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kithe#9
mistigris 1995/96
&&Introduction
about the music
birthdays!
cthulu's news
mr. gris
news
this issue
&&
&&Articles 1
aag
ascii wars!
ddir
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&&Articles 2
mist & the net?
more groups
oneliners
&&
&&Articles 3
porn!!! :)
who are we?
word art!
&&
&&Members/Sites
members/sites
&&
%%aag
Sylphid
Ansi Art Gallery
Well, this is a short writup about my program (the Ansi Art Gallery (AAG)).
Supposedly this will go in Mist's newsletter, Kithe. {ed. note - what a
skeptic... where else would we put this? Anyway, I suppose we proved him
wrong.}
AAG is an Online Ansi Art Gallery that is compatible with any Bulletin
Board System that can exit with a DORINFOx.DEF drop file. This door has been
in the makings for almost a year now, and it's seen vast improvements. What
started out as nothing but a program to view a single ansi (and not a very
reliable one at that) is now a horrid, bloated program that can show entire
packs with lots of whistles and bells. Here is a short list of AAG's most
notable features:
* Baud support from 30 bps to 28.8k (I'm sure it will go faster, but
it hasn't been tested past 28.8)
* Customizable colours (95%)
* Quick ansi pack uploading (including SAUCE description searches)
* User picture upload/download features (with external protocols)
* Swift ansi viewing (ansis can be up to 900,000,000 bytes long)
* Up to 300 ansis viewable at a time (soon to be infinate)
* Simple, easy-to-use, arrow-controlled interface
* Full Sysop picture control (adding/deleting pictures, etc.)
* Carrier detection, full error exiting, etc.
* Sysop chat
Anyways, if you run a bulletin board system, take a look at this program.
Feel free to change the opening ansi (yes, it's horrible). It's a freeware
program, a gift from me to the operators of the modemming community.
-Syl
%%
%%ascii
Cthulu
Ascii Wars
ASCII wars? What are these?
_
(*) <---Lightbulb!
+
Ah, I get it.
...
____ _________ _ ________ _______________
\__ \/ ________\_______________| \ ____\_______\_______\_______ /
/ \ / | ___/ \ ______ / | \ .|. \_ | ___/ \_____ \ _/ /
/ \/ | \___ \/ ___/ __/ | \|.|____| | \___ \ | \ _______/
_/ || : / \ \___ \ : .|.|. | | / \ | \_____/
\ ||_____/ \ / \__ __|\./| | |_/ \_| /
\____| /_________/ \|___| |\./|________|/_________\|_____/
--.________\ .|\./|. _.--
~\^.\_ |\\.//| _/.^/~
\--.|\ _ |\\.//| _ /|.--/
`\--.| \ |\\.//| / |.--/'
\---.|\ `|\./|' /|.---/
`~\--.|\ |\./| /|.--/~
~_\ .\ `|.|' /. /_~
_ _ -_^_^_^_- \.\\://./ -_^_^_^_- _ _
~~ - -/_/_/-~^~^ .|. ^~^~-\_\_\- - ~~
|||
...
What
Radio
station
do
you
listen
to??
hmmm??
elit0 radi0
FM___________________________________________________________MHz
|∙___88___∙___92___∙___96___∙___100___∙___104___∙___108___∙__ |
I[|]_________________________________________________________ I
| ∙53 60 70 80 100 120 140 170 |
AM_______________________________________________________x10 kHz
(PS. you are right, travis, I do have WAY too much time on my hands.)
...
Smilies from hell...
V> hey lets have a face contest... i'll start it off... here's mine....
V> :)
V> :-)
V> :]
V> *:)
V> B)
V> ;)
V> o-)
TW>
TW> those are all pretty orginal
TW>
TW> check mine
TW> :>
TW> =)
TW> =]
TW> 8)
TW>
TW> neat huh
> haha... how bout this...
> =:-)
OR> You are sad sad little person...sad sad. Sad.
G> @|8^D (c) Grifter 12/04/95 mine kix :)
NI> ?:) <--elvis
NI> :? <--jean chretien
NI> #) <--the only smiley I use, for some reason
NI> ,,,^..^,,, <--a cat peeking over a fence (I didn't make this one up)
NI> @) <--some fella with a black hole for a face
NI> +-:( <--boohoo there's a four-leaf clover in my head
NI> $O <--arghh there's a red hot shishkabob stuck to my face
NI> :ß <--hyuk hyuk
NI> :╙) <--my nose rocks
NI> asdfasaf s ah screw it.
SE>
SE>
SE> )
SE> (
SE> _ .)
SE> /(|@ _ \/
SE> (_ )
SE> \(|@ /
SE>
SE> woo.. ;)
DE> I just can't see it properly...
CT> It's a guy smiling.
N> A slug walking into a crush-o-matic.
SE> well, Cthulu was more accurate at decoding my smiley, but your
SE> interpretation is much more entertaining =)
CK>
CK> :}
CT> A smilie of deepest interest... the pointed lip... chapped perhaps?
CT> Or a pointed tongue, forked with duplicity?
CK>
CK> Mine own signet "smilie". Vulpine and graceful (as I must consider myself)
CK> ::::wry grin, to the extreme:::
CK> Neither...<ahem>..chapped nor feigning. :}
BT>
BT> how about a hindu?
BT> @:)
GR>
GR> how about some oriental guy
GR> <|I
SY> |) (guy with elite lizard-mon-esque sunglasses)
...
From 3DS to ascii isn't that big a transition after all....
...
GR>
GR> and using objects from the 2D editor and using different paths in
GR> the 3D lofter... it's alot easier now, with some good basics..
GR> that boolean function is going to help me out alot, the way i
MA> What boolean do? I havent used it yet.
GR>
GR> hmmmm ok.. you have two objects... lets say two boxes... one
GR> inside the other.... as long as a face of the object is touching
GR> the face of the other object, you can do a boolean operation...
GR> and add, or subtract one object from the other.... with the two
GR> boxes, you can make a 5 sided "open" box, instead of a "solid" box
GR>
GR>
GR> -------------------
GR> \ \---------------\ \ open you can "punch" holes
GR> | \ \ | \ \ depth in objects
GR> | \ \ | \ \
GR> | \ \---------------\ \
GR> | --------------------
GR> | | |
GR> | | |
GR> | | |
GR> \ | |
GR> \ | |
GR> \ | |
GR> \|-------------------|
GR>
...
Do you ever get the feeling they're laughing at us?
S> Frightening, is it not?
D> What's frightening is I saw a poster in the Cap College library that read:
D>
D> ---------------------
D> | |
D> | Illiterate? |
D> | |
D> | Write for |
D> | free |
D> | Information! |
D> | |
D> |-------------------|
...
Just to get the point across...
H> iiiiiiiiiiiiiiiiiiiiiiiiiiiiiiiiiiiiiiiiiiiiiiiiiiiiiiiiiiiiiiiiiiiiiiii
OWI> You have driven me over the edge.
OWI>
OWI> Me ------> :> ---------| <----- My direction
OWI> You-----> :> |
OWI> |
OWI> |
OWI> |
OWI> |
OWI> |
OWI> |
OWI> |
OWI> ___ SPLAT!
OWI>
CO> No offense, but that last remark went way over my head.
CO>
CO>
CO> o s s h h !
CO> o_,=> => => =>
CO> w w w o /
CO> => => => => => / [MY HEAD]
CO>
CO>
CO> the humor evades me..
ZW> You know, if it wasn't for that diagram, I think the point of your
ZW> message would have totally missed me... thank god for Ascii!
ZW>
ZW> at first I thought it was some kind of heat-seeking missile tho, until I
ZW> saw the message below...
ZW>
ZW> I'm just confused..oh well.
...
But don't diagrams just make it that much easier to understand?
HA> Silly bloodsucking parasitical alligators.
OHI>Is he anything like a politician? I heard they are are quite similar.
OHI>I mean look at the evolutionary scale.
OHI> |<--\
OHI> | |
OHI> | |
OHI>Pink Aligator--> | |
OHI> | |
OHI> | |
OHI> | |
OHI>Politicains----> | |
OHI> |
OHI>A not so Smart Rock--|
> Dump those nonsensical feelings here.
> .
>
>
> |
> |
> \_/ or ----> here
> here
>
>
>
> \
> \ |
> ___|
> and certainly here
>
G> But was posted to All. A smart kid I tell ya'.
OR> oh yes quite bright.
OR>
OR> Forest Gump------>| 75 IQ
OR> |
OR> |
OR> |
OR> |
OR> | 0 IQ
OR> |
OR> |
OR> Big Time----------|
OR>
OR> Hello my name is Big Time but you can call me Big Time.
...
Transferring pornography to ascii doesn't prove too effective...
JB> school with big time lesbo sex and cheezy "MAKE YER DONG LONGER BY 20inches
JB> ads.. it never effected me..really..
JB>
JB> #@?>! must get THE 109029409403 INCHER!
CT>
CT> :)-<-------------------------------
JB>
JB> eeeee!
JB>
JB> Xrated ascii!
JB>
JB> :(-<-----------||---||---
JB>
JB> / \
JB> |
JB> |
JB> Tire Tracks! OUCH!
...
So, what do you think about this kind of ascii, anyway? Is it scanned in?
/T /I
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T\ Y I |/ / _
/T | \I | I Y.-~/
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\ ~-. "-. ` \ ^._ ^. "-. / \ |
..--~-._ ~- ` _ ~-_.-"-." ._ /._ ." ./
>--. ~-. ._ ~>-" "\\ 7 7 ] Hawk's Nest
^.___~"--._ ~-{ .-~ . `\ Y . / |
<__ ~"-. ~ /_/ \ \I Y : | 1 Gig Storage
^-.__ ~(_/ \ >._: | l______
^--.,___.-~" /_/ ! `-.~"--l_ / ~"-. 28.8 Connection
(_/ . ~( /' "~"--,Y -=b-. _)
(_/ . \ : / l c"~o \ 275 - 8296
\ / `. . .^ \_.-~"~--. )
(_/ . ` / / ! )/
/ / _. '. .': / ' We need your
~(_/ . / _ ` .-<_ help!
/_/ . ' .-~" `. / \ \ ,z=.
~( / ' : | K "-.~-.______// Just recover
"-,. l I/ \_ __{--->._(==. from our three
//( \ < ~"~" // system down!
/' /\ \ \ ,v=. ((
.^. / /\ " }__ //===- `
/ / ' ' "-.,__ {---(==-
.^ ' : T ~" ll
/ . . . : | :! \\
(_/ / | | j-" ~^
~-<_(_.^-~"
...
Not yet... not until it's as good as ETANA'S birthday cupcakes...
MOP> DEC 10 is MY 20th BirfDay!!!!!!!..........HAPPY BIRFDAY TOO ME!!
MOP>
MOP>
MOP> . . . . . . .
MOP> ! ! ! ! ! ! !
MOP> l=============l
MOP> l_____________l
MOP> l l
MOP> -------------------
MOP>
MOP>
MOP> **************************************
MOP> Original Art done by -<M.o'P>-
MOP> Woop!!..I've now drawn on a TABnet post does that quallify me for MIST??..:)
...
What a sig...
SE> Re: My Triumphant Return!!!
SE> hello all..
SE> i'm back.. now that i see tab is still tab and not tribe.. yay!!!
SE> =)
SE> did you miss me???
SE> _ __
SE> / __ __ __ /
SE> \<_ /\ \ /|\ |<_ /\ \ / <--
SE> _/ \_ \ \/ | | \_ \ \/ \__ \__
...
What is tab? (aside from the new home to ascii art in the 604?)
WI> your wrong
WI> tab is..
WI>
BE> _ /;
BE> \o O
BE> =( )=
BE> U
ZW> How about 'The net formerly known as the net formerly known as Tabnet'..
ZW> shortened to TNFKATNFKATnet
ME> You uncultured buffoon,
ME> it's Bill the Cat,
ME> .
ME> ._\,/;~
ME> \o.0 ACK! THPFTHT!
ME> .-(_;_)~
ME> U `
ME> Heyy... that looks better. Sort of.
ET>
ET> Before this enlightenment I thought it was merely
ET> A funny looking ASCII cat.
ET> très cool..
TJ>
TJ> |\/\/\/|
TJ> | |
TJ> c (o)(o)
TJ> | __)
TJ> \ )--)
TJ> \_______________________
TJ> \ Don't have a cow!!! |
TJ> |______________________|
%%
%%birthdays!
Cthulu
Birthdays!
D CDue to Mist's disconcerting habit of releasing seasonal, as opposed to
Cmonthly, packs, we've been forced to seperate our birthday listing into
Cfour seperate months...
Cso, without FURTHER ado...Chere are Mist members who have celebrated
Cbirthdays since our last pack. Shower them with gifts of wine, women and
C Csong.
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Whoops, silly me... the Son of God isn't a mist member... I'll have to cross
him off of the Memberlist... he's probably in ACiD or something anyway...
%%
%%cthulu's
Cthulu
Cthulu's News
CTHULU'S NEWS
The past few months have been filled with anticipation, despair and
frustration as we very nearly merged with Integrity, our longtime rivals,
and almost ureunited with the plethora of Mistigris alumni who formed it,
consolidating the 604 for the first time since Imperial. But then at the
last minute they decided to merge into Acid instead. It figures...
Though now they don't get their birthdays listed every month! Ha!
This does eliminate them as a threat, but their position seems to have been
replaced by our former selves, the Fire revival, which currently has more mist
ansi drawers in it that mist does! Zoltar, The Extremist, Eerie, Halaster,
p#1... we had 'em, and I guess we lost 'em too... but I still get to whine
about it a little bit... this is an editorial after all.
I sound pathetic enough already... time to move on. Mist is finally churning
out some utils, and this pack contains the Ansi Art Gallery, a BBS door by
Sylphid; DDIR, a sauce-reading dir substitute by Derr Kapoo; and a
file_id.diz importer for those of you who use Telegard by White Insanity.
Other utils are in the works, including a (rumored) new version of Pablo?
No one wants to say for sure, but the source has been moved around quite a
bit recently. Netsafe is also back into play, though not in a releasable form
as of yet.
Mist is finally on the net! The internet division, headed by Wotan and Dr.
CPU, are working on a deluxe web page at this very moment giving us a web
pages to rival the webbiest of them out there... the finished product will
allow you to apply on-line! (just what you're all dying to do, I'm sure) and
to pick up those elusive past mist packs which nobody ever saw due to our
eminently sucky distribution.
That reminds me - we need sites. If you can snag us an artist or two and are
willing to poll the net for us, you get granted the official status of HQ.
What kind of HQ? Whichever kind you want!
Back to the web page... we'll also have annotated and illustrated records of
all of our members, including interviews, profiles, and examples of their
snazziest artwork. Links to fellow groups as well are a feature that need not
be flogged to death. All of this started again by our dear old Derr Kapoo
(aka Dr. CPU) and our new member Wotan. Thanks, guys!
And in case you thought that I was going to go off on the supreme tangent
and forget the actual relevant information, the page can be found here:
http://www.geopages.com/Athens/1758/mist.html
So ring it up, get informed, enlightened, and apply.
Mist projects coming up? Howabout them tee shirts, mm? Designs are still
coming in from members of our VGA staff, but nothing solid has been
established yet... there would be three or four designs to choose from, in
light and dark colours, and all in large large sizes. In addition, each shirt
would come with a snazzy Mist decal to stick on your computer, guitar, little
sister's face, or what have you.
Concrete, the world's most overblown e-mag, has taken a few mind-bending
paradigm shifts and has ended up as a real-life 'zine... it'll be seen on
paper, and perhaps on the web... but not as an e-mag... yet.
Did you know that in addition to the original meaning of the word Mistigris,
a variation of poker in which all the jokers are wild, it also is french for
'alleycat'? You learn something new every day, I tell you.
Mistigris and the rest of the 604's musicmaking community are taking the
opportunity to present to you a music disk featuring the best of the
music from this area code... big, bold, and nice to listen to. It also
contains Admiral Skuttlebutt's final song (his first .S3M), and contributions
from Happy Fetus Records, Radiance, Sonic Equinox, Digitronic, Digitallusions
and the final few songs of old-school hardcore acid techno group EuphoniX.
This should be out sometime during the Christmas vacation.
Also to be released in the next few fortnights will be the special Mistigris
christmas pack. It may get to you after christmas, or the 'holiday season'
(in an effort to be as PC as possible) but we hope that the spiritual sense
of depression and unfulfillment associated with this time of year in modern
times will incite you to join Mist anyway. And if it doesn't, then, well...
enjoy the art. It'll be out VERY soon... and regularly after that.
Yes, Mistigris is going to try to uphold its commitment to release monthly
packs from now on... they won't be as good, but they won't be as large and
ungainly either, and perhaps it will result in someone actually SEEING them.
Heaven forbid...
I'd like to take this spot to point out that many mist members have recently
begun to draw ansi whereas they did not before. I can but applaud these
travails publicly, but can't really figure out how to segue into it seamlessly,
so as a result I'm simply mentionning it here. Congratulations.
This month's pack (correction: september's pack) was supposed to be our G.I.
Joe pack, filled to the brim with GI Joe-ish goodness and coordinated by
Mavrik... as you can see, this did not happen. The most comparable work to
this theme contained within this pack would be the Rememberance Day
collaboration between Mage and I, but its message goes far beyond "And knowing
is half the battle."
Our selective breeding program is reaching its final stages and it may be
possible to attain the Kwisatz Haderach within only one more generation if we
can somehow combine the Atreides and Harkonnen bloodlines by marrying off
Alia to Feyd-Rautha. Then we'll REALLY show those Bene Tlieaxu.
Stumbling into our second year with the grace of a lame antelope, we can only
hope that the strange, wild trip will mellow out a bit in the coming months.
That and to gain a few new members. (Can that be plugged too much in one
newsletter? I think not...)
POSTSCRIPT -
Competition has arisen in the 604 again in the form of White Insanity's new
group, Foetus. If it becomes too popular we may simply be forced to allow it
to rape us as Integrity did a year ago, but hopefully it won't come to that.
'Mist '96 - We don't like having sore asses.'
POST POSTSCRIPT -
Thanks to Nitnatsnoc for the interface, Questor for the coding of the beast,
and The Pope for sacraments, blessings, and the music.
%%
%%ddir
Derr Kapoo
DDir
──────────────────────────────────────────────────────────────────────────────
DDir v0.56ß -- A Cool Canadian MiSTiGRiS Production by Dr. Cpu [MiST]'95
DDir v0.56ß Copyright (c) 1995, All Rights Reserved.
Please send any comments/bug reports to drcpu@freenet.vancouver.bc.ca
──────────────────────────────────────────────────────────────────────────────
This program is still in ßeta. It is being used as a wide
ßeta so that everyone can try out the program and give some
input of what they would like to see changed/added/removed.
Please send any comments or suggestions to
drcpu@freenet.vancouver.bc.ca (via Internet that is). If
you don't have an Internet account (solution: get one =8))
then you can reach me via Kitschnet (netmail me via
15:170/20). If you have no idea where to find Kitschnet
then you can probably reach me via Fidonet (netmail me
via 1:153/859.1).
This program is similar to the normal DIR command that DOS
provides. However, it includes a bit more than the boring
old DIR command. It includes reading in some information
about the file (ie., SAUCE records that many art groups
are using now). Also, it seeks inside music files (ie.,
XM, MOD, MTM, and S3M for now) and retreives the music
title that the composer named it. Another feature it has
over DIR is that it includes a FILE_ID.DIZ viewer (enable
by the command line) for ZIP files. (Do note, it creates
a temporary directory called DD¡R.TMP to store the
FILE_ID.DIZ when extracted, and also you must have
PKUNZIP.EXE in your current directory or path in order to
enable this option.) Finally, it displays the resolution
of the GIF/JPEG/JFIF files.
The program is somewhat similar to the shareware program
from ZanySoft(c) (ZDir). It uses a predefined colour
scheme for the directory listing. The colour scheme isn't
the best and won't suit everybody's character/taste. That
is why I created a second utility (DDIRCFG) to configure
the colour scheme to your liking. It doesn't configure
all of the colours that are shown to you yet.. (I'm getting
there). DDIRCFG should be included in the package where
you got DDIR. DDIRCFG.CFG should also be in the package.
You *MUST* place DDIRCFG.CFG in the same directory where
you put DDIR.EXE or else it has no idea where to find the
configuration file (the result is a ugly gray directory
listing). If you lost DDIRCFG.CFG for some strange reason,
get it from the original package of DDIR or run DDIRCFG -D
and it will create a DEFAULT configuration file in the
current directory. (Note: It is not neccessary to keep
DDIRCFG.EXE around but it is up to you.)
Syntax: DDir [Options:/[P,W,A,G,1,2,3,4,D,N,S,T,!,F]] [Pathname]
Options:
─[Display Control]─────────────── ─[Sorting]───────────────────────
/P Page Display /N Sort by Name
/W Wide (Column) Display /S Sort by Size
/A Display Author is Sauce /T Sort by Time
/G Display Group in Sauce
/1 Disables Size Display
/2 Disables Date Display NOTE: /D needs PKUNZIP.EXE OR
/3 Disables Time Display UNZIP.EXE in path
/4 Disables Description Display /A /G works best if used
─[Miscellaneous]───────────────── with /1 /2 /3
/D Check for FILE_ID.DIZ
in ZIP Files
/? This Help Screen
/H This Help Screen
/! Display only Sauce Info (/A /G /1 /2 /3)
/F:filename.ext redirects the display to a file (to filename.ext)
Pathname:
Pathname = [drive:][pathname][file mask]
[file mask] can contain all legal DOS wildcards (ie., * and ?).
By running DDIR /? or /h, you can get the available options
presented to you (so you don't have to memorize all of
this). However, most of the options will be somewhat
similar the to DOS's DIR command.
Dr. Cpu / MiST
InterNet drcpu@freenet.vancouver.bc.ca
drcpu@blaze.bc.ca
http://www.geopages.com/Athens/1758 or visit MiST's page at
http://www.geopages.com/Athens/1758/mist.html
IRC #mist, #ice, #acid (under drcpu)
KitschNet 15:170/20 FidoNet 1:153/859.1
%%
%%porn!!!
Etana
Porn on the 'Net
Tina Cooper
Communications 110
Tutorial Number: D.1.09
October 19, 1995
CyberScare: Pornography and the Internet
Even though the Internet has been around and been used by universities and
other institutions for many years, it is only this past year that the concept
of "cyberspace" has exploded int popular culture. Radio stations provide email
addresses for requesting songs, movie advertisers have started to add World
Wide Web sites to their newspaper ads and major providers are raking in the
money; America Online provides Internet access to 2.5 million people. Like all
media formats that have preceded it, the Interent's rapid growth has given it
some serious growing pains and, like all media before it, the issue of how
much we can see and say with this new technology has been brought to question.
The issue of pornography has been one of the hottest and most controversial of
the latter 20th century; "In a Time/CNN poll of 1,000 Americans conducted last
week [June 1995] by Yankelovich Partners respondents were sharply split on the
issue: 42% for FCC [Federal Communications Commission]-like control over
sexual content on the computer networks, 48% were against it." (Elmer-Dewett,
Time Magazine)
This paper will explore this issue of whether the Internet should be
censored for obscene material and the fact and fiction surrounding this issue.
The views of people from many differnt walks of life shall be touched upon, as
well as what the politicians are doing to guide the Internet to its future and
my own personal view of what cyberspace shoud be.
The statement pornography can be found on the Internet is a serious one
because the nature of much of this porn being of the style that can't be found
on the average magazine rack: "pedophila (nude photos of children), hebephilia
(youths) and what the researchers call paraphilia--a grab bag of "deviant"
material that includes images of bondage, sadomasochism, urination,
defecation, and sex acts with a barnyard full of animals." (Elmer-Dewett,
Time Magazine); any one of these styles of pornography would make many average
citizen squeamish, queasy or, at the very least, thoroughly disgusted.
Previous to the Internet, such material was buried deep in an underground
pornography culture and finding this material required a person to leave their
homes and physically search it out; the physical effort provided a barrier
that most people did not cross. Even less deviant forms of pornography such as
triple-X rated movies had the barrier of proof of age, requiring that the
viewer was an adult. What frightens many people is that fact that on the
Internet such barriers are lost; pornography can be v
iewed in the comfort of
one's home and it can be accessed by anyone, regardless of age. The mere
thought of children having this kind of access sent parents and educators
everywhere into a frenzy. The Interent was said to contain millions of such
pornographic images and reading material, and reports of child molesters
trying to lure children off the Interent began to surface. The public
panicked, and groups like the Family Research Council and the Christian
Coalition, began banging down the doors of their government representatives.
Considering the speed at which the Internet came into the public scene,
the speed at which the government responded to this demand is commendable. In
the spring of 1995, the Senator Exon's bill--now infamous throughout
cyberspace--known as the Communications Decency Act (CDA) was brought before
the Senate. The gist of the CDA was that all pornography and explicit language
would be banned, and the Internet providers criminally liable for any obscene
communications by their patrons. The bill was passed by the Senate in June of
1995, 84 to 16.
Some cheered for the passing of the bill, but many cried out "First
Amendment"; that any restrictions would trample their right to free speech.
The outcry came from all sides; "House Speaker Newt Gingrich has spoken
out...calling it, 'clearly a violation of free speech...a violation of the
rights of adults to communicate with each other'", (O'Connor, http://www.
sjmercury.com/netmyth.htm); "Mike Godwin, staff counsel for the Electronic
Frontier Foundation, complained that the indecency portion of the bill would
transform the vast library of the Internet into a children's reading room,
where only subjects suitable for kids could be discussed." (Elmer-Dewett, Time
Magazine); and the cry echoed like the rumble of thunder throughout
cyberspace, taking the form of 1500 printed pages, 115,000 signatures gathered
in a scant five months against the Exon bill, that Senator Leahy was able to
display for his colleagues, (Center for Democracy and Technology, http://www.
cdt.org/cda.html). Many also fear that if the provders were made responsible
for the actions of its patrons, the providers will start scanning email and
entering the realm where privacy is lost in the interest of public safety.
Some parents were shocked that people would dare risk the minds and safety
of the country's children EVEN in the interest of free speech. What of the
gross pornography? According to the net veterans, even though anyone can
access pornography once they find it, the chances of fiding are remote:
"Just 217 of the 50,000 sites are listed under the category
of sex, a mere 0.4 percent of the total. A handful indeed
deal with topics many people find objectionable:
beastiality, masturbation, [etc.]... Of the rest, 85 are
commercial locations, some from Playboy, Penthouse and
Hustler magazines. And 95 sites are further categorized as
gay, labels that do not necessarily mean the sites contain
any explicit sexual content." (O'Connor, http://www.
sjmercury.com/netmyth.htm)
Others, such as Internet verteran David Slifka, go on to say that "the danger
of being bombarded with unwanted pictures is greatly exaggerated. 'If you
don't want them, you won't get them.'" (Elmer-Dewett, Time Magazine). Still,
what of the danger of child molesters, allegedly drawn by the obscene
material, to children online? Even though there have been ten or twelve high
profile cases of children being lured off the Internet into real danger, there
is no evidence that suggests that such risks are greater than the risks faced
by children regularly in the real world. (Elmer-Dewett, Time Magazine).
Furthermore, the means for concerned parents and educators to protect children
from obscene material has already come into play. Software, such as SurfWatch
1.0, has already been released that allows adults to pick which sites their
young people will have access to and a SurfWatch subscription constantly
updates a list of pornographic sights that would be blocked at the user's
station, (SurfWatch, http://www.surfwatch.com/surfwatch/pr515.html).
It is this attitude of parent control, rather than government control,
that provided the setting for the introduction of the Cox/Wyden bill to the
House of Representatives which "protects cyberspace from government intrusion
and recognizes parental control possibilities." (Center for Democracy and
Technology, http://www.cdt.org/publications/pp230804.html). This would put the
responsibility of what our children see in the hands of the parents and
educators rather than the Internet providers or government agencies. This bill
also recognizes the fact that the American government doesn't really have any
jurisdiction over the Internet to begin with. The Internet is a world wide
communication network, and getting the United States government to define what
is acceptable or unacceptable for the entire Internet is absurd.
When all these issues and politics are boiled down to their essence, what
is left is the basic question that was there all along, how far do we take
free speech on the Internet? For the past four years I have been an active
member of the cyberspace community. I have mainly stuck with the local
community that exists within the 604 calling area, which has been an active
community of average people far longer than the Internet and has already
experienced what happens when censorship is put in place and the real nature
of free speech. Message networks, like smaller independent verions of the
World Wide Web, that have tried to enforce strict censorship codes on the
users, have come up with mixed results. FIDOnet has a censorship policy that
prohibits indecent language and strictly regulates topic discussion; FIDO's
rule book is allegedly 100 pages long. Parents would have no qualms about
sending their child to this net, which is primarily populated by young and
middle-aged adults. Yet when you examine the discussions on the net you find
their topics to be silly and frivolous, primarily meaningless chatter as the
users seem to avoid serious topics, fearing the wrath of the FIDO sysops. It's
a safe environment, but stagnant and going nowhere.
I was fortunate to be lead to one of the most fascinating message networks
that I've ever come across. TABnet is a small but completely free speech
network. TAB has a document that new users are encouraged to read, but it
contians no rules--only guidelines. I am sure many censorship advocates would
look down upon TABnet, saying a network of this nature would promote anarchy
and an unproductive environment. I would also have to give TABnet a PG-13
rating, but this is a primarily for the use of obscene language--in the TABnet
guide, swearing is not prohibited, but recommended that it is only used if it
adds to a point--and most children can find swearing in their favourite action
movie. This network is a place where young adults can express their views on a
variety of topics without fear of reprisal; we can say exactly what is on our
mind without having to filter it to make it politically correct. We take this
freedom with great seriousness and use it to discuss everything from religion
to the implications of up-and-coming technology on the world we live in. Even
without official enforceable laws, TABnet regulates itself. When a person who
isn't ready to accept the responsibility that comes with freedom of speech
comes to TABnet, they find themselves against a united TAB community; a
close-knit community drawn together by our ability to be completely open with
one another. This person will soon find that their words aren't being received
well and such a person usually either cleans up their act or leaves the net of
their own accord--no one, in TABnet's two year history, has ever been thrown
off the net.
TABnet represents to me the ideal future of the Internet; an environment
that regulates itself, and where ideas and issues can be discussed seriously
and openly. The Cox/Wyden bill also recognized this power of free speech and
the massive response from people on the Internet that indicates how much
people already care about it and believe in its power. This powerful new voice
was heard on August 4, 1995 when the House of Representatives approved the
Cox/Wyden 'Internet Freedom Bill, 420 to 4 (Center of Democracy and
Technology, http://www.cdt.org./publications/pp230804.html), but the battle is
far from over. With this bill being passed by the House of Representatives, it
sets up the stage for a direct battle between the House and Senate on the
future of the Internet; pitting the Senate approved Exon bill against the
Cox/Wyden bill.
The Interent has been likened to many things including a superhighway and
a vast library, but perhaps the best description of the Internet is that of a
great city. In a city there are huge amounts of information to taken in,
sights to see and people to meet. People can stroll through coffee shops and
discuss relevant issues with patrons, they can visit galleries and take in a
bit of culture and they can explore vast libraries where all the knowledge of
the world can be accessed with a click of a button. Cities aren't perfectly
safe though, and there are people and sights in the city that some often wish
they didn't see, but such sights are few and must be searched out to be found.
No parent would dream of dropping their young child in the middle of
downtown Vancouver alone, and the Internet should be considered with the same
caution. Children, even in our day and age where they possess a greater
knowledge of computers than their parents, should walk the streets of the
Internet on the hand of an adult.
...
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%%more
Cthulu
More Groups
[/┤NiBro] Animation Brothers
Founder : DÉMö∩ K∩iGh┼
Duration: New
New ANSI group. At least these guys look like they can actually scrape
together a few logos, even if they can't code. It's better than ASCII, I'll
give them that.
[CAHPGTCEITWFW] Canadians Against Honger Parents Giving Their Children
Everything In The Fucking World Front
Founder: Timewarp
Duration: New
A group, founded by the intrepid wearer of 60 dollar shirts, whose purpose is
to call out against the spoiling of immigrant children by giving them cars.
[CrC] ?
Founder: Big D.
Duration: New
Hacking / Phreaking / Cracking / Anarchy / Virus group. And people say that
these boys have too much time on their hands...
[DMN] Demolition
Founder: ?
Duration: New
604/internet courier group created by the merger of KTF, FTA and RIGID.
[FOETUS] Foetus
Founder: White Insanity
Duration: New
A split from mist? Let's just hope that it's not as persistantly overbearing
as our last offspring was. (Integrity)
[FTA] ?
Founder: ?
Duration: formerly unknown, merged into DMN
[IWIWAM] I Wish I Was A Mermaid
Founder: Mavrik
Duration: New
For those of us who simply possess the desire to lure sailors to their doom
with our haunting songs and beauty.
[KTF] ?
Founder: Quantum Neurologist
Duration: formerly unknown, now merged into DMN
[RIGID] ?
Founder: ?
Duration: formerly unknown, now merged into DMN
[SPLOP] Fuzznet E-Mag
Founder: Sylphid
Duration: New
New e-mag, based around the exploits of the members of FuzzNet... not released
yet.
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Mistigris Member And Site List
"
By the artists, for the artists
"
why not do something imaginative like DESCRIBE the artists, cth?
Good idea
...
Akasha
(
littist extraordinaire, victim of
c
thulu's correction
)
angst
(
disgruntled handle-swapper writes of childhood erotica
)
Beezd
(
logoist lost to
i
ll
c
ommunikation
)
Coyote
(
writer,
c
oncrete founder, and teeshirt organizer
)
Crowkeeper
(
master of shakespearian adjectives
)
Cthulu
(
m
i
st founder, spiritual leader, writer, collaborator, and not a
f
i
s
h
)
Cybernetic Soul
(
former
n
etsafe coder, lost to
i
ll
c
ommunikation
)
D'Artagnan
(
the fourth musketeer can write almost half as well as he can fight
)
Destro
(
shiny head and draws ansi, too!
)
Diamond Traveller
(
epitome of ansi artists - you forget about him, then he redefines ansi art
)
Dr. CPU
(
internet coordinator,
d
dir coder, app gen g
0
d, derr kapoo
)
Eoanya
(
ex
-
girlfriend writes about being cantonese trapped in a greek body
)
Etana
(
writes, draws ansi, and rides in
'
the beast
'
)
Eto
(g
oldview coder, bin lover, and
s
onic
e
quinox founder
)
Glue
(
inactive musician
)
Grateful Dead
(
poor grammar but we appreciate his lit anyway
)
Grim Reaper
(
Man shoots himself, grows flowers out of his head and draws too much vga
)
Helter
(
coder who got bopped a few times too many at daemon's gate
)
Image of Death
(
ansi artist who seems to have been silenced
)
Inwire
(
nice logos, but the name isn't as classy
)
Jmama
(
w
intermute claimed that you code for us, but we have no evidence to date
)
King Arthur
(
will we ever hear
t
hird
c
ontact?
)
Kurama
(
draws ansi, vga, and rip with the greatest of ease
)
Liquid Jesus
(
draws ansi logos when he's not walking across water
)
Livewire
(
wrote once or twice
)
Marauder
(
formerly worked with .mods, now in a studio
)
Mavrik
(
the avatar of
m
i
st's past glories in ansi, coding and vga
)
Maxwell
(
current
n
etsafe coder, token taunting presence of f
i
r
e
)
Melkor
(
codes spinning cubes, but he doesn't do sound!
)
The Pope
(
musician of
m
i
st and the immort
a
l
syndica
t
e
- coordinator of music disk
)
Praxis
(
draws ansi but doesn't get any
)
Questor
(
codes
k
ithe and draws bins over christmas vacation
)
Reanimator
(
if he was here, he'd write lit, compose music and render vgas
)
Sauron
(
he's writing, but no one's hearing him
)
Sentience
(
Man shoots himself, flowers grow out of his head - does all but courier
)
Solinari
(
ansi artist obsessed with cheese
)
Summonner
(
movie renderer obsessed with his physical appearance
)
Sylphid
(
writer who brought us
S
pamicus and the
A
nsi
A
rt
G
allery
)
Tzeentch
(
writes and produces one vga a year
)
Wetworks
(
latest in the 604's new crop of ansi drawers
)
Wodan
(
licks at ansi but rules the net and mist's web page
)
Zamfir Worshipper
(
waxes poetica
)
SITES:
C
http
:
//
www
.
geopages
.
com
/
Athens
/
1758
/
mist
.
html
Web page
The Screaming Tomato
(
604
)
430
-
8805
Nitty
/
Cthulu
WHQ
/
Net
C1ty iZ Burning
(
418
)
841
-
3410
The Extremist
CHQ
/
Net
The Regency
tregency
.
res
.
cmu
.
edu
Halaster
USHQ
/
Net
Daemon's Gate
(
604
)
948
-
0363
Mavrik
KiTSCHNet WHQ
/
Net
Harvest Moon
(
216
)
951
-
7059
Qur
'
An
Twingle HQ
/
Net
Camelot BBS
(
404
)
428
-
5227
King Arthur
Member
DoDEL
(
604
)
299
-
1354
Etana
Member
Legion of Knights
(
604
)
430
-
5918
Wetworks
Member
Shades of a Shade
(
604
)
540
-
7968
Ghost Writer
Member
The Fuzzy Doorknob
(
604
)
943
-
4626
Sylphid
Member
The Ne0n Jesus
(
604
)
942
-
3074
Praxis
Member
The Undiscovered Point
(
604
)
PRI
-
VATE
Dr
.
CPU
Member
/
Net
Transient Lunacy
(
604
)
261
-
2797
Sentience
Member
Virtual Delusions
(
604
)
984
-
6627
Summonner
Member
%%
%%mist
Cthulu
Mist on the 'Net
"Welcome to my parlour," said the spider to the fly.
Perhaps an obscure reference to the WWW, but it's fast and simple.
In any event, here is how to contact various Mistigris people and
places through the media's favorite buzzword, the Internet.
http://www.geopages.com/Athens/1758/mist.html
(Mistigris Home page - call it or poo)
cthulu@flame.blaze.bc.ca
(Cthulu - that's me)
Send me flowers, letter bombs, hate mail, questions, comments or apps.
tregency.res.cmu.edu
(The Regency - our USHQ has to be telnetted to)
drcpu@freenet.vancouver.bc.ca
http://www.geopages.com/Athens/1758
mattk@hooked.net
http://www.hooked.net/users/mattk!
(The addresses and pages of our two net experts,
Derr Kapoo and Wotan)
Want to contact an ansi artist?
vsze@cln.etc.bc.ca Kurama
bof@noif.ncp.bc.ca Liquid Jesus
praxis@nemesis.wimesy.com Praxis
dwiebe@direct.ca Platinum
davidr9@icebox.iceonline.com Solinari
A vga artist, perhaps?
robb@shivasys.com Grim Reaper
Howabout a musician?
jharrels@st6000.sct.edu King Arthur
tomsz@unixg.ubc.ca Marauder
a12323@mindlink.bc The Pope
renm8r@direct.ca Reanimator
A coder, even?
mickrobi@cln.etc.bc.ca Helter http://mortimer.com/users/helter/mw.htm
abukshi@cln.etc.bc.ca Melkor
What? You want to talk to a littist? You must be outta your head...
jeff_cheah@mindlink.bc.ca Coyote
dartgnan@haven.uniserve.com D'artagnan
kmitchel@freenet.vancouver.bc.ca (he has two because he's special)
livewire@cafe.net Livewire
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%%news
Cthulu
News
SEPTEMBER: OCTOBER:
In September In October
for a while I'll be host
I will ride The inevitable to witches, goblins
a crocodile passage of time and a ghost.
down the continues I'll serve them
chicken soupy Nile. chicken soup
Paddle once on toast.
paddle twice Whoopy once
paddle chicken soup whoopy twice
with rice. whoopie chicken soup
with rice.
NOVEMBER: DECEMBER:
In November's In December
gusty gale in its I will be
I will flop invisible a baubled bangled
my flippy tail onslaughts Christmas tree
and spout hot soup. with soup bowls
I'll be a whal! draped all over me.
Spouting once Merry once
spouting twice merry twice
spouting chicken soup merry chicken soup
with rice. with rice.
Four more months pass in the dreary life of a dying area code.
Since the death of Integrity, mockingly called a merger into ACiD, the flow
of art packs into the 604 has been reduced to a trickle. Long distance
callers and net activity have diminished dramatically, and only perhaps five
art boards remain open. To our eyes, the 'scene' has ceased to exist, but
the reason that we see nothing is more that we have been blinded than the
fact that there nothing out there.
Perhaps this aura of apathy could explain our peculiar apathy on the
matter of releasing packs... but as you can see, we finally beat ourselves up
enough to do it.
Now for s'more doom and gloom... here are the hordes and masses who've
left Mistigris for other groups:
Killrazor has left for a Senior Staff position in Motion and calling card
worries. The fact that Motion is now dead has not hampered this parting
in any way, and we expect him to revive it any day now.
Scribble returned to university until next summer, so we'll put him back in
at that point in time 8).
Cue For Agression drops the scene for school.
Elysius has decided that we, instead of getting Ice hand-me-downs, would be
getting instead Saga hand-me-downs. This was just too much. So he's out,
with his 8-year-old brother Smalls. (I hope he doesn't take it too hard).
The Extremist, one of our thirteen original members and ansi god a la
Kamikazee separated from us suspiciously about the same time that Quebec
tried to separate from the rest of Canada. Coincidence? I think not...
Finally, we've lost resident midget White Insanity (for the second time) to
his new group, Foetus. Luck to him, as long as he doesn't try to pull another
Integrity on us.
Now for a dollop or two of sunshine...
Fob returns to us under the handle of Liquid Jesus.
To appease the public's ravenous insatiability for more lit, we have recruited
Akasha, Crowkeeper, Sylphid, and our old feature Zamfir Worshipper to our
top-notch team of unread specialists.
A 'new' VGA artist returns to the scene after a sabbatical of 2 years
(partially out of revulsion at the scene and partially because he smashed his
monitor) ... Lord Extec.
Kurama, whom we had thought lost to Saga, returns to us in a fit of loyalty
suspiciously after Saga dies. We're not complaining...
An old applicant to ANSI, Lionheart of Morbid, finally gets accepted in...
as head of our new internet division, under the handle of Wotan! How
dreadfully confusing.
And for the remarkably indifferent news:
Killing Clown has changed his handle to Glue. Perhaps this switching of
identities will inspire him to actually compose something for us, but I
wouldn't hold my breath.
Guest artists in this pack include: Agnostic, Angst's brother, who wrote
several stories and poems; Zinnia Rock who has appeared with us in the past,
and Grateful Dead, Nitnatnoc and Mage of ACiD in various guest bit stints.
"Mist - We don't get any." - Praxis, 1995
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%%who
Cthulu
Who Are We?
This goes to show the true use of the internet. I was feeling rather
unknown one day, so I decided to see what the world thought of us.
The world sure is sick.
> just a brief propaganda blitz here... what does everybody think of when they
+hear the name Mistigris?
<everlast_> cthulu: shit. :)
> What do all NON-LEGEND members here think of when they hear the name
> Mistigris? 8)
<kahlyr> cthulu: an evil demon breathing fire on innocent wenches.
<sinned> that name is retarded.
> Or even when they hear the name "Mist"
<everlast_> cthulu: shit. :)
<skully> Cthulu : Mass Masterbation?
> Well, that was informative. I now know that my group is evil demons
> breathing fire on innnocent wenches, shit, and mass masturbation.
> goodbye 8)
The moral of the story is: #acid is not a home to intelligent
conversation.
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Ccontests... and now, as one, almost the entire community of this epic board
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This Issue
This issue of kithe: well, what about it?
This issue of Kithe makes a return to the old days with large, meaningless
poetry and rants being disguised as articles... check out the oneliners and
word art articles. We also, putting on our thinking caps, contain an essay
by Etana on pornography and censorship in cyberspace.
The interface was originally a menu template for the Magical Mystery Tour,
Beatle's board, drawn by Nitnatsnoc, but as it went down, nit lent it to us
(what a swell guy, mm?) as it was just psychadelic enough to fit in with the
mistigris theme of not being a fish.
We reward our members-of-the-month with a brand new reward, so don't miss it!
For the first time are the results of an opinion poll taken on the IRC. The
results may shock and offend you... We also whine about how we're picked on by
the other groups, then proceed not to do anything about it. So, as you can
see, it's not too much of a change from the old days.
Mist '95 - 'Here we go again...'
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Word Art!
Word Games... if you thought that we had bad lit before, just wait.
To debrief, for those of you alien to the concept: one user writes the first
line of a poem... then another user completes the couplet. This goes on for
quite some time. Then Cthulu captures it and puts it in Kithe.
N> Little Joe was a boy with a problem
Ha> He could not swallow anything, not even pablum.
P> if little joe didn't eat, he would starve
D> so he brought out some meat he could carve.
N> he was quite the artist, sculpting everything he could
Ct> Pumpkins, bird's legs, even sometimes wood.
P> sculpting became monotonous, little joe became quite bored,
N> So he stumbled into the basement, where he found a beauty of a sword
PE> He lunged for the thing, and grabbed the hilt,
C> It's edge was the sharpest and best ever built.
N> "Highlander" played on the TV, and his brain started to think...
A> And the sight of those kilts drove him right to the brink.
P> he set out to exterminate every frog on the planet,
C> to capture their Quickening and make Chris Lambert say, 'damnit.'
S> alas, for poor joey, this ended in failure
P> for the silly twit could not read tablature. (sorry nitty:)
C> Thus ended his dreams of being in a video with Queen...
N> So he instead wrote jingles for *NEW* Mister Clean
H> His catchy new ads led to instant success
Ct> And the company's new mascot - the bald guy in a dress.
P> he made millions of dollars just doing his thing,
M> With cuban cigars he'd make an enormous smoke ring.
N> The rings formed shapes, surreal and bizarre
P> he managed to trap, a few in a jar.
C> He used them instead to buy Chris Lambert's role,
S> then laughed with his belly, like old king cole.
P> on a whole new note, he blew on a trumpet,
N> There once was a man from Nantucket.
C> About whom it would be distasteful to discuss.
N> Oh, look what I've done! I've caused a fuss!
PE> This poem is coming along quite thoroughly
C> Though this "THE END" finishes it rather early.
More word games. These sure are fun.
H> Last tuesday I found that my parrot was gone
N> I went searching all over, right through til dawn
C> By the sun's early rays, my dear Polly was lost,
DH> i thought about the money i'd lost
D> i took out a gun, to shoot myself dead
D> but when i tried, i missed my head.
H> But took off my nose with that misguided shot,
N> and modified slightly the cold I had caught
D> the cold i had caught, fled with my nose,
H> Now blindfolded I can't distinguish a rose
H> From a less precious flower, domestic or rare,
H> So I must search for thorns with special care,
M> noseless and bleeding, i decided to go on,
N> "You have to find your parrot!" said a near-by prawn.
H> Which disturbed me somewhat, he was part of my dinner.
C> And the shrimpy souffle was certainly a winner.
H> At least 'til it talked, now my apetite's off,
C> So I put the dish down and walked on, with a cough.
N> The coughing persisted; I coughed-up dear Polly,
C> Held her aloft and I stated, "Oh golly,"
H> But wait, that's not Polly, she doesn't want crackers,
C> It's Dead cousin Fred, holding Bob the Hamster.
H> Fred's a bit worse for wear, but the hamster is dead.
H> No more on his hamster wheel
C> will little Bob tread.
D> when up on the roof there arose such a clatter
M> I sprung to my feet to see whats amatter
H> And lo, there before me was my lost parrot!
C> Shining, gooey, and holding a carrot.
H> But then she exploded! Those darn carrot bombs...
N> This story is worse than those found in Spawn
M> Hey you there, dont diss mr mcfarlane!
N> His books are worse than that sitcom with George Carlin!
M> I liked that show you stupid twit!
H> What? You don't agree with nit?
D> that's what he said.... <boy this is pathetic, someone end it!>
M>
M> then *kabang* and they all dropped dead.
M>
M> thE enD
And this final one... based on the first line of my first ever released poem
in the 'scene', some two years ago, in a NWA pack. Of course, no one in the
world will remember them, but I guess I'm just an old fart.
C> Come floating in a yellow sky
H> Your blue'll lend contrast to the eye
C> From open wound will seep the red
M> blood of life, you'll soon be dead
N> Green hair of yours glides gently in air
S> dissolves in mists of times we share
C> Sphincters slacken, yellow drips
A> Tracing paths down shattered hips
C> Body's fluids slowly drain
N> But with all to lose, and naught to gain
S> aching for what once was lost
P> cold hard nipples, from the frost.
N> White and yellow fall from the heavens
M> stopping for a slurpee at seven-eleven
H> where for eighty five cents it achieved nirvana
N> Inducing hallucinations of many a pirahna
M> when the slurpee's gone and the trip has stopped,
A> And handfulls of change have all been dropped
N> A new view on life hits you as you leave the store
S> you want SPAM, and you want MORE!
H> Strange what grape syrup and ice does to one's mind
A> Just one little slurp, and it strikes you blind
D> add some spam, and look what it does!
D> all over your tongue is this wierd purple fuzz!
D> one little lick is all it takes
N> I love Destro so much I will bake him cakes
D> got out the chocolate, betty crocker for him,
H> And added a nutra-shake so he would stay slim
N> The food kept on coming, he got fatter and fatter
D> the cake i didn't finish, he just ate the batter!
S> mountains of icing was heaped on the cake
H> Sticky sweet globs left behind in its wake
N> The cake augmented in weight, mass and presence
M> and he opened the gate in the fence.
H> An intelligent cake, it had no problem with the latch
D> the cake ran away, i made a new batch.
S> but this new treat went horribly awry
A> And at the sight, I began to cry
N> The cake pulled out a kleenex, out of nowhere, it seemed
H> (it's comforting powers are highly esteemed)
G> But not as comforting as KING KONG
ZW> Who soothes us all with his lullaby song.
P> then out from nowhere jumped a 105 story building
ZW> It tap-danced about and it started to sing!
H> Its soft soothing voice put the fightened mob at rest,
ZW> With lilting tune and irish jig, they knew he was the best!
N> Girls screamed and fainted, it was King Kong-mania
ZW> The riot squad was soon called in, but they all went insane-ia
P> they brought him into press conferences disguised as the fuzz
S> and shaved off his body hair, just because
G> then Dwayne showed up and ripped off his toupe
D> they screamed and shouted and burned him in hay
PR> because he's a real walking perfume counter character.
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