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From mike@jackalope.demon.co.uk Mon May 07 20:12:20 2001 Path: spln!lex!extra.newsguy.com!lotsanews.com!news.maxwell.syr.edu!newsfeed.icl.net!dispose.news.demon.net!news.demon.co.uk!demon!jackalope.demon.co.uk!mike From: Mike Holmans <mike@jackalope.demon.co.uk> Newsgroups: alt.folklore.urban Subject: May 8th Date: Tue, 8 May 2001 01:12:20 +0100 Organization: Jackalope Hall Message-ID: <RqVcHIAknz96Mw4H@jackalope.demon.co.uk> NNTP-Posting-Host: jackalope.demon.co.uk X-NNTP-Posting-Host: jackalope.demon.co.uk:158.152.196.42 X-Trace: news.demon.co.uk 989280675 nnrp-09:19536 NO-IDENT jackalope.demon.co.uk:158.152.196.42 X-Complaints-To: abuse@demon.net MIME-Version: 1.0 X-Newsreader: Turnpike Integrated Version 4.02 U <YfBf3z1vrbJPzzcmxuhdj4OR3Y> Lines: 31 Xref: spln alt.folklore.urban:413247 We got back from Halifax about three hours ago. We weren't in Halifax long, only as long as it takes to get through it, so I guess you could say we weren't really there. But we went past the tower, some sort of nineteenth century folly put up by a mill owner who wanted a big dick of a phallic symbol, probably. Or whatever. Some day we must find out about it, but we haven't yet stocked up on books about the local history, and anyway it's Todmorden where we have our house, and we don't know all about there yet. We went to Halifax to buy kitchen knives a few months ago, because they don't sell really serious knives in Todmorden market. Not the sort of knives which can chop a carrot at twenty paces anyway. But usually we only go through Halifax, stopping at the train station, although we didn't today because FuckinFirstCrawlderline's bus didn't turn up so we missed the train to Leeds and had to take a taxi and not stop at Halifax train station. Opposite which is a pub commemorating Wallis Simpson. I don't know why they named a pub after Wallis Simpson, though you can see why they would name one after Homer Simpson, I guess. We could have AFU Halifax there, though. I know Casady's been planning to sail to it, and I've been wondering what sort of boat he'll be using, since it will have to negotiate not only the Atlantic Ocean but also the Rochdale Canal - which goes past our house, so he could pick us up on the way, or stop off and carry on the conversation from the Pennsylvania Hotel. Whatever. Happy Birthday, Casady. Mike "" Holmans -- "I mean if grease wasnt delicious and good for you, the institution of obesity would be in real trouble." - Casady
From rcasady@uswest.net Tue May 08 07:26:36 2001 Path: spln!lex!extra.newsguy.com!lotsanews.com!news.maxwell.syr.edu!feed.news.qwest.net!news.uswest.net.POSTED!not-for-mail From: Casady <rcasady@uswest.net> Newsgroups: alt.folklore.urban Subject: Re: May 8th Message-ID: <jalfft067eg47k2su2jv2lkpd8ua4tmho6@4ax.com> References: <RqVcHIAknz96Mw4H@jackalope.demon.co.uk> <d6OJ6.9064$7_1.1471227@news6-win.server.ntlworld.com> X-Newsreader: Forte Agent 1.8/32.548 MIME-Version: 1.0 Content-type: text/plain; charset=us-ascii Content-Transfer-Encoding: 7bit Lines: 45 Date: Tue, 08 May 2001 06:26:36 -0500 NNTP-Posting-Host: 63.227.73.71 X-Trace: news.uswest.net 989321198 63.227.73.71 (Tue, 08 May 2001 06:26:38 CDT) NNTP-Posting-Date: Tue, 08 May 2001 06:26:38 CDT Xref: spln alt.folklore.urban:413295 On Tue, 8 May 2001 09:24:10 +0100, "nancy.boston" <nancy.boston@ntlworld.com> wrote: >Mike Holmans <mike@jackalope.demon.co.uk> wrote in message >news:RqVcHIAknz96Mw4H@jackalope.demon.co.uk... > >> We got back from Halifax about three hours ago. We weren't in Halifax >> long, only as long as it takes to get through it, so I guess you could >> say we weren't really there. > ><....fluent Casady...> > >> Rochdale Canal - which goes past our house, so he could pick us up on >> the way, or stop off and carry on the conversation from the Pennsylvania >> Hotel. Whatever. > >I don't speak Casady nearly as well as Mike does so I'll just say: > >> Happy Birthday, Casady. Yesterday the SO gave me a bad time from down until dark the last straw came at my parents house. I just sneaked away, and walked to a place to get a cab, and well it was ten miles or so, but I had the dough on me. THis morning first thing I accident lost all the afu from 1 april on, 8600 of them and I reloaded what I could from the server, and after deleting the shite, I lost 6000 posts of signal, the shite was stripped already. I have had it. I have not eaten in about... not well for a month, I never wanted to be this old, and yesterday I went to my favorite supermarket were I have been shopping about 45 years, and I couln't even eat the scrambled eggs, and I choked, I put them in my mouth and was unable to even swallow them. Perhaps if I had not been with my SO, but I don't intent to see here again. I haven't the what it takes to go on. I am probably not going to be back, this was the last straw I am going to clean up a few loose ends and well... I don't know, but it doesn't look good. this has been the worst month of my life. I had planned to be dead by now, but the schedule slipped, they do that. Goodby, Casady -- I will believe I am capable of getting Agent's sig software to work when I see it. Maybe.The SSSW[TM] has won nearly every time,but I refuse to surrender, death before dishonour, or a lick of sense."
From lrudolph@panix.com Tue May 08 07:34:36 2001 Path: spln!lex!extra.newsguy.com!lotsanews.com!newshub2.home.com!news.home.com!howland.erols.net!panix!news.panix.com!panix6.panix.com!not-for-mail From: lrudolph@panix.com (Lee Rudolph) Newsgroups: alt.folklore.urban Subject: Re: Brace! Brace! Brace! Date: 8 May 2001 07:34:36 -0400 Organization: PANIX Public Access Internet and UNIX, NYC Lines: 51 Message-ID: <9d8lkc$b2n$1@panix6.panix.com> References: <9ckqch$nf6$1@news.netmar.com> <9cm67c$lmb$1@allhats.xcski.com> <9cpi1h$6j0$1@news.netmar.com> <9crev8$ol3$1@allhats.xcski.com> <s684fto1qt3m3rfqorqp4cvpcfr64s23u8@news.speakeasy.net> <kj66ftkl1pgts9b14uf3q99baqqcaqei7v@4ax.com> <ah19ftca8aov5ksfqbivvvog4fo3bj9acr@4ax.com> <3AF50C55.55456E5D@iobox.fi> <ihkcft44dsbkj7etk6eak8a3sbkuhq22k4@4ax.com> <9d7nub$csa$1@atlas.dgp.toronto.edu> NNTP-Posting-Host: panix6.panix.com X-Trace: news.panix.com 989321675 17513 166.84.0.231 (8 May 2001 11:34:35 GMT) X-Complaints-To: abuse@panix.com NNTP-Posting-Date: 8 May 2001 11:34:35 GMT Summary: for the Casady Festschrift X-Newsreader: NN version 6.5.6 (NOV) Xref: spln alt.folklore.urban:413296 flaps@dgp.toronto.edu (Alan J Rosenthal) writes: >Actually, this was just a ruse to get the network technician, who is the sole >member of his department, to sleep in the building. (His car is rusting in >the parking lot, because he can't drive it home, being 100% of the department.) Huh. I used to know a network technician. His name was Louis Lavoie and he was a boarder in our house. Not many people here were raised in boarding houses, probably, they are out of style now and what with the median age in a.f.u. getting steadily smaller as far as I can tell, some days it seems like most of the posters are barely out of diapers but on the other hand these days you might be in diapers and be out there at the other end of the age distribution. About boarding houses, there is a phrase I haven't heard too much lately, "boarding house reach". It means serve yourself, if you wait for someone to pass the salt you're going to be waiting a good long time. Not to mention the celery sticks or the gravy. We had a lot of boarders when I was small, I mean young not short though of course I was pretty short then too but not for my age. Louis and his daughter Madeleine were some kind of French Canadian. When I say he was a network technician that isn't completely accurate. I don't try to be completely accurate. My father was pretty accurate, at least about some things. In fact he was on the USMC (United States Marine Corps, that is, only someone running ShitSuckSoftware with dancing fucking paperclips would usually worry about expanding acrobats I mean exploding acronyms but in a.f.u. we have a b.o.r. so k.m.r.i.a., K.D.) pistol sharpshooting team. Which means he must have been pretty accurate with his .38 on a .45 frame. And he had a nice rifle too, or so he told me later, but I wouldn't know because when I was born he got rid of all his firearms. He didn't think there should be any firearms in a house with a kid in it. I assume that was because he thought if there were firearms in a house with a kid in it someone might get pissed off and shoot the kid, say when he filled his diaper inappropriately. Or something. That's another good reason not to have any weapons of mass destruction in a newsgroup like a.f.u., come to think of it. Louis (unless it was Louie, yes it probably was, but of course that was before I learned to spell, and anyway fuck that paperclip and spell things anyway you want to, by junior high I was typing 90 words a minute error free and now look at me, thank god for the backspace key) worked at the local teevee station. One day Barnaby said "Happy Birthday Madeleine" on his kiddie program because Louis/Louie worked at the station and it was Madeleine's birthday and I saw it on the teevee which was in the front hall of our boarding house then because Louie owned it and let us all watch it, I would even get up early in the morning and watch the Indian-in-a-target test signal, we didn't have a teevee of our own before then and when he left we didn't have one either, not for a couple more years, but anyway today is Casady's birthday. So "Happy Birthday Richard". Serve yourself. Serve you right. Oh, god, 90 words a minute but error free that is a thing of the past. Lee "many happy returns and don't take any wooden Indians" Rudolph
From kerikturd@aol.comNoshitso Tue May 08 08:00:40 2001 Path: spln!lex!extra.newsguy.com!lotsanews.com!newshub2.home.com!news.home.com!howland.erols.net!portc.blue.aol.com.MISMATCH!portc03.blue.aol.com!audrey05.news.aol.com!not-for-mail Lines: 13 X-Admin: news@aol.com From: kerikturd@aol.comNoshitso (That is my Real Name) Newsgroups: alt.folklore.urban Date: 08 May 2001 12:00:40 GMT References: <9d7qhc$g6l$1@bob.news.rcn.net> Organization: AOL http://www.aol.com Subject: Re: May 8th Message-ID: <20010508080040.08923.00002231@ng-fy1.aol.com> Xref: spln alt.folklore.urban:413297 >You won't blow up much with a dust filled plastic bag, but you can set >yourself on fire. - Casady on the pros and cons of low-budget explosives Try adding a mixture of oxygen and acetylene in that baggie, one that's at least 12x12, a strip of masking tape 18 inches long, stuck to the baggie, makes a good fuse, light up and enjoy that pleasent ringing in your ears. I like to do them at night to experiance the fireball because it illuminates the shockwave as it plays thru, on it's way to rattle a few windows in the neighborhood. It's low budget and safe too. Baggie schrapnel is non-lethal at distances over five feet from ground zero but hearing protection is required. Kerik"eeeeeeeeeeeeeeeeeeeeeeeeeeeeee"Turd
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Chris Clarke <cclarke@faultline.org> writes:
> Brian Yeoh <lby3@columbia.edu> wrote:
>
> some stuff. It was pretty good, which didn't surprise me.
Chris Clarke, Clark, whatever it is and he or she is, I like reading his
stuff. Or her stuff as the case may be. This was one of his good ones, or
her good ones, too. It always cheers me up to read a Chris Clarke post, so
that was good. Whatever. It's sunny today, not that that makes any
difference given that nearly everything in this house except the kitten is
decrepit and the kitten isn't doing too well, don't know why. My old cat
has kidney failure and is on special food and the dog is 12 in a few weeks
and is going deaf or getting disobedient, not sure which, not that it
makes much difference because the results are the same, she doesn't come
when I call her and the walk lasts twice as long as it was supposed to and
I don't have the sort of energy I did once, but she doesn't seem to
understand that. It wasn't always like this, at least as far as I can
remember, which isn't too much these days, maybe they were right when they
said don't use that acid it'll fry your brains but I think my brains were
probably fried way before that. I couldn't remember things when I was
five. At least I wasn't as bad as Virginia Stevens from high school who
got off the bus and an hour later realised she'd got on it with a cello,
and she didn't have it now so she must have left it on the bus. She got it
back which I was never sure she was entirely pleased about. They make you
practice when you have a cello, I know that for sure because I had one
from the age of five on and boy did they make me practice which I hated
doing. And just being alive all these years and irritated most of the time
will fry your brains anyway, people have always been such fools and now
I'm turning into one myself, except I think I'm a different kind of fool,
though there's no telling. At least I'm a more irritable kind of fool and
none of this tolerate people and be nice to them shit for me, it was never
my style and even when I mumble to myself and can't eat hard cookies, I
don't think I'll be full of the milk of human kindness, more like milk of
magnesia is what I need to cope with all the idiot. The problem is still
having enough memory to remember when you could remember, I know once I
was more or less as bright as most other folks, though I was never as
organized as they were, but between school and stress and natural bad
temper, I've lost any acuity I ever had. You think being 53 is bad,
Casady, just bloody wait until you're 55 or 56 and you keep having to go
back upstairs to remember why you came downstairs to fetch something and
just the time you need glasses is the same time you can't remember where
you put them. I buy them in sets of five from the dollar store now,
because I lose them so much, my favourite maroon pair I put in the washing
machine a few weeks back because I was roasting coffee at the time and I
can't think about one thing at once these days let alone two, and I ended
up with two monocles but neither of them would fit in my eye anyway so I
threw them out, and the pink ones I liked I left on the stairs to take up
next trip and the dog trod on them and snapped them in two. The blue ones
I think I left in a drugstore or maybe a bookstore, can't even remember if
I bought drugs more recently than books or versa vice. And the ones I have
left are all scratched, it's odd how dog biscuits can scratch lenses, you
wouldn't think it, but the world is full of suckshitdesign <TM> these days
anyway, though you really couldn't call Panix a fuckingISP, specially when
you've got your own domain name, it'd be like cursing yourself instead of
someone else, not that that's such a bad idea either I supppose.
All I can really say is thank god for food, it's the only thing that keeps
me going because everything else has crapped out in my life, except maybe
the animals and like me they're nearly moribund and at least food keeps me
going and is something to look forward to in the mornings. What will I eat
today?. Which reminds me, that my mother ate a baked squirrel once she
told me, it wasn't very good, tasted sort of rancid. A Romany baked it for
her in a jacket of mud. The squirrel,, not the Romany was the one in the
jacket. Apparently yolu can cook hedgehogs the same way, but I wouldn't
chow down on Mrs Tiggywinkle, no sir, no way, not even if I was Brian Yeoh
and I don't think I am. It's probably bad luck to say that stuff about
food being a pleasure because it probably means I'll get an ulcer next
week and have to lay off all the spices and other stuff I like a lot. The
thing I always try to work out is whether I'd rather live a long time
without steaks and pheasant and butter and wine, or a shorter time with
all the stuff I like. Too late for a short time on this earth already,
really, though, but life is glum enough as it is without having to live
without eating rabbit or venison or beef again, let alone snails and
garlic in lots of butter which I really like and wouldn't share with
anybody, not even Casady, not even on May 8 when it was his birthday.
Madeleine "the question is does Casady have a birthday, or just a modem
and time on his hands" Page
--
I beg your pardon. I thought sugar, butter, and rum were simply among the
list of standard condiments on the table at every meal. - Casady displays
his deep understanding of things culinary.
From drew@furrfu.com Tue May 08 12:14:42 2001 Path: spln!lex!extra.newsguy.com!lotsanews.com!sn-xit-01!sn-post-02!sn-post-01!supernews.com!corp.supernews.com!home.eCynic.com!not-for-mail From: drew@furrfu.com (Drew Lawson) Newsgroups: alt.folklore.urban Subject: Re: May 8th Date: 8 May 2001 16:14:42 GMT Organization: Center for Unverified Assertions Message-ID: <9d961i$10le$1@home.eCynic.com> References: <Pine.NEB.4.33.0105080100580.20960-100000@panix3.panix.com> X-Newsreader: trn 4.0-test72 (19 April 1999) Originator: drew@home.eCynic.com (Drew Lawson) X-Complaints-To: newsabuse@supernews.com Lines: 38 Xref: spln alt.folklore.urban:413317 In article <Pine.NEB.4.33.0105080100580.20960-100000@panix3.panix.com> Brian Yeoh <lby3@columbia.edu> writes: >Went to the Brooklyn Art Museum yesterday and stopped by the library, got Sounds like a lot of the people hanging out here manage to spend their time building their minds or at least going to the right places. I didn't do anything that productive yesterday. Another Monday that should have been a Friday if there was anything fair in life. But it sucked less than many mondays. Hot as hell. No AC at home. Too much AC at work, but just sweat at home. Sweat and cold beer. Tried to counteract one with the other. It worked some. More didn't work as well - counteracted braincells instead. I don't remember posting anything last night. If I did, it probably made no sense. But I didn't feel as hot, as far as I can remember. I thought about soaking in the goldfish pond. They looked like they might not like it too much. Probably just as well. Last owner might have slipped in some candiru. He seems to have tried just about everything else. He didn't even know there were goldfish in there when he moved out. Thought there was a catfish, but I've never seen it. Found a loach, which looks sort of like a catfish, especially if you are expecting to find a catfish. Damned big, for a loach. It wasn't eating any neighborhood pets though. Didn't go for a soak. Read mail. Kicked the shit out of some other countries in civ2. Wondered when the next blackout would hit. Then it was Tuesday and the damned alarm said that I needed to go to work. I need more coffee, or a day off, or something. Just make it to the weekend I guess. I think I have Saturday clear. Weekend. That's what I need. Just another poor imitation of the master. Happy Casady Day! Drew "that actually felt pretty good" Lawson -- Drew Lawson I had planned to be dead by now, but drew@furrfu.com the schedule slipped, they do that. -- Casady
From rcasady@uswest.net Tue May 08 12:28:30 2001 Path: spln!lex!extra.newsguy.com!lotsanews.com!news.maxwell.syr.edu!feed.news.qwest.net!news.uswest.net.POSTED!not-for-mail From: Casady <rcasady@uswest.net> Newsgroups: alt.folklore.urban Subject: Re: May 8th Message-ID: <2l7gftccb6o5dvo1tcvc9c9blohggv1hfg@4ax.com> References: <Pine.NEB.4.33.0105080100580.20960-100000@panix3.panix.com> <GyQJ6.44877$kJ1.465262@typhoon.neo.rr.com> X-Newsreader: Forte Agent 1.8/32.548 MIME-Version: 1.0 Content-type: text/plain; charset=us-ascii Content-Transfer-Encoding: 7bit Lines: 78 Date: Tue, 08 May 2001 11:28:30 -0500 NNTP-Posting-Host: 216.161.115.123 X-Trace: news.uswest.net 989339311 216.161.115.123 (Tue, 08 May 2001 11:28:31 CDT) NNTP-Posting-Date: Tue, 08 May 2001 11:28:31 CDT Xref: spln alt.folklore.urban:413319 On Tue, 08 May 2001 11:14:46 GMT, "Robert Alston" <romial@indy.rr.com> wrote: > >"Brian Yeoh" <lby3@columbia.edu> wrote in message >news:Pine.NEB.4.33.0105080100580.20960-100000@panix3.panix.com... > >A bunch of stuff I can't top but thats ok since me topping Brian would >put him on the bottom and I can't imagine him as a bottom but if we >are equal then that makes me a Top over him while he is a Top over me >and that won't work either and work sucks since everyday we just put >motor parts on the line and paint them and then take them off the line >and send them over to Navistar where they actually make the diesel >motors like the ones that should be in that boat that Richard wants so >he can go to Halifax which reminds me that I need to Fax some stuff >out today for some reason that I don't remember but it must not be >important since I'm being asked to Fax it and they know I use SSSW >(tm) that probably won't go thru and I'll have to call them back and >speaking of calls who would be calling me at this time of day since my >phone is ringing but I don't think I'll answer it so click off goes >the ringer and now it just lights and why am I sitting here in the >dark if I have lights that at least blink maybe I forgot to turn them >on speaking of which have you seen the blurbs for Tomb Raider now >Angelina is a hot turn on dressed like that but I think I'm digressing >here since I really only replied to this message for only one little >reason that I keep forgetting to type in because I keep wandering off >into left field which looks pretty good actually since they re sodded >the little league diamonds behind my house so the kids have a really >nice place to play but I digress again as all I really wanted to say >is... > >Happy Birthday Casady > >Robert "Sorry I can't really match your style but I gave it a shot >anyway" Alston > You have found the best way to come close, as have others. I use punctuation to keep it as clear as I can, and If you leave out all the commas, colons and semis and quotes, you can approximate it. It is not a bad imitation of some of my less than best work. Well this is a roast, not worship. Exaggerate the faults, by all means, the idea. I haven't your expertise at your field either. I know that to use the chains first, and the whips second works better than the other way, is about all. I am sure you could get more yelping out of the 'vic' without hearing the 'safe word' than most,[ if I understand that kind of thing, somewhat]. Like the hockey enforcer who gives out the most stitches for the least time in the penalty box, or out of the game entire. Perhaps. Navistar is a good motor. I like one with a Cat at the moment.. http://www.dockstreetbrokers.com/boats/view_result.cgi?boat_id=722074&units=Feet¤cy=&listing_id=1785&page=broker&mls_true= ..99'x23'x8' steel tuna jig boat/longliner, built 1983 by Quality Marine. Cat 3412 main, averages 175 gpd tuna fishing. 5200 hours on overhaul 55 kw John Deere, 35 kw Perkins. Carries 21,000 gal fuel, 200 gal water with 220 gpd watermaker. 38 ton spray brine/RSW system, packs 120 tons of frozen tuna. Huge back deck with aluminum chutes from pullers to fish hold, and aluminum shelter deck. Extensive electronics (including 2 computers). The interior was completely rebuilt in 2000, over $300,000 was spent on the project. Immaculately maintained, this boat is in excellent condition and ready to go fishing in the South Pacific. Asking $550,000. TN0-004 Note that it carries enough fuel to fish for a hundred days. No fish no pay. Casady -- I will believe I am capable of getting Agent's sig software to work when I see it. Maybe.The SSSW[TM] has won nearly every time,but I refuse to surrender, death before dishonour, or a lick of sense."
From rcasady@uswest.net Tue May 08 13:22:46 2001 Path: spln!lex!extra.newsguy.com!lotsanews.com!news.maxwell.syr.edu!feed.news.qwest.net!news.uswest.net.POSTED!not-for-mail From: Casady <rcasady@uswest.net> Newsgroups: alt.folklore.urban Subject: Re: Chick Magnets and Cow Seeds! (humor) OT Message-ID: <eqagftknhcmi2p8hd6lh9nk1a49f055k6k@4ax.com> References: <20010505120755.26252.00000023@ng-fm1.aol.com> <3AF5F8F0.5D9468FB@snet.net> <9d73rb$k44$1@slb7.atl.mindspring.net> <Pine.GSO.4.21.0105080341590.15521-100000@ms.cc.sunysb.edu> X-Newsreader: Forte Agent 1.8/32.548 MIME-Version: 1.0 Content-type: text/plain; charset=us-ascii Content-Transfer-Encoding: 7bit Lines: 42 Date: Tue, 08 May 2001 12:22:46 -0500 NNTP-Posting-Host: 216.161.115.123 X-Trace: news.uswest.net 989342567 216.161.115.123 (Tue, 08 May 2001 12:22:47 CDT) NNTP-Posting-Date: Tue, 08 May 2001 12:22:47 CDT Xref: spln alt.folklore.urban:413325 On Tue, 8 May 2001 03:47:32 -0400, Yehuda Naveh <yenaveh@ms.cc.sunysb.edu> wrote: >On Mon, 7 May 2001, kerry wrote: > >> >> "Charles Wm. Dimmick" <cdimmick@snet.net> >> > What the hell does "lol" mean? >> >> Poor C.Wm.D, can't get a straight answer 'round here. On the off >> chance that you really don't know what "lol" means: it's short for >> "laugh out loud" >> What I don't understand is why people use that abbreviation when for >> one extra letter you could write "haha" >> and avoid the confusion. >> --Kerry > >This is a troll, or not. I was wrong before. Too demented to fix my >sig on my Agent software, let alone decide who is a troll and who >isn't. Of course I can write haha but if I want to say Have A Happy >Afternoon I'll say Have A Happy Afternoon. And if I want to say >Hooting And Horsing Around I'll say Hooting And Horsing Around. I >don't pay by the byte. Or bite. haha indeed, lol also. Too many >clueless newbies is exactly what we need right now. Just shoot >them. Kerry you said didn't you? We have only a Kerro here and he's >from Australia. I'll tell you one thing, I know kerro and you are no >Kerro you aren't. Fuck off. Or die. Or keep your hahahaha and lololool >to aol. We know someone you'll get along with just fine. She's got big >boobs and a rose desk and lives in Tennessee if she's not dead yet. Or >we can fix you with a fake doctor at Portland. At least you didn't >top-post. Sorry if you're not a troll. I'm too old to know. I won't be >here tomorrow, or next year. Have a happy afternoon. > >Yehuda > >I'll say happy birthday etc if I knew how to sig > > Not bad, not bad at all. Casady
From jschmitz@qis.net Tue May 08 13:47:54 2001 Path: spln!lex!extra.newsguy.com!newsp.newsguy.com!news2 From: JoAnne Schmitz <jschmitz@qis.net> Newsgroups: alt.folklore.urban Subject: Re: May 8th Followup-To: alt.folklore.urban Date: Tue, 08 May 2001 13:47:54 -0400 Organization: http://extra.newsguy.com Lines: 45 Message-ID: <fa4fft0q7qjfobbtiordnkcaubs50vg59p@4ax.com> References: <RqVcHIAknz96Mw4H@jackalope.demon.co.uk> NNTP-Posting-Host: p-446.newsdawg.com Mime-Version: 1.0 Content-type: text/plain; charset=us-ascii Content-Transfer-Encoding: 7bit X-Newsreader: Forte Agent 1.7/32.534 Xref: spln alt.folklore.urban:413327 The thread came upon me without warning, and I am in wonder. I appreciate the time, and the effort. I am keeping alive day to day but it occurs to me others do too and we are in this together, as long as we can. Chocolate has sugar, and caffeine, so that's good for two food groups, and the alcohol group is more than accounted for from past behavior, and misbehavior. Beyond counting to say the least. I've woken up behind a keyboard and wondered what went out while I was gone, but my friends have been more considerate than not, and gave me the benefit of the doubt when I know I did not deserve it. There are advantages to hanging around with your betters, they know the Halliday and Resnick from the inside out, did all the extra questions, assign them to other poor bastards now and laugh at the results. Working on the salt and fat groups with some fried chicken overspiced with jerk seasoning and wishing FtCOLG (Frankie the Cat of Long Gone) were here to cry ask for some. Any cat worth having is worth losing and I held him in my hands as he went, watched him go away trusting in my hands, and the better for him, he was in pain and trusted me absolutely and I could not do less for him than be there and comfort him at the end though it was 12:30 in the morning and I was by myself as we all are all come decision time. He would hunt and bring me trophies of mice and one time when we lived in a big house and he was already 15 years old, a bat, leave them at the kitchen door for me to make ready for the feast, and I put up a count, a mouse emblem for every mouse he conquered and laid on the kitchen door step by his food dish so he could glory in his accomplishments. Just as a fighter pilot puts his kills by the cockpit on his plane. And Frankie was well pleased, at least with the extra rations he earned for his resourcefulness and bravery, and what means more to a cat than his stomach, after all. A friend of excellent artistic and spiritual qualities painted a portrait of him and it is better than any Picasso to me. Someone mentioned him recently, not knowing he was dead, and it was a favor, not a problem, so no apology necessary. The snuh or should I say buh fucking idiots, well, worms have their purpose, and produce excellent soil, I can say that being descended from some Midwest farmers though most of my forebears were actual blacksmiths and soldiers and nurses and a supposed ninth-in-line prince who decided to hit the road rather than be a nobody and carpenters and netmakers and auto mechanics both shade tree and for pay, most recently an engineer who gave me one or two slide rules and the remainder went to me on his keenly bereaved departure, and he gave me his engineering brain I guess for everyone says how much I am his brain child. But I haven't seen any purpose the snuh could possibly fulfill except perhaps feed for the abovementioned worms if the worms have good stomachs, and the sooner the better. My grandfather left the Catholic church for telling him not to fish on Sundays, he was feeding his family and the Congregationalists didn't care, and maybe he found nightcrawlers less obnoxious than I do, or part of the trade, whatever. Happy Birthday Richard, love, JoAnne
From clive@on-the-train.demon.co.uk Tue May 08 14:15:11 2001 Path: spln!lex!extra.newsguy.com!lotsanews.com!news.maxwell.syr.edu!dispose.news.demon.net!news.demon.co.uk!demon!romana.davros.org!clive From: "Clive D. W. Feather" <clive@on-the-train.demon.co.uk> Newsgroups: alt.folklore.urban Subject: Re: May 8th Date: Tue, 8 May 2001 19:15:11 +0100 Organization: Demon Internet Message-ID: <DA2yjOvveD+6EwR6@romana.davros.org> References: <RqVcHIAknz96Mw4H@jackalope.demon.co.uk> <d6OJ6.9064$7_1.1471227@news6-win.server.ntlworld.com> <jalfft067eg47k2su2jv2lkpd8ua4tmho6@4ax.com> Reply-To: "Clive D.W. Feather" <clive@davros.org> NNTP-Posting-Host: romana.davros.org X-NNTP-Posting-Host: romana.davros.org:194.217.240.35 X-Trace: news.demon.co.uk 989347788 nnrp-13:19830 NO-IDENT romana.davros.org:194.217.240.35 X-Complaints-To: abuse@demon.net MIME-Version: 1.0 Content-type: text/plain;charset=us-ascii;format=flowed User-Agent: Turnpike/6.00-Beta-3-U (<81yImECxEkLwWkbKTSiEkLA3nC>) Lines: 22 Xref: spln alt.folklore.urban:413329 In article <jalfft067eg47k2su2jv2lkpd8ua4tmho6@4ax.com>, Casady <rcasady@uswest.net> writes >Goodby, >Casady >-- >I will believe I am capable of getting Agent's >sig software to work when I see it. Maybe.The SSSW[TM] >has won nearly every time,but I refuse to surrender, >death before dishonour, or a lick of sense." I can't even attempt to claim an ability to imitate your style even though that may be the sincerest form of flattery but I will say that you finally seem to have got the signature software to work which presumably will make a nice birthday present to yourself. Clive "Happy Birthday, Casady" Feather -- Clive D.W. Feather, writing for himself | Home: <clive@davros.org> Tel: +44 20 8371 1138 (work) | Web: <http://www.davros.org> Fax: +44 20 8371 4037 (D-fax) | Work: <clive@demon.net> Written on my laptop; please observe the Reply-To address
From frogprinc9@aol.com Tue May 08 15:01:24 2001 Path: spln!lex!extra.newsguy.com!lotsanews.com!newsfeed.stanford.edu!canoe.uoregon.edu!logbridge.uoregon.edu!netnews.com!newsfeed.skycache.com!Cidera!portc03.blue.aol.com!audrey04.news.aol.com!not-for-mail Lines: 24 X-Admin: news@aol.com From: frogprinc9@aol.com (FrogPrinc9) Newsgroups: alt.folklore.urban Date: 08 May 2001 19:01:24 GMT References: <DA2yjOvveD+6EwR6@romana.davros.org> Organization: AOL http://www.aol.com Subject: Re: May 8th Message-ID: <20010508150124.00134.00004303@ng-cg1.aol.com> Xref: spln alt.folklore.urban:413332 I wanted to write a post like Casady, and his birthday was a good excuse, since I have wondered if I could write like that for a long time, or several days anyway. I am learning it is more difficult than I thought and I probably should have started when I was younger and could remember what I wrote five minutes earlier, or five seconds, so I am kidding myself if I think this is even close to good enough but will post it anyway. I used to write well I think, but soon they may tell me I can only use crayons it is hard to see punctuation then. Most of my writing style I picked up from military manuals and Soldier of Fortune magazine although most of their topics would be considered off topic here and rightfully so, violation of BOP except Andrea of the Tomahawks doesn't have the BOP problem, which may mean nobody fucks with you when your ammo is live and long distance, but maybe not. But wishing Richard Happy Birthday is worthwhile so I decided to do this, even if I never have been able to figure out how to do a sig file on aol, not that Richard would use AOL anyway but I do and that is my problem not yours, I'll deal with it. I wish I could remember better and thought drugs might help, all I could find was three old Darvocets in the cupboard and they expired in 1983 so I don't think they helped much but who knows how much worse this post would be if I hadn't taken them, although the dog wanted them. He is an old dog and not agile enough to fight me for them. So before I forget Happy Birthday Richard and thank you for letting me read the past few years of your meaningful meanderings. John "Airborne!" Brown
From dscheidt@tumbolia.com Mon May 07 23:52:12 2001
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Mike Holmans <mike@jackalope.demon.co.uk> wrote:
: We got back from Halifax about three hours ago. We weren't in Halifax
<Snip.>
: We could have AFU Halifax there, though. I know Casady's been planning
: to sail to it, and I've been wondering what sort of boat he'll be using,
: since it will have to negotiate not only the Atlantic Ocean but also the
: Rochdale Canal - which goes past our house, so he could pick us up on
: the way, or stop off and carry on the conversation from the Pennsylvania
: Hotel. Whatever.
It's fiendishly difficult to write a post like this. I must have spent
thirty minutes trying to write more than a couple lines like this and my
brane just doesn't work the same way that it needs to write like this- it
requires more runon sentences and fluid thinking than my pea-sized brane is
really comfortable doing without screaming "Stop torturing me".
: Happy Birthday, Casady.
Indeed.
--
dscheidt@tumbolia.com
You won't blow up much with a dust filled plastic bag, but you can set
yourself on fire. - Casady on the pros and cons of low-budget explosives
From sl560@columbia.edu Tue May 08 15:31:15 2001 Path: spln!lex!extra.newsguy.com!lotsanews.com!cyclone-sf.pbi.net!209.10.34.151!newsfeed.sjc.globix.net!newsfeed.nyc.globix.net!news.stealth.net!newsfeed.freenet.de!news-lei1.dfn.de!news-nue1.dfn.de!uni-erlangen.de!fu-berlin.de!uni-berlin.de!66-65-98-39.nyc.rr.COM!not-for-mail From: sl560@columbia.edu (Sara Moffat Lorimer) Newsgroups: alt.folklore.urban Subject: Re: a smiley face a day Date: Tue, 8 May 2001 15:31:15 -0400 Organization: minimal Lines: 25 Message-ID: <1et3h05.195f5ab1b00fcwN%sl560@columbia.edu> References: <7S4I6.16754$482.85621@newsfeeds.bigpond.com> <NX4I6.16759$482.85811@newsfeeds.bigpond.com> <3AF13222.DD683B3@NOSPAMPLEACEhotmail.com> <QlbI6.17030$482.85988@newsfeeds.bigpond.com> <3AF154DA.1EC33401@NOSPAMPLEACEhotmail.com> <9css79$o3e$1@news.chatlink.com> <3AF2BB6A.8BF8ED8F@NOSPAMPLEACEhotmail.com> <9cvnh3$mdq$1@news.chatlink.com> <3AF596F3.6908C0B1@NOSPAMPLEACEhotmail.com> <l7nJ6.3962$vg1.303919@www.newsranger.com> NNTP-Posting-Host: 66-65-98-39.nyc.rr.com (66.65.98.39) X-Trace: fu-berlin.de 989350284 17939636 66.65.98.39 (16 [69961]) Keywords: "I used to eat a live toad for breakfast" X-Orig-Path: sl560 X-Face: %ZzD|7<!PH&;tef^Aio'.D`STp *S@iVM]=}C&0sUMQi3j`W~JqRC1pZiA !B._Q'$Gyq2QBq(Wc&Q`=7pGB]s3hq LuP&$Uj`f&y>ll:9I5L]3$#6bN`[hoXUc0:M4p|t User-Agent: MacSOUP/2.4.6 Xref: spln alt.folklore.urban:413337 Some idiot wrote: a load of shite. I didn't see most of it though, I've got all sorts of names in my killfile. Using MacSoup, killfiles aren't as good as with the NewsWatcher or whatever that was called, but I like the map it shows of where I am on any thread so I traded in the trusty old program for the new one. It's good to know where you are, that way you can always give directions if somebody needs to find you, or you can give misleading directions and not have to worry about accidentally giving away your location. Everyone else is right, this is harder than it looks, I'm failing. In highschool, students say Hemmingway wasn't such hot shit, the teachers tell them to go ahead and try to write like him. I have a poster advertising a bullfight with my name stamped in as one of the bullfighters but that's as close as I ever got to a bull. It's May 8 everywhere, not just in threads labeled as such, I'm going to go make lunch now, happy birthday Casady. Sara, an infrequent poster but joining in anyway. -- SSSSSSS I GGGGG S I G SSSSSSSS I G GGG xx S I G G xx SSSSSSSS I GGGG
From henry.w@_EGGS_&_SPAM_iobox.fi Tue May 08 15:37:11 2001 Path: spln!lex!extra.newsguy.com!lotsanews.com!newshub2.home.com!news.home.com!news.maxwell.syr.edu!colt.net!newspeer.highwayone.net!newsfeed1.telenordia.se!algonet!newsfeed1.funet.fi!newsfeeds.funet.fi!newsfeed.kpnqwest.fi!news.kpnqwest.fi!not-for-mail Message-ID: <3AF849EF.7C36462E@iobox.fi> From: HWM <henry.w@_EGGS_&_SPAM_iobox.fi> Organization: ! retupmoc ym ni deppart m'I ! pleH X-Mailer: Mozilla 4.7 [en] (WinNT; I) X-Accept-Language: en,pdf MIME-Version: 1.0 Newsgroups: alt.folklore.urban Subject: Re: May 8th References: <RqVcHIAknz96Mw4H@jackalope.demon.co.uk> Content-type: text/plain; charset=iso-8859-1 Content-Transfer-Encoding: 8bit Lines: 25 Date: Tue, 08 May 2001 19:37:11 GMT NNTP-Posting-Host: 195.10.180.38 X-Complaints-To: helpdesk@kpnqwest.fi X-Trace: news.kpnqwest.fi 989350631 195.10.180.38 (Tue, 08 May 2001 22:37:11 EET DST) NNTP-Posting-Date: Tue, 08 May 2001 22:37:11 EET DST Xref: spln alt.folklore.urban:413338 This morning I woke up at six am and proceeded to the train station, not in the drunken stupor I would have wished but rather in a sleepwalkers drift as I suddenly realized I had to get off the train at halfway to get to the Polytechnic. The sun shone brightly and the chill of the morning air was turning into a pleasant summer's day when I yanked the doors and found them shut. Suddenly it dawned on me that I was there an hour too early for the business to start so I dawdled back to the massive hulk of Pasila-Böle railway station hanging over the railroad tracks as a spaceship hulk from a third rate science fiction movie. The third rate coffee and baguette were however in first rate prices. At half nine I decided to go try the doors which now opened without me even saying sesame. The trip down to the cellar where all hope was to be cast felt inappropriate for such a beautiful day, but I decided to keep my appointment with the professor who had her door open and with a big smile on her face handed me the topics to do my maturity essay from. Her smile had made me mistake her for the Cheshire Cat for after reading the topics I was sure she was the Mad Hatter. Three hours later I left the room after I had chewed out all my pencils and made an essay that I remember nothing of. Such was my morning, did you enjoy your day? "Hippie Birthday for Casady" -- Cheers, HWM | I could be bounded in a nut-shell, and | henry.w@iobox.fi | count myself a king of infinite space, | http://www.nullwave.net | were it not that I have bad dreams... |
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JoAnne Schmitz <jschmitz@qis.net> wrote in
<fa4fft0q7qjfobbtiordnkcaubs50vg59p@4ax.com>:
<some stuff snipped>
I would have to cut and paste and delete just to get the job, profs. A Phud
is special to me. I know others that I wrote so I ever wanted more was
astronauts wings, starting in about 54. The were still telling me not in my
mouth and was unable to even swallow them. Perhaps if I had never been
there, I understand, is pretty much invented the internet are regulars at
AFU.
Good stuff will get you out of threads you don't like, and don't be such a
hypocrite, perhaps. I appreciate the plonk, you don't know very well some
free unsolicited advice, especially on how to spend their money. I took it
on faith that Ogden had something worth a cheer, so I ever wanted more was
astronauts wings, starting in about 54. The were still telling me not in my
ex Navy plane, a Beech D-17S, call BG-2 by the Army. Five seat retractible
gear biplane, did about 190 at max except take off [1 min] power. It had
the IBM 360 in there. I had trouble talking to, if we were on speaking
terms at all. It isn't necessary of course, you might fuck off. Actually it
would have hurt to have one.
I don't write your paychecks, but I finally did, I wish I had not been with
my SO, but I like it, and forget it exists, or where it is.
--
Karen J. Cravens
From d.ucko@physics.org Tue May 08 16:53:15 2001 From: d.ucko@physics.org (Daniel Ucko) Newsgroups: alt.folklore.urban Subject: Re: Brace! Brace! Brace! Date: Tue, 08 May 2001 20:53:15 GMT Reply-To: d.ucko@physics.org Message-ID: <3af84cde.11673432@localhost> Cancel-Lock: sha1:Gf4jMlsZ5e7K/BCwI16r6CbCpa8= References: <3B02C5F6@MailAndNews.com> X-Newsreader: Forte Free Agent 1.21/32.243 X-NFilter: 1.2.0 NNTP-Posting-Host: async196-4.nas.onetel.net.uk X-Trace: 8 May 2001 22:52:51 +0200, async196-4.nas.onetel.net.uk Lines: 44 Path: spln!rex!extra.newsguy.com!lotsanews.com!news.maxwell.syr.edu!fr.clara.net!heighliner.fr.clara.net!fr.colt.net!news-fr.onetelnet.fr!async196-4.nas.onetel.net.uk Xref: spln alt.folklore.urban:413352 John Schmitt <john_h_schmitt@MailAndNews.com> wrote: >>===== Original Message From d.ucko@physics.org ===== > >>[3] Football Association Cup. A noble and prestigious trophy with >>great history. Also the only thing Arsenal can win this year. Grumble. > >I see. You think *you* have a cross to bear as a loyal supporter. I know it's the wrong thread, but it has already drifted. Well you'd say that but really it is awkward. We've got four French internationals in our team (and if I hear them referred to as the 'French connection' one more time I will go postal) and you'd really think we'd be able to stand up to Mr Posh Spice, Roy 'for fifty million quid, he scores for Real Madrid' Keano, and the rest. Whatever Oh and Teddy. Teddy used to play for the Scum and left to join the ManUre. Feh. That's what hurts the most - someone buying a Scum (Tottenham) player and making him score goals. It defies the belief that the scum are crap, even though it has been 40 years since they won the league. Anyway, ManUre. The gap is 11 points and they won the trophy about a month ago, with six or so games to spare. A rich man's complaint, given that Arsenal is still second in the league, but who'd be a Salieri if you can be Mozart? A pathetic home display against Middlesbrough, 0-3, two own goals, was not helpful. I've talked about buying Brazilian players before, and both our Brazilian players, Edu and Silvinho, scored the first two goals. Bloody Middlesbrough couldn't believe their luck, sitting back, watching Arsenal beat themselves. Not a happy day. Today is better. Happy Birthday Casady. I hear the beautiful game is taking off down your end. I saw a game on telly here: Tampa Bay Mutiny against the NY Metrostars. Good goals, but your guys don't celebrate. They just frown and make high fives. Our lot make gestures and punch the air, and hug each other. Except for the French Connection, who touch fingers after a goal. Maybe that is The French Connection. Not a natural, me, but I try. Daniel Ucko No .sig. It just wouldn't be right. I haven't used a sig for ages, since I haven't contributed much while on the home stretch of my thesis. Every time I see something witty someone has pinched it before I have had the chance. But I am finished now, barring some corrections. Maddy, you beat me. I would say Age before Beauty, but you are not in Rogues' Gallery so I don't have enough information, and you would probably reply with Pearls before Swine, as is your right.
From vjrnts@xcski.com Tue May 08 16:58:36 2001 Path: spln!rex!extra.newsguy.com!lotsanews.com!news.maxwell.syr.edu!news.he.net!news.kjsl.com!xcski.com!not-for-mail From: vjrnts@xcski.com (Vicki Robinson) Newsgroups: alt.folklore.urban Subject: Re: May 8th Date: 8 May 2001 20:58:36 GMT Organization: Tomorrow, really, I mean it this time. Lines: 28 Message-ID: <9d9mls$gnr$1@allhats.xcski.com> References: <Pine.NEB.4.33.0105080100580.20960-100000@panix3.panix.com> <070520012241441605%cclarke@faultline.org> <9d92ua$p0s$1@news.panix.com> NNTP-Posting-Host: allhats.xcski.com X-Trace: allhats.xcski.com 989355516 17147 192.168.1.1 (8 May 2001 20:58:36 GMT) X-Complaints-To: abuse@xcski.com NNTP-Posting-Date: 8 May 2001 20:58:36 GMT X-Newsreader: trn 4.0-test70 (17 January 1999) Originator: vjrnts@xcski.com (Vicki Robinson) Xref: spln alt.folklore.urban:413354 In a previous article, Madeleine Page <mpage@mpage.net> said: <Chris Clarke <cclarke@faultline.org> writes: <> Brian Yeoh <lby3@columbia.edu> wrote: <> <> some stuff. It was pretty good, which didn't surprise me. < <Chris Clarke, Clark, whatever it is and he or she is, I like reading his <stuff. So do I and Maddy too, for what that's worth which isn't much these days although it used to be worth something. But that was a long time ago even if it doesn't seem that long. Maddy talks about her dog who I've met after eating a big slab of cheese. The dog, not me. It's a nice dog, big and you need that kind of dog after you've lived with a poodle for all these years although they wouldn't let me have a dog when I lived in the dorms. I had a bird, though, a parakeet, blue and white, it was a cheerful little thing everyone on the floor liked it but like all things it died. But it had a good life, better than mine maybe, I'd like to sing for my supper everyday and have it handed to me but not what birds eat. You need that grease and salt, it's part of what keeps us human I think. When was the last time you saw a parrot chowing down on a Big Mac? Vicki "Happy Birthday, Richard!" Robinson -- Family and Divorce Mediation Resources http://xcski.com/~mediator/
From jhibbert@twcny.rr.com Tue May 08 17:40:19 2001 Path: spln!lex!extra.newsguy.com!lotsanews.com!news.maxwell.syr.edu!newsfeed.skycache.com!Cidera!cyclone-0.nyroc.rr.com!cyclone-out.nyroc.rr.com!typhoon.nyroc.rr.com.POSTED!not-for-mail From: jhibbert@twcny.rr.com (John Hibbert) Newsgroups: alt.folklore.urban Subject: Re: May 8th Message-ID: <jhibbert-0805011742160001@192.168.1.100> References: <3B0269AB@MailAndNews.com> Organization: Mostly Mac X-Newsreader: MT-NewsWatcher 2.4.4 Lines: 46 Date: Tue, 08 May 2001 21:40:19 GMT NNTP-Posting-Host: 24.24.6.122 X-Complaints-To: abuse@twcny.rr.com X-Trace: typhoon.nyroc.rr.com 989358019 24.24.6.122 (Tue, 08 May 2001 17:40:19 EDT) NNTP-Posting-Date: Tue, 08 May 2001 17:40:19 EDT Xref: spln alt.folklore.urban:413361 It would have worked but it didn't. Too bad. Dad painted furnace the pipes for the furnace so the rust wouldn't show using some spray paint that he got for ninty-eight cents a can and the results were as expected, the smell coming up from the basement reminded me of the foundry; the heat creating a burn-off of anything impure save the thoughts of the workers toward management. Never mind that though, those kids next door are making enough noise where I can't smell anything as it is, if you can imagine that. Punks. At least they're cleaning up that lot they call a yard, or garden, for the leftpondians, that's got to be a plus. Typing, I am quite focused on the noise my hard drive makes. I must have used the wrong lubricant on it when I built it, next time I am going to buy the name-brand bacon, one can't scrimp on things like that. Oh well, it has served me for years to get the latest on my brand of mind-candy, that is what vectors have been spreading what and where, so if it goes, so it goes, someone said. My inner "reading" voice always sounds like my own when I read his stuff anyway, so I might as well have said it. Sources, what a bitch. Tracing back to traces that lead to other traces that somewhere down the line lead to the first legend, or at least the first written, tapped, penned, scratched or otherwise recorded Source, as opposed to a mere source. That's probably what a hyperlink is, really... not a link that you would see on your crt but one that is a piece of realia which can take you to a time where another piece of the same, navigating space-time instead of the 'net, but in the real-time system of links, dejagoogle seems to not work or is missing or has another name that has yet to be divulged, and probably won't. Real-world, phah! For a hundred bucks I could just buy another hard drive that is five times the size of the one sitting here, whirring, screaming on occasion, but do i? No, I am sentmental to this poor old bastard, I think I'll keep it foe a while, see how the story ends. I can be such a sap now and then, in a good way that is. Maybe the motor from my drill gun will help it along for a while yet. Time to feed the cat, as I have been for the past twelve years, Ted going through his weight in cans every few months or so. Good thing he can get outside, lugging all that to the bin wouldn't be as pleasant as one might think. Someone ought to tell him though that there is no letter G in "meow." He didn't pick that up from me, it must have been a choice of his. Live and let live, I love the old thing. Cheers. happy birthday casady, John "" Hibbert -- Visit "The World's Littlest Web Server!" A Mac SE running as a web server, at: http://149.96.1.33
From rcasady@uswest.net Tue May 08 18:05:30 2001 Path: spln!lex!extra.newsguy.com!lotsanews.com!news.maxwell.syr.edu!feed.news.qwest.net!news.uswest.net.POSTED!not-for-mail From: Casady <rcasady@uswest.net> Newsgroups: alt.folklore.urban Subject: Re: May 8th Message-ID: <8eqgft49eimckh45367k838ce5j3leniim@4ax.com> References: <RqVcHIAknz96Mw4H@jackalope.demon.co.uk> X-Newsreader: Forte Agent 1.8/32.548 MIME-Version: 1.0 Content-type: text/plain; charset=us-ascii Content-Transfer-Encoding: 7bit Lines: 48 Date: Tue, 08 May 2001 17:05:30 -0500 NNTP-Posting-Host: 63.224.181.228 X-Trace: news.uswest.net 989359531 63.224.181.228 (Tue, 08 May 2001 17:05:31 CDT) NNTP-Posting-Date: Tue, 08 May 2001 17:05:31 CDT Xref: spln alt.folklore.urban:413362 On Tue, 8 May 2001 01:12:20 +0100, Mike Holmans <mike@jackalope.demon.co.uk> wrote: >We got back from Halifax about three hours ago. We weren't in Halifax >long, only as long as it takes to get through it, so I guess you could >say we weren't really there. But we went past the tower, some sort of >nineteenth century folly put up by a mill owner who wanted a big dick of >a phallic symbol, probably. Or whatever. Some day we must find out about >it, but we haven't yet stocked up on books about the local history, and >anyway it's Todmorden where we have our house, and we don't know all >about there yet. We went to Halifax to buy kitchen knives a few months >ago, because they don't sell really serious knives in Todmorden market. >Not the sort of knives which can chop a carrot at twenty paces anyway. >But usually we only go through Halifax, stopping at the train station, >although we didn't today because FuckinFirstCrawlderline's bus didn't >turn up so we missed the train to Leeds and had to take a taxi and not >stop at Halifax train station. Opposite which is a pub commemorating >Wallis Simpson. I don't know why they named a pub after Wallis Simpson, >though you can see why they would name one after Homer Simpson, I guess. >We could have AFU Halifax there, though. I know Casady's been planning >to sail to it, and I've been wondering what sort of boat he'll be using, >since it will have to negotiate not only the Atlantic Ocean but also the >Rochdale Canal - which goes past our house, so he could pick us up on >the way, or stop off and carry on the conversation from the Pennsylvania >Hotel. Whatever. > >Happy Birthday, Casady. > >Mike "" Holmans http://www.dockstreetbrokers.com/boats/view_result.cgi?boat_id=722074&units=Feet¤cy=&listing_id=1785&page=broker&mls_true= This would be the top of the scale. Need at least 30to 35 feet to not travel light. Thirty cases of Trinidad light rum [1135ml bottles] has to have weight. http://www.dockstreetbrokers.com/boats/view_result.cgi?boat_id=777514&units=Feet¤cy=&listing_id=1785&page=broker&mls_true= And for the race the fast gillnetter. Ought to be able to peggy back it on the huge tuna boat. I found a draft in the outbox with that url for a newsgroup, hard to believer, so I copied my reply and of the garbage draft, started over, and it was easy. I feel like it took bait of something, it was so easy. I just wish I could figure out how lifting the url out of an email would mung the NG line. Richard' Would change my name to Madeliene Page for a Phud' Casady
From be_a_klugman@hotmail.com Tue May 08 18:18:58 2001 Path: spln!lex!extra.newsguy.com!lotsanews.com!newsfeed.direct.ca!look.ca!newsfeed1.earthlink.net!newsfeed2.earthlink.net!newsfeed.earthlink.net!news.mindspring.net!not-for-mail From: "kerry" <be_a_klugman@hotmail.com> Newsgroups: alt.folklore.urban Subject: Re: Chick Magnets and Cow Seeds! (humor) OT Date: Tue, 8 May 2001 18:18:58 -0400 Organization: MindSpring Enterprises Lines: 62 Message-ID: <9d9rf6$hti$1@slb7.atl.mindspring.net> References: <20010505120755.26252.00000023@ng-fm1.aol.com> <3AF5F8F0.5D9468FB@snet.net> <9d73rb$k44$1@slb7.atl.mindspring.net> <Pine.GSO.4.21.0105080341590.15521-100000@ms.cc.sunysb.edu> NNTP-Posting-Host: a5.f7.8c.a9 X-Server-Date: 8 May 2001 22:20:22 GMT X-Priority: 3 X-MSMail-Priority: Normal X-Newsreader: Microsoft Outlook Express 5.50.4522.1200 X-MimeOLE: Produced By Microsoft MimeOLE V5.50.4522.1200 Xref: spln alt.folklore.urban:413363 "Yehuda Naveh" <yenaveh@ms.cc.sunysb.edu> wrote in message news:Pine.GSO.4.21.0105080341590.15521-100000@ms.cc.sunysb.edu... > On Mon, 7 May 2001, kerry wrote: > > > > > "Charles Wm. Dimmick" <cdimmick@snet.net> > > > What the hell does "lol" mean? > > > > Poor C.Wm.D, can't get a straight answer 'round here. On the off > > chance that you really don't know what "lol" means: it's short for > > "laugh out loud" > > What I don't understand is why people use that abbreviation when for > > one extra letter you could write "haha" > > and avoid the confusion. > > --Kerry > > This is a troll, or not. I was wrong before. Too demented to fix my > sig on my Agent software, let alone decide who is a troll and who > isn't. Of course I can write haha but if I want to say Have A Happy > Afternoon I'll say Have A Happy Afternoon. And if I want to say > Hooting And Horsing Around I'll say Hooting And Horsing Around. I > don't pay by the byte. Or bite. haha indeed, lol also. Too many > clueless newbies is exactly what we need right now. Just shoot > them. Kerry you said didn't you? We have only a Kerro here and he's > from Australia. I'll tell you one thing, I know kerro and you are no > Kerro you aren't. Fuck off. Or die. Or keep your hahahaha and lololool > to aol. We know someone you'll get along with just fine. She's got big > boobs and a rose desk and lives in Tennessee if she's not dead yet. Or > we can fix you with a fake doctor at Portland. At least you didn't > top-post. Sorry if you're not a troll. I'm too old to know. I won't be > here tomorrow, or next year. Have a happy afternoon. > > Yehuda Holy Crap! I have no idea what part of my reply to Charles Dimmick sounded like a troll, but I apologize for setting you off. I've lurked and posted a couple of times here for about eight months. I've seen some attacks on newbies, but I've also seen them welcomed. I resisted the urge to ask questions like, "what does 'mine!' mean?" and "what is a troll?" Instead I just read and enjoyed the (mostly) intelligent, witty, and generally informative posts made by the regulars. I particularly enjoy what C.W. Dimmick and his ?, Edward write. As well as Drew Lawson and Charles Lieberman (who, until yesterday, I had always pictured as an older man) and JoAnne Schmitz -who has the impeccable combination of brains and tact. Especially when she was misidentified as Jami Jo. So, Mr. (or Ms.) Naveh, I am honestly sorry if the tone (or was it the composition?) came accross as a troll. I'm not immersed in USENET culture the way some are. It took me a long time to figure out what many of the abbreviations are. I still don't know most of them. I thought that _maybe_ Mr. Dimmick really didn't know. For that I suppose I am clueless. Promptly returning to lurking. -- Kerry "yes, that is my real name, too."
From amroth@zetnet.co.uk Tue May 08 18:37:06 2001 Path: spln!lex!extra.newsguy.com!lotsanews.com!newshub2.home.com!news.home.com!dispose.news.demon.net!demon!peer.news.zetnet.net!master.news.zetnet.net!not-for-mail From: Phil Edwards <amroth@zetnet.co.uk> Newsgroups: alt.folklore.urban Subject: Re: Mobile/Cell phone "virus" Date: Tue, 08 May 2001 23:37:06 +0100 Message-ID: <n4rgftcoe2vpadter74juok9a0mugd5src@4ax.com> References: <3B026738@MailAndNews.com> X-Newsreader: Forte Agent 1.8/32.548 MIME-Version: 1.0 Content-type: text/plain; charset=us-ascii Content-Transfer-Encoding: 7bit Lines: 66 NNTP-Posting-Host: man-a219.dialup.zetnet.co.uk X-Trace: news.zetnet.co.uk 989361439 21937 194.247.44.219 Xref: spln alt.folklore.urban:413365 On Fri, 4 May 2001 18:49:25 -0400, R H Draney <dadoctah@earthlink.net> wrote: >I'm using a lovely OCR-style that's the best monospace font I've seen >for certain purposes; numeral '1' has a kickstand to distinguish it from >lowercase letter 'l', and number '0' is square (like a miniature "euro", on >this screen), while capital 'O' is a lozenge.... Coding sheets, first place I worked, the standard was to cross Ss and Os, letter O that is, to distinguish from 5 and 0. (Plus your Is had to have a good broad cross-stroke top and bottom to distinguish from 1s, but that's pretty standard.) The S and O thing though, I've never seen that anywhere else - it's usually 5s and 0s in my experience. Served the same purpose of preventing confusion between the two, unless of course some newcomer went in merrily crossing 5s and 0s. Never did that, although I did once write a rough draft and a fair copy and put the rough draft in to be run - JCL, too. They did it anyhow - they could do most things with those machines. IBM 370, still one of the greats if you ask me, or for that matter if you don't. Colour terminals, we had - colour meaning different-coloured letters. Paperless office was just around the corner, apparently - never quite materialised though. In the eighties, this was. No time ago really - we even had 4GLs, 4th Generation Languages that is, not that I ever want to see any of them again. Fifth Generation, what became of that? Course, those were the years of full employment, in IT at least. I was in a group of five trainees; they took another five the next year, and probably another five the year after that, I don't know, I was gone by that time. Don't remember much about my year, but the next year's batch were very cool - there was an Irish guy with a degree in ancient history, and a woman who looked a lot like Dee Hepburn and had a degree in astrophysics. And there they all were, redefining W3-DATE1 as W3-DD, -MM and -YY, and calculating floor areas in Cobol. I mean that was the training, the job itself had more constructive uses for Cobol, although not much more. Wonder what happened to them? Coding sheets. Yes, we used them. I've written RPG on coding sheets, which is in no way a joke. Ran on a twin-floppy mini, in a warehouse which was one of the rare flowerings of English architectural modernism, or so I found out later, not that it would have made much difference if I'd known at the time. A cliff with windows, it was, and not very many of those; it looked good, but not that good. But architecture never really went anywhere after St Pancras, or after the Russell Hotel. Bricks, they're a good material, and they're not expensive at all. Made the centre of Manchester what it is today - older than most of New Orleans and better-looking than any of it. Do I have to explain who Dee Hepburn was? I say 'was', she's not dead, but she is a pharmaceuticals rep specialising in medication for childhood incontinence, which is a long way from where she was once. It's a long way from most things, to be fair, but still. Time was there would have been an ObUL kicking in just around here. "Time was" as in 1996-7, not 1985 or when Dee Hepburn was around, but still - seems like a long time ago. We grow old, but at least we can do it together. Grow old, that is. ObUL, anyway: the one about the salami-slicer programmer? the one about the Cambridge roof-beam? or the one about the famous actress in obscurity, not sure what the plot would be, sure there's one in there somewhere though. "Sit, Butch"? (I would.) Number 36, that's a good one. It's the way he tells 'em. Ed"Hi Richard"wards -- Phil Edwards http://www.users.zetnet.co.uk/amroth/ "My only comment is that that seems to be a big wad of signal of some kind. " - Richard Casady
From lby3@columbia.edu Tue May 08 01:14:55 2001 Path: spln!lex!extra.newsguy.com!lotsanews.com!howland.erols.net!panix!news.panix.com!panix3.panix.com!byeoh From: Brian Yeoh <lby3@columbia.edu> Newsgroups: alt.folklore.urban Subject: May 8th Date: Tue, 8 May 2001 01:14:55 -0400 Organization: PANIX Public Access Internet and UNIX, NYC Lines: 42 Message-ID: <Pine.NEB.4.33.0105080100580.20960-100000@panix3.panix.com> NNTP-Posting-Host: panix3.panix.com Mime-Version: 1.0 Content-type: TEXT/PLAIN; charset=US-ASCII X-Trace: news.panix.com 989298895 21310 166.84.0.228 (8 May 2001 05:14:55 GMT) X-Complaints-To: abuse@panix.com NNTP-Posting-Date: 8 May 2001 05:14:55 GMT X-X-Sender: <byeoh@panix3.panix.com> Errors-To: lby3@columbia.edu Xref: spln alt.folklore.urban:413280 Went to the Brooklyn Art Museum yesterday and stopped by the library, got twenty books, just about enough to keep me occupied for the next week while the fucking vultures descend on the stinking corpse of Northpoint's dead, long lamented T-3, who my router forlornly pings day and night, blinkenlights all aflutter hoping for once, just once an ACK from the FGISP, but being forced back to work, which has aircon and lights and all the soda I could drink in the world -- feels like I was back in the army, carrying my handbuilt 486 from battery lines to the battalion office so that I could con the DO into letting me hook my modem up to the one fucking phoneline not conected to the PBX and thereby break all kinds of GOMs and security violations ensuring that if those MP bastards ever did tap into the line, yours truly would be sitting right now in Kranji Detention Barracks waiting patiently for the next day when they grab you and throw you out in the open sun marching around that parade square with thirty kilos of stones (or thirty stones of kilos?) in your fieldpack/ fullpack/overfull pack round and round the parade square singing here we go again, same old shit again cos it doesn't matter anymore if some bastard WO1 hears you singing that on HIS parade square cause what're they going to do, send you to DB? hah! waiting for the recruits to bookout so you can scream at them from the windows, reminding them never, never to fuck up or they'll end up like you, but that never happened thank God, and all I had left was to keep happily pruning away at the leaves from a dying forest, my forest Lothlorien, we happy band of brothers who disbanded thanks to the worm in the apple I brought to the party, leading me to write a book about it, a bad book of poetry only a twenty year old could write without flinching and only a twenty five year old could flinch when he still saw it on his fathers, his friends bookshelves and beg for a match/lighter/lighter fluid to expunge the shame he felt when some damn bastard pulled open MY DOCUMENTS in MY COMPUTER, but I digress and sitting here in the office thinking about the tasks I have left I can do no less than flee back to whatever vague memories I have left thinking of old Uncle Marquee and Chunky Loon and Shy Joe and ylnn his soul that weakling Chris who tried his hand at arson on our forest too bad he was too late, the roots were already poisoned but I digress and sitting here thinking about how I've only ten books left to read before I have to go back to the library for a new helping and why the hell can't those lazy bastards have a single library that all of us can go to, so that back to Alma Mater again I can run to pat the owl and kiss the toe while in sight of Demosthenes and John Jay and a low, Low library and then I realise that all I wanted to say was happy birthday Rich Casady but I digress.
From cmraman@deeptht.armory.com. Tue May 08 19:10:09 2001 Path: spln!lex!extra.newsguy.com!lotsanews.com!newsfeed1.earthlink.net!newsfeed.earthlink.net!news-out.visi.com!hermes.visi.com!gemini.tycho.net.POSTED!not-for-mail Newsgroups: alt.folklore.urban Subject: Re: May 8th References: <RqVcHIAknz96Mw4H@jackalope.demon.co.uk> <3AF849EF.7C36462E@iobox.fi> Organization: The Armory X-Newsreader: trn 4.0-test69 (20 September 1998) From: cmraman@deeptht.armory.com. (Marc Reeve) Date: 08 May 2001 23:10:09 GMT Lines: 30 Message-ID: <3af87cd1$0$39599$8eec23a@newsreader.tycho.net> NNTP-Posting-Host: c90a6d3e.newsreader.tycho.net X-Trace: 989363409 gemini.tycho.net 39599 cmraman@192.122.209.42 X-Complaints-To: abuse@tycho.net Xref: spln alt.folklore.urban:413367 The day started out bad and went downhill from there. Allergy season in full swing as everything decides to bloom at once in one mad orgy of plants. The boat on the open sea would be the place to be right now, out away from the heat and the dust and the pollen, autosteering set and a tall cool glass of something involving rum in hand, life would be good. So I go downstairs and step outside and trip on the cat toy that's been left on our porch. Damn cat doesn't live here but he thinks he owns the place - he'll waltz in when the door is opened, leaves his toys all around. We had a cat for about 3 months when we first moved back here after we got married - a Siamese that we found as a kitten, yowling outside our door on a cold and rainy night. A mighty hunter of dust bunnies and paper scraps, a loud voice attached to a bottomless appetite. Then we had to move and the cat did not move with us. He was absorbed into the menagerie of the next door naighbors, becoming their fourth cat. At any rate, my knee ended up at an odd angle and hasn't decided whether or not it's going to behave or get seriously annoying. Much like the snuh crowd, right now it's just a nagging little reminder that not everything is as we would wish it. Ibuprofen and killfiles, both serve to smooth over these little annoyances. And caffeine. Caffeine smooths over a world of hurt. Alcohol less so in the summer days, the antihistamines will mix all too well with it and then I get even less done than I do now. Happy Birthday, Richard Casady! Marc "i think i'll upgrade Yehuda naveh to an 8 - this is a lot harder than it looks" Reeve -- Marc Reeve: cAmEraman@deepthOUGHt.armory.com <delete caps for real address> "Substitute "damn" every time you want to write "very." Your editor will delete it, and then your writing will be as it should be." -Mark Twain
From rcasady@uswest.net Tue May 08 20:05:55 2001 Path: spln!lex!extra.newsguy.com!lotsanews.com!news-hog.berkeley.edu!ucberkeley!news.maxwell.syr.edu!feed.news.qwest.net!news.uswest.net.POSTED!not-for-mail From: Casady <rcasady@uswest.net> Newsgroups: alt.folklore.urban Subject: Re: May 8th Message-ID: <id2hft4si0k2itkv191f3rv1jjt7aj86hd@4ax.com> References: <RqVcHIAknz96Mw4H@jackalope.demon.co.uk> <d6OJ6.9064$7_1.1471227@news6-win.server.ntlworld.com> <jalfft067eg47k2su2jv2lkpd8ua4tmho6@4ax.com> <DA2yjOvveD+6EwR6@romana.davros.org> X-Newsreader: Forte Agent 1.8/32.548 MIME-Version: 1.0 Content-type: text/plain; charset=us-ascii Content-Transfer-Encoding: 7bit Lines: 66 Date: Tue, 08 May 2001 19:05:55 -0500 NNTP-Posting-Host: 63.224.179.172 X-Trace: news.uswest.net 989366756 63.224.179.172 (Tue, 08 May 2001 19:05:56 CDT) NNTP-Posting-Date: Tue, 08 May 2001 19:05:56 CDT Xref: spln alt.folklore.urban:413369 On Tue, 8 May 2001 19:15:11 +0100, "Clive D. W. Feather" <clive@on-the-train.demon.co.uk> wrote: >In article <jalfft067eg47k2su2jv2lkpd8ua4tmho6@4ax.com>, Casady ><rcasady@uswest.net> writes >>Goodby, >>Casady >>-- >>I will believe I am capable of getting Agent's >>sig software to work when I see it. Maybe.The SSSW[TM] >>has won nearly every time,but I refuse to surrender, >>death before dishonour, or a lick of sense." > >I can't even attempt to claim an ability to imitate your style even >though that may be the sincerest form of flattery but I will say that >you finally seem to have got the signature software to work which >presumably will make a nice birthday present to yourself. > >Clive "Happy Birthday, Casady" Feather I didn't have much of a style when I arrived at AFU at the age of nearly fifty, at that point most of my lifetime output of writing had been sent decades before with the sig: FOR THE COMMANDER, and it is good to be able to pick one of my own. The above is lacking in personality, although it has a certain grandeur, and latent menace almost, of its own. Implies that there is something hidden behind it, say 50,000 nuclear weapons, which actually was the case. I felt pretentious at time even using it, considering that I was demoted twice, made raw recruit, E-1 one. I was,[ and am], an admirer of yours, from the moment of my arrival at this newsgroup. and I wouldn't have minded having your writing style one bit, but of course, it had to be a do it yourself project, can't buy style off the shelf. I bought a Rolex once because it was rugged, the only watch made that was. THey got expensive only when fools decided that they were stylish because they cost a lot. Rolex jacked the price from under 200 to more than three grand, to match their gold and diamond dress watches, when the yuppies show their foolishness, by thinking that you could by style, and therefore have class. Every diver on earth lost on that one. $180 then, 3600 now for their steel diver/construction worker/soldier/oil field roughneck/ underpaid gov thug utility watch, that last being named being James Bond of course. I still would like to buy you a ride on the B&SVRR, here in Iowa, the have the last steam loco ever made. 1988 DaTong if I recall. The state of the Chinese art at the time, or not, you are the expert. I like the cab forward oil burners the SP once used, myself. You really should write more often. Good to hear from you again, and keep 'your' style and be happy, I could't learn to do it when I was learning how to post AFU, but I liked it enough to want to, in some ways. You were on my list of writers, not just posters, writers. I am so flattered that I got one of your regrettably far too rare posts. An honor. Yes the sig thing was a fine present but you would not say it was from myself if you had access to my inbox. I whined and the clues poured in. From about eight different people. I named the current sig 'Creed' for some reason. The u in honour was for you mostly. Casady -- I will believe I am capable of getting Agent's sig software to work when I see it. Maybe.The SSSW[TM] has won nearly every time,but I refuse to surrender, death before dishonour, or a lick of sense."
From kcchan5@attglobal.net Tue May 08 20:08:44 2001 Path: spln!lex!extra.newsguy.com!lotsanews.com!newsfeed.stanford.edu!newsfeed.berkeley.edu!ucberkeley!newsgate.cuhk.edu.hk!newsgate.netvigator.com!imsp212.netvigator.com!not-for-mail From: K C Chan <kcchan5@attglobal.net> Newsgroups: alt.folklore.urban Subject: Re: May 8th Date: Wed, 09 May 2001 08:08:44 +0800 Organization: IMS Netvigator Lines: 30 Message-ID: <gYn4Ot4vBvEPR5NrdWN4l9KHNlnH@4ax.com> References: <9d7qhc$g6l$1@bob.news.rcn.net> <20010508080040.08923.00002231@ng-fy1.aol.com> NNTP-Posting-Host: pcd040178.netvigator.com Mime-Version: 1.0 Content-type: text/plain; charset=us-ascii Content-Transfer-Encoding: 7bit X-Newsreader: Forte Agent 1.6/32.525 Xref: spln alt.folklore.urban:413370 On 08 May 2001 12:00:40 GMT, kerikturd@aol.comNoshitso (That is my Real Name) wrote: >>You won't blow up much with a dust filled plastic bag, but you can set >>yourself on fire. - Casady on the pros and cons of low-budget explosives > >Try adding a mixture of oxygen and acetylene in that baggie, one that's at >least 12x12, a strip of masking tape 18 inches long, stuck to the baggie, makes >a good fuse, light up and enjoy that pleasent ringing in your ears. I like to >do them at night to experiance the fireball because it illuminates the >shockwave as it plays thru, on it's way to rattle a few windows in the >neighborhood. >It's low budget and safe too. Baggie schrapnel is non-lethal at distances over >five feet from ground zero but hearing protection is required. >Kerik"eeeeeeeeeeeeeeeeeeeeeeeeeeeeee"Turd My Old Dad (tm) did the oxy-acetylene thing with an inner tube. He survived , but I don't know how. One Christmas he was filling up the truck with a siphon and swallowed a cup of gasoline, came up for Christmas dinner, and made us put out all the christmas candles on the table. I think his antics explain a lot about me. He really used to like blowing things up. Oh, and Happy Birthday to Casady, who does the Blowing Things Up thing with *so* much more style and finesse. K.C. "Result of an exploded home" Chan
From larry@palletti.com Tue May 08 20:49:22 2001 Path: spln!lex!extra.newsguy.com!lotsanews.com!news-out.cwix.com!newsfeed.cwix.com!feed2.news.rcn.net!rcn!newsfeed.atl!news2.atl.POSTED!not-for-mail From: Larry Palletti <larry@palletti.com> Newsgroups: alt.folklore.urban Subject: Re: May 8th Organization: Full-Court Press Message-ID: <g05hft8kiif7en1d6p6ph01b8t3c3nd2sh@4ax.com> References: <RqVcHIAknz96Mw4H@jackalope.demon.co.uk> <3AF849EF.7C36462E@iobox.fi> <3af87cd1$0$39599$8eec23a@newsreader.tycho.net> X-Newsreader: Forte Agent 1.7/32.534 MIME-Version: 1.0 Content-type: text/plain; charset=us-ascii Content-Transfer-Encoding: 7bit Lines: 27 Date: Tue, 08 May 2001 20:49:22 -0400 NNTP-Posting-Host: 208.61.56.241 X-Trace: news2.atl 989369303 208.61.56.241 (Tue, 08 May 2001 20:48:23 EDT) NNTP-Posting-Date: Tue, 08 May 2001 20:48:23 EDT Xref: spln alt.folklore.urban:413371 I had a Phud once but she was no fun and I told her to get lost, that's the last time I'll fool with a woman who's smarter than I am. Even though that don't take much, but I think it did once. I can't remember shit anymore. This Phud had one of those ratdogs like a lasso aphid, or whatever, that was more like a large mouse than a dog. I told her it took too many of them to make a meal and she got all pissed and wanted me to apologize to the ratdog and I told her I don't even apologize to real dogs, never mind those mouse things that look just about as sick as I feel. Hers was so FuckinShabby (TM) that even the dog (?) didn't know which end was its ass and which was the head. Walked backward half the time. And both ends stunk bad. Put me in mind of that doctor person and the boob lady and the snuh crowd, and that brings this post back on-topic (whatever that was. Or wasn't. You decide.) or near so, maybe. Did I mention I don't apologize to dogs? Hell, I don't even apologize to people, especially ones who act like pissy little ratdogs and stink from both ends. Happy birthday, Casady. I wish you tons more, ol' stick-buddy. -- Larry Palletti East Point/Atlanta, Georgia www.palletti.com www.booksonscreen.com Opinionated, but lovable
From cdimmick@snet.net Tue May 08 21:32:26 2001 Path: spln!lex!extra.newsguy.com!lotsanews.com!news.maxwell.syr.edu!nntp.flash.net!easynews!cyclone.swbell.net!typhoon.snet.net!not-for-mail Message-ID: <3AF89E2A.976F82A7@snet.net> From: "Charles Wm. Dimmick" <cdimmick@snet.net> X-Mailer: Mozilla 4.75 [en] (Win98; U) X-Accept-Language: en MIME-Version: 1.0 Newsgroups: alt.folklore.urban Subject: Re: Drive-in (was Reason things cost $X.95) References: <B2220CE58F328CD6.2D8E605D5554011C.C04F4153ABC3EF78@lp.airnews.net> <Xns90949CDCE1D3Dphoenyx@192.168.0.3> <3AF00323.A122F104@princeton.edu> <3AF2E40F.355D2179@newsguy.com> <9cur9c$1t6v$1@home.eCynic.com> <3AF80E44.4966D5A2@newsguy.com> Content-type: text/plain; charset=us-ascii Content-Transfer-Encoding: 7bit Lines: 96 Date: Tue, 08 May 2001 21:32:26 -0400 NNTP-Posting-Host: 204.60.216.249 X-Complaints-To: abuse@snet.net X-Trace: typhoon.snet.net 989371884 204.60.216.249 (Tue, 08 May 2001 21:31:24 EDT) NNTP-Posting-Date: Tue, 08 May 2001 21:31:24 EDT Organization: SNET Internet Xref: spln alt.folklore.urban:413378 Mike Muth wrote: > > Drew Lawson wrote: > > > In article <3AF2E40F.355D2179@newsguy.com> > > wuf0170@newsguy.com writes: > > >Andrew McMichael wrote: > > > >> ObUL: 3.2% beer, as made by CoorsBud, was really the same thing as "regular" > > >> 6.0% beer. However, alcohol in regular beer was measured by weight, in 3.2 > > >> beer it was measured by volume. This was a favorite UL of the RA [1] in my > > >> dorm, who used it to warn us not to drink 3.2 excessively just because we > > >> thought it had less alcohol. > > > >Many moons ago (or, more specifically, July 1973), I toured the Coors > > >brewery. Our tour guide cheerfully related that the only difference > > >between the regular and 3.2% beer was the label on the bottle. > > > I don't know where to file this: > > a) tour guides will say anything > > b) all Coors is really just 3.2% alcohol > > I don't either. I seem to recall that regular Coors was only about > 4.6%. If that was the case, then perhaps the tour guide was correct. > I'm too lazy to do the math, but the numbers feel okay.* I remember the Coors brewery with great fondness. For two years I lived within walking distance of the brewery, and used to wander down there about once a week. I would take the free tour again, ending in the courtesy lounge with a free glass of freshly-drawn Coors. In those days I had not yet been introduced to real beer, and Coors tasted a lot better to me than the other domestics available to me at the time, which were mainly Bud and Miller, this being 1960. I knew some of the Coors family, not well, except for Blanch[? not sure of the name after all these years] with whom I sang in the choir at the Episcopal Church in Golden. I was a student at Colorado School of Mines, and when I graduated there was a Coors signature on my diploma. I also attended part of the trial for Joseph Corbett, accused and convicted of murdering one of the Coors family. That trial ended just before we left for summer field geology camp, William I. Burke and me sharing a tent and transportation. Burke had bought a case of dynamite about two months earlier in Denver, not being able to resist a bargain when he saw one, getting the case for ten cents a stick. Problem was, the dynamite was very old and not very stable, and little beads of pure nitro kept leaking out, so that it was necessary to turn the case over every few days to redistribute the nitro. As we headed out for field camp I thought Burke had found someone to keep the dynamite for him but then as we were driving down to Fort Kit Carson Burke said he had brought the dynamite with him, and it was in the trunk. I said "My God, what if we hit a bump?" and he said "Don't worry, the caps are under the front seat, not in the back." At this point I began to swear at him in at least three languages. Please don't take this to mean that I am multilingual. Actually, I am ignorant in 22 languages. I know about 160 words in German, 120 in Latin, 60 in French, 40 in Spanish, 30 in Mandarin, 25 in Hebrew, etc. etc. I audited a Russian course once for the first 6 weeks, before my work schedule caused me to drop it. I was told that I spoke Russian with a Polish accent. When I took German I was told that I spoke German with a Scots accent. I would dearly love to learn to speak a foreign language fluently, but I have never been able to discipline myself to put in the time and effort necessary. On the other hand, when working on my Ph.D. dissertation I found it necessary to translate articles written in Japanese, Russian, and 19th century French, and found that with a great deal of patience and a good dictionary I could struggle through all three, although with the Japanese I finally decided to just find the important passages and get someone more competent to give me a proper translation, because all I could do was determine that what was being discussed was what I wanted, but couldn't really interpret exactly what was being said. It is said that the late great vertebrate paleontologist, George Gaylord Simpson, had a natural knack for languages. During WWII he volunteered his services to the govt, being too old for regular military services. When they discovered his language talent they sent him to North Africa to serve as a translator, without, it is said, determining whether or not he spoke Arabic. He didn't, and later said that it was the hardest language he ever encountered. It took him 3 weeks to learn it. Or so the legend goes. Anyway, Happy Birthday Richard, and may there be many more to come. Charles Wm. "damn, I just can't get the style right" Dimmick
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Subject: Re: Drive-in (was Reason things cost $X.95)
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In article <3AF8884E.6878C9FF@snet.net>,
Charles Wm. Dimmick <cdimmick@snet.net> wrote:
>Mike Muth wrote:
>> I don't either. I seem to recall that regular Coors was only about
>> 4.6%. If that was the case, then perhaps the tour guide was correct.
>> I'm too lazy to do the math, but the numbers feel okay.*
>
>Real data at:
>
>http://www.taproom.com/beer/beerprf.htm
Real data maybe, I guess but I wouldn't put too much faith in it myself.
Beer strength is what you make it, or what you bring to it, or not as the
case may be, and if Coors and other SSYB[TM] is supposed to be 4.6% I guess
I can believe that. It might be that strong in the bottle but not when you
actually drink it. Any moron with the time on their hands can put away
some incredible volume of the stuff and walk home. Same volume of some
real beer, Anchor Steam, say, supposed to be about the same strength if
you read that page, you tend to wake up in a graveyard four miles the wrong
direction and not sure where the first wrong turn was. None of that takes
account of Double Bocks and so on which raise the whole bar, not really
fair to compare those, but some people would get pretty offended if they
were left out. The same people might get offended at comparing the good
stuff to SSYB[TM] even for a noble purpose, not to say that this is one.
Fuck it.
N"Happy Birthday and how the hell do you *do* this for several
screensful at a time, is what I want to know"T
--
Nathan Tenny | Words I carry in my pocket, where they
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From dhartung@spamcop.NOT Tue May 08 23:30:03 2001 Path: spln!lex!extra.newsguy.com!lotsanews.com!news.maxwell.syr.edu!europa.netcrusader.net!204.127.161.3!wn3feed!worldnet.att.net!135.173.83.71!wnfilter1!worldnet-localpost!bgtnsc05-news.ops.worldnet.att.net.POSTED!not-for-mail From: Dan Hartung <dhartung@spamcop.NOT> Newsgroups: alt.folklore.urban Subject: Re: May 8th Message-ID: <MPG.156275d5cf7122689896eb@netnews.worldnet.att.net> References: <RqVcHIAknz96Mw4H@jackalope.demon.co.uk> <9d7qhc$g6l$1@bob.news.rcn.net> <3AF7836E.A78B34E5@mindspring.com> Organization: lake effect X-Newsreader: MicroPlanet Gravity v2.30 Lines: 51 Date: Wed, 09 May 2001 03:30:03 GMT NNTP-Posting-Host: 12.84.135.141 X-Complaints-To: abuse@worldnet.att.net X-Trace: bgtnsc05-news.ops.worldnet.att.net 989379003 12.84.135.141 (Wed, 09 May 2001 03:30:03 GMT) NNTP-Posting-Date: Wed, 09 May 2001 03:30:03 GMT Xref: spln alt.folklore.urban:413388 In article <3AF7836E.A78B34E5@mindspring.com>, mentock@mindspring.com says... > And I'm going to change my sig to something appropriate from > Brian's list > http://www.unb.ca/web/departs/engineering/civil/cooke/casady.html A nice list Brian made there although it doesn't begin to illustrate the essential qualities that define exactly what it is that people seem to appreciate about what it is that makes Casady Casady, since that really does seem to have a lot less whitespace than shows on that page. Not to mention the PUNCTUATION which really comes in more stingy quantities than you will find there, if you go looking on the newsgroup where the real posts are. But then you're reading this so you're already there so one can guess you have done that and don't need the advice. WHO CARES? Take the advice anyway from one who knows, when you get to be my age it's too late for advice and you'll wish you had taken it back when you could have. Youth being wasted on the young and so what. Because you don't have the attention span and would want to break a paragraph right about here but that's really just a sign of the helpless weenies with Ritalin addictions and "time outs" instead of spankings which some of them could use even though the labor laws make it impossible to dole out. There was the time that I had to sit a couple of hours in a dark cement drunk tank waiting to be processed for a traffic violation for which I was arrested since I had forgotten to properly report an accident and they suspended my license even though I didn't ahve one in that state, so How was I to know that when they ran my clean license from the other state they would have something on my record to arrest me with. They kept the lights off and there was an honest to pete real drunk in the tank, which is why they call it a drunk tank after all, sleeping off his Pabst. After a time he woke up and quizzed me about why I was in there being white and well dressed and all and then he took the opportunity to suggest that he was in there for a bogus murder warrant which really didn't seem like the kind of thing that they would leave somebody sleeping off a drunk with a traffic violator locked in with him but you never know. The best part was that when they finally let me out for processing which is when the dark room part of it became obvious with the fluorescents blinding me was the lady policeman who patted me down for weapons a little late for the guy in the tank but I'd had cuffs on the whole time. Thus assured I could not hurt anyone they took me into the office area for the paperwork and setting up for bail with the power of VISA, which they took, not American Express, so you could say it was all a little amateur sport llkethe Olympics. SO I say if your going to have a Casady quotes page that short and sweet and to the point might be actually missing it osmehow. Dan "breathe, breathe" Hartung -- Dan Hartung * dan [at] dhartung [dot] com Lake Effect weblog: http://www.lakefx.nu/
From cclarke@faultline.org Tue May 08 01:41:44 2001 Path: spln!lex!extra.newsguy.com!lotsanews.com!west2.newsfeed.sprint-canada.net!newsfeed.direct.ca!look.ca!newshub2.rdc1.sfba.home.com!news.home.com!news1.rdc1.sfba.home.com.POSTED!not-for-mail Subject: Re: May 8th From: Chris Clarke <cclarke@faultline.org> Newsgroups: alt.folklore.urban Message-ID: <070520012241441605%cclarke@faultline.org> References: <Pine.NEB.4.33.0105080100580.20960-100000@panix3.panix.com> MIME-Version: 1.0 Content-type: text/plain; charset=ISO-8859-1 Content-Transfer-Encoding: 8bit User-Agent: YA-NewsWatcher/5.0.1 Lines: 38 Date: Tue, 08 May 2001 05:41:44 GMT NNTP-Posting-Host: 65.0.131.192 X-Complaints-To: abuse@home.net X-Trace: news1.rdc1.sfba.home.com 989300504 65.0.131.192 (Mon, 07 May 2001 22:41:44 PDT) NNTP-Posting-Date: Mon, 07 May 2001 22:41:44 PDT Organization: Excite@Home - The Leader in Broadband http://home.com/faster Xref: spln alt.folklore.urban:413282 In article <Pine.NEB.4.33.0105080100580.20960-100000@panix3.panix.com>, Brian Yeoh <lby3@columbia.edu> wrote: some stuff. It was pretty good, which didn't surprise me. This evening I got home after the commute from hell, and watched the windmill in my backyard for a while. It occurs to me that I'm lucky to have a few days a week where the commute is the worst thing about my day, the Richmond Train pulled up short tonight at the Civic Center station and I got on and sat down and started reading the Economist and some time later the train driver got on the PA and told us all to get the hell off, the train was going out of service and I got off and only a couple dozen minutes later realized the train had only moved about eighteen feet down the platform. The next Richmond Train was mostly occupied by a very large standup bass case (or would that be cass) whose owners sat blithely taking up the cripple and geezer seats. Contrast this with a day with my boss, who seems impressed with the slightest effort on my part and only laughs when I call the San Francisco Chronicle "the house publication of the San Francisco Giants" even though he used to be the thing's executive editor. You see my point. And I do think I'd like to live out at the end of a gravel road like some people I could name, but no matter how hellish my commute may be it is very hard to get much out of the average article in the Economist if you read it while driving your average pickup truck, not that I haven't tried. This kind of thing comes more easily to other people, I guess. There are some people who almost accidentally write poetry when what it seems like they meant to do was to complain about their software, who downshift into the dry washes without missing a sentence about Silvio Berlusconi and they're tuning the radio at the same time. Of course I'm out of practice. Happy Birthday, Casady, from a fan. -- "Jesus would drop-kick your moronic fucking ass into next goddamned week, is what Jesus would do." - Jan Bednarczuk
From phil@panix.com Tue May 08 02:06:10 2001 Path: spln!lex!extra.newsguy.com!lotsanews.com!news-out.cwix.com!newsfeed.cwix.com!howland.erols.net!panix!news.panix.com!panix2.panix.com!not-for-mail From: phil@panix.com (Phil Gustafson) Newsgroups: alt.folklore.urban Subject: Re: VERY big cat Date: 8 May 2001 02:06:10 -0400 Organization: Once-famed Parquet Floor Lines: 40 Message-ID: <9d82ci$q2k$1@panix2.panix.com> References: <q7ndft40j2u1euq36a9c7b7c0r97fqi7vt@4ax.com> <9s8eft818pcv0hul8u7ttskbcus9ljanve@4ax.com> NNTP-Posting-Host: panix2.panix.com X-Trace: news.panix.com 989301969 22217 166.84.0.227 (8 May 2001 06:06:09 GMT) X-Complaints-To: abuse@panix.com NNTP-Posting-Date: 8 May 2001 06:06:09 GMT Keywords: casaday Xref: spln alt.folklore.urban:413284 jschmitz@qis.net writes: > >It's not a giant cat. It's a miniature man. > I haven't had a cat in the house since I lived in Berkeley and pussysat a very black mean little tom named leRoy who worked out territory with the toms up front by running up the palm tree and shitting on them plop. Didn't KD get rid of her cat for shredding up her rosewood desk? I have a rosewood banjo, not a rosewood desk. I don't even have a desk really, haven't for years, just a gray plywood slab with 2X4 frame and orange 2X2 legs I screwed together and up again back in Berkeley, but I had to leave the other one just like it taken apart in the shed with my developer trays when the office room in my new house was too small. The desk, sort of, is really strong and I planned to build more furniture on it but wound up just developing pictures and fixing Jaguar carburettors, the way the Limeys spell it you know, and that stuff in gallon cans to clean carburetors, the way sensible people like I might have been spell them, which means it when it says to keep your hands out. Stuck one of mine in to dredge out a dashpot and a spring and it came out white and shriveled and took days and some Vaseline to get better. Can't tell the difference now, looks just like the other one but with one fewer double joint or two. Never did figure out how to fix fuel injection which Bill Gates has gotten his transistors into anyway, and I like things you can solder to like tubes. Real rosewood from Brazil never gets here any more cos it all went into desks and banjos and is against the law to export. There is Indian rosewood, they call it, but it's not rosewood at all, just looks sorta the same, but isn't just like vindaloo buffet isn't paella, or whatever they eat in Brazil. Persimmon is a good fake, especially for ebony which they're out of in Africa too. Teevee says a rolling blackout is on the way and my suckshitPC won't work then but neither would my UNIX box, which at least you can find everything in. Better scheduled even brownouts than random ones, I guess, except in the middle of Buffy. Phil "Happy Birthday, Richard" Gustafson Disclaimer: I have no reason to believe that Casady is really a Buffy fan.
From yenaveh@ms.cc.sunysb.edu Tue May 08 03:47:32 2001 Newsgroups: alt.folklore.urban Date: Tue, 8 May 2001 03:47:32 -0400 From: Yehuda Naveh <yenaveh@ms.cc.sunysb.edu> Subject: Re: Chick Magnets and Cow Seeds! (humor) OT In-Reply-To: <9d73rb$k44$1@slb7.atl.mindspring.net> Message-ID: <Pine.GSO.4.21.0105080341590.15521-100000@ms.cc.sunysb.edu> References: <20010505120755.26252.00000023@ng-fm1.aol.com> <3AF5F8F0.5D9468FB@snet.net> <9d73rb$k44$1@slb7.atl.mindspring.net> MIME-Version: 1.0 Content-type: TEXT/PLAIN; charset=US-ASCII NNTP-Posting-Host: ms.cc.sunysb.edu X-Trace: 8 May 2001 03:48:01 -0500, ms.cc.sunysb.edu Lines: 36 Path: spln!lex!extra.newsguy.com!lotsanews.com!newsfeed.stanford.edu!canoe.uoregon.edu!logbridge.uoregon.edu!uwm.edu!rpi!news-nysernet-16.sprintlink.net!news.sprintlink.net!dilbert.ic.sunysb.edu!ms.cc.sunysb.edu!yenaveh Xref: spln alt.folklore.urban:413285 On Mon, 7 May 2001, kerry wrote: > > "Charles Wm. Dimmick" <cdimmick@snet.net> > > What the hell does "lol" mean? > > Poor C.Wm.D, can't get a straight answer 'round here. On the off > chance that you really don't know what "lol" means: it's short for > "laugh out loud" > What I don't understand is why people use that abbreviation when for > one extra letter you could write "haha" > and avoid the confusion. > --Kerry This is a troll, or not. I was wrong before. Too demented to fix my sig on my Agent software, let alone decide who is a troll and who isn't. Of course I can write haha but if I want to say Have A Happy Afternoon I'll say Have A Happy Afternoon. And if I want to say Hooting And Horsing Around I'll say Hooting And Horsing Around. I don't pay by the byte. Or bite. haha indeed, lol also. Too many clueless newbies is exactly what we need right now. Just shoot them. Kerry you said didn't you? We have only a Kerro here and he's from Australia. I'll tell you one thing, I know kerro and you are no Kerro you aren't. Fuck off. Or die. Or keep your hahahaha and lololool to aol. We know someone you'll get along with just fine. She's got big boobs and a rose desk and lives in Tennessee if she's not dead yet. Or we can fix you with a fake doctor at Portland. At least you didn't top-post. Sorry if you're not a troll. I'm too old to know. I won't be here tomorrow, or next year. Have a happy afternoon. Yehuda I'll say happy birthday etc if I knew how to sig
From rcasady@uswest.net Tue May 08 06:36:11 2001 Path: spln!lex!extra.newsguy.com!lotsanews.com!news.maxwell.syr.edu!feed.news.qwest.net!news.uswest.net.POSTED!not-for-mail From: Casady <rcasady@uswest.net> Newsgroups: alt.folklore.urban Subject: Re: Speeding Ticket UL Message-ID: <ruhffts119irmv7imo0knjpt59lacupcu6@4ax.com> References: <SP4G6.1733$5B4.813797@news2.mia> <Pine.SGI.4.10.10105041022240.197215-100000@alexia.lis.uiuc.edu> <JVFI6.1009$po.27826@typhoon.sonic.net> <Pine.SGI.4.10.10105041733220.216423-100000@alexia.lis.uiuc.edu> <9cvk8j$29h0$1@home.eCynic.com> <3af57c31.82775317@news-west.look.ca> X-Newsreader: Forte Agent 1.8/32.548 MIME-Version: 1.0 Content-type: text/plain; charset=us-ascii Content-Transfer-Encoding: 7bit Lines: 54 Date: Tue, 08 May 2001 05:36:11 -0500 NNTP-Posting-Host: 216.161.115.96 X-Trace: news.uswest.net 989318172 216.161.115.96 (Tue, 08 May 2001 05:36:12 CDT) NNTP-Posting-Date: Tue, 08 May 2001 05:36:12 CDT Xref: spln alt.folklore.urban:413291 On Tue, 08 May 2001 04:35:16 GMT, kinkaid@look.ca (Bill Kinkaid) wrote: >On 5 May 2001 01:16:03 GMT, drew@furrfu.com (Drew Lawson) flollopped: > >> >>For the ones I recall, you can turn around easily. I don't think >>it was in New York. Somewhere on the path from Urbana to DC >>(returning from a conference). It was sort of nice to have >>food/gas/etc. without having to "exit" the freeway. Unfortunately, >>the food wasn't so great. >> > >"Eat here and get gas". >You can fill up your fuel tank, too. > > >Bill in Vancouver > >You can fool some of the people all of the time >And you can fool all of the people some of the time >But most of the time they'll just make fools of themselves, >and save you the trouble That is inspiring. It is five in the morning, and while I used to eat a live toad for breakfast, just so nothing worse could happen all day, I gave up eating about a week ago, so I will settle for making a fool of myself. Offer someone you don't know very well some free unsolicited advice, especially on how to spend their money. I took me quite a while to bite the bullet, and spend the dough to upgrade to CostsDoughAgent, but I finally did,l I wish I had done it much earlier. Thank you 'Splifford' who posted real signal when I first got to AFU in 98 or so. I never did get Netscape to post right, broke my heart, as I find the threads easier to follow. CDA has the ability to sort stuff, that is lacking in FA, something like that, hard to remember. Third buck download, and another fifteen will bet the paper book docs and a CD, by snail mail. Money does not grow on trees, most places, I do realize that. Not even in 'sunny' Vancouver, which, although I have never been there, I understand, is pretty much about the best place to live in that part of the world. Free Agent was better than NS, but CDA is worth it. If it is, I don't write your paychecks, but I like it, and I am known to be 'tighter than lug nuts.' Casady CostsDoughAgent after spell checker: CountErinsUrgent -- I will believe I am capable of getting Agent's sig software to work when I see it. Maybe.The SSSW[TM] has won nearly every time,but I refuse to surrender, death before dishonour, or a lick of sense."
From romial@indy.rr.com Tue May 08 07:14:46 2001 Path: spln!lex!extra.newsguy.com!lotsanews.com!news-out.cwix.com!newsfeed.cwix.com!newscon02.news.prodigy.com!prodigy.com!news.stealth.net!news-east.rr.com!cyclone.columbus.rr.com!news.rr.com!cyclone-midwest.rr.com!typhoon.neo.rr.com.POSTED!not-for-mail From: "Robert Alston" <romial@indy.rr.com> Newsgroups: alt.folklore.urban References: <Pine.NEB.4.33.0105080100580.20960-100000@panix3.panix.com> Subject: Re: May 8th Lines: 34 X-Priority: 3 X-MSMail-Priority: Normal X-Newsreader: Microsoft Outlook Express 5.50.4133.2400 X-MimeOLE: Produced By Microsoft MimeOLE V5.50.4133.2400 Message-ID: <GyQJ6.44877$kJ1.465262@typhoon.neo.rr.com> Date: Tue, 08 May 2001 11:14:46 GMT NNTP-Posting-Host: 65.29.64.48 X-Complaints-To: abuse@rr.com X-Trace: typhoon.neo.rr.com 989320486 65.29.64.48 (Tue, 08 May 2001 07:14:46 EDT) NNTP-Posting-Date: Tue, 08 May 2001 07:14:46 EDT Organization: Road Runner High Speed Online -- Northeast Ohio Xref: spln alt.folklore.urban:413293 "Brian Yeoh" <lby3@columbia.edu> wrote in message news:Pine.NEB.4.33.0105080100580.20960-100000@panix3.panix.com... A bunch of stuff I can't top but thats ok since me topping Brian would put him on the bottom and I can't imagine him as a bottom but if we are equal then that makes me a Top over him while he is a Top over me and that won't work either and work sucks since everyday we just put motor parts on the line and paint them and then take them off the line and send them over to Navistar where they actually make the diesel motors like the ones that should be in that boat that Richard wants so he can go to Halifax which reminds me that I need to Fax some stuff out today for some reason that I don't remember but it must not be important since I'm being asked to Fax it and they know I use SSSW (tm) that probably won't go thru and I'll have to call them back and speaking of calls who would be calling me at this time of day since my phone is ringing but I don't think I'll answer it so click off goes the ringer and now it just lights and why am I sitting here in the dark if I have lights that at least blink maybe I forgot to turn them on speaking of which have you seen the blurbs for Tomb Raider now Angelina is a hot turn on dressed like that but I think I'm digressing here since I really only replied to this message for only one little reason that I keep forgetting to type in because I keep wandering off into left field which looks pretty good actually since they re sodded the little league diamonds behind my house so the kids have a really nice place to play but I digress again as all I really wanted to say is... Happy Birthday Casady Robert "Sorry I can't really match your style but I gave it a shot anyway" Alston
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Madeleine Page <mpage@mpage.net> wrote:
> all the stuff I like. Too late for a short time on this earth already,
> really, though, but life is glum enough as it is without having to live
> without eating rabbit or venison or beef again, let alone snails and
> garlic in lots of butter which I really like and wouldn't share with
> anybody, not even Casady, not even on May 8 when it was his birthday.
I appreciate the sentiment, I really do, from a lady I have always
admired, though her Web page once hurt my eyes. Woke them up anyway.
Except today is not my birthday, never has been, mine's in June, which
is close enough I guess, and still I appreciate the sentiment. Too
close for me, in fact, the date. It makes a man sweat. I try to
dodge the day before it comes, fill my time with new things, welding,
some work one the computer, CGI programming, city council meetings,
planning commission, and all the while the El Camino sits dismembered
in the garage, while I avoid it. Down to primer, front clip gone, up
on jackstands, ZZ4 350cid V8 engine in a corner and the transmission
(the 700R4 overdrive number) on a dolly by the door, rusting, because
the door never stays shut. All I need to do is strip the frame paint,
remove the dash, send the intake out for polish, maybe some clear
powder coat, everything else is off the car, every shelf covered with
power steering pump, alternator, radiator, steering gear, no room for
the dash, so I don't know where it will go. The headers are in the
back of the truck, waiting for ceramic coat, though the
CeramicShitCoat they already have is rusting. After two years.
Someone should pay, with blood. But I don't have the stomach for it,
not anymore. Might have before, even trained for it, but not now.
And so the car sits there, dismembered, while I try to avoid it, in
suprising ways. So much depending on it too. I can't reload with the
battery and the carburetor on the reloading bench. Can't build up a
good load. Something light but accurate with Winchester 231 for a 125
grain FMJ flat point in .38 Special. For Bianchi competition. Just
need to knock down a steel plate, make a hole in some cardboard.
Lyman's 47th doesn't even list the flat point, but has hollow point
with a starting load at 3.9 grains for 589fps, but Speer has the flat
point but says not less than 5.6 grains. Forget about .44 S&W,
they're all over the map. Who are these bastards? Do they want to
kill me? If they want violence, they can have it, but so far to
drive, and the El Camino in pieces. And Prado Dam the nearest place
you can use a bench rest so you can test your loads, and car parts all
over the reloading bench, I'll never get a chance to prove the swine
wrong, as I know they must be. Instead I buy factory, which is hard
on the dough, and hard on the hands too, hot loads, and hollow points
you can't use indoors. Too frangible, like the human condition. Or
something. Meanwhile, the brass accumulates, in coffee cans and
zip-lock bags, next to the car parts.
Yes, my birthday is coming soon, after the first year of feeling my
age. Finally bought some insurance. Gotta get PSA tests, finger-butt
tests, some other tests I don't even know about, haven't seen a doctor
in twenty years. No longer interesting to the coeds, like I was not
long ago. Got weird wrinkles on either side of my face, like dueling
scars. Too much smiling. Very strange. Alien blood. Gives one a
responsible look. I use it at the city council, sneaking past the El
Camino to drive the Camaro, the Black Death, up to 77 Fair Drive every
Monday night. For the drama. If you don't have enough drama at home
- and you think I would have drama enough, me with my fish pond,
filled with hungry Wet Boys, but I don't - you go to city council
meetings, planning commission meetings, Citizens for the Improvement
of Goat Hill (the local Fascist organization, for booting out all the
Mexicans) meetings, for metric buttloads of drama. And the young _LA
Times_ girlies sneaking around the room, interviewing everyone who
speaks, raving cranks to a man. I see the same people, every time,
and imagine my surprise when she comes into the Historical Society
today to ask about the Westside. She's the _Times'_ Girl on the Spot.
Woman on the Spot. Sorry. Reporting on the CIGH, the Fascists, among
others. And no one in that room knew more about the Westside than I
did. Surprised me too. There's 100,000 people in Goat Hill, but it's
a small place. And we have aerial views, shitloads of them. Maybe
10,000 photographs and 20% must be aerial views, because of the
motherfucking police helicopter, of which they are so proud. Bastard
crashed in '87 and killed a couple cops, but they are so proud. And
so we got more aerial photographs of the city than any town of 100,000
has a right to. Westside, sure, but Eastside, Mesa Verde and South
Coast Plaza too, and about 450 different shots of the civic center
going up in 1966. A lot of good shots of the 10 March 1933 Long Beach
quake, knocked hell out of downtown, and nailed the school too. But
she wasn't interested in that. They never are.
Jennifer, the _Times_ reporter, could write faster than I could type,
and I can type. But she shops slow. Stepped out to pick up something
at the Courtyards across the street while I was scanning photos for
her and I never saw her again. B-17s flying around overhead and the
_Times_ girl on the spot is lost in a strip mall. I am immersed in
despair. I mentioned this to Bud, who flew a P-61 (look it up,
strange radar-equipped night-fighting bird, the last one, crashed in
the Dutch East Indies, and later reclaimed from treacherous,
accident-prone Indonesians, going together now in Pennsylvania, hope
Bud lives to see it fly) and also served in Goat Hill when it was the
Santa Ana Army Air Base, as featured in _Catch-22_, opening pages. He
said I'm not old. His is a perspective worth considering. For he Was
There.
And yet, half a century later, there are B-17s flying over my house.
Big noisy bastards, but lovely. Make a sound you don't hear anymore.
Crew of ten, a thousand birds per raid, maybe ten percent loss over
Germany, a thousand men at a go. You think I'm making this up, but I
am dead serious about B-17s. Never joke about the things. Been
flying around Goat Hill since Sunday. Will fly away this weekend.
Must get out to the airport, named after John Wayne, the Duke, who
lived around here, until he died, though I never met him, to see the
B-17s, before they go. But it's harder than it was, hard to sneak out
through the garage, with the El Camino and the RCBS Rockchucker
watching darkly, accusingly, and my birthday barreling down upon me.
And the new HP PC which came in the mail this week, now busted,
irreparably. SuckShitSoft ME, wants a password for everything, a
password to scratch your ass. I set up passwords nine times, trying
to connect it to the Dell, Windows Networking, always the same
password, KAFKA, and the password never works again. I couldn't do a
fucking thing, invalid password every time. I was stuck, it was too
much. I might have hurt the children playing on my front lawn, I
could barely cope, but there was no one responsible, no one to pay,
pay for their treachery. And no ammo in any case, because of all the
car parts, and the Lyman's/Speer confusion. So the HP sits out in the
back, immersed in the pond, for my Wet Boys, the best friends you
could ever want, considering they don't have fingers, and can't type.
But they tell us a lot about life, the Wet Boys. And I learn a lot
about life from you, Casady, and I hope your birthday was good, or
better than it started out anyway, and that we see many more of them.
Mitcho
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The Urban Redneck : redneck@goathill.net : Goat Hill, California
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From jajohn@lightspeed.net Wed May 09 01:10:29 2001 Path: spln!rex!extra.newsguy.com!lotsanews.com!news.maxwell.syr.edu!feed2.onemain.com!feed1.onemain.com!nntp2.onemain.com.POSTED!not-for-mail From: jajohn@lightspeed.net (Judy Johnson) Newsgroups: alt.folklore.urban Subject: Re: May 8th Message-ID: <3af8d143.10991684@news.lightspeed.net> References: <Pine.NEB.4.33.0105080100580.20960-100000@panix3.panix.com> <070520012241441605%cclarke@faultline.org> <9d92ua$p0s$1@news.panix.com> X-Newsreader: Forte Free Agent 1.21/32.243 Lines: 44 Date: Wed, 09 May 2001 05:10:29 GMT NNTP-Posting-Host: 216.224.161.170 X-Complaints-To: abuse@onemain.com X-Trace: nntp2.onemain.com 989384861 216.224.161.170 (Wed, 09 May 2001 01:07:41 EDT) NNTP-Posting-Date: Wed, 09 May 2001 01:07:41 EDT Xref: spln alt.folklore.urban:413394 Madeleine Page wrote: >Chris Clarke <cclarke@faultline.org> writes: >> Brian Yeoh <lby3@columbia.edu> wrote: >> >> some stuff. It was pretty good, which didn't surprise me. > >Chris Clarke, Clark, whatever it is and he or she is, I like reading his >stuff. Or her stuff as the case may be. This was one of his good ones, or >her good ones, too. It always cheers me up to read a Chris Clarke post, so >that was good. Yes, yes. I have to say, since I've been reading this group, that Miss, Mrs., Mr. Clark has rarely dissappointed. Wish I could say the same for my crappy attempts at prose. My memorys so bad lately that half the time I begin to post, when my fuckingISP lets me that is, what with the local company that I started with getting bought out by a bigger, crappier company, which in turn gets bought out by some even bigger demon-spawned piece of shit ISP, half the time I try to connect I get nothing but disconnects. Whatever. I'm hoping to hang on to the lousy dialup until we make the big move and the lab gets an honest to god network. After that its going to be cable all the way. At least you people can blame your memory lapses on recreational substance abuse, my only excuse is premature senility, or maybe burnout from the boobtube. I've been an entomologist with the USDofA for more than 15 years now, and I've known a lot of other bugologists, and long ago I'd noted that there was a high propensity towards alcholism in the breed. One professor on my qualifying committee was a notorious drinker and I was priveledged to see a sterling example of this early one morning. But he never missed a day in the field and he produced some great science, so think what you want. He was a great guy who even flew in WWII. Had a stamp that said 'BULLSHIT' and gave me one of my first jobs after I graduated, working on grapeleaf skeletonizer and grape bud beetle, because he had moved from working on alfalfa and cotton pests to grapes. Not wine grapes, or even raisin grapes, like I work on now, but table grapes grown mostly down in the Coachella Valley. Well, I know that I've been working at this post for almost half an hour now, and I only count 3 spelling erros, not too bad for me. Let me just finish with warmest regards for that Casady chap, and long may he wave on afu. Judy "HAPPY BIRTHDAY RICHARD" Johnson
From ctbishop@earthlink.net Wed May 09 01:41:50 2001 Path: spln!rex!extra.newsguy.com!lotsanews.com!news.maxwell.syr.edu!feed2.news.rcn.net!rcn!newsfeed1.earthlink.net!newsfeed.earthlink.net!newsmaster1.prod.itd.earthlink.net!newsread1.prod.itd.earthlink.net.POSTED!not-for-mail From: ctbishop@earthlink.net (ctbishop) Newsgroups: alt.folklore.urban Subject: Re: May 8th Message-ID: <ctbishop-0805012243570001@pool1191.cvx19-bradley.dialup.earthlink.net> References: <Pine.NEB.4.33.0105080100580.20960-100000@panix3.panix.com> Organization: none Lines: 32 Date: Wed, 09 May 2001 05:41:50 GMT NNTP-Posting-Host: 209.179.248.171 X-Complaints-To: abuse@earthlink.net X-Trace: newsread1.prod.itd.earthlink.net 989386910 209.179.248.171 (Tue, 08 May 2001 22:41:50 PDT) NNTP-Posting-Date: Tue, 08 May 2001 22:41:50 PDT X-Received-Date: Tue, 08 May 2001 22:40:15 PDT (newsmaster1.prod.itd.earthlink.net) Xref: spln alt.folklore.urban:413395 Somebody came in from out-of-town, used to live here I think but maybe not anyway a while ago but he was back so there was an idea to get-together and pool our knowledge and ramble. We did, not far but into the city busy though with lots of people waiting to see the planes. There was discussion of what kind they were, not many agreed though sometimes they did anyway there was a large slow one built like a goose but with more wings and of course it had propellors and a goose doesn't. It flew slow turning slow and no aerobatics and no one recognized it as it flew near some thought it was more (L) than now others thought it was older and none agreed. There were others too faster than any I've seen and wings short which makes them fast, the kestrel flys faster than the goose and Richard Bach used the idea for one of his books, I forget which one someone probably knows though not in our group I think. We finished with the planes and undertook or overtook since we were on top the bridge though only halfway because of symmetry bifold maybe or axis someone said but it wasn't a Saab windshield curves one way. We didn't make it to the planetarium and I wanted to show them that when the earth is *here* one year and it's a special day and then the next time it's *here* again it isn't really because eveything has moved and this here is megamiles from the original here but humans don't care the frame of reference has shifted they still count years because their system is limited though space isn't. So the earth is where it was a year ago and annual celebrations are celebrated and rightly so for those so valued. This may be closer because it's 365.25 not just 365 and there are time zones to consider more complete orbits with you here is a good thing. Happy Birthday Casady Charles
From ctbishop@earthlink.net Wed May 09 01:41:50 2001 Path: spln!rex!extra.newsguy.com!lotsanews.com!news.maxwell.syr.edu!feed2.news.rcn.net!rcn!newsfeed1.earthlink.net!newsfeed.earthlink.net!newsmaster1.prod.itd.earthlink.net!newsread1.prod.itd.earthlink.net.POSTED!not-for-mail From: ctbishop@earthlink.net (ctbishop) Newsgroups: alt.folklore.urban Subject: Re: May 8th Message-ID: <ctbishop-0805012243570001@pool1191.cvx19-bradley.dialup.earthlink.net> References: <Pine.NEB.4.33.0105080100580.20960-100000@panix3.panix.com> Organization: none Lines: 32 Date: Wed, 09 May 2001 05:41:50 GMT NNTP-Posting-Host: 209.179.248.171 X-Complaints-To: abuse@earthlink.net X-Trace: newsread1.prod.itd.earthlink.net 989386910 209.179.248.171 (Tue, 08 May 2001 22:41:50 PDT) NNTP-Posting-Date: Tue, 08 May 2001 22:41:50 PDT X-Received-Date: Tue, 08 May 2001 22:40:15 PDT (newsmaster1.prod.itd.earthlink.net) Xref: spln alt.folklore.urban:413395 Somebody came in from out-of-town, used to live here I think but maybe not anyway a while ago but he was back so there was an idea to get-together and pool our knowledge and ramble. We did, not far but into the city busy though with lots of people waiting to see the planes. There was discussion of what kind they were, not many agreed though sometimes they did anyway there was a large slow one built like a goose but with more wings and of course it had propellors and a goose doesn't. It flew slow turning slow and no aerobatics and no one recognized it as it flew near some thought it was more (L) than now others thought it was older and none agreed. There were others too faster than any I've seen and wings short which makes them fast, the kestrel flys faster than the goose and Richard Bach used the idea for one of his books, I forget which one someone probably knows though not in our group I think. We finished with the planes and undertook or overtook since we were on top the bridge though only halfway because of symmetry bifold maybe or axis someone said but it wasn't a Saab windshield curves one way. We didn't make it to the planetarium and I wanted to show them that when the earth is *here* one year and it's a special day and then the next time it's *here* again it isn't really because eveything has moved and this here is megamiles from the original here but humans don't care the frame of reference has shifted they still count years because their system is limited though space isn't. So the earth is where it was a year ago and annual celebrations are celebrated and rightly so for those so valued. This may be closer because it's 365.25 not just 365 and there are time zones to consider more complete orbits with you here is a good thing. Happy Birthday Casady Charles
From rcasady@uswest.net Wed May 09 07:44:23 2001 Path: spln!rex!extra.newsguy.com!lotsanews.com!sn-xit-01!supernews.com!newsfeed.stanford.edu!news-spur1.maxwell.syr.edu!news.maxwell.syr.edu!feed.news.qwest.net!news.uswest.net.POSTED!not-for-mail From: Casady <rcasady@uswest.net> Newsgroups: alt.folklore.urban Subject: Re: Casady finds clues Message-ID: <dcbifto11p65l7mc9r696a7i3lq3kc8p6t@4ax.com> References: <h7d7ftgrap4rhvsmdi55bkghfplajvncli@4ax.com> <MPG.155e308f5d4fbad29896d7@netnews.worldnet.att.net> <3AF48BD7.BF0B0616@shell3.addr.com> <f93aft42p488h0kl8np2g2vqntjk93dukr@4ax.com> <MPG.1561ee4dad8c0f9b98969e@news.birch.net> X-Newsreader: Forte Agent 1.8/32.548 MIME-Version: 1.0 Content-type: text/plain; charset=us-ascii Content-Transfer-Encoding: 7bit Lines: 33 Date: Wed, 09 May 2001 06:44:23 -0500 NNTP-Posting-Host: 209.180.35.220 X-Trace: news.uswest.net 989408665 209.180.35.220 (Wed, 09 May 2001 06:44:25 CDT) NNTP-Posting-Date: Wed, 09 May 2001 06:44:25 CDT Xref: spln alt.folklore.urban:413429 On Tue, 8 May 2001 14:08:16 -0500, Estron <estron@tfs.net> wrote: >Previously on alt.folklore.urban, Casady wrote: > >> Agent, probably, [time passes,] > >Happy birthday to you, Casady, on the day they made a state >holiday in Missouri. Didn't know your real name was Truman. Thank you for the thought, I have been dreading it big time since the first of the year. I never wanted to live this long. Old age is not for wimps, and the sad thing is, that it tends to turn you in to one, and pain can kill your sense of humor, and you manners, if you are not careful. I have been on the box all night trying to acknowledge all the flattering attention. Put Belafonte's 'Day-o' on infinite repeat, just for the inspiration of it. Listened to it all night while I typed. Work all night on a drink of rum, stack banana till the morning come... Come mister tallyman tally me banana, daylight come an me wan go home. Work all night on a drink of rum, stack banana till the morning come... Come mister tallyman tally me banana, daylight come an me wan go home. Work all night on a drink of rum, stack banana till the morning come... Come mister tallyman tally me banana, daylight come an me wan go home. Dawn, now, and I am going to hit the rack. Casady
From rcasady@uswest.net Wed May 09 07:44:08 2001 Path: spln!rex!extra.newsguy.com!lotsanews.com!news.maxwell.syr.edu!feed.news.qwest.net!news.uswest.net.POSTED!not-for-mail From: Casady <rcasady@uswest.net> Newsgroups: alt.folklore.urban Subject: Re: Chick Magnets and Cow Seeds! (humor) OT Message-ID: <lbbift8n8h0r1970b88gvv8lab3u8veo78@4ax.com> References: <20010505120755.26252.00000023@ng-fm1.aol.com> <3AF5F8F0.5D9468FB@snet.net> <9d73rb$k44$1@slb7.atl.mindspring.net> <Pine.GSO.4.21.0105080341590.15521-100000@ms.cc.sunysb.edu> <9d9rf6$hti$1@slb7.atl.mindspring.net> <Pine.GSO.4.21.0105090135220.27417-100000@ms.cc.sunysb.edu> X-Newsreader: Forte Agent 1.8/32.548 MIME-Version: 1.0 Content-type: text/plain; charset=us-ascii Content-Transfer-Encoding: 7bit Lines: 73 Date: Wed, 09 May 2001 06:44:08 -0500 NNTP-Posting-Host: 209.180.35.220 X-Trace: news.uswest.net 989408650 209.180.35.220 (Wed, 09 May 2001 06:44:10 CDT) NNTP-Posting-Date: Wed, 09 May 2001 06:44:10 CDT Xref: spln alt.folklore.urban:413428 On Wed, 9 May 2001 02:01:29 -0400, Yehuda Naveh <yenaveh@ms.cc.sunysb.edu> wrote: >On Tue, 8 May 2001, kerry wrote: >> >> "Yehuda Naveh" <yenaveh@ms.cc.sunysb.edu> wrote in message >> > >> > This is a troll, or not. I was wrong before. Too demented to fix my >> > sig on my Agent software, let alone decide who is a troll and who >> > isn't. Of course I can write haha but if I want to say Have A Happy >> > Afternoon I'll say Have A Happy Afternoon. And if I want to say >> > Hooting And Horsing Around I'll say Hooting And Horsing Around. I >> > don't pay by the byte. Or bite. haha indeed, lol also. Too many >> > clueless newbies is exactly what we need right now. Just shoot >> > them. Kerry you said didn't you? We have only a Kerro here and he's >> > from Australia. I'll tell you one thing, I know kerro and you are no >> > Kerro you aren't. Fuck off. Or die. Or keep your hahahaha and lololool >> > to aol. We know someone you'll get along with just fine. She's got big >> > boobs and a rose desk and lives in Tennessee if she's not dead yet. Or >> > we can fix you with a fake doctor at Portland. At least you didn't >> > top-post. Sorry if you're not a troll. I'm too old to know. I won't be >> > here tomorrow, or next year. Have a happy afternoon. >> >> Holy Crap! I have no idea what part of my reply to Charles Dimmick >> sounded like a troll, but I apologize for setting you off. > >Nonono, it is *I* who apologize. It's just that there was this little >birthday party and everybody was getting drunk and all.. But it's may 9th >already.. Oh well, perhaps next time just try not to be alone on the >streets on the first week of May. > >> I've >> lurked and posted a couple of times here for about eight months. I've >> seen some attacks on newbies, but I've also seen them welcomed. I >> resisted the urge to ask questions like, "what does 'mine!' mean?" and >> "what is a troll?" Instead I just read and enjoyed the (mostly) >> intelligent, witty, and generally informative posts made by the >> regulars. ><...> >> It took me a long time to figure out what many of the >> abbreviations are. I still don't know most of them. > >Can a link to http://www.acronymfinder.com [1] be considered as a small >begging-forgiveness gift? > >> Promptly returning to lurking. > >Please don't. > >Yehuda > >[1] They pass the twiavbp benchmark. Stay right were you are, welcomed at AFU, and Yehuda, I like your post, difficult to do as bad hemingway, you know of the contest I am sure. Still the stuff comes in, it is five after five and I have spent 18 of the last 24 hours on the box. Work all night on a drink of rum, stack banana till the morning come... Come mister tallyman tally me banana, daylight come an me wan go home. Work all night on a drink of rum, stack banana till the morning come... Come mister tallyman tally me banana, daylight come an me wan go home.Work all night on a drink of rum, stack banana till the morning come... Come mister tallyman tally me banana, daylight come an me wan go home. Had that Belafonte on all night, on repeat. That is how I write, slowly, one word after another, until I drop. Casady
From smnewman@gsbfac.uchicago.edu Wed May 09 12:11:52 2001 Path: spln!rex!extra.newsguy.com!lotsanews.com!newsfeed.stanford.edu!uchinews!not-for-mail Newsgroups: alt.folklore.urban Subject: Re: New vectors for Rosie spotted References: <5qscftg5osbaav23uafnob89tpp2dlgihe@4ax.com> <1et1g7a.awqmmxng2erkN%trio@euronet.nl> Organization: GSB, University of Chicago X-Newsreader: trn 4.0-test72 (19 April 1999) From: smnewman@gsbfac.uchicago.edu (Maggie Newman) Lines: 35 Message-ID: <c%dK6.13$C4.610@uchinews> NNTP-Posting-Host: 128.135.130.6 X-Trace: uchinews 989424712 128.135.130.6 (Wed, 09 May 2001 11:11:52 CDT) NNTP-Posting-Date: Wed, 09 May 2001 11:11:52 CDT X-SessionID: c%dK6-1845-C4-796@uchinews X-Hash-Info: post-filter,v:1.4 X-Hash: 47638177 490f9167 ef2bbc51 6d2039b8 00de8344 Date: Wed, 09 May 2001 16:11:52 GMT Xref: spln alt.folklore.urban:413441 Donna Richoux <trio@euronet.nl> wrote: > >Someone born in 1923 could still be around today, but somehow I doubt >he'll remember which book he got the idea from (and the odds are against >him saying that he invented it out of whole cloth). Might still be worth >a letter, though... My father was born in 1922 and he's certainly still around today, and in reasonably good health at that. It surprised the hell out of me to learn that Jack Kerouac was also born in 1922, the same year as my father and yet he couldn't have been less like someone of the generation I think of as my parents' (or is that parent's) generation, but part of the new or beat generation. Yes, I know today is Wednesday May 9th goddammit, and no one feels more foolish than I, I mean for crying out loud, it was my idea in the first place and here I am caught with my metaphorical pants down, no post from me on Casaday, and why, it all started when I was hacked, yes, hacked I tell you, by some youthful (I assume, since all things thoughtless and harmful derive from youth, or so it seems to me now, just the opposite 30 years go) vandals who took down my pathetic little web server and scribbled "FUCK THE U.S. GOVERNMENT" in the place where formerly I had the Spring workshop schedule. I am not making this up, all this actually happened. So the Security Forces told me they had no choice but to "pave my box" for my own protection, a pretty funnny way of phrasing it if you ask me, but who am I to question the wisdom of the computer services security people. There I am with no computer to speak of, so I go home and try to telnet and would you believe the main server was down all last night and only just became available about an hour ago. Talk about your fuckinISP! If you can't trust the Harvard of the Midwest to supply you with a reliable internet connection who the hell can you trust? Anyway I'm happy to see the outpouring of prose in honor of Casady's 54th and I wish each and every one of you a bang on the ear and to Richard many happy returns. Maggie
From rcasady@uswest.net Wed May 09 04:56:09 2001 Path: spln!rex!extra.newsguy.com!lotsanews.com!news.maxwell.syr.edu!feed.news.qwest.net!news.uswest.net.POSTED!not-for-mail From: Casady <rcasady@uswest.net> Newsgroups: alt.folklore.urban Subject: Re: May 8th Message-ID: <d81iftgqob4lmtf0nknofkpfh8rjahcukf@4ax.com> References: <RqVcHIAknz96Mw4H@jackalope.demon.co.uk> <9d7qhc$g6l$1@bob.news.rcn.net> <3AF7836E.A78B34E5@mindspring.com> <MPG.156275d5cf7122689896eb@netnews.worldnet.att.net> X-Newsreader: Forte Agent 1.8/32.548 MIME-Version: 1.0 Content-type: text/plain; charset=us-ascii Content-Transfer-Encoding: 7bit Lines: 59 Date: Wed, 09 May 2001 03:56:09 -0500 NNTP-Posting-Host: 209.180.35.220 X-Trace: news.uswest.net 989398571 209.180.35.220 (Wed, 09 May 2001 03:56:11 CDT) NNTP-Posting-Date: Wed, 09 May 2001 03:56:11 CDT Xref: spln alt.folklore.urban:413407 On Wed, 09 May 2001 03:30:03 GMT, Dan Hartung <dhartung@spamcop.NOT> wrote: >In article <3AF7836E.A78B34E5@mindspring.com>, mentock@mindspring.com >says... >> And I'm going to change my sig to something appropriate from >> Brian's list >> http://www.unb.ca/web/departs/engineering/civil/cooke/casady.html > >A nice list Brian made there although it doesn't begin to illustrate the >essential qualities that define exactly what it is that people seem to >appreciate about what it is that makes Casady Casady, since that really >does seem to have a lot less whitespace than shows on that page. Not to >mention the PUNCTUATION which really comes in more stingy quantities than >you will find there, if you go looking on the newsgroup where the real >posts are. But then you're reading this so you're already there so one >can guess you have done that and don't need the advice. WHO CARES? Take >the advice anyway from one who knows, when you get to be my age it's too >late for advice and you'll wish you had taken it back when you could >have. Youth being wasted on the young and so what. Because you don't have >the attention span and would want to break a paragraph right about here >but that's really just a sign of the helpless weenies with Ritalin >addictions and "time outs" instead of spankings which some of them could >use even though the labor laws make it impossible to dole out. There was >the time that I had to sit a couple of hours in a dark cement drunk tank >waiting to be processed for a traffic violation for which I was arrested >since I had forgotten to properly report an accident and they suspended >my license even though I didn't ahve one in that state, so How was I to >know that when they ran my clean license from the other state they would >have something on my record to arrest me with. They kept the lights off >and there was an honest to pete real drunk in the tank, which is why they >call it a drunk tank after all, sleeping off his Pabst. After a time he >woke up and quizzed me about why I was in there being white and well >dressed and all and then he took the opportunity to suggest that he was >in there for a bogus murder warrant which really didn't seem like the >kind of thing that they would leave somebody sleeping off a drunk with a >traffic violator locked in with him but you never know. The best part was >that when they finally let me out for processing which is when the dark >room part of it became obvious with the fluorescents blinding me was the >lady policeman who patted me down for weapons a little late for the guy >in the tank but I'd had cuffs on the whole time. Thus assured I could not >hurt anyone they took me into the office area for the paperwork and >setting up for bail with the power of VISA, which they took, not American >Express, so you could say it was all a little amateur sport llkethe >Olympics. > >SO I say if your going to have a Casady quotes page that short and sweet >and to the point might be actually missing it osmehow. > >Dan "breathe, breathe" Hartung The other thing I do besides the long post, is the sig file quote. There is wide area in between, where I fail to quit when I am ahead. I try to cut the stuff, but I gave that up, took for ever, and ruined the stuff. and now I try to be good at punctuation. Leave out a couple comma's and the average 11 line sentence can get hard to read. Casady
From rcasady@uswest.net Wed May 09 04:49:21 2001 Path: spln!rex!extra.newsguy.com!lotsanews.com!newshub2.home.com!news.home.com!news.maxwell.syr.edu!feed.news.qwest.net!news.uswest.net.POSTED!not-for-mail From: Casady <rcasady@uswest.net> Newsgroups: alt.folklore.urban Subject: Re: May 8th Message-ID: <o01ifts7sn7l0pmu1323jj6khuminr889i@4ax.com> References: <Pine.NEB.4.33.0105080100580.20960-100000@panix3.panix.com> <070520012241441605%cclarke@faultline.org> <9d92ua$p0s$1@news.panix.com> <9dadrs$edt$1@bob.news.rcn.net> X-Newsreader: Forte Agent 1.8/32.548 MIME-Version: 1.0 Content-type: text/plain; charset=us-ascii Content-Transfer-Encoding: 7bit Lines: 31 Date: Wed, 09 May 2001 03:49:21 -0500 NNTP-Posting-Host: 209.180.35.220 X-Trace: news.uswest.net 989398163 209.180.35.220 (Wed, 09 May 2001 03:49:23 CDT) NNTP-Posting-Date: Wed, 09 May 2001 03:49:23 CDT Xref: spln alt.folklore.urban:413406 On Tue, 08 May 2001 20:36:02 -0700, "Ron Sullivan" <rons@dnai.com> wrote: >In article <9d92ua$p0s$1@news.panix.com> , Madeleine Page ><mpage@mpage.net> wrote: > >> Chris Clarke, Clark, whatever it is and he or she is, I like >> reading his >> stuff. Or her stuff as the case may be. This was one of his good >> ones, or >> her good ones, too. > >No, _I'm_ her; he's him. Only he's some other him. Google >him -- what the hell, Google her -- if you don't believe me. > >Ron "I'd join the party but I can't type that fast" Sullivan This party cannot be crashed, it is open to all, and it is the bouncer's night off. > >-- If the whole world looks like shit, > chances are you have your head up your ass. I really need to remember that. Casady -- I will believe I am capable of getting Agent's sig software to work when I see it. Maybe.The SSSW[TM] has won nearly every time,but I refuse to surrender, death before dishonour, or a lick of sense."
From rcasady@uswest.net Wed May 09 04:46:21 2001 Path: spln!rex!extra.newsguy.com!lotsanews.com!arclight.uoregon.edu!logbridge.uoregon.edu!news.maxwell.syr.edu!feed.news.qwest.net!news.uswest.net.POSTED!not-for-mail From: Casady <rcasady@uswest.net> Newsgroups: alt.folklore.urban Subject: Re: May 8th Message-ID: <cbshftoomr55o1goetk8cfkasbi76e612c@4ax.com> References: <Pine.NEB.4.33.0105080100580.20960-100000@panix3.panix.com> <070520012241441605%cclarke@faultline.org> <9d92ua$p0s$1@news.panix.com> <utahft47bj9qgq3vnma4luuici52p5cnpd@4ax.com> X-Newsreader: Forte Agent 1.8/32.548 MIME-Version: 1.0 Content-type: text/plain; charset=us-ascii Content-Transfer-Encoding: 7bit Lines: 253 Date: Wed, 09 May 2001 03:46:21 -0500 NNTP-Posting-Host: 209.180.35.220 X-Trace: news.uswest.net 989397985 209.180.35.220 (Wed, 09 May 2001 03:46:25 CDT) NNTP-Posting-Date: Wed, 09 May 2001 03:46:25 CDT Xref: spln alt.folklore.urban:413405 On Tue, 08 May 2001 20:52:59 -0700, Mitcho <redneck@goathill.net> wrote: >Madeleine Page <mpage@mpage.net> wrote: > >> all the stuff I like. Too late for a short time on this earth already, >> really, though, but life is glum enough as it is without having to live >> without eating rabbit or venison or beef again, let alone snails and >> garlic in lots of butter which I really like and wouldn't share with >> anybody, not even Casady, not even on May 8 when it was his birthday. > >I appreciate the sentiment, I really do, from a lady I have always >admired, though her Web page once hurt my eyes. Woke them up anyway. >Except today is not my birthday, never has been, mine's in June, which >is close enough I guess, and still I appreciate the sentiment. Too >close for me, in fact, the date. It makes a man sweat. I try to >dodge the day before it comes, fill my time with new things, welding, >some work one the computer, CGI programming, city council meetings, >planning commission, and all the while the El Camino sits dismembered >in the garage, while I avoid it. Down to primer, front clip gone, up >on jackstands, ZZ4 350cid V8 engine in a corner and the transmission >(the 700R4 overdrive number) on a dolly by the door, rusting, because >the door never stays shut. All I need to do is strip the frame paint, >remove the dash, send the intake out for polish, maybe some clear >powder coat, everything else is off the car, every shelf covered with >power steering pump, alternator, radiator, steering gear, no room for >the dash, so I don't know where it will go. The headers are in the >back of the truck, waiting for ceramic coat, though the >CeramicShitCoat they already have is rusting. After two years. >Someone should pay, with blood. But I don't have the stomach for it, >not anymore. Might have before, even trained for it, but not now. >And so the car sits there, dismembered, while I try to avoid it, in >suprising ways. So much depending on it too. I can't reload with the >battery and the carburetor on the reloading bench. Can't build up a >good load. Something light but accurate with Winchester 231 for a 125 >grain FMJ flat point in .38 Special. For Bianchi competition. Just >need to knock down a steel plate, make a hole in some cardboard. >Lyman's 47th doesn't even list the flat point, but has hollow point >with a starting load at 3.9 grains for 589fps, but Speer has the flat >point but says not less than 5.6 grains. Forget about .44 S&W, >they're all over the map. Who are these bastards? Do they want to >kill me? If they want violence, they can have it, but so far to >drive, and the El Camino in pieces. And Prado Dam the nearest place >you can use a bench rest so you can test your loads, and car parts all >over the reloading bench, I'll never get a chance to prove the swine >wrong, as I know they must be. Instead I buy factory, which is hard >on the dough, and hard on the hands too, hot loads, and hollow points >you can't use indoors. Too frangible, like the human condition. Or >something. Meanwhile, the brass accumulates, in coffee cans and >zip-lock bags, next to the car parts. > >Yes, my birthday is coming soon, after the first year of feeling my >age. Finally bought some insurance. Gotta get PSA tests, finger-butt >tests, some other tests I don't even know about, haven't seen a doctor >in twenty years. No longer interesting to the coeds, like I was not >long ago. Got weird wrinkles on either side of my face, like dueling >scars. Too much smiling. Very strange. Alien blood. Gives one a >responsible look. I use it at the city council, sneaking past the El >Camino to drive the Camaro, the Black Death, up to 77 Fair Drive every >Monday night. For the drama. If you don't have enough drama at home >- and you think I would have drama enough, me with my fish pond, >filled with hungry Wet Boys, but I don't - you go to city council >meetings, planning commission meetings, Citizens for the Improvement >of Goat Hill (the local Fascist organization, for booting out all the >Mexicans) meetings, for metric buttloads of drama. And the young _LA >Times_ girlies sneaking around the room, interviewing everyone who >speaks, raving cranks to a man. I see the same people, every time, >and imagine my surprise when she comes into the Historical Society >today to ask about the Westside. She's the _Times'_ Girl on the Spot. >Woman on the Spot. Sorry. Reporting on the CIGH, the Fascists, among >others. And no one in that room knew more about the Westside than I >did. Surprised me too. There's 100,000 people in Goat Hill, but it's >a small place. And we have aerial views, shitloads of them. Maybe >10,000 photographs and 20% must be aerial views, because of the >motherfucking police helicopter, of which they are so proud. Bastard >crashed in '87 and killed a couple cops, but they are so proud. And >so we got more aerial photographs of the city than any town of 100,000 >has a right to. Westside, sure, but Eastside, Mesa Verde and South >Coast Plaza too, and about 450 different shots of the civic center >going up in 1966. A lot of good shots of the 10 March 1933 Long Beach >quake, knocked hell out of downtown, and nailed the school too. But >she wasn't interested in that. They never are. > >Jennifer, the _Times_ reporter, could write faster than I could type, >and I can type. But she shops slow. Stepped out to pick up something >at the Courtyards across the street while I was scanning photos for >her and I never saw her again. B-17s flying around overhead and the >_Times_ girl on the spot is lost in a strip mall. I am immersed in >despair. I mentioned this to Bud, who flew a P-61 (look it up, >strange radar-equipped night-fighting bird, the last one, crashed in >the Dutch East Indies, and later reclaimed from treacherous, >accident-prone Indonesians, going together now in Pennsylvania, hope >Bud lives to see it fly) and also served in Goat Hill when it was the >Santa Ana Army Air Base, as featured in _Catch-22_, opening pages. He >said I'm not old. His is a perspective worth considering. For he Was >There. > >And yet, half a century later, there are B-17s flying over my house. >Big noisy bastards, but lovely. Make a sound you don't hear anymore. >Crew of ten, a thousand birds per raid, maybe ten percent loss over >Germany, a thousand men at a go. You think I'm making this up, but I >am dead serious about B-17s. Never joke about the things. Been >flying around Goat Hill since Sunday. Will fly away this weekend. >Must get out to the airport, named after John Wayne, the Duke, who >lived around here, until he died, though I never met him, to see the >B-17s, before they go. But it's harder than it was, hard to sneak out >through the garage, with the El Camino and the RCBS Rockchucker >watching darkly, accusingly, and my birthday barreling down upon me. >And the new HP PC which came in the mail this week, now busted, >irreparably. SuckShitSoft ME, wants a password for everything, a >password to scratch your ass. I set up passwords nine times, trying >to connect it to the Dell, Windows Networking, always the same >password, KAFKA, and the password never works again. I couldn't do a >fucking thing, invalid password every time. I was stuck, it was too >much. I might have hurt the children playing on my front lawn, I >could barely cope, but there was no one responsible, no one to pay, >pay for their treachery. And no ammo in any case, because of all the >car parts, and the Lyman's/Speer confusion. So the HP sits out in the >back, immersed in the pond, for my Wet Boys, the best friends you >could ever want, considering they don't have fingers, and can't type. >But they tell us a lot about life, the Wet Boys. And I learn a lot >about life from you, Casady, and I hope your birthday was good, or >better than it started out anyway, and that we see many more of them. > >Mitcho Funny that you should mention reloading. I put Harry Belafonte's Day O, on repeat, in order to reply to Dimmick's post. I think of teaching and reloading and typing re-enlistments when I hear it. I once lived by the cop shop [and their barracks]. One Sat night I was loading .45 colt, SSA with a 7 1/2 in barrel, what Custer's troops carried. I had some 2400 and a lot of 250 grain Keith hollowpoints. I had the really cheap stereo with Day-0 on. I had it on repeat, it would restart automagically the first cut if you left the little lever thing that sat on the stack of records on the spindle. I had a Lyman tong tool. Came with gun, bought off a bulletin board on base. I was drunk and blood was dripping from my blistered hands when a cop from the barracks showed to just ask me to turn it down a bit, and I already had. I offered him beer, and he turned it down, and said he had the duty early. I said my commander has the gun, and he said no sweat. He said I pity the gomer that catches those nasty pills .I said the M-16 is junk, you have your Smith, at least, Ihave my Colt, Regulations or not, I want to take one with me. I was a training NCO who taught me the way to do guard duty. Fine points about distinctions between killing and murder. We were supposed to cold blooded killers, not someone who would decide who died on mere feelings. I was a desk man, the wanted me to be a gunman, I didn't volunteer for it. He knew that, and that I was death on a pale horse at the chess table, or in a game of duplicate bridge, as well, part of the reason I flunk my way into the USAF. I lay down on the Guillotine and pulled the string, and I am walking around with my head under my arm to this day. I am used to it almost. Work all night on a drink of rum, stack bananas till the morning come Load all night on a case of bud, squeeze[pull] the handles till they're wet with blood... You can use that line, Mitcho, it's for you. I am trying to come up with one for Dimmick, and everyone who ever graded papers. Worse by far, you owed it to everyone to get it right, I was a matter of life and death when I was young, you had a hand in deciding which of the TerrifiedNamBait were actually going to have to go. Any undue mercy was shifting the burdan to another, and as for the other reason for... in the sciences it is easy to go to machine scoring, but then testwriting becomes the test for the teacher. I held Dr Larson fix a bad question. He regraded the entire first hour exam in five minutes or so, easy to day. Work all night with no drink of rum, grade test papers till the morning come.. That's for every teacher who ever said: ' I wish I could flunk them all, or ace them all, or just give a standard c to everyone.' I had a prof ask the class first day, who was here to get a grade. He said just tell me what you deserve and you can have it right now, no tricks, and not come back to class, you will be bored and affect the rest. No takers, one dimwitted football player said 'don't temp me, I need a good grade, but...' I started crying when I got my 2nd year cal midterm, my brain is miswired, I cannot do foreign languages, calc included. Prof said it isn't the end of the world, and I said that's next year in a rice paddy far from here. I put it on to sit here till down and deal with the posts, I can hardly ignore this thread, now can I. Come mister tally man tally me banana, daylight come and me wan go home. SO got me a CComCome mister tally man tally me banana, daylight come and me wan go home.e mister tally man tally me banana, daylight come and me wan go home. D burner, but we decided I needed two monitors and hasn't the right chips or some. The stuff comes in faster than I can read, let alone write. Come mister tally man tally me banana, daylight come and me wan go home. Come mister tally man tally me banana, daylight come and me wan go home. Come mister tally man tally me banana, daylight come and me wan go home. Come mister tally man tally me banana, daylight come and me wan go home. When I was a child this one of my favorite songs, and incentive to study hard. When I was ten I saw my lifes work ahead of me. I say the pictures of some dead jews, and swore never again. I have often longed for the tallyman, but there is none for that kind of thing. I helped stack the corpses, and it will never end. [BOP, to say the least] I took up skeet and there were lots of all nighters at the bench I bought 100 pounds of shot a week. Just over 1400 round or 12 bore, 1 1/8 oz loads. !8.5 Red Dot, Winchester AA hulls and wads. I had both beer and weed, it wasn't so bad. Low underall, in the 12, the big shoot of the year at the local club, the governers shoot. 75/100. Nobody laughed, the 20 was next and I was the referee for that event. Asked by the club manager to spend money to join the association, a trap boy didn't show up. They ask me to be here today, so I am. Hang in there mitcho I read all your stuff at ADB. Maddie sent me something, and I wish she would send it to you, since you have my birthday problem. You posted to your other group about the BD's with a zero. I found it very moving. You are one of the most literate of that bunch. When I was 27 I just figured I was halfway home, I could last to 54, and didn't want to too tired already. Me and the SO had one of our best days so far, she is beginning to realize that she cannot read my mind, that is counter productive to try, just to give me a nice surprise. I knew this was coming, and I was more or less ready for it. Come mister tally man tally me banana, daylight come and me wan go home. Stereo does four repeat of Dayo and one Jamaca Farewell. For that, perhaps http://www.dockstreetbrokers.com/boats/display_photo.cgi.en?photo=1&boat_id=722074&page=broker&length=99&maker=Quality+Marine&model=&broker_url=dockstreetbrokers&desc=&listing_id=1785 Nice but so pricey, but I am in love with the superstructure, so industrial, a perambulating steel mill. Come mister tally man tally me banana, daylight come and me wan go home. Casady
From rcasady@uswest.net Wed May 09 05:25:33 2001 Path: spln!rex!extra.newsguy.com!lotsanews.com!news.maxwell.syr.edu!feed.news.qwest.net!news.uswest.net.POSTED!not-for-mail From: Casady <rcasady@uswest.net> Newsgroups: alt.folklore.urban Subject: Re: May 8th Message-ID: <883iftsd4ckhlccs343prb1mnq94u3hjg4@4ax.com> References: <Pine.NEB.4.33.0105080100580.20960-100000@panix3.panix.com> <070520012241441605%cclarke@faultline.org> <9d92ua$p0s$1@news.panix.com> <3af8d143.10991684@news.lightspeed.net> X-Newsreader: Forte Agent 1.8/32.548 MIME-Version: 1.0 Content-type: text/plain; charset=us-ascii Content-Transfer-Encoding: 7bit Lines: 86 Date: Wed, 09 May 2001 04:25:33 -0500 NNTP-Posting-Host: 209.180.35.220 X-Trace: news.uswest.net 989400335 209.180.35.220 (Wed, 09 May 2001 04:25:35 CDT) NNTP-Posting-Date: Wed, 09 May 2001 04:25:35 CDT Xref: spln alt.folklore.urban:413408 On Wed, 09 May 2001 05:10:29 GMT, jajohn@lightspeed.net (Judy Johnson) wrote: >Madeleine Page wrote: > >>Chris Clarke <cclarke@faultline.org> writes: >>> Brian Yeoh <lby3@columbia.edu> wrote: >>> >>> some stuff. It was pretty good, which didn't surprise me. >> >>Chris Clarke, Clark, whatever it is and he or she is, I like reading his >>stuff. Or her stuff as the case may be. This was one of his good ones, or >>her good ones, too. It always cheers me up to read a Chris Clarke post, so >>that was good. > >Yes, yes. I have to say, since I've been reading this group, that >Miss, Mrs., Mr. Clark has rarely dissappointed. Wish I could say the >same for my crappy attempts at prose. My memorys so bad lately that >half the time I begin to post, when my fuckingISP lets me that is, >what with the local company that I started with getting bought out by >a bigger, crappier company, which in turn gets bought out by some >even bigger demon-spawned piece of shit ISP, half the time I try to >connect I get nothing but disconnects. Whatever. I'm hoping to hang >on to the lousy dialup until we make the big move and the lab gets an >honest to god network. After that its going to be cable all the way. >At least you people can blame your memory lapses on recreational >substance abuse, my only excuse is premature senility, or maybe >burnout from the boobtube. I've been an entomologist with the USDofA >for more than 15 years now, and I've known a lot of other bugologists, >and long ago I'd noted that there was a high propensity towards >alcholism in the breed. One professor on my qualifying committee was >a notorious drinker and I was priveledged to see a sterling example of >this early one morning. But he never missed a day in the field and he >produced some great science, so think what you want. He was a great >guy who even flew in WWII. Had a stamp that said 'BULLSHIT' and gave >me one of my first jobs after I graduated, working on grapeleaf >skeletonizer and grape bud beetle, because he had moved from working >on alfalfa and cotton pests to grapes. Not wine grapes, or even >raisin grapes, like I work on now, but table grapes grown mostly down >in the Coachella Valley. Well, I know that I've been working at this >post for almost half an hour now, and I only count 3 spelling erros, >not too bad for me. Let me just finish with warmest regards for that >Casady chap, and long may he wave on afu. > >Judy "HAPPY BIRTHDAY RICHARD" Johnson I sit here waiting for stuff to come in, looking for hidden ones in between, lost the archive from end Feb to today, have only what was on the server, 20 Apr on. I will get the good stuff back People will send me their sent files or something, I will stand there with blood trickling from my eyes and they won't be able to stand it. It is around, most of it, and well, merely a hole in the archive. Like a hole in a library, seldom needed stuff. Not a big deal. At one time the server I had held stuff four days and that sucked. And the software would allow me to archive it. This is for science. I have to strap myself into the chair to do the all nighters, the between the legs hourglass thingy they use to keep old people from falling out of their wheelchairs. I have this on the sound, on repeat, the song I mean, not the line. Belafonte. Work all night on a drink of rum, stack banana till the morning come... Come mister tallyman tally me banana, daylight come an me wan go home. Work all night on a drink of rum, stack banana till the morning come... Come mister tallyman tally me banana, daylight come an me wan go home I am flattered by all the attention. I was born for this. I have been reading the columns first in the newspapers and magazines since I learned to read, almost. There is a tarantula in the song, of course. I remember when your could ask your grocer to save one for you. Richard 'high maddie' Casady > -- I will believe I am capable of getting Agent's sig software to work when I see it. Maybe.The SSSW[TM] has won nearly every time,but I refuse to surrender, death before dishonour, or a lick of sense."
From rcasady@uswest.net Wed May 09 05:37:32 2001 Path: spln!rex!extra.newsguy.com!lotsanews.com!news.maxwell.syr.edu!feed.news.qwest.net!news.uswest.net.POSTED!not-for-mail From: Casady <rcasady@uswest.net> Newsgroups: alt.folklore.urban Subject: Re: May 8th Message-ID: <tg3iftgamqv8rq3ord53iq1lqrrn0f6ca0@4ax.com> References: <Pine.NEB.4.33.0105080100580.20960-100000@panix3.panix.com> <ctbishop-0805012243570001@pool1191.cvx19-bradley.dialup.earthlink.net> X-Newsreader: Forte Agent 1.8/32.548 MIME-Version: 1.0 Content-type: text/plain; charset=us-ascii Content-Transfer-Encoding: 7bit Lines: 60 Date: Wed, 09 May 2001 04:37:32 -0500 NNTP-Posting-Host: 209.180.35.220 X-Trace: news.uswest.net 989401053 209.180.35.220 (Wed, 09 May 2001 04:37:33 CDT) NNTP-Posting-Date: Wed, 09 May 2001 04:37:33 CDT Xref: spln alt.folklore.urban:413409 On Wed, 09 May 2001 05:41:50 GMT, ctbishop@earthlink.net (ctbishop) wrote: >Somebody came in from out-of-town, used to live here I think but maybe not >anyway a while ago but he was back so there was an idea to get-together >and pool our knowledge and ramble. We did, not far but into the city busy >though with lots of people waiting to see the planes. There was discussion >of what kind they were, not many agreed though sometimes they did anyway >there was a large slow one built like a goose but with more wings and of >course it had propellors and a goose doesn't. It flew slow turning slow >and no aerobatics and no one recognized it as it flew near some thought it >was more (L) than now others thought it was older and none agreed. There >were others too faster than any I've seen and wings short which makes them >fast, the kestrel flys faster than the goose and Richard Bach used the >idea for one of his books, I forget which one someone probably knows >though not in our group I think. We finished with the planes and undertook >or overtook since we were on top the bridge though only halfway because of >symmetry bifold maybe or axis someone said but it wasn't a Saab windshield >curves one way. We didn't make it to the planetarium and I wanted to show >them that when the earth is *here* one year and it's a special day and >then the next time it's *here* again it isn't really because eveything has >moved and this here is megamiles from the original here but humans don't >care the frame of reference has shifted they still count years because >their system is limited though space isn't. So the earth is where it was a >year ago and annual celebrations are celebrated and rightly so for those >so valued. This may be closer because it's 365.25 not just 365 and there >are time zones to consider more complete orbits with you here is a good >thing. > >Happy Birthday Casady > >Charles Work all night on a drink of rum, stack banana till the morning come... Come mister tallyman tally me banana, daylight come an me wan go home. Four thirty in the morning and still it come in. Belafonte on the stereo, on repeat, this tune. Work all night on a drink of rum, stack banana till the morning come... Come mister tallyman tally me banana, daylight come an me wan go home. Work all night on a drink of rum, stack banana till the morning come... Come mister tallyman tally me banana, daylight come an me wan go home. Morning will never come it sometimes seems. But only sometimes. Casady
From rcasady@uswest.net Wed May 09 06:26:26 2001 Path: spln!rex!extra.newsguy.com!lotsanews.com!news-out.cwix.com!newsfeed.cwix.com!feed.news.qwest.net!news.uswest.net.POSTED!not-for-mail From: Casady <rcasady@uswest.net> Newsgroups: alt.folklore.urban Subject: Re: May 8th Message-ID: <sj6iftsr2bsp8bhe57018hbrnsje4di38a@4ax.com> References: <RqVcHIAknz96Mw4H@jackalope.demon.co.uk> <3AF849EF.7C36462E@iobox.fi> X-Newsreader: Forte Agent 1.8/32.548 MIME-Version: 1.0 Content-type: text/plain; charset=ISO-8859-1 Content-Transfer-Encoding: 8bit Lines: 36 Date: Wed, 09 May 2001 05:26:26 -0500 NNTP-Posting-Host: 209.180.35.220 X-Trace: news.uswest.net 989403988 209.180.35.220 (Wed, 09 May 2001 05:26:28 CDT) NNTP-Posting-Date: Wed, 09 May 2001 05:26:28 CDT Xref: spln alt.folklore.urban:413423 On Tue, 08 May 2001 19:37:11 GMT, HWM <henry.w@_EGGS_&_SPAM_iobox.fi> wrote: >This morning I woke up at six am and proceeded to the train station, not >in the drunken stupor I would have wished but rather in a sleepwalkers >drift as I suddenly realized I had to get off the train at halfway to >get to the Polytechnic. The sun shone brightly and the chill of the >morning air was turning into a pleasant summer's day when I yanked the >doors and found them shut. Suddenly it dawned on me that I was there an >hour too early for the business to start so I dawdled back to the >massive hulk of Pasila-Böle railway station hanging over the railroad >tracks as a spaceship hulk from a third rate science fiction movie. The >third rate coffee and baguette were however in first rate prices. At >half nine I decided to go try the doors which now opened without me even >saying sesame. The trip down to the cellar where all hope was to be cast >felt inappropriate for such a beautiful day, but I decided to keep my >appointment with the professor who had her door open and with a big >smile on her face handed me the topics to do my maturity essay from. Her >smile had made me mistake her for the Cheshire Cat for after reading the >topics I was sure she was the Mad Hatter. Three hours later I left the >room after I had chewed out all my pencils and made an essay that I >remember nothing of. Such was my morning, did you enjoy your day? > >"Hippie Birthday for Casady" Did I ever mention that you remind me of Joe Conrad, a Pole who was one of the masters of the English Language. I am impressed that a Finn can write English, not well for a Finn, but, damn fine be any standard at all. Thank you such a nice essay. This is about the last one for me been up all night. Work all night on a drink of rum, stack banana till the morning come... Come mister tallyman tally me banana, daylight come an me wan go home. Casady
From spalding@iol.ie Wed May 09 13:28:52 2001 Path: spln!rex!extra.newsguy.com!lotsanews.com!news-hog.berkeley.edu!ucberkeley!news.maxwell.syr.edu!newsfeed00.sul.t-online.de!t-online.de!skynet.be!newsfeed.esat.net!news.iol.ie!not-for-mail X-Posting-Agent: Hamster/1.3.22.1 From: Nick Spalding <spalding@iol.ie> Newsgroups: alt.folklore.urban Subject: Re: May 8th Reply-To: spalding@iol.ie Message-ID: <edvift4e3msg46eqvf00g7usm7uholb02g@4ax.com> References: <RqVcHIAknz96Mw4H@jackalope.demon.co.uk> <8eqgft49eimckh45367k838ce5j3leniim@4ax.com> X-Newsreader: Forte Agent 1.8/32.548 MIME-Version: 1.0 Content-type: text/plain; charset=us-ascii Content-Transfer-Encoding: 7bit Lines: 9 Date: Wed, 09 May 2001 17:28:52 GMT NNTP-Posting-Host: 193.203.145.139 X-Complaints-To: abuse@iol.ie X-Trace: news.iol.ie 989429332 193.203.145.139 (Wed, 09 May 2001 18:28:52 BST) NNTP-Posting-Date: Wed, 09 May 2001 18:28:52 BST Organization: Ireland On-Line Customer Xref: spln alt.folklore.urban:413450 Casady wrote, in <8eqgft49eimckh45367k838ce5j3leniim@4ax.com>: > Unusually little! I lack the literary skills of all the others but I do wish you all the best on your birthday. I just wish you wouldn't go on so about how old you are - how do you think that makes me feel? -- Nick Spalding
From talorina@maniac.deathstar.org Wed May 09 16:20:19 2001 Path: spln!rex!extra.newsguy.com!lotsanews.com!news.maxwell.syr.edu!newsxfer.eecs.umich.edu!news.itd.umich.edu!maniac.deathstar.org!talorina Newsgroups: alt.folklore.urban From: Becca Ward <talorina@maniac.deathstar.org> Subject: May 8th (though not quite) Message-ID: <Pine.GSO.4.21.0105091617140.28784-100000@maniac.deathstar.org> MIME-Version: 1.0 Content-type: TEXT/PLAIN; charset=US-ASCII Lines: 52 Date: Wed, 9 May 2001 16:20:19 -0400 NNTP-Posting-Host: 204.42.254.10 X-Trace: news.itd.umich.edu 989439621 204.42.254.10 (Wed, 09 May 2001 16:20:21 EDT) NNTP-Posting-Date: Wed, 09 May 2001 16:20:21 EDT Xref: spln alt.folklore.urban:413467 It should be May 8th, but it isn't, thanks to my FuckingISP (tm), I was going to write sooner, but I just couldn't get through, some ECHP error, an outage in my area they told me, like I hadn't figured out something was wrong, even if the SSSW (tm) isn't really all that useful in telling me what's wrong. If I had been at work, it would be May 8th, though even there the SSSW doesn't work half the time, and the blue screen of death is an all too frequent visitor, but death always is, even on a sunny day, though I can't say my day was all that bad, except for it not being May 8th now. On the last day of my vacation, I slept in after the SO had to get up and go to work, and the dogs were there, one curled up at my feet, the other all stretched out behind me, sharing a pillow, warm and dozing along my back. Black dog, black hair, and they get warmer out in the sun in the back yard, at least we mowed so they could find the balls when I threw them, though mostly they just wanted to go after each other's, neither of them being happy with the one I got for just her, but isn't that always the way, and they always think the other's got it better, why, just trying to comb one of them is impossible, the other is always wanting to get in on it, the dog hair is everywhere. I open up the freezer, and there it is, almost a whole other dog, right there on the door. Hunting dogs, they're supposed to be, and we even have a shotgun in the house, even if neither of us ever had military service, and water dogs, though they don't like the water despite their webbed toes, I don't suppose we'll ever own a boat, not that I'd want to, I'm afraid of water too, something about all that heavy nothing. Not sure why, my Dad tells me that I used to like to swim when I was a little kid, but then again my Dad also told me things like I had an invisible brother, Clyde it was, and I always wanted to keep Clyde and get rid of my real, very visible older brother. My sisters got house cows, my brother got an imaginary father named Elmer Schnuckle, and I got an invisible brother named Clyde. My father has no excuse, it's not like he can put such stories down to years of drinking, I've done more drinking in the past month than my Dad did in the previous thirty years, but maybe it skips generations, my grandfather having drunk himself into oblivion long before I was ever born. Not the grandfather who was in the Pacific in WWII, that's all I know about what he did there, he just doesn't talk about what happened, though I know he saw a buddy of his get killed, but he makes the best grape jelly and in the divorce I'll get to keep the furniture he made, and the black walnuts, too, he shelled them himself from the trees growing on his property, and if it were May 8th, Richard, I might send you some of the walnuts, they're the best ever, but of course I've eaten them all, except for the ones I gave to the dogs. Happy Late Birthday. Ward -- Of course it is not difficult to catapult a live horse. -- Richard Casady
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From: Joseph M. Shair <santyclz@adams.net>
Newsgroups: alt.folklore.urban
Subject: No Bull
Date: Wed, 9 May 2001 17:01:28 -0500
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Early this morning or late last night depending on how you look
at it, to me it was late last night because on Tuesday nights I
play duplicate bridge with my mother at the lo cal club which is
very depressing because she was one of the brightest people I've
ever met and now has to be reminded several times each hand what
is trump and even then often forgets, she's 89 now and I hope I
don't live long enough to lose as much as she has, but I guess I
can't because I probably never had as much to lose, I have a
Ruger Super Blackhawk, a .44 magnum with a nine inch barrel so I
can make sure I never get into that condition (I tried once to
reload ammunition for it because a .44 magnum ammo was quite
expensive and the army pay sucked even with the $55/month jump
pay bonus, using a demo machine at the Rod and Gun Club in
Frankfurt, Germany where I bought the pistol in 1965 but even
then my manual dexterity was so bad that I couldn't do it well) I
also bought a Walther PPK chambered for .32 cal. which I used as
a concealed weapon whenever I was carrying classified documents
which was frequently since I was Documents Control NCO for the
1st Brigade, 8th Infantry Division and almost all of our officers
had been sent 'in country' which was what we called being sent to
'Nam but it was stolen when my house was robbed while I was away
on a business trip back in L1980 and when I got back from the
trip I was arrested for possession of a controlled substance when
the police who were investigating the robbery found a bag of
yohimbe near my pipe rack, I was acquitted but they never
returned my bong which they had also confiscated and if they had
run the tests on that they could have convicted me, I was
rewinding _The Mikado_, the video made of the 1983 "world-
renowned" Stratford, Ontario, Canada (is that near Halifax, and
could a Christensen Motor Yacht which can be bought, used, at
http://www.boats.com/listing/listing_detail_handler.jsp?entityid=
8042361&searchid=3&page=1&pagetype=0&total=22&sortorder=year&sear
chtype=buy&searchstate=pageflip for $10,500,000 and while it is
in Ft. Lauderdale, FL now could easily make the trip to Halifax
if the Mounties didn't get it first if the fish bay were filled
with rum from the Dry Tortugas, be docked there?) Festival
proscenium version which has the best Poo-Bah of any Mikado I've
ever seen and I've seen a lot because I've loved _The Mikado_
since it was our Senior Class Musical and I was stage manager
because I can't sing a note even though I love to sing and for
many years was word perfect in every "musical comedy" from
_Oklahoma_ through _Gigi_ (our chorus teacher said he could teach
anyone to sing in two years and after having me for two years he
retired and opened up a Putt-Putt miniature golf course, which
folded about 4 years later, but he may have been planning to do
that anyway) except the foreign language parts of _Jacques Brel
is Alive and Well and Living in Paris_, which is more of a review
that an "musical comedy" anyway and it's certainly not a comedy,
when the agriculture news was on and their lead story was about a
black and white Angus bull which had been found, slaughtered, by
its owners, who found it, but claim they weren't the who
slaughtered it, with its head near the stable, its intestines
nearby and the remainder of carcass, minus the meat a couple of
miles away and that it had been slaughtered in an undetermined
manner, probably with a saw, which "scared the rest of the herd
half to death" (which was repeated twice with shots of a small
number, about 7 or 8, Angus bulls running around a corral in an
agitated manner) by unknown shitscumsuckers (TM) who may have
been part of a "satanic cult" (of which I've never been a member
even when it was thought that I was a witch in high school
because I had learned to read body language well enough that
people thought I was reading their minds and had good enough
time-sense that once, on a date at a rodeo, was able to call off
the times in a barrel race to the nearest 10th of a second before
they were announced until the girl I was with asked me to stop
because I was scaring her and afterwards she told people about
it) because there were rumors that goat heads had also been found
in the area which is the whole point of this post which has taken
me hours to type even though I left out several interesting and
relevant anecdotes including the one about the time that the
Mounties *did* get me in Toronto.
Joe "No carriage-returns were harmed in the
creation of this post." Shair
PS: Happy (belated) CasaDay!
ABSTRACT: According to the lo cal ag news, a bull
was slaughtered in Tennessee by person or persons
unknown. The police are checking into the possibility
it was done by a satanic cult because there are *rumors*
that goat heads have also been found in the area.
ObUL: a hit from a .44 magnum bullet even in a toe
will kill you through "hydrostatic shock". Research
subject volunteers (or their estates) will be paid
two-fifty.
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