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Message no. 1
From: Brian W Allison <ballison@*******.WAM.UMD.EDU>
Subject: quiet...
Date: Sun, 22 Dec 1996 12:20:51 -0500
Gee, it's awfully quiet around here....




Brian W. Allison

Computer Scientist Vocalist Would-be Poet Bicycler Scuba Diver
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Message no. 2
From: Spike <u5a77@*****.CS.KEELE.AC.UK>
Subject: Re: quiet...
Date: Sun, 22 Dec 1996 17:39:13 +0000
|
| Gee, it's awfully quiet around here....
|

You can say that again...

Oh, what the hell, I'll do it for you....

Gee, it's awfully quiet around here....

It's because one hell of a lot of people in Unis and collages are going home
this weekend....
--
______________________________________________________________________________
|u5a77@*****.cs.keele.ac.uk| "Are you pondering what I'm pondering Pinky?" |
|Andrew Halliwell | |
|Principal subjects in:- | "I think so brain, but this time, you control |
|Comp Sci & Electronics | the Encounter suit, and I'll do the voice..." |
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|X+/++ R+ tv+ b+ D G e>PhD h/h+ !r! !y-|I can't say F**K either now! >*SULK*<|
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Message no. 3
From: Skye Comstock <bilbo@****.NWLINK.COM>
Subject: Re: quiet...
Date: Sun, 22 Dec 1996 10:00:49 -0800
>You can say that again...
>
>Oh, what the hell, I'll do it for you....
>
> Gee, it's awfully quiet around here....
>
>It's because one hell of a lot of people in Unis and collages are going home
>this weekend....

Then there are those of us with nothing to do on the weekends or
hate xmas and would rather have a festival for the solstice or something. I
would like to point out I just sit at my computer and wait for mail, being
the in touch person that I am. Can we talk about grounding or something?
Message no. 4
From: Brian W Allison <ballison@*******.WAM.UMD.EDU>
Subject: Re: quiet...
Date: Sun, 22 Dec 1996 13:00:58 -0500
> You can say that again...
>
> Oh, what the hell, I'll do it for you....
>
> Gee, it's awfully quiet around here....
>
> It's because one hell of a lot of people in Unis and collages are going home
> this weekend....


Yes. I forget that a lot of the list members live at school, or with
their parents.

But then, if I lived on campus then I'd have a significantly larger
bandwidth...




Brian W. Allison

Computer Scientist Vocalist Would-be Poet Bicycler Scuba Diver
Hacker(0xca) Nerd(79) GenX(21) #include <witticism.h>
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Message no. 5
From: Autumn / Shatterglass <laughingcrow@****.COM>
Subject: Re: quiet...
Date: Mon, 16 Dec 1996 03:05:42 PST
Skye...

I'm around too... I miss the University, but out in the Corporate World,
they just don't let you pack up and leave for a couple of weeks...

--Autumn
Message no. 6
From: Mike Elkins <MikeE@*********.COM>
Subject: Re: quiet...
Date: Sun, 22 Dec 1996 13:28:39 -0500
>I'm around too... I miss the University, but out in the Corporate World, they just
>don't let you pack up and leave for a couple of weeks...
>
>--Autumn

Yup. I'm here working on a weekend, trying to meet a Monday 10am deadline,
reading email during slow compiles, wondering if the rest of the world is still
turning out there (I don't have a window office).

Is Juno.com your work or your service provider?

Double-Domed Mike
Message no. 7
From: Brian W Allison <ballison@*******.WAM.UMD.EDU>
Subject: Re: quiet...
Date: Sun, 22 Dec 1996 13:36:10 -0500
> Yup. I'm here working on a weekend, trying to meet a Monday 10am deadline,
> reading email during slow compiles, wondering if the rest of the world is still
> turning out there (I don't have a window office).

Since it looks as if I'll not be travelling cross-continent this
holiday, I'm spending my spare time hacking on a Matrix 2.0 simulator.

Don't worry though, I'm making a C++ version. When it's done I'll port
it to Java.

I'm tired of waiting on others to do it... and I want a version that's
Internet capable, unix-friendly, and GPL'd.



Brian W. Allison

Computer Scientist Vocalist Would-be Poet Bicycler Scuba Diver
Hacker(0xca) Nerd(79) GenX(21) #include <witticism.h>
http://www.wam.umd.edu/~ballison

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Message no. 8
From: Autumn / Shatterglass <laughingcrow@****.COM>
Subject: Re: quiet...
Date: Mon, 16 Dec 1996 05:15:00 PST
You guys are being too productive. You're making me feel guilty.

--Autumn
Message no. 9
From: Autumn / Shatterglass <laughingcrow@****.COM>
Subject: Re: quiet...
Date: Mon, 16 Dec 1996 05:13:37 PST
Juno is my mail service, Mike. It's an account I can actually access from
eith er my office machine or my home one. I'm on the home machine at the
moment. For once. I usually end up doing exactly what you're doing.
[grins]

My office machine does have one advantage over this beast... Internet
access. My home machine's only connection to the outside world is this
mail server. 'Frightening thought, that.

--Autumn
Message no. 10
From: "Brian W. Allison" <ballison@*******.WAM.UMD.EDU>
Subject: Re: quiet...
Date: Sun, 22 Dec 1996 15:40:20 -0500
On Mon, 16 Dec 1996, Autumn / Shatterglass wrote:

> You guys are being too productive. You're making me feel guilty.


Aww... does Autumn feel bad?

Want a cookie little... Um.... generic gender personage?


Darn. Humor always goes bad when I don't know if the joke's applicable.
*sigh*




Brian W. Allison

Computer Scientist Vocalist Would-be Poet Bicycler Scuba Diver
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Message no. 11
From: Spike <u5a77@*****.CS.KEELE.AC.UK>
Subject: Re: quiet...
Date: Sun, 22 Dec 1996 22:15:38 +0000
| Then there are those of us with nothing to do on the weekends or
|hate xmas and would rather have a festival for the solstice or something. I
|would like to point out I just sit at my computer and wait for mail, being
|the in touch person that I am. Can we talk about grounding or something?
|

Please....
Not grounding....
Please?
>*sob*<
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______________________________________________________________________________
|u5a77@*****.cs.keele.ac.uk| "Are you pondering what I'm pondering Pinky?" |
|Andrew Halliwell | |
|Principal subjects in:- | "I think so brain, but this time, you control |
|Comp Sci & Electronics | the Encounter suit, and I'll do the voice..." |
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|GCv3.1 GCS/EL>$ d---(dpu) s+/- a- C++ U N++ K- w-- M+/++ PS+++ PE- Y t+ 5++ |
|X+/++ R+ tv+ b+ D G e>PhD h/h+ !r! !y-|I can't say F**K either now! >*SULK*<|
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Message no. 12
From: Spike <u5a77@*****.CS.KEELE.AC.UK>
Subject: Re: quiet...
Date: Sun, 22 Dec 1996 22:16:34 +0000
|
|Skye...
|
|I'm around too... I miss the University, but out in the Corporate World,
|they just don't let you pack up and leave for a couple of weeks...

Or 4.....

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______________________________________________________________________________
|u5a77@*****.cs.keele.ac.uk| "Are you pondering what I'm pondering Pinky?" |
|Andrew Halliwell | |
|Principal subjects in:- | "I think so brain, but this time, you control |
|Comp Sci & Electronics | the Encounter suit, and I'll do the voice..." |
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|GCv3.1 GCS/EL>$ d---(dpu) s+/- a- C++ U N++ K- w-- M+/++ PS+++ PE- Y t+ 5++ |
|X+/++ R+ tv+ b+ D G e>PhD h/h+ !r! !y-|I can't say F**K either now! >*SULK*<|
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Message no. 13
From: Spike <u5a77@*****.CS.KEELE.AC.UK>
Subject: Re: quiet...
Date: Sun, 22 Dec 1996 22:26:10 +0000
|
|You guys are being too productive. You're making me feel guilty.

I'm still sulking because noone responded to my "THE INVADERS" posting...
--
______________________________________________________________________________
|u5a77@*****.cs.keele.ac.uk| "Are you pondering what I'm pondering Pinky?" |
|Andrew Halliwell | |
|Principal subjects in:- | "I think so brain, but this time, you control |
|Comp Sci & Electronics | the Encounter suit, and I'll do the voice..." |
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|GCv3.1 GCS/EL>$ d---(dpu) s+/- a- C++ U N++ K- w-- M+/++ PS+++ PE- Y t+ 5++ |
|X+/++ R+ tv+ b+ D G e>PhD h/h+ !r! !y-|I can't say F**K either now! >*SULK*<|
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Message no. 14
From: Skye Comstock <bilbo@****.NWLINK.COM>
Subject: Re: quiet...
Date: Sun, 22 Dec 1996 14:35:59 -0800
>I'm still sulking because noone responded to my "THE INVADERS" posting...

Uh... What "THE INVADERS" posting? It couldn't have been so bad
that my mind blocked it. Although I sometimes delete things from my mailbox
in huge blocks, hrm.
Message no. 15
From: Autumn / Shatterglass <laughingcrow@****.COM>
Subject: Re: quiet...
Date: Mon, 16 Dec 1996 06:11:10 PST
Yeah dude... I didn't see an Invaiders post either... Hmmm..... [ponders]
Maybe they abducted it...

--Autumn
Message no. 16
From: Bull <chaos@*****.COM>
Subject: Re: quiet...
Date: Mon, 23 Dec 1996 02:02:16 -0500
At 10:26 PM 12/22/96 +0000, you wrote:
>|
>|You guys are being too productive. You're making me feel guilty.
>
>I'm still sulking because noone responded to my "THE INVADERS" posting...
>
I noticed that sometimes the really cool ideas that get posted rarely get
any replies... While idiotic jokes like Woodchucks live on for weeks...:(

Oh well... I kinda liked the Invaders thing, but unfortunately am somewhat
unfamiliar with the source material for it, so I kinda missed some of it...

Bull

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Message no. 17
From: Tim Cooper <tpcooper@***.CSUPOMONA.EDU>
Subject: Re: quiet...
Date: Mon, 23 Dec 1996 01:23:08 -0800
On Sun, 22 Dec 1996, Skye Comstock wrote:

> >You can say that again...
> >
> >Oh, what the hell, I'll do it for you....
> >
> > Gee, it's awfully quiet around here....
> >
> >It's because one hell of a lot of people in Unis and collages are going home
> >this weekend....
>
> Then there are those of us with nothing to do on the weekends or
> hate xmas and would rather have a festival for the solstice or something. I
> would like to point out I just sit at my computer and wait for mail, being
> the in touch person that I am. Can we talk about grounding or something?
>

Like maybe grounding with reality?
Don't sit around all day staring at a blur of phosphorous dots...go out
and do something! Organize a game of SR (or anyother game for that
matter), go take a walk in the windy rain, write slug-mail to some really
attractive girl (or guy) that you met in Michigan, pick up a good book,
take up painting, try your hand at writing, go to some side-walk cafe and
drink really bad coffee and watch the people walk by, wander some overly
crowded mall and evesdrop on conversations and criticize the parents of
out of control kids, go to a movie and heckle the acting (go see "Mars
Attacks", heckle the acting and laugh hysterically at it's stupidity), get
some friends together and play roller-hockey... failing that, browse the
Internet, teach yourself some programming language, play MTG...or
something..(get a copy of "Master of Orion" and laugh maniacly as you bomb
other races colonies into the stone age and conquer the galaxy)..

Don't sit around WAITING FOR MAIL!


~Tim-the-desperately-seeking-a-life-and-spends-too-much-time-indoors-guy
Message no. 18
From: Tim Cooper <tpcooper@***.CSUPOMONA.EDU>
Subject: Re: quiet...
Date: Mon, 23 Dec 1996 02:04:26 -0800
On Sun, 22 Dec 1996, Spike wrote:

> |
> |You guys are being too productive. You're making me feel guilty.
>
> I'm still sulking because noone responded to my "THE INVADERS" posting...

I was too scared that they might come after me..

> --
> |Andrew Halliwell | |

~Tim
Message no. 19
From: Tim Cooper <tpcooper@***.CSUPOMONA.EDU>
Subject: Re: quiet...
Date: Mon, 23 Dec 1996 02:29:34 -0800
On Sun, 22 Dec 1996, Brian W. Allison wrote:

> On Mon, 16 Dec 1996, Autumn / Shatterglass wrote:
>
> > You guys are being too productive. You're making me feel guilty.
>
>
> Aww... does Autumn feel bad?
>
> Want a cookie little... Um.... generic gender personage?
>
> Brian W. Allison

Speaking of cookies... a while a go I got forwarded a recipie for "Nieman
Marcas" cookies (cookies from a department store..). Aparently the
original sender asked for the recipie, and was unknowingly charged $250
for it when she recieved it ("can I have this recipie?", "sure, it's
two-fifty..", "hmm $2.50 isn't bad.." and hands over credit card..).

Out of spite for the deception she sent it to be scattered by the four
driving winds that are the Internet and E-mail...(OK, maybe only *2*
driving winds..)..it's supposed to be pretty good.

~Tim
Message no. 20
From: "Brian W. Allison" <ballison@*******.WAM.UMD.EDU>
Subject: Re: quiet...
Date: Mon, 23 Dec 1996 07:35:28 -0500
On Mon, 23 Dec 1996, Tim Cooper wrote:

> Out of spite for the deception she sent it to be scattered by the four
> driving winds that are the Internet and E-mail...(OK, maybe only *2*
> driving winds..)..it's supposed to be pretty good.

Had my first batch about 5 years ago. Story is true, cookes are good but
not earth-moving.




Brian W. Allison

Computer Scientist Vocalist Would-be Poet Bicycler Scuba Diver
Hacker(0xca) Nerd(79) GenX(21) #include <witticism.h>
http://www.wam.umd.edu/~ballison

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Message no. 21
From: Spike <u5a77@*****.CS.KEELE.AC.UK>
Subject: Re: quiet...
Date: Mon, 23 Dec 1996 14:03:42 +0000
|>I'm still sulking because noone responded to my "THE INVADERS" posting...
|>
|I noticed that sometimes the really cool ideas that get posted rarely get
|any replies... While idiotic jokes like Woodchucks live on for weeks...:(
|
|Oh well... I kinda liked the Invaders thing, but unfortunately am somewhat
|unfamiliar with the source material for it, so I kinda missed some of it...

You can't be saying that you never saw the invaders.... Can you???

It's a sixties classic....
--
______________________________________________________________________________
|u5a77@*****.cs.keele.ac.uk| "Are you pondering what I'm pondering Pinky?" |
|Andrew Halliwell | |
|Principal subjects in:- | "I think so brain, but this time, you control |
|Comp Sci & Electronics | the Encounter suit, and I'll do the voice..." |
------------------------------------------------------------------------------
|GCv3.1 GCS/EL>$ d---(dpu) s+/- a- C++ U N++ K- w-- M+/++ PS+++ PE- Y t+ 5++ |
|X+/++ R+ tv+ b+ D G e>PhD h/h+ !r! !y-|I can't say F**K either now! >*SULK*<|
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Message no. 22
From: Spike <u5a77@*****.CS.KEELE.AC.UK>
Subject: Re: quiet...
Date: Mon, 23 Dec 1996 14:17:55 +0000
|
|On Sun, 22 Dec 1996, Skye Comstock wrote:
|
|> >You can say that again...
|> >
|> >Oh, what the hell, I'll do it for you....
|> >
|> > Gee, it's awfully quiet around here....
|> >
|> >It's because one hell of a lot of people in Unis and collages are going home
|> >this weekend....
|Don't sit around WAITING FOR MAIL!
|
|~Tim-the-desperately-seeking-a-life-and-spends-too-much-time-indoors-guy
|

Reminds me of a kids TV programme they used to show during school holidays all
the time....

It was called "Why Don't You......"

(The full title in the song being...
"Why don't you just switch off your television set and go out and do
something less boring instead......."


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|u5a77@*****.cs.keele.ac.uk| "Are you pondering what I'm pondering Pinky?" |
|Andrew Halliwell | |
|Principal subjects in:- | "I think so brain, but this time, you control |
|Comp Sci & Electronics | the Encounter suit, and I'll do the voice..." |
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|GCv3.1 GCS/EL>$ d---(dpu) s+/- a- C++ U N++ K- w-- M+/++ PS+++ PE- Y t+ 5++ |
|X+/++ R+ tv+ b+ D G e>PhD h/h+ !r! !y-|I can't say F**K either now! >*SULK*<|
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Message no. 23
From: Spike <u5a77@*****.CS.KEELE.AC.UK>
Subject: Re: quiet...
Date: Mon, 23 Dec 1996 14:25:06 +0000
|
|On Sun, 22 Dec 1996, Brian W. Allison wrote:
|
|> On Mon, 16 Dec 1996, Autumn / Shatterglass wrote:
|>
|> > You guys are being too productive. You're making me feel guilty.
|>
|>
|> Aww... does Autumn feel bad?
|>
|> Want a cookie little... Um.... generic gender personage?
|>
|> Brian W. Allison
|
|Speaking of cookies... a while a go I got forwarded a recipie for "Nieman
|Marcas" cookies (cookies from a department store..). Aparently the
|original sender asked for the recipie, and was unknowingly charged $250
|for it when she recieved it ("can I have this recipie?", "sure, it's
|two-fifty..", "hmm $2.50 isn't bad.." and hands over credit card..).

Please!!!!
That is one of the oldest spam/scams going.....
That thing has been floating around the internet for YEARS.....

AAAAARGH!!!! First Elmo, and now Cookie Recipes....
We're being invaded by Usenet.....

AAAAAARGH!!!!

|Out of spite for the deception she sent it to be scattered by the four
|driving winds that are the Internet and E-mail...(OK, maybe only *2*
|driving winds..)..it's supposed to be pretty good.

It's also supposed to be identical to any cookie recipe in any good cookey
book.... It's just one HUGE waste of bandwidth.....

Almost as bad as "good times".....
--
______________________________________________________________________________
|u5a77@*****.cs.keele.ac.uk| "Are you pondering what I'm pondering Pinky?" |
|Andrew Halliwell | |
|Principal subjects in:- | "I think so brain, but this time, you control |
|Comp Sci & Electronics | the Encounter suit, and I'll do the voice..." |
------------------------------------------------------------------------------
|GCv3.1 GCS/EL>$ d---(dpu) s+/- a- C++ U N++ K- w-- M+/++ PS+++ PE- Y t+ 5++ |
|X+/++ R+ tv+ b+ D G e>PhD h/h+ !r! !y-|I can't say F**K either now! >*SULK*<|
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Message no. 24
From: Skye Comstock <bilbo@****.NWLINK.COM>
Subject: Re: quiet...
Date: Mon, 23 Dec 1996 09:07:26 -0800
>On Sun, 22 Dec 1996, Skye Comstock wrote a bunch of crap that's now deleted:
[snippers]
>Like maybe grounding with reality?
>Don't sit around all day staring at a blur of phosphorous dots...go out
>and do something! Organize a game of SR (or anyother game for that
>matter), go take a walk in the windy rain, write slug-mail to some really
>attractive girl (or guy) that you met in Michigan, pick up a good book,
>take up painting, try your hand at writing, go to some side-walk cafe and
>drink really bad coffee and watch the people walk by, wander some overly
>crowded mall and evesdrop on conversations and criticize the parents of
>out of control kids, go to a movie and heckle the acting (go see "Mars
>Attacks", heckle the acting and laugh hysterically at it's stupidity), get
>some friends together and play roller-hockey... failing that, browse the
>Internet, teach yourself some programming language, play MTG...or
>something..(get a copy of "Master of Orion" and laugh maniacly as you bomb
>other races colonies into the stone age and conquer the galaxy)..
>
>Don't sit around WAITING FOR MAIL!
>
>
>~Tim-the-desperately-seeking-a-life-and-spends-too-much-time-indoors-guy

I'd play SR, but my group isn't going to meet until maybe *January*, I don't
particulary like going outside, especially in the rain, my hand writing
is too ugly to read joyfully, I'm tired of reading books, I'm in the middle
of a writing project but the source material isn't done so I can't write
about that, I hate coffee and cafes, I already went to the mall and it was
too hot and there aren't any good SR books in the stores, I'd go see a
movie but I hate going by myself and I'm definitely not going with my mother,
heckling's fun, but by yourself, you get beat up, roller-hockey? that's totally
out of the question, I don't want to program, I could play MTG but then
I'd have to dig out my cards and make a deck and find someone to play with,
video games are fun, but I'm too lazy to install one.
*puff puff*
Say that in one breath!

Skye, master of run-ons!
Message no. 25
From: Carl Schelin <cschelin@**.NASA.GOV>
Subject: Re: quiet...
Date: Tue, 24 Dec 1996 09:40:08 -0500
At 02:29 AM 12/23/96 -0800, you wrote:
>On Sun, 22 Dec 1996, Brian W. Allison wrote:
>
>> On Mon, 16 Dec 1996, Autumn / Shatterglass wrote:
>>
>> > You guys are being too productive. You're making me feel guilty.
>>
>>
>> Aww... does Autumn feel bad?
>>
>> Want a cookie little... Um.... generic gender personage?
>>
>> Brian W. Allison
>
>Speaking of cookies... a while a go I got forwarded a recipie for "Nieman
>Marcas" cookies (cookies from a department store..). Aparently the
>original sender asked for the recipie, and was unknowingly charged $250
>for it when she recieved it ("can I have this recipie?", "sure, it's
>two-fifty..", "hmm $2.50 isn't bad.." and hands over credit card..).
>
>Out of spite for the deception she sent it to be scattered by the four
>driving winds that are the Internet and E-mail...(OK, maybe only *2*
>driving winds..)..it's supposed to be pretty good.
>
>~Tim
>
>

*Now-You've-Done-It*! Here comes the thread on urban legends.

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From: Des Herriott <des@****.netcom.net.uk>
Subject: [comp.os.linux.advocacy] Good Times Virus update
Date: 22 Dec 1996 07:45:05 -0700
Lines: 50

Subject: Good Times Virus update
From: Michael Dillon <michael@*****.com>
Newsgroups: comp.os.linux.advocacy

The latest breaking news on the GOODTIMES virus.

It turns out that this so-called hoax virus is very
dangerous after all. Goodtimes will re-write your hard
drive. Not only that, it will scramble any disks that are
even close to your computer. It will recalibrate your
refrigerator's coolness setting so all your ice cream goes
melty. It will demagnetize the strips on all your credit
cards, screw up the tracking on your television and use
subspace field harmonics to scratch any CDs you try to
play.

It will give your ex-girlfriend your new phone number. It
will mix Kool-aid into your fishtank. It will drink all
your beer and leave dirty socks on the coffee table when
company comes over. It will put a dead kitten in the back
pocket of your good suit pants and hide your car keys when
you are late for work.

Goodtimes will make you fall in love with a penguin. It
will give you nightmares about circus midgets. It will pour
sugar in your gas tank and shave off both your eyebrows
while dating your girlfriend behind your back and billing
the dinner and hotel room to your Discover card.

It will seduce your grandmother. It does not matter if
she is dead, such is the power of Goodtimes, it reaches out
beyond the grave to sully those things we hold most dear.

It moves your car randomly around parking lots so you
can't find it. It will kick your dog. It will leave
libidinous messages on your boss's voice mail in your voice!
It is insidious and subtle. It is dangerous and terrifying
to behold. It is also a rather interesting shade of mauve.

Goodtimes will give you Dutch Elm disease. It will leave
the toilet seat up. It will make a batch of Methamphetamine
in your bathtub and then leave bacon cooking on the stove
while it goes out to chase gradeschoolers with your new
snowblower.

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Message no. 26
From: Carl Schelin <cschelin@**.NASA.GOV>
Subject: Re: quiet...
Date: Tue, 24 Dec 1996 09:43:11 -0500
At 06:11 AM 12/16/96 PST, you wrote:
>Yeah dude... I didn't see an Invaiders post either... Hmmm..... [ponders]
>Maybe they abducted it...
>
>--Autumn
>
>

Well, either you are prescient or your posting software/pop site is off by
at least 6 days. All of your posts for this thread are sent from the 16th
but the original post (at least here) is the 22nd.

Can I get a copy?

Carl
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Message no. 27
From: C J Anderson <nitehawk@******.NET>
Subject: Quiet
Date: Mon, 6 Jan 1997 16:06:55 -0600
Is it quiet on the list today, or am I missing everything?


Nitehawk
Message no. 28
From: EDWARD POE EPOE@********.com
Subject: Quiet
Date: Thu, 11 Feb 1999 08:14:29 -0600
Is it just me, or is the list REALLY quiet over the last twenty hours or so...
Message no. 29
From: Lehlan Decker DeckerL@******.com
Subject: Quiet
Date: Thu, 11 Feb 1999 09:30:09 -0500
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Lehlan Decker, Unix Admin (704)331-1149
deckerl@******.com Fax 378-1939
Moore & Van Allen, PLLC Pager 1-888-608-9633

>>> "EDWARD POE" <EPOE@********.com> 02/11/99 09:14am
>>>
>Is it just me, or is the list REALLY quiet over the last twenty
>hours or so...

Its just you. :)
Message no. 30
From: Kama kama@*******.net
Subject: Quiet
Date: Thu, 11 Feb 1999 09:46:37 -0500 (EST)
On Thu, 11 Feb 1999, Lehlan Decker wrote:

> >>> "EDWARD POE" <EPOE@********.com> 02/11/99 09:14am
> >>>
> >Is it just me, or is the list REALLY quiet over the last twenty
> >hours or so...
>
> Its just you. :)
>
Well, it's just me too then. I'm starting to consider signing up on some
additional list serves just to generate the level of traffic necesary to
keep me from being bored to death at work. Hmmm . . . maybe I should go to
less extreme measures and route through my stuff to see if I can find
anything worth posting . . .

Kama
Message no. 31
From: Ryan W. Bolduan emeottrw@***.umn.edu
Subject: Quiet
Date: Thu, 11 Feb 1999 08:53:35 -0600 (CST)
On Thu, 11 Feb 1999, Kama wrote:

>
>
> On Thu, 11 Feb 1999, Lehlan Decker wrote:
>
> > >>> "EDWARD POE" <EPOE@********.com> 02/11/99 09:14am
> > >>>
> > >Is it just me, or is the list REALLY quiet over the last twenty
> > >hours or so...
> >
> > Its just you. :)
> >
> Well, it's just me too then. I'm starting to consider signing up on some
> additional list serves just to generate the level of traffic necesary to
> keep me from being bored to death at work. Hmmm . . . maybe I should go to
> less extreme measures and route through my stuff to see if I can find
> anything worth posting . . .
>
> Kama
>
I put in a message yesterday and only got two replies, I'd say traffic is
slow. It's just enough to remove a little of that workplace boredom.
Message no. 32
From: CASTELLI David d.castelli@**************.fr
Subject: Quiet
Date: Thu, 11 Feb 1999 16:11:31 +0100
> On Thu, 11 Feb 1999, Kama wrote:
>
> > >>> "EDWARD POE" <EPOE@********.com> 02/11/99 09:14am
> > >>>
> > >Is it just me, or is the list REALLY quiet over the last twenty
> > >hours or so...
> >
> > Its just you. :)
> >
> Well, it's just me too then. I'm starting to consider signing up on
> some
> additional list serves just to generate the level of traffic necesary
> to
> keep me from being bored to death at work. Hmmm . . . maybe I should
> go to
> less extreme measures and route through my stuff to see if I can find
> anything worth posting . . .
>
And you should be happy...

As you don't know i'm in computer programming... and... sure... i'm
pretty good at it...
but.. hmmm... as you maybe heard of, in France, we're going to have a
new currency... the Euro.
And, it's LOT OF PROGRAMMING !

Ah... being a decker... what a dream...

Or a mage... hmmm... my choice will be the mage... who said Thought
control ?


David CASTELLI
AKA Phoenix, decker & sorceress
AKA d.castelli@**************.fr


-----Message d'origine-----
De: Kama [SMTP:kama@*******.net]
Date: jeudi 11 février 1999 15:47
À: shadowrn@*********.org
Objet: Re:Quiet
Message no. 33
From: Tony Rabiola rabiola@**.netcom.com
Subject: Quiet
Date: Thu, 11 Feb 1999 11:43:35 -0600
>Well, it's just me too then. I'm starting to consider signing up on
some
>additional list serves just to generate the level of traffic necesary
to
>keep me from being bored to death at work. Hmmm . . . maybe I should
go to
>less extreme measures and route through my stuff to see if I can find
>anything worth posting . . .


I'd vote for the second option, Kama. Give us something to argue over
and generate some traffic that way...

Tony Rabiola
rabiola@**.netcom.com
Fourth and Sixth World Adept
(still working on the Fifth)
Proud owner BABY #972

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