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FILE ON MARGIN IS 80 STATUS: ENTER ONLY NUMBER OF LINES: 590 1 If you are in need of help, you need but ask.... 2 **************** REMOVED: 27 JUN 84 ************************ 3 Welcome to BWMS (BackWater Message System) Mike Day system operator 4 ************************************************************ 5 GENERAL DISCLAIMER: BWMS IS NOT RESPONSIBLE FOR ANY INFORMATION 6 PLACED ON THIS SYSTEM. 7 BWMS was created as an electronic bill board. BWMS is a privately owned 8 and operated system which is currently open for use by the general public. 9 No restrictions are placed on the use of the system. As the system is 10 privately owned, I retain the right to remove any and all messages which 11 I may find offensive. Because of the limited size of the system, it will be 12 periodically purged of messages. (only 629 lines of data can be saved) 13 To leave a message, type 'ENTER' and use ctrl/C or break to get out of the 14 ENTER mode. The message is automatically stored. If after entering the 15 message you find you made a mistake, use the replace command to replace 16 the line. To exit from the system, type 'OFF' then hang up. 17 Type 'HELP' to see other commands that are available on the system. 18 ************************************************************ 19 20 USERS WAKE UP FROM YOUR STUPOR AND RESPOND ! ! ! 21 IT IS NICE TO HAVE A SYSTEM LIKE IS WHERE ONE CAN EXPRESS 22 THOUGHTS TO BE SHARED AND IMPART A SENSE ON PARTICIPATION 23 BUT SCIENCE FICTION SEEMS TO BE THE MAIN SUBJECT TAKING 24 UP SPACE AT THE MOMENT. 25 WITH THE INTRODUCTION OF A BILL WHICH HAS PASSED CONGRESS 26 TO LIMIT PUBLIC ACCESS TO PUBLIC SYSTEMS, WITHOUT PRIOR 27 WRITTEN PERMISSION.... THIS IS WHAT IS HAPPENING WHILE YOU 28 ALL SIT BACK AND BE ENTERTAINED BY OUR FICTIONAL DREAMER. 29 TO DREAM IS NOT A CRIME, BUT TO IGNORE A MEDIUM WITHOUT 30 ANY ATTEMPT TO USE IT FOR POSITIVE EXAMPLES, IS TO CAUSE 31 ITS DEMISE. 32 THIS IS A PLACE WHERE WE CAN MAKE SOCIAL STATEMENTS, ASK 33 QUESTIONS, AND FIND SITUATIONS OTHERWISE UNACCESSABLE TO 34 MOST, AND TO SEE THIS SYSTEM GROW MOSS WHILE YOU ALL LOOK 35 ON, HESITATING TO BECOME INVOLVED FOR WHATEVER REASON. 36 37 -=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=- 38 39 40 COLUMN FLAT SCREEN DISPLAY FOR SALE OR TRADE 40 INCLUDES POWER SUPPLY AND CHARACTER GENERATION 41 LOGIC AND SERIAL PORT. PARTIAL DOCUMENTATION 42 4 LINES BY 40 COLUMNS 43 44 TRIAD SINGLE BOARD COMPUTER FOR SALE OR TRADE 45 PARTIALLY SOCKETED, (AUGAT SOCKETS) 46 NO DOCUMENTATION, BUT EACH SOCKET MARKED FOR 47 CHIP NUMBERS. 48 49 LEAVE MESSAGE FOR BOB KULBE, HERE OR ON THE BIT BUCKET 50 51 Um, I'm new here and will probibly have just a short time to 52 stay. What is all this and that about all these stories? aren't 53 bulletin boards supposed to be for just leaving messages? I'm 54 new at all this so please xcuse major spelling errors and the like. 55 Oh, y nname is Mark St.Clair, just to be pollite. Mark St.Clair. 56 57 LBTND EOJBA RAABI KOVHE CEBRD YEMRJ ELXEQ QEIOW POJFC ZPINL RSHDG SFFSJ AYCMK 58 OSDAU CQILA TNBBC NZEMC TKDUL QXFAR 59 ? ? ? ? ? ? ? ? ? ? ? ? ? ? ? ? ? ? > ? ? ? ? ? ? ? ? ? ? ? ? ? ? ? ? ? ? ?/ ? ? 60 Voyeur:Aaron,acording to my telemitry,left his last BBS message on the 10th of 61 this month. As usual,I am currently trying to find him. 62 L'homme sans parity:I thouoht you would like that,yes the sister is trouble. 63 Riskers:Finaly got ahold of Alex and we are currently deciding about another day 64 probably friday or saturday night after Westercon,any problems? 65 Alex lives in beaverton near the westgate theater. 66 If you drive,L'homme,could I get a ride from your place? 67 The Man in Gray 68 ? ? ? ? ? ? ? _ ? ? > ? ? ? ? ? ? ? ? ? ? ? ? ?`? ? ? ? ? ? ? ? ? ? > ? ? ? ? ?/ 69 **************************************************************************** 70 Music Synthesizer for sale!!! 71 72 Roland System 100 Synthesizer, 3 units: Sequencer, Expander & Keyboard. 73 Good condition, bought for $2,200 will sell for $1,100 or best offer. 74 MUST SELL BY 6-29. 75 Call Ossie Davis at 641-xxxx or Mike Watson at 641-xxxx 76 *************************************************************************** 77 ============================================================================ 78 Who entered the message at the top? Could you please sign? 79 Whatching and waiting... 80 =======================================-Evan-================================ 81 ---------------------------------(<>)---------------------------------- 82 Looks like things are improving! ( With a few exceptions of course ) 83 And for the next few weeks I will have the time to log on regularly! 84 L'homme: Risk? Q'est que c'est? 85 86 -------------------------(<>)The Traveller(<>)-------------------------- 87 ************************************* 88 <<<<<<<<<FOR SALE>>>>>>>> 89 ATARI 600XL WITH A 64K MICROBITS 90 MEMORY BOARD,EXCELLENT CONDITION 91 =======ASKING $189.00 ========== 92 PLEASE LEAVE A MSG FOR MIKE MAXSON 93 HERE OR ON ANY OTHER LOCAL BBS. 94 THANK YOU 95 MIKE MAXSON 96 ************************************* 97 98 jjjjjjjjjjjjjjjjjjjjjjjjjjjjjjjjjjjjjjjjjjjjjjjjjjjjjjjjjjjjjjjjjjjjjjjjjjjj 99 Parityless one: Sorry for not responding immediately. I will have the money 100 at the next PorSFiS meeting. How many floppies do I need and what happened 101 to the idea of just printing it out? 102 MiG: Apologies. I must have slipped in my typos. I think we're getting to 103 be a pretty good team. 104 jjjjjjjjjjjjjjjj 105 The Bola gate closed behind the Ninja. He was in some sort of fog 106 world with no sign of Freddy. The Extra-dimensional box where the Phoenix 107 Egg was kept bulged in his pocket. 108 "Nice slight of hand, Lou, the'll never guess I've got it." With 109 that, he wiped the boogers off of his stick shift and headed off into the 110 fog. 111 The Ninja 112 P.S. Spellalert: I believe that the droid entry was left by the Archer. 113 Your entry was funny, but I hope that the Archer is not discouraged. His 114 entries used to be harder to decipher then the codes. The last one was 115 easy to read and had good ideas. 116 jjjjjjjjjjjjjjjjjjjjjjjjjjjjjjjjjjjjjjjjjjjjjjjjjjjjjjjjjjjjjjjjjjjjjjjjjj 117 Ninja - That may be, but I would like to point out that said person is 118 violating two very important rules that have been set here on BW; 119 1. Don't use a character that is not yours without permission. The owner 120 of said character may have his own ideas as to what their character is 121 or is not going to do. besides, it ain't very polite! And the Innkeeper 122 is definately not his character! The Innkeeper may spell bad, but not 123 that bad! 124 2. No high tech stuff allowed in or near the Inn. The setting is supposed 125 to be medevil, not 29th century. and as has been found in the past it 126 tends to make a mess of things anyway. And an andriod is certainly high 127 tech in my book. 128 !!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!! 129 ||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||| 130 TO ALL MEMBERS OF THE NETWORKS: 131 I STILL HAVE GOTTEN NO REPLIE AS TO THE WEREABOUTS AND 132 TIME OF THE MEETINGS. I AM RATHER NEW TO BACKWATER BUT HAVE NO 133 INTENTION OF BEING LABELED AS A 'JUVIE' 'TWIT' 'DWID' OR ANY OTHER 134 SARCASTIC LITTLE NAME YOU GUYS CAN CONJURE UP. I AM SERIOUSLY 135 THINKING OF APPLYING FOR MEMBERSHIP IN THE NETWOKS. I AM GOING 136 TO BE SETTING UP A BOARD SOON SO THE NINJA(WHO HAS MY HOME PHONE) 137 CAN CALL ME AND LET ME KNOW. YOU FOLKS SEEM TO BE HAVING FUN WITH 138 THE INFO I GAVE THE NINJA. IF I WOULD HAVE KNOWN THAT YOU GUYS WERE 139 GOING ON A MASS 'JUVIE ' HUNT, I NEVER WOULD HAVE LEAKED SERTAIN I 140 -NFORMATION OUT. I AM NO SQUEAL. MY APPOLOGIES TO ALL. 141 BY THE WAY, MY FRIENDS DON'T EVEN CARE THAT YOU KNOW THEIR NAMES SO 142 PLEASE LAY OFF FOR A WHILE. 143 144 145 HAVE A NICE DAY, 146 147 148 149 KING SILICON 150 (A.K.A. ASK THE NINJA) 151 ||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||| 152 +-+-+-+-+-+-+-+-+-+-+-+-+-+-+-+-+-+-+-+-+-+-+-+-+-+-+-+-+-+-+-+-+ 153 His name was Reeth. He was very proud of his name, for it 154 was the only thing he had to call his own. Reeth had long since 155 lost track of how long he had been here locked in captivity. He 156 savagely jerked at the chain that bound his leg to the iron post. 157 He knew even before he tryed that it would be pointless, but it 158 was the only way he knew to vent his anger. Once he had nearly 159 broken free, but they had caught him before he could get away, 160 and then doubled the strength of his chain. It was no longer 161 possible for him to break the chain. 162 It was his own fault for getting caught, he had grown 163 careless in thinking that his power was unbreachable. He had not 164 counted upon them sneeking into his lair and laying traps for his 165 return. No one should have dared to enter his lair, so he was 166 unprepared for it when the web spell caught him in its threads. 167 Now he was forced to live in this garbage pit like a sewer 168 rat. No longer could he roam free, playing tag with the clouds 169 and revel in the clean fresh smell of a summer rain. It seemed 170 like centuries since he had lain on a mountain ridge soaking up 171 the warm rays of the sun. A keening wail left his throat as the 172 misery of his lost past overcame him. 173 "Shut up you fool Kite!" This screem was followed by a 174 shower of garbage. The wail changed to a roar of anger to be 175 treated thus. Reeth flew to the end of his chain hoping to catch 176 one of his tormentors by surprise. But they were quite aware of 177 the length of the chain, and stayed well outside his reach. They 178 continued to torment Reeth by throwing bits of garbage and other 179 trash at him. Reeth gave one final outburst of rage and turned 180 to crawl back into the pit to gain even a minimal amount of 181 shelter from the hail of garbage. 182 "Here! suck on this you stupid Kite!" This outcry was 183 quickly followed by a large metal can that bounced off of Reeths 184 head knocking him off balance and causing him to fall back into 185 the garbage pit. 186 "Whad ja go an' do that fer? Now we'll nev'r get the can 187 back! You sum kinda jerk or sumthing? Sheesh! Boy are you gonna 188 get it when we get home. Throw'n away a perf'ly good trash can!" 189 The bickering receeded as Reeth's tormentors left him. 190 Reeth lay dazed at the bottom of the pit, a rivelet of blue 191 liquid slowly trickled from above his left eyeridge. With a 192 groan he tryed to regain his feet. After a couple of tries, he 193 finally managed to gain a sitting position. 194 Reeth began to search thru the new garbage that had been 195 thrown down for something to staunch the flow of his blood. No 196 point in bleeding to death from a simple cut. Spying a paper 197 that had been used to wrap some wet black grains of some sort, he 198 cleaned it up as much as he could to use it as a compress. 199 Scrapping the wet mass off, he saw a picture underneath that 200 looked familiar. Cleaning it further, he saw what it was, 201 another Kite like himself, but this one caged in an enclosure so 202 small that the Kite was not able to properly stretch out its 203 wings. 204 The Kite in the picture seemed very familiar to Reeth. Then 205 he saw the nicked ear, and he knew. It was Pacoo! NO! They got 206 Pacoo! His old playmate, somehow they had caught her too. 207 This was more then Reeth could stand, and with a mighty roar 208 of rage he ripped the chain from its anchoring post. Then before 209 they could capture him again, he quickly took to the air gaining 210 50 feet with each sweep of his mighty wings. In a few moments he 211 was no more then a black dot in the sky. 212 +-+-+-+-+-+-+-+-+-+-+-+-+-+-+-+-+-+-+-+-+-+-+-+-+-+-+-+-+-+-+-+-+ 213 214 *=*=*=*=*=*=*=*=*=*=*=*=*=*=*=*=*=*DREAMTOUCHER*=*=*=*=*=*=*=*=*=*=*=*=*=* 215 IN RESPONSE TO THE STUFF AT THE TOP, WHOEVER WROTE IT, SPECULATIVE 216 FICTION IS ALSO A MEDIA OF EXPRESSION. IT IS ONE IN WHICH SOME SCENTIMENTS CAN 217 BE EXPRESSED BETTER AND MORE REDDILY THAN IN MANY OTHERS. IT IS NOT MERE 218 IDLE DREAMING. DREAMING ITSELF ISN'T ALL THAT IDLE EATHER, INFACT 219 THE ABBILITY TO FORMULATE ORIGEONAL CONCEPTUALIZATIONS IS THE ONLY 220 MATERIAL, TANGABLE DISTINCTION BETTEWEEN SCIENTIENT BEINGS AND AND OTHER 221 ANIMALS! 222 AS TO YOUR POLITICAL CONCERN; THAT IS LEGIT AND I AGREE THAT WE DO NEED 223 TO BE AWAIRE AND CONCERNED ABOUT SUCH THINGS. IT IS ALSO THE FIRST I HEAR 224 OF THIS. BEFORE I START JUMPING THROUGH YOUR HOOP HOWEVER, I'D WANT TO BE 225 SURE YOU WEREN'T REPRESENTING MATTERS IN A DISTORTED MANOR. 226 ON A SLIGHTLY DIFFERENT NOTE, COMMERCIAL ADS OUGHT TO BE PAID FOR. A FEW 227 SHORT LINES ON PERSONAL ITEMS OF INTEREST TO THOSE HERE, PROVIDED THEY 228 ARE NOT EXTRAVIGANT OF SPACE, MIGHT NOT BE TOO INNAPROPRIATE BUT MIGHT 229 BE BETTER POSTED TO 'ALL' ON ONE OF THE E-MAIL 'LETTER' BOARDS LIKE CBBS. 230 AS TO COMMERCIAL ADS; I THINK YOU SHOULD PAY MIKEY FOR THE SPACE, 231 ALL THATS HOLY KNOWS THIS SYSTEM CAN PROBABLY USE ALL THE HELP IT CAN GET. 232 I APPOLOGISE IF THAT WAS PRESUMPTIVE OF ME TO SAY BUT, IT WOULD BE 233 NICE, THAT IF SOMEBODY WANTED TO USE THIS BOARD FOR COMMERCIAL ADDS, THEY 234 DO SOMETHING LIKE DONATE A COUPLE OF 8" DRIVES OR SOME SUCH. 235 TANSTAFFL APPLIES TO VENDORS AS WELL AS CONSUMERS! 236 NINJA, KING SILICON ET AL: THE 'JUVIE HUNT' CONCEPT AS I UNDERSTAND 237 IT IS NOT INTENDED TO PERSICUTE THOSE OF TENDER YEARS OR TO DISCOURAGE 238 NEWCOMERS BUT RATHER IS/WAS INTENDED TO REDUCES ABUSES, DISTRUCTIVE 239 ABUSES, WHICH HAVE BEEN MALICIOSLY PERPETRATED AGAINST THIS AND 240 OTHER SYSTEMS. IF ANYONE IS BEING HURT OR DRIVEN OFF WHO SHOULD NOT 241 BE, I AM/ WOULD BE, DEEPLY EMBARESSED TO BE IN ANY WAY ASSOCIATED 242 WITH SUCH ACTIVITY. WHILE THIS MIGHT NOT APPLY TO ALL(!) 'JUVIE HUNTERS' 243 ; IT CERTAINLY DOES APPLY TO THOSE I SEE FIT TO NUMBER AMONG MY FRIENDS. 244 *=*=*=*=*=*=*=*=*=*=*=*=*=*=*=*=*=*=*=*=*=*=*=*=*=*=*=*=*=*=*=*=*=*=*=*=* 245 %%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%% 246 A CHALLENGE TO ALL JUVIE HUNTERS. DETERMINE WHO I AM. THE VOICE YOU HEAR IS 247 A REGULAR USER OF BWMS, SO YOUR CHOICES ARE LIMITED. GUESS AWAY, I SHALL 248 BE LURKING IN THE BACKGROUND. AHH...BUT OF COURSE YOU NEED A CLUE. WHAT 249 SHALL IT BE? SOMETHING THAT WILL HELP, BUT NOT GIVE MY IDENTITY AWAY... 250 THE CLUES ARE: 'FROTZ OZMOO'. 'PMS'. 'CBBS/PCS'. MIDDLE INITIAL: 'W'. 251 %%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%% UNKNOWN ONE %%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%% 252 WELL LETS SEE IF Thing will OWORK tonight 253 it was dark in the inn, all was qsilent and calm. dawn waqas near at 254 hand. the innkeeper was asleep in the 255 back room. then a faint buzzing sound 256 started. and slowly got louder. the 257 ##==##==##==##==##==##==##==##==##==##==##LYSIAS##==##==##==##== DREAMTOUCHER: 258 THANK YOU FOR YOUR RETORT TO THE ANONYMOUS WRITER OF THE TOP MESAGE. I FEEL THE 259 SAME WAY. HERE IS ONE BBS THAT IS DIFFERENT. UNBORING. INTERESTING, AND REQUIRIN 260 A MODICUM OF CREATIVITY. THERE ARE SOME THIRTY OTHER BBS'S FOR PEOPLE WHO WANT 261 A LABYRINTH OF RULES AND REGULATIONS; BWMS IS A LITTLE DIFFERENT, AND I LIKE IT 262 IS. NON COMMERCIAL, EG. 263 LYSIAS HAD BEEN SITTING AT HIS TABLE AT THE INN FOR A VERY LONG TIME, AND STILL 264 HAD NOT SEEN ANYONE HE RECOGNIZED. AND, HE MUSED, I DON'T EVEN KNOW WHAT THE 265 NINJA LOOKS LIKE. HOW WILL I KNOW HIM? IF ONLY I COULD MEET HIM FACE TO FACE, 266 PERHAPS WE COULD NEGOTIATE ON THIS. LYSIAS WONDERED IF THE PLNKA EVEN KNEW HE 267 WAS LOOKING FOR HIM. "NINJA, HE THOUGHT, IF YOU CAN READ THIS THOUGHT, PLEASE 268 CONTACT ME, FOR I KNOW THE TRUE POWER OF THE "PHOENIX EGG", AND WITH YOUR HELP, 269 THIS CRYSTALIZED PANACEA CAN DO FOR ALL THE UNIVERSE ALL THAT IS GOOD." BUT, 270 THEN, LYSIAS MUSED, PERHAPS THE NINJA IS NOT INTERESTED IN "GOOD", AND WITH THAT 271 HE CALLED OUT TO THE INNKEEPER FOR ANOTHER ALE, AND WAITED---. 272 ##==##==##==##==##==##==##==##== 273 274 SO,WELL SOMEONE FINALLY TOOK A MODICUM OF NOTE AT MY QUOTE AND UNQUOTE FEW AND FARBETWEENEDNES S,EH.WELL,GEE,WHAT-A-THRILL. 275 I REGRET THE ONLY REASON I AM APPARENTLY REMEMBERED IS FOR MY SPELLING. 276 279 I REALLY LIKE BLACKWATERS,AND I ALSO QUITE MUCH REGRET BEING FOR ALL EFFECTS:ADVANCED TWIT. DUBIOUS HONOR,EH 282 ER,WELL,I GUESS,'NIGHT ALL. 283 PROMETHEUS HAWTHORNE 8406.23 285 286 0707070707070707070707070707070707070707070707070707070707070707070707070707070707070707070707070707070707070707070707 287 I am beginning to wonder if the "juvie" stuff has gone a little too far. I think too many people are misunderstanding 288 the original concept that was the foundation of the network. Our quest for a cleaner, more pure BW and a reduction of 289 messages with the content "TO ALL FEMALES, I wanna %$#%" was the reasoning behind the network, in the beginning. I am 290 sure you will all remember there was a rise in such messages both here and on CBBS/NW just a few weeks ago. There was 291 also a big increase in the use of other people's names for dasterdly purposes, and here on backwater, the uncerimonious 292 deletion of several lines of messages left be regular users. It was this rise in "juvie" activities that caused rise in 293 calls for a "juvie" hunt. The network likes nothing more than the new works and messages of young and old alike. And we 294 have found that many of the best messages are left by the younger since their emotions are more pure and their outlook on 295 life is less clouded by the pessemistic outlook some adults have. We encourage all new users to make use of this fine 296 medium Mike Day has provided us with Back Water. It is not a system where a chosen few should be the only ones allowed 297 to partake, for that will certainly cause stagnation. The problem is when the small number of rules that have been 298 applied to BW are abused, it threatens the whole existance of BW. I don't know how many remember this but a couple years 299 ago Mikey took the system down for a while due to a large increase in very abusive messages. When he brought the system 300 back up, things had settled down. I and others think that things here have settled down somewhat already. It may be just 301 a phase people go through every once in a while. The term "juvie" comes from the term juvenile delinquent, since very few 302 of the people who seem to feel the need to despoil the BBS's with their trash are over 18 years of age. We have never 303 attempted to associate younger members of BW with juvies. Only those select few who enjoy doing the things mentioned above 304 are bestowed with that dubious honor. We have no interest in finding out who people are unless they come to a PC&S get- 305 together and tell us, unless it is to be done as an excercise in deduction, for fun. This diatribe has been long enough, 306 and I think I have stated our position on the subject. All we can ask is that the true "juvies" out there please respect 307 the rights of others. And if it is attention you want, I can assure you that a well written entry on Backwater receives 308 much more good attention than a poorly written foul languaged insulting message that doesn't add to the content of the 309 board one bit, but instead detracts from it. We are mearly trying to keep our own house clean. 310 0707070707070707070707070707 25th of June, 1984 - 9:00 AM 07070707070707070707070707070707070707070707070707070707070707 311 312 *)$#@*%)*)#@$*^)#%*^)*^)*^!)#^*%)$*^%$_&*)@*&)$@%*)*@&)$%^*&)$^*)*%)&*%^)&*%)& 313 Ninja : OK...but remember there is no meeting next Saturday due to westercon 37. 314 You will need anywhere from 25-30 5.25" disks, depending on how we divide the 315 files up. Wouldn't you rather have disks than printouts anyway? We now have 316 5 in the group - Yourself, L'homme, Aaron, Leonard, and voyeur. the cost will 317 be slightly less than $30. The exact figure will have to be determined after 318 contacting Aaron (he gets the 8" disks, but he also pays more) We have been 319 talking about this for so long, it would be nice to start moving toward our 320 goal again... 321 MIG : Are you sure...I just can't help wondering... hmmm.... And yes...I can 322 drive to Beavertown, and I can pick you up at some strategic location... 323 I trust we are going to get more concrete times and locations??? 324 voyeur...All problems with extra programs have been sorted out. We are now in 325 the testing phase on the Commode... In the last 4 days I have worked over 40 326 hours on that thing...and I think it is beginning to show...shudder... 327 MIKEY: How goes the CP/M emulator? I have 3 definite customers for you already. 328 All have IBM PC's... 329 *$)#*$)@#*%@#)*% L'homme sans parity de rien &*$)#*@%)*@%)$*%)$*%%% 330 L'homme had just left the inn when Bard spotted him. 331 "Are you ready to leave yet?" he inquired. 332 "I can set you back on the highway just a bit after you left for the inn..." 333 They quickly fell into a discussion of ways and means... 334 ~~~~~~~~~~~~~ 335 Mikey: thanks for the song! Now all I gotta do is <shudder> memorize the tune! 336 All: In about a week, several of us will be going onto a new shift schedule 337 at work. This will necessitate 3 to 4 day absences from BW. Therefore we plan to 338 cease adventuring. We will still frequent the Inn and leave songs, comments, etc 339 but extended interaction will no longer be possible. 340 Regretfully yours, 341 Bard. 342 ~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~BARD~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~ 343 01010101010101010101010101010101010101010101010101010101010101010101010101010101 344 Hawthorne: you are NOT a network target. We note that you seem to have made some 345 improvements to your terminal software (fewer random<?> spaces!) and for this we 346 are grateful. Having known another person who had attended MLC, I am beginning 347 to wonder about a few things though. 348 Do they DELIBERATELY select you people for strangeness? I am not trying 349 to insult you. Strange can be quite refreshing. But there certainly seems to be 350 a lot of it at MLC! 351 ALL: We try to restrict code to items that require it. Disciplinary measures 352 were taken after the excess of cipher text a week or so back. Please note that 353 most of our operatives are using less than 4 lines (including borders). Those 354 who do not (principally Net 09) have good reason. 355 01010101010101010101010101010101010101010101010101010101010101010101010101010101 356 :**************************************************************: 357 THE GRAND DRAGON MASTERS' CHALLENGE 358 359 Though adventure has its place, and anti-juvieism can be 360 amusing, I find I long for the days when imagination had a 361 stronger following at the Inn. 362 363 In an effort to inspire greater imagination at Backwater I 364 make the following offer. I will give a reward of eight 365 hundred Krauntars and a membership in Dragon Hunters 366 International to the person or persons who make the most 367 original creative contribution to the Inn. 368 369 Naturally, the McKane organization, because of its questionable 370 moral character, is not eligible to participate in this offer. 371 372 373 GRAND DRAGON MASTER 374 DRAGON HUNTERS INTERNATIONAL 375 376 :*************************************************************: 377 378 Life getting you down? Is your love life so monotonous your 379 girlfriend counts the fly specks on your forehead during 380 intercourse? Are you always short of funds because mischievous 381 juvies steal the toothfairy money from under your pillow? Are 382 you distraught because your Backwater friends keep criticizing 383 your spelling? 384 385 Then you need a miricle...and we can help. 386 387 The McKane organization, in its ever broadening effort to help 388 humanity, is now offering RENT A MIRICLE...the revolutionary 389 new service to help you with your day to day problems. 390 391 Here's how it works. The McKane organization has purchased a 392 world wide chain of fifteen monasteries, each with a minimum 393 of one hundred monks specializing in prayers for your sexual, 394 financial, or pubescent needs. Whatever your problem we can 395 guarantee divine intervention for a reasonable price. 396 397 For large prayers, such as for world peace, we offer to rent 398 you all the monks from all fifteen monasteries for a special 399 bulk rate discount. This rate includes simultaneous prayer, 400 adjusted by time zone, along with the full one thousand watt 401 prayer amplification power of our Californian "message to 402 heaven" prayer tower. 403 404 If you are interested in learning more about our fees and 405 services contact Monsieur d'Autun. Be sure to ask him about 406 our August special on healing prayers for warm fuzzy animals. 407 408 VISA and Mastercharge welcome. 409 410 411 LeRoy McKane 412 Gods' Gift To The World 413 414 :*************************************************************: 415 jjjjjjjjjjjjjjjjjjjjjjjjjjjjjjjjjjjjjjjjjjjjjjjjjjjjjjjjjjjjjjjjjjjjjjjjjjjjjjj 416 GDM: A very good idea. Hopefully that will inspire many a great contribution. 417 I doubt if I'll win, but I'll make an attempt at a decent entry. 418 jjjjjjjjjjjj 419 Genesis Pt II 420 Now the great hardware engineer looked out apon the users who had 421 fallen from the system. He was disgusted at the characteristics they had 422 taken on. They defiled the laws of the system and some of them had even been 423 known to program in Modula 5. 424 The Lord was greatly displeased with all these users and decided to 425 destroy them all. But the engineer spotted one programmer who had not 426 forsaken the rules of the system. A user named Noah who was working on a new 427 operating system written in 'C.' 428 Now the enginer sent E-mail to Noah and told him he was going to send 429 out a great power surge throughout the network. He told Noah to build himself 430 a great bank of resisters in order that he and his hardware would not be 431 destroyed. 432 Noah wasted an entire 30 hour debugging session hooking up his great 433 bank of resisters. At the end of that time, the engineer again sent E-mail 434 to Noah. This time he told Noah to download all the code in the system in 435 blocks of two and store them locally. 436 Now the power surged for 40 nanoseconds. Afterwhich, Noah was the 437 only user left in the network. Noah sent out a 300 baud carrier, but it 438 returned only with a block sync error. 439 Noah waited another 40 nanoseconds, then he sent out a 1200 baud 440 carrier. This time he connected. Noah uploaded all his code back into the 441 network. He blessed his code, "Be fuitful and multiply . . . and devide 442 and add and subtract." 443 The Ninja 444 jjjjjjjjjjjjjjjjjjjjjjjjjjjjjjjjjjjjjjjjjjjjjjjjjjjjjjjjjjjjjjjjjjjjjjjjjjjj 445 446 ANOTHER DAY WITH NO ETERNAL, OR EVEN CONSTERNAL MYSTERIES YOU SAY,WELL HAVE 447 WE GOTTA DEAL FER YOU. CALL THE LEGITIMATE PHONE NUMBER OF 231- 9999 TO RECEIVE 448 YOUR FREE INFORMATION FROM THE FREINDLY,AND CARING,MCKANE INDUSTRIES.SERVING 449 PEOPLE FOR OVER 2500 YEARS. 450 MY NAME IF KEVIN AND I'M HERE TO HELP YOU,AS ARE MY FINE STAFF OF TRULY WELL 451 'DISCIPLINED' CO-SLAVERS. 452 453 <<<<< MCKANE INDUSTRIES,REMOTE PROCESSING DIVISION >>>>> 454 ? ? ? > ? ? ? ? ? ? ? ? ? ? ? ? ? ? ?`? ? > ? ? ? > ? ? ? ? > ? ? ? ? ? ? ? ? ?/ 455 King Silicon:As the origionator of both the terms "juvie" and "twit" on this 456 board,I feel empowered to say that the information you provided was used in 457 a fashon which has made for a MUCH cleaner and less obscene BW. If this is not 458 satisfactory to you I would appreciate you calling the Ninja and letting him 459 know this,I will then spend time/LD phone costs to call you and hopefully change 460 your mind. NET07 above said what I am triing to say with much more clarity then 461 I could at this time,his sentimates are mine. 462 Riskers/L'homme:I have VERY deffinate directions and am finding times out now. 463 Unsigned one:your initals are KB. must I dump your phone# too? 464 The Man in Gray 465 ? ?C? ? ? ? ? ? ? ? ? ? ? ?FDF? ? ?X ? ? ?N?H? ? ? ? ? ? ? ? ? ? ? ? ?/? ? ?/ 466 L'homme:Veronique wanted me to dump this for you--> 467 Mon cher ami francais, 468 bonjour 469 Je m'appelle veronique. Comment t'appelles-tu? Depuis combien de temps parles-tu 470 le francais? Oui, vraiment j'ai une soeur, mais elle est une "bitch". (Je ne 471 sais pas comment on dit "bitch" en francais. Je crois que c'est un mot 472 uneversal.) comme Jay a dit,"I wouldn't wish her on anyone" 473 En quelque cas, elle n'est pas a disposition. parles-tu quelques autres 474 langues? Je parle francais et allemand. Je suis nee en Sceaux,france. Ou est-tu 475 ne ? 476 ? ? ? ? ? ? ? ? > ? ? ~ ? > ? ? ? ? ? ? ? ? ? ? ? ? ? ? ? ? ? ? ? ? ? ? ? > ?\ 477 ****************************************************************************** 478 RISKERS: I still want an observors position at the game. Westside is perfect 479 for me, my home location as it were. 480 Ninja: sorry about the story delay, but it's been dreadfully hard to get 481 onto this system recently. 482 **************************************************************************** 483 When we last left Rabindranith, Salsman, and myself, I had just 484 arrived. Well, I was still here, and decided to take a guess as the reason 485 that my presence was requested. "Let me guess, Hmmm, the last time you 486 called me was for that scam involving that local cult, the matavar. We 487 going to be impersonating them again?" He shook his head. "Good," I replied, 488 "I didn't look good in the monks robes anyway." 489 "Nothing like that, this time, we're going after the matavar group itself." 490 491 "WHAT! Are you out of your short mind?" I decided not to kick him with 492 his friend around. the big one was still watching me closely. 493 "We've got no choice. This time, if we don't get to the bottom of 494 the matter, we're all in big trouble. Seems some religious artifact of 495 theirs is supposed to be returned, giving them supreme power." 496 "I'm hungry" salsman offered. Glancing at Rab, I guessed he was in that 497 kind of state most of the time. "We better take care of him, we've got 498 alot of planning to do......" 499 Fred and Crew 500 @@@@@@@@@@@@@@@@@@@@@@@@@@@@@@@@@@@@@@@@@@@@@@@@@@@@@@@@@@@@@@@@@@@ 501 PS Ninja: Do you still want in on the story? 502 @@@@@@@@@@@@@@@@@@@@@@@@@@@@@@@@@@@@@@@@@@@@@@@@@@@@@@@@@@@@@@@@@@@ 503 -------------------------------------------------------------------------------- 504 WELL THE TWIT'S' ARE AT IT AGAIN!!!! 505 OVER THE WEEKEND CBBS] 506 BIT BUCKET AND COMMODORE PDX ALL WERE CRASHED. Bit Bucket was back up this 507 morning but seems to be gone again. 508 Sure would like to fry the modems attached to those vandals responsible!!! 509 510 -----------------------------------------------------------DAMIEN II------------ 511 512 SATIN PUSHED ASIDE THE STAINED LEATHER STRAPS THAT LED TO THE BACK OF THE RANCID WINE TAVERN. THE DINGY BLANKETS HALF COVER- 513 ING THE WHINING FORMER. SATIN LET THE STRAPS FALL,COVERING ANY PEERINGS INTO THE BACKROOM. SHE KNEW THE GREAT PAINS THAT 514 REFORMING AND THEN BEING KICKED IN THE TEETH AND SENT FLYING INTO THE TIMESTREAMS. 515 SHE FELT SORRY THAT HER FREIND SINCE CHILDHOOD WAS IN SO MUCH PAIN. SHE HAD FOND AND, LOVING MEMORIES OF THEIR DAYS ON FAT- 516 HERS ESTATE. SHE KISSED HIM, AND AS HIS NEW EYELIDS OPENED SHE CLOSED THEM BY RIGHT OF A KISS. 517 "YOU'RE SO SCARED OF ME." SHE SAID. 518 THE ELFISH FIGUIRE RAISED HIS HAND, PLEADING FOR SATIN TO HOLD HIM AND, LOVE HIM. SHE HELD IT AND SAT ON THE WOODEN FLOOR, 519 AND WEPT FOR HIM AS HE WHINED. 520 521 S A T I N 522 ? ? ? ? ? ? ? ? ? ? ? ? ? ? ? ? ? ? ? ? ? ? ?N?XD(? ?Y? ? ? ? ? ?FCF?C ?F? ??/ 523 Damien II:It is practicaly impossible for a twit to crash BitBucket or CBBS. 524 The Commode BBS a small child could hit from what I hear about it. Thease are 525 not Juvies, perhaps something more,ominous. 526 Say,lust crazed penguins at our local zoo. 527 All:I have had no trouble getting on BW in the evenings,and I have no auto-dial. 528 Must be luck. 529 Jay Becker 530 ? ? ? ? ? ? ? ? ? ? ? ? ~ ? ~ ? ? ? ? ? O D ? ? ?T ?T? R ? ?W? ?"> #? $?%? ?&? 531 532 *=*=*=*=*=*=*=*=*=*=*=*=*=*=*=*=*=*DREAMTOUCHER*=*=*=*=*=*=*=*=*=*=*=*=*=* 533 LETTING THE EVENING WARMTH DRY HIM, DREAMTOUCHER LAY BY THE POOL/BATH. 534 HE HAD ONLY PARTIALY DRESSED WHEN HE FELL ASLEEP, FRUSTRATED BY THE 535 PERELS OF THE PATH OF DETACHMENT. THIS TIME HIS DREAMS WERE 536 AS SWEET AS THEY WERE SAD. THE BILE OF HIS ANGER HAD BEEN VENTED AND 537 LEFT HIM FEELING DRAIND. HE STIRRED IN HALF-WAKEFULNESS. COULD HE 538 BE IMMAGINING THE FEEL OF A FEMININE HAND ON HIS? HIS LAST DREAM THOUGHT 539 BEFORE REACHING THIS STATE OF SEMIWAKEFULESS HAD BEEN OF ELUANU; THE 540 MOST RECENT OF THOSE FEW WHO HAD GOTTEN CLOSE ENOUGH TO HIM TO BECOME 541 A LOVE-MATE. LIKE THE OTHERS THOUGH, SHE SEEMED TO BECOME BORDE WITH 542 THE MYSTIC LIFE AND IN TIME HAD DRIFTED AWAY. 543 *=*=*=*=*=*=*=*=*=*=*=*=*=*=*=*=*=*=*=*=*=*=*=*=*=*=*=*=*=*=*=*=*=*=*=*=* 544 THEMNAX WAS FEELING A DIFFERENT KIND OF LONLINESS AND FRUSTRATION. 545 ELXTIA HAD BEEN WITH HIM THROUGH MORE 'REGENERATIONS' THAN HE COULD COUNT. 546 HIS BERIEVEMENT OF THE MOMENT WAS HIS SEPERATION FROM THE COZY FAMILIARITY 547 OF HI-TEK SURROUNDINGS. EVEN THE QUAISI-REPULSIVE SETTING OF SLARTIBARTFARST'S 548 BISTROMATH WAS BEGINING TO APPEAL TO HIM. LITTLE DID HE REALIZE, WHEN 549 HE SIGNED THE 'KEEP THE VIOLANCE OUT OF THE INN' PACKT THAT IT WOULD ALSO 550 EXCLUDE HIS 'HI-TEK 'SECURITY BLANKET''! HIS FOUR WEELED, FOUR-ARMED, 551 DOUBLE-ENDED, MULTISENSORED MASTERBOT WAITED IN ABONDOND DEJECTION 552 ON THE OTHER SIDE OF THE ROAN TREE, AWAY FROM THE INN. HIS GRAV-SLED 553 HAD BEEN LEFT BEHIND IN THE BISTROMATH, HE WAS HOPING THE BUSLOAD 554 OF YOUNG VANDLES HADN'T DESCOUVERED IT. IT WAS ONLY WHEN SLARTI 555 HAD BEGUN TO BECOME ALARMED AT HIS FIDGITING THAT HE NOTICED A SEMI-FAMILIAR 556 FACE SETTING ALONE AT A BACK TABLE. SLARTI TURNED TO HIM AND ASKED 557 "I WONDER IF THAT ONE WOULD LIKE TO ACCOMPANY US", JESTURING VAGUILY IN 558 THE INDICATED DIRECTION. 559 THEMNAX, EXCUSING HIMSELF FROM THE OTHERS, GOT UP AND HEADED OVER 560 TWARD THE TABLE WERE LYSIAS SAT. 561 *=*=*=*=*=*=*=*==*=*=*=*=*=*=*=*=*=*=*=*=*=*=*=*=*=*=*=*=*=*=*=*=*=*=*=*=* 562 ? ? ? ? ? ? ? ? ? ? ? ? ? ? ? ? ? ? ? ? ? ? ? ? ? ? ? ? ? ? ? ? ? ? ? ? ? ? ?/ 563 Cistop Mikey:thanks for the XT command,I needed it for testing my new modem mods 564 565 566 567 568 569 and it came very much in handy,too bad that this only supports 300 baud... 570 thanks again for a featurn that no one else has, 571 The Man in Gray 572 ? ? ? ? ? ? ? ? ? ? ? ? ? ? ? ? ? ? ? ? ? ? ? ? ? ? ? ? ? ? ? ? ? ? ? ? ? ? ? ?/ 573 %%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%% 574 MAN IN GREY: MY INITIALS ARE NOT KB. I HAVE NOT BEEN GROUPED IN THE 'TWIT' 575 CLASSIFICATION, AND EVEN PASSED YOUR INSPECTION. 576 %%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%% UNKNOWN ONE %%%%%%%%%%%% 577 AS I SAID, THIS IS MERELY A CHALLENGE. A WAY TO DEMONSTRATE YOUR HUNTING 578 ABILITY. OR DO YOU ONLY HUNT TWITS? 579 %%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%% 580 *****************************************************: 581 WHAT'S THE MATTER PAM? THE CAT GOT YOUR MODEM? 582 ****************** CISTOP MIKEY *********************** 583 OR WAS THAT YOUR MODEM HAS YOUR CAT? 584 *********************************************************** 585 YOUR CAT IS A MODEM? 586 ***************************************************** 587 588 ************************************************************************ 589 -ERIPIYRYUYPRITRPOTITTITIPTI-WWWWWWWWWWTWOIEOQI-R-RI-RIQRIRYRIRORUROORORORUERRE 590 >