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From: CYBERPUNK
To: RUFUS
Subject: ChristmasCon
Date & Time: 12/06/89 16:33:40
Message Number 751
no! it would be at my house!! lots of more room!! , plus it's going to
be around New Yaers!! so, , whatever!!
Cy
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From: SPELLWIND
To: TURTLE
Subject: Modem connects
Date & Time: 12/06/89 16:46:22
Message Number 752
Next-he'll-ask,-"how-do-you-make-babies"
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From: TURTLE
To: ALL
Subject: A confession...
Date & Time: 12/06/89 17:55:02
Message Number 753
You know how on some days it's warm out, and then on some other days
it's cold out? Well, I have a confession to make. That's MY FAULT.
You see, I have this control, and when I turn it one way the sun warms
up, and when I turn it the other way the sun cools down. Sometimes I
just TURN IT for no readily apparant reason. I'm not sure why; I just
do. And you know what else? I'm NOT SORRY ONE BIT. Ha ha ha!
-A weather-hacking Turtle
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From: BEATLE
To: CYBERPUNK
Subject: ChristmasCon
Date & Time: 12/06/89 18:10:41
Message Number 754
What would we DO at this con?
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From: BEATLE
To: TURTLE
Subject: A confession...
Date & Time: 12/06/89 18:15:33
Message Number 755
Hey, make it warm, dude. My gradparents are here from New York and it
is a bit cool...
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From: KEN OBER
To: ALL DUDEZ
Subject: OKAY!
Date & Time: 12/06/89 22:14:09
Message Number 756
Okay BART FOX, CHIP P. UNICORN, and all you other worthless skum!
hehehehe....Just joking! I was just thinking.....
WHY HAVEN'T YOU CALLED MY BBS!? You SAID you would at RUFUSCON...
Well, didn'T you!? ANyways, EVERYONE ELSE.....Call me!
I'm atleast a Honorary MSTF system.....doesn'T that account for
anything now-a-days!? SHEESH!
hehehehe.....
REMOTE CONTROL! #1 - 378-2218 - 300/1200 Baud
Remember it well, my friends, for, one day, people will hand you money
when you say that you knew me.....and you will be able to write books
about it and make even MORE money!
ha! Ha! HA!
Good day to all, eerrr.... Goodnight....
-- A Cheap, Shameless, BBS Ad from a desperate SysOp....
OPERATORS ARE WAITING! REMOTE CONTROL! #1 - 378-2218 - 300/1200 Baud
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From: ANGEL
To: RUFUS
Subject: Casting couch
Date & Time: 12/06/89 22:53:27
Message Number 757
Yes, Archangel has promised/threatened to be there at auditions. But so
have so many others. Actors lie, so I'm not plotting any pre-casting
in my mind. And liberal use of baseball bats as attitude adjusters
doesn't really raise consciousness, just bruises and welts. AH, but
it's a tempting thought!
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From: CORWYN OF AMBER
To: ALL
Subject: Packet Radio
Date & Time: 12/07/89 15:06:26
Message Number 758
Does anybody know anything about packet radio (ham systems w/ a modified
modem attached) I read an article about them.. but it was very general,
gave no specifics about hardware required.. Did say you needed a Ham
radio operator's license though. I recently found a listeng of Public
Access pachet radio BBS's It had one listed for Sarasota.. Hmm sounds
intrigueing.. No phone bills??!!! Of course you /do/ have to get a
license first, and the hardware.. anybody know more?
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From: RUFUS
To: ANGEL
Subject: Casting couch
Date & Time: 12/07/89 15:14:22
Message Number 759
When are auditions, I may just come to watch ( if that's O.K. ). You
know me...me...damn, I hate when I forget what I was going to say.
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From: CYBERPUNK
To: BEATLE
Subject: ChristmasCon
Date & Time: 12/07/89 17:05:26
Message Number 761
just about anything and everything!
Cy
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From: BEATLE
To: KEN OBER
Subject: OKAY!
Date & Time: 12/07/89 18:52:30
Message Number 762
Sure, we'll write "Everything You Never Wanted to Know About Tyler
Robinson But Were Forced to Find Out"...hehehe...
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From: BEATLE
To: CYBERPUNK
Subject: ChristmasCon
Date & Time: 12/07/89 18:54:23
Message Number 763
No, really...what kinds of "evrything and everything"? Would you play
games, watch Robotech, or what??
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From: ANGEL
To: RUFUS
Subject: Casting couch
Date & Time: 12/07/89 22:48:40
Message Number 764
Of course you're welcome to come watch, even more welcome to audition.
There's usually a terrible shortage of men (ain't that true everywhere
ladies?) Auditions are usually deadly dull to watch, though. Audition
Sunday evening, December 17 at Players of Sarasota (corner of US 41
and 9th Street) at 7:00 p.m.
Latest update -- cancel last post re: archangel. He will NOT be
auditioning for my show, though he'll probably come to watch. The
little darlin' just got cast in "Dames at Sea" at the Island Players.
Men! You can't depend on 'em.
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From: CHIP P. UNICORN
To: PSYCHE
Subject: GameCon
Date & Time: 12/08/89 00:08:38
Message Number 766
Ahem! Psyche, I -COULD- ruin your reputation on this board as honest...
I take cash only, in small denominations ($20 or $10...)
Actually, you might be honest -- you probably don't remember the
incident...
Chip P. Unicorn
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From: CHIP P. UNICORN
To: SPELLWIND
Subject: Poker
Date & Time: 12/08/89 00:12:10
Message Number 767
That's a possibility for GameCon... but I suspect it'll be a
penny-ante game. (Whoever hosts GameCon might set a limit to amounts
of betting...)
Anyway, I'm not a good poker player. Whenever I get a good hand,
my ears perk forward.
Chip P. Unicorn
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From: CHIP P. UNICORN
To: RUFUS
Subject: GameCon
Date & Time: 12/08/89 00:26:19
Message Number 768
Paranoia is a wonderful game! The GM's job is to get every character
to try to kill every other character. Every character's job is to
kill every other character, while appearing to serve the Computer. The
Computer is your friend. The Computer says playing Paranoia is fun.
The Computer is always right. The Computer says troubleshooters must
kill all troublemakers. Nobody would want to be a troublemaker, right?
Chip P. Unicorn
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From: CHIP P. UNICORN
To: SPELLWIND
Subject: Modem connects
Date & Time: 12/08/89 00:29:28
Message Number 769
Simple. I was bought in K-Mart in a blue light special.
Chip P. Unicorn
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From: CHIP P. UNICORN
To: TURTLE
Subject: A confession...
Date & Time: 12/08/89 00:30:53
Message Number 770
Dear Turtle,
"Do you remember when you came and told me I flipped my lid? WELL?
You laughed, you laughed, you know you laughed, I heard you laughed..."
(I get on these things...)
By the way, Turtle. I cut the wire to that device.
Chip P. Unicorn
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From: CHIP P. UNICORN
To: KEN OBER
Subject: OKAY!
Date & Time: 12/08/89 00:33:40
Message Number 771
Ken,
You're right. I haven't called your BBS. Something weird goes on
between our modems -- they just won't connect. (I've heard rumors
that yours is a semitone lower that what it should be...)
Believe it or not, I've tried calling. And -- congratulations on
becoming an MSTF board.
Chip P. Unicorn
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From: CHIP P. UNICORN
To: CYBERPUNK
Subject: ChristmasCon
Date & Time: 12/08/89 00:35:50
Message Number 772
Could you give specifics? I mean -- what do you have planned?
Juggling foxes? A swimming pool full of vodka? Parcheesi? Demonstration
of calvary attacks? Ten rock groups?
Chip P. Unicorn
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From: PSYCHE
To: CHIP P. UNICORN
Subject: GameCon
Date & Time: 12/08/89 01:50:13
Message Number 773
Oops! It must have slipped my mind. Okay, maybe I HAVE had a drink
or two, but I'm sober right now.
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From: PSYCHE
To: ALL
Subject: WHY?
Date & Time: 12/08/89 01:54:18
Message Number 774
Why do I do this to myself? Here I am, typing and snooping on the
a/L/T/E/R r/E/A/L/I/T/Y BBS at 2:45 in the morning, with eight more
pages of my research paper to complete by 11:00 in the morning (that's
EIGHT hours, guys). I figure that it will take me an hour and a half to
complete the paper, an hour to get ready for school and eat breakfast,
and 35 minutes to get to school. That means that I can BBS for until
7:55. Wow! Gee! I'm thrilled. Does anyone else find that their love
of BBSing over their love of work tends to get in the way?
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From: SPELLWIND
To: PSYCHE
Subject: WHY?
Date & Time: 12/08/89 05:04:22
Message Number 777
Yes, I'm still on chapter 1. I am almost to the point where I'll have
to break my terminal program to stay off...
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From: KALI
To: ALL
Subject: What? An Indoor
Date & Time: 12/08/89 08:03:11
Message Number 778
Picnick??? Chas. of Suncoast City BBS has informed me that there will
be an Indoor Picnick on Saturday, Dec. 16th, 11 AM to 2 PM...but he
hasn't selected a location yet: wants some feedback from you-all...
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From: CORWYN OF AMBER
To: ANGEL
Subject: Men Shortage?
Date & Time: 12/08/89 13:03:46
Message Number 782
Actually, since the ladies that are going to read that probably number
less than three.. the shortage goes the other way here!
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From: CORWYN OF AMBER
To: ALL
Subject: Life
Date & Time: 12/08/89 13:09:05
Message Number 783
Sex, Cookies, and Rock & Roll make the world go round!
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From: RUFUS
To: ANGEL
Subject: Casting couch
Date & Time: 12/08/89 14:49:31
Message Number 785
Well, I would, cept for a few facts:
1) I'm not over 20.
2) I have school to go to, so couldn't make it to rehersal.
3) I have this darned nasty stutter ( and you say to yourself "Gee, he
types so fluently, I never woulda guessed. ).
4) Ribbit...
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From: RUFUS
To: CHIP P. UNICORN
Subject: GameCon
Date & Time: 12/08/89 14:52:21
Message Number 786
Let's play sometime. You know the best part, names. I like the name
system they have. I wanna be happiness officer..
Ribbit...
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From: RUFUS
To: PSYCHE
Subject: WHY?
Date & Time: 12/08/89 14:54:17
Message Number 787
Actually, it's my love of doing anything other than work that gets in
the way. I find picking lint from my toes to be fun at times.
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From: KEN OBER
To: CHIP P. UNICORN
Subject: my BBS!
Date & Time: 12/08/89 15:20:31
Message Number 788
hhmm, that's normal! (hehehe) Iseem to remember you having an account
on my BBS....anyways, that will all change after christmas....And I'll
have my 2400!
WOW! Neet-o...
k00l!
hehehe...
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From: CORWYN OF AMBER
To: RUFUS
Subject: Me? Paranoid?
Date & Time: 12/08/89 16:04:38
Message Number 790
Hehehe.. I've only played once, the GM was IDEAL, he played like a
paranoia GM for D&D (which wasn't so great) but for Paranoia he had
the computer down pat.
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From: CORWYN OF AMBER
To: RUFUS
Subject: WHY?
Date & Time: 12/08/89 16:06:33
Message Number 791
Yea, there's also playing Arkanoid (advanced break-out) reading the back
of macaroni and cheese boxes, chewing on pen caps for hours on end..
fun huh? But better than studying....
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From: FORPLAY
To: TURTLE
Subject: bbs
Date & Time: 12/08/89 18:50:05
Message Number 792
Sorry I called at this hour....
I will "rap" with you at a later date
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From: ROCKY
To: DONTHEN
Subject: movies...
Date & Time: 12/08/89 20:27:20
Message Number 793
Well, I've yet to experience "Rock N' Rule", so I'm really not qualified
to respond to that, but I like the idea of it involving "furries."
Yeah, I'll have to admit the "ball" scheme was kinda pathetic, but I
think my favorite scene was the Taxi cab, when the guy tried to rob
the driver, and was abruptly desitigrated by the laser machine the
driver activated. Interesting to say the least. I think the BEST ball
scheme that came out (In two movies to date) was the boring balls in
the movie(s) Phantasm. Now THAT was an interesting double sided movie.
I really didn't care for the way they blended the second movie in from
the first, and at times, Phantasm ][ was a little bit drug out, but it
STILL had the quality special effects that made the first movie a hit.
Anybody else enjoy Phantasm? (By the way, this was NOT an animated movie
but I feel merits discussion.)
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From: ROCKY
To: RUFUS
Subject: GameCon
Date & Time: 12/08/89 20:39:02
Message Number 794
Sheeesh! What ever happened to the grrrreat old game of Quarters? I used
to LOVE to play that game, and I guess like any other fad game, it has
lost popularity. I'll admit, after hours of throwing quarters at your
table top, it can get kinda boring, but it was the conversation that
really made the game. (Isn't that true with ALL games though?)
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From: ROCKY
To: PSYCHE
Subject: BTW....
Date & Time: 12/08/89 20:43:52
Message Number 795
Say, does ANYBODY really know what KIND of turtle Turtle is? I mean,
we ALL know he's an anthropomorphic turtle, but what KIND of turtle. A
turtle is just a Turtle by anyother name, I guess, but there are still
HUNDREDS of varieties of turtles, Turtle. Turtles can be Gophers,
Turtle, or turtles can be snapping turtles, Turtle, or turtles can be
even aligator turtles, Turtle, so, what kinda turtle ARE you, Turtle?
---Inquiring minds want to know!
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From: ROCKY
To: TURTLE
Subject: Quarters!
Date & Time: 12/08/89 20:50:34
Message Number 796
Wel, I'm glad to see at least SOMEONE remembers how fun a real game of
Quarters can be. I DO like playing it, but for some reason, I always
loose!
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From: ROCKY
To: TURTLE
Subject: Yarg! Yarg!
Date & Time: 12/08/89 20:52:36
Message Number 797
Is Yarg! Yarg! anything like Wank! Wank!??? Or maybe Hack! Hack!, or
Pffft! Pffft!???
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From: ROCKY
To: CORWYN OF AMBER
Subject: My Brother?
Date & Time: 12/08/89 20:55:28
Message Number 798
Lord Corwyn, it is I, Random, your brother, and King of Amber. I have
gone by the name Rocky in this shadow, and I'm ever so glad to finally
here from you. Merlin and I have been trying to get ahold of you via
the trumps now for quite a long time in this shadow, which would be but
a day in Amber. Your son has become VERY powerful with his use of the
Logrus, and I've been practicing my powers of Chaos, and it would sure
be nice to sit and talk with you of old times. I'm trumping you now from
The Courts of Chaos, so if your there, ANSWER! I can almost feel contact
so I know you must be there, though it must be a great distance away.
Although it was thought you were dead, I don't believe it a second!
(I hope you've read through all the volumes through "Blood of Amber"!)
---Long live the Unicorn!
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From: ROCKY
To: CHIP P. UNICORN
Subject: GameCon
Date & Time: 12/08/89 21:04:40
Message Number 799
Ok, I've got a great game of skill to play. Has anyone ever played
"Pente"? It is one of the most simple, yet complicated games and is also
one of the OLDEST games ever invented. It is played with pebbles on a
grid, and the object is to get five pebbles in a row. This sounds easy,
but is really quite a strategic feat. Anyone ever play?
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From: ROCKY
To: PSYCHE
Subject: GameCon
Date & Time: 12/08/89 21:09:11
Message Number 800
>Ewww, YUK!
What do you think guys? Shall we do it intravenous, or will we pour it
down his throat. I think it's about time that he discovered what it is
really like to lighten up! Not that I truly enjoy alcohol (I haven't
touched a drink in over 2 months, not even beer, I've kinda lost my
taste for it) but I'll have to say, I've had some aweful good times
playing drinking games around a bunch of belching, farting, drunks, and
I think you should experience it at least ONCE in your life...
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