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A-M00SE-ING ANECDOTES AND ILLUMINATION BY AND FOR THE PAWNS OF THE
M00SE ILLUMINATI
Issue #1 | Disclaimer: The Editor will place almost anything | June 17, 1988
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the issue, so don't blame him for the quality or content of the submissions.
Excepting those he may have written himself, the enclosed items do not in any
way represent the Editor's opinions. In fact, let's be real safe, and say that
as far as this newsletter is concerned, he has no opinions at all. Okay? Good.
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EDITORIALS AND LETTERS
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EDITORIAL: By Pickle
Well, here it is. The first issue of M00se Droppings: A-M00se-ing
Anecdotes and Illumination By and For the Pawns of the M00se Illuminati.
(Big inhale....long, slow, bl00ping exhale.) With this innovation we move
one step closer to confusing the entire world. Just think -- even now,
the FBI may be opening a file on you. "John Doe, June 17, 1988, began
receiving literature from a possibly subversive organization...." I don't
know about you, but in five years, I'm going to write and ask for a copy
of mine. I understand they have to give it to you, but they can black out
anything they don't want you to know with a magic marker.
For a sudden change of topic, the newsletter distribution may be changing
soon. This first copy is being sent from me directly to everybody on the
list. However, as the list expands, Bitnet may start complaining seriously
every time I send an issue. What I'd like to do is send an issue to one
m00se at each node, who would then be responsible for sending it on to all
the rest of the m00ses at that node. This will be most beneficial with
the expansion of the Governor's School chapter to a thr0ng of about 150
chapters, something due to occur in several days. Please let me know if
this is satisfactory to everyone.
Now, the newsletter itself. It will be divided up into sections, the
first being editorials (like this one), and letters from anybody to all
the m00ses. Send important news, and letters, to me with 'Editorials'
somewhere in the Subject of the letter.
The second section will be for non-fiction accounts or announcements
of m00se events: Party invitations, reports on how parties went, reports
on projects for the promotion of confusion, whatever. Send any mail for
this section with 'Events' somewhere in the subject.
The third section will be for fiction and poetry. I'd prefer original
stuff, and I'm not copywriting it or anything, it that's important. If
there's something non-original that you think is really great and want to
post, send it along. Whenever possible, list the author with it. Send
mail for this section with 'Fiction' somewhere in the subject.
The fourth section will be for miscellaneous nonsense. For example, the
perhaps slightly tasteless horoscope in this issue. Send anything that doesn't
seem to fit into the other three sections to this one, with 'Nonsense' in the
subject.
The last part of each newsletter will be an updated list of all those
m00ses who want to be on the general list, assuming there are any more.
One last thing before I go and leave you to the rest of the newsletter.
In the rush of adding new chapters to the list, I may have added people
without sending them M00se.Info, the basic file. If you receive this issue,
and you do not have a copy of the file, let me know and I'll send you one.
Well, that's all from me for now. On with issue 1, and the first
submission ever received for M00se Droppings!
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EVENTS AND NEWS
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(Submitted by Sabre)
There is now a public csnews forum created by fellow m00se
RainMaker called m00se csnotice! This is open to anyone with bitnet
access and can be subscribed to by the simple sending of the following
message to csnews@maine:
csbb subscribe m00se csnotice.
Please send this info out to any and all m00ses, and you may
just have your job with m00se droppings made that much easier.
Bl00p! Sabre!
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FICTION AND POETRY
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0de to M00seNess
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OH! to be a m00se,
not an ordinary moose,
but an extraordinary m00se!
Spreading confusion through
peaceful means, I roam the streets,
bl00ping softly to myself as I peer
into the gloom of the average lifestyle,
pitying the trapped souls of those who
know not deliverance - the deliverance
of the m00se illuminatus, and the
Illuminati with which I thr0ng!
bl00p I say, and bl00p again!
bl00p bl00p bl00p BL00P!
In my peaceful eyes confusion reigns,
yet I shall not drown, for in confusion
I find peace, tranquility, harmony...
and in my pocket I find a fully-inflatable
four-man (or m00se) raft to keep me above the currents.
And now, my m00se stomach tells me it is time to graze,
so graze I must, until *munch* *munch* *munch*.............