From: CHARLES DITTELL To: SAURON Subject: State of Being Date & Time: 11/24/89 17:29:53 Message Number 401 I'm fine!! Yeah, that's it; fine!! -- never better--that's the ticket! And yourself?? by the bye, c'mon and visit! Suncoast City BBS, 953-5505 =-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-= =========== From: BEATLE To: TURTLE Subject: Storyboard... Date & Time: 11/24/89 20:44:11 Message Number 402 Why worry about covering your ass legally? Tyler and Rocky haven't, well, mostly Tyler, who's a 15 year old dweeb...so whatever,,, =========== From: BEATLE To: TURTLE Subject: A grave issue Date & Time: 11/24/89 20:45:54 Message Number 403 We all should write to our Congressmen and ask for new artificial pimen toes! They will lack something, but my favorite part is the green outside anyway... =========== From: BEATLE To: SAURON Subject: Abortion Date & Time: 11/24/89 20:48:41 Message Number 404 A person's car or a person's credit areless important than abortion. Your idea is totally irrelevant. =========== From: BEATLE To: CHIP P. UNICORN Subject: Farm animal? Date & Time: 11/24/89 20:53:35 Message Number 405 First, I've been gone from here a while, and I am no longer "Lt. Commander Derek". But to explain what that meant: I am on the Commodore user service Q-Link. I joined a Star Trek club whose members got a rank and duties, etc. I was a Lt. Commander. =========== From: BEATLE To: CHIP P. UNICORN Subject: Farm animal? Date & Time: 11/24/89 20:56:11 Message Number 406 Second, I WAS KIDDING!!! heheh I never thought that science fiction ideas would be true. It was just a JOKE!_! =========== From: BEATLE To: ANGEL Subject: Misogeny Date & Time: 11/24/89 20:58:56 Message Number 407 Would you be happy to know that I respect intelligent women? Good point tho. I don't know anyone who would make comments like that (about the brain cells thing) but I know if I did, it certainly would get me in a heap of trouble... =========== From: BEATLE To: TURTLE Subject: Phone exsex Date & Time: 11/24/89 21:02:22 Message Number 408 The exorcism seems pretty simple...did you get it before it puked pea soup in your face??? =========== From: BEATLE To: TURTLE Subject: Half human? Date & Time: 11/24/89 21:08:04 Message Number 409 You must be one damn big reptile! Anyway, how do you plan on looking like a person to appear at the whatever (MSTF??) meeting that they're having? =========== From: BEATLE To: RUFUS Subject: furry pumpkins? Date & Time: 11/24/89 21:13:39 Message Number 410 BEANS! I miss him! Alas, he was a casualty of early Fox cancellations. Also found it amusing on the cancelled Fox show "Women in Prison" when Wendie Jo Sperber said "Is this a Spielberg film or something" when she has been in a few of 'em... =========== From: BEATLE To: CHIP P. UNICORN Subject: fuzzy pumpkins? Date & Time: 11/24/89 21:19:40 Message Number 411 Well, Killer Klowns was one of those products of the meetings where they say: "OK, what's the weirdest idea you can come up with. Drugs are optional." Well, we get stuff like "Killer Klowns From Outer Space" "Sorority Babes In the Slimeball Bowl-O-Rama (in which NOBODY bowls)" and "Hollywood Chainsaw Hookers" =========== From: BEATLE To: ANGEL Subject: Zsa-zsa Date & Time: 11/24/89 21:23:10 Message Number 412 Oohhhh......I taste corn! (don't ask.....) =========== From: BEATLE To: CHIP P. UNICORN Subject: Randomness Date & Time: 11/24/89 21:24:04 Message Number 413 >Did you hear they're cancelling Easter next year? They found the body Did I miss something? Explain this... =========== From: BEATLE To: TURTLE Subject: Noah Date & Time: 11/24/89 21:25:44 Message Number 414 You forgot to credit Bill Cosby for the inspiration for that Noah bit .... =========== From: BEATLE To: TURTLE Subject: Easter Date & Time: 11/24/89 21:26:44 Message Number 415 Well, if there is no Easter, then the kids will believe that the Easter Bunny was hit by a truck. Tell them it was a speeding UPS truck during a busy holiday season... =========== From: BEATLE To: SAURON Subject: HER Date & Time: 11/24/89 21:28:44 Message Number 416 I'll be happy to "srew" Ann Landers when you tell us how. =========== From: BEATLE To: ROCKY Subject: Movies.... Date & Time: 11/24/89 21:32:05 Message Number 417 Hey, animation is making a comeback, so don't feel stupid... Anyway, I would see ANYTHING to do with Lucas or Spielberg. Which makes it sorta strange. My 3 favorite directors (Lucas, Spielberg, and Zemeckis) were all involved in animation projects in the same year. Kinda weird, since major directors don't do cartoon stuff. =========== From: BEATLE To: TURTLE Subject: Movies.... Date & Time: 11/24/89 21:34:40 Message Number 418 Yes, I found "Alien" very touching and sentimental. =========== From: BEATLE To: TURTLE Subject: Movies.... Date & Time: 11/24/89 21:36:12 Message Number 419 TURTLE, you're in luck! "Fantasia" will be released for it's 50th anniversary soon. It's gonna use it's original surround soundtrack too... =========== From: BEATLE To: BARTHOLOMEW FOX Subject: Movies.... Date & Time: 11/24/89 21:37:48 Message Number 420 Evidently, you don't know how Disney movies were ORIGINALLY made. When stuff like "Snow White", "Peter Pan" and "Bambi" were made, the screen ratio matched the TV. Letterboxing helps movies like "Ghostbusters" =========== From: BEATLE To: BARTHOLOMEW FOX Subject: Fox & Dinosaur Date & Time: 11/24/89 21:39:41 Message Number 421 I hate to tell ya this, but "The Family Dog" was a 24 minute cartoon episode of Spielberg's Amazing Stories TV series. You got jipped outta the other 14 minutes. =========== From: KEN OBER To: SAURON Subject: Hey!! Date & Time: 11/24/89 22:46:43 Message Number 422 Where the hell are you? You don't call me anymore! ACK! HI EVERYONE! I'M GONNA'BEAT RUFUSCON NOW! WITH MY CAMERA, SO LOOK GOOD !!!!!!!!! =========== From: SPELLWIND To: SCUM OFDE EARTH Subject: great movie Date & Time: 11/24/89 23:00:16 Message Number 423 Scum of de Earth, great movie. I just invented it. =========== From: TURTLE To: BEATLE Subject: Misogeny Date & Time: 11/25/89 00:49:28 Message Number 424 It's actually pretty amazing how many people in this country in 1989 really believe that females are inherently inferior to males...female liberation being what it is, though, it's always good to se that the reverse is also true. ANYWAY, I suspect Sauron is just yanking people's chains, and doesn't actually subscribe to the women-are-just- dumber-than-men "thang" (at least, I hope not...but SHHH! I'm giving his secret away!) =========== From: TURTLE To: BEATLE Subject: Turtle!!! Date & Time: 11/25/89 00:51:54 Message Number 425 >You must be one damn big reptile! Not really; Turtle stands about four-foot-eight (a great deal shorter than Murr...go read the storyboard on Courts of Chaos if you're con- fused!). Certainly no T. Rex...but not exactly a wimp either. ('Specially when he's carrying his .75 recoilless around with him...) =========== From: TURTLE To: BEATLE Subject: Movies.... Date & Time: 11/25/89 00:55:20 Message Number 426 Sorry...old movies weren't shot in Cinemascope, sure, but they weren't ever shot to the same proportions of a television screen, either. The screen ratio of old films is still considerably wider than a TV, and letterboxing is still a good idea if you want to see the entire picture. (I don't think I could stand to watch a videotape of, say, Fantasia, unless it was letterboxed...) --An ex-projectionist Turtle =========== From: TURTLE To: KEN OBER Subject: Hey!! Date & Time: 11/25/89 00:57:38 Message Number 427 >I'M GONNA'BEAT RUFUSCON NOW! Tyler, how violent! For shame! Are you gonna beat RufusCon all at once, or one person at a time...??...?? =========== From: TURTLE To: CHARLES DITTELL Subject: You know... Date & Time: 11/25/89 00:59:47 Message Number 428 You bear a striking resemblance to the lead singer from the Grateful Dead, whose mug I am being treated to a real nice close-up shot of right now as I sit watching MTV (or Empty-Vee, if you're looking for profundity; a walk through the ocean of meaning of most rock videos would barely get your feet wet...) It occurs to me, I've never seen the two of you together...hmm. You been sidelining as a rock singer when you're not running SCBBS or what? (AHA, maybe THAT'S why you're never around!) Don't worry, though; your secret is safe with me; I would never speculate about it aloud on a public-access message base or anything like that... --A musing Turtle =========== From: DONTHEN To: BEATLE Subject: Movies.... Date & Time: 11/25/89 08:04:13 Message Number 429 The screen ratio for movie screens was always slightly higher than that of television (TV has a ratio of 1.2:1, I think, and conventional movies had one of around 1.25 or 1.3:1. Letterboxing would help movies such as "Snow White", too. "Peter Pan" and "Bambi" were both made in the 50's if I'm not mistaken, which means they had already gone to the modern screen ratio. In fact, Walt Disney made all of their animated movies in Cinemascope when the process became available, and before that, did a lot of work on 70mm film -- both of which widen the width-to-height ratio considerably. =========== From: BARTHOLOMEW FOX To: TURTLE Subject: Arf! Date & Time: 11/25/89 11:58:29 Message Number 431 Well, this iss how it ended upo : GBBS Pro V1.3j NO Fox & The Hound YES (really lousy quality, tho... like no sync) Fantasia NO (something about guns and death and stuff) Furversions NO (but Donthen will bring his) FurryArt folders YES MSTF applications NO (just that stupid old version with sp errors) MSTF diskette YES (source code to the MSTF forms AA-G & AA-K) Other tapes YES The Secret of NIMH Star Trek Bloopers STTNG Electronic Press Kit 101 Dalmations (that's on THE TAPE with The Fox and the Hound) PERKINS YES (see ya at 1330) Arf! =========== From: BARTHOLOMEW FOX To: TURTLE Subject: Old MSTF Form Date & Time: 11/25/89 12:05:15 Message Number 432 That reminds me... I found the original MSTF application form (a ratty copy) and figgured out how the whole thing fit on six pages. It's not spaced quite as generously. That, and the questions about the large household appliances were missing from the first version. I'm amazed that such an important question was left off of the original.... =========== From: BARTHOLOMEW FOX To: BEATLE Subject: Big Time Date & Time: 11/25/89 12:12:21 Message Number 433 Spielberg & Mitchroney have recently finished a project know as "Tiny Toons." With Mitch in there, should be kinda funny... =========== From: BARTHOLOMEW FOX To: BEATLE Subject: Movies.... Date & Time: 11/25/89 12:13:50 Message Number 434 > Evidently, you don't know how Disney movies were ORIGINALLY made. Evidently, you don't know how Disney movies were originally made. (grin) Some of them used a 1.33:1 aspect ratio. The rest used what was common at the time, which is still wider than television (which is something like 1.2:1... I'd hafta look it up and I'm 100 km from my room, so that would be dificult). Once cinemascope came out, Disney went with it. Letterbox would make any of those look MUCH better, but I doubt Disney (Inc) would do that... the way it is, people will still pay to see their movies in the theater at re-release for the larger, wider-aspect screen and big sound. Arf! =========== From: BARTHOLOMEW FOX To: BEATLE Subject: Family Dog Date & Time: 11/25/89 12:18:13 Message Number 435 Heh. Well, the short I saw was terribly funny. It was perfect for 10 minutes, and was REALLY well done, even with the rough-style animation. You gonna be at RufusCon tonite? I'd tell ya what movie I'm bringing, but since it doesn't exist on tape yet, I'd bette not so as to avoid lawsuits and such. (grin) =========== From: BARTHOLOMEW FOX To: TURTLE Subject: Turtle!!! Date & Time: 11/25/89 12:22:06 Message Number 436 "God, I LOVE BEING A TURTLE!" =========== From: TURTLE To: THE TAPPERS Subject: Hey! Date & Time: 11/25/89 13:18:11 Message Number 437 To The Individuals Who Are Tapping My Phone: You know, you could save a good deal of time and effort by simply calling this system and becoming users. As I'm sure you've probably noticed, I run an open-access system here; by becoming BBS users, you could still keep an eye on things--for whatever reason you find it necessary--and you'd have the opportunity to contribute something, too. I believe quite firmly in the free exchange of ideas and opinions, and I think you might do a lot to make this BBS more interesting and stimulating. I for one would be very interested in anything you had to say, and I'm sure I have other users who would feel the same way. At least think about it; it could be a mutually profitable experience. --Franklin Veaux, Sysop, aLTER rEALITY BBS =========== From: KEN OBER To: TURTLE Subject: RufusCON'89 Date & Time: 11/25/89 13:31:00 Message Number 438 I Dunno...it sems, that if Iam typing too fast, and Iput a capital, <<< like back there <<<< If I'm not careful, my space doesn't register, but it only seems to happen on THISboard, and Idunno' why....oohh well, and bear it is what I say! =========== From: CYBERPUNK To: ALL Subject: i dont know Date & Time: 11/25/89 15:58:36 Message Number 439 hey all, why dont we go and rent Batman and watch it 150 times over and puke up all over the TV?? and then record Killer Clowns From Outer Space over it and return it? and then ask the video cleark if they found the free popcorn that we left there? and then go to Tylers House and kil l his camera, fun stuff right??? =========== From: ALICE COOPER To: CYBERPUNK Subject: i dont know Date & Time: 11/25/89 16:04:31 Message Number 440 You'd giftwrap a leper and send him to your aunt jane, and you,can go =========== From: SPELLWIND To: BADFILM WATCHERS Subject: Deathrace 2000 Date & Time: 11/25/89 16:08:14 Message Number 441 Well, I rented Death Race 2000 and Toxic Avenger, plus I'm bringing C.H.U.D , Alice Sweet Alice and some other flops. =========== From: TURTLE To: CYBERPUNK Subject: i dont know Date & Time: 11/25/89 16:24:51 Message Number 442 Sounds like a plan! I bet the people at the video rental place would be less than amused, though. I'm going to go waaaay out on a limb here and guess that you're not a big Batman fan... =========== From: CHIP P. UNICORN To: RUFUS Subject: New additions Date & Time: 11/25/89 18:05:13 Message Number 443 Stuff in a twinkie: Trust me; you don't want to know. The last person who found out what's REALLY in a Twinkie is now in the "Happy Honkers Home for the Terminally Valley-Girlish." Chip P. Unicorn =========== From: CHIP P. UNICORN To: BEATLE Subject: Abortion Date & Time: 11/25/89 18:09:44 Message Number 444 Why worry about abortion? I press the BREAK key on my 'pooter all the time... Chip P. Unicorn =========== From: CHIP P. UNICORN To: BEATLE Subject: Farm animal? Date & Time: 11/25/89 18:10:34 Message Number 445 I'm sorry. =========== From: CYBERPUNK To: ALICE COOPER Subject: i dont know Date & Time: 11/25/89 18:42:03 Message Number 446 hey, who the hell are you and what the heck are you talking about, and why are you saying it to me??? =========== From: CYBERPUNK To: CYBERPUNK Subject: story Date & Time: 11/25/89 18:44:17 Message Number 447 then all the sudden , Talon finally realized that he is in this bar and he flashed back to reallity and said, gimmie a beer! =========== From: MARTY To: AMERIKANERS Subject: Anti-Glasnost Date & Time: 11/25/89 18:52:45 Message Number 448 The Strategic Defense Initiative was a betrayal! The Americans will NOT keep their promise of annual missle destruction! We must hit our targets before the year ends! Seattle, Calif, Rhode Island, WE MUST ATTACK! =========== From: MARTY To: CYBERPUNK Subject: Amerikaner Date & Time: 11/26/89 00:27:32 Message Number 449 You cocaine cowboy! Amerikans are infiltrated by evil poisons! =========== From: RADAGAST To: ALL Subject: *.* Date & Time: 11/26/89 01:51:54 Message Number 450 At about the same time Talon walks in, a previosly un-noticed pair of eyes move forward out of a dark corner and resolve into the tall, gaunt shape of Radagast. He takes a seat at the bar orders a drink, and glances around. He notices Stripes rather large looking gun and begins fingering his own pistol. 'Hey ralph, gimme a jug of your best mead.' he says, and throws a few coins onto the bar. =========== From: PSYCHE To: ALL Subject: RufusCon Date & Time: 11/26/89 04:11:20 Message Number 451 FIRST OF ALL, I WOULD LIKE TO THANK TURTLE AND RUFUS FOR THEIR INCRED IBLE HOSPITALITY, AND WOULD LIKE TO THANK EVERYONE ELSE WHO SHOWED UP FOR LETTING THEMSELVES BE KNOWN. i also am grateful that now i have a face to place with all these weird names and different writing styles. cOOl. ThAt Is So NeAt. I just wish people would stop PICKING ON ME!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!! ++++ NO CARRIER =========== From: CHIP P. UNICORN To: RUFUSCON '89 Subject: Thanks! Date & Time: 11/26/89 04:43:29 Message Number 452 This is just a quick note (at 4:30) to say 'THANK YOU' to all of y'all who made RufusCon truly, uh... surreal. It was a unique experience, and we'll have to do it again sometime. Just dion't make it... too soon. Suggestions for next time: 1. Have a list of people who actually plan to come. It would have been a lot easier for me to make up nametags. (No offense, Angel!) 2. Actually pulverize the rutabega. And actually have the syn- chronized jumping contest. And, PLEEEEEZE bring some foxes for the juggling foxes. 3. Bring Bart and me together more for questions; he can chirp "yip!" while I whinney "neigh!" Chip P. Unicorn =========== From: RUFUS To: CHIP P. UNICORN Subject: Thanks! Date & Time: 11/26/89 11:45:14 Message Number 453 We couldn't find anything heavy and strong enough to pulverize the rudabega. Next year we may get a tank. Ribbit... =========== From: DONTHEN To: ALL Subject: Ralph sez... Date & Time: 11/26/89 13:04:06 Message Number 454 ... "What in the /hell/ are you talking about?" The fox's question-- and quizzical look--are directed towards Radagast. [Mead? In an 1870's tavern? No, I don't think so. While we're at it, I sincerely doubt Butch is playing Billy Joel's "Piano Man," with harmonica or without.] "If that's some type of northeastern beer, we don't have it here. We sometimes get some kegs from that German fellow out in Colorado, but we brew better stuff right here in Hell's Bluff, and cheaper too." =========== From: SPELLWIND To: TURTLE Subject: my fuckin phone Date & Time: 11/26/89 21:18:07 Message Number 455 My fucking phone is fixed, okay? =========== From: CRYSTAL To: SPELLWIND Subject: Language Date & Time: 11/26/89 22:34:55 Message Number 456 Please watch your language. I for one do not need to see that on a public BBS. Saying "My phone is fixed." would have been sufficiant. Thank you again.. But tell me other readers, am I asking too much? * CRYSTAL * =========== From: CRYSTAL To: ALL Subject: RUFUS CON '89 Date & Time: 11/26/89 22:41:14 Message Number 457 I would like to thank all that attended our get to gether. It tryly was an experience. I do appologize for the paranoid hush hush all the time, if you knew our neighbors you to would be paranoid. Again thank you for attending, when Turtle and I get a house or rent an hall then I wouln't be so paranoid about noise. * CRYSTAL * =========== From: BENN To: SALOON BOYS Subject: Gotta run Date & Time: 11/26/89 23:08:05 Message Number 458 Benn feels a tap on his shoulder. Before the hand can be drawn back, the bear has a large barreled gun at the owner's head. Louie freezes, and Benn says, " What h*ll you doin sneakin up on me for boy?" Louie wipes beads of sweat from his head and says " It's time we git a movin sir...". Benn stands and says to Stripe, " Continue with your game, me an the boys gonna ride up an' make sure the stagecoach makes it to town safe. We'll be back right soon." =========== From: ANGEL To: DONTHEN Subject: Movies.... Date & Time: 11/26/89 23:56:21 Message Number 459 Okay, I give. What's letterboxing? Is it like shadow-boxing through the U.S. mail? =========== From: ANGEL To: MARTY Subject: Anti-Glasnost Date & Time: 11/27/89 00:01:09 Message Number 460 > Seattle, Calif, Rhode Island, WE MUST ATTACK! I can understand taking out California (must destroy those left-wing pinkos) and even Rhode Island (Mystic Seaport is too high-tech to live) but why just Seattle and not the whole state of Washington? Seems a wee bit too discriminating for nuclear weapons. But, a good choice, none the less, any city that would be a setting for a Bobby Sherman serial deserves to glow. =========== From: ANGEL To: CHIP P. UNICORN Subject: nametags Date & Time: 11/27/89 00:05:24 Message Number 461 No offense taken. You couldn't have fit Angel's full name on those tiny nametags anyway ... Hecuba Angeline Margaret Robinson aka Angel ... I would have needed two chests for that long name! =========== From: ANGEL To: CRYSTAL Subject: RUFUS CON '89 Date & Time: 11/27/89 00:07:39 Message Number 462 Thank you for playing host to this melange of strange BBSers. 'Twas a pleasure meeting you. And I hope you don't get evicted, but if you do, wasn't it one heck of a party to get thrown out on your bum for? =========== From: PSYCHE To: CRYSTAL Subject: Language Date & Time: 11/27/89 00:29:54 Message Number 463 Certainly not. Many BBSes have XXX sub-boards and such these days, and if TURTLE chooses not to accomodate these foul-mouthed (foul-fingered?) users, well, that is his perogative. I'm sure that most of us have plenty to say to Spellwind, but we'd rather watch our language. =========== From: PSYCHE To: SPELLWIND Subject: my fuckin phone Date & Time: 11/27/89 00:35:14 Message Number 464 My cat is fixed to alleviate that problem. You should get your money back from whoever fixed you phone and have it done right, or pretty soon you'll be up to your ears in those little critters. The line noise might just be unbearable. =========== From: RADAGAST To: DONTHEN Subject: Ralph sez... Date & Time: 11/27/89 12:23:11 Message Number 465 'errr...excuse me, beer, i mean..' radagast corects himself, mumbleing somthing about jet lag, and inter dimensional travel... =========== From: CHIP P. UNICORN To: BEATLE Subject: Randomness Date & Time: 11/27/89 13:25:08 Message Number 466 Yes, you did miss something. Meditate on the true meaning of Easter (and I don't mean the Easter bunny!) If that doesn't work, stare at your navel (assuming, of course, you have one) for a few hours. Chip P. Unicorn =========== From: CHIP P. UNICORN To: BARTHOLOMEW FOX Subject: Big Time Date & Time: 11/27/89 13:30:13 Message Number 467 Space Ark meets Land Before Time? I've GOT to see them... Chip P. Unicorn =========== From: CHIP P. UNICORN To: CYBERPUNK Subject: i dont know Date & Time: 11/27/89 13:32:36 Message Number 468 Are you feeling okay, Cy? Chip P. Unicorn =========== From: CHIP P. UNICORN To: PSYCHE Subject: RufusCon Date & Time: 11/27/89 13:34:43 Message Number 469 QUIT SHOUTING! oh, now quit whispering. MaKe Up YoUr MiNd! And quit with those s. Chip P. Unicorn =========== From: CHIP P. UNICORN To: CRYSTAL Subject: Language Date & Time: 11/27/89 13:36:41 Message Number 470 Language tells loads about people. If they feel they need to use four-letter explicatives to make a point, then the point probably is not worth making. Some youngsters feel four-letter words make them look more adult. It really shows their stupidity. Chip P. Unicorn =========== From: CHIP P. UNICORN To: ANGEL Subject: nametags Date & Time: 11/27/89 13:39:59 Message Number 471 Or, next year, I'll make your name in four-point type... "Hecuba Angeline Margaret Robinson aka Angel..." hmmm... maybe I could shorten it to H. A. M. Robinson aka Angel? Chip P. Unicorn =========== From: CHIP P. UNICORN To: COWBOYS Subject: Story... Date & Time: 11/27/89 13:43:41 Message Number 472 Roc' notices the two leaving on the pretense of making sure the stagecoach arrives safely. Hmmm... why doesn't he believe them? The coach should be passing into town in the next ten minutes, and it should pass by the saloon. If anything was amiss, he'd notice. Nobody seemed to be touching the cards. Roc' picked them up, and shuffled them twice himself. "Ante up," he said, throwing in a dollar. =========== From: CYBERPUNK To: SPELLWIND Subject: my fuckin phone Date & Time: 11/27/89 14:59:39 Message Number 473 are you asking him about it??? ??? >My fuckin phone is fixed, okay? see what i mean? =========== From: CYBERPUNK To: ANGEL Subject: RUFUS CON '89 Date & Time: 11/27/89 15:02:56 Message Number 474 who were you?? =========== From: CYBERPUNK To: CHIP P. UNICORN Subject: i dont know Date & Time: 11/27/89 15:04:16 Message Number 475 ya, im fealing alittle better now.. but i felt like i got hit over the head with that rudabega.... i think Spellwind might have done it ,..... hehehe just joking Spellwind... =========== From: MARTY To: ANGEL Subject: Anti-Glasnost Date & Time: 11/27/89 15:12:47 Message Number 476 I have someting personal against Seattle. Down with America and Yugos!! =========== From: SAURON To: TURTLE Subject: MSTF phones Date & Time: 11/27/89 18:00:18 Message Number 477 Some scary shit. =========== From: SAURON To: TURTLE Subject: oops Date & Time: 11/27/89 18:01:01 Message Number 478 Well, mine was okay, except for the toast of "Jumping Vaginas and Leaping anchor bolts...the grub looks good, but the Hostess looks like a Jehovah's Witness" =========== From: SAURON To: CHARLES DITTELL Subject: State of Being Date & Time: 11/27/89 18:03:41 Message Number 479 I tried Charles, but there was some guy named Lothar there in a Leopard-skin Italian-style T shirt who kept telling me "This Be restricted to humans..Oh woe..." =========== From: SAURON To: BEATLE Subject: A grave issue Date & Time: 11/27/89 18:07:07 Message Number 480 Yuchhh! Don't you just hate when those piments get pushy? =========== From: SAURON To: BEATLE Subject: Abortion Date & Time: 11/27/89 18:08:18 Message Number 481 areless ? methinks YOU'RE totally irrelevant, Beatle. =========== From: SAURON To: BEATLE Subject: Misogeny Date & Time: 11/27/89 18:09:48 Message Number 482 >intelligent women That's self-defeating...like "Army Intelligence. No such animal. Care to comment, Angel? =========== From: SAURON To: BEATLE Subject: HER Date & Time: 11/27/89 18:12:28 Message Number 483 ...Well, you simply insert your...oh - sorry. I forgot you don't have one. =========== From: SAURON To: TURTLE Subject: Vulvas Date & Time: 11/27/89 18:15:27 Message Number 484 Actually, I have nothing against females. They're great for a half-hours diversion. Just don't ask them anything more complex than what shade of makeup they're wearing tomorrow. =========== From: SAURON To: DONTHEN Subject: Movies.... Date & Time: 11/27/89 18:19:36 Message Number 485 ...and "Fantasia" was made in genuine stereo sound - in 1939, arguably the finest year for the cinema ever. =========== From: SAURON To: ALICE COOPER Subject: aunt jane Date & Time: 11/27/89 18:22:48 Message Number 486 That's funny! (giftwrapping Lepers) =========== From: SAURON To: CHIP P. UNICORN Subject: New additions Date & Time: 11/27/89 18:24:13 Message Number 487 The stuff in a Twinkie is python sperm. =========== From: DONTHEN To: ANGEL Subject: Movies.... Date & Time: 11/27/89 18:37:30 Message Number 488 No, "letterboxing" is preserving the screen aspect ratio of a movie on its TV version by putting black bars at the top and bottom of the screen. The total image is smaller, but you don't lose the sides like you do in a normal TV edit. There are a few companies that produce letterbox versions of movies on laserdisc (always in Dolby Stereo, Surround Sound, etc., etc.), although it's extremely uncommon on major commercial videotape releases -- "The Color Purple" comes to mind as one, but I can't think of any others offhand. A Japanese company has produced letterbox versions of "2001," "Star Wars," "Close Encounters," "Blade Runner" and several other sf classics, but they're not widely available in the US. =========== From: RUFUS To: CRYSTAL Subject: Language Date & Time: 11/27/89 18:53:04 Message Number 489 No, your not asking too much. If Turtle had set up this message base as a "Feel free to say anything you want" then fine, but seeing how it isn't, Spellwind should watch his language. Oh yes, your making the cake for all the conventions! :) It was good, esp. for breakfast. =========== From: RUFUS To: ANGEL Subject: Anti-Glasnost Date & Time: 11/27/89 18:55:45 Message Number 490 >but why just Seattle and not the whole state of Washington? seems a >wee bit too discriminating for nuclear weapons.... Any continent is a wee bit too discriminating for nuclear weapons. =========== From: RUFUS To: ANGEL Subject: RUFUS CON '89 Date & Time: 11/27/89 18:57:30 Message Number 491 We've drawn up the "If Turtle and Crystal get Evicted Plan." First we get rent a large crane, drive it into the parking lot of the apartment complex, next we lift a large, very heavy boulder with it. Then we position to boulder over the neighbors apartment... =========== From: RUFUS To: CHIP P. UNICORN Subject: Randomness Date & Time: 11/27/89 18:59:56 Message Number 492 You never taught me how to play 'Go'. Seems the pizza arrived at the wrong time ( that darned fox messes up EVERYTHING! ). O.K., so when is GoCon? :) =========== From: RUFUS To: CYBERPUNK Subject: RUFUS CON '89 Date & Time: 11/27/89 19:02:11 Message Number 493 I'll answer your question for her. She was the one who arrived at about 1 a.m., long after you left. =========== From: RUFUS To: DONTHEN Subject: Movies.... Date & Time: 11/27/89 19:05:16 Message Number 494 Innerspace was letterboxed. =========== From: TURTLE To: SAURON Subject: Misogeny Date & Time: 11/27/89 23:04:38 Message Number 495 Just in case Angel doesn't feel like responding, I will. Okay, here we go (sigh): The phrase "intelligent women" is a meaningful one, as any well-adjusted and secure male well knows (assuming he thinks with the right head). Case in point: the person who used to live next door to me; she is now 23, has a master's degree in psychology and a couple of bachelor's de- grees in clinical psych and human physiology, and who was in 1985 the top-ranked amatuer chess player in Florida (she learned to play the game in 1982). Presumably, this particular individual could be called "intelligent" with a fair degree of certainty. Are you still with me? Good. I'd introduce the two of you sometime if I didn't think you'd be intimidated to death. --A secure and well-adjusted Turtle =========== From: TURTLE To: SAURON Subject: Vulvas Date & Time: 11/27/89 23:12:07 Message Number 496 Did your mother beat you as a young child or what? =========== From: TURTLE To: ALL Subject: Language Date & Time: 11/27/89 23:13:29 Message Number 497 OK, here, it is: the Official Policy on Language (such as it is). I won't throw you off for exhibiting your entire collection of four- letter expletives in the public message bases, assuming you're not just doing it to piss me off; I refuse to be put into a position where I have to police this board and censor people for using naughty words. However, I do ask that the swearing be kept down to a minimum, and if you are going to do it at least do it creatively. In other words, I'm operating on the rough assumption that all of you are more or less adults and can be expected to behave as such. I may be way off-base here (time will tell), but I sincerely hope not. --A pontificating Turtle =========== From: TURTLE To: BARTHOLOMEW FOX Subject: Zap! Date & Time: 11/27/89 23:17:37 Message Number 498 Do you suppose a 1.1 Farad capacitor can suck a twelve-volt car battery dry? It'd be fascinating to see what one of those puppies could do if you could release all the chemical energy stored in it all at once. --A curious Turtle =========== From: TURTLE To: DONTHEN Subject: Letterboxing Date & Time: 11/27/89 23:20:26 Message Number 499 I've heard tell that "Aliens" is available in letterboxed format on videotape, but I don't know if it's true or not. (I can't even remember where I heard it.) Any ideas? =========== From: CYBERPUNK To: RUFUS Subject: RUFUS CON '89 Date & Time: 11/28/89 09:08:17 Message Number 500 oh, a, ok, sorry.. =========== From: CYBERPUNK To: ANYONE Subject: animie Date & Time: 11/28/89 09:10:34 Message Number 501 hiya all, do any of you guys know where i can get a copy of "Project A-ko" ??? if any of know what it is, it's a animie film, kinda like Iczer-1.... thanks!! =========== From: DONTHEN To: TURTLE Subject: Letterboxing Date & Time: 11/28/89 12:20:02 Message Number 502 Both "Alien" and "Aliens" are available in letterbox format with digital stereo and Dolby Surround... on laserdisc. I believe they are from the same Japanese company I mentioned before (apparently the video equivalents of Mobile Fidelity Sound Labs). =========== From: DONTHEN To: CYBERPUNK Subject: animie Date & Time: 11/28/89 12:22:38 Message Number 503 You can try the Manasota Anime Group; I don't know Mark whathisname's number (or last name, obviously), but he's around the Time Machine a lot and there are usually some flyers there for it. Beyond that, I can't come up with anything immediately, but there's at least one large anime group in Tampa and several around the country. The Den's resident anime expert stopped calling a while ago (the LD bills from California were probably getting to him), or else I'd tell you to leave a message for him.... =========== From: CYBERPUNK To: DONTHEN Subject: animie Date & Time: 11/28/89 17:50:09 Message Number 504 well, if there is a groupe, is it like a fan club where you get a newsletter, or go to a meating? because if the onlt animie groupe closet oops, closest to me is in Tampa, i cant accually drive up there every month to meat.... =========== From: PSYCHE To: RUFUS Subject: GoCon Date & Time: 11/28/89 22:49:54 Message Number 505 Chip introduced me to GO when he was rather new to the game himself; now that we're both about equally experienced, our games can go either way depending on our frame of mind. For the most part, I am more of a two-player game freak than he is, and will arrive early at GoCon. Turtle - How about it (with maybe a little chess)? The DEN game will continue very shortly. Do you need a a record of the moves so far? You may well have thrown them out - sorry for the delay. =========== From: CHIP P. UNICORN To: CYBERPUNK Subject: RUFUS CON '89 Date & Time: 11/29/89 00:46:27 Message Number 506 >who were you?? Why, she was Angel, of course! Who else would she be? Chip P. Unicorn =========== From: CHIP P. UNICORN To: SAURON Subject: Vulvas Date & Time: 11/29/89 00:49:49 Message Number 507 I'll have to introduce you to several female friends I have, none of whom have an I.Q. of less than 160... Chip P. Unicorn =========== From: CHIP P. UNICORN To: RUFUS Subject: Randomness Date & Time: 11/29/89 00:52:02 Message Number 508 :) We really don't need a convention to teach ya how to play Go. Next time you plan to be in the New College area (and can give me 48 hours warning!) I'll send you my room # by E-mail. (If you already know it, PLEEEEEEEEZE don't repeat it over general mail. My neighbors think I'm strange enough already.) Chip P. Unicorn =========== From: CHIP P. UNICORN To: TURTLE Subject: Language Date & Time: 11/29/89 00:55:02 Message Number 509 Dear Turtle, As I've said on another board (I think to you!): if a message requires four-letter words to make an impact, it's probably not much of a message to begin with. Chip P. Unicorn =========== From: ANGEL To: CHIP P. UNICORN Subject: H.A.M. Date & Time: 11/29/89 01:01:32 Message Number 510 Excellent, my equine friend! I invented that name for my character in the last show I did, and in a cast of 32 no one caught the 'ham' in the lady. You win the kwepie doll! =========== From: ANGEL To: CYBERPUNK Subject: RUFUS CON '89 Date & Time: 11/29/89 01:03:35 Message Number 511 > who were you?? The same person I am now. Is this an existential question? I'm not very good at the meaning of life -- but I'm hot at final Jeopardy. =========== From: ANGEL To: SAURON Subject: Misogeny Date & Time: 11/29/89 01:06:12 Message Number 512 > Care to comment, Angel? Not really. =========== From: ANGEL To: SAURON Subject: diversions Date & Time: 11/29/89 01:07:51 Message Number 513 > Actually, I have nothing against females. They're great for a > half-hours diversion. A half-hour? I guess it's true what they say, younger men have more stamina. =========== From: TURTLE To: PSYCHE Subject: GoCon Date & Time: 11/29/89 03:03:16 Message Number 514 GoCon, hmmm? I dunno; never played the game myself. (I keep meaning to talk Chip into teaching me how to play, but I never seem to have time...) Well, I suppose a gaming get-together is not totally out of the question, but for the sake of my continued residence here at Shadowood it should probably be somewhere else. I still have the board with our Wyvern's Den game set up; so I guess we just pick up where we left off. I'll have to give this GoCon thing some consideration...and perhaps learn how to play BEFORE it happens... =========== From: TURTLE To: CHIP P. UNICORN Subject: Language Date & Time: 11/29/89 03:06:53 Message Number 515 I don't know if I necessarily agree with that; I would tend to argue that a statement is valid or invalid regardless of the language used to express it, or even the personality of the person making it. And, like I said before, I refuse to start policing this board because some people can't watch what they say. If the problem gets to be TOO serious I may be forced to start editing things that appear here, but I sincerely doubt things will get that bad. (I don't approve of gratuitoius swearing, but I also don't approve of censorship, and I tend to have a certain amount of scorn for those people whose sensibilities are so delicate that they run screaming in terror whenever they see a four-letter word on a bumper sticker, or a T-shirt...or a BBS.) =========== From: CORWYN OF AMBER To: SAURON Subject: BLB Date & Time: 11/29/89 04:45:14 Message Number 516 Yea, spiderman was a whole 35c I think..Must have go that one when I wasn't quite five or so, somewhere around '76. He fights a giant scorpion.. that's all I can remember. - Corwyn =========== From: CORWYN OF AMBER To: TURTLE Subject: New additions Date & Time: 11/29/89 04:49:02 Message Number 517 My word We are being sarcastic aren't we.. the REPUBLICAN party? Gasp choke, squeal.. Do yourself a favor think it over.. If you still plan on joining, try Crack Cocaine first. - Corwyn =========== From: CORWYN OF AMBER To: TURTLE Subject: Language Date & Time: 11/29/89 05:09:01 Message Number 518 Only if you promise not to use words like pontificating... Just say no Turtle, I know you can do it. - Corwyn =========== From: CORWYN OF AMBER To: CHIP P. UNICORN Subject: Strange Nebors Date & Time: 11/29/89 05:11:07 Message Number 519 Do you live in Pei dorms... I'm in first court... =========== From: DONTHEN To: CYBERPUNK Subject: animie Date & Time: 11/29/89 07:13:04 Message Number 520 The Manasota Anime Group does have monthly meetings, which used to be held at the Selby Public Library. They may still be, but I'll have to poke around and see. The Tampa ones I'm not too sure about. I know that Neal Wingate used to be effectively in charge of a Tampa CFO (Cartoon Fantasy Association) group, but ended up going out and forming his own. I don't have any real info on either one, though. =========== From: CYBERPUNK To: CHIP P. UNICORN Subject: RUFUS CON '89 Date & Time: 11/29/89 07:36:58 Message Number 521 well, i left before she got there.... sorry... *Cy* =========== From: CYBERPUNK To: ANGEL Subject: RUFUS CON '89 Date & Time: 11/29/89 07:38:48 Message Number 522 ya, i know, you arrived at RufusCon after i left... now i know you you the one i never met!! whell, hi im Cyberpunk a.k.a. Cyberpunk (reaching out to handshake) hehe *Cy* =========== From: CYBERPUNK To: DONTHEN Subject: animie Date & Time: 11/29/89 07:42:12 Message Number 523 oh,ok, thanks!! (whatever) *Cy* =========== From: LORELEI To: SAURON Subject: DOLPHINS Date & Time: 11/29/89 15:38:02 Message Number 524 1. Who the heck is Don Shula? 2. Do you have a microscope I can borrow? 3. Do you have a dolphin that I can borrow? =========== From: LORELEI To: CHRIS DAVIS Subject: Hello Date & Time: 11/29/89 15:42:20 Message Number 525 Hey there, Chris. Surprise, surprise.(And if you can't guess who Lorelei is, I can give you one hint: dolphins. Franklin gave me a modem because I was never able to get through to him on the phone. So, how is DC? I relly think you ought to come back to FL for a visit. Guess what? For ISP I got a volunteer job at the Dolphin Research Center in the Keys. One whole glorious month with 17 dolphins. I can hardly wait. Well, I don't even know if you check your mail, so I'll wait to hear from you before I tell you everything that's going on in my life. Leave me a message if you get a chance, and I'll keep in touch I miss you a lot, Chris. Hopefully, I'll see you soon. (Answer me,da mmit!) And sorry about all the errors-I'm not used to typing yet. =========== From: RADAGAST To: *.* Subject: .. Date & Time: 11/29/89 16:42:57 Message Number 526 Hmmm, its awfully quiet around here, eh barkeep?" I remark suddenly. 'kinda makes ya wonder...' I say, as I finish my..beer, and step toward the door, and peer outside. Tumbleweed drifts past as I listen to the silence that has settled across the town. ' Is that hoofbeats I hear?" =========== From: RUFUS To: PSYCHE Subject: GoCon Date & Time: 11/29/89 20:41:46 Message Number 527 You know what games I like. Othello is a favorite of mine, and Connect 4, which does require one to think ahead somewhat. Now, who wants to teach me to play Chess? ( yea, I don't know how to play ) =========== From: RUFUS To: CHIP P. UNICORN Subject: Randomness Date & Time: 11/29/89 20:43:36 Message Number 528 O.K. I won't mention your room is 678. Of course, if it really is, OPPS! Anyways, you can teach me Chess too. =========== From: RUFUS To: ANGEL Subject: H.A.M. Date & Time: 11/29/89 20:45:04 Message Number 529 I know you write plays. Have any ever been 'done'? And what else do you do? Sing? Dance? Act? Juggle foxes? =========== From: RUFUS To: ANYONE Subject: Wyvern's Den Date & Time: 11/29/89 21:07:26 Message Number 530 Anyone know why I get a "Doo doo dooO, this number has been disconnected if you think you have reached this number in error...etc, etc." when I call the Wyvern's Den. =========== From: KEN OBER To: TURTLE Subject: GoCon Date & Time: 11/29/89 21:48:56 Message Number 531 Gee, we should organize a new con every month.... DECEMBER - Billionaire Boy CON JANUARY - Cyberpunk CON FEBUARY - Turtle CON MARCH - Donthen CON APRIL - Sauron CON MAY - Angel CON JUNE - Crystal CON JULY - Chip CON AUGUST - Beatle CON SEPTEMBER- Random CON OCTOBER - <> NOVEMBER - Rufus CON What does everyone think? hehehe =========== From: DONTHEN To: RUFUS Subject: Wyvern's Den Date & Time: 11/29/89 22:13:19 Message Number 532 Yes, I know! Because the number has been disconnected! I got home at 7:00 today and somebody had been on the BBS about a half-hour before. I did some fiddling around and tried to call a BBS at around 8:00, and the line was dead. While I'm eternally late with my phone bill, the last one I got said it wasn't due until December 6th. Nevertheless, this screws me up in a rather serious way, since I won't have the money to /pay/ that phone bill until the 6th comes around, unless there is some cash lying around somewhere I'm not aware of. I will probably be stupid and try to pay all of it in full tomorrow, which will cause problems with other creditors because it screws up the pitiful excuse for a payment schedule I was working on. Shit, shit, shit. This is all, of course, assuming they did disconnect it around 7:00 pm today, which seems like a mighty weird time to be doing it -- but I don't see any alternative explanation, barring a horrendous screwup on GTE's part. Oh yes. The Wyvern's Den is down until further notice. =========== From: CHIP P. UNICORN To: ANGEL Subject: H.A.M. Date & Time: 11/29/89 23:38:55 Message Number 533 You're welcome! Being a lady of such fine tastes (obviously), in which plays have you performed? And, when will you be performing again? (If you reply openly, you might get a huge cheering section of fans from this BBS...) Chip P. Unicorn By the way, what is a kwepie doll? =========== From: CHIP P. UNICORN To: TURTLE Subject: GoCon Date & Time: 11/29/89 23:42:28 Message Number 534 Turtle, The rules for Go are extremely easy to learn... they can be taught in about five minutes. To master the game requires five lifetimes. Chip P. Unicorn =========== From: CHIP P. UNICORN To: TURTLE Subject: Language Date & Time: 11/29/89 23:43:48 Message Number 535 And I stand by what I said. I don't approve of censorship, either; I wasn't advocating that. But, as I said, if someone feels their point can't be made without using a four-letter word, the point probably isn't worth making. Chip P. Unicorn =========== From: CHIP P. UNICORN To: CORWYN OF AMBER Subject: Strange Nebors Date & Time: 11/29/89 23:46:00 Message Number 536 Yup; I live in the Pei dorms. You'll recognise me if I give you this hint: look for a fellow who occasionally wears a cloak and lives on campus. I'm the only one who fits that description. Chip P. Unicorn =========== From: CHIP P. UNICORN To: LORELEI Subject: DOLPHINS Date & Time: 11/29/89 23:48:05 Message Number 537 Response to question three: No, but next time I see one, I'll tell him about you. (Saw one last night!) Chip P. Unicorn =========== From: CHIP P. UNICORN To: RUFUS Subject: GoCon Date & Time: 11/29/89 23:49:13 Message Number 538 >Who wants to teach me to play chess? Don't say those words to Psyche... pleeeeeze don't say those words to Psyche.... before you know it, he'll have dragged out twenty-seven manuals teaching the exact best way to defend against the Caro-Kann Offense, thirty-three manuals about how to defeat Casablanca, and one hundred and thirty-two about the Red Indian Defense. And you still won't know how the little horsey moves... Chip P. Unicorn Seriously, Psyche will be more than glad to teach you chess. He's a patient and kind teacher. That is, until he gets on the other side of the board... =========== From: CHIP P. UNICORN To: RUFUS Subject: Randomness Date & Time: 11/29/89 23:52:48 Message Number 539 >Anyways, you can teach me chess... Sure thing! The little horsey is, of course, the most important piece. Heck! yo don't need any of those -human- pieces... just give me the knights. Seriously, be glad to show you the next time we get together. As well as Go. Chip P. Unicorn =========== From: CHIP P. UNICORN To: KEN OBER Subject: GoCon Date & Time: 11/29/89 23:55:07 Message Number 540 Switch the <> and the Chip Con's position. My birthday was in October; I'm rarely in the country during July. ...and, oh, yeah... the locations of the cons have switched. They're going to be at your place. Chip P. Unicorn =========== From: CHIP P. UNICORN To: CORWYN OF AMBER Subject: Who am i? Date & Time: 11/29/89 23:58:52 Message Number 541 If my cryptic comment about walking around in a cloak doesn't give you enough clues as to who I am, here's a few more: Real Name: Brent Edwards Campus Room: 238 Box Number: 250 Major: Math / Computer Science By the way, who are you? Chip P. Unicorn =========== From: PSYCHE To: RUFUS Subject: GoCon Date & Time: 11/30/89 00:44:14 Message Number 542 Sure... I'm always willing to promote the wonderful, Godlike game of chess. I'll even teach it to someone unfortunate enough not to know how to play. The only problem is finding a time when we are both free; if we can figure that out, you'll be able to defeat Chip P. Unicorn with your eyes closed and your belly full of alcohol. Seriously, though - I'd be glad to teach you how to play, and I'm sure Chip would teach you how to play GO! if you asked him real nice. But let me teach you the royal gane first, and at least you'll be good at something. =========== From: PSYCHE To: CHIP P. UNICORN Subject: GoCon Date & Time: 11/30/89 00:50:49 Message Number 543 Thpt. I do not have any manuals on the Caro-Kann Offense, because no such opening exists. I can let you borrow a few on the Caro-Kann Defense, though. And there is a King's Indian and a Queen's Indian Defense, but no Red Indian Defense. And I can teach you any one of them. Hell... you say you want to beat Kasparov? No problem. Just send a check or money order for $139.95 to... I'm not egotistical, just great. (The little horsey moves in an "L" shape, one or two squares horizon- tally or vertically, and then one or two squares perpendicular to the original direction of movement. It should always be the first piece to come out after the center pawns have advanced, and are best places at the squares c3 and f3 for white, c6 and f6 for black, except in some variations of the Queen's Gambit and King's Indian Defense where it is fatal to develop the king night as white before castling queenside. Of course, remember not to capture the QNP with your knight of queen if castles kingside - it opens a file directly, ripe for a bishop sacrifice on h3 or h6. Remember: even the knights are better, since you found me.) Scheduled for next week - Philidor's Defense. Don't believe what they say: "The Philidor is a Horrible Bore;" you'll love it. =========== From: TURTLE To: RUFUS Subject: Go where? Date & Time: 11/30/89 01:22:09 Message Number 546 >Othello is a favorite of mine,... We'll have to play sometime. I haven't found TOO many people who can beat me consistently, ever since I really started getting into the game (which I did, ironically enough, as a result of a homework assign- ment in my programming course: Write a program that plays Othello. And the program I wrote plays a /really/ good (if slow) game, too...) =========== From: TURTLE To: PSYCHE Subject: Chess Date & Time: 11/30/89 01:31:14 Message Number 547 If you ever get a sore throat, will you then be a hoarse chess nut?? Anyway, I'm game; what are the King's Indian and Queen's Indian defenses? And, if this isn't too oblique a question, why are those little horsies always raved about as though they were the next best thing to two gods on a plate? I always assumed they were roughly equivalent to the bishops... =========== From: TURTLE To: LORELEI Subject: Hello... Date & Time: 11/30/89 01:34:47 Message Number 548 Well, I guess you can't really say that /noone/ leaves you messages at all any more...Remind me to write a routine to let you copy stuff to the printer next time I tinker with your terminal program. That way you'll be able to get a listing of the aLTER rEALITY BBS list and you'll /really/ get hooked on this BBS thing. (He he he...) I'd just give it to you, but that'd be too simple. Besides, this way you'll have another excuse to call... =========== From: SPELLWIND To: KEN OBER Subject: Con Date & Time: 11/30/89 03:45:10 Message Number 549 February will be my turn, that's when my BBS is hitting the air............................. WOW! Having two speakers next to my ears and chucking out Appetite For Destruction at full volume has left me deaf. =========== From: SPELLWIND To: CHIP P. UNICORN Subject: Kwexxis Date & Time: 11/30/89 03:49:58 Message Number 550 What the hell is a Kwexxis????? ===========