90 23:00:39
Message Number  9362

>Oh, cut that out.
  
Snip-snip-snip.......clunk.
  
===========

From: SNAKEBYTE           
To: MAX                 
Subject: German         
Date & Time: 07/29/90 23:02:15
Message Number  9363

I was definitely NOT putting a/r down for the in-ability to display
the IBM character set, just passing the word to a friend that the
German special characters are available if required. The idea of ALL
character/special functions of ALL PC's, hmmmmmmmmmmm....Das ist eine
prima Idee.   
===========

From: SNAKEBYTE           
To: BEATLE              
Subject: Barb's         
Date & Time: 07/29/90 23:09:03
Message Number  9364

Or the heavier girl with the dark hair and glasses??? Shoot, I don't
pay much attention to them anymore. Just get a movie a split before
my kids tear the place apart and cost me money I don't have. 
  
You say you live out this way???? How far out??? East of 75 or west??
I'm definitely east......SNAKEBYTE
===========

From: SNAKEBYTE           
To: THRUD               
Subject: tact           
Date & Time: 07/29/90 23:12:27
Message Number  9365

Diplomatic Tactfulness....the fruit to which the winners of the 
business world feed upon. I have made a career out of playing office
politics and getting myself (and the company I work for) into a 
situation of technilogical creativity and advancement. The company
I'm at is about 45 years old and some of the employees there celibrate
anniversaries that started prior to my birth. It's rough to deal with
these people, but after many years, I'm learning how to do it. Just got
myself into a new postion and purchased about $150K of new 'puter toys
for my department. Have the fun is the game.
  
No more THRUDlings, huh? Well, two was enough for us (not just me). I
think we could "afford" more, but it would distract too much from the
proper raising of the one's we have. But damn-it, I LOVE kids!!! So
innocent, so much fun, so little bull.....oh well. 
  
You can only be young once, but you can be immature forever.
===========

From: DIONYSUS            
To: BURNEY              
Subject: Armag.         
Date & Time: 07/29/90 23:29:19
Message Number  9366

Hey!  Look at the subject of this message - Armag.  Now, that could 
stand for something wicked, final, and nasty; or it could stand for 
something neeto, brand-new, and spiffy - A/R magazine.  Think about
it.  Or don't.  Never mind.
===========

From: MMA                 
To: BEATLE              
Subject: authors        
Date & Time: 07/30/90 02:50:46
Message Number  9368

***Here they come!***
Surprise! They're eggs!
No,not like 'Bourne Free'
The book 'born free' is really good though.
MMA
===========

From: MMA                 
To: YNGLING             
Subject: authors.       
Date & Time: 07/30/90 02:53:15
Message Number  9369

Yes,I agree Authors can be brilliant in one book,and then publish a real
waste of paper. 
Have you read 'TheMormon Murders'? It's a true story. Good reading.
MMA
===========

From: THE SPECIALIST      
To: THRUD               
Subject: Military Servic
Date & Time: 07/30/90 03:18:48
Message Number  9371

Laughing at  your Re-Up NCO makes you retired?  Then I guess that I'm
retired, too.
  Cept, I always thought that when you were retired you got a pension
or something... all I got was this piece of cardboard which said,
"Honorable Discharge".
  If you ain't a 95 Bang-Bang or mail clerk or mess hall then you 
ain't shit?  Hmm.  I guess that I'm not shit then!  What a good 
feeling!  (Oh, hell...the other side of that is, if you are a 95B or
mail clerk or mess hall then you *are* shit!)
  
  I was a communicator.  31C20A4V9...Single channel radio opr, NCO
tests (I had BNCOC), Morse qualified, Tactical Satellite opr.
I worked at a Command Center in Korea, EA qualified (Emergency Action
traffic for dissemination of Nuclear Release orders...I held one of
the keys).  Basically, a glorified RATT operator who got stuck in a
high security clearance/personal reliablity slot. 
  So, you can see why I developed the attitude I have about following
orders...you can't fail or foul up in a position like that.  If you
do, you are a failure in a critical chain.  (And we were like, second
in line.  We got our orders from CINCPAC, Hawaii.)
===========

From: THE SPECIALIST      
To: THRUD               
Subject: war movies     
Date & Time: 07/30/90 03:28:58
Message Number  9372

"What do I do next," said the Louie.
"Drop, drop, drop," said the Sargeant.
"Who's gonna shine my brass?" said the Corporal.
"Beer, beer, beer!" said the Privates.
 
I know what you mean, I still have this vestigal respect for my 
drill, too.  Kind of strange, actually.  I know that he can't get at
me here!
  Actually, my military time wasn't that boring, at least the two 
years I spent in Korea weren't.  Real world situations kept us
pretty busy (scrambles against North Korean aircraft, and reports
of DMZ violations, other things which I can't talk about (still!)), 
and when we weren't doing that, it was train, train, train.
  Now the time I spent with the 101st was totally different.
===========

From: TURTLE              
To: ODEN                
Subject: C64            
Date & Time: 07/30/90 04:28:26
Message Number  9375

>... if ya ask me, it [C=64] is the best computer for under $100...
 
I dunno. I paid that much for the Lisa (now configured to run Macintosh
software) and all the TRS-80's put together, and /none/ of those
computers has 40 columns /or/ serial disk I/O...
===========

From: TURTLE              
To: BEATLE              
Subject: authors        
Date & Time: 07/30/90 04:35:04
Message Number  9376

>Oh, like Bourne Free?
 
Yes, and Bourne to be Wild, and Bourne Unto a Virgin (a story about
comic goings-on amongst the Twelve Apostles), and The First Bourne,
and Bourne on the Fourth of July (later made into a movie by
Olivers Tone), and his bestseller Bourne Without a Clue.
===========

From: RUFUS               
To: ALL                 
Subject: Night Flight   
Date & Time: 07/30/90 10:58:15
Message Number  9377

I was chattin' with Beatle last night and he said that Night Flight was
back on TV.  Now, if you've never seen Night Flight, let's just say it's
a /really/ bizarre show.  The first thing they showed was something from
the Animation Festival last month.  The Witches flying around and doing
nasty things to each other (forgot the name).  Anyways, me being the
speedy Rufus I am, ripped open a brand new video tape (which was in the 
"ShrinkWrap from Hell (tm)"), ran through the house (I store the tapes
in my room and the VCR in the family room), popped in the tape, and 
recorded it!
 
    ...letterboxed no less.
===========

From: TURTLE              
To: THRUD               
Subject: war movies     
Date & Time: 09/30/90 16:40:42
Message Number  9378

>An enlisted man can make E-6...just by hanging in their...
 
That's kind of funny; my father's been in the Army for 24 years now and
he's still E-5. 'Course, he's not real big in the leadership department.
===========

From: TURTLE              
To: RUFUS               
Subject: Infinity       
Date & Time: 09/30/90 16:42:25
Message Number  9379

The Aardvark of Happiness doesn't /do/ copyright law, dude.
===========

From: TURTLE              
To: THRUD               
Subject: Debate!        
Date & Time: 09/30/90 16:45:03
Message Number  9380

>Damn.....I thought the Old Testament was written in assembly language..
 
Only if I had written it. (The Old Testament: The Z-System version. 100%
straight 64180 assembly language; runs twice as fast in a quarter of the
space of the older version...)
 
The Old Testament version 2.0 (c) 1990 Anarchy Now, Inc.
===========

From: TURTLE              
To: BURNEY              
Subject: Armag.         
Date & Time: 09/30/90 16:47:51
Message Number  9381

>...unfortunately at this time, I cannot afford a better system.
 
Well, hey, I have a couple of TRS-80's for sale cheap... :)
===========

From: TURTLE              
To: SNAKEBYTE           
Subject: Barb's         
Date & Time: 09/30/90 16:49:03
Message Number  9382

If you take a person's shoe size and divide it by the caliber of a
bullet fired at him, you'll get the distance (in centimeters) that
person can move before being hit. Similarly, if you take a person's
intelligenc and divide it by his blood count, you'll get the "Blood
IQ level," which is the liklihood that that person will refuse to do
something that will make him bleed...
===========

From: TURTLE              
To: DIONYSUS            
Subject: Armag.         
Date & Time: 09/30/90 16:52:04
Message Number  9383

A/R magazine...I /like/ it! Hmm...I'll have to look into porting
PageMaker over to LS-DOS...
===========

From: TURTLE              
To: THE SPECIALIST      
Subject: Military Servic
Date & Time: 09/30/90 16:55:41
Message Number  9384

>...you can't fail or foul up in a position like that.
 
If you do, you may fail to cause the end of human life.
===========

From: RUFUS               
To: TURTLE              
Subject: Infinity       
Date & Time: 09/30/90 18:20:57
Message Number  9385

>The Aardvark of Happiness doesn't /do/ the copyright law, dude.
 
I know that, but I am blessed by the Aardvark of Happiness for a number
of reasons, one being that I have an Aardvark shrine in my house, and
I drink a large amount of Mountain Dew (well, so do you, but the 
shrine thing clinches it).  And I've lost my point under the chair, so
I'll just leave now.
===========

From: THRUD               
To: TURTLE              
Subject: authors        
Date & Time: 09/30/90 21:36:35
Message Number  9387

Howza bout 'Bourne to be Naked", which has something to do with
Jaquline Smith, but I can't talk about it on a family board.....
===========

From: THRUD               
To: ALL                 
Subject: st:ng          
Date & Time: 09/30/90 21:59:34
Message Number  9389

Damnation, I think the premire sucked. All that waiting, all that
buildup, and they feed us some 'Data accesses their files and puts
'em to sleep bullshit' Jeez - the Borg left most of Starfleet a
smoking wreck, and we're supposed to believe that Riker and Co.
withstood the same assault long enough to pull that weak ass 
ploy. I think many of us could have done better, and their writers
better get with it or those of us with real imaginations will 
desert ST:ng. I love the show, but I'm really dissapointed.
                       TrekTHRUDner.
===========

From: THE SPECIALIST      
To: TURTLE              
Subject: war movies     
Date & Time: 09/30/90 22:25:39
Message Number  9390

T>my father's been in the Army for 24 years now and he's still and 
T>E-5.
  
  Is that Spec-5 or Sergeant?  What MOS and how many times has be been
busted; and what for?
===========

From: THE SPECIALIST      
To: TURTLE              
Subject: Military Servic
Date & Time: 09/30/90 22:27:55
Message Number  9391

TS>...you can't fail or foul up in a position like that.
T>If you do, you may fail to cause the end of human life.
 
Hmmph.  That's so typical of a response from you.  It's clear that
you don't understand what the purpose of a retaliatory strike is.
(That is, beyond revenge.)
===========

From: THE SPECIALIST      
To: THE SPECIALIST      
Subject: Military Servic
Date & Time: 09/30/90 22:31:48
Message Number  9392

Hey, Dave...you are being anal retentive.  You attacked a person, and
not the concept.
But, he made a snide remark at me first!
No excuses.
===========

From: MIKE GREENAWALD     
To: TURTLE              
Subject: McD's Fries    
Date & Time: 09/30/90 23:00:16
Message Number  9394

No I do not know you Mr. T. And you are a stranger. I can not picture a 
half shell. 
Can you say that you know me? We talked one night on the phone when your
board went down for about 10 seconds. You told me that you were in distr
ess and I offered a computer to you with hard drive. You laughed and sai
d goodbye. The offer was real.
===========

From: MIKE GREENAWALD     
To: TURTLE              
Subject: Huh            
Date & Time: 09/30/90 23:05:13
Message Number  9395

Reference to private conversation on another bbs. He is a male looking
for a female is what the sentence means.
===========

From: MIKE GREENAWALD     
To: TURTLE              
Subject: Apple hard driv
Date & Time: 09/30/90 23:07:28
Message Number  9396

Yes. There are several ways. I just happen to be Davids cousin. He is
playing poppa bear to some hurt feelings. David is very emotional.
I was feeding kids by gastric tube the other day. David lost his
lunch.
===========

From: MIKE GREENAWALD     
To: SPELLWIND           
Subject: McD's Fries    
Date & Time: 09/30/90 23:10:24
Message Number  9397

Have not been on line for a number of days or rather weeks. David has
been working my line. You would like David.
===========

From: MIKE GREENAWALD     
To: RUFUS               
Subject: McD's Fries    
Date & Time: 09/30/90 23:12:55
Message Number  9398

No I have been across the way from you working at the hospital with
little kids in medical choas. I met a Rufus look alike at Palms the
other day. This kid was as neet as you are (do not feel put down this
teen had his problems but he was really interesting to talk to) Parents
can really screw kids heads.
===========

From: MIKE GREENAWALD     
To: RUFUS               
Subject: McD's Fries    
Date & Time: 09/30/90 23:18:00
Message Number  9399

Rufus the reference is to anatomy. Oops so is yours. Sorry about
that I read the hard copy again. This bit with a teletype is not
as easy as they make it out to be.
===========

From: MIKE GREENAWALD     
To: RUFUS               
Subject: Apple hard driv
Date & Time: 09/30/90 23:20:35
Message Number  9400

The french fry guy has to idea how a hard drive works either?
There is sure a storm somewhere.
===========

From: MIKE GREENAWALD     
To: RUFUS               
Subject: hard drive     
Date & Time: 09/30/90 23:25:02
Message Number  9401

Some more good news I just received a 20meg hard drive and clock.
The guy was happy to part with them and gave them free of charge.
I took care of his youngin for a few days.  
Is there an Apple bbs program available as share ware?
Boy this line is full of static.
===========

From: MMA                 
To: THRUD               
Subject: C64            
Date & Time: 10/01/90 01:48:41
Message Number  9402

The only upgrades I have made are to get a 1200 baud modem,a second 1541
 a star NX-1000 printer,and some accessories that are useful.
I would like to get a RAM expansion unit and a monitor. Maybe one day.
The C64 is NOT a game machine! I will defend that. 
Long live C64!!!!!!
You're right though,they're the cheapest worthwhile computer around.
Remember the Coleco Adam? It sure died fast...faster than the TI-99.
I was only making comparisons to IBM when I talked about the add-ons.
MMA
May the PS/1 die before X-mas!
===========

From: ANGEL               
To: MAX                 
Subject: ennui          
Date & Time: 10/01/90 02:08:39
Message Number  9403

Hello dear Donthen/Max/Watts:
   Hi there!  It's two in the morning and I've just finished a run of a
play that I've waited fourteen years to do and I'm four sheets to the
wind and feeling maudlin and sappy and sentimental and why I'm 
addressing this message to you, I'm not totally sure.  I guess it's 
because you never cut me any slack.  It's a nice change.  Anyway, I've
just finished a double performance (both a matinee and an evening show)
of a play I've always wanted to do.  A bunch of us (exhausted as we 
were) went out  for a drink or two, or three, or four .... after the
show.  We were marvelously mushy and happy and most appropriately proud
of our achievement.  .......
   I felt like an outsider.
   Strange, I'm talking to someone who is not here and responding, and
yet I stayed silent among a group of friends and, supposed, compatriates
Hmmmmmmmm. So most strange to finally, after waiting fourteen years, to
at last perform a show that was everything you could ever imagine, and
to miraculously, have it NOT be a letdown.  It was ... I could not 
express the emotion even to those I shared it with.
    Unfortunately, my fellow actors knew me, or at least, the me I
project to the general world.  No one who knows me believes I am a
spiritual person.  That I believe in those most mundane things like
God, and eternity, and how both make a real difference in a view of
this most bizarre universe.
    I am to those who know me, a cynic.  How can they know the wonder
I feel at ...  I'm sorry, I'm babbling.  Excuse this most uncharacter-
istic  jaunt into introspection in this time between work and pleasure
that we plebians call the weekend  --- Christ, where are these bad
cliches coming from?   
    Max/Donthen/Watts, I sense a kindred spirit that rails against
... stop, whoa!!!!!!!  Thank you for listening, and indulging this 
happy, maudlin, most strange wee-hour-of-the-morning musings.  Feel
the spirit.  Enjoy!!!
===========

From: YNGLING             
To: BURNEY              
Subject: Armag.         
Date & Time: 10/01/90 16:03:45
Message Number  9404

>60 MINUTES, a reputable news organization
[After several minutes of uncontrolled laughter]
Oh yeah? Says who?
                The Yngling
"When I was a child I spake as a child..."
===========

From: YNGLING             
To: BURNEY              
Subject: Clarke         
Date & Time: 10/01/90 16:06:15
Message Number  9405

"Brotherhood of the Rose" as well as the other Morrell titles I mention-
ed, should be available at Waldenbooks or B.F.Dalton Booksellers as they
are on both chains "backlists" which means they are /supposed/ to be 
kept in stock at all times.  Re: the miniseries: It was good but the
book is much better.  I was pleased that they stuck to the original plot
line instead of mangling it as TV and movies have a tendency to do.
                               The Yngling (who still hasn't recovered
                               from the film version of "Dune"...weird-
                               ing modules my ass...)
===========

From: BURNEY              
To: DIONYSUS            
Subject: Armag.         
Date & Time: 10/01/90 19:02:09
Message Number  9406

Which do you prefer,                        :evil, nasty, etc. or
    :neeto, nifty,    
===========

From: BURNEY              
To: RUFUS               
Subject: Night Flight   
Date & Time: 10/01/90 19:07:32
Message Number  9407

Sounds like a good show, when does it come on?  Or am I the only one 
that thinks this show really exists?
===========

From: BURNEY              
To: TURTLE              
Subject: Cheap Computers
Date & Time: 10/01/90 19:10:15
Message Number  9408

Unless its free, I cant afford it.My wife and I just bought a house and
we got SCREWED by the mrtg. co.  Pass the vaseline please....
Not only that MY drive bit the dust last week, the one I'm using is 
borrowed from a friend who uses an Amiga now.
===========

From: BURNEY              
To: MMA                 
Subject: C64            
Date & Time: 10/01/90 19:21:45
Message Number  9409

I need another drive too.
Mine bit the big one 
(plays taps)
===========

From: BURNEY              
To: YNGLING             
Subject: Armag.         
Date & Time: 10/01/90 19:23:17
Message Number  9410

Boy! Did I create quite a stir with that Armageddon bit or what.
>...oh yeah..says who?
my mommy says so thats who!
Really folks, can anyone give me PROOF that 60 Min. is just fabricating
(with no proof of there own) these stories.
===========

From: BURNEY              
To: YNGLING             
Subject: Dune           
Date & Time: 10/01/90 19:28:42
Message Number  9411

I didnt read the book, and if the movie is any indication as to the 
content of the book, I dont want to.  
PS thanks for info on where to locate books.
===========

From: MAX                 
To: TURTLE              
Subject: Something      
Date & Time: 10/01/90 20:53:36
Message Number  9413

> >Well, I've met yuppies who weren't that bad.
> Is that like a case of pneumonia that's "not too serious"? :) 
 
Not really.  Tyler's kind of a yuppie, and he's not that bad.  I was
going to list more, but the only other yuppie I think I'd like is
Reli, and since she doesn't exist (unless one wants to get into odd
metaphysics about writing) she might not be a good example.  But if I
met a yuppie like her (sans fur, before someone says "You mean an
anthropomorphic cat?"), I think I'd like her.... :)
===========

From: MAX                 
To: RUFUS               
Subject: Infinity       
Date & Time: 10/01/90 21:02:19
Message Number  9414

Actually, "Infinity, Inc." is already a trademark of DC, so the point
is moot.
---
   Incidentally, "DC Comics" is the legal name of that particular
company.  But "DC" stands for their original title, "Detective Comics."
Is this kind of like "NCNB National Bank?"  You can argue that saying
"DC Comics" is grammatically wrong, but legally, it's correct.  Of
course, legally "TSR" doesn't stand for anything now, either, as the
company's official name is just "TSR" (not even "TSR Hobbies").
===========

From: MAX                 
To: SNAKEBYTE           
Subject: German         
Date & Time: 10/01/90 21:07:25
Message Number  9415

Well, hey, the Trash-80 has all the "special language" characters built
in, plus a complete graphic set which has nothing to do with anything
else (or anything useful, for that matter), 64 mysterious "space
compression codes" which can occasionally be put to good use over BBS's
that support TRS-80 graphics (I know of one in the entire world that
does, but there used to be, gosh, five or six!), and a set of kana
characters for the tens and tens of Japanese who need to run a TRSDOS
compatible machine.  At any rate, true ANSI terminals also have special
graphics sets.
   So in theory, a BBS could translate from its own system's terminal
codes to those of the remote user "on the fly."  I have seen this in 
limited use on C-Net, which supports Commodore, Skypic and ANSI
graphics, but the only boards that actually seem to put this to use
(except for mainframe operating systems) are remote Z-System boards,
which usually know 50 or so different terminal types and let you do
neat things like "point and shoot" at the files in the current
directory that you want to download, because it knows your terminal's
movement, highlighting, and usually arrow-key commands.  Of course,
there are only about 50 Remote Z boards out there and most of them
have absolutely useless BBS programs (you think the TRS-80 version of
PBBS needs help, you should see the CP/M program that goes by the
same name).
   ...at any rate, MS-DOS bashing aside, you'd think that if a BBS
could do that on a computer with 64K running an 8K DOS and a 20K
BBS program on a 4 MHz Z80A, that the 600K+ Remote Access BBS could
figure it out, too... considering that on Z, that's a function of the
8K DOS, not the bloody BBS program!!!
===========

From: THE SPECIALIST      
To: MAX                 
Subject: Something      
Date & Time: 10/01/90 21:50:11
Message Number  9416

M>Tyler's kind of a yuppie, and he's not that bad.
  
Hmmm.  Ask Rufus....
  
Besides, who do you think we've been making fun of, all this time?
(Pumps, Mach allowances, etc...)
  
  >:)
 
===========

From: THE SPECIALIST      
To: MAX                 
Subject: German         
Date & Time: 10/01/90 21:55:49
Message Number  9417

M>Well, hey, the TRS80 has...a set of kana characters for ...
  
"kana" characters?  What are those?
===========

From: MAX                 
To: THE SPECIALIST      
Subject: Military Servic
Date & Time: 10/02/90 17:15:17
Message Number  9419

Actually, it would seem if you foul up in a position like the one you
and Turtle are talking about, the strike still goes through and you get
shot on the spot for insubordination.  (You have to figure that at the
point when a retaliatory strike was deemed "necessary," the end of
human life -- especially if your particular life happens to be at a
military base with nuclear armaments -- is already given.)
   As for the purpose of a retaliatory strike, in a very real sense,
the purpose of it is to never happen.  (That does make sense even if it
doesn't sound like it on the surface: the idea is that side "A" won't
fire on side "B" if they can assume the retaliatory strike will be
equally devastating and unavoidable, which was the entire premise of
the nuclear arms race.  I think it's reached a point where it's kind
of moot -- at this point, we literally have so many missiles that some
of them are targeted at /individual people/ in the USSR: any one
missile could level Moscow, and while redundancy may be a good thing,
there are over 260 aimed there in the current "worst case" plan.  When
you're talking numbers like that, it really doesn't matter if side "B"
has twice the number of warheads -- it means they can blow up all of
your cities 20 times over whereas you can only blow theirs up 10 times
over.)
===========

From: MAX                 
To: YNGLING             
Subject: Armag.         
Date & Time: 10/02/90 17:26:01
Message Number  9421

Oh, posh.  CBS News is pretty reliable as far as networks go.  Dan
Rather may be a pompous twit, but that doesn't mean he's not a good
reporter.  (Not a great anchor, mind you.)
===========

From: MAX                 
To: BURNEY              
Subject: Dune           
Date & Time: 10/02/90 17:27:58
Message Number  9422

The movie of DUNE isn't a terribly good indication of the content of
the book -- it's kind of like a Readers' Digest condensed version
rewritten by someone on drugs (David Lynch).  The full movie was about
3 and a half hours long, but it was edited to 90-odd minutes by the
studio who didn't think audiences would have the patience for an
"epic" movie.
===========

From: MAX                 
To: THE SPECIALIST      
Subject: German         
Date & Time: 10/02/90 17:30:42
Message Number  9423

The kana are 64 Japanese characters that are a subset of the actual
language, developed to make life easier for typists and computer
operators (not to mention computer programmers).  The TRS-80 is the
only computer I know of that has them built in, and to this day nobody
knows WHY they're there, either.
===========

From: KEN SABLE           
To: MAX                 
Subject: Something      
Date & Time: 10/02/90 17:54:50
Message Number  9425

/. Tyler's kind of a yuppie...
 
Grrr....
 
I am /NOT/ a Yuppie!!!!!!!!!!!!!
===========

From: TURTLE              
To: THE SPECIALIST      
Subject: war movies     
Date & Time: 10/02/90 18:08:20
Message Number  9426

Ya wanna hear something funny? He's never been busted; he's just never
been promoted. He /has/ been shuffled all the hell over the place,
though; he was in some sort of artillery division for a while; then
they moved him to maintenance of some sort or other; then to cargo
handling; and during all this he's been stationed in more places than
I have fingers and toes. Right now he's spending his time loading cargo
onto transport aircraft, for what that's worth.
===========

From: TURTLE              
To: MIKE GREENAWALD     
Subject: McD's Fries    
Date & Time: 10/02/90 18:11:17
Message Number  9427

>Can you say that you know me?
 
Hell no, and the fact that you don't use a handle doesn't change that.
 
>We talked one night on the phone...I offered a computer with a hard
>drive. You laughed and said goodbye.
 
Nope. You obviously have me confused with someone else; I have never
spoken to you, and you have CERTAINLY never offered me a hard drive
(if you had, I assure you I most certainly would not have laughed).
===========

From: THE SPECIALIST      
To: MAX                 
Subject: German         
Date & Time: 10/02/90 22:38:18
Message Number  9428

Reminds me of an Apple clone in Korea called the Banana (no joke) which
had a full set of Korean characters in it...
===========

From: BURNEY              
To: MAX                 
Subject: Dune           
Date & Time: 10/02/90 23:14:42
Message Number  9429

Well I can see why they edited it to such a short movie.  Now on the 
other hand and to change movies mid typing, They sure cut up Shogun  
from the original 5 pt mini series to a 2hr tv movie.  I've read the 
book, saw the mini series and saw the 2hr movie.  The latter is the 
biggest disapointment.  I think the motion picture industry did that 
to a couple of other movies as well.
===========

From: MMA                 
To: MAX                 
Subject: dead 'puters   
Date & Time: 10/03/90 01:52:31
Message Number  9431

There was a column in COMPUTER SHOPPER for both the TI-99/4A and the 
ADAM. I'm not sure if they still do though.
 
MMA
===========

From: THRUD               
To: TURTLE              
Subject: heavy sorrow   
Date & Time: 10/03/90 04:57:01
Message Number  9432

Durn, Shellhead, sorry to see you go down. This was one of the last
places I could go and be immature when the pressure got too intense.
See ya in the echos.             THRUD
===========

From: BEATLE              
To: RUFUS               
Subject: Something      
Date & Time: 10/03/90 07:12:58
Message Number  9433

> Could be good (or could be vile).
 
 I'd choose the latter.
===========

From: BEATLE              
To: SNAKEBYTE           
Subject: Barb's         
Date & Time: 10/03/90 07:15:00
Message Number  9434

> East of 75 or west??
 
  West. But pretty close to I-75. It's up past the Dennys, across from 
the Site, near the post office...
===========

From: BEATLE              
To: TURTLE              
Subject: Barb's         
Date & Time: 10/03/90 07:19:35
Message Number  9435

> ...you'll get the distance...that person can more before being hit.
 
  "If you can imagine the impact on your chest of three bowling balls
dropped from the height of about nine feet, you might begin to approx-
imate the sensation [of being shot]"...
===========

From: BEATLE              
To: BURNEY              
Subject: Night Flight   
Date & Time: 10/03/90 07:25:13
Message Number  9436

turxD{_f
 Saturday nights at 1 AM on Channel 44
===========

From: KEN SABLE           
To: TURTLE              
Subject: Damn You!      
Date & Time: 10/03/90 14:25:46
Message Number  9437

Putting all of us through an emotional roller-coaster like that saying 
that your BBS was going down and now saying it will still be around for
atleast another month!  Thank ghods ... I thought I was about to lose on
e of my favorite BBSes!  ANyways, where U going to run it from?
===========

From: RUFUS               
To: MIKE GREENAWALD     
Subject: McD's Fries    
Date & Time: 10/03/90 15:50:09
Message Number  9439

That was me you talked to!  And I remember you offering me the LOAN
of a computer.  And I didn't laugh.  At least you got some of the
facts right.
===========

From: RUFUS               
To: MIKE GREENAWALD     
Subject: hard drive     
Date & Time: 10/03/90 15:52:59
Message Number  9440

>Is there an Apple bbs program available as share ware?
 
Yes.  Where, I don't know.
===========

From: RUFUS               
To: BURNEY              
Subject: Night Flight   
Date & Time: 10/03/90 15:54:46
Message Number  9441

>Sounds like a good show, when does it come on?
 
Uhh, check your TV guide.  It should be Friday or Saturday night at
1 a.m.
===========

From: YNGLING             
To: BURNEY              
Subject: Armag.         
Date & Time: 10/03/90 16:39:56
Message Number  9442

60 MINUTES is just another member of the liberal news media which
distorts the facts to support their own contentions.
                                   The Yngling
"Provin' aint necessary.  Sometimes knowin' is enough."
                            -Robert B. Parker
                             (I forget which Spenser novel its from)
===========

From: YNGLING             
To: MAX                 
Subject: Armag.         
Date & Time: 10/03/90 16:45:18
Message Number  9443

We weren't discussing CBS News, we were talking about 60 Minutes.  This
doesn't mean I /agree/ with what you said about CBS News - although I do
agree with what you said about Dan Rather re: his being a pompous twit.
                                    The Yngling
===========

From: YNGLING             
To: TURTLE              
Subject: A/R            
Date & Time: 10/03/90 16:52:16
Message Number  9444

Turtle,
I missed the bulletin - what's this about A/R going down for the count?
Why (if one may ask)?  Is it a financial or logistical problem (or is 
it just becoming a pain in the ass?)?
                              The Yngling
===========

From: BURNEY              
To: RUFUS               
Subject: Night Flight   
Date & Time: 10/03/90 21:01:55
Message Number  9445

Thanks dude...
===========

From: BURNEY              
To: YNGLING             
Subject: 60 Min.        
Date & Time: 10/03/90 21:04:25
Message Number  9446

I suppose you do like 48 HOURS or maybe even HARD COPY.
my personal favorite is:
CURRENT AFFAIR
:)      :)       :)
===========

From: BEATLE              
To: MAX                 
Subject: Dune           
Date & Time: 10/03/90 21:20:58
Message Number  9447

> ...rewritten by someone on drugs (David Lynch).
 
  Well, if "Twin Peaks" is any indicator, anything from David Lynch 
seems drug induced.  I would, however like to see the film version of 
"Dune" sometime (and if someone actually brings it back, I'll check it 
out of my school library!)... after all, it's got Kyle MacLachlan and 
Patrick Stewart.
===========

From: BEATLE              
To: KEN SABLE           
Subject: Something      
Date & Time: 10/03/90 21:23:50
Message Number  9448

> I am /NOT/ a Yuppie!!!!!!!!!!!
 
  Oh, right, and Benji isn't a dog. Relax anyway, they mean it in a kind
way...
===========

From: BEATLE              
To: BURNEY              
Subject: Dune           
Date & Time: 10/03/90 21:26:41
Message Number  9449

 
> I think the motion picture industry did that to a couple of other 
> movies as well.
 
  A film called "The Longest, Most Meaningless Film In the World" was 
cut down from a number of hours to one and a half hours. Also, in a 
pretty lame example of changes, the film "The Goonies" was eventually 
brought down to about 1/3 of the original screenplay after 2/3 of it was
actually filmed. The theatrical version lies somewhere between 1 and 2
thirds.  
   
  Also, on the subject of "Dune", the TV version was "restored" to a 2 
1/2 hour length for TV.
===========

From: SNAKEBYTE           
To: TURTLE              
Subject: Barb's         
Date & Time: 10/03/90 22:47:49
Message Number  9452

.....and calories is the measure of how good a food tastes when
sampled from one of the four basic food groups...salt, sugar, fat
and beer.
   
 
(BTW- Do you know if a Magnetic Peripherals 40Mb, 977Cyl, 5 head,
P/N 40300 hard disk is RLL??? How can I find out???)
  
sssssssSNAKEBYTE .  .
===========

From: SNAKEBYTE           
To: MAX                 
Subject: German         
Date & Time: 10/03/90 22:53:42
Message Number  9453

It almost appears that software (and hardware for that matter) 
developers didn't seem to have BBS compatibility in mind when they
developed their product <grin>......damn them! They were probably
chugging along with "making a profit" in mind or something silly
like that.
===========

From: SNAKEBYTE           
To: BEATLE              
Subject: Barb's         
Date & Time: 10/03/90 22:55:59
Message Number  9454

....the Site??? I know the post office, the First Florida, Peridia,
the new quicky shop (across from the closed down Circle-K), the 
Forrestry place...pass by there at least twice a day, where's the Site?
or maybe "what's" the Site? Is that where the new W-D is supposed to be
built in "late 1989"?.....<grin>
===========

From: MMA                 
To: BURNEY              
Subject: tv mags        
Date & Time: 10/04/90 00:25:20
Message Number  9455

 TV tabeloid is just a ratings gimmick. Icompare most of them with the 
rags you see at the check-outs in supermarkets.
I think 'A current affa' is right up there with 'The National Examiner'.
 
MMA
===========

From: SPELLWIND           
To: YNGLING             
Subject: Dune           
Date & Time: 10/04/90 06:26:15
Message Number  9457

  
   I just watched Dune the other night (for the 3rd time), and Lifeforce
.. I was surprised to see Patrick Stewart in Liveforce...check it out..
===========

From: SPELLWIND           
To: MAX                 
Subject: Infinity       
Date & Time: 10/04/90 06:30:29
Message Number  9458

  Actually, DC stands for Dynamic Comics, according to their old 
advertisements (in the comics)...
===========

From: SPELLWIND           
To: BURNEY              
Subject: Shogun         
Date & Time: 10/04/90 06:36:10
Message Number  9459

  2 Hours?????????????
 
   Shogun was 589 minutes!
   Or was that 598 minutes
===========

From: BEATLE              
To: SNAKEBYTE           
Subject: Barb's         
Date & Time: 10/04/90 19:42:47
Message Number  9462

> Is that where the new W-D is supposed to be built in "late 1989"?
 
  No, it's that "quicky mart" across from the has-been Circle K. Look at
the sign!! I live in that neighborhood right behind that big field 
bounded by the Circle K and the First Florida.
===========

From: TURTLE              
To: KEN SABLE           
Subject: Damn You!      
Date & Time: 10/04/90 19:50:54
Message Number  9463

>Putting all of us through an emotional roller-coaster...
 
So how do you think /I've/ been feeling, hmm?
 
>ANyways, where U going to run it from?
 
From here, for at least another month. if I do go down, everything
here 'cept the storyboard will be migrating over to Uncle Bob's
Alligator Farm & Tofu Museum, though.
===========

From: TURTLE              
To: YNGLING             
Subject: A/R            
Date & Time: 10/04/90 19:53:07
Message Number  9464

A/R was about to go down due to severe financial difficulties on this
end. We m,anaged to squeak by, and it'll be up for at least another
month; possibly indefinitely, if things work out.
===========

From: TURTLE              
To: BEATLE              
Subject: Something      
Date & Time: 10/04/90 19:54:18
Message Number  9465

>...they mean it in a kind way...
 
Is there a kind way to call someone a yuppie??
===========

From: TURTLE              
To: SNAKEBYTE           
Subject: Barb's         
Date & Time: 10/04/90 19:55:10
Message Number  9466

No I don't (know about the Magnetic Peripherals HD), although I'd
suggest trying to get in contact w/Magnetic Peripherals if you
haven't already. 977 cylinder, 5 head, 40 meg doesn't /sound/ RLL
somehow, but that's a guess.
===========

From: RUFUS               
To: BURNEY              
Subject: 60 Min.        
Date & Time: 10/04/90 20:51:04
Message Number  9467

48 Hours-Good
Hard Copy-bad
A Current Affair-I thought we were talkin' about News shows.
===========

From: RUFUS               
To: BEATLE              
Subject: Dune           
Date & Time: 10/04/90 20:52:02
Message Number  9468

You can borrow my copy of Dune (the book) if you want.
===========

From: RUFUS               
To: TURTLE              
Subject: Damn You!      
Date & Time: 10/04/90 20:55:01
Message Number  9469

>From here, for at least another month. if I do go down, everything
>here 'cept the storyboard will be migrating over to Uncle Bob's
>Alligator Farm & Tofu Museum, though.
 
Wow, neat, a non-hostile take-over.
(Don't tell anyone, but within two weeks I'm going for Compu$erve)
===========

From: BURNEY              
To: BEATLE              
Subject: Dune           
Date & Time: 10/04/90 22:16:03
Message Number  9470

I was unaware that Dune was even made into a tv movie.  I saw it on 
or theater I'm not sure which( it was quite a while ago).  In any case,
I was not that impressed with it.  Now Star Trek Next Gen.  on the other
hand is pretty good.  (for a made for tv show) 
I like sci-fi (new stuff not twilight zone crap) like Star Trek movie(s)
, Terminator, Predator (really high quality junk).  BTW have you seen 
the ORIGINAL 'Something Is Out There' pilot for the series that aired 
last year. The pilot was good but the series was lousy.   In all cases 
above, its all just mindless entertainment.
===========

From: BURNEY              
To: SPELLWIND           
Subject: Shogun         
Date & Time: 10/04/90 22:29:15
Message Number  9471

Which version a,b,c or d.
The orig was a 5 pt mini series, then they made TWO (2) videos one was 
complete, the other wasS+ , last but not to be left out was the 
Saturday Night Movie version running two hrs minus commercials.
(or was that Friday Night Movie)
===========

From: BURNEY              
To: RUFUS               
Subject: 60 Min.        
Date & Time: 10/04/90 22:37:09
Message Number  9472

>I thought we were talkin' about News shows.
Well I just thought because he's married to Connie its gotta be news.
Although by his own admission its tabloid tv. so strike Current Affair.
===========

From: MIKE GREENAWALD     
To: ALL                 
Subject: letter         
Date & Time: 10/04/90 23:27:16
Message Number  9473

Have got a young man I would like to see you write to. He is Ray (Milton
) VanMeter He is in room 481 at Sarasota Memorial Hospital. Ray is a dia
dialysis patient and is in rather critical condition. I met him once whi
taking a tour of dialysis units in the area. A letter would cheer him up
A post card would make him estatic. Please show him that YOU care!
This would be good therapy for the both of you.
===========

From: MIKE GREENAWALD     
To: TURTLE              
Subject: hard drive     
Date & Time: 10/04/90 23:39:50
Message Number  9474

David commented that you might need a hard drive to keep the bbs going.
I have a store of materials. I mean a number of idems that you are welco
me to borrow if that will keep your bbs going. idems=items
===========

From: THE SPECIALIST      
To: SNAKEBYTE           
Subject: Barb's         
Date & Time: 10/05/90 00:48:10
Message Number  9475

How many sectors?  If it's 26, then it's RLL.  If it's 17, then it's
MFM.  If it's 34, it could be SCSI.  If it's 36, it might be ESDI.
===========

From: THE SPECIALIST      
To: TURTLE              
Subject: MP             
Date & Time: 10/05/90 00:51:38
Message Number  9476

It sounds like a translation, if you ask me.
===========

From: SPELLWIND           
To: BURNEY              
Subject: Shogun         
Date & Time: 10/05/90 07:46:06
Message Number  9477

  I mean the one that needs 4 (count 'em four) videocassettes to hold 
the whole movie...
===========

From: KEN SABLE           
To: BEATLE              
Subject: Something      
Date & Time: 10/05/90 22:31:36
Message Number  9478

Dip.
===========

From: MAX                 
To: YNGLING             
Subject: Armag.         
Date & Time: 10/05/90 22:39:04
Message Number  9479

You know, the attitude that "the media is responsible for all evil" is
one that has really ticked me off through the late '80s.  Perhaps the
reason reporters are often of a liberal political bent is that they've
been exposed to a lot more of the real inner workings of politics and
don't have anything to gain from playing PAC-type games like politicians
do.  At any rate, the media has a bias because the media is controlled
by human beings with their own opinions.  The conservatives who rail
against how much better things would be with the news programs, papers,
magazines, etc. if they weren't so liberal -- and the liberals who say
the same things in reverse -- are missing something very important.
The alternative to media without political opinions isn't a mythical
"neutral" media...it's no media at all.  Personally, I'd rather have
CBS News, Dan Rather and all, than Radio Moscow.
===========

From: MAX                 
To: BEATLE              
Subject: Dune           
Date & Time: 10/05/90 22:46:29
Message Number  9480

The TV version	 of "Dune" cut out some of the scenes actually in the
theatrical one (not just simple editing for TV censors, but whole
scenes); it added some of the footage, but basically it was just under
2 hours of actual film in "Dune: The Long Version" when you cut out all
the commercials.  As to the quality of the TV one compared with the
original, unreleased movie, it's perhaps telling that David Lynch
removed his name from the credits....
===========

From: MAX                 
To: SPELLWIND           
Subject: Infinity       
Date & Time: 10/05/90 22:52:03
Message Number  9481

"Dynamic Comics" was an advertising slogan.  Originally they were
"National Publications," and their sole comic title was "Detective
Comics."  When National ceased publishing anything but comics and
added several other titles, they became "DC."  They were never called
"Dynamic Comics" as a corporate name, though.
===========

From: BURNEY              
To: SPELLWIND           
Subject: Shogun         
Date & Time: 10/05/90 23:07:21
Message Number  9482

Ummm, whatever that message was, it just turned up blank.  I dunno if
it's you or Turtle's screwy software. .  Grr, I wonder how bad it just
maimed that line since I hit delete.
 
   ....screwy software, are you insane.  It's perfect, if you enjoy
sear
===========

From: BEATLE              
To: RUFUS               
Subject: Dune           
Date & Time: 10/06/90 16:36:17
Message Number  9484

> You can borrow my copy of Dune...
 
  Thanks, dude. I should do that right away before I end up with some
big report or something. If it's a book report, however, I could do it 
on "Dune". I was going to do "Farenheit 451" until my teacher told me 
about a "literary criticism" type  paper where you review someone ELSE'S
view of what the author is saying and write about it... so I've put that
aside until December or so.
===========

From: BEATLE              
To: KEN SABLE           
Subject: Something      
Date & Time: 10/06/90 16:43:12
Message Number  9485

 
 > Dip.
 
  Alright, I'm sorry if I keep saying things that get you upset, but it
doesn't help anything at all if you can't think of anything else to say
when you've been insulted.
===========

From: MMA                 
To: ALL                 
Subject: auto-dial      
Date & Time: 10/06/90 23:51:37
Message Number  9486

Does anyone know of any software that will auto-dial for a 'master
modem' for a C64?
I tried touchterm,but it doesn't work. When I go to either Ascii or 
graphics,the modem will pick up the phone. It won't pick up the phone 
in auto-dial though.
 
Any help would be greatly appreciated.
 
MMA
===========

From: THRUD               
To: MAX                 
Subject: news           
Date & Time: 10/07/90 09:13:50
Message Number  9487

It is interesting to watch Peter Jennings followed by Dan Rather -
it sometimes seems like they're covering completely different stories.
And folks will watch the one that suits them - I accept as fact 90% of
what Jennings says, while my mother swears by Dan Blather. Likewise
she really believes what she reads in Time - mouthpiece of liberals the
world over. I used to like US News &WP, but gradually recognized for
the conservative propaganda that it is. I agreed with many things there
but disliked being spoonfed Reaganism no matter what the man did or
didnt do. I think Turtle reads Ms.
===========

From: SPELLWIND           
To: THRUD               
Subject: news           
Date & Time: 10/07/90 22:07:00
Message Number  9488

   National Review...... you should get that.
===========

From: BEATLE              
To: ALL                 
Subject: Hmmm.          
Date & Time: 10/08/90 07:00:21
Message Number  9489

 Looks as if the message traffic has slowed WAY down since the new hours
went into effect. Instead of a few hundred messages over a few days, we 
have only a few this weekend.
===========

From: BURNEY              
To: BEATLE              
Subject: Hmmm.          
Date & Time: 10/08/90 19:44:17
Message Number  9490

Yeah kinda disapointing isn't it. Hopefully things will get better for
the sysop.  I'd like to see him stay around.  As far as I'm concerned,
this is one of the best BBS's around.
===========

From: THE SPECIALIST      
To: TURTLE              
Subject: Well?          
Date & Time: 10/08/90 20:01:27
Message Number  9492

So, then, where is a person supposed to post for Ranea?  I mean, now
that you are going to stay up, might as well keep it here, right?
===========

From: TURTLE              
To: THRUD               
Subject: news           
Date & Time: 10/09/90 16:26:58
Message Number  9494

>I think Turtle reads Ms.
 
Turtle reads Time and Insight, between them the most liberal and the
most conservative of the mainstream news publications, and generally
gets a good idea of what's going on (it's sometimes more telling to see
what magazines /don't/ write about than to look at what they /do/...).
Of the magazines I'm familiar with, Time generally strikes me as being
one of the best, along with Newsweek. I wouldn't touch Useless News &
World Distort for half the money that's being wasted on the SDI thing.
(Well, actually I WOULD; I am, after all, perfectly willing to sell out
for sufficient monetary incentive...)
===========

From: TURTLE              
To: BEATLE              
Subject: Hmmm.          
Date & Time: 10/09/90 16:36:51
Message Number  9495

>Looks as if the message traffic has slowed WAy down since the new
>hours went into effect.
 
Yep, sure looks that way...things are lookin' a mite cobwebby here-
abouts. The system's still getting a significant number of calls, but
I guess people only post between 9 and 5....
===========

From: TURTLE              
To: BURNEY              
Subject: Hmmm.          
Date & Time: 10/09/90 16:38:56
Message Number  9496

Well, hey, thanks for the vote of confidence...
===========

From: TURTLE              
To: THE SPECIALIST      
Subject: Well?          
Date & Time: 10/09/90 16:39:27
Message Number  9497

I don't know what's going on with Ranean Tales right now; you'll have
to talk to Max. There's a Ranean Tales area on Tyler's board right now,
but it's getting even less use than the one over here. Beats me what's
goin' on...nobody ever tells me anything... :)
===========

From: RUFUS               
To: TURTLE              
Subject: Well?          
Date & Time: 10/09/90 19:10:08
Message Number  9499

>...nobody ever tells me anything...
 
Which is more than what I get told.
===========

From: RUFUS               
To: RUFUS               
Subject: Well?          
Date & Time: 10/09/90 19:10:52
Message Number  9500

Well, I was thinking to myself "Gee, that's message 9499, maybe I'll 
post message 9500 just for the heck of it."  Then I hit R, not thinking
of what I was doing...sigh..
===========

From: DIONYSUS            
To: BURNEY              
Subject: Armag.         
Date & Time: 10/09/90 22:22:00
Message Number  9501

I think neeto, nifty would be quite spiffy, thank you.
===========

From: ANGEL               
To: *.*                 
Subject: Add another    
Date & Time: 10/10/90 00:34:35
Message Number  9502

Gee, Rufus always grabs the neat message numbers.  Unfair!!
===========

From: MMA                 
To: ANGEL               
Subject: Add another    
Date & Time: 10/10/90 03:27:02
Message Number  9503

For Sale: Message # 2100. an auction will be held this friday.
Sorry,cash only. 
MMA
===========

From: TURTLE              
To: RUFUS               
Subject: Well?          
Date & Time: 10/10/90 03:55:39
Message Number  9505

>Which is more than what I get told.
 
Yes, but in your case it's well-deserved. You have been working /much/
too hard lately on trivial things of which the Great Aardvark would
not approve.
===========

From: TURTLE              
To: MMA                 
Subject: Add another    
Date & Time: 10/10/90 03:59:02
Message Number  9506

>For Sale: Message # 2100.
 
That's an old model; one of last year's, in fact. No resale value. Me,
I'm still waiting for message #10,000...at former activity levels
it would've happened last week. *Sigh*
===========

From: RUFUS               
To: ANGEL               
Subject: Add another    
Date & Time: 10/10/90 17:00:11
Message Number  9507

>Gee, Rufus always grabs the neat message numbers. Unfair!!
 
That's what ya get for being absent from the board, my dearest lady.
 
BTW, just where have you been?  Not that dreaded work thing I hope.
===========

From: RUFUS               
To: TURTLE              
Subject: Well?          
Date & Time: 10/10/90 17:01:35
Message Number  9508

>You have been working /much/ too hard lately on trivial things of which
>the Great Aardvark would not approve.
 
I know that, but my parents subscribe to the Great School Religion, so
until I get outta there, I have to please them.  Then I can serve the
Great Aardvark to my fullest powers.  Actually, my next English project
involves things that require my imagination, not a silly, stuff, boring
research paper.  BTW, think we could crank out "The Way of the Aardvark"
before Necro?  It would be fun to hand them out...
===========

From: RUFUS               
To: TURTLE              
Subject: Add another    
Date & Time: 10/10/90 17:04:15
Message Number  9509

>That's an old model; one of last year's, in fact.
 
Sheesh, talk about pollution.  We at Uncle Bob's recycle our message
numbers, cutting down on some 3 billion tons of message numbers pumped
into the land fills EVERY year.
 
Uncle Bob's-CFC Free.
===========

From: MAX                 
To: THRUD               
Subject: news           
Date & Time: 10/10/90 18:44:07
Message Number  9510

I can't stand US News & World Report -- it's only slightly better than
getting your international coverage from "Soldier of Fortune."  I still
like "Newsweek" more than either Time or US&WR, although I think Time's
reputation as unnewsworthy because of the glitz & "left" bent is greatly
exaggerated.
===========

From: TURTLE              
To: RUFUS               
Subject: Add another    
Date & Time: 10/10/90 19:33:02
Message Number  9511

We here at A/R are quite pleased with the fact that all our message
numbers are 100% biodegradable and contain no additives or preser-
vatives. In addition, we are a primary source of recycled message
numbers, and we're commpitted to doing our part to enI have a 23lb. orange mackeral tabby named "Spike" that likes to be
dust-busted. Strange....
===========

From: BURNEY              
To: DIONYSUS            
Subject: Armag.         
Date & Time: 10/10/90 19:48:48
Message Number  9512

You7re7're a poet and didn't know it...
Another bit of religous trivia for all those reading this.
The land of IRAGQ is the same geographical location as the BABYLONIAN 
empire refered to in the (here it comes again)Bible.
===========

From: BURNEY              
To: ALL                 
Subject: Altr/Rlty      
Date & Time: 10/10/90 20:04:20
Message Number  9514

Well now that all of have calmed down from the'emotional roller coaster'
of the possible crash of this sysBBS, lets see some more (hey batter,
heybatter) chatterr.  
I realize the hours of operation are curtailed somewhat but co 
pleeease (bit of sarcasm). 
I've been thinking....
Some possible NEW topics of discussion could be...
     1. The disgraceful loss of the Boston Red Sox to Atthe A's.
    2.  More Ranean Tales
    3.  Computer equipment bashing (the last round was to short).
    4.  How scientists now say coregular coffee is now good for you 
and decaf is bad.
    (I saw that on tonights news)
    5.  I'm sure all of can come up with something.
Noew enoI'll get off my soap box now, to prepare for the inundation of
new remarks. (both good and slanderous).
===========

From: SPELLWIND           
To: BURNEY              
Subject: Armag.         
Date & Time: 10/10/90 20:47:47
Message Number  9515

   UGH! Can't you people leave the damn place alone (Not Iraq of curse.)
 
 What's the death toll without a shot fired now???
===========

From: OMNI                
To: MMA                 
Subject: curr affa      
Date & Time: 10/10/90 21:54:14
Message Number  9516

I disagree.  A current affair is informative, not a bunch
of bullshit for scandalous sales and ugly backstabs.
===========

From: OMNI                
To: TURTLE              
Subject: A/R            
Date & Time: 10/10/90 22:03:45
Message Number  9517

Well good luck and best wishes.
===========

From: RAVEN               
To: BURNEY              
Subject: CAFFINE        
Date & Time: 10/10/90 22:29:47
Message Number  9518

>4.  How scientists now say coregular coffee is now good for you
>and decaf is bad.
 
Yep, Harvard came up with a good piece o' ammo to use against all those
anti-coffee reptiles.  Caffinated coffee tastes better than decaf, and 
thus is naturally better. :)
 
"Life is like a sewer. . . what you get out of it depends on what you
put into it"  -- Tom Lehrer
 
                  -Raven-
===========

From: THE SPECIALIST      
To: BURNEY              
Subject: Altr/Rlty      
Date & Time: 10/11/90 00:23:59
Message Number  9519

Boston Red Sox...Hmmm. Do they still have Mr. Rice?
Ranean tales...I keep telling them that!  NOBODY LISTENS!
Computer Equipment Bashing...Apple tops the 8-bits.
Regular vs. Unleaded...I want my high octane back!!!!
Pick Yur Own topic:  Bash the Homos. (tm).
  
  So, like, are we going to start a new BBS thing?  Sensationalism
for the computer age?   
  
  
  Oughta be careful...might get hit in the nose by a stray chair....
===========

From: ANGEL               
To: MMA                 
Subject: Add another    
Date & Time: 10/11/90 02:11:13
Message Number  9520

>Sorry, cash only.
What, no credit cards?!!!  That's un-American.
===========

From: ANGEL               
To: RUFUS               
Subject: Add another    
Date & Time: 10/11/90 02:12:22
Message Number  9521

>just where have you been? Not that dreaded work thing I hope.
 
Nope, that dreaded play thing again.  Just finished a show at Manatee
Players.  Now I'm foot-loose, fancy-free and BBSing once again.
===========

From: SCOTT STEEL         
To: BURNEY              
Subject: STAR TREK      
Date & Time: 10/11/90 19:52:30
Message Number  9522

This is to the person who wrote about Star Trek:TNG.  
My personal opinion is they should have stayed with the original
Star Trek.  You can keep the next generation.  Like I say 
"Classic Star Trek; Who needs a next generation? ".  It seems to 
me that all they did was gut the original and refilled with new
lower quality characters.  "Same shit;different day."  ==
"same scripts; different cast"
  IE:  In Star Trek III: The Search for Spock Kirk used the self-
destruct mechanism to defeat the Klingons.  Now would anyone want 
to tell me how many times Capt. Piccard has used(Stolen) that 
ideas?  HMMMMMMMM.
Character replacement time:
Capt James T. Kirk = Capt. Piccard and Commander Riker
Spock = Data & Troy
Scotty =Jordy
Chekov = Wesley (The worst replacement I've ever seen)
Uhura = Worf
Dr. Leonard 'Bones' McCoy = Dr. Crusher
 Point being   Riker is a pompous idiot who holds his chest out too
far.  They simply can't replace the original cast.
Troy is probably the only saving grace of the show.  She does add 
a nice touch to a very dissapointing cast.
I think the producers were just too cheap to pay the salaries of the ori
ginal cast.  Poor excuse for no giving the public what they really want.
===========

From: BURNEY              
To: SPELLWIND           
Subject: Armag.         
Date & Time: 10/11/90 22:05:33
Message Number  9523

I THINK ITS 18 NOW
===========

From: BURNEY              
To: RAVEN               
Subject: CAFFINE        
Date & Time: 10/11/90 22:08:09
Message Number  9524

 I THINK SO TOO.  THE CHEMS THEY USE TO DECAF THE COFFEE IS WORSE THAN T
HE CAF TO BEGIN WITH.(UNLESS OF COURSE IT'S NATURALLY DECAFINATED)
I PERSONNALY LIKE 'BOSTON COFFEE'. 1 PART COFFEE TO 1 PART HALF/HALF.  (
WHICH BY THE WAY CANT REALLY BE CALLED COFFEE ANYWAY)
===========

From: BURNEY              
To: THE SPECIALIST      
Subject: Altr/Rlty      
Date & Time: 10/11/90 22:13:41
Message Number  9525

I THINK MR RICE IS DEAD.
BASH THE HOMOS (TM) IS GOOD..
APPLES ARE FOR PEOPLE WHO DONT LIKE GOOD PROGRAMS  &
THE REST WAS GIBERISH ON MY TERMINAL.
===========

From: BURNEY              
To: SCOTT STEEL         
Subject: STAR TREK      
Date & Time: 10/11/90 22:19:17
Message Number  9526

WELL TO BEGIN WITH, OF COURSE YOU STILL HAVE THE SAME POSITIONS TO FILL.
YOU STILL NEED A CREW TO RUN THE BKLAMED SHIP.  THE SPECIAL EFFECTS
ARE FAR SUPERIOR TO THE ORIGINAL SHOW, COUNSELOR TROY IS A CREW MEMVER 
THAT SHPOULD MIND HER OWN BUSINESSAND NOT STICK HER NOSE INTO THE RUNNIN
G OF THE SHIP WHICH SHE DOES CONSTANTLY.  DATA IS A BIT MUCH I ADMIT THO
UGH.  WESLEY IS A YOUNG ACTOR THAT NEEDS CULTIVATION BUT OTHERWISE
DOES A GOOD JOB.  THE STORY LINES ARE FAR AND AWAY BETTER THAN THE ORIGI
NAL SERIES, MIND YOU THERE WERE SOME CLASSICS THOUGH.
  THE MOVIES (SRCH / SPK; WRTH KHN; ETC) WERE GOOD UP UNTIL THE LAST ONE
. (WHALE TIME TRAVEL IS TOO FAR INTO THE FUTURE EVEN FOR KIRK)
I THINK A BBS VOTE IS IN ORDER.
ALL THOSE IN FAVOR OF THE OLD SERIES SAY 'I('; ALL THOSE IN FAVOR OF TH
E NEW SERIES SAY 'I' TOO.
===========

From: RUFUS               
To: TURTLE              
Subject: Add another    
Date & Time: 10/11/90 22:37:43
Message Number  9527

>aLTER rEALITY: We're politically correct.
 
Uncle Bob's: We're anatomically correct.
===========

From: RUFUS               
To: BURNEY              
Subject: Altr/Rlty      
Date & Time: 10/11/90 22:40:05
Message Number  9528

> 4. How scientists now say coregular coffee is now good for you
>and decaf is bad.
 
Baah...all coffee is bad for you, and bad for the endangered coffee
plant.  Having all those offspring (read:beans) yanked away everyday
is an emotional scar, which causes plant depression and suicide.
 
  ...people don't understand animals.  Carnivore and damned proud.
===========

From: RUFUS               
To: OMNI                
Subject: curr affa      
Date & Time: 10/11/90 22:43:02
Message Number  9529

>I disagree.  A current affair is informative, not a bunch
>of bullshit for scandalous sales and ugly backstabs.
 
They may give you true information, but the way it is presented makes
me ill.  "Right after we finish up our trendy murder story we'll be 
re-running our steamy bit on T-Backs."  "Gee, isn't that the third time
this week Maury?"  "So what, they like it."
===========

From: RUFUS               
To: ANGEL               
Subject: Add another    
Date & Time: 10/11/90 22:46:23
Message Number  9530

>Now I'm foot-loose...
 
You should have that checked out.  If it falls off, your in big trouble.
 
>...fancy-free...
 
Come now, you must have just a wee bit of fancy in you.
 
>...and BBSing once again.
 
And it's good to have ya back.
 
May the Aardvark of Happiness lick your toes.
===========

From: RUFUS               
To: BURNEY              
Subject: STAR TREK      
Date & Time: 10/11/90 22:49:59
Message Number  9531

>ALL THOSE IN FAVOR OF THE OLD SERIES SAY 'I('; ALL THOSE IN FAVOR OF TH
>E NEW SERIES SAY 'I' TOO.
 
All those in favor of letting each show stand on it's own merits and
faults say "Weasel on my nose, lookin' at my toes, who knows, where will
it go?"
===========

From: RUFUS               
To: ALL                 
Subject: Message 9528   
Date & Time: 10/11/90 22:53:41
Message Number  9532

That last line should have read: ...people don't understand plants.
 
Silly, silly Rufus.
===========

From: RUFUS               
To: SCOTT STEEL         
Subject: STAR TREK      
Date & Time: 10/11/90 22:54:58
Message Number  9533

1) I'm sure that using the self-destruct is SOP if your ship is about
to, or has been, captured by enemies.  I'll admit that Captain Picard
would probably use self-destruct is a stray dog was found on-board.
2) Captain Kirk does not = Captain Picard and Riker.  Picard isn't as
rash as Kirk, and Riker isn't as daring as Kirk.
Kirk: "Okay, everyone who is important beam down to this very dangerous
planet."
Riker: "Hmm...we'll only beam down half of the bridge crew."
3) Spock is no where close to Data.  Data want to be human, which makes
his character very interesting.  [Insert S ---^]  Troi has four things
going for her that Spock never had.
1) She's female.
2) She has a decent haircut.
3) Her costume is /much/ better than Spock's.
4) She's got two very nice...eyes.  :)
5) Scotty=Geordi.  Well, it's a damned big (and complicated ship).  You
can't just say "Gee, we had an engineer in the last series, let's not
use him again."  Scotty had better lines, and usually pulled off more 
amazing things.  "Captain, I've wired the matter-anti-matter through my
bagpipes, we can use warp now."
6) Chekov=Wesley.  I'm not fond of Wes, but at least he doesn't save the
ship as often as last season, and having someone younger on the show can
be interesting.
7) Crusher has /nothing/ on Bones, except maybe being better looking.
Bones had neat lines like "Spock, your a doof" and "Damn it Jim, I'm a
doctor not a UNIX hacker."
8) Uhura=Worf.  I think not.  Uhura sang every now and then, and she was
strictly communications, where Worf fires the big weapons and tells guys
that weigh 100 pounds to go beat up the bad guy.
 
Having the old crew back on would be a bad idea.  "Ha, I've got you now
Klingon scum...ouch, my back, my back...ouch."
Scotty: "Captain, she can't take much more."
Jim: "Is the ship breaking up!?"
Scotty: "No Captain, it's yer hairpiece, it's losin' it's hair."
 
Sigh, that's all I've got to say.
   ...this from the person who just a few messages back said "We 
shouldn't compare them."
===========

From: DIONYSUS            
To: RAVEN               
Subject: CAFFINE        
Date & Time: 10/12/90 00:33:19
Message Number  9534

Somehow I knew that your first message upon return would involve
caffeine.
 
The relationship of life to a sewer is sort of like that of the body and
toxic shock, don't you think? (or maybe Dew.)
===========

From: DIONYSUS            
To: BURNEY              
Subject: CAFFINE        
Date & Time: 10/12/90 00:37:04
Message Number  9535

My, my.  Too much caffeine coupled with an inability to spell, overwhel-
ming line noise, and a broken caps-lock key.  A tragic combination.
===========

From: DIONYSUS            
To: RUFUS               
Subject: Add another    
Date & Time: 10/12/90 00:39:44
Message Number  9536

Ya know, if you and Turtle sabotaged each other's boards, you'd both be
co-wrecked.
===========

From: SCOTT STEEL         
To: RUFUS               
Subject: STAR TREK      
Date & Time: 10/12/90 01:05:02
Message Number  9537

Cute rhyme. The Specialist says "Weasel on my nose, lookin' at my tose,
who knows, where will it go?"  
===========

From: SCOTT STEEL         
To: BURNEY              
Subject: STAR TREK      
Date & Time: 10/12/90 01:07:57
Message Number  9538

I definitely agree with Counselor Troy being a bit much.  As far as 
Wesley goes lack of experience is no excuses, they should have cast 
somebody else for the part.  
I like the idea of a vote.  Star Trek VS> Star Trek:TNG
Conceded the special effects are better and some of the plots are better
but some of them should have been scrapped.  Now, imagine, if you will,
the original cast and crew with the modern day special effects and 
well as today's writer.  If you ask me that definitely qualities
for a smash series. Any questions?
===========

From: SCOTT STEEL         
To: RUFUS               
Subject: curr affa      
Date & Time: 10/12/90 01:16:56
Message Number  9539

BTW Rufus I wrote that under the name of Omni.  Sorry for any confusion.
Yes A Current Affair is a bit trendy, but hardly comparable to that
trash on newsstands.  The Examiner, Enquirer, The Star, Sun Magazine, 
and etc, should be burned and the editors along with the writers
should be shot gangster-style.
===========

From: SCOTT STEEL         
To: RUFUS               
Subject: STAR TREK      
Date & Time: 10/12/90 01:28:11
Message Number  9540

R> "Ha, I've got you now you Klingon scum...ouch, my back, my back...
R>  ouch."
What in the world did you mean by that statement?
===========

From: CORWYN              
To: RAVEN               
Subject: CAFFINE        
Date & Time: 10/12/90 02:41:59
Message Number  9541

1. All coffee tastes like shit, and can only be improved by large 
     quantities of sweet alchol, (Cream de Minthe etc)
2. Caffiene is kid's stuff, go for coke (interpret how you like) 
 
 Hi folks.. I'd like you all to complain to Turtle, that, simply because
I was unable to call for four months, he nuked my logon. I'm hurt. Oh
well. I'm afraid I can not at this moment be a resident ghoul of A/R, 
I'm (no, don't say it!) Long-Distance. - Ouch! That hurt to say. Any-
way, believe me, never start drinking coffee. Stick with with alcohol
at night, and a hangover to wake you up in the morning. Who needs a cup
of coffee when they can have a nice throbbing headache. 
 
                     Much Later, 
                                 Corwyn
===========

From: MMA                 
To: DIONYSUS            
Subject: co-wrecked     
Date & Time: 10/12/90 03:54:00
Message Number  9542

>...you'd both be co-wrecked.
Sheesh! There's always a wise guy in the crowd. I like it though.
MMA
WWV (mirror image of above)
===========

From: MMA                 
To: RUFUS               
Subject: Add another    
Date & Time: 10/12/90 03:56:39
Message Number  9543

>>aLTER rEALITY: We're politically correct.
>Uncle Bob's: We're anatomically correct.
The Users: We're crazy!
 
There coming to take me away hehe,hoho,haha to the funny farm,where life
is beautiful all the time.
And I like to see the nice young men in their clean white coats.
And they're coming to take me away ha... (crazed laughter)
 
vroo(GRIND)oom... [truck pulling away]
MMA
===========

From: MMA                 
To: BURNEY              
Subject: Altr/Rlty      
Date & Time: 10/12/90 04:08:46
Message Number  9544

Coffee? YECH! Who in their right mind would drink that stuff? 
It's high-priced,bitter tasting and nasty smelling.
===========

From: MMA                 
To: ANGEL               
Subject: Add another    
Date & Time: 10/12/90 04:13:00
Message Number  9545

>What,no credit cards?!!! That's un-American.
Not if you can't afford one. I believe in the pay-as-you-go principal.
 
MMA
DON'T BURN THE FLAG!
(the burning nylon stinks!)
===========

From: MMA                 
To: BURNEY              
Subject: caps           
Date & Time: 10/12/90 04:19:27
Message Number  9546

Did you log on in graphics mode?
or did you hit the caps-lick?
MMA
WWV (nice reflection,huh?)
===========

From: BEATLE              
To: RUFUS               
Subject: Well?          
Date & Time: 10/12/90 06:39:26
Message Number  9547

T>...nobody ever tells me anything...
 
 R> Which is more what I get told.
  
  Which is pretty bad, since you're a student.
===========

From: BEATLE              
To: TURTLE              
Subject: Add another    
Date & Time: 10/12/90 06:43:55
Message Number  9548

 
 I see a campaign here: 
  
 "Vote for Veaux! He's politically correct!"
===========

From: BEATLE              
To: BURNEY              
Subject: Altr/Rlty      
Date & Time: 10/12/90 06:45:42
Message Number  9549

 I've got a topic for ya. What the hell are those things in your message
that look like the stripes on a barricade at a construction site??
===========

From: BEATLE              
To: BURNEY              
Subject: Armag.         
Date & Time: 10/12/90 06:47:14
Message Number  9550

> The land of [Iraq] is the same geographical location as the BABYLONIAN
> empire...
 
  Yes, but hopefully most of us would  remember that from not the Bible,
but World History, since Babylonia was one of the earlycivilizations of
the world,in the Tigris-Euphrates river valley...
===========

From: BEATLE              
To: OMNI                
Subject: curr affa      
Date & Time: 10/12/90 06:50:32
Message Number  9551

> A current affair is informative, not a bunch of bullshit for 
> scandalous sales and ugly backstabs. 
 
  Did you watch the same show? I have NEVER seen a "news" story on "A 
Current Affair". They do storys on stockbrokers who go broke hiring 
hookers, a dog that calls 900 numbers on the phone, a guy who claims he 
is Buckwheat, and (last, and certainly least) a story on a scandal where
a mayor is having an affair with a country singer. 
 
  Do you /really/ think this is not bullshit?
===========

From: BEATLE              
To: SCOTT STEEL         
Subject: STAR TREK      
Date & Time: 10/12/90 06:56:00
Message Number  9552

> how many times has Picard stolen that idea?
 
  Well, if you count the actual destruction of the ship, none. If you 
count activation of self-destruct, only one.
 
 > why do we need a next generation?
 
  So that those of us who like the show with better special effects and 
new characters can have fun. Not to mention most of the shows in the 
third season and the shows so far this season have been MORE than well-
written, they've been spectacular. And this week's show looks like a big
event, since we get to meet Data's  character.  
 
  Just to tell you. When TNG started out, some of it was blatant rip-off
but now, it's become its own entity. It's a well-done show, and it's the
highest rated one hour syndicated program out there (behind "Wheel Of 
Fortune" and "Jeopardy" for higest all)... Some people don't like it, 
but then again, some people don't like Twin Peaks, either. That doesn't 
change anyone's opinion of it.
 
  All that your message shows is tht you haven't given the show much of 
a chance since it started.
===========

From: BEATLE              
To: BURNEY              
Subject: Altr/Rlty      
Date & Time: 10/12/90 07:03:53
Message Number  9553

 
> BASH THE HOMOS (TM) IS GOOD.
 
 Oh, shit, there goes the board.
 
> APPLES ARE PEOPLE WHO DONT LIKE GOOD PROGRAMS
  
 I belive there's a rule on this board about system bashing.
 
> THE REST WAS GIBBERISH ON MY TERMINAL.
 Why doesn't that surprise me.
===========

From: BEATLE              
To: BURNEY              
Subject: STAR TREK      
Date & Time: 10/12/90 07:06:41
Message Number  9554

> TROY [should stop sticking her nose into ship's business...]
 
  Umm, first of all it's TROI... 
  Second of all, her job is to make sure the crew is not having any 
problems psychologically. Confering with Captian Picard and Commander 
Riker about thier opinions on ship's business is very important to her 
job and the safety of the whole crew.
===========

From: BEATLE              
To: RUFUS               
Subject: STAR TREK      
Date & Time: 10/12/90 07:10:38
Message Number  9555

 
 Weasel on my nose, lookin' at my toes, who knows, where will it go?
===========

From: BEATLE              
To: RUFUS               
Subject: STAR TREK      
Date & Time: 10/12/90 07:13:26
Message Number  9556

 
 > "Dammit, Jim, I'm a doctor, not a UNIX hacker!"
 
  Can we put that in "Overheard"???
===========

From: BEATLE              
To: SCOTT STEEL         
Subject: STAR TREK      
Date & Time: 10/12/90 07:16:30
Message Number  9557

> Conceded...the plots are better but some of them should have been
> scrapped. 
  
  Yeah, but look at some of the original series' plots, like the "Space 
Hippies Take Over the Enterprise" (which I bet Ken Sable loved, hehe), 
and the episode with the really BADnegative vision effects. 
===========

From: BEATLE              
To: SCOTT STEEL         
Subject: STAR TREK      
Date & Time: 10/12/90 07:18:58
Message Number  9558

> What in the world did you mean by that statement?
 
  Almost the whole crew of the original series is over 50 years old. 
Imagine a ship with a crew of senior citizens. 
 
 "Sir, I canna roon the engines!"
 "But, why, Scotty!?"
 "Because I canna get rid of my back paiiin!"
===========

From: SCOTT STEEL         
To: BEATLE              
Subject: STAR TREK      
Date & Time: 10/12/90 17:45:41
Message Number  9559

R> you haven't given the show much of a chance since it started.
  
Maybe so, I only watched the first season, was dissapointed, and stopped
watching it.  Maybe I tune in again.  BTW, not to sound ingorant, but
I've watched Twin Peaks.  What is it about? My mother told me it was 
good but since I don't have cable right now I haven't been able to see 
it. OOooooops, I made a boo-boo I meant to write I've never seen Twin
Peaks, not that I have seen it.  Anyway, I would appreciate anything
you could tel me about it.    Thanks.
===========

From: SCOTT STEEL         
To: BEATLE              
Subject: STAR TREK      
Date & Time: 10/12/90 17:54:27
Message Number  9560

R> Imagine a crew of senior citizens.
  
Yes the original cast is getting up there in age but I still prefer
the original cast.  I personally can't stand Piccard's statement 
"Make it so."  It so sounds phony, plastic, if you will.  I mean 
how many people in real life talk like /that/?
===========

From: SCOTT STEEL         
To: BEATLE              
Subject: curr affa      
Date & Time: 10/12/90 18:14:55
Message Number  9563

Did you /read/ my entry?  I said it was informative, not necessarily 
news worthy.  I just think it shouldn't be compared to tabloids.
Again, the show may not be news worthy /but/ it /is/ informative
and interesting.  Personally I liked to know how that "dog got that 
900 number"?  
===========

From: BEATLE              
To: SCOTT STEEL         
Subject: STAR TREK      
Date & Time: 10/12/90 19:00:31
Message Number  9564

 Twin Peaks is a really odd  show about a town in the nortwest US. In 
this small town, there are small scandals and all sorts of odd things 
going on. The main focus of the show so far has been "Who killed Laura 
Palmer?" and that should  be ending soon... The main character /I/ watch
the show for is Special Agent Dale Cooper,  quirky FBI agent. He's "the 
whole show" in the words of someone in TV Guide...
===========

From: BEATLE              
To: SCOTT STEEL         
Subject: STAR TREK      
Date & Time: 10/12/90 19:03:11
Message Number  9565

>  How many people in real life talk like that?
 
  Now, probably not many. In four hundred years, who knows??
===========

From: BEATLE              
To: SCOTT STEEL         
Subject: Add another    
Date & Time: 10/12/90 19:04:31
Message Number  9566

 
> ...burn the flag over it or leave...
 
  Wait.. are you against or for the right to burn the flag I personally
wouldn't do it, but it serves the purpose flag-burners set out to 
accomplish, the beuracrats pay attention.
===========

From: BEATLE              
To: SCOTT STEEL         
Subject: curr affa      
Date & Time: 10/12/90 19:07:44
Message Number  9567

> I just think it  shouldn't be compared to tabloids.
 
  I don't see how it SHOULDN'T be compared to tabloids. Sure the show is
"informative", but so are IBM manuals and late-night 1-900 number ads, 
but that doesn't mean they're good for anything more than the Enquirer 
is...
===========

From: BEATLE              
To: ALL                 
Subject: stuff          
Date & Time: 10/12/90 19:10:39
Message Number  9568

 
  Well, everyone, listen up. It seems that in order to persue some of my
current collections, I've got to unload some of the stuff from m
previous ones...
 
  So, the following two collections are fair game if you wish to ask if
I'll part with some items.
 
 1) I have the entire 36-issue run of Marvel Comics' "The Thing" if 
someone is remotely interested in it. The Time Machine didn't  want them
(big surprise...they're pretty recent).
 
 2) And I may part with some items from my collection of Kenner Star 
Wars items...if there's something you are interested in, let me know...
 
   Now, I can post about this stuff in some other places and count the 
non-responses that come in... I think the chances of selling some of 
this are about as good as the chances of hell freezing over..
===========

From: THE SPECIALIST      
To: RUFUS               
Subject: curr affa      
Date & Time: 10/12/90 19:27:54
Message Number  9569

"Point!"
  
"Advantage : Rufus."
===========

From: THE SPECIALIST      
To: MMA                 
Subject: coffee         
Date & Time: 10/12/90 19:36:55
Message Number  9570

MMA>It's high-priced, bitter tasting, and nasty smelling.
 
Yes, yes, and only on my girlfreinds breath.  
  
  But seriously, (streches) this reminds me of the time that I was going
accross country (driving from KS to FL) and I stopped at a roadhouse for
some coffee (I used to drink it, when I was younger).  I sat at the 
counter (next to this trucker dude) and I ordered "Coffee, with 
cream and sugar."
  The trucker next to me looked over and said, "Why order the coffee?"
  What he meant was if I was going to get cream and sugar in it, why
bother to get the coffee (it covers the taste, y'know?).
===========

From: THE SPECIALIST      
To: MMA                 
Subject: Add another    
Date & Time: 10/12/90 19:41:31
Message Number  9571

MMA> I believe in pay-as-you-go principal.
  
"Right ON!"  Yup.  Cash is the only way to fly.
  
MMA>DON'T BURN THE FLAG!
MMA>(the burning nylon stinks!)
 
And so do the scum who burn it.  They are revolting.
===========

From: THE SPECIALIST      
To: BEATLE              
Subject: Altr/Rlty      
Date & Time: 10/12/90 19:45:49
Message Number  9572

B>What the hell are those things...
 
I dunno what they are on *your* system, but on mine they come out as
Paragraph Markers.
===========

From: THE SPECIALIST      
To: BEATLE              
Subject: Armag.         
Date & Time: 10/12/90 19:46:54
Message Number  9573

B>...but most of us would remember that from...History...
 
Ooooh!  Applied knowledge!  Almost impressive!  (Golf clap....)
===========

From: THE SPECIALIST      
To: BEATLE              
Subject: ST:TNG         
Date & Time: 10/12/90 19:50:27
Message Number  9574

Ok, Beatle...down, boy.  DOWN!
  
Hmm.  Scott, looks like he tore you a new .ss..le.   Well, that'll 
cure your constipation, anyway.  
  
So, Scott, don't feel bad.  They tried to put me down when I tried
to enlighten them about how mentally abberant homos were, too. 
Oh, well.  LIve and be repressed.
===========

From: THE SPECIALIST      
To: SCOTT STEEL         
Subject: STAR TREK      
Date & Time: 10/12/90 19:55:56
Message Number  9575

SS>I personnally can't stand PIccard's statement "Make it so."
  
Hahah, really.  I would like *JUST ONCE* for Data to turn around and say
"Fuck you!  Can't you come up with something a little more original?"
===========

From: THE SPECIALIST      
To: BEATLE              
Subject: curr affa      
Date & Time: 10/12/90 20:14:34
Message Number  9576

B>...but so are IBM manuals
 
Wrong...IBM manuals don't really tell you anything.  Ask Turtle, he's
familiar with the concept.
 
B>...and late-night 1-900 number ads,
 
Jeez, the guy is new!  Try not to shred him too much...we don't want 
to run him off!
  
"Scott, stay down!  Stay down!"
"No, " burble..burble..."Adrienne!  Adrienne!"  Blsble, blruble.
(Rises incrementally to his feet, stumbles...burlble "And furthermore...
===========

From: SCOTT STEEL         
To: BEATLE              
Subject: STAR TREK      
Date & Time: 10/12/90 20:26:19
Message Number  9577

Ok BEATLE, is that Beatle Bailey or Beatlejuice?  Look, pal I'm 
entitled to my opinion and you're entitled to yours. I like Star Trek
the original. Period.  I still feel that if the original cast(at
the same age they were when Star Trek was first broadcast with 
today's special effects and writers) would be better then the cast 
they have now. Thank you very much.
===========

From: SCOTT STEEL         
To: BEATLE              
Subject: Star Trek      
Date & Time: 10/12/90 20:31:49
Message Number  9578

B. Probably, not many. But four hundred years from now, who knows.
     
Yeah, who knows maybe four hundred years from now there will be a 
planet of hippies that could take over the Enterprise.  Ever 
thought of that? Hmmmm.  
===========

From: SCOTT STEEL         
To: BEATLE              
Subject: Add another    
Date & Time: 10/12/90 20:35:00
Message Number  9579

I deleted the message on flag burning because I wrote it under mistaken
impression. I was scanning messages, saw the "BURN THE FLAG" and
replied without reading carefully. My mistake.  Just for clarification
I'm strongly against flag burning and those who do it.  That's 
amazing we /do/ agree on /something/.
===========

From: SCOTT STEEL         
To: THE SPECIALIST      
Subject: ST:TNG         
Date & Time: 10/12/90 20:42:33
Message Number  9580

Thanks for the support Specialist.  It seems you're the only person 
on this board who has befriended me.  
Both RUFUS and Beatle and merrily pounded the dayslight out of me.  
For some unknown reason it seems I have two new sworn enemies. 
P>S> Rufus I still would rather watch a Current Affair then
read a Tabloid. So There.
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From: SCOTT STEEL         
To: THE SPECIALIST      
Subject: STAR TREK      
Date & Time: 10/12/90 20:45:48
Message Number  9581

S> *JUST ONCE* for Data.... 
   
Yes, that would be interesting, an emotional outburst from an android.
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From: SCOTT STEEL         
To: THE SPECIALIST      
Subject: curr affa      
Date & Time: 10/12/90 20:47:30
Message Number  9582

The man of STEEL with never go down for the count.  I may be 
inexperienced at this but I SHALL NOT GIVE UP  as my hero 
Arny says I'LL BE BACK! (Strong Austrian accent).
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From: TURTLE              
To: BURNEY              
Subject: Armag.         
Date & Time: 10/12/90 21:23:24
Message Number  9583

>Another bit of religious trivia for all those reading this.
>The land of IRAQ is the same geographic location as the BABYLONIAN
>empire refere to in the (here it comes again)Bible.
 
Well, sort of. At its peak (c. 635-529 BC) the New Babylonian Empire
extended from what is now the western part of Iraq through Syria
and into the southern portion of what is now Turkey. It also covered a
small part of northern Iran and a portion of what is now the USSR.
However, it only reached this extent /before/ the Jewish Exile (at
around 597 BC). During the Exile, the New Babylonian Empire extended
eastward only about halfway into Iraq.
 
Your point?
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From: TURTLE              
To: RAVEN               
Subject: CAFFINE        
Date & Time: 10/12/90 21:32:14
Message Number  9584

>Life is like a sewer. . . what you get out of it depends on what
>you put into it
 
And coffee is a foul, nasty thing indeed to put into it. It stands to
reason that caffeinated coffee is better than the decaf kind, but that's
rather like saying roasted cockroaches with chocolate sauce are better
than the ones without. Caffeine is, after all, the only reason a sane
person would drink coffee to begin with.
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From: TURTLE              
To: THE SPECIALIST      
Subject: Altr/Rlty      
Date & Time: 10/12/90 21:34:19
Message Number  9585

>Apple rules the 8-bits.
 
Only if it's got a Z-80 or 64180 card installed...although I'd say the
On! Systems computer and the PC-Z both top the Apple hands-down in the
realm of eight-bitters.
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From: TURTLE              
To: BURNEY              
Subject: Altr/Rlty      
Date & Time: 10/12/90 21:37:08
Message Number  9586

>BASH THE HOMOS (TM) IS GOOD..
 
Not you, too! My bulletin board is being overrun with the intolerant.
*MOST* disappointing.
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From: TURTLE              
To: BURNEY              
Subject: STAR TREK      
Date & Time: 10/12/90 21:38:38
Message Number  9587

I used to be an ardent fan of the old Trek and didn't care too much
for the Next Generation, until I really started watching ST:TNG. The
production qualities on the new one are better, of course; but the new
show generally shows a bit more thought going into the scripts than
Classic Trek did. For example: You do /not/ send your entire command
crew (Captain, First Officer, Chief Medical Officer, Chief Engineer,
and frequently Chief Navagator and Helmsman) down into a hostile
situatin together. Dumb, dumb, dumb; oh my yes. Captain Kirk is a
good brawler but not a terribly effective /captain,/ and he violated
the Prime Directive and his own professed ideals on a more or less
routine basis. I also haven't seen any really /boneheaded/ ST:TNG
episodes yet to compare with Original Trek's "Hippies overrun the
Enterprise and take control," or "A bunch of kids overrun the Enterprise
and take control," or "A bunch of 20's gangsters steal the captain and
first officer."  Even the new Enterprise seems to be more logically laid
out than the old--and more habitable, too.
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From: SCOTT STEEL         
To: TURTLE              
Subject: STAR TREK      
Date & Time: 10/12/90 22:19:09
Message Number  9588

Thanks, TURTLE> (As I fell to the mat once again, groan in pain. ARGHH)
One question,  is there anyone out there (besides the Specialist ) 
that's on my side?  If not, I'll take you all on (one at a time, please)
Boy, I never knew that BBSing could be so bloody and violent, or 
otherwise I would have started sooner. (snicker, snicker!)
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From: SCOTT STEEL         
To: ALL                 
Subject: Survival in BBS
Date & Time: 10/12/90 23:08:21
Message Number  9590

Take it easy guys. Rufus, Turtle and Beatle especially. 
Turtle according to Rule 4 in your Show System 
(recommended to new users) it says your users don't bite. 
Well, maybe not, but sure do poke, punch, hit, kick, spindle,
mangle, mutilate, rip new -ss-oles, slap around, pick on, scratch,
nail to the wall, crucify, hammer into the ground, annihilate,
rebuke, reprove, correct, tear up, presecute,execute, torture,
draw-and-quarter,beat up, flog, and in every sense of the word
(That is if I left anything out)
(Probably shouldn't have said that because I'm sure at least
one of you will point a few that I left out)
... and in every sense of the word leave new users for dead!!
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From: SPELLWIND           
To: OMNI                
Subject: curr affa      
Date & Time: 10/12/90 23:29:03
Message Number  9591

    HAhaahahahahah. A joke, right? Do you read the Enquirer too?
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From: SPELLWIND           
To: SCOTT STEEL         
Subject: STAR TREK      
Date & Time: 10/12/90 23:33:49
Message Number  9592

  HAHAHAHAHAHAHAHAHAHAHAHAHAHAHAHAHAHAHAHAHAHAHAHAHAHAHAHAHAHAHAHAHAHAHA
ahahahahahahahahahahhaahahahahahahahahahahahahahahahahahahahahahahahahah
haHAHahA!!!!!
   I Quote Max (When he was Donthen) 'Kirk and the Land of the Dippy 
Hippies'
 
    Patrick Stewart surpasses William Shatner....
    Don't just think of Troi as a sex object.....
 
 (You all read that she wants to play Morgaine in the movie for The)
(Mists of Avalon right?)   She's a great actress, if she's not a good 
shrink.
  Spock.... I'm kinda torn now.. I would've liked a Vulcan as 2nd in
command, BUT, this IS an Next Generation, and Spock was of the old 
generation.
 
 (Not enough money) HAHAHA Those special effects AREN'T Cheap, besides,
  the others were too old for another series....
 
 
 I used to feel the same way, but this is a Next Generation, and I think
it really IS for the better.
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From: SPELLWIND           
To: BURNEY              
Subject: STAR TREK      
Date & Time: 10/12/90 23:44:27
Message Number  9593

  It's Troi's JOB to 'stick her nose' in the running of the ship.
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From: SPELLWIND           
To: RUFUS               
Subject: STAR TREK      
Date & Time: 10/12/90 23:47:29
Message Number  9594

 Weasel on my nose, lookin' at my toes, who knows, where will it go?
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From: RAVEN               
To: DIONYSUS            
Subject: CAFFINE        
Date & Time: 10/13/90 01:04:28
Message Number  9595

Toxic Shock (tm) merely looks like a cup o' raw sewage (and tastes worse
to the uneducated), but it is the drink of the gods.   You'd be 
omniscient too if you did not sleep for a few hundred years or so.
 
Dew merely resembles camel piss, and does not have the full aroma, taste
or consistancy of Toxic Shock (tm).  
 
Toxic Shock (tm) Ten times the caffine, and twice the sugar!!!
 
                   -R-
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From: RAVEN               
To: SCOTT STEEL         
Subject: Survival in BBS
Date & Time: 10/13/90 01:28:18
Message Number  9596

Quite true, but what's your point?
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From: MMA                 
To: RAVEN               
Subject: CAFFINE        
Date & Time: 10/13/90 02:47:52
Message Number  9597

Is JOLT cola still made? I haven't seen it around for a while.
How can I get some of that 'toxic shock (tm)' ? 
Give us this day our daily caffine.
MMA
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From: CORWYN              
To: BEATLE              
Subject: Altr/Rlty      
Date & Time: 10/13/90 05:20:58
Message Number  9598

Escaped killer catipillars masquerading as pieces of old women.
		                           - Corwyn
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From: CORWYN              
To: BEATLE              
Subject: Altr/Rlty      
Date & Time: 10/13/90 05:23:45
Message Number  9599

> I belive there's a rule on this board about system bashing.
 
 Oh goody.. more rules!! - Anybody see the Washington Wives around,
the Censors for American Dignity??
 
No rules, anarchy.. after all, it's close to Lennon's 50th birthday.
 
                 - Corwyn (Imagining)
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From: CORWYN              
To: SCOTT STEEL         
Subject: STAR TREK      
Date & Time: 10/13/90 05:33:03
Message Number  9600

More Vareity = Better.  Weirder = Better.
Whorf (Klingon) = Variety  Troi = Weirder
 
Any conservative trekkie is going to hate any replacement for the old 
crew.. read my lips.. the new crew offers more variety, even if Riker
and Wesley bite.
 
                        - Corwyn

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