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1 If you are in need of help, you need but ask.... 2 ************************* INSTALLED: 9 JUL 85 *********************** 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 "*"*"*"*"*"*"*"*"*"*"*"*"*"*"*"*"*"*"*"*"*"*"*"*"*"*"*"*"*"*"*"*"*"*"*"*"*"*"*"* 21 Csan it be that I am at the top? YES! It's true! 22 Emu:( a chair, yes.): Thank you for your support. I agree. Where i come from 23 there are flying lizards. We use the meat for food, as we surely could NOT 24 eat another intelligent being, a~d all 25 the animals are as intelligent or more so than I. We use the lizard skin in place of leather. Once again Thank you 26 for your support. I really appreciate it! 27 Dante: Ah yes, your Earthly Bible. But surely you must realize txat i and my frinds 28 are most definitely NOT from this dimension. We are from The Wizard's World (tm.). Our bible goes a little 29 differently saying that God created the humans and txe animals, that some but not all weould be like himself. But first 30 God created the insects, and the Lizards. And then God created the Plated Folk,which I think was a mistake. That's just 31 the way it is. Ok? PLEASE DANTE! Let's not be enemies! Let'S be PEOPLE who go to the Inn to talk. That'S all! It 32 doesn'T matter thhat I have whiskers thatgrow sideways instead of down, paws instead of palms, and a fur coat instead of 33 skin, but I'm still a PERSON for it! Right, all????? 34 Zancresta the ferret! 35 "*"*"*"*"*"*"*"*""*"*"*"*"*"*"*"*"*"*"*"*"*"*"*"*"*"*"*"*"*"*"*"*"*"*"*"*"*"*"* 36 @@@@@@@@@@@@@@@@@@@@ 37 ARGH! Sentenced to 38 22 colums! It was 39 bad enought when it 40 wraped twice. Now 41 it wraps *4* times! 42 Double ARGH! ARGH! 43 44 Max... 45 @@@@@@@@@@@@@@@@@@@@ 46 [/] [/] [/] [/] [/] [/] [/] [/] [/] [/] [/] [/] [/] [/] [/] [/] [/] [/] [/] [/] 47 The sound of our house is always full of the sound of footsteps. The sound 48 of running feet used to wake me. The soft but firm footfalls os youth, end- 49 lessly echoing through our bedroom. The bright morning sun pushed through the 50 curtained window along with the winged song of the dawn birds. Everything 51 seemed so fresh, so young. And I thought the morning would late forever. 52 Now it is evening. The small consistant footsteps are gone, faded with the 53 dying sun, now red and full with the trials of the day. The wind that had in 54 morning brought fresh breezes now hangs heavy, the curtain still. The only 55 footsteps are my own, paceing back and forth across the wooden floor of the 56 bedroom, the sharp sounds springing back like slaps. Some times I look out at 57 the setting sun and loose myself in the floresent clouds. Each time my muse 58 has been broken by the silence of the room. Each time I begin to pace again, 59 the sound lapping at my feet. 60 I look around and see the small things that remind me of you, mentally 61 collecting them into my arms, like the pillow I sleep with at night, held 62 tight to my chest. I think about your words, the memory of their sound fills 63 the space between my footsteps, and I smile. But only for a while. 64 I only hope that I can sleep, wrapped up with my pillow. And that when I 65 wake the morning will have returned, and that you will be with me. 66 [/] [/] [/] [/] [/] [/] [/] [/] [/] [/] [/] [/] [/] [/] [/] THE TIN MAN [/] [/] 67 99999999999999999999999999999999999999 68 MIKOYAN: READ LINE 8 & 9. VERY IMPOR- 69 TANT. SO YOU UNDERSTAND. IT SAY THAT 70 THIS BILL BOARD "IS CURRENTLY OPEN 71 FOR USE BY THE GENERAL PUBLIC". THAT 72 MEANS NOT ONLY FOR POETS, WRITERS, 73 PLAYWRIGHTS (FRUSTRATED OR NOT) BUT 74 PLAIN GENERAL PUBLIC. PUBLIC MEANS 75 PEOPLE. IT INCLUDES EVERYBODY EVEN 76 NOBODY WHO OWN A PC REGARDLESS WHETHER 77 IT'S TOP-O-THE-LINE VAX OR BARGAIN 78 BASEMENT $29.95 TI 94A.ACCESS IS SUB- 79 JECT OF COURSE TO THE CENSORSHIP OF 80 THE SYSTEM OWNER. IT IS KNOWN THAT 81 YOUR KIND CLASSIFY OTHER PEOPLE AS 82 NOT HUMAN BUT "GOYIM". WHICH IS JUST 83 TOO BAD. ANYWAY, SHALOM TO YOU TOO. 84 999999999999999999999999999999999999999 85 "="="="="="="="="="="="="="="="="="="="="="="="="="="="="="="="="="="="="="="=" 86 All this talk about humans and animals is making my transistors twang. What 87 about me? I'm a poor innocent beta-Unit. 88 I'm a first class genetic roboid duplicate and nobody cares about the machines! 89 Sure, save the whales but not the Beta-Units! 90 ="="="="="="="="="="="="="="="="="="=" Beta Unit "="="="="="="="="="="="="=" 91 THIS IS A WEIRD BOARD! 92 /\/\/\/\/\/\/\/\/\/\/\/\/\/\/\/\ 93 Don't you just love it tho'???? 94 /\/\/Luingil/\/(Warsarefun!)/\/\ 95 96 WAR IS FUN???? WHAT ARE YOU TALKING ABOUT???? Does the killing of inocent people realy that neat. Just makes you want to jump97 up and down for joy, 'yeah! they got one that was holding children! oh this is sooo great I can't stand it!!!' Personally it 98 makes me ill to remember how sick humans are when they turn to war as the last answer. I know everyone is backed by the 99 constitution to be able to say whatever they like, I am doing it now and this is my opinion: WAR SUCKS! Even when it is all 100 'in fun' and a game, it's sick sick sick. 101 Beta Unit: I care. Even though you can be replaced and all that, I care. 102 Max: 22 columns are getting you down? Writing doubling over itself these days? All I have to say is that 22 columns sure looks103 silly when you'r using a 132 column screen. Everyone has a right to use whatever column they want; people should be able 104 to please themselves first, others later if they choose. 105 106 107 ????? The Doctor ????? 108 . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 109 DARWIN(REUTER) 110 VORACIOUS TOADS THE SIZE OF DINNER PLATES ARE HITCHHIKING ACROSS NORTH- 111 ERN AUSTRALIA, GOBBLING UP WILDLIFE. 112 THE QUEENSLAND CANE TOAD (BUFO MARINUS) WHICH LOCALS SAY EATS ALMOST 113 ANYTHING IN ITS PATH, EVEN LIGHTED CIGARETTES, IS MOVING WEST RAPIDLY. SOME 114 HAVE BEEN FOUND TRAVELLING ON VEGETABLE TRUCKS. 115 NORTHERN TERRITORY CONSERVATION MINISTER IS SENDING TO GARAGES, MOTELS 116 AND PUBS "WANTED POSTERS" DEPECTING THE UGLY AMPHIBIAN AND WARNING DRIVERS 117 TO CHECK THEIR VEHICLES FOR STOWAWAYS. 118 THE TOAD, SUSPECTED OF BEING INTRODUCED INTO NORTHERN QUEENSLAND BY 119 FOLLOWERS OF THE RAJNEESHEE SECT, NOW HAS BECOME A MAJOR PEST, PROTECTED 120 FROM PREDATORS BY ITS POISONOUS SKIN. 121 . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 122 %*%*%*%*%*%*%*% MUDGE %*%*%*%*%*%*%*%*% 123 AH NO! Not me 'ome! Not Australia! NO! 124 It'S all a big mistake! 125 %*%*%*%*%*%*%*% MUDGE %*%*%*%*%*%*%*%*% 126 )( )( )( )( )( )( )( )( )( )( )( )( )( )( )( )()( 127 I have just spent about 20 minutes trying to find something on one of the 128 drives here. All that time WASTED! Sure I tried the 'FI' command. But did 129 it work? NO!!! the first line BWMS comes to that is 128 it will print that 130 one out instead of what I'm trying to find!! THAT SUCKS!! What are we going 131 to do, tell all of the people that use 128 columns to take a hike? We try 132 not to get angry at poeple for using 128 columns, before I saw nothing wrong 133 with it, but now that something like this has happened I am a little angry. 134 I'M PISSED OFF!!! I can't believe that something like this even happens in 135 the first place, this is supposed to be the BEST! Doubts are forming in my 136 mind and this time I believe them! TERRIBLE! 137 )( )( )( )( )( )( )( )( )( )( )( )( )( )( )( )( 138 To above: 139 Did you ever wonder why the system says "ILLEGAL PARAMETER" when you give 140 the command "ma 128"? For good reason, as you discovered it does indeed 141 mess up the FI and FA commands. But the parameter is allowed because there 142 might be some time when it is necessary to have a line of 128 characters. 143 But that's why so many of us don't like that large a line. If you really 144 need to have a long line, ma 127 will do almost as well (you could say that 145 it will do 127/128ths as well), and still not mess up the FI and FA. Oh 146 yes, a system is no better than its users, so relax and enjoy. 147 ~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~BOWSER 148 i agree!^ 149 So do I! 150 And me! 151 And me! 152 ma 80 153 __________::::::::::__________::::::::::__________::::::::::__________:::::::: 154 Zanacresta (sp?): 155 Perhaps you do not realize that humans too often do not see beyond the 156 differences in each other and into the true self. You claim to want to have a 157 group of people treat a ferret like the same group would treat a fellow human 158 with differences; I hardly think that would be satisfactory. 159 __________::::::::::__________::: The Jiz /// ::::::::::__________:::::::: 160 Jiz? Hahahahahaha. Do you have any idea what that means? Are you a 161 character on this board or are you a wet spot on somebody's sheet? 162 __________:::::::::::___________::::::::::::______________::::::::::::________ 163 164 HOW CLEVER! 165 166 ()()()()()()()()()()()(ferret)()()()()()(mudge)()()()()()()()()()()()()()()() 167 WE would all like to know if and when you might be going away for a nice long 168 vacation in the near future? You have managed to raise everyone's fur and 169 your continual calling of the system is keeping other users from logging on. 170 If you take a look back at the previously saved lines, you will notice that 171 you account for a good percentage of the total use of the system! This 172 ferret/human debate brings this board to a new low. You probably are proud 173 of yourself. Share and share alike, right? 174 ()()()()()()()()()()()(mudge)()()()()()()()()()()()()(ferret)()()()()()()()() 175 176 Yeah!!!!!!!!!!!! 177 178 SAME HERE, YEA!!! stick to one person and enjoy other peoples company, not 179 just your own! 180 "="="="="="="="="="="="="="="="="="="="="="="="="="="="="="="="="="="="="= 181 TO THE PERSON WHO CARED: 182 Really? You care about a First Class roboid duplicating Beta Unit>? 183 That makes me feel great! Thank you! Thank you! 184 BETA UNIT 185 "="="="="="="="="="="="="="="=="="="="="="="="="="="="="="="="="="="="="="= 186 ? ? ? ? ? ? ?/MiG/ 187 Look, "99999", See the webs on my feet? I was born in oregon. The name is 188 MiG. O.K.? Have I tried to stop people from being on this board recently? 189 like in the past 6 months? how would you know? Your continued references 190 are making me wonder just what kind of persicution complex you have. I think 191 I will go talk to my ex-so, and get that crap translated to something I can 192 deal with in english. 193 ? ? ? ? ? ? ?/MiG/ 194 195 HELP 196 HELP 197 HELP IF YOU ARE FRUSTRATED WITH WP OUTPUT AND ARE LOOKING FOR SOMETHING B THEN YOU IN LUCK THERE IS A NEW TYPESETTING 198 SERVICE THAT HAS ENTERED THE PC ENVIORNMENT THRU TELECOMMUNICATIONS. 199 FOR MORE INFORMATION CALL 253-xxxx DAYS AND ASK FOR JOHN. 200 ....................................................................... 201 Zancresta: The 'lizardskin' is still leather. Besides, I've visited places 202 where 'humans' and 'intelligent' animals shared the same territory. In many 203 of them, leather is produced from the skins of deceased people/animals. It 204 is usual to require the permission of the family to obtain the hide. 205 Leather is VERY useful in a low-tech environment. Try thinking of a 206 substitute. What would YOUR people do without lizardskin? 207 Dante: As far as I can tell, the 'animals' are refugees from The Alternate 208 World. They deserve our sympathy & understanding. They are refugees because 209 T.A.W. is now an AE line! (oh what a horrible fate for a storyboard) 210 ~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~BARD~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~ 211 **************************************** THE UNNATURAL 212 ************* 213 214 215 Yes this is the next best thing since peanut butter. It is the- pause great 216 suspence- Whales yes that is right sports fans Whales you know the things w 217 e kill to make candles. well I say since we are killing the fish to make 218 electricy from dams. so why kill the whales? We dont need candles. I say we 219 get rid of both animals. 220 221 *************Tune In Next Week***************************For*************** 222 Unfacing the Nation 223 ***********The Unnatural**************** 224 225 "*"*"*"*"*"*"*"*"*"*"*"*"*"*"*"*"*"*"*"*"*"*"*"*"*"*"*"*"*"*"*"*"*"*"*"*" 226 All: Thank you for the great support and understanding! I really A 227 appreciated it! 228 To the "lizardskin" person: Yes. That is so, but we don't make the 229 dead into coats or shoes! We use the skin from the flying lizards 230 populate such parts of my world as the Bellwoods. Or the outer area 231 of Malderpot. Or you can always nconjure one up, though it's more 232 effort than going and catching a group of The Flying Lizards. 233 Save txe Whales, but Nuke txe Plated Folk! 234 Zancresta the ferret! 235 "*"*"*"*"*"*"*"*"*"*"*"*"*"*"*"*"*"*"*"*"*"*"*"*"*"*"*"*"*"*"*"*"*"*"*"*"*" 236 ::::::::::::::::::::::::::::::::::::::::::::::::::::::::::::::: 237 From Prometheus; Jubilee 238 The entry from the Bard a little higher on the disk was the 239 one thousandth entry from him. 240 We are offically at 1 kilo-bard now! 241 ::::::::::::::::::::::::::::::::::::::::::::::::::::::::::::::: 242 243 $#$#$#$#$#$#$#$#$#$#$#$#$#$#$#$#$#$#$#$#$#$#$#$#$#$#$#$#$#$#$#$#$#$#$#$# 244 245 246 247 ******************************************************************************* 248 "Who is John Galt?" 249 Sitting at her desk, watching the world thru the streaked windows of her office 250 she saw the people running around like ants on a hot tailpipe. No green at all, 251 just concrete and steel jetting up against the skyline. A pidgeon was the only 252 sign of animal life, darn rat with wings. The sky was grey, not from clouds but 253 smog think and heavy covering every building, car and human and of course pigeon 254 with a fine dirty powder. The radio cackled a forecast "More hot weather ccom- 255 ming folks, if I were you, I'd be camping out under the nearest sprinkler." The 256 weatherman tried to keep a lift in his voice, but was unable to completly conc- 257 ceal his despair. "Tommorrow will mark a record 176 days without rain, today 258 tied a record set back in 1965." 259 260 the report didn't touch the woman, she just blocked it out turning instead 261 to the stack of paperwork on her desk. The phone buzzed, she picked it up 262 and set it on her shoulder mumbling "What's up Trudy?" The voice on the other 263 end connected her to someone she really didn't want to talk to. 264 265 A man's voice bellowed thru the line, demanding and intimidating "We need that 266 shipment now! Weve been backordered for months! If you can't produce results 267 now, we will simply find another manufacturer...." She listened halfheartdly 268 offeringan occasional grunt to let the man know their was someone who was 269 actually listening to him. She finished the conversttion by promising to meet 270 right away with production management and get back to him with the "real" 271 reason for the delay. 272 273 She hung up the phone, knowing full well the extent of her problem. She knew 274 the delay was due to lack of funds, old machinery and personal problems. Not 275 quite in that order. The temperture had been rising inside the plant as well 276 as out. The corporation had just averted a labor strike and was now bent on 277 reducing the drug abuse problem. Workers were protesting loudly about required 278 testing of urine samples. Airconditioning had been shut back to the legal 279 minimun to help save money. Delapidated equiptment that had depreciated long 280 ago was giving up the ghost due to lack of proper maintence and heat. And 281 of course the stockholder were pulling out in record number. 282 283 Quite a bit for the executive to handle, she had taken the job a year ago, 284 a fresh faced kid out of Harvard. Excited about the "challenge" that lay 285 ahead. 286 287 So many questions to which the answers seemed obscure and unreachable. 288 ******************************************************************************** 289 [/] 290 I hope this works this time. 291 New BBS 233-xxxx 292 Gazoo 293 294 295 hmmm, i called in at 0629. i guess it's trying to tell me that it's the 296 end of the day for me. good night! hmmm, similarties already... 297 298 9999999999999999999999999999999999999999 299 SUKHOI: BEIN? 300 TUPOLEV: BEING NATIVE IS NOTHING TO BE PROUD OF. 301 THAT'S NOT YOUR FAULT/NOR YOUR CHOICE. 302 I'M HERE BY CHOICE; NOT BY CHANCE! 303 9999999999999999999999999999999999999999 304 [/] [/] [/] [/] [/] [/] [/] [/] [/] [/] [/] [/] [/] [/] [/] [/] [/] [/] [/] [/] 305 Sometimes I reach inside 306 To bring out a beautiful flower 307 And all I get 308 Is a handful of 309 Dried leaves 310 [/] [/] [/] [/] [/] [/] [/] [/] [/] [/] [/] [/] [/] [/] [/] THE TIN MAN [/] [/] 311 //.^ 312 He didn't realized how lucky he was: 313 Some people sometimes get dog's you-know-what 314 //.^ 315 +*+*+*+*+*+*+*+*+*+*+*+*+*+*+*+*+*+*+*+*+*+*+*+*+*+*+*+*+*+*+*+*+*+*+*+*+*+*+*+* 316 317 @@@@@@@@@@@@@@@@@@@@ 318 Could someone tell me 319 what the above it 320 supposed to look like? 321 322 Max... 323 @@@@@@@@@@@@@@@@@@@@@@ 324 HOW CLEVER! 325 Max, on my terminal screen there was nothing but a pause. No blinks, no 326 flashes, no nothing... 327 ????? The Doctor ????? 328 "="="="="="="="="="="="="="="="="="="="="="="="="="="="="="="="="="="="="=" 329 Max: Same here. Nothing at all save a long pause. Anybody need a Beta 330 Unit? I'm free for a while. but be warned. This offer may be canceled 331 at any time. But if anybody cares about an android roboid duplicator please oh 332 please contact me on this board! Please 333 bdcause I'd like to do SOMETHING! Ever since i duplicated Alex Rogan (the Last 334 Starfighter.....reme}ber me? I'm that duplicator who took the place of the 335 Alex Rogan eartlhling!) I7ve had nothing 336 to do and I'm depressed. So could someone out there find somethi~g for a top- 337 notch Beta Unit to do! 338 "="="="="="="="="="="="="="="="="="="BETA UNIT"="="="="="="="="="="="="="="="="="=" " 339 340 &'&'&'&'&'&'&'&'&'&'&'&'&'&'&'&''&''&''&'&&'&'&'&'&''&''&'&'&'&&'&'&'&'&' 341 To the beta unit, I can only bring myself to say this. If you are 342 trying to be readable, realize how many punctuations you are using. They 343 make you seem such a horrible twit, no wonder everyone thinks that you are 344 also Zancresta the Otter Twit. 345 &'&'&'&'&'&'&m&u&r&d&e&r&'&'&'&''c'o'n's'e'q'u'e'n't'i'a'l'&'&'&'&'&'&'&' 346 max: Whatever was there has been deleted. The line numbers go: 347 315... 348 390.... 349 obviously, Mikey didn't approve of whatever it was. 350 ____________________________Leonard_______________________________________ 351 ? ? ? ? ? ? ?/MiG/ 352 Max:I saw it, in 40 columns, it looked like it might be obsene, but I 353 couldn't tell. 354 Zero:I may be bopping on down to the library 3rd floor soon, shall I 355 look up some things for you? [snicker] 356 ? ? ? ? ? ? ?/MiG/ 357 ***************************************************** The Unnatural ****** 358 Lets get rid of a PEST. 359 360 361 I say we use Wasco county for a Nuclear Test area. That way we 362 could get rid of a pest. The Rashneeshees. 363 I say we NUKE 'EM till they glow so that way they can be red at day 364 and a Blue Glow at night. So I say we NUKE 'EM. 365 366 ***************The Unnatural************ 367 368 369 ....................................................................... 370 John Gaunt was born in 1340, one of the seven descendants of Edward III 371 and Philippa of Hainault. He died in 1399, but not before fathering 372 Henry IV in 1367. 373 374 Fresh faced from Harvard? Has anyone heard of anyone being fresh faced 375 after getting out of Harvard? 376 377 Alex Rogan's Beta Unit perished when he crashed a truck into the enemy 378 space ship. Where does that leave our over-friendly Beta Unit now? 379 380 Flying lizards. Is that anything like leapin' lizards? 381 382 Observer from Another Galaxy 383 ....................................................................... 384 tttttttttttttttttttttttttttttttttttttttttttttttttttttttttttttttttttttttttttttt 385 and the summer is only one third over... and things are this bad... my... 386 observer from another galaxy... is the rogan beta unit blowing up at all... 387 like great balls of fire... 388 tttttttttttttttttttttttttttttttttttttttttttttttttttttttttttttttttttttttttttttt 389 "="="="="="="="="="="="="="="="="="="="="="="="="="="="="="="="="="=" 390 To the person wxo called me a twit: I'm sorry about any problems if you 391 see them. They are mostly , i would guess, due to the fact that I'm 392 calling BW on a long-distance basis! I'm sorry if you see anything that 393 implys me as a twit. I hate the fact that they (otter and ferret) 394 started this lousy debate! it's driving my transistors crazy and it's 395 making my circuixs jumble! 396 Well all, I'm off to do some good deeds for someone. I only wish someone 397 would GIVE me some good deeds to do. I mean, look at me, a perfect copy 398 (well, not exactly perfect, but semi-perfect.) of Alex Rogan. He's 399 off saving the Universe and I'm bored. Got any jobs for a duplicator 400 droid in inisfal? 401 Observer: i jumped out of the truck and ito the shadows where the camera 402 couldn't see me. I then got up and fixed the small problem in my chest/ 403 stomach unit and then trodded down the road after the Mags(?) girl, I 404 never caught up with her. Too bad. 405 but I'm alive and kicking. Ow! Excuse me, a small mosquito just tried to 406 get some blood but it got some jolts instead. Bye now! keep the machine 407 beta units xcoming! 408 Cistop Mikey: WHAT WAS THAT PICTURE? IT LOOKED LIKE A WOMAN UNDER A TREE 409 BY A FOUNTIN, BUT WITH A 9 INCH BLACK ANDWHITE T>V> AS A MONITOR I JUST 410 COULDN'T TELL. WHAT WAS IT? 411 "="="="="="="="="="="="="="="="="="=BETA UNIT "="="="="="="="="="="="="="="="= 412 I THINK THIS BOARD IS DUMB 413 MR.DEATH 414 GUESS WHAT? WE'RE REAL HAPPY FOR YOU! 415 MR.LIFE 416 NEW BBS SYSTEM ON LINE NNED YOU For Fresh Input To Our BBS 417 CALL 775-xxxx now 24hour a day great public domain downloads 418 Thank you Gazoo 419 PS ITS Called Gazoo'S World and its great!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!! 420 421 <+><+><+><+><+><+><+><+><+><+><+><+><+><+><+><+><+><+><+><+><+><+><+><+><+> 422 TWITS TWITS TWITS... Why do they keep showing up? May I suggest that some- 423 one start a twit board just to get them off of our case...Also, how about 424 a few software changes that only alow the use of >70 columns (I know the 425 code is burned in ROM, drat!). Such a nice thought though... 426 ready 427 ch /ready/null/ 428 <+><+><+><+><+><+><+><+><+><+><+><+><+><+><+><+><+>dreaming onready 429 ^%^*(&& sorry, I keep hitting the wrong fng key ^<+><+><+><+> 430 <+><+> p.sptalk hannibal 431 damn (excuse me please) fng keys! p.s mabey we need to get a few cats? 432 I do believe that they do take care of rodant problems...I wonder what 433 they do to farrets?? <+><+><+><+><+><+><+><+><+><+><+> dan <+><+><+><+><+> 434 &'&'&'&'&'&'&'&'&'&'&'&'&'&'&'&'&'&'&'&'&'&'&'&'&'&'&'&'&'&'&'&'&'&'&'&'&'& 435 yo, beta unit, i bet xur and wahtever is left of the Kodan Armada would take 436 you. that is, if alex, the real alex, doesn't kill you for what you did to his 437 girl. chuckle, snort, out and out laughter.... 438 &'&'&'&'&'&'&'&'&'&'&''&'&'&'&''&'&'&''&'&'&'&''&'&&''&'&'&'&'&'&'&'&'&'&'& 439 440 %% %% %% %% %% %% %% 441 Nuke the gay whales for Jesus!! 442 %% %% %% %% %% %% %% 443 444 ```````````````````````````````````````````````````````````````````````` 445 My heart is bleeding 446 and stains all my mind. 447 I need someone to enter in 448 and clean the stain 449 with the touch of kindness 450 would help so much 451 452 You see my face 453 with its carefree smile 454 But you don't see my soul 455 it's crying a tear 456 a tear of helplessness 457 you could help so much 458 459 The actor acts 460 to hide from the truth 461 But will anyone see through the act 462 and find the soul 463 full of love and laughter 464 and tears. 465 466 .-.-.-.-.-.-.-.-.-.-.-.-.-.-.-.-.-.-.-.-.-.-.-.-.-.-.-.-.-.-.-.-.Emu 467 ? 468 \\\\\\\\\\\\\\\\\\\\\\\\\\\\\\\\\\\\\\\\\\\\\\\\\\\\\\\\\\\\\\\\\\\\\\\\\ 469 PROBABLY NOT. 470 \\\\\\\\\\\\\\\\\\\\\\\\\\\\\\\\\\\\\\\\\\\\\\\\\\\\\\\\\\\\\\\\\\\\\\\\ 471 Beta Unit: Hard practice will make you a Master-Beta... 472 """"""""""""""""""""""""""""""""""""""""""""""""""""""""""""""""""""""""" 473 ************************************************************************** 474 Observer: John Galt who is he? John Gaunt is of no interrest 475 to this story. Oh, so you are 476 a graduate of Harvard to be 477 such an expert? 478 479 ************************************************************************** 480 "Who is John Galt?" 481 The digital clock on her desk gave a raspy wheze signaling quiting time. 482 Quiting time for those whom work below following orders and taking home 483 a paycheck to nagging wives and snot nosed kids. 484 485 She streched out her legs, placing them carefully on the top of her desk 486 as not to disturb the paper monsters that lay in wait. Leaning back, 487 hands behind her head she closed her eyes and wished lightning would 488 strike. Easy enough, no more problems except the small detail that 489 lighting in it's natural form doesn't strike inside. 490 491 A voice brought her out of her self pity mode. "Clara, Ive got the info 492 you were asking about." She looked up to see Wayne, standing by her desk 493 with a legal sized folder in hand. In trying to regain her posture she 494 awoke the paper monster who flew the coupe. Wayne bent down to help her 495 capture the flying devils as she straighten her skirt and read over the 496 info provided. 497 **************************************************************************** 498 John Galt? Oh lord no! Not Ayn Rand stuff! (by the way, I haven't read 499 Atlas Shrugged, but I hope you aren't copying it....) 500 ........................................................................... 501 HIGH FLY THE NAZGUL, OH 502 Tune: Green Grow the Rushes, Oh! 503 504 I'll sing you one, oh 505 High fly the Nazgul, oh 506 What is your one, oh 507 One for the One Ring, lord of all 508 That was destroyed by Frodo 509 510 I'll sing you two, oh 511 High fly the Nazgul, oh 512 What is your two, oh 513 Two, two, the watchful towers 514 Guarding over Mordor 515 One for the One Ring, lord of all 516 That was destroyed by Frodo 517 518 I'll sing you three, oh 519 High fly the Nazgul, oh 520 What is your three, oh 521 Three, three, the Elven rings 522 Two, two, the watchful towers 523 Guarding over Mordor 524 One for the One Ring, lord of all 525 That was destroyed by Frodo 526 527 I'll sing you four, oh 528 High fly the Nazgul, oh 529 What is your four, oh 530 Four for the names of the hobbits brave 531 Three, three, the Elven rings 532 Two, two, the watchful towers 533 Guarding over Mordor 534 One for the One Ring, lord of all 535 That was destroyed by Frodo 536 537 I'll sing you five, oh 538 High fly the Nazgul, oh 539 What is your five, oh 540 Five for the wizards of the west 541 (Etc.) 542 543 I'll sing you six, oh 544 High fly the Nazgul, oh 545 What is your six, oh 546 Six for the names of Strider 547 (Etc.) 548 549 I'll sing you seven, oh 550 High fly the Nazgul, oh 551 What is your seven, oh 552 Seven for the rings of the Dwarf lords 553 (Etc.) 554 555 I'll sing you eight, oh 556 High fly the Nazgul, oh 557 What is your eight, oh 558 Eight for the battles of the Ring 559 (Etc.) 560 561 I'll sing you nine, oh 562 High fly the Nazgul, oh 563 What is your nine, oh 564 Nine for the Nazgul riders 565 (Etc.) 566 567 I'll sing you ten, oh 568 High fly the Nazgul, oh 569 What is your ten, oh 570 Ten for the Kings of Arnor 571 (Etc.) 572 573 ~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~BARD~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~ 574 *************************************************************************** 575 Perhaps trying to capture the mood of the story, but not a copy or a 576 reasonable facsimile. 577 *************************************************************************** 578 ppppppppppppppppppppppppppppppppppppppppppppppppppppppppppppppppppppppppp 579 The piper drained his glass as the bard finished his song. The common 580 room of the inn was showing its warm and worn surfaces covered with 581 litter -- the debris of less than fully civil conversations. The warm summer 582 evening entered through the thick wooden door, filtered through the rowan tree 583 outside the entrance, stroking the candle flames with gentle fingers to make 584 the light filling the inn tremble in the evening's gloom. The piper looked 585 at the bard seating himself and applying the proper lubricant to a throat 586 dry from singing. 587 "What we need," the piper suddenly said, "is another tour." 588 Catching the startled look the bard flung, the piper continued. 589 "You know what I mean -- an outing, an excursion. Oh, I know," he continued, 590 "that we're not disciplined enough for any sort of organized adventure, but 591 if we just set out to see some different part of reality, we end up in enough 592 trouble to satisfy anyone's lust for adventure." 593 He sat for a few moments rolling the ale mug between his palms. 594 "I long to hear the song of crystal birds tinkling through the prismatic 595 stillness of an enchanted forest, or the thunder of an abstract waterfall 596 of ideas leaping off a precipice of reason into an indefensible conclusion." 597 pppppppppppppppppppppppppppppppppppppppppppppppppppppppppppppppppppppppppppp 598 ::::::::::::::::::::::::::::::::::::::::::::::::::::::::::::::::::::::::::::::: 599 "Steaming tendrills, and all that," Said the Former quite sternly. After 600 a safe period, he laughed out loud. Slowly he began to realize that only a few 601 people were also laughing. 602 The rest were going through the motions of thinking. Rubbing their jaws 603 seriously, as if on the verge of screaming "Eureka" or something equally weird. 604 "I suppose one of us knows somewhere to go," Said someone non descript. 605 "I suppose. But I don't think any of us wants to risk being wrong," Posed 606 the same non descript person from inside the shadows. 607 "No one minds a mistake when it is made with good intention, so tell us, do 608 you know somewhere interesting to both get to, and be?" Asked the Former quite 609 sternly. This time he did not burst into laughter afterwards. 610 ::::::::::::::::::::::::::::::::::::::::::::::::::::::::::::::::::::::::::::::: 611 612 613 614 615 616 617 618 619 620 621 622 High to MUDGE,and Pat 623 ------THE GAZOO------- 624 233-xxxx 625 Call we are ready now 626 ************************************* 627 /\/\/\/\/\/\/\/\/\/\/\/\/\/\/\/\/\/\/\/\/\/\/\/\/\/\/\/\/\/\/\/\/\/\/\/\/\/\/ 628 DOCTOR: Sorry about that. I had just returned from the Westermark/An Tir War 629 (SCA stuff) and forgot about the nasties you referred to./\/\/Luingil\/\/\/\/\ TOTAL NUMBER OF LINES = 629