From: CYBERPUNK           
To: RUFUS               
Subject: ChristmasCon   
Date & Time: 12/06/89 16:33:40
Message Number   751

no! it would be at my house!! lots of more room!! , plus it's going to 
be around New Yaers!!  so, , whatever!!
 Cy
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From: SPELLWIND           
To: TURTLE              
Subject: Modem connects 
Date & Time: 12/06/89 16:46:22
Message Number   752

Next-he'll-ask,-"how-do-you-make-babies"
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From: TURTLE              
To: ALL                 
Subject: A confession...
Date & Time: 12/06/89 17:55:02
Message Number   753

You know how on some days it's warm out, and then on some other days
it's cold out? Well, I have a confession to make. That's MY FAULT.
You see, I have this control, and when I turn it one way the sun warms
up, and when I turn it the other way the sun cools down. Sometimes I
just TURN IT for no readily apparant reason. I'm not sure why; I just
do. And you know what else? I'm NOT SORRY ONE BIT. Ha ha ha!
                   -A weather-hacking Turtle
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From: BEATLE              
To: CYBERPUNK           
Subject: ChristmasCon   
Date & Time: 12/06/89 18:10:41
Message Number   754

  What would we DO at this con?
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From: BEATLE              
To: TURTLE              
Subject: A confession...
Date & Time: 12/06/89 18:15:33
Message Number   755

  Hey, make it warm, dude. My gradparents are here from New York and it
is a bit cool...
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From: KEN OBER            
To: ALL DUDEZ           
Subject: OKAY!          
Date & Time: 12/06/89 22:14:09
Message Number   756

Okay BART FOX, CHIP P. UNICORN, and all you other worthless skum!
 
hehehehe....Just joking!  I was just thinking.....
 
WHY HAVEN'T YOU CALLED MY BBS!?  You SAID you would at RUFUSCON...
 
Well, didn'T you!?  ANyways, EVERYONE ELSE.....Call me!
 
I'm atleast a Honorary MSTF system.....doesn'T that account for 
anything now-a-days!?  SHEESH!
 
hehehehe.....
 
REMOTE CONTROL! #1 - 378-2218 - 300/1200 Baud
 
Remember it well, my friends, for, one day, people will hand you money
when you say that you knew me.....and you will be able to write books
about it and make even MORE money!
 
ha!  Ha!  HA!
 
Good day to all, eerrr.... Goodnight....
 
     -- A Cheap, Shameless, BBS Ad from a desperate SysOp....
 
OPERATORS ARE WAITING!  REMOTE CONTROL! #1 - 378-2218 - 300/1200 Baud
 
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From: ANGEL               
To: RUFUS               
Subject: Casting couch  
Date & Time: 12/06/89 22:53:27
Message Number   757

Yes, Archangel has promised/threatened to be there at auditions.  But so
have so many others.  Actors lie, so I'm not plotting any pre-casting
in my mind.  And liberal use of baseball bats as attitude adjusters
doesn't really raise consciousness, just bruises and welts.  AH, but
it's a tempting thought!
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From: CORWYN OF AMBER     
To: ALL                 
Subject: Packet Radio   
Date & Time: 12/07/89 15:06:26
Message Number   758

Does anybody know anything about packet radio (ham systems w/ a modified
modem attached) I read an article about them.. but it was very general,
gave no specifics about hardware required.. Did say you needed a Ham
radio operator's license though. I recently found a listeng of Public
Access pachet radio BBS's It had one listed for Sarasota.. Hmm sounds 
intrigueing.. No phone bills??!!! Of course you /do/ have to get a 
license first, and the hardware.. anybody know more?
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From: RUFUS               
To: ANGEL               
Subject: Casting couch  
Date & Time: 12/07/89 15:14:22
Message Number   759

When are auditions, I may just come to watch ( if that's O.K. ).  You
know me...me...damn, I hate when I forget what I was going to say.
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From: CYBERPUNK           
To: BEATLE              
Subject: ChristmasCon   
Date & Time: 12/07/89 17:05:26
Message Number   761

just about anything and everything!
 Cy
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From: BEATLE              
To: KEN OBER            
Subject: OKAY!          
Date & Time: 12/07/89 18:52:30
Message Number   762

   Sure, we'll write "Everything You Never Wanted to Know About Tyler 
Robinson But Were Forced to Find Out"...hehehe...
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From: BEATLE              
To: CYBERPUNK           
Subject: ChristmasCon   
Date & Time: 12/07/89 18:54:23
Message Number   763

 No, really...what kinds of "evrything and everything"? Would you play
games, watch Robotech, or what??
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From: ANGEL               
To: RUFUS               
Subject: Casting couch  
Date & Time: 12/07/89 22:48:40
Message Number   764

Of course you're welcome to come watch, even more welcome to audition.
There's usually a terrible shortage of men (ain't that true everywhere
ladies?)  Auditions are usually deadly dull to watch, though.  Audition
Sunday evening, December 17 at Players of Sarasota (corner of US 41
and 9th Street) at 7:00 p.m.
   Latest update -- cancel last post re: archangel.  He will NOT be
auditioning for my show, though he'll probably come to watch.  The
little darlin' just got cast in "Dames at Sea" at the Island Players.
Men!  You can't depend on 'em.
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From: CHIP P. UNICORN     
To: PSYCHE              
Subject: GameCon        
Date & Time: 12/08/89 00:08:38
Message Number   766

Ahem! Psyche, I -COULD- ruin your reputation on this board as honest...
I take cash only, in small denominations ($20 or $10...)
   
Actually, you might be honest -- you probably don't remember the
incident... 
                    Chip P. Unicorn
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From: CHIP P. UNICORN     
To: SPELLWIND           
Subject: Poker          
Date & Time: 12/08/89 00:12:10
Message Number   767

That's a possibility for GameCon... but I suspect it'll be a
penny-ante game. (Whoever hosts GameCon might set a limit to amounts
of betting...) 
   Anyway, I'm not a good poker player. Whenever I get a good hand,
my ears perk forward.
             Chip P. Unicorn
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From: CHIP P. UNICORN     
To: RUFUS               
Subject: GameCon        
Date & Time: 12/08/89 00:26:19
Message Number   768

   Paranoia is a wonderful game! The GM's job is to get every character
to try to kill every other character. Every character's job is to
kill every other character, while appearing to serve the Computer. The
Computer is your friend. The Computer says playing Paranoia is fun.
The Computer is always right. The Computer says troubleshooters must
kill all troublemakers. Nobody would want to be a troublemaker, right?
              Chip P. Unicorn
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From: CHIP P. UNICORN     
To: SPELLWIND           
Subject: Modem connects 
Date & Time: 12/08/89 00:29:28
Message Number   769

Simple. I was bought in K-Mart in a blue light special.
         Chip P. Unicorn
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From: CHIP P. UNICORN     
To: TURTLE              
Subject: A confession...
Date & Time: 12/08/89 00:30:53
Message Number   770

Dear Turtle,
   "Do you remember when you came and told me I flipped my lid? WELL?
You laughed, you laughed, you know you laughed, I heard you laughed..."
(I get on these things...)
   By the way, Turtle. I cut the wire to that device.
            Chip P. Unicorn
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From: CHIP P. UNICORN     
To: KEN OBER            
Subject: OKAY!          
Date & Time: 12/08/89 00:33:40
Message Number   771

Ken,
   You're right. I haven't called your BBS. Something weird goes on
between our modems -- they just won't connect. (I've heard rumors
that yours is a semitone lower that what it should be...)
   Believe it or not, I've tried calling. And -- congratulations on
becoming an MSTF board.
             Chip P. Unicorn
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From: CHIP P. UNICORN     
To: CYBERPUNK           
Subject: ChristmasCon   
Date & Time: 12/08/89 00:35:50
Message Number   772

Could you give specifics? I mean -- what do you have planned?
Juggling foxes? A swimming pool full of vodka? Parcheesi? Demonstration
of calvary attacks? Ten rock groups?
           Chip P. Unicorn
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From: PSYCHE              
To: CHIP P. UNICORN     
Subject: GameCon        
Date & Time: 12/08/89 01:50:13
Message Number   773

   Oops!  It must have slipped my mind.  Okay, maybe I HAVE had a drink
or two, but I'm sober right now.
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From: PSYCHE              
To: ALL                 
Subject: WHY?           
Date & Time: 12/08/89 01:54:18
Message Number   774

   Why do I do this to myself?  Here I am, typing and snooping on the
a/L/T/E/R r/E/A/L/I/T/Y BBS at 2:45 in the morning, with eight more 
pages of my research paper to complete by 11:00 in the morning (that's 
EIGHT hours, guys).  I figure that it will take me an hour and a half to
complete the paper, an hour to get ready for school and eat breakfast,
and 35 minutes to get to school.  That means that I can BBS for until
7:55.  Wow! Gee! I'm thrilled.  Does anyone else find that their love
of BBSing over their love of work tends to get in the way?
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From: SPELLWIND           
To: PSYCHE              
Subject: WHY?           
Date & Time: 12/08/89 05:04:22
Message Number   777

  Yes, I'm still on chapter 1. I am almost to the point where I'll have
to break my terminal program to stay off...
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From: KALI                
To: ALL                 
Subject: What? An Indoor
Date & Time: 12/08/89 08:03:11
Message Number   778

Picnick??? Chas. of Suncoast City BBS has informed me that there will 
be an Indoor Picnick on Saturday, Dec. 16th, 11 AM to 2 PM...but he
hasn't selected a location yet: wants some feedback from you-all...
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From: CORWYN OF AMBER     
To: ANGEL               
Subject: Men Shortage?  
Date & Time: 12/08/89 13:03:46
Message Number   782

Actually, since the ladies that are going to read that probably number
less than three.. the shortage goes the other way here!
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From: CORWYN OF AMBER     
To: ALL                 
Subject: Life           
Date & Time: 12/08/89 13:09:05
Message Number   783

Sex, Cookies, and Rock & Roll make the world go round!
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From: RUFUS               
To: ANGEL               
Subject: Casting couch  
Date & Time: 12/08/89 14:49:31
Message Number   785

Well, I would, cept for a few facts:
1) I'm not over 20.
2) I have school to go to, so couldn't make it to rehersal.
3) I have this darned nasty stutter ( and you say to yourself "Gee, he
types so fluently, I never woulda guessed. ).
4) Ribbit...
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From: RUFUS               
To: CHIP P. UNICORN     
Subject: GameCon        
Date & Time: 12/08/89 14:52:21
Message Number   786

Let's play sometime.  You know the best part, names.  I like the name
system they have.  I wanna be happiness officer..
 
Ribbit...
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From: RUFUS               
To: PSYCHE              
Subject: WHY?           
Date & Time: 12/08/89 14:54:17
Message Number   787

Actually, it's my love of doing anything other than work that gets in
the way.  I find picking lint from my toes to be fun at times.
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From: KEN OBER            
To: CHIP P. UNICORN     
Subject: my BBS!        
Date & Time: 12/08/89 15:20:31
Message Number   788

hhmm, that's normal!  (hehehe)  Iseem to remember you having an account
on my BBS....anyways, that will all change after christmas....And I'll
have my 2400!
 
WOW!  Neet-o...
 
k00l!
 
hehehe...
 
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From: CORWYN OF AMBER     
To: RUFUS               
Subject: Me? Paranoid?  
Date & Time: 12/08/89 16:04:38
Message Number   790

Hehehe.. I've only played once, the GM was IDEAL, he played like a
paranoia GM for D&D (which wasn't so great) but for Paranoia he had
the computer down pat.
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From: CORWYN OF AMBER     
To: RUFUS               
Subject: WHY?           
Date & Time: 12/08/89 16:06:33
Message Number   791

Yea, there's also playing Arkanoid (advanced break-out) reading the back
of macaroni and cheese boxes, chewing on pen caps for hours on end.. 
fun huh? But better than studying....
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From: FORPLAY             
To: TURTLE              
Subject: bbs            
Date & Time: 12/08/89 18:50:05
Message Number   792

Sorry I called at this hour....
I will "rap" with you at a later date
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From: ROCKY               
To: DONTHEN             
Subject: movies...      
Date & Time: 12/08/89 20:27:20
Message Number   793

Well, I've yet to experience "Rock N' Rule", so I'm really not qualified
to respond to that, but I like the idea of it involving "furries." 
Yeah, I'll have to admit the "ball" scheme was kinda pathetic, but I 
think my favorite scene was the Taxi cab, when the guy tried to rob
the driver, and was abruptly desitigrated by the laser machine the 
driver activated. Interesting to say the least. I think the BEST ball
scheme that came out (In two movies to date) was the boring balls in 
the movie(s) Phantasm. Now THAT was an interesting double sided movie.
I really didn't care for the way they blended the second movie in from
the first, and at times, Phantasm ][ was a little bit drug out, but it
STILL had the quality special effects that made the first movie a hit. 
Anybody else enjoy Phantasm? (By the way, this was NOT an animated movie
but I feel merits discussion.)
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From: ROCKY               
To: RUFUS               
Subject: GameCon        
Date & Time: 12/08/89 20:39:02
Message Number   794

Sheeesh! What ever happened to the grrrreat old game of Quarters? I used
to LOVE to play that game, and I guess like any other fad game, it has
lost popularity. I'll admit, after hours of throwing quarters at your
table top, it can get kinda boring, but it was the conversation that 
really made the game. (Isn't that true with ALL games though?)
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From: ROCKY               
To: PSYCHE              
Subject: BTW....        
Date & Time: 12/08/89 20:43:52
Message Number   795

Say, does ANYBODY really know what KIND of turtle Turtle is? I mean, 
we ALL know he's an anthropomorphic turtle, but what KIND of turtle. A 
turtle is just a Turtle by anyother name, I guess, but there are still
HUNDREDS of varieties of turtles, Turtle. Turtles can be Gophers, 
Turtle, or turtles can be snapping turtles, Turtle, or turtles can be
even aligator turtles, Turtle, so, what kinda turtle ARE you, Turtle?
    
  
---Inquiring minds want to know!
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From: ROCKY               
To: TURTLE              
Subject: Quarters!      
Date & Time: 12/08/89 20:50:34
Message Number   796

Wel, I'm glad to see at least SOMEONE remembers how fun a real game of
Quarters can be. I DO like playing it, but for some reason, I always
loose!
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From: ROCKY               
To: TURTLE              
Subject: Yarg! Yarg!    
Date & Time: 12/08/89 20:52:36
Message Number   797

Is Yarg! Yarg! anything like Wank! Wank!??? Or maybe Hack! Hack!, or
Pffft! Pffft!??? 
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From: ROCKY               
To: CORWYN OF AMBER     
Subject: My Brother?    
Date & Time: 12/08/89 20:55:28
Message Number   798

Lord Corwyn, it is I, Random, your brother, and King of Amber. I have 
gone by the name Rocky in this shadow, and I'm ever so glad to finally
here from you. Merlin and I have been trying to get ahold of you via
the trumps now for quite a long time in this shadow, which would be but
a day in Amber. Your son has become VERY powerful with his use of the 
Logrus, and I've been practicing my powers of Chaos, and it would sure
be nice to sit and talk with you of old times. I'm trumping you now from
The Courts of Chaos, so if your there, ANSWER! I can almost feel contact
so I know you must be there, though it must be a great distance away. 
Although it was thought you were dead, I don't believe it a second!
(I hope you've read through all the volumes through "Blood of Amber"!)
 
---Long live the Unicorn!
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From: ROCKY               
To: CHIP P. UNICORN     
Subject: GameCon        
Date & Time: 12/08/89 21:04:40
Message Number   799

Ok, I've got a great game of skill to play. Has anyone ever played 
"Pente"? It is one of the most simple, yet complicated games and is also
one of the OLDEST games ever invented. It is played with pebbles on a
grid, and the object is to get five pebbles in a row. This sounds easy,
but is really quite a strategic feat. Anyone ever play?
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From: ROCKY               
To: PSYCHE              
Subject: GameCon        
Date & Time: 12/08/89 21:09:11
Message Number   800

>Ewww, YUK!
 
What do you think guys? Shall we do it intravenous, or will we pour it
down his throat. I think it's about time that he discovered what it is
really like to lighten up! Not that I truly enjoy alcohol (I haven't 
touched a drink in over 2 months, not even beer, I've kinda lost my
taste for it) but I'll have to say, I've had some aweful good times
playing drinking games around a bunch of belching, farting, drunks, and
I think you should experience it at least ONCE in your life...
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