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002=Usr:1 CISTOP MIKEY 09/16/89 19:39 Msg:4369 Call:24003 Lines:5
20 Only a fool fights in a burning house - Old Klingon proverb
21 *********** BWMS - eight years of service to the modeming public *********
22 One century of archives have gone. We now face a whole new century.
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003=Usr:368 Nemesis Warlock 09/16/89 20:12 Msg:4370 Call:24004 Lines:8
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26 Wahoo! This is getting to be a trend. On the TOP for two disks in a row!
27 Hey, the view from up here is great! You can see for a thousand lines!
28 Look! Over there, in the distance! I #think# I see a news entry. Oh well,
29 Oh well, if Exxon can do it to Alaska, they can do iit to Backwater.
31 Any aquatic animal life present here on Pyrrix Aaal has been warned.
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004=Usr:366 berney dunn 09/16/89 22:40 Msg:4371 Call:24008 Lines:6
33 According to my CRC Handbook, Earth's semimajor axis of orbit is about 1.50 *
34 10 E 8 kilometers, Jupiter's is about 7.78 *10E8 k's, or about 5.19 times as
35 far out; the inverse square law says sunlight at J is 26.9 times dimmer. Solar
36 power is considered usable out to about Mars, 2.28 *10E8 k's, where sunlight is
37 2.31 times dimmer than here. We get about 1 kilowatt per square meter (above
38 atmosphere), a good photoelectric cell recovers about 8 percent of that, with
005=Usr:366 berney dunn 09/16/89 22:47 Msg:4372 Call:24009 Lines:23
39 new prototypes about twice that, or far below good enough for Jupiter orbit.
40 In any case, to redesign now would put the probe out into the next century.
41 As far as plutonium being a deadly poison, or even as the claims read "the
42 deadliest poison on earth", if falls far short. Radiation is cumulative, so a
43 radioactive substance can be described by the time multiplied by the quantity
44 that will kill you, for plutonium a good estimate says 20 micrograms will take
45 about 100 years to kill you. If you take 1 pound, split it up 5 billion ways,
46 1 dose per person, you get 200 times less than that, so if nothing else
47 intervenes, it should kill everyone in about 20,000 years. I don't grseatly
48 fear soething that will take 10 times as long as all recorded history to kill
49 me. By comparison, that 20 micrograms, if it was say South American frog
50 poison, would kill in minutes. Cyanide at that level would kill a small child.
51
52 On a lighter level, what do you think a "higher civilization" would do to us
53 when we make contact, that is when they land here? Do you think they would
54 greet us as equals 'welcome to the brotherhood of spacers', treat us like the
55 ant at a picnic 'please pass the Raid', or perhaps put us in zoos, or keep us
56 as pets, or would they even know we are here?
57 If I opt for the pet theory, it is because we, that is all human cultures,
58 keep pets, so, maybe??, all thinking species do (other species sometimes seem
59 to, also), and the qualities that make a good pet pretty well describe humans.
60 Disease resistance, gregariousness, carnivorous, (but not too hungry), etc.
61 .......................................B.A.D. ...........................
006=Usr:272 Talos 09/17/89 00:16 Msg:4373 Call:24012 Lines:37
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71 So thi sis the future? Ah well. If someone would have told me 10 years ago
72 that I'd be sending message by computer over my telephone I would've just
73 stared at them because I was on medication at that time.
74 I had the toughest time driving home tonight. I was driving down eigth and I
75 had to get to 1st, and I was thinking "What side street do I need to take to
76 get from 8th to 1st?" Then I remembered Einstein postulating that eventually
77 parralell lines meet. So I'm coming back on the Jersey Turnpike and my mom said
78 "You missed the exit, back up!" I said "Mom, you don't back up on a Super high-
79 way, there's three big lanes, more than enough to make a U-turn like you're
80 supposed to." My car doesn't steer well anyway. I put a lock on the steering
81 wheel, but I lost the key. Now I can only drive in a straight line. And if I
82 want to make a turn I have to go partway into the intersection and turn off the
83 lights and wait for someone to sideswipe me.
84 I called the mechanic and said my car starts but it doesn't move. He saieck
85 the trans. So I said to my brother "Take off the dress and help me with this
86 thing!" I called this other mechanic and said "I was going down this really
87 steep hill and I went to slam on the brakes and they didn't work." He said "It
88 sounds like you lost a lot of fluid." I said, "Well, who wouldn't?"
89 I took my cousin to the park. I go to the playground a lot to watch the kids
90 jump up and down and scream, cause they don't know I'm using blanks. Well, it's
91 good excercise anyway.
92 He says "Push me on the swing!" so I push him and he says "Hard!" So I
93 push him again and he says "Give me a real push ya wimp!" So I back up 50 feet
94 and run. I push him and he says "Give me a REAL push, ya PANSY!" So I back up
95 the buick. He got out of the way, and so should I.
96 Thank you for beeing my friend.
97 Talos Valheru
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007=Usr:322 Stray Cat 09/17/89 07:48 Msg:4374 Call:24017 Lines:8
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101@Got some cards last night and came up with revolution for work; heaven/lake
102 got some cards last night... same up with firelake/work; heavenlake>windthun-
103 der/you; windlake>windheaven/city; heavenwater>firewater/h;windwind>windfire/
104 mom. Real interesting the way it works.
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008=Usr:84 Michael Miller j 09/17/89 17:52 Msg:4375 Call:24027 Lines:6
107 &*&*&*&*'s
108 I hear the sound of silence. Come out, Come out wherever you are!
109
110 An Astral Dreamer
111 &*&*&*&*'s
112
009=Usr:11 L'homme sans Par 09/17/89 22:10 Msg:4376 Call:24032 Lines:4
113 *%_#@)(%!)_(%)_(%)_@~(%$_@~+()%_@)_+!)$_+_)$@(%_@_+$%_)@(%)@_(%_)@(%)#_$(%)_$#@
114 Mike: Did you get your PAK file? It want over to percy this weekend. If not,
115 bug your local unix sysadmin! :-)
116 @*$_@#$)_@*$)_*$)_@$_@(#$)_@*)_@$)_@$( L'homme sans Parity $*@!#)_$!_@)$*_!)@($
010=Usr:29 The Bard 09/18/89 19:59 Msg:4377 Call:24048 Lines:5
117 Is there any simple way to get the ANSI text here to be *bright* rather than
118 dim? I did it once, but have no idea how!
119 (since my system is set up fort a blue background, I can't read blue text
120 unless it is *bright* blue.... :-)
121 ~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~BARD~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~
123 Bard, The system desn't specifically set to high or low intensity. So if
124 you can set your display to high intensity it should remain that way.
125 If you can get it to echo <esc>[1m where <esc> is the Ascii Escape code,
126 that will cause your display to go into bright mode if it responds to the
127 ansi codes. Alternately, set the display up the way you want it before yo
128 call BWMS. BWMS doesn't ever reset the screen, so any mode like that you set
129 will remain in effect.
130 BTW, with COPYLINK it's a piece of cake, just go to the command line and
012=Usr:1 CISTOP MIKEY 09/18/89 22:21 Msg:4379 Call:24051 Lines:8
131 type: PRINT ESC "[1m"
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133 LSP: (gee, sounds like a drug...) No, the PAcKage hasn't arived yet.
134 I think this shortcut is turning out to be the long way around...
135 Laser printer isn't working, yesterday it was doing a good job of
136 spitting out blank paper, today it won't even do that. Sigh...
137 But then for the price, what can I expect, perfection? <grin>
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013=Usr:287 Ralph Steadman 09/19/89 01:22 Msg:4381 Call:24059 Lines:87
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140 18-SEP-1989 20:26 Actor Zimbalist testifies at PTL trial; IRS agent dismissed
141 By JUNE PRESTON
142 CHARLOTTE, N.C. (UPI) -- Actor Efrem Zimbalist Jr. testified Monday that the
143 PTL board he served on for five years was a rubber stamp for the wishes of
144 Bakker and other ministry leaders.
145 "It was called the board of directors but it did not function as a board
146 usually does, which is as a regulatory body," Zimbalist said. "It was a board o
147 affirmation only. I never assumed I was acting as a director of that
148 organization because the board didn't do that."
149 Late in the day the government presented another star witness, Bakker himsel
150 as most people knew him, on videotape offering the deal of a lifetime,
151 partnerships at PTL's Heritage Grand Hotel.
152 The partnerships are the heart and soul of the government's case against
153 Bakker, who is on trial on 24 counts of fraud and conspiracy. He faces up to 12
154 years in prison if convicted of all charges.
155 Prosecutors say the television preacher fleeced his flock with a classic
156 pyramid scheme, taking in $158 million from people who typically gave him $1,00
157 apiece in return for a promise of three nights' lodging each year for at PTL's
158 South Carolina resort.
159 Bakker was silent as the first composite video rolled, a 1984 clip promoting
160 partnerships in PTL's Heritage Grand Hotel, which was then under construction.
161 He said God had given him a vision and the devil was battling to take it away.
162 "The devil tried to put a fever on me yesterday, but the Lord healed me and
163 now I'm feeling like a race horse, just raring to go," Bakker said on the tape.
164 "The devil's really mad about this, but I don't care -- I'm glad when the devil
165 gets mad."
166 Zimbalist, tanned and wearing glasses below a furrowed brow and a mane of
167 white hair, said he did not recall approving six-figure bonuses for Bakker, his
168 wife, Tammy Faye, and other ministry leaders.
169 The actor, who smiled broadly and winked at Bakker as he left the courtoom,
170 also joined other former board members intestifying he was not aware PTL was
171 drowning in red ink at the same time the Bakkers allegedly took millions in
172 bonuses.
173 "I assumed there was enough money at PTL," he said. "It was not an estate to
174 run itself at all, but if it had been completed, it could have run on its own.
175 The income of PTL was a very loose thing. Mr. Bakker was always able to go on
176 the air and plead for money. It was not a finite thing."
177 But Zimbalist, questioned by prosecutor Jerry Miller, played down the
178 government's allegations that Bakker oversold lifetime partnerships to PTL
179 supporters and misappropriated the proceeds.
180 "The funds may not have been spent as designated but I don't see it as the
181 great malfeasance you wish me to, Mr. Miller, because it was always possible to
182 raise more money," he said.
183 Zimbalist, who said he joined the board in January 1981 at Bakker's urging,
184 said he finally became aware of the ministry's financial troubles about five
185 years later when he recorded cassette tapes for PTL and the man who made the
186 tapes, a good friend, did not get paid.
187 "I recorded the Bible on cassettes," Zimbalist said. "These tapes were made
188 available to PTL as a money-raising tool. I didn't want any royalties and
189 wouldn't have accepted it anyway.
190 "There were several reasons why I left the board," he added. "One was becaus
191 the person producing these tapes was a close friend. Second, I was not at ease
192 as a board member. And third, a philosophical change took place in my life. I
193 began to move away from that area of religious practice, possibly because of
194 what I saw at PTL. I changed my feeling."
195 After attending a half-dozen meetings over a five-year period, Zimbalist, wh
196 gained fame portraying the lead character in the television series "The FBI,"
197 resigned from the board in January 1986.
198 The prosecution's attempt to call its next witness, IRS examiner Larry
199 Howlett, brought an objection from Bakker's lawyers, who said the government wa
200 attempting to bring details of a separate civil proceeding against Bakker into
201 the criminal trial.
202 In the civil case, heard as part of PTL's bankruptcy proceedings, now-retire
203 Bankruptcy Judge Rufus Reynolds imposed a $6.6 million judgment against the
204 Bakkers on grounds of excessive compensation and what he found to be Bakker's
205 mismanagement of the ministry.
206 Prosecutor Deborah Smith told U.S. District Judge Robert Potter the
207 government wanted to call Howlett to prove "that as early as 1982, Mr. Bakker
208 was warned repeatedly that with his excessive salaries, he endangered the
209 tax-exempt status of his ministry."
210 "He manipulated the board of directors by withholding financial information,
211 she continued. "He took excessive bonuses. The bankruptcy of PTL has certainly
212 been an issue in this case."
213 But Bakker co-counsel Harold Bender argued that the two matters should be
214 kept separate.
215 "I submit what (the prosecutors) are trying to do is much more prejudicial
216 than what they have done to date," Bender said. "They are trying to get on
217 evidence the tax matter. I ask that your honor not allow this into evidence."
218 Potter sustained the defense objection and dismissed Howlett as a witness.
219 Bakker's trial on 24 counts of fraud and cons
220 piracy has had several delays,
221 most notably when the evangelist was committed to a federal institution for a
222 psychiatric evaluation. He was found competent to continue.
223 If convicted on all charges, Bakker could receive prison terms totaling 120
224 years.
225
014=Usr:287 Ralph Steadman 09/19/89 01:36 Msg:4382 Call:24060 Lines:100
226 MEANWHILE, continuing on the religous/legal front:
227
228 13-SEP-1989 22:43 Sex church files civil rights suit
229 LOS ANGELES (UPI) -- A couple convicted last week on prostitution charges
230 stemming from the sexual rituals at their church sued the police chief and city
231 attorney Wednesday, alleging their civil rights were violated.
232 Mary Ellen Tracy, who is known as Sabrina, high priestess of the Church of
233 the Most High Goddess, was convicted Friday of two counts of prostitution. She
234 and her husband, Will, the high priest, were both convicted of operating a hous
235 of prostitution.
236 The Canyon Country couple said their religion requires sexual rituals of its
237 members, who donated cash to the church.
238 The Tracys said an undercover police officer lied to gain admission and
239 instruction in the church's ritual, but refused to perform a "dedication" ritua
240 -- oral sex -- on Mary Ellen Tracy.
241 As soon as he left, eight police officers searched the church's Hollywood
242 rectory, seized their cash and records, punched them both and called Mary Ellen
243 "a whore," the Tracys said.
244 In their lawsuit against Police Chief Daryl Gates and City Attorney James
245 Hahn, Tracy said a search last April of the rectory, their treatment by the
246 police and their conviction on prostitution charges constituted the creation of
247 an official state religion in violation of their constitutional rights.
248 He said he would seek an order from U.S. District Judge William M. Byrne on
249 Monday allowing the church to operate exempt from state laws banning sex for
250 money.
251
252 On the "drug war" front:
253 CONTAMINATED FOOD SERVED:-9/18/89
254 The investigative committee that watches over federal regulatory agencies
255 will hear evidence on imported foods inspections, revealing contaminated foods
256 were innocently eaten. Many got sick. Food and Drug Administration
257 Commissioner Frank Young, still reeling from the generic drug attacks, blames
258 the lack of inspections on lack of funds.
259
260 FDA FAULTS EXAMINED:
261 Faulty procedures for reporting medical device failures have led to
262 injuries, according to a federal investigative panel. Details will be heard by
263 the Food and Drug Administration this fall. A possible cover-up between the
264 FDA and Seimens Medical Systems Inc. will also be investigated. The firm makes
265 an ultrasound machine that allegedly doesn't discover fetal deformaties.
266
267 NO SUPPORT FOR INSPECTIONS:-9/18/8
268 Despite recognizing a need for better seafood inspection, the Bush
269 administration told a House panel Friday it cannot support proposed
270 legislation calling for mandatory, comprehensive inspections of fin fish and
271 shellfish. Congress is considering three bills designed to initiate a
272 mandatory seafood inspection program.
273 New proposals before Congress concerning seafood inspection include on-
274 call inspectors, increased routine monitoring of fish at processing plants,
275 more testing of shellfish for chemical contamination and more federal efforts
276 to curtail harvesting and distribution of shellfish from closed and
277 contaminated waters, according to Friday reports.
278 At Friday's hearing by the House Health and Environment Subcommittee,
279 officials of the Food and Drug Administration and the Department of
280 Agriculture each said their respective agency is best to handle proposed
281 seafood inspection programs. If such inspections become mandatory by law,
282 Congress must decide which federal agency -the FDA or the Agriculture - should
283 take on the task.
284 President George Bush, commenting to reporters in Spokane, said: "Let them
285 eat cake -- I mean, imported fish. We have more important things to do with
286 the taxpayers money, such as causing the prices of illegal drugs to rise to the
287 point that only we overly-rich Republicans will be able to afford crack."
288
289 COCAINE PRICES SOAR IN U.S.:-9/18/89
290 The U.S. cocaine capitals - Los Angeles and Miami - are reporting changes
291 in the drug flow and price, threatening a rise in crime. Cocaine activity on
292 the streets is declining in Miami, but steady in L.A. A kilo of cocaine in
293 Miami has gone from $11,000 to $18,000 in eight weeks; in Los Angeles, it's
294 jumped from $10,000 to as high as $23,000 in six months, officials say.
295 The more you snort, the more "they" make. The wider the "drug war" expands
296 the more "they" make. No wonder the United States government was dealing coke
297 to finance the Contras (and who knows what else). Maybe there's a way out of
298 the federal deficit hole here. Hire the Medellin cartel and Noriega's boys
299 to work for the US treasury dept. Solve a couple problems at once. As Lee
300 Atwater, leader of the National Republican Committee said: "We don't care, we
301 don't have to, we're Republicans."
302
303 FORD CITED AS MOST PROBLEMATIC:-9/18/89
304 Thirty-seven percent of 117 automotive fleet managers said Fords broke
305 down most often, a survey by the Runzheimer firm says. Twenty-six percent
306 named Dodge, and 18 percent said Chevrolets. Taurus and Tempo were the Ford
307 models cited most often. For Dodge, it was the Diplomat and for Chevrolet, the
308 Caprice. Oldsmobile was named most problematic by 7 percent, Chrysler by 4
309 percent.
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312
313 B.A.D. - What is the source for your claims about Plutonium? Do you really
314 believe the Nuclear industry's "facts" and statistics about safety and the
315 toxicity of Nuclear matter? Don't you feel their credibility is somewhat
316 questionable in light of all that has happend in the history of Nuclear
317 development in this country? The point of the fuss over Galileo is: "Why
318 take such a risk?" If it was anything else, you would no doubt agree that
319 1 in 2500 or 1 in 25 odds of a catastrophic explosion in the Shuttle is not
320 worth the risk. But then you probably feel a nuclear power plant, or
321 radioactice waste dump site should be built in your backyard? Why not launch
322 Galileo with a more dependable missle? Why not re-think your technical hubris?
323 Plutonium IS the most toxic substance on earth. The minutest quantity inhaled,
324 or on your skin will kill you. In a long, agonizing, terrible death. Is that
325 what you wish for all of the people on the earth if there is an accident?
015=Usr:84 Michael Miller j 09/19/89 10:40 Msg:4383 Call:24076 Lines:17
326 &*&*&*&*'s
327 There ain't no alternitive. I'm not getting off of this planet, but I'd like
328 to see my kids having the option. And the only way for that to happen is
329 for us to explore and exploit space. We're living in our own excrement right
330 now, and its only a matter of time before it gets so toxic that we can't live.
331 In some areas of the world it already is.
332
333 Everything is a risk. I believe that 1. this is worth it. and 2. (And this
334 may sound strange coming from me, as I tend to be way out in left field.)
335 You average liberal (Much like your average conservative.) Will believe
336 anything the 'party' leaders feed them. An eploration of the facts is in
337 order, and those presented by both sides are suspect.
338
339 An Astral Dreamer
340 &*&*&*&*'s (Tired of people making emigration to the USSR the only option
341 if one wants to get anywhere outside of the earths atmosphere.)
342
016=Usr:11 L'homme sans Par 09/19/89 15:18 Msg:4384 Call:24081 Lines:11
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344 News Person: You are a jerk. Not only do you continue to upload rehashed news
345 articles from other sources, but when you upload garbage, you don't even
346 clean up after yourself! Gee, thanks for all those lines about the PTL trial
347 that were barely legible, quickly followed by a "proper" upload of the same
348 file. I know Backwater has a cistern-op, but that doesn't mean it's for you
349 to use like a bathroom that you don't even clean up after you use it. If you
350 insist, and it appears that you do, on uploading these incessant articles, at
351 least delete your mistakes.
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017=Usr:219 Friar Mossback 09/19/89 16:17 Msg:4385 Call:24082 Lines:7
354 [][][][][][][][][][][][][][][][][][][][][][][][][][][][][][][][][][][][][]
355 Well, it appears that it is time for another episode in the story. I have
356 fallen down in my duty here of late. I will rectify it soon, as I no
357 longer have to worry about the new position. Someone else has it. Waah!
358 Now everybody feel sorry for Friar........OK, I feel better now.
359 Will post this week or week-end, I really promise.
360 [][][][][][][][][][][][][] Friar [][][][][][][][][][][][][][][][][][]
018=Usr:394 Rayall the Pirat 09/19/89 18:38 Msg:4386 Call:24083 Lines:2
361 ARRRRR!
362 NOTHING IN TH' SEA SURPRISES ME!
019=Usr:1 CISTOP MIKEY 09/19/89 18:49 Msg:4387 Call:24084 Lines:5
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364 Anyone out there have access to service manuals for an NCR 6416 laser
365 printer? I need one, but NCR won't sell it to me because I'm not an
366 "authorized service center" sigh...
367 ******************************* CM ****************************************
020=Usr:1 CISTOP MIKEY 09/19/89 18:54 Msg:4388 Call:24084 Lines:6
368 Ralph Steadman: Could you please hold down the new entries to under 100
369 lines? There is a reason why there is a limit to a maximum of 100 lines per
370 session. I had allowed the ability to call back up and continue to enter
371 for people who needed to finish off an entry, but please don't abuse it.
372 Thank you.
373 ************************** CISTOP MIKEY **********************************
021=Usr:84 Michael Miller j 09/20/89 21:37 Msg:4389 Call:24108 Lines:3
374
375 Is this hibernation time?
376
022=Usr:366 berney dunn 09/20/89 23:34 Msg:4390 Call:24110 Lines:37
377 ................................................................
378 I get my data on plutonium from the truly huge data base of facts that exist
379 on the subject. (There is also a almost as large base of junk, too.) The
380 specific dose mentioned 20 micrograms, was in reference to a list in an article
381 (it's been sevral years, so I can't say now in which magazine) listing some of
382 the deadlier poisons. About 20 of them are believed to be fatal to 50% of
383 average humans with a dose of less than 20 mikes (not cistop mikes). Pu is
384 certainly not one of them. The hazard of radioactive substances is inversely
385 proportional to the half life, as the things with shorter half lives give off
386 more radiation in a shorter period of time. Pu does concentrate in the bones,
387 which makes it slightly more dangerous than say rdioactive sodium, which
388 collest mainly in muscle. If muscle dies, you just replace it, but when bone
389 marrow dies, you lose red blood cells ( and white cells, too, tho less). In
390 Either case, radaition deaths are about propotional to dosage if the dose is
391 lower than the 'clinical dose' that causes immediate sickness. Radium, for
392 example is far more dangerous because its shorter half life causes it to emit
393 radiation faster. Pu on the skin is essentially harmless, it washes right off.
394 As for the question 'why not launch Galileo on a safer missile?', there is no
395 safer missile, but in any case the risk to human life is immeasurably small.
396 By the way, where do you get your so called facts? Many nuclear uses are
397 military, which can afford accurate measurements, which have been made. The
398 early tests are long since in the public domain. On the other hand, most food
399 hazards are unmeasured. However, we do know that mustard, horseradish, and
400 common black pepper are carcinogenic. As well as peanuts. Or, in fact just
401 about anything that has been carefully enough tested. Very few things have
402 been. No money in it, and no potential for military uses, either. As for
403 our rapidly poinsoning ourselves, it is obvious we are, just look at how long
404 poeple live: late Roman times, about 29 years average, civil war times, about
405 49 years, now, due to the poisons, only about 79 years. thanks, but I'll take
406 the food additives that prevent decay (and thus food poisoning).
407 Though, I suppose you might qualify as one who takes no risks unnecesarily,
408 so if you don't smoke, drink, eat peanuts, or drive a car, burn wood for heat,
409 or do anything else dangerous go ahead and throw the first stone. By the way,
410 I am concerned by the unnecessary risk you pose to me if you drive and smoke,
411 the combination is much more dangerous to your fellow persons than NASA'a
412 most deadly stunt.
413 ....................................B.A.D.................................
023=Usr:286 Jeff Marten 09/21/89 01:17 Msg:4391 Call:24114 Lines:58
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416 {+}{+}{+}{+}
417
418 SOME LINES FOR OUR TIMES
419
420 People want a miracle
421 They say "O Lord, can't you see us?
422 We're trying to make a livin' down here
423 And keep the children fed"
424 But, from little dark motel rooms
425 To "Six Flags over Jesus"
426 "How are the mighty fallen"
427 So the Bible said
428
429 (From "Little Tin God" by Don Henley)
430
431 Quoting from the scriptures
432 With patriotic tears
433 We got the same old men
434 With the same old fears
435 Standing at attention
436 Wrapped in stars and stripes
437 They hear the phantom drummers
438 And the nonexistent pipes
439 These days the buck stops nowhere
440 No one takes the blame
441 But evil is still evil
442 In anybody's name
443
444 (From "If Dirt Were Dollars" by Don Henley)
445
446 Now it's take and take and takeover, takeover
447 It's all take and never give
448 All these trumped up towers
449 They're just golden showers
450 Where are people supposed to live?
451 You can arm yourself and alarm yourself
452 But there's nowhere you can run
453 'Cause a man with a briefcase
454 can steal more money than any man with a gun
455 You don't have to ask permission
456 To take something from another man
457 You cross a lawyer with the Godfather
458 Make an offer that you can't understand
459
460 (From "Gimme What You Got" by Don Henley)
461
462 Time flies like the wind
463 Fruit flies like bananas
464
465 (From the wall of the men's room at the Leaky Roof Tavern)
466
467 -+|[ ThingFish ]|+-
468
469
470 {+}{+}{+}{+}
471
024=Usr:394 Rayall the Pirat 09/21/89 19:39 Msg:4392 Call:24124 Lines:1
472 A TAVERN? ARR!
025=Usr:84 Michael Miller j 09/21/89 22:58 Msg:4393 Call:24127 Lines:17
473 &*&*&*&*'s
474 (If you see a ^I before this you need to change your setup so that
475 it actually sends tabs rather then ^I. For more details type 'help' at
476 the command prompt.)
477
478 Now, on to other things. I'm working on a few stories, and hope
479 to have somthing ready for posting in a week or two. I like to either be
480 finished or well under way before posting, as it lessens or eliminates the
481 chance that I will lose interest and leave everybody hanging.
482
483 And now a quote. "Quit my job down at the carwash, didn't have to
484 write no note that reads 'The checks in the mail, and I'll see you in church
485 , and don't you ever change.'"
486 'They Might be Giants. (John FlansBurgh & John Linnell.)'
487
488 An Astral Dreamer
489 &*&*&*&*'s
026=Usr:398 DELTA FIVE 09/22/89 14:35 Msg:4394 Call:24134 Lines:18
490 [*=*] [*=*] [*=*] [*=*] DELTA FIVE [*=*] [*=*] [*=[*=*] [*=*] [*=*] [*=*] DELTA
491 The setting sun slipping below the glassy horizon gave a kaleidoscopic look to
492 the gently swelling sea. On the beach, two men sat before a small fire absently
493 watching the swaying shadows cast by the fingerlike palm trees.
494 One of the two men, of obvious military bearing, poked at the embers with a
495 stick, and looked at the other. "You're absolutely sure it was McKane?" he aske
496 d, a barely concealed sigh escaping his lips as he spoke.
497 "No doubt about it, General. He was positively identified by two of the
498 Albanians men"
499 "Well, here we go again", replied the stocky man with the bullet shaped head.
500 A few minutes later a Lear jet with no markings soared across the deepening pur
501 ple sky, a wispy black trail of smoke behind ...
502 [*=*] [*=*] [*=*] [*=*] DELTA FIVE [*=*] [*=*] [*=[*=*] [*=*] [*=*] [*=*] DELTA
503
504 save
505 help
506 ex
507 ?
027=Usr:287 Ralph Steadman 09/22/89 18:52 Msg:4395 Call:24138 Lines:100
508 696969696969 My apologies to CISTOP...no Abuse intended......
509 COURT FAVORS EXXON:-9/8/89
510 The U.S. District Court for the District of Alaska denied
511 Thursday petitions for discovery filed by private plaintiffs
512 regarding the inadvertent erasure of some backup computer
513 tapes relating to the Valdez oil spill, Exxon Co. said. The
514 decision was in favor of Exxon, which has said from the
515 beginning that the tapes were never designed to retain
516 documents.
517 Exxon Corp. abruptly halted its program to rescue wildlife
518 from the Alaska oil spill, angering U.S. Fish and Wildlife
519 officials and environmentalists who said the migratory bird
520 season is just beginning. Exxon - responsible for the March
521 spill, the USA's worst - previously said it would halt spill
522 cleanup operations Sept. 15. The toll so far: 34,044 dead
523 birds and 993 sea otters. APn 09/13/89 By RITA BEAMISH
524 Associated Press Writer
525 WASHINGTON (AP) -- Vice President Dan Quayle and
526 Transportation Secretary Sam Skinner will visit Alaska next
527 week to check on progress being made in cleaning up the Exxon
528 oil spill as the company gears down its efforts for the
529 winter, officials said Wednesday.
530 The visit, coming as Quayle heads to Asia for 12 days, is
531 intended to refocus attention on the nation's worst oil spill.
532 A grounded Exxon tanker last March dumped 11 million gallons
533 of oil along the state's shoreline.
534 Quayle will be "briefed on the situation up there. We hope
535 to meet with some concerned citizens," as well as Coast Guard
536 and state officials during the 2 1/2 hour stopover at
537 Elmendorf Air Force Base, said the vice president's press
538 secretary, David Beckwith. He said that it was undecided
539 whether Quayle would meet with Exxon officials, but that he
540 was "extremely interested in the company's views."
541 Exxon has disagreed with state and federal officials
542 throughout the course of the clean-up on the adequacy of the
543 company's efforts.
544 "There's still a good deal of uncertainty about the future
545 of the clean-up program. We hope there's less uncertainty
546 after we leave," said Beckwith.
547 The Alaskan stop as Quayle flies to Korea, Japan, the
548 Philippines and Malaysia.
549 President Bush had hoped to visit Alaska as part of a
550 western swing early next week, but the White House scrapped
551 those plans.
552 Presidential spokesman Marlin Fitzwater said Wednesday that
553 Bush's September travel schedule was too busy, and that the
554 Alaskan weather turns too inclement to schedule the trip
555 before next spring.
556 However, other sources who requested anonymity had said
557 earlier that administration officials convinced Bush it would
558 not be politically beneficial to refocus attention on the
559 spill, after initial criticism that he took too long to get
560 the federal government involved in the clean-up.
561 Asked about the administration position on the amount of
562 oil still not cleaned up, Fitzwater said "I don't think we can
563 characterize that situation. We're running into bad weather up
564 there and we'll have to see how things look in the fall in
565 terms of the spill clean-up."
566 Quayle and Skinner, who will not be going on the rest of
567 Quayle's trip, will receive briefings from the clean-up
568 coordinator, Coast Guard Vice Adm. Clyde Robbins, and others
569 on the progress of cleaning up the March 24 spill from the
570 Exxon Valdez tanker.
571 The Monday visit comes a week after an announcement by
572 Alaska state officials that they will continue the clean-up on
573 a limited scale when Exxon pulls out the last of its work
574 crews Friday from the fouled coastline of Prince William Sound
575 and the Gulf of Alaska.
576 A spokesman for Alaska Gov. Steve Cowper said details of
577 the state's follow up were being worked out but that the
578 governor and state Department of Environmental Conservation
579 were expected to agree on a light, manual clean-up effort,
580 plus research and development during the dark and stormy
581 winter months.
582 The state is interested in various clean-up technques that
583 inventers have proposed from coastal towns tainted by the spill.
584 The governor's office said the state would expect Exxon to
585 pay for any clean-up costs it incurred.
586 Exxon estimates its expenses for the summer clean-up at
587 more than $1.2 billion.
588 ALCOHOL POLICY SET FOR OIL CREW:-9/14/89
589 Alyeska Pipeline Service Co. in Anchorage, Alaska, refused
590 16 crew members aboard vessels who had higher blood alcohol
591 levels than .04, the U.S. Coast Guard's highest level for
592 operating a commercial vessel. The firm set up the policy June
593 1 because of the March 24 Valdez oil spill. The USS Valdez
594 captain was proven to be intoxicated during the accident. BUSH
595 ALASKAN TRIP CANCELED:-9/20/89
596 President Bush was scheduled to visit the Alaskan Prince
597 William Sound where the Exxon Valdez spilled Sept. 18, but his
598 trip was indefinitely canceled Exxon stopped its cleanup Sept.
599 15 because of winter. Many environmentalist believe that the
600 job could have been done on a limited basis. Laws and lawsuits
601 are pending to insure Exxon finishes the cleanup. EXXON
602 TESTING ALASKAN WELL:-9/20/89
603 Exxon plans to drill a $30 million test well at Point
604 Thompson in the Alaskan artic to help determine the size of
605 the well. The tract near Kaktovik, Alaska, might contain 300
606 million barrels of gas liquids and 5 trillion cubic feet of
607 natural gas.
028=Usr:26 Mohammed Wassir 09/23/89 07:48 Msg:4396 Call:24150 Lines:9
608 !!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!
609
610 McKane? Hmmm... the name sounds familiar. This is certainly
611 more interesting than rehashed news.
612
613 Mohammed Wassir
614 <The Albanian Firebrand>
615
616 !!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!
029=Usr:29 The Bard 09/23/89 12:59 Msg:4397 Call:24155 Lines:11
617 Anyone who is worried about the release of plutonium from Galileo's
618 RTG's has to first explain why we aren't all dead. There have been much larger
619 amounts released during the atomic tests in the 50's and 60's. For that matter,
620 remember the H-bombs lost in Spain. On one of them the explosive charges
621 detonated on impact. Since the bomb wasn't armed, all that happen was that the
622 plutonium was scattered around. This meant that it required a bit of cleanup.
623 Nobody died.
624
625 If *anybody* ever deserved the term "anti-nuke fanatic", the people fueling
626 this fuss over the RTG's do!
627 ~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~BARD~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~
030=Usr:401 Robert Armstrong 09/23/89 20:55 Msg:4398 Call:24164 Lines:10
628 NB: Plutonium is the most deadly "Heavy metal" toxin in the known world
629 , not RADIOACTIVE toxin. The dose you have quoted is aprox. correct for a
630 person of 100 Kg in mass. ( From your friend and mine, the REED library)
631 Will the person needing a NEC laser printer manual please call 684-7110
632 and ask for Robert A. (That's Computerland but you all won't hold it against
633 me please) I can try to order on for you.
634 And so, when did we change over to an all news station?
635 TTYL,
636 Robert A.
637 Aka. ORION
031=Usr:84 Michael Miller j 09/23/89 21:48 Msg:4399 Call:24165 Lines:6
638 &*&*&*&*'s
639 I suspect it happened when we all stopped participating.
640
641 An Astral Dreamer
642 &*&*&*&*'s
643
032=Usr:13 voyeur 09/24/89 00:31 Msg:4400 Call:24169 Lines:2
644 All too true, Astral Dreamer.
645
033=Usr:402 DELTA.FIVE SHANN 09/24/89 02:27 Msg:4401 Call:24170 Lines:11
646
647 Well, Backwater has changed in the two years that I hve been away. Where are
648 the stories of mice and men? Of villains and heros (Like that irrascible but
649 lovable DELTA FIVE)? Of Bards and Dreamtouchers, of Men without parity and
650 Promethians without bounds? Of racoons and glowing ruby crystals and friendly
651 Albanians? (How are you, Wassir, my old friend?)
652 Whatever happened to any or every one? ala Dylan, they are indeed a changin.
653 Well, for what it is worth, I am back.
654 [*=*] DELTA FIVE [*=*] [*=*] [*=*] [*=*] [*=*]
655
656 en
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657 :::::=====:::::=====:::::=====:::::=====:::::=====:::::=====:::::=====:::::====
658 Delta Five: As for those who may seem to have vanished, my experience tells me
659 that many never left, and are simply watching from the dark corners of the
660 Terrim Inn on Pyrrix A'aaal.
662 As for anyone still here from the original cast, I'm still here, albiet
663 in a different form. Perhaps, someday, I may explain the transition from
664 lapine to man, if I ever *do* decide to haul my namesake out of the closet,
665 but for now I'm busily chronicalling the Cloaked Man's efforts to locate Friar,
666 on Pyrrix A'aaal, for whatever insidiousplans he's still got up his sleeves.
667 :::::=====:::::=====:::::=====:::::==Zephyr::=====:::::=====:::::=====:::::====
035=Usr:84 Michael Miller j 09/24/89 16:53 Msg:4403 Call:24176 Lines:7
668 &*&*&*&*'s
669 Lurking. (Never write a border when you don`t really have anything to say,
670 the muse is apt to flee from you forever for such affrontary.)
671
672 An Astral Dreamer
673 &*&*&*&*'s
674
036=Usr:33 Mike Stanfill 09/24/89 20:07 Msg:4404 Call:24184 Lines:5
675 _____
676 _ __/#)
677 _ __n --n n (#/
678 / ~~~ ~~~ \/
679 lurklurklurklurklurklurklurklurklurklurklurklurklurklurk/___/____\__\
037=Usr:11 L'homme sans Par 09/24/89 20:18 Msg:4405 Call:24185 Lines:24
680 $*&)@(*%)(!%*)!($*%)(@%*_)$(%_)%$@)!_$%*#)%@_)%(@#)_$#)(*^%#)_^)_()_@!%*#)%~*@%
681 Delta V: When we communicated via secure land-line the other day, I knew your
682 intentions on reopening the McKane file, but I had no idea you would swing in
683 to action so quickly.
684
685 I am glad to see you have not lost your lust for adventure, mon ami. While
686 we weren't always aligned on exactly the same thin line, we were always
687 heading in the same general direction - the death of that vile scum known
688 as McKane.
689
690 These last two years at the Tropez school have been consuming on both a
691 physical and mental level. I yearn for the excitement and the danger of
692 old.
693
694 You remember Fellows, don't you? He did recover from the wounds he suffered
695 in Las Vegas, but he has lost the old flame that needs to burn so bright in
696 all of us. He works a desk job in intelligence now. Of course he excels at
697 it, but I can see in his eyes the emptiness. He lost something in the
698 desert, and perhaps only another mission will bring that something back.
699
700 Write back via courier or via land line, and we shall discuss old times
701 and new once more. I smell something in the air, the stench of an old
702 enemy...
703 *@)_#*_@*)_#%)@*)_%*#)%#$)_%*)_$* L'homme sans Parity %*@)_#*%_)#*%_)#$(%$)_#%%
038=Usr:219 Friar Mossback 09/25/89 09:06 Msg:4406 Call:24194 Lines:22
704 [][][][][][][][][][][][][][][][][][][][][][][][][][][][][][][][][][][][][][]
705 Oooooh! My brain felt like it had been trampled upon, then tossed over
706 a tall cliff. I took stock of my body parts. Hands, arms, shoulders.
707 Yup. Feets, ankles, legs? Yup. Torso? You. I already knew the head was
708 there, even if it wasn't entirely intact.
709 The last thing I remember was hurrying after a new face at the inn, and she
710 seemed to be so familiar, and yet she was so frightened. I must help her.
711
712 The pool. She mentioned the pool. Waves of darkness started to flow over me.
713 No! I must fight against them. And I should probably seek cover against th
714 those who had knocked me unconcious for so long.
715
716 I crawled and stumbled into a stand of trees, and reached into my bag for a
717 quick sandwich. I brought forth a golden goblet instead, and I just stared at
718 it...
719
720 [][][][][][][][][][][][][][][][][] Friar [][][][][][][][][][][][][][][]
721 Milch-
722 Two full file boxes, and two years to go. is .DEV from the new system
723 development?
724 Friar
725 [][][][][][]
039=Usr:4 Milchar 09/25/89 11:26 Msg:4407 Call:24199 Lines:8
726 +++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++
727 Friar: The *.DEV archives came from the "test bed" BWMS II, which ran on
728 a back door system connected to BWMS I. Which explains all of the references
729 to that mysterious back door, and what was behind it, and why noises of
730 construction were heard if you listened carefully. It was used to test
731 the commands and also to communicate privately to the other authors about
732 known bugs.
733 ++++++++++++++++++++++++++++ Milch ++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++
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734 :::::=====:::::=====:::::=====:::::=====:::::=====:::::=====:::::=====:::::====
735 Friar: Hmmmm. Knocked into a cliff? A question... Is this a reference
736 to the Coaked Man? Or did you just decide to cancel that entry from ever
737 taking place? I ask because, if it WAS a reference, then you must realize
738 that the Cloaked Man had you at gunpoint, or whateverpoint from the device he
739 possessed.
740 If not, I'd like to know, so that I can leap out of your continuity cycle.
741 :::::=====:::::=====:::::=====:::::==Zephyr::=====:::::=====:::::=====:::::====
041=Usr:287 Ralph Steadman 09/25/89 16:44 Msg:4409 Call:24204 Lines:1
742 696969696969 re "hashed" news ...
042=Usr:287 Ralph Steadman 09/25/89 16:45 Msg:4410 Call:24205 Lines:95
743 WASHINGTON (SEPT. 22/89) UPI - The administration
744 acknowledged Friday that it lured a suspected narcotics dealer
745 to a park across from the White House so that it could buy
746 President Bush a cocaine prop for his televised anti-drug
747 speech.
748 White House press secretary Marlin Fitzwater said the
749 undercover "drug sting" operation by the Drug Enforcement
750 Administration dramatized Bush's statement that drugs are
751 being sold virtually everywhere.
752 "We went to the DEA and asked them if they would do a sting
753 in front of the White House to show how easy it was,"
754 Fitzwater said in confirming a report first carried by The
755 Washington Post.
756 Disclosure of the orchestrated drug purchase, in which
757 there were no arrests, drew criticism from Capitol Hill and
758 the American Civil Liberities Union.
759 Sen. John Breaux, D-La., said the suspected pusher, a
760 teenager who initially complained he didn't even know where
761 the White House was, had been drawn to nearby Lafayette
762 Square for a "photo opportunity."
763 "Is this a drug war or is this only theatrics?" Breaux
764 asked. "Is the administration really serious in fighting drugs
765 with DEA agents, or with speechwriters?"
766
767
768 Colleen O'Connor, an ACLU director in New York City, said,
769 "This is another example of the false P.R. tactics that this
770 administration and the previous one are so fond of." She also
771 said, "The purpose of the DEA is to catch drug dealers, not to
772 obtain props for speeches."
773
774
775 Bush, in his nationally televised anti-drug speech on Sept.
776 5, announced his new war on narcotics and held up a plastic
777 bag of crack cocaine that agents claim to have purchased from
778 the suspected dealer.
779 "This is crack cocaine," Bush said, adding it was "seized a
780 few days ago in a park across the street from the White
781 House."
782 In making the purchase, which was not a seizure, the agents
783 set up what appears to be the agency's first undercover crack
784 buy in Lafayette Square, the Post said, quoting officials
785 familiar with the case.
786 DEA spokesman William Alden maintained, however, that there
787 had been earlier drug-investigations in the park, situated
788 across Pennsylvania Avenue from the White House, and said it
789 is routine for undercover agents to select sites for drug
790 buys.
791 He also confirmed that when first contacted by an
792 undercover DEA agent posing as a buyer, the teenage suspect
793 asked the whereabouts of the White House.
794 "Where the (expletive) is the White House," the teenager
795 said in a conversation secretly taped by the DEA, Alden said.
796 Alden said that the teenager had been the target of a
797 three-month investigation and had sold crack to agents on
798 three previous occasions in other parts of the city.
799 He also said that undercover agents had been in
800 "negotiations with him for a much bigger buy." But now,
801 because of the publicity, efforts to build a bigger case have
802 stopped and the agency plans to arrest the suspect soon.
803
804 O'Connor was unsympathetic to the DEA's plight. She said,
805 "They shouldn't be creating situations that are newsworthy in
806 themselves ... a political scam."
807
808
809 The idea of the cocaine prop first surfaced this August at
810 Bush's summer home in Kennebunkport, Maine. White House
811 communications director David Demarest asked Cabinet Affairs
812 Secretary David Bates to contact the Justice Department about
813 getting the drugs for Bush's speech.
814 The Justice Department was told to find crack that fit the
815 description in the speech, but not to go out and arrest
816 someone just for the speech, administration aides told the
817 Post.
818 Rep. Charles Rangel, D-N.Y., chairman of the House Select
819 Committee on Narcotics Control and Abuse, and a frequent
820 critic of White House drug-fighting efforts, seemed unmoved
821 by this case.
822 "Since it was a legal bust ... he doesn't feel particularly
823 disturbed if this is the way the president wants to make his
824 point," a spokesman said.
825
826
827 Breaux complained, however, the entire matter was
828 unnecessary. He said, "The problem is so bad, reality speaks
829 much louder than staged events."
830
831
832 Lee Atwater, chairman of the Republican National Committee, commented,
833 as he ordered another shot of whiskey, "You have to remember we're
834 Republicans, we don't deal with reality, we deal in drugs."
835
836 696969696969696969
837
043=Usr:401 Robert Armstrong 09/25/89 20:52 Msg:4411 Call:24209 Lines:10
838 ----------------======================>>>>>>>> T.R.
839 OOOFFFFF. Here I get in trouble with time again and come back to find
840 the news on. So, here goes everything, Is there any chearful news out there?
841 or am I just Dreaming that it was a sunny day.
842 And did you know that time is a fluid. Anything left for long enough
843 will disolve in time.
844 And speaking of muses, didn't one live here? Hello? Hello?
845 Oh, well. Back to being lost in time.
846 (bamf.)
847 <<<<<<<<<<<<=========================----------------------T.R.
044=Usr:322 Stray Cat 09/26/89 06:30 Msg:4412 Call:24217 Lines:9
848 ~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~califorica dreamin'
849
850 You were just dreaming ... it was somewhat muggy but not sunny. Rather
851 ugly I thought with everything so dry and all.
852
853 LHSP - rattlin' her cage has not produced a reply this time. wassup?? hehe
854
855 ...and I'm sick again today ~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~think I'll go to the doctor ...
856
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857 [][][][][][][][][][][][][][][][][][][][][][][][][][][][][][][][][][][][][]
858 Zephyr- The reference was to the cloaked man and whatever device he had.
859 I did not mean to imply that I had actually been over a cliff, just that
860 I felt that way. I assumed that the cloaked man shot me with something and
861 then left me. For dead, or to summon help in carrying me or what, I don't
862 know. Yoou could be hiding behind a rock to see what I do next, or just
863 taking a leak. Your part comes up now. Sorry I wasn't clear enough.
864 Friar
865 [][][][][][][][][][][][][][][][][][][] Friar [][][][][][][][][][][][]
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866 :::::=====:::::=====:::::=====:::::=====:::::=====:::::=====:::::=====:::::====
867 Well, then, in THAT case...
868
871 The Cloaked Man watched his victim tumbling down the hillside to the
872 hard stone below. Smiling, he placed the rod that he had carried back into
873 his pack, and then palmed the thin, hazy line... the weapon that he had used
874 against his adversary.
875 Standing at the crest of the hill, the Cloaked Man could not help a slight
876 feeling of satisfaction that crept into his very being. Now, here, after all
877 his years of chasing this being across the very universe,
878 the trail had finally led him to his goal. He had located the Friar.
879 At last, at long last, the end of his Great Trial had begunm and his mission
880 could finally be put to rest.
881 A small band around the Cloaked Man's thin wrist beeped quietly. Without
882 contemplating his actions in the slightest, the Cloaked Man pointed the hazy
883 rod at the place where the Friar had been standing and pulled the trigger.
884 That done, he placed the line into a holster at his side.
885 Out of the corner of a silver eye, he noticed that his victim was
886 just beginning to stir. The Cloaked Man's smile vanished, and he darted
887 behind a large boulder that stood at the center of the top of the hill.
888 His confidence wavered momentarily. He had caught this being by surprise when
889 he had first appeared to him, allowing him an easy target. But his Mentors
890 had shown him the horror that this Friar had created, the stark destruction,
891 and now this terrible scourge of life itself was to face him. He looked down
892 at his holster. A bead of white light was moving slowly upwards on a graph,
893 and had reached the halfway point.
894 The Cloaked Man cursed, realizing that his weapon had not yet fully
895 recharged. He glanced up at the horizon and saw the Stone Triangle pulsating
896 in the moonlight, as surely the dampher on his power generator as he was that
897 Friar was the one he sought.
898 The Cloaked Man eased out from behind the boulder cautiously, and peered
899 at the place where the Friar had come to rest.
900 His victim was still there, mst certainly. But his motions were
901 concealed, both by the angle of vision and by the green fog that filtered
902 across the ground.
903 The Cloaked Man reached into his pack and removed a long, silver dagger
904 that glimmered in the ample light of the three moons. If he couldn't use
905 the cutting edge of technology here, he could still use a cutting edge.
906 Friar turned, suddenly,gripping some object and holding it aloft.
907 The Cloaked Ma gasped, his dagger falling from his trembling hands to
908 the ground. "The Quantier...!" he whispered. "How can he...?" He steeled
909 himself. With bitter determination, he strode down the hill. "Now
910 close the paradox." he whispered.
911 :::::=====:::::=====:::::=====:::::==Zephyr::=====:::::=====:::::=====:::::====
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912 &*&*&*&*'s
913 We are nearing the end of the disk. Only another 80 or so lines to
914 go. But what to fill them with? Only you know for sure.
915
916 An Astral Dreamer
917 &*&*&*&*'s
918
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919 THREE DAYS AND NO NEW ENTRIES! SWING LOW, SWEET MUSES!
049=Usr:70 Kurfur Redlig 09/28/89 19:56 Msg:4417 Call:24272 Lines:11
920
921 KKKKKKKKKKKKurfur Redlig | The Plot Thickens.. The Audience Sickens.......
922
923 H'lo all,
924 What's with everyone here? Where has everyone gone? Is everyone
925 somewhere else having fun without me? Why wasn't I invited? C'mon
926 people, I'm having a paranoid anxiety attack here! Post or it'll get
927 worse.
928
930 KKKKKKKKKurfur Redlig | Line Noise Plays Hell With Emulation!!!!!!!!!!!!!!
050=Usr:401 Robert Armstrong 09/28/89 20:41 Msg:4418 Call:24273 Lines:16
931 -------------------=======================>>>>>>>>>>>>>>>>>>T.R.
932 But paranoia is very instructive.
933 And if everyone is out having fun it's without both of us.
934 AD, I live with a Muse, should I try to coax some inspiration out of her.
935 and are all Muses female? I'm not to shure about the species....
936 Well, I believe that it is time to find some young aspiring writer or
937 two and turn them lose here. Does anybody have a preference of material?
938 Say, SF (hard or soft), Western, Mystry, Horror, Romance ....
939 Please forward all suggestions to T.R. and I'll try to find some
940 new matterial for yarns to spin.
941
942 for;
943 Twas brilig in the slithy toves,
944
945 so long for now.
946 T.R.<<<<<<<<<<===========================-------------------------
051=Usr:84 Michael Miller j 09/29/89 17:53 Msg:4419 Call:24290 Lines:13
947 &*&*&*&*'s
948 T.R. Any sort of material would be nice.
949 On the subject of muses, I suspect they are all female. Probably
950 because of the mythologh as I understand it.
951 It is best to take insperation werever you can, as it is a
952 very shy sort of a thing, and seldom nocks more then once.
953 Enough of my bable, lets see somebody finish this disk off. BTW,
954 I'll be out of touch till monday. Moving. hope to see a new disk by then.
955 I'll be soundly dissapointed otherwise.
956
957 An Astral Dreamer[D
958 &*&*&*&*'s
959
052=Usr:394 Rayall the Pirat 09/29/89 18:29 Msg:4420 Call:24291 Lines:1
960 Whiskey! Whiskey! Whiskey everywhere! Arr! *Hick* *Thud*.
053=Usr:4 Milchar 09/29/89 23:02 Msg:4421 Call:24295 Lines:6
961 +++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++
962 Greetings. My, life has been interesting recently. With more to come!
963 What was that curse? "May you live in interesting times!"
964 Celene shall be Off The Air for a few days while my laboratory undergoes
965 a space/time shift; so, until then,
966 +++++++++++++++++++++++++++ Milchar ++++++++ Movin' up in da world +++
054=Usr:11 L'homme sans Par 10/01/89 10:12 Msg:4422 Call:24320 Lines:1
967 More rehashed news. Blech! 69 to you too.
055=Usr:368 Nemesis Warlock 10/01/89 17:50 Msg:4423 Call:24324 Lines:1
968 And a Hearty 96, and a 42!!
056=Usr:84 Michael Miller j 10/02/89 12:58 Msg:4424 Call:24341 Lines:8
969 &*&*&*&*'s
970 Great, I'm impressed. 3 days and ten lines. Don't strain yourselves. Maybe
971 its about time I found someplace else to hang out. BRING BACK THE NEWS,
972 almost nobody else seems to care.
973
974 (You know who.)
975 &*&*&*&*'s
976
057=Usr:219 Friar Mossback 10/03/89 15:06 Msg:4425 Call:24365 Lines:23
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978 I looked at the goblet, then I was distracted by a glint of light from
979 the hillside. It was a person coming down the side of the hill, with
980 a dagger in his hand. At that moment, he saw the goblet, and stopped
981 cold.
982 I thought it might be his, and motioned to him with it. An intense fire
983 bolt leapt from the bowl of the cup in the direction I was pointing it.
984
985 Foooooom!!!!!
986
987 A tree to the left of the man (?) exploded in flames, and he stopped and
988 dropped to the ground. I saw him look at an object attached to his belt
989 and curse roundly.
990 I was somewhat startled, having meant the man no harm. Then a thought
991 occured to me, maybe he was the man who had hit me on the head and
992 shoved me off of the cliff. Was that him?
993
994 "Who are you?" I shouted, pointing the bowl of the strange goblet towards
995 the side of the hill above his head. "What do you want?" I tried to act
996 menacing, but I really didn't know how to operate the goblet, if it was
997 indeed a weapon.
998 Then another thought. What had become of the woman I followed???
999 [][][][][][][][][][][][][][] Friar [][][][][] OK, new disk time. [][][]