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================================================================ THE PURPLE THUNDERBOLT OF SPODE VOL 1, #5 ================================================================ "Kenyon's Very Own Non Alien Run REPLIES TO: VAX004::Purps Electronic Magazine" PURPS%VAX004.DECNET@VAX001.KENYON.EDU W.A.S.T.E. STEVENSJ-GOH-MUNDI (or Drop it in the Columbus "bin".) * PPPPPP U U RRRRRR PPPPPP SSSSSS *** P P U U R R P P S ***** P P U U R R P P S ******* PPPPPP U U RRRRRR PPPPPP SSSSS ********* P U U R R P S *********** P U U R RR P S ***** P UUUUU R R P SSSSSS ***** _________________________________ ***** __________________________________ ***** ***** * **** * *** *** *** **** * ***** ************************************ **************************************** ************************************ **** ***** ***** *** ***** *** * ***** * ***** ***** ***** ***** ***** *********** ********* ******* ***** *** * ________________________________________________________________ SOMETHING WHICH MIGHT, IN THE CORRECT FRAME OF MIND, LOOK SORT OF LIKE A TABLE OF CONTENTS Introduction- Never Trust a "Pope" What News?: Constipation!, Fear of Bathrooms, Caped Crusaders at Weddings, Brain Surgery!, MORE! OTISian Rants: Introducing "Elbo", Goddess of Angles and, erm, Grease, Further Contacts! Other Rants: Time Distortion! Elvis/ OTIS IS Everywhere, MORE ART!, Sex Changes, English as a Difficult Language, More!!!!! ---------------------------------------------------------------- INTRODUCTION ("Never trust a Pope") Ack! What a day! The organization panned by Gajoob magazine (who called us the InterNATIONAL House of Fruitcakes to add insult to injury) in the morning, OOODELS of mail came in the afternoon, necessitating, ENTIRELY against my will, another PURPS. Then bitnet node OHSTPY died in the evening. And stayed dead.... Let me tell you, this party I've been invited to in Rob's room had better be good..... No more promises this time. It looks like Purps will be coming out more frequently whether I will or no. I promise to holler, kick, scream and STRAIN these ties that bind me to make sure you don't see this more than once every two weeks, starting with this issue. OTIS must like this magazine or something... I mean REALLY like this magazine..... Alright, we can now (thank you, MAL) reach people on Compuserve, Applelink and several other networks. If you know anyone there or would rather join us there, holler. You can send mail (and ONLY mail, sorry) to people you know on these networks too, by the way. Just pull OTHERNETS.ARH up from the archives. (Don't know what I'm talking about? Of course not... But there's more on this in the OTISian Rants section.) FAIR WARNING: this is a LONG file.... Finally (gasp) those of you with your lights in the attic still functioning may have noticed that two new addresses grace this 'zine's title page. Please redirect ALL (and honey I mean ALL) Purps mail to those addresses, as I don't have the space on my other account for Purps stuff. Now, send without fear of crashing my quota. Not that that was ever your primary motive... "Pope" Jephe I _______ News ------- PURPS.STUFF OFFICIAL OTISian T-SHIRTS: To be worn in either winter or summer, but considerably cooler in the former, 100% cotton (lots of sheep destroyed; apologies to environmental types) OTISian T-Shirts proudly emblazoned with the official IGHF logo on the front, and the words "Hail OTIS!!" on the back are available for FREE, to all members of this mailing list. That's right, kids, we sold all we could, now we're letting them go for free! AvaiLable in either conventional black ink on a white background, or RADICAL NEW IMPROVED TOTALLY UNCONVENTIONAL white background BENEATH black ink, in sizes Adult large and adult medium only. (And don't come crying to ME because OTIS didn't make you the RIGHT SIZE)! There's a bag on my door (403 Mather) for those of you on campus, others need to send a mail message and reimburse for postage (about a dollar- five US, I think). The logo was hand crafted (no apes were involved) by EJ Barnes, a fantastic artist. The shirts are 100% environmentally safe, "dolphin free" and likely to get you placed on the FBI's "watch list" if you wear them in public. Get one in time for Halloween. And by the way, I'm trying to get another batch made up... Anyone know anyone with a silk screen? PJ. OTISIAN NEWS From: subgenius-request@mc.lcs.mit.EDU Reply-to: Subgenius@mc.lcs.mit.EDU News of the Weird ---------------------------------------------------------------------- From: Eric Haines <eye!erich@wrath.cs.cornell.edu> - James M. Jernigan, 30, was arrested in Folly Beach, S.C., in April outside the church where Teresa Parker was being married. Jernigan, described as infatuated with Parker, was attempting to prevent the marriage, brandishing a toy pistol and wearing a big cowboy hat, white cape, and black mask. - A Springfield, Ill., physician, writing in an April medical journal about a 3-year-old boy's severe constipation, attributed it to his fear of entering the bathroom due to memories of a TV commercial in which the toilet bowl turns into a monster, with the lid making a chomping noise. He had refused to enter a bathroom for six months without explaining why. From: "Keith F. Lynch" <kfl@quake.lcs.mit.edu> Subject: Do-it-yourself brain surgery To: Subgenius@mc.lcs.mit.edu "The _British Journal of Psychiatry_ reported in 1988 that a Canadian teenager who shot himself in the mouth in a suicide attempt three years earlier had actually torn apart the section of his brain responsible for his remarkable compulsion to wash his hands as many as 100 times a day - a compulsion that had led to his suicide attempt in the first place. The boy survived, and saw his IQ rise to its pre-illness level." Credit Where Credit is Due... Find more of this in: "More News of the Weird" (catchy name, eh?), by Chuck Shepherd, Ohut, & Sweet, New American Library/Plume Books, something like $7.95, due out around November 1. ----------------------------------------------------------------- OTISIAN RANTS _________________________________________________________________ (in which everything worth knowing about absolutely everything will be revealed!) THE OTISian Pantheon Has a New Goddess! Please Welcome "ELBO" Goddess of ANGELS, and... erm.. Grease..... (*athem*...) Elbo is the newest OTISian goddess. She was introduced by OTIS him/herself to me in a dream a few nights back. It went a little like this: I was having a perfectly normal, happy fantasy when OTIS interrupted. A GREAT SHINING LIGHT (know any other kinds do you?) burst into my dreamscape, and out of it strode OTIS in all (well most, even god/desse/s have their modesty) of his/her glory! OTIS: Erm.. Hi there. Excuse me for interrupting your previous dream, but there's something very important I have to tell you about... um... listen... could I just move these yaks out of here, they're cramping my space. Geoffe: Go ahead, oh great one, who am I to oppose your will? OTIS: Thanks. I'll just show this one this way, and toss all the rest off this conveniently located high precipice... Hmmm... here's another.... Do you always have so many yaks in your dreams? Geoffe: Last night it was gerbils... OTIS: Ah..... Anyway, back to the business at hand (*athem*). BEHOLD A NEW GODDESS HAS BEEN BORN. "ELBO" GOD OF ANGELS SPRUNG MIRACULOUSLY FULL GROWN OUT OF THE AREA BETWEEN MY SHOULDER AND WRIST LAST NIGHT. IN HER HAND WAS A CARPENTER'S COMPASS AND LEVEL. THEREFORE, I DECLARE HER GODDESS OF ANGELS AND GREASE.... Gee, this place echoes nicely... Where are we? Geoffe: Tibet. But tell me great one, why "grease"? OTIS: Ever give birth from the area between your shoulder and wrist? Geoffe: No, but I did no the guy who-- OTIS: It requires a little lubrication, and then, generally some vaseline to take the sting away. Geoffe: Ah. Please Welcome 'ELBO', daughter of OTIS to the Pantheon. ------------------------------------------------------------------------------ WE HAVE AN ARCHIVE THE PURPS ARCHIVE IS NOW THIRTY TWO FILES LONG AND GROWING!!!! INFO ON ANY NUMBER OF WEIRD TOPICS, EVERYTHING FROM STAR TREK PARODIES TO "COCKNEY" VERSIONS OF "PURPS" TO THE MOOSe ILLUMINATTI CAN BE FOUND HERE! HUGE AMUSING TEXTFILES ARE YOUR FOR THE ASKING.... IF YOU'RE ON KENYON'S VAX TYPE "@[STEVENSJ]PURPS.ARH" AT THE DOLLAR SIGN. THE LIST OF FILES IN "PURPS.ESSENTIAL" IS NOT COMPLETE!!! GIVE ME TIME... IF YOU'RE ON THE BITNET, SEND MAIL TO THE ADDRESS ABOVE CONTAINING ONLY THE MESSAGE "SEND ME PURPS.ESSENTIAL YOU BOZO". A SEMI_ELECTRONIC PROCESS WILL HANDEL YOUR REQUEST. "POPE" JEOFFE I ------------------------------------------------------------------------------ This Time: I didn't feel like entertaining you. So, here are some other people who will. Next time I'm working on a truly MEGALITHIC rant. 'till then, this will have to suffice. P.J. ------------------------------------------------------------------------------ HEY YOU! Do you like Purps? Want to receive even more weird stuff like this through the mail? Do the ideas of radicals, free thinkers, and out in out weirdos appeal? Well, there's a whole other "network" out there in the real world composed of UFO cultists, deranged OTISians and other free thinkers. It's non-electronic, and works instead by the blood sweat and tears of the dedicated men and women of the US Postal Service. (That's right, kids, the mail... remember the mail.... might be time to check that box again, huh?). It's referred to affectionately as the "Fringe", and it consists of a vast network of hip, strange, and unusual people communicating with each other and the world via independently published "'zines", xeroxed sheets, odd pamphlets, and flyers... All you need to do is drop a line or two to the following along with an SASE, or a donation, or something, and, within a few short weeks, your PO Box will be FLOODED with bizarre "stuff". First, there's us: IGHF POB 235 WILLIAMSTOWN MA 01267-0235 The only FULLY REGISTERED promoters of the OTISian faith. Lots of OTISian rants pamphlets mailed "weekly" and the ever popular OTISian Directory (more on that later). SASE, please. Then there's: FACTSHEET FIVE C/O MIKE GUNDERLOY 6 ARIZONA AVE RENNSELAER NY 12144-4502 Send $3.00 for an issue of "Factsheet Five", a HUGE magazine containing nothing but addresses of fringe members. 1,000s of sources of weird mail. Tell him "Pope" Jephee I sent you. Not to Mention: GAJOOB POB 3201 SALT LAKE CITY UT 84110 The definitive magazine of the alternative (I mean REALLY alternative) music scene. $3.00 for a back issue, I think... The most recent one PANS the IGHF in a brief review in the back. Odd when you consider they used to reprint our stuff in full... WEIRD Politicians Should Really Look Into: THE CONTROVERSY CHRONICLE POB 80721 FAIRBANKS AK 99708 A marvelous little 'zine covering everything from incredibly strange film top the constitution. LOTS of adds for other strange periodicals... WEIRD Books!!!! The Finest Weird Bookstore in the world is: LOOMPANICS UNLIMITED POB 1197 PORT TOWNSEND WA 98336 FINALLY: You'll want a copy of the latest OTISian Directory. For only $2.00 you get a NIFTY little 'zine listing 20-30 of the BEST contact addresses on the fringe, and filled with wonderful art and odd OTISian "bizarrity" (A word not in Websters, I know, I know....). If you're on campus send mail to VAX004::PURPS or drop by room 403 Mather, two dollars in your hot and sweaty paw, and I'll run one off for you. Mike Gunderloy of Factsheet Five once said it read like a "Low Budget 'High Weirdness by Mail'"..... Which brings me to... Tucked inocculously enough away in the "humor" section of the Bookstore is one of the weirdest books of all time. "High Weirdness by Mail" is the publication of the once funny Church of the Subgenius (whose chief members are too busy right now being on trial for throwing a mail bomb to tell many jokes). It's one of the BEST contact guides for the fringe available. These people are almost as sarcastic as WE are.... =============================================================== OTHER RANTS =============================================================== (in which absolutely nothing will be revealed at all) Subject: fun with time control Reply-To: Parapsychology Discussion Forum <PSI-L%RPIECS.BITNET@CUNYVM.CUNY.EDU> From: Glen Daniels <gub%FTP.COM@CUNYVM.CUNY.EDU> Subject: Re: Awake - yet unable to move... Speaking of time distortions.... There's a book called "Stalking the Wild Pendulum", by Itzhak Bentov (I think that's his name). It's a very interesting sort of pseudo-scientific treatise on consciousness, life, and the interrelationship of "mind" and "matter". He gets some things wrong, he's a little too "spacey" in places, but in general it's a very worthwhile little book (he's very enthusiastic about the universe). So this is a paraphrase of an experiment from this book that demonstrates the subjectivity of time sense: Sit upright in a comfortable position, preferably near a table or counter. On the table, place an analog watch or clock, one with a sweep second hand. Take several deep breaths, and RELAX. While you do this, let your eyes track the motion of the second hand...get a feel for how fast it moves, how long a second is. Now, when you're relaxed and ready, close your eyes. Imagine yourself someplace you'd really like to be, somewhere you're happy and at peace -- lying on the beach, with a cool drink in your hand; on a sailboat; skiing down a mountain; etc... The important thing is to really BE there -- feel the condensation off the glass dripping down your hand, taste the salt air, feel the sand under your toes.... When you're completely into the visualization, experiencing it as deeply as you can, S L O W L Y open your eyes. Don't snap them open, don't focus quickly on anything. Just keep yourself in your mental environment.... Now, lazily, without thinking about it, let your eyes focus on the second hand of the watch as you continue to maintain your image.... You'll find, I think, that something very interesting happens (or rather, doesn't happen). As soon as you consciously notice, though, the weirdness goes away. Try it....It works. The better you get at it, the longer you can keep the effect (you can probably guess what it is). -------------------------------------------------------------------- From: cox@cmp-rt.music.uiuc.edu (Benjamin Cox) Subject: The ELVIS gene Organization: University of Illinois School of Music My sister is in the genetics program at Berkeley. A couple of her friends searched through GenBank looking for amino acids which contained the string "ELVIS" in their "code". A match was found, in an amino acid which is found in mitochondria. Also, in this same acid, the strings "KING" and "DEAD" were found. PROOF that there's a little "ELVIS" in all of us. "Dear Lord, I sincerely hope you're comin' Cause you REALLY STARTED SOMETHIN!" -- Elvis "Don't just *eat* a hamburger . . . eat the HELL out of it." (Economicon 23:78) -- Ben Cox From: jdobbs@director (Jim Dobbs) Newsgroups: alt.slack Subject: Re: The ELVIS jean I really hate to be the one to tell you this, Ben, but 'little Elvis' was The King's nickname for his er, uh ... UNIT. So let me be the first to proclaim that there was NEVER a 'little ELVIS' in ME! You may be suffering from a little JHVH-1 mind control, or not. It is like unto the story of the SubGenius who was made invisible, and did dwell in the Girl's locker room for forty days and forty nights- whereupon reappearing, found a twenty in his old cardigan, only to discover that the Utilities had lost his account number and were unable to bill him forevermore, who did shout, "Glory be to Bob, and all who sail in him!", finally to awaken and discover that not only had it all been an Xist-induced dream, but that he had missed his bus stop and had to walk several miles to his home. Whether I was that man or not is unimportant, but there IS a GREAT DEAL of PUZZLING EVIDENCE and ANSWERS TO ALL YOUR QUESTIONS herein contained. DO NOT MISTAKE 'PIPE-DREAMS' for TRUE SLACK, Ben. You could be in GRAVE DANGER. You could find yourself 'happy' and 'contented' WORKING AT A REGULAR JOB, or MARRIED, ALL UNDER XIST MIND CONTROL!!!!!!!!!!!!! I think you KNOW what to do, Ben. RENOUNCE THE PINK MEN and begin your SOMNOLENT QUEST for SLACK, or DOOMOLA. Uncle Bob used to say, 'GET OUT OF MY FACE, YOU LITTLE CREEP, OR KILL ME!', and it made me feel VERY SPECIAL, let me tell you. My hope for YOU, Ben, is that YOU will HURT LIKE I DO. -Jim -- ^ - | "You can't depend on your eyes | "Go, and never | - ^ ( O-O | when your imagination | darken my | O-O ) > | is out of focus. | towels again! | < ^ | -Mark Twain | -Groucho Marx | ^ -----------------------------------------------------------------)------ [So, now that you've heard about "B-b" (we OTISians never spell that name), perhaps you'd like to see what the supreme Frop head looks like... Don't USE it anywhere, though. It's a REGISTERED TRADEMARK of SIMON AND SCHUSTER! Which brings us nicely to our....] -------------------- ART CONTEST ENTRIES -------------------- From: a864@mindlink.UUCP (Jono Moore) Subject: Bob Message-ID: <3271@mindlink.UUCP> @@@@@@@@@@@@@@@@@@@@@@@@@@@@@@@@@@@@@@@ @@@@@@@^^~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~^^@@@@@@@@ @@@@@@^ ~^ @ @@ @ @ @ I ~^@@@@@@ @@@@@ ~ ~~ ~I @@@@@ @@@@' ' _,w@< @@@@ @@@@ @@@@@@@@w___,w@@@@@@@@ @ @@@ @@@@ @@@@@@@@@@@@@@@@@@@@@@ I @@@ @@@@ @@@@@@@@@@@@@@@@@@@@*@[ i @@@ @@@@ @@@@@@@@@@@@@@@@@@@@[][ | ]@@@ @@@@ ~_,,_ ~@@@@@@@~ ____~ @ @@@ @@@@ _~ , , `@@@~ _ _`@ ]L J@@@ @@@@ , @@w@ww+ @@@ww``,,@w@ ][ @@@@ @@@@, @@@@www@@@ @@@@@@@ww@@@@@[ @@@@ @@@@@_|| @@@@@@P' @@P@@@@@@@@@@@[|c@@@@ @@@@@@w| '@@P~ P]@@@-~, ~Y@@^'],@@@@@@ @@@@@@@[ _ _J@@Tk ]]@@@@@@ @@@@@@@@,@ @@, c,,,,,,,y ,w@@[ ,@@@@@@@ @@@@@@@@@ i @w ====--_@@@@@ @@@@@@@@ @@@@@@@@@@`,P~ _ ~^^^^Y@@@@@ @@@@@@@@@ @@@@^^=^@@^ ^' ,ww,w@@@@@ _@@@@@@@@@@ @@@_xJ~ ~ , @@@@@@@P~_@@@@@@@@@@@@ @@ @, ,@@@,_____ _,J@@@@@@@@@@@@@ @@L `' ,@@@@@@@@@@@@@@@@@@@@@@@@@@@@@@ @@@@@@@@@@@@@@@@@@@@@@@@@@@@@@@@@@@@@(c) Put that in yer pipe and smoke it! Yeeha! -- USENET: a864@mindlink.UUCP | "I've got compassion running BITNET: usernk1z@sfu | out of my nose, pal. I'm the INTERNET: Jono_Moore@cc.sfu.ca | sultan of sentiment." 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It's just not as, well, good.... From: VAX001::SCHROEDER "Screaming Prophet of OTIS Triumphant" Subj: PURPS ART CONTEST ENTRY ======================================================================== = POPE GEOFFE I, HAVING JUST TOSSED A YAK OFF OF THE IGHIEF BALCONY. = ======================================================================== = = = * = = *** + = = ***** _|_ = = * / \ = = * |___| = = * O O = = * * * ~ = = *** *** \_/ = = ***************************** ==== ==== = = *** * *** / \_/ \ = = * * * | | | | = = * \ | | | | \ = = * \ | | | | \ = = * \_____| |_______| |____\ = = ***** | ^^^| |^^^ | = = *** | \__/ \__/ | = = * | | = = | | = = | | = = = ======================================================================== End (thank heavens) this week's art contest instalment Now, something you really need to know.... From: VAX001::ZECCHIN "hackERS make better programERS" 5-OCT-1990 Subj: Pregnant men?? From: OHSTPY::IN%"ADND-L@PUCC.BITNET" "Advanced Dungeons and Dragons discussion list" To: "David H. Zecchin" <ZECCHIN%52225@MPS.OHIO-STATE.EDU> Subj: RE: Sex Changes (was WORMY POLYMORPHS) If you want a discussion about that enter Anime-l discussion list as that has been a topic with Ranma 1/2 (A show where the major character; 12th level Monk and still going to High School, was cursed by a pool to turn into a Princess everytime he gets wet with cold water. The only way to turn back into a male is to get wet with Hot water.) They have been trying to figure out what would happen if (s)he got pregnant. Michael Carlson The Sorcerer LTU Student Government MC68416@LTUVAX.BITNET ============================================================================= The Last Word, however, goes to our European correspondent From: VAX001::SIMPSONS "BOB is dead; Long live OTIS!" 5-OCT-1990 Subj: the dangers of thinking in one language and speaking in another From: VAX001::WINS%"<XCULT-L@PSUVM.PSU.EDU>" 5-OCT-1990 11:00:02.39 I belive in Germany feelings are mixt. For many young "western" people the eastern part of Germany was behind the moon and thirty years behind the way of living and thinking, now they fear the rollback. The worthsystem in the western part is consumoriented, egoistic and solidarity has no high place. While most german are looking on the economic part only few see the problem that two different cultures are bound together. In the eastern part many people feel desoriented and betrayed because they wakeup in unemployment and do not know the way the W-Germanm society works. Patriotism is still low today, we and the world had too bad experinces with that sh__ , so we use it only on the soccerfield. The conservative party uses the reunification to get better chances next election, they play the "no higher taxes promise" game and will win. Heinrich Heine former W-Germany ________________________________________________________________ THE PURPLE THUNDERBOLT OF SPODE ISSUE # 5 ---------------------------------------------------------------- Neither censored nor edited. Deal.