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- Organization: University of Illinois at Chicago
- Date: Wednesday, 18 Nov 1992 13:07:00 CST
- From: <U16244@uicvm.uic.edu>
- Message-ID: <92323.130700U16244@uicvm.uic.edu>
- Newsgroups: alt.vampyres
- Subject: Re: Other vampires?
- References: <BxGrAB.4Ms@news.cso.uiuc.edu> <1dmr90INN145@darkstar.UCSC.EDU>
- <BxuF2J.9qw@ns1.nodak.edu>,<1992Nov17.170122.14705@serval.net.wsu.edu>
- <1992Nov18.000114.9972@jupiter.sun.csd.unb.ca>
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- In article <1992Nov18.000114.9972@jupiter.sun.csd.unb.ca>, flindholm@mta.ca
- says:
- >
- >In article <1992Nov17.170122.14705@serval.net.wsu.edu>,
- >hbechtel@luke.eecs.wsu.edu (H. E. Bechtel) writes:
- >>The one main reason why you don't hear much about real vampires...
- >>
- >>The vampire's biggest secret is that nobody truly believes in them.
- >>
- >>Hans
- >
- > The problem with vampyres is the same one we have with all mysteries.
- >They're impossible to prove or disprove. However, if they do exist they're
- >days are numbered. Living in the information age makes life very difficult
- >for people who don't die. The only thing I can see them doing is living
- >in the third world. Life would be good there. Corrupt police, bad records
- >and no one would question someone disappearing during the night.
- > Cyrus
- >
- Who's to say that a clever vampire can't learn to use a computer to his
- advantage? After all, all it takes to learn the use of a computer
- is training, and vampires have, if anything, plenty of time on their
- hands.
-
- And besides, thousands of people disappear within the United States, and
- yet, there aren't intensive searches for them. Perhaps someone is
- hiding something. Perhaps someone who spends a lot of time on this
- list...
-
- Doug.
-
- "And once I rip her pulsing throat from her body, I shall drink of her
- like the finest wine."
- "Well, since you're looking for a drink, here..."
- "Hey, put that hose down. Put it down before I rip..."
- The garden hose sputtered, a fan of water slashing Aramis to ribbons as
- Shannon looked on, horrified. I shut off the hose, walking up to her.
- "Well, so much for asking you if you'd wanna install a whirlpool in our
- apartment..."
-