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|#~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~# ISSUE #122 #~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~_ ## |
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| Little Known Facts...........Page 4 Dimensions In The Dark (8)...Page 29 |
| WeIrD nEwS...................Page 5 Oh SWIFT! BITS!..............Page 35 |
| Hair Bags....................Page 6 I MYTHed That One!...........Page 36 |
| The Joker's Lair.............Page 8 Behind The HeadLines.........Page 40 |
| Phrase Craze.................Page 9 Historical BITS!.............Page 41 |
| Historical Facts.............Page 10 What's Wrong With The World? Page 42 |
| Laws Beyond Murphy...........Page 14 Mind Games...................Page 43 |
| Poetry -*- Drawer............Page 15 Great 1 Liners!..............Page 47 |
| HeadLine BITS!...............Page 16 Team Eeeek...................Page 48 |
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| * West Quaddy Head, Maine is the most eastern point in the U.S. |
| * Cuba's hummingbird is the smallest in the world; with the male weighing |
| only 7/100ths of an ounce. |
| * 4,000 miles a year is what the humpback whale travels on average. |
| * Geese can fly 5 1/2 miles above earth, that's higher than Mt. Everest. |
| * One billion a year is spent on cold relief medicines in the U.S. |
| * Mosquitoes comes in 1,500 different varieties. |
| * Footballs are made of cowhide, not pigskin. |
| * The most infectious disease in the world is malaria |
| * Every eight and one half seconds a baby is born in the U.S. |
| * President John Tyler fathered 15 children. |
| * In the kangaroo world, the male is called a boomer, female a flyer and a |
| baby a joey. |
| * There are over 25,000 phones in the Pentagon. |
| * There are about 16,000 conventions each year in the U.S. |
| * Voltaire, reportedly, drank 70 cups of coffee a day. |
| * On average, the depth of the Pacific Ocean is 14,000 feet. |
| * Yellowstone National Park has approximately 10,000 geysers. |
| * Every 17 minutes all the blood in the body passes through the thyroid |
| gland. |
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| WeIrD nEwS (2) |
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| FL: Poop Poop We Do! Delivers. Got someone who really is a poop-head? |
| Well this company will (for a price) deliver a bouquet of fresh cow |
| dung to the recipient of wrath. One lady got so peeved at receiving |
| one such token of afection, that she went to the State Health Dept. |
| Since cow manure is available at gardening shops etc on a wide scale, |
| it looks like this business is gonna be around! [ed: Life at Poo(h) |
| Corner...?) |
| |
| CA: In Costa Mesa, a 23 year old woman wanted to show a male friend her |
| prized collection. Only thing was, this collection turned out to be |
| a trash bag full of human organs. The man, less than impressed, made |
| a call to the cops who arrested her & found parts of a completely |
| dismembered male body in her apartment. [ed: You have to sleep some |
| time...] |
| |
| CA: A Doctor in Los Angeles was convicted of collecting MILLIONS of bucks |
| in fraudulent insurance claims. Well now he's collecting $256 each |
| month on State Disability - because he's stressed. [ed: It seems |
| that lying, cheating, and stealing can really put a tremendous amount |
| of pressure on ya...] |
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| "AUTO SAFETY TAKES A SLAP IN THE FACE: HAIR BAGS!" |
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| REPRINTED BY POPULAR DEMAND |
| In a move to counteract the controversy surrounding the Auto Industry's |
| experimental Air-Bag device, the 3 major Transportation companies announced|
| today the development of the next generation in safety: Hair-Bags. Similar |
| to their predecessors, which were designed to hide under the dashboard of |
| any auto until a collision occurred at which time the bags would fill with |
| air & absorb the impact of passengers against the window, the new devices |
| are designed to inflate and impact with passengers BEFORE the driver puts |
| the car in danger! The new cars, which carry on-board computers, will sense|
| the approach of any threatening object & send a blast of condensed air into|
| the bag which will jump from the dashboard in the shape of a punching bag &|
| pound the driver senseless. It's believed such a beating will eventually |
| train drivers, ala the famed Dogs Of Pavlov, to pay attention to what they |
| are doing or get the beejeebers knocked out of them! The only discussion |
| left for the developers is to determine which attack will provide better |
| results: one incapactating blow between the eyes or several jabs about the |
| face & body. An alternative to the quick attack theory, is to fill a burlap|
| sack with lint, coarse animal hair (Hence the name HAIR-BAG), & the mucous |
| of salivating bovines. This "HAIR BAG" is then extended into the face of |
| the driver as he commits his blunder, and rotated in a circular fashion to |
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| insure that every exposed bit of flesh is scoured. (This method has been |
| endorsed by the ASPCA as being safer for stray pets roaming in the path of |
| drivers being punished). Other safety features have been suggested to oper-|
| ate in tandem or in a series of escalating stages with the HAIR-BAG. In the|
| stage proposal, drivers committing violations would be met with various |
| escalating punishments culminating in the application of the HAIR-BAG. The |
| 1st punishment would force the driver to endure an hour of his mother's |
| pre-recorded voice, which would nag him about every mistake he'd ever made |
| in his life.; this while the driver was stuck in rush hour traffic. 2nd |
| stage might consist of breathing noxious odors which have been recycled |
| from the car's own exhaust system, or possibly from the drivers own bodily |
| processes. Another stage would set off the car's horn, calling attention to|
| the driver's incompetence while permanently erasing the driver's higher & |
| lower hearing ranges. The final stage before the HAIR-BAG application |
| would consist of spraying the driver's eyes with a solvent, symbolizing |
| the person open his eyes. |
| |
| Whatever the punishment, the HAIR-BAG is an idea whose time has come. |
| Look for these and other exciting developments at your local dealer or |
| wherever fine auto accessories are sold. |
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| The Joker's Lair (2) |
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| 2 kids decide it is time to swear. The 8 year old says to the 6 year old, |
|"Ok, you say ass & I'll say hell." All excited they go down & their mom asks|
| what they'd like for breakfast. "Ah hell," says the 8 year old, "gimme some|
| cheerios." His mother slaps him & sends him bawling. She turns to the other|
| & asks what he wants. "You can bet your ass it ain't cheerios." |
| |
| 3 guys out all night stop their car in the middle of the road because they |
| realize they are too drunk to drive. They see a farmerhouse & decide to ask|
| if they can crash there. The farmer comes to the door with a shotgun. The |
| first guy explains. The farmer agrees to let them spend the night in the |
| attic, but adds "y'all better not try & move, cuz we shoot first & ask |
| questions later around here!" About 1/2 an hour later the 1st has to use |
| the facilities. He goes downstairs when he sees the shadow of the big gun. |
| "WHO'S THERE?!" the voice booms as the gun gets raised. "Meow" says the med|
| student. "Damn cats!" growls the farmer & walks away. The guy returns to |
| the attic & tells the others what happened. The Law student then goes down |
| to find the same. "WHO'S THERE?!" booms the voice. "Meow" he says, the |
| farmer growls & leaves. He then returns to relay his story. The 3rd guy, |
| an engineering student then heads down. A voice yells "WHO'S THERE?!" |
| Quickly he replies, "No one here but us cats!" **** BOOM! **** |
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| Phrase Craze! |
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| * Jackpot: a big payoff or a great find. Believe it or not the word is |
| not brought to us from Las Vegas; but from poker. In draw poker, a |
| standard game, it requires the opener to have a pair of jacks or better |
| to open the pot. Frequently there will be one winner, the opener. It |
| became common to call the pots won by the person with a pair of jacks |
| only a jackpot. The term was applied by Las Vegas to slot machines and |
| has become common place since. |
| * Kingpin: The phrase was born in the second century. The Germans invent-|
| ed a game where they places wooden pins together forming a target. The |
| center pin was made larger than all the rest. The center pin was called |
| the kingpin. In the 1600s the Dutch took the German game, updated it |
| and renamed it nine pin. |
| * Knuckle down: to get down to business and do the work before you. The |
| term comes to us from the game of marbles. Marbles was once the nation- |
| al past time of England. The game has been around for centuries. When |
| an opponent thought about moving his marble without his knuckles on the |
| ground, his opponent would call out "knuckle down," meaning place your |
| knuckles down on the ground. Knuckles on the ground is one rule of mar- |
| bles. It came to mean get down to work and do what you need to do. It |
| has been with us since then and applied to nearly everything now. |
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| Little Known Historical Facts! |
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| * The Tae-Ping Rebellion broke out in 1850 and women fought along side |
| Chinese men. |
| * In 1909 the German military band played "God Save The King," 16 times |
| while it waited for the King of England to be welcomed. The King, well |
| he was busy getting dressed. |
| * In Equatorial Guinea it became compulsory for boys between ages 7 and |
| 14 to serve in the military. This by decree of President Francisco |
| Nguema in 1976. Yes, 1976. |
| * Iceland, Liechtenstein and Costa Rica have no armed forces. |
| * James Madison recommended the U.S. rent Protugal's navy rather than |
| build its own when war took place between England and the U.S. |
| * In November 1776 Margaret Cocran Corbin went to war as a Captain for her |
| fatally injured husband and fought at the Battle of Fort Washington. |
| * 16 percent of all the men in colonial America fought in the Revolutionary|
| War. |
| * The Battle Of Bunker Hill in 1775 was not a battle, no shots were fired. |
| * 8 men were killed in the Battle of Lexington |
| * Paul Revere just missed being charged with "unsoldierly behavior tending |
| to cowardice," just four years after his famous ride. Charges were |
| brought by Henry Wadsworth Longefellow's grandfather. |
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| Laws Beyond Murphy! |
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| * An object misplaced is in direct proportionate of its need. |
| * If you have lost something and go buy a new one, the old one will turn up|
| * The excitement of playing a SNES game is to complete the game and beat |
| the worlds. The disappointment is when it is over. |
| * There is a major difference between being alone and being left alone. |
| * If a politician says he will never do something during a campaign, you |
| can be sure he will do just the opposite if elected. |
| * Between being good or being lucky, I'll take luck! Though it is not as |
| reliable. |
| * If you allow someone else to run your life, then you might as well let |
| the waitress eat your dinner also. |
| * I'll never find a bag of money that fell of a Brink's truck, it is God's |
| way of keeping me honest. |
| * One should always send flowers to the person who fails to take the time |
| to smell the roses. |
| * It is easier to resist temptation when you grow older, but harder to find|
| the temptation to resist. |
| * Anyone who is continuously protesting and revolting against something, |
| ends up being revolting. |
| * There is always some truth in a lie. |
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| Poetry -*- Drawer "Thoughts 101a" (c)1992 C.Jaye Anders |
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| An empty coffee cup - it sits upon my kitchen table, |
| Makes me think that it's still morning though it's almost evening now, |
| The sunlight starts to whither from beneath the shadowed curtain, |
| And I think that I could write again if only I knew how... |
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| The greyness of the afternoon has spread into the present, |
| And I sometimes have to wonder if there's anyone alive, |
| I stare into the coffee cup as silence screams around me, |
| And I think that I could feel again if I could find the drive... |
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| I haven't seen a soul all day - the hermitage becomes me, |
| The world outside is just a dream I had one time before, |
| I'm sure that I could fall into the trap of playing rat race, |
| And I think that I could live again if I could die once more... |
| |
| An empty coffee cup - it sits upon my kitchen table, |
| Makes me think that it's still morning though it's almost midnight now,|
| The lifetime starts to weather from beneath the shadowed person, |
| And I think that I could write again if only I knew how. |
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| * One Acre Yields 100 Bushel Of Cats On Arkansas Farm |
| * New Lawn Mower Cuts, Mulcts Grass, Leaves |
| * Horticulturists Told To Spray For Months Over Weekend |
| * Turkestan Buys Tractors With Horses' Tails |
| * Corvallis Truck Farmer Uses Unions As Fertilizer |
| * Gift Of Bed Gives Family Fresh Start After Home Fire |
| * 16 Ounce Sailor's Baby Reported Doing Well |
| * Portland Rabbi Gives Birth To 20 Bunnies |
| * Childbirth In Russia Is A Group Activity |
| * Population Increase Involves Thousands Of To And From Moves |
| * Urges Special Care For Young Mother Of Four Or More |
| * Big Yielders Plan Family Night At Local Park |
| * Father Should Be Included In Planning For First Child |
| * Find Dead Infant Alive At Birth |
| * 9 Children Taken From Mother |
| * City Grows Despite Slight Population Increase |
| * Mother Of Four Born In England |
| * Birth Pills May Stop Accidents, Experts Claim |
| * Two-Headed Baby Recalls similar Birth In 1870 |
| * Inattentive Youngster Sometimes Needs Change |
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| B O A R D W A T C H M A G A Z I N E Announces: |
| The Boardwatch 100 Reader's Choice Bulletin Board Contest for 1993 |
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| WIN A FREE HIGH SPEED MODEM |
| Boardwatch Magazine is sponsoring a contest to find the 100 most popular |
| bulletin board systems in North America - and the ONE BBS most popular |
| among callers. The contest will run from January 1, 1993 through July 1, |
| 1993. Winners will be announced at the Online Networking Exposition and |
| BBS Convention (ONE BBSCON) held at the Broadmoor Hotel in Colorado |
| Springs Colorado, August 25-29, 1993. The Boardwatch 100 list will be |
| published in subsequent issues of Boardwatch Magazine and distributed in |
| electronic form world-wide. |
| |
| PRIZES FOR BULLETIN BOARD OPERATORS |
| 1ST PRIZE: Air fare, hotel accommodations and registration at ONE BBSCON |
| for one is awarded to the system receiving the most votes. Additionally, |
| the system will receive a free full-page black and white advertisement in |
| Boardwatch Magazine for a period of three months. An award trophy will |
| be presented at the ONE BBSCON and a feature story on their BBS will |
| appear in a subsequent issue of the magazine.. |
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| Boardwatch 100 Reader's Choice Bulletin Board Contest |
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| TOP 10: The 10 most popular BBSes selected by the voters will each receive |
| an award trophy during a special presentation at the Online Networking |
| Exposition & BBS Convention (ONE BBSCON) August 25-29, 1993. Additionally, |
| a story describing their system will appear in Boardwatch Magazine, they |
| will be included in a special TOP TEN BBS listing in the magazine, & will |
| receive a free 1/4 page black & white advertisement in 3 successive issues.|
| Finally, they'll be listed in the Boardwatch 100 BBS list. |
| |
| TOP ONE HUNDRED: The 100 bulletin boards receiving the most votes will |
| each be listed in the Boardwatch 100 readers choice BBS list. This list |
| will be published in Boardwatch Magazine and freely distributed |
| electronically on thousands of bulletin boards world-wide. |
| |
| PRIZES FOR VOTERS: All valid ballots submitted by voters will be entered |
| in a random sweepstakes drawing. As of the opening date of this contest, |
| prizes include TWO U.S. ROBOTICS COURIER DUAL STANDARD 16.8K MODEMS, two |
| HAYES OPTIMA 14400 + FAX 144 modems, & two ZyXEL U-1496 14,400 bps modems |
| - & more are on the way. A minimum of six valid ballots will be selected |
| from all entries & each will receive a free modem - from the most popular |
| modem manufacturers in the world. |
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| RULES FOR CALLERS: Each voter can vote once, for a single bulletin board |
| system. Each ballot must be fully completed, & individually mailed by each |
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| are three ways to vote: |
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| 1. Printout and complete this ballot and mail to: |
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| 2. Print out, complete this ballot and FAX to (303)973-3731. |
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| 3. Or, dial the Boardwatch BBS at (303)973-4222 and complete the online |
| ballot provided on the main menu. |
| |
| Balloting closes at 23:59:59, June 30, 1993. |
| |
| This contest is not limited to Boardwatch Magazine subscribers, and no |
| purchase of any kind is required to participate in this contest. |
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| NOTE: We held this contest during 1992 and it generated 11,152 votes by |
| the close of balloting for some 1250 different BBSes. The TOP system |
| received about 450 votes. Your individual vote can have a tremendous |
| impact on the outcome of this contest. Further, the odds of winning a |
| modem in last years contest, were 1 in 1394 (8 modems awarded). |
| |
| RULES FOR BBS OPERATORS: Bulletin Board Operators may encourage callers |
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| as though there was probably 90 to 100 feet of rope. I only hoped this |
| would be enough. I grabbed it and ran to the stairs leading to the |
| bungalow, leaving the lights in the garage blazing. I took the stairs |
| two at a time, when reaching the walkway I ran down it to bungalow 315. |
| |
| When I thought about this series of events later, I laughed about it. |
| Here I was hurrying to test a theory based on something Rod Sterling |
| made up for 'Twilight Zone'. |
| |
| Once inside I called out to Thomas. He answered and said they were |
| still there and everyone appeared to be alright. I explained to him |
| what my idea was. I told him his instinct was correct but the problem |
| could not be solved at the house, it had to be solved here. I took the |
| rope and after feeling my way over the dimensional door, I found the |
| opening, and threw the rope through the opening, holding onto one end. |
| Thomas yelled out that he had the rope. |
| |
| |
| "I'll try it first Carol. Then I'll be able to help you pull the rest |
| of them through the door. Take the rope end and tie it around |
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| something substantial, I don't think you are strong enough to hold my |
| weight." |
| |
| "Okay Thomas, give me a moment. I'll tell you when I am ready," I |
| responded. I assessed the bungalow area and saw an open support beam. |
| I pulled on the rope and when I had enough, I tied the end around the |
| beam. I yelled out to Thomas, "Okay, let's try it now." |
| |
| I saw the slack of the rope disappear. "Hold it Thomas, I haven't |
| checked the opening. I don't know how large it is. It might be too |
| narrow for you to fit through." Before I could finish my statement, I |
| saw Thomas's arm, then his shoulder come through the opening of the |
| dimensional door. Almost as quickly as he appeared through the door |
| his forward motion stopped. |
| |
| "I seem to be caught on something Carol. Grab my arm and pull." |
| |
| I took a firm grasp of his arm and began to pull. I could feel no give |
| to my pulling. I grabbed the rope with my left arm and tightened my |
| grasp on Thomas's arm with my right. I pulled as hard as I could. |
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| Suddenly something gave way, I fell backwards and Thomas was on the |
| floor next to me. My first thought was, 'thank you Rod Sterling'. |
| When I looked over at Thomas I could see he was in a great deal of |
| pain. |
| |
| "Are you alright?", I questioned. |
| |
| "I'm not sure," he whispered. His breathing was labored and his face |
| was as red as i had ever seen. "I feel as if I have a tremendous |
| weight on my chest. And my arm hurts," he agonized. |
| |
| I told him to lay back and try to relax. As he did this I placed my |
| fingers on his neck to feel his pulse. I watched the second hand on my |
| watch and counted. His pulse rate was up to almost 180. I untied his |
| tie and pulled it off, then took the studs from the top button of his |
| shirt and laid the collar open. I then felt his left arm, which he |
| said he thought was broken. I gently slipped his jacket off and |
| examined his arm. The bone, above the elbow, was protruding through |
| his long sleeved white dress shirt. I did not know if I could help |
| him, a compound fracture is extremely serious. |
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| "What's the verdict Doc?" Thomas asked, trying to make light of the |
| situation. |
| |
| "Well, your pulse rate was up to 180. It could have been higher than |
| that because there was some delay in my taking it. And your arm is |
| broken, the bone is, well, you won't be using this dress shirt again. |
| But you are alive." |
| |
| "Yes, I feel I am. The pain in this arm reminds me of this." He did |
| not speak for several minutes. He was, it was obvious, in painful |
| anguish. He lay there on the floor trying, it appeared, to gather his |
| strength to combat the pain he was feeling. |
| |
| "If this is what I experienced what is going to happen to the others if |
| we try to pull them through in the same manner?," Thomas finally |
| stated, in a matter of fact tone, gritting his teeth as the pain in his |
| arm surged. |
| |
| "We just can't take a chance, Thomas. You and I are the youngest ones |
| in the group. If your pulse rate went that high then think what could |
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| happen to rest of them. God, I think most of them are out of |
| condition. This would surely kill one or more of them." As my words |
| ended, Thomas and I saw the slack in the rope tighten again. I heard |
| Mr. Jacobs talking and saying he was coming through the opening. |
| Before Thomas or I knew what was happening Mr. Jacobs' arm and shoulder |
| appeared through the opening of the dimensional wall. Then his head, |
| and his other arm and shoulder. I reached over to grab him. As I did |
| I could feel him struggling against something which seemed to have hold |
| of him. |
| |
| "Pull", Thomas yelled. And with he right arm he reached out and helped |
| me pull Mr. Jacobs through the opening. |
| |
| Thomas fell back to the floor, exhausted. Mr. Jacobs lay on the floor |
| exactly were he landed when we pulled him through the dimensional wall, |
| face down. I felt a sudden tremble of agony in the deepest part of my |
| soul. I reached over to Mr. Jacobs, grabbed his shoulder and rolled |
| him over on his back. His eyes were opened and fixed, I felt for his |
| pulse, there was none. I tried CPR, Thomas gave him artificial |
| respiration while I pumped his heart. We continued this for sometime. |
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| Thomas would stop and take his pulse, still there was nothing. I would |
| not stop, I continued to push at Mr. Jacobs heart muscle, desperation |
| set in and I pushed faster. Thomas finally pulled me away. |
| |
| He held me close to his chest and whispered, "It's no use, he's dead." |
| I cried quietly burying my face against Thomas's chest. |
| |
| "We can't tell the others. Mrs. Jacobs would fall apart." Thomas said. |
| |
| I tried to get control of myself, emotionally I felt I had no control |
| any longer. I was having trouble stopping my tears. The emotional |
| strain of the evenings events climaxed for me when Mr. Jacobs died. |
| |
| "I'm sorry Thomas," I said in very low voice. "I can't seem to get |
| hold of my feelings just now." |
| |
| Thomas pulled me toward him and gently pushed my head onto his shoulder |
| and whispered "It's alright luv, just let it happen. You've had quite |
| a bad night." |
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| "I'm wearing my wedding ring", said Tom with abandon. |
| "I've got another @#$%*! insect in my pants", said Tom adamantly. |
| "Here's your allowance for the next two weeks", Tom advanced. |
| "It's a unit of electric current", said Tom amply. |
| "2 bdrm furn w 5 appl", said Tom aptly. |
| "It's not a candy mint, it's a breath mint", Tom asserted. |
| "That city will NEVER be rebuilt", the prophets babble on. |
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| "I need a pencil sharpener", said Tom bluntly. |
| "Now no-one can detect my halitosis", said Tom breathlessly. |
| "Use your own hair brush", Tom bristled. |
| "So this is your new computer!" said Tom calculatingly. |
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| "I hate shellfish", said Tom in a crabby tone. |
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| "Let me clean out this poison tank", said Tom deceptively. |
| "X is an integer", Tom declared. |
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| The man had spent the last 28 years making obscene calls to women. |
| The 54 year old man confessed to having placed tens of thousands |
| of lewd and obscene calls. |
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| |
| 3-17-1969 Golda Meir becomes Israeli Prime Minister. |
| 3-18-1850 American Express founded |
| 3-19-1931 Nevada legalized gambling |
| 3-20-1760 Great Fire of Boston destroys 349 buildings |
| |
| 3-21 Earth Day, First Day of Spring |
| 3-22-1882 Congress outlaws polygamy. Male longevity increases. |
| 3-22-1963 Beatles release their first album, Please Please Me |
| 3-23-1840 First photo of moon is taken. |
| |
| 3-24-1986 Libya attacks US forces in Gulf of Sidra. US 2, Libya 0. |
| 3-25-1954 RCA manufactures the first COLOR television. |
| 3-26-1953 Dr Jonas Salk announces new vaccine against polio |
| 3-27-1980 Mount St. Helens becomes active after 123 years |
| |
| 3-28-1930 Constantinople and Angora change names to Istanbul and Ankara. |
| 3-29-1886 Coca-Cola is created (with cocaine). It satisfies your craving.|
| 3-30-1870 15th Amendment passed, guarantees right to vote to all races |
| 3-31-1932 Ford publicly unveils its first V-8 engine |
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| What's Wrong With The World? |
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| Hey, were did we go wrong? I mean check things out in this world. People |
| are out there on the streets killing other people. Some raping, some sell-|
| ing drugs to children and adults alike. What happened to us? Where did |
| man, the human species, loose out on his humanity and intelligence. I've |
| heard the argument that man is the superior being on this planet; but how |
| in the world did anyone ever come to this conclusion. I have never seen |
| an animal sell drugs to the young. I've never seen an animal go an indis- |
| crimately kill another animal of their species. I've never seen an animal |
| lie or con another animal. Yet we are supposed to be superior. Superior |
| how I ask -- because we can talk? Or maybe because we put our thoughts |
| into action and can walk and talk at the same time. That puts us one |
| steps above what? My dog can walk and bark at the same time! Or maybe we |
| are considered superior because we have the ability to leap beyond logic |
| into the world of imagination and make that which we imagine reality. At |
| one time man was considered superior because of the religious belief that |
| we were made from God's image. Perhaps this made us superior. But some |
| where along the line we lost that superiority. It was replaced by greed, |
| anger, hatred, an gross imagination of things one can do to another human. |
| When will the world get back to what it was intended to be? I don't know |
| but I doubt I'll live that long. One can only hope! |
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| Mind Games 1993 (3) |
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| In case of injury notify your supervisor - He'll kiss it & make it better! |
| Breeding rabbits is a hare raising experience. |
| Friction is a drag. |
| Santa's elves are just a bunch of subordinate Clauses. |
| Health is merely the slowest possible rate at which one can die. |
| The problem with the gene pool is that there is no lifeguard. |
| To err is human, to forgive is against company policy. |
| Does the name Pavlov ring a bell? |
| Atheism is a non-prophet organization. |
| On door in music building: This door is baroquen, please wiggle Handel. |
| (If I wiggle Handel, will it wiggle Bach?) |
| Depart in pieces.... i.e., Split. |
| Microbiology Lab: Staph Only! |
| Individualists unite! |
| To make tax forms true they should read "Income Owed Us" & Incommode You". |
| Time is just nature's way of keeping everything from happening at once. |
| This is Take an astronaut to launch week. |
| Immanuel Kant but Kubla Khan. |
| The person who is all wrapped up in himself is overdressed. |
| The way to a man's heart is through the left ventricle. |
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| Team Eeeek serial: The Dawning of an Age "Little Black Box" |
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| "Come off it, Gab'! An Eeeek turbo unit will configure to anything with |
| a plug! Strip one end of your stolen goods and crack the computer. We'll |
| install it internally." |
| |
| "Why?" |
| |
| "I don't want anybody to know it's there." |
| |
| She didn't want WHO to know it's there? |
| Her friends, her employees; her team members. |
| Gad, she hated this! |
| |
| But she had no choices left. SOMEBODY was stealing company property and |
| falsifying records; she had to find out who. |
| |
| And so it came to her when she was watching an old airplane movie: the |
| Black Box. On aircraft these boxes recorded all of the flight information |
| for review in the event of an accident. Every command, every movement of |
| the plane was recorded - there - in the box. All she had to do was hook |
| it up to her unit and it would record all the activity on the main frame. |
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| Team Eeeek serial: The Dawning of an Age "Little Black Box" |
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| In effect, it was a backup to the User Logs, one that nobody would know |
| was in place. Then all she had to do was review the data until she found |
| her thief. |
| |
| It was simple; it was ingenious; & she hated the whole business. |
| |
| "I've got the leads bared. How do you know where they go?" |
| |
| "Insert them in series," the boss said. She HAD to do this, didn't she? |
| She had to find out what was going on in her company. |
| |
| "Looks okay. Where are we placing the box?" |
| |
| "Anywhere you like," she muttered angrily. After all, her dream was over, |
| finished, kaput; what did she care where they placed the assassin's gun? |
| |
| "It won't fit!" Gabriel said. "the darn cable's stacked up all in the way!"|
| |
| "Turn the box in its side and bunch the cable on top of it," the boss |
| told her. |
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| Gabriel shoved it one way and then another, scratching the paint off the |
| interior walls of the boss' computer and making such noise that the team |
| might have heard it out in the office. |
| |
| "HERE!" the boss said tearing the box out of Gabriel's hands. With a few |
| deft movements, she snapped the cable in place, laid the Black Box |
| carefully inside the unit and slammed the panel shut. |
| |
| As she glared at the Chairwoman, the boss noticed a sad expression on her |
| friend's face, an expression that told her that the Chairwoman's |
| clumsiness had been a ruse. And as they waited there in that stare, the |
| boss realized what the Chairwoman had been up to, what she had |
| manipulated into being. |
| |
| And both of them knew who had set it in place, who had plugged in the |
| juice... |
| |
| "It's your team," Gabriel whispered. "I thought you should be the one..." |
| |
| ... and who had closed the door on the Black Box. |
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| *** |
| Something was wrong. |
| |
| Carp could feel an unusual vibration in the keyboard. No one else might |
| have noticed because it wasn't a true vibration. It was more of a... a... |
| feeling. |
| |
| No. It was more of a... knowing. |
| |
| The master technician laid a gentle finger on the keyboard housing, |
| closed his eyes and mentally traveled the system. It was an old trick, |
| one his grandfather had taught him. The idea was to think your way from |
| the tip of your finger through the machinery, to BECOME the machine, to |
| feel as the machine feels. In that way the technician may locate the |
| source of a problem. And it worked more often than not. Carpenter had |
| used the technique so often and so well that he could achieve almost |
| instantaneous identification with the team's computer. |
| |
| He was experiencing that identification now. |
| And he KNEW that something was wrong. |
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| Team Eeeek serial: The Dawning of an Age "Little Black Box" |
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| He sent his mind along the loop, peeking into each station as he passed |
| deeper into the frame. He searched the mother boards, the hard drives, |
| the modems, the serial ports, the com ports, the peripherals, even the |
| monitors! But mostly he mentally inspected the connections everywhere. |
| Nothing. Not even the presence of dust. |
| |
| Nothing but an odd sense of alarm; as though a predator lurked in the |
| system waiting to pounce. |
| |
| Carpenter rose from his station and walked through the darkened office. |
| He stepped warily down the aisles running his fingers over the machinery |
| and the cables, even the counter tops. And all the while the sense of |
| alarm which he had felt in the computer grew stronger in him, as if the |
| predator had come for his beloved computer but for him. |
| |
| "Gotta shake this thing!" Carp said aloud. "Been alone too long. My |
| nerves are playing tricks on me." |
| |
| And he was so close to his objective. He had only three or four days of |
| entries to clear and the project would have been over. |
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| "What's going on?" he asked the computer. |
| |
| "Why are you behaving like this? You've never been so sensitive before..." |
| |
| Then it came to him. |
| |
| It wasn't his computer, not the computer at all. |
| |
| But if not the computer, then...what? |
| |
| Carp peered about the office as if expecting to see someone. |
| |
| He had learned to hate this place at night. The loneliness, the eerie |
| solitude gnawed at him, made him jumpy. |
| |
| Made him see things that weren't there. |
| |
| At least he thought they weren't there. |
| |
| To Be Continued... |
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| The strange girl walked down the street. Her clothing drew the attention |
| of others on the street. She was dressed in a ballroom dress and one that |
| appeared to be outdated. But then, the others in the street, realized |
| something else was odd about this woman. They could see directly through |
| her. |
| These are the typical reports of those who have seen the famous ghost of |
| Nob Hill, San Francisco. |
| Very near the Fairmont Hotel the ghost of Flora Sommerton has been seen |
| by many. Flora Sommerton, just a few short hours before her debut suddenly|
| disappeared from her mansion on Nob Hill. This brought the police out in |
| full force. Flora disappeared, some say, because she didn't want to marry |
| the man her parents had selected. Flora was never seen nor heard from |
| again. At least, not in the human form. |
| This took place in 1876. And since that time there have been reports of |
| seeing the spectral image of Flora on the streets near Fairmont Hotel in |
| Nob Hill. |
| When Flora's parents died, so did the reports of seeing Flora. At least |
| for a short time anyway. Then suddenly people began reporting seeing her |
| once again. She is now a part of the history of San Francisco for those |
| who believe. |
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| In Washington D.C. stands a building known as the Octagon. The building |
| is unique in design and is one of the better known monuments of Washing- |
| ton's historical past. |
| Originally it was built by John Tayloe in 1800. He used the place as his |
| town house. It is located at the corner of New York Avenue and Eighteenth |
| Street. The building is three stories. In the downstairs there is a |
| very large rotunda with a curving staircase leading up to the second and |
| third floors. |
| The building holds a great deal of historical value. George Washington |
| stayed there during the British occupation of the capital and while the |
| White House was being built. |
| There have been numerous reports of ghostly phenomena for a number of years|
| and many varieties of reports have come in. For example, some have report-|
| ed hearing a woman's voice. Others have reported hearing the heavy foot- |
| fall of a man's footsteps on the stairs and down the hallways. Who exactly|
| these belong to is not certain. But it is certain, by the custodians of |
| the house, that these things do happen and on a frequent bases. |
| The house was recently renovated and upgraded in maintenance. This action |
| resulted in even more activity. A loose carpet is repeatedly thrown out of|
| the way and chandeliers will swing with some violence. |
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| The tour group walked down the wooden planked vessel to see a bit of old |
| American history. They saw far more than this. They got a visit from an |
| old crusty sailor, dressed in sailors clothing of the late 1700s. He is |
| sailor who haunts the ship U.S.F. Constellation. |
| The ship is moored in Baltimore and can be viewed by the public. Its his- |
| tory is unusual in itself. It was a man-of-war ship and functioned as a |
| flag ship for the first American Navy. On several occasions Congress has |
| tried to decommission the ship but each time something would happen to |
| stop the decommission procedures. Congress finally gave the attempt to |
| decommission her and made her into a historical monument. |
| Below her decks are two other haunting figures. One a man who was once |
| the ship's captain, Thomas Truxtun. The other man was a man who fell |
| asleep during his watch and was executed for his action. |
| Some say there is still another person haunting the below deck area of the |
| ship also. There have been reports of seeing what would appear to be a |
| cabin boy. Though these reports have not been investigated and not con- |
| firmed by any parapsychology studies. |
| A visit to the U.S.F. Constellation is well worth your efforts if you are |
| in the area. Besides the history of the grand ship, you may also get some |
| first hand information from its former sailors. |
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| New ADL Book Exposes Holocaust Deniers |
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| NY/US Newswire: The current campaign to deny that Hitler's regime murdered |
| 6 million Jews is examined in depth in a new book published by the Anti- |
| Defamation League, "Hitler's Apologists: The Anti-Semitic Propaganda of |
| Holocaust Revisionism." "Hitler's Apologists" names Willis Carto - whose |
| Liberty Lobby is the largest & best-funded anti-Semitic propaganda organi- |
| zation in America, as the leader behind the Institute for Historical Review|
| -the major Holocaust denying organization. Operating in the guise of schol-|
| arship, the IHR solicits membership from academic figures as well as the |
| general public & distributes through its publications a variety of "revis- |
| ionist" materials saturated with traditional anti-Semitic themes. The book |
| reports on the efforts of Bradley Smith's Committee for Open Debate on the |
| Holocaust to target college newspapers with ads denying the reality of the |
| Holocaust. A longtime "revisionist," Smith's close affiliation with the IHR|
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|.--------------. WASHINGTON/US Newswire: US foreign aid could help prevent |
|| CHATTERBOX! | famine if it promoted sustainable agriculture instead of |
|| BBS | "Green Revolution" farming which relies heavy on chemicals |
||(818)-995-6959| & exhausts the soil - according to editors of the Russian |
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||PC Pursuitable| outlined sustainable agriculture techniques that may allow |
|| 4.5 Gig! | the Third World to grow its own food & help privatize |
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| banned in the US. Rodale's famine prevention plan for the new leaders in |
| Washington was unveiled as part of The Rodale Prescription for a New |
| America, subtitled, "Farm Chores & Health Tips for the Clinton |
| Administration." The document contained nearly 70 practical suggestions for|
| new government officials to help Americans escape the cycle of consumption |
| of medical care fueled by unhealthy lifestyles, & protect the food supply |
| from pollution & soil depletion by the overuse of farm chemicals. |
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| Lifestyle/Societal Problems Cost $117 Billion Annually |
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| CHICAGO/US Newswire: Lifestyle factors & social problems contribute more |
| than $171 billion to overall health care costs, according to a new study by|
| the AMA. Using the most recent data, the study identified violence, drug |
| abuse, tobacco & alcohol use as major contributors to health care costs. |
| Some 500,000 premature deaths a year & $22 billion are directly tied to |
| cigarette smoking & other uses of tobacco. In 1988, some 100,000 deaths & |
| $85.8 billion in health care costs were linked to alcohol abuse. Estimates |
| are 25-40% of patients in hospital beds are being treated for complications|
| of alcoholism. Drug abuse costs the system $58.3 billion in 1988 for care,|
| treatment, & rehabilitation, as well as for lost productivity & crime enf- |
| orcement. Street/domestic violence add $5.3 bil. to US health expenditures.|
| Violence is among the fastest growing public health problems & health care |
| expenditures. The study also examined communicable diseases such as tuber- |
| .-------------------------. culosis & sexually transmitted diseases. |
| |~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~| Medical care for HIV patients is expected to |
| |CLUB METRO BBS | total $15.2 billion by 1995. About 400,000 |
| |New York | people die each year by not using life-saving |
| | (212)-860-3436| technology such as seat belts & smoke |
| |_________________________| detectors. |
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| Department of Justice Awards $30 Million For Drug Crime Control |
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| WASHINGTON, DC/U.S. Newswire: Recently The Department of Justice has |
| announced that it has awarded $30 million to combat drug-related and |
| violent crime in six states. Connecticut was awarded $5.7 million, |
| Hawaii was awarded $2.6 million, and South Dakota was awarded $2 |
| million. Tennessee was awarded $8.1 million, West Virginia was awarded |
| $3.6 million, and Wisconsin was awarded $8.1 million. These awards |
| are from the Department's Bureau of Justice Assistance (BJA) under |
| the Edward Byrne Memorial State and Local Law Enforcement Assistance |
| Program, authorized by the Anti-Drug Abuse Act of 1988. The amount of |
| the award is based on each state's population. A total of $423 million |
| is available under the Formula Grant Program this year. States are |
| required to pass through to local governments a share of the federal |
| funds equal to the ratio of local criminal justice expenditures to |
| the total criminal justice expenditures of the state. States may use |
| these federal funds to support a range of legislatively authorized |
| program purposes to improve their criminal justice systems and to |
| control drug-related and violent crime. Five percent of these funds |
| must be used to improve state criminal history records. |
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| CA Insurance Official Details Redlining Problems |
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| DC/US Newswire: Following are statements from the testimony of CA Insurance|
| Commissioner Garamendi, on his efforts to eliminate redlining in CA: |
| "Insurers that refuse to solicit, sell, or service insurance business in |
| inner-city, minority, & low-income communities, while profitably providing |
| full service to other parts of a community or state. This is called red- |
| lining, because insurers carve out an area & refuse to service it. They |
| don't put agents there; they don't sell insurance there. And as a result, |
| people can't insure their cars or homes and can't start businesses." |
| |
| " Although California voters enacted the Insurance Reform Initiative in |
| 1988, which obliges insurers to insure all good drivers, many insurance |
| companies still refuse to do so. These insurers claim the risks are too |
| high in low income & minority communities & inner city neighborhoods." |
| |
| "Discrimination in insurance is wrong, & we will not allow it to continue. |
| I can & will continue to enforce laws against discrimination. We should |
| restructure the system to offer incentives to insurers that aggressively |
| seek business in all markets. I appreciate this opportunity to work with |
| you to make discrimination in the insurance industry a thing of the past, |
| because it's illegal and no longer profitable. |
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