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Message no. 1
From: Bill Blackbrain <Blackbrain@*********.COM>
Subject: Bug City 1998..
Date: Fri, 7 Aug 1998 10:51:40 -0700
I was watching CNN this morning when a story came on with the teaser "Bugs
invade Chicago". I almost did a spit take with my coffee. It turns out that
the city is infested with the Asian Long Horn Beetle which is devouring trees
and is immune to all known pesticides. Can nukes be far off?

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Message no. 2
From: Iridios <iridios@*********.COM>
Subject: Re: Bug City 1998..
Date: Fri, 7 Aug 1998 20:53:20 -0400
Bill Blackbrain wrote:
Fri, 7 Aug 1998 10:51:40 -0700
>
> I was watching CNN this morning when a story came on with the teaser "Bugs
> invade Chicago". I almost did a spit take with my coffee. It turns out that
> the city is infested with the Asian Long Horn Beetle which is devouring trees
> and is immune to all known pesticides. Can nukes be far off?

I saw this on WGN (Chicago), only the headline was "Chicago Bug
Quarantine Zone is Expanding". Definately made me do a double take.
:)

--"Any science, sufficiently advanced is indistinguishable from
magic."
--Arthur C. Clarke

Iridios
iridios@*********.com
http://www.geocities.com/Area51/Shadowlands/9489
http://members.theglobe.com/Iridios

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Message no. 3
From: Machine-gun Kelly <MgkellyMP5@***.COM>
Subject: Re: Bug City 1998..
Date: Fri, 7 Aug 1998 22:30:40 EDT
In a message dated 98-08-07 20:50:45 EDT, you write:

> I saw this on WGN (Chicago), only the headline was "Chicago Bug
> Quarantine Zone is Expanding". Definately made me do a double take.

I scanned WGN and CNN both and promptly screamed "WHAT THE FUCK??!!!?!?!?!"
when they announced the 'Quarrantine Zone Expansion'.

I was afraid that the Sixth World had returned and I had missed it....

I was upset.

(Btw, Elle....)

> - It's not pretty being easy -

Mgkelly "It ain't easy bein' sleazy...."
Message no. 4
From: Steven McCormick <stardust@***.NET>
Subject: Re: Bug City 1998..
Date: Fri, 7 Aug 1998 22:29:54 -0500
At 08:53 PM 8/7/98 -0400, Iridios wrote:
>Bill Blackbrain wrote:
>Fri, 7 Aug 1998 10:51:40 -0700
>>
>> I was watching CNN this morning when a story came on with the teaser "Bugs
>> invade Chicago". I almost did a spit take with my coffee. It turns out that
>> the city is infested with the Asian Long Horn Beetle which is devouring
trees
>> and is immune to all known pesticides. Can nukes be far off?
>
>I saw this on WGN (Chicago), only the headline was "Chicago Bug
>Quarantine Zone is Expanding". Definately made me do a double take.
>:)
>

How does FASA *know* these things? :)

BlueMule
Message no. 5
From: Michael vanHulst <Schizi@***.COM>
Subject: Re: Bug City 1998..
Date: Fri, 7 Aug 1998 23:39:57 EDT
In a message dated 8/7/98 8:36:21 PM Pacific Daylight Time, stardust@***.NET
writes:

> How does FASA *know* these things? :)
not that they would "know" anything, but since they are based out of Chicago,
I wonder if they caught the same headlines? :-)
Just a thought, thats all, a theory..
Message no. 6
From: Martin Steffens <chimerae@***.IE>
Subject: Re: Bug City 1998..
Date: Sat, 8 Aug 1998 08:51:13 +0000
and thus did Michael vanHulst speak on 7 Aug 98 at 23:39:

> > How does FASA *know* these things? :)
> not that they would "know" anything, but since they are based out of
Chicago,
> I wonder if they caught the same headlines? :-)
> Just a thought, thats all, a theory..

For the truely paranoid: What's to say that they didn't do it
themselves?...
"Shadowrun WILL be real, I tell you!!! Muhahahahaha!!!


Karina & Martin Steffens
chimerae@***.ie
Message no. 7
From: Lady Jestyr <jestyr@*******.DIALIX.COM.AU>
Subject: Re: Bug City 1998..
Date: Sat, 8 Aug 1998 20:53:18 +1000
> >> and is immune to all known pesticides. Can nukes be far off?
> >
> >I saw this on WGN (Chicago), only the headline was "Chicago Bug
> >Quarantine Zone is Expanding". Definately made me do a double take.
>
> How does FASA *know* these things? :)

Reminiscent of Arthur C. Clarke's 'predictions'...

Lady Jestyr

- It's not pretty being easy -
| Elle Holmes | jestyr@**********.com | http://jestyr.home.ml.org |
| Shadowrun Webring Ringmaster | GeoCities Leader | RPGA Reviewer |
Message no. 8
From: bryan.covington@****.COM
Subject: Re: Bug City 1998..
Date: Mon, 10 Aug 1998 10:06:55 -0400
> I was afraid that the Sixth World had returned and I had missed it....
>
> I was upset.
>
It did. I turned into a troll last night. It really bit,
I completely destroyed my Honda. ;)
Message no. 9
From: Patrick Goodman <remo@***.NET>
Subject: Re: Bug City 1998..
Date: Mon, 10 Aug 1998 09:15:11 -0500
>> I was afraid that the Sixth World had returned and I had missed it....
>>
>> I was upset.
>
> It did. I turned into a troll last night. It really bit,
>I completely destroyed my Honda. ;)

Timing is everything.

---
(>) Texas 2-Step
El Paso: Never surrender. Never forget. Never forgive.
Message no. 10
From: The Bookworm <Thomas.M.Price@*******.EDU>
Subject: Re: Bug City 1998..
Date: Wed, 12 Aug 1998 17:13:06 -0500
On Fri, 7 Aug 1998, Michael vanHulst wrote:
> In a message dated 8/7/98 8:36:21 PM Pacific Daylight Time, stardust@***.NET
> writes:
> > How does FASA *know* these things? :)
> not that they would "know" anything, but since they are based out of
Chicago,
> I wonder if they caught the same headlines? :-)
> Just a thought, thats all, a theory..

Ya so its been a few days since this got sent. I just FINALY got caught
up on my email. You shure are a chatty bunch when a new SR book comes
out:).

Anyway the real question is how did they get the headline from last weeks
paper and write a book about it 3 or 4 years ago (whenever bug city came
out) This Chicago Bug Quarentine is a new thing. They just found the
bugs in the last few weeks. FASA has a time machine I just know it:).

Thomas Price
aka The Bookworm
thomas.m.price@*******.edu
tmprice@***********.com
Message no. 11
From: "Ubiratan P. Alberton" <ubiratan@**.HOMESHOPPING.COM.BR>
Subject: Re: Bug City 1998..
Date: Wed, 12 Aug 1998 21:51:21 -0300
The Bookworm wrote:
>
> On Fri, 7 Aug 1998, Michael vanHulst wrote:
> > In a message dated 8/7/98 8:36:21 PM Pacific Daylight Time, stardust@***.NET
> > writes:
> > > How does FASA *know* these things? :)
> > not that they would "know" anything, but since they are based out of
Chicago,
> > I wonder if they caught the same headlines? :-)
> > Just a thought, thats all, a theory..
>
> Ya so its been a few days since this got sent. I just FINALY got caught
> up on my email. You shure are a chatty bunch when a new SR book comes
> out:).
>
> Anyway the real question is how did they get the headline from last weeks
> paper and write a book about it 3 or 4 years ago (whenever bug city came
> out) This Chicago Bug Quarentine is a new thing. They just found the
> bugs in the last few weeks. FASA has a time machine I just know it:).


We do have an "Universal Church" here in Brasil :) . Now they're just
a bunch
of money-grubbing con men ("Buy a place in Heaven for only..."), but
isn't the
UB from SR something like this too?

Bira
Message no. 12
From: rabiola <rabiola@**.NETCOM.COM>
Subject: Re: Bug City 1998..
Date: Thu, 13 Aug 1998 04:26:23 -0500
>> > > How does FASA *know* these things? :)
>> > not that they would "know" anything, but since they are based out
of Chicago,
>> > I wonder if they caught the same headlines? :-)
>> > Just a thought, thats all, a theory..
>>
>> Anyway the real question is how did they get the headline from last
weeks
>> paper and write a book about it 3 or 4 years ago (whenever bug city
came
>> out) This Chicago Bug Quarentine is a new thing. They just found
the
>> bugs in the last few weeks. FASA has a time machine I just know
it:).
>

Naw, nothing so unlikely as that...they just go out and make these
things happen to give themselves that aura

>
> We do have an "Universal Church" here in Brasil :) . Now they're just
>a bunch
>of money-grubbing con men ("Buy a place in Heaven for only..."), but
>isn't the
>UB from SR something like this too?


Scarier and scarier...

Tony Rabiola rabiola@**.netcom.com
Fourth and Sixth World Adept
Still working on the Fifth...
Message no. 13
From: "Ubiratan P. Alberton" <ubiratan@**.HOMESHOPPING.COM.BR>
Subject: Re: Bug City 1998..
Date: Thu, 13 Aug 1998 20:06:11 -0300
rabiola wrote:
> > We do have an "Universal Church" here in Brasil :) . Now they're just
> >a bunch
> >of money-grubbing con men ("Buy a place in Heaven for only..."), but
> >isn't the
> >UB from SR something like this too?
>
> Scarier and scarier...


I know that the Shadowrun UB deals with the bugs, but is their public
front
like the one I mentioned before (see quote above :) ).

Bira
Message no. 14
From: Jhary-a-Conel <Jhary-a-Conel@***.NET>
Subject: Re: Bug City 1998..
Date: Fri, 14 Aug 1998 01:32:22 +0200
On 12 Aug 98, at 21:51, Ubiratan P. Alberton wrote:
[snip FASA's precognition]
> We do have an "Universal Church" here in Brasil :) . Now they're just a
> bunch of money-grubbing con men ("Buy a place in Heaven for only..."), but
> isn't the UB from SR something like this too?

No. The UB is a low-cash organissssation based mossszzztly on
the work of volunteer helpersss. Our goal is to help people find their
inner abilitiesss and gain a ssszzzttrenght out of these abilitiesss
they never before knew they had. The liesss told about us are
invented by the UCASss government when they feared we'd help too
many people to ssssee the lies they sspread.

But we are not gone - come, join us, find /YOUR/ inner abilities
today. One of our chaptersss isss probably near you.

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