From: BEATLE
To: BARTHOLOMEW FOX
Subject: Disney Releases
Date & Time: 01/20/90 18:52:43
Message Number 1451
They have been working on that Rescuers sequel a long time. I first
heard it was to be relased last year.
Starlog carries some updates on fantasy film releases. Fantasia
will be listed in their film calandar if its re-relased.
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From: BEATLE
To: SAURON
Subject: Anal Retention
Date & Time: 01/20/90 19:06:05
Message Number 1452
Well, on Saturday Night Live, it means excessively and compulsively
neat and proper. According to a dictionary, it has a meaning along
the lines of "constapated"...
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From: BEATLE
To: RUFUS
Subject: Bad movies
Date & Time: 01/20/90 19:14:06
Message Number 1453
I have Dark Star and War of the Worlds on tape already. Well, Dark
Star is pretty bad. But War of the Worlds is a sci-fi classic.
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From: BEATLE
To: KEN OBER
Subject: Odd...
Date & Time: 01/20/90 19:16:41
Message Number 1454
Enough product plugs...
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From: BEATLE
To: ANGEL
Subject: It's...
Date & Time: 01/20/90 19:17:32
Message Number 1455
Since TNT came on cable, I think Dark Star has been aired three times
...
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From: TURTLE
To: THE SPECIALIST
Subject: abortions...
Date & Time: 01/21/90 14:58:03
Message Number 1456
>god calls it murder.
I'll take your (or her) word for it; I haven't talked personally with
god recently, so I wouldn't know what he calls it. Considering how
between 60 and 80% of all fertilized human eggs never make it to
childhood naturally, the majority of which simply fail to attach to the
uterus and are absorbed or expelled, I'd say that if god /does/ call
it murder, it must be an activity he approves of. Otherwise, of course,
one could expect that the system wouldn't have been built that way.
Arguments from religion don't impress me. After all, at various times
in history god has been quoted as saying that the world is flat, all
non-Catholics should be tortured to death, books like "Charlotte's
Web" are immoral and should be burned, and your bank account really
ought to be turned over to Oral Roberts (before he gets called home).
This means that either god is a real unreliable source of information
or the people who are quoting him are simply...um, mistaken.
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From: TURTLE
To: BEATLE
Subject: Anal Retention
Date & Time: 01/21/90 15:05:47
Message Number 1457
Sigmund Freud coined the term "anal retentive;" he catagorized most
people as being "oral compulsive" (these are people who are always
biting the ends of pencils and the like, and are generally sloppy,
fidgity, and disorganized) and "anal retentive" (these are the people
who were potty trained too early; they're compulsively neat and tidy,
and do things like line up sharp pencils on an otherwise clear desk).
I never could fathom Freud's fascination with pencils.
--A non-anal-retentive Turtle
(...although Freud /does/ give me constipation.)
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From: TURTLE
To: BEATLE
Subject: Bad movies
Date & Time: 01/21/90 15:08:42
Message Number 1458
>Well, Dark Star is pretty bad.
Bite your tongue /hard,/ boy.
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From: CYBERPUNK
To: TURTLE
Subject: my bbs
Date & Time: 01/21/90 16:12:20
Message Number 1459
well guess what, i got it up now!! it works!! it even answers the
phone!!! neat-o huh???? well c-ya!
Cy
HYPERCOMP!!! 300/1200 baud 813-371-0888
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From: BEATLE
To: TURTLE
Subject: Bad movies
Date & Time: 01/21/90 17:49:33
Message Number 1460
I'm sorry... But "Dark Star" is one of those bad in a good sense. If I
didn't like it, it would have been erased from my tape already...
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From: BEATLE
To: TURTLE
Subject: Star Trek III
Date & Time: 01/21/90 17:54:41
Message Number 1461
Hey, where did you get that neat-o Star Trek poster next to your door?
I collect movie posters, and I can almost guarantee that's worth
something... at least the regular size posters (which are more common)
are worth $20 at least...
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From: KEN OBER
To: ALL
Subject: The Furry Tape
Date & Time: 01/21/90 18:18:34
Message Number 1462
It has all the live-action of the Furry Party on the 20th! Over an
hour of footage! The special FURRY MUSIC VIDEO which lasts 3:36 sec.,
and featuring TURTLE CAM II set to Eurotheme! The most complete
(and only) video record of the Furry Party!
Also still availible: RufusCON on video! Featuring the original
TURTLE CAM set to the VPA music! Another Fun-Filled hour of Furry
Fun!
Get your copies via me! Just request a copy at the next CON, or drop
by my place sometime ot get a copy....All copies are free if you
bring the tape....
* TURTLE CAM (tm) Anarchy Now, Inc. 1990
Give me a call at my BBS! (813-378-2218) If you live in Tampa, it
can be arranged to have copies mailed for a minimal fee...
(You can also leave me E-Mail at this location....)
So everyone, when's the next CON!? :)
-Ken Obermiester
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From: CHIP P. UNICORN
To: KEN OBER
Subject: The modems..
Date & Time: 01/22/90 16:37:18
Message Number 1464
Dear Ken,
WHAT?!? Are you suggesting that I should drag my mighty 9600-baud
modem down, castrating it, and depriving it of its need to fly --
forcing, yes, castrating my modem, and reign it in at 300 baud? Absurd!
Well -- maybe... I'll try it later.
Chip P. Unicorn
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From: CHIP P. UNICORN
To: RUFUS
Subject: problems
Date & Time: 01/22/90 16:41:58
Message Number 1465
Naaaah.... I've got this really spiffy-keen elecromagnet... that'll
solve ALL our problems in just a few seconds.
Chip P. Unicorn
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From: CHIP P. UNICORN
To: THE SPECIALIST
Subject: abortions...
Date & Time: 01/22/90 16:45:05
Message Number 1466
--- Just as a disclaimer, the opinion expressed really is that of
Chip P. Unicorn, but really addressed to the Specialist's girlfriend. --
Several questions:
1. Which god?
2. How do you define murder?
3. How do you define abortion?
4. What do we do with all the unwanted children that would result
if abortion wasn't legal? (If you diatribe back at me "Adoption, not
abortion" -- How many children have you adopted?)
5. What real solutions do you have to the problems that cause
unwanted pregnancies?
6. Is all abortion immoral? (assuming, of course, that murder is
immoral.) How about diseased children who won't survive a month? Who
wouldn't survive two months? A year? Two years? Twelve? What if they'll
live a normal-span life, but are a vegetable for their lives? What if
they're deformed? If you set a limit on when abortions can be placed,
what is that limit?
7. If you say abortion cannot be performed under any circumstances,
what of a child born with AIDS -- and would cost his parents literally
tens (maybe hundreds) of thousands of dollars to keep? Who pays for
that? Or, who helps "crack babies"?
Mind you -- I'm not attacking you. I'm honestly asking for answers
-- your answers, please... -- to those questions. Myself, I'm a born-
again Christian who isn't so certain that either side of the abortion
question are right. But, I'm interested in talking with both sides...
You might convert me....
Chip P. Unicorn
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From: CHIP P. UNICORN
To: TURTLE
Subject: abortions...
Date & Time: 01/22/90 16:57:13
Message Number 1467
Dear Turtle,
Your heretical views have been noted, and St. Pedro will ensure that
your soul will be purged an extra 500 years in the "Blue Lucifer's
Tickle-Torture" device. Yarg!
Chip P. Unicorn
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From: CHIP P. UNICORN
To: CYBERPUNK
Subject: my bbs
Date & Time: 01/22/90 17:00:14
Message Number 1468
Well, gosh golly gee wow whiz, oh boy oh boy oh boy!!!! neat-o, and
golly wow whiz bang! jeepers creepers and the bees knees! soooper,
dood, and more power to ya.
Chip P. Unicorn
Yes, but does it make a good cup of coffee?
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From: BEATLE
To: CHIP P. UNICORN
Subject: abortions...
Date & Time: 01/22/90 18:21:39
Message Number 1469
Just as an interesting fact, I saw on the news that about 64% of
Seniors (I believe High School) are pro choice. This figure increased 9%
from last year...
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From: BEATLE
To: KEN OBER
Subject: The Furry Tape
Date & Time: 01/22/90 18:24:00
Message Number 1470
To everyone else: Beware of the fourth generation copy. TYLER, I
watched both copies of the video (the SLP and SP, remember?) and the big
difference was that the SP was less fuzzy than the SLP. I reccomend that
you make second generation copies for everyone from the camcorder. You
left too much empty space on the VHS copy... By the way, show the music
video to Jennifer. I told her you probably would. Wouldn't you say she
missed a good time?
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From: RUFUS
To: KEN OBER
Subject: The Furry Tape
Date & Time: 01/22/90 20:25:52
Message Number 1471
I want a copy. I'll arrange to get you a tape. You should really do a
documentary on what furry is. You could probaly do a pretty good job
of it.
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From: RUFUS
To: BEATLE
Subject: abortions...
Date & Time: 01/22/90 20:29:19
Message Number 1472
Gee, I heard it was Freshmen in college. Then again, when have I
paid attention to the news? :) You know what I really hate? Simulated
crimes. I watched as some guy beat up a girl, 'shot' her, then ran her
over. Like we couldn't get it from "He hit her, shot her twice, then
ran her over in a '77 whatever."
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From: RUFUS
To: CRYSTAL
Subject: And Turtle
Date & Time: 01/22/90 20:32:06
Message Number 1473
Many thanks for hosting the Furry Party last Saturday. Once again, you
baked us food (those brownies were good, but when mixed with Mountain
Dew real early in the morning, uhh), you let us raid your supply of
Mountain Dew, you let us be loud, use your bean bags, etc..etc..
May your new neighbors be night watchmen!!
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From: RADAGAST
To: TURTLE
Subject: Well...
Date & Time: 01/22/90 20:44:10
Message Number 1475
I like the idea about puting the back ground in the D/l's, you could
also put the story so far in the d/l's too. One of my biggest hang
ups as a latecomer was that i only knew the last 100 messages or
so, which were exciting, but not all that helpful for entering
the story..it gets very complicated, and unless you have been following
the story, its nearly imposible to find a little nooke where a new
player would fit. If you could go off line, and read the messages
through, at your own pace, and find a spot where a new person
would be benefichal to the story, and you could get some idea of
where this is all supposed to be going. On WD the basic quest was
discovered early in the story, and basically only the sub problems
were discussed for a long time, so its hard to tell what you should
be trying to help/hinder accomplishing...well, its only a suggestion, an
long time, but hopefully it will help at least a little...
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From: KEN OBER
To: BEATLE
Subject: 2nd Generation
Date & Time: 01/22/90 21:03:17
Message Number 1476
Okay, but the tape line-up (if you get a copy) is like this:
The Main video will be 2nd generation because I /had/ to edit out about
10 minutes where the tape *royally* screwed up....
The TURTLE CAM is 2nd generation as well...
The music video is 3rd generation...I had to copy from camcorder to
to vhs (the main copy) and back to camcorder for the flying erase
head, and then, finally, back to VHS to add the music....The picture
isn't /that/ bad, but it would be better if Iactually used /new/
camcorder tapes, and had something /besides/ a 2-head vcr...basically,
the tape in SP looks like a 1st or 2nd generation in SLP mode....
ANyways, you'll all see when you get your copies or at the next
party....
SP FOREVER! LP & SLP SUCK EGGS!!!!!
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From: KEN OBER
To: RUFUS
Subject: Documentary
Date & Time: 01/22/90 21:08:30
Message Number 1477
HHmmm, sounds like and interesting idea, hhmmm....How would we go about
it, tho? I guess we could have people like Watts and Turtle and You
speaking on the subject of what "exactly" a furry is, and we could show
a few examples.....
OH! I /almost/ have enough money for my AmiGen! YA! And after my
birthday, Ishould get enough money from relatives to do it...Ithink
it'll be nifty, If Iget oit within A week, Imay even have a desire
to re-do the furry tape to include captions...
Beatle -- Next Party or CON, try to bring your 4-Head stereo VCR so
that we can make really nifty copies, otay'?
-TRR
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From: KEN OBER
To: ALL
Subject: Don't Forget
Date & Time: 01/22/90 21:13:15
Message Number 1478
To thank Rocky for getting 2 extra 12-Packs of Mountain Dew for
everyone!!!!
-TRR
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From: TURTLE
To: CHIP P. UNICORN
Subject: heresy
Date & Time: 01/22/90 23:33:20
Message Number 1480
>Your heretical views have been noted...
You know, I was faxing a copy of "Satisfaction" to God just last week,
and he told me that he /really/ gets annoyed when people presume to
assign their moral views to him, and then wander around imprisoning or
murdering other people who don't have the same view of him. He also
made some remark along the lines of "Check these guys out! I made them
in my image, and now they turn around and try to return the favor.
Some people, I swear to me!"
--An irreverant Turtle
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From: TURTLE
To: RUFUS
Subject: And Turtle
Date & Time: 01/22/90 23:37:50
Message Number 1481
It was an honor and a privelege, doode! I'm looking forward to the next
one...
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From: TURTLE
To: KEN OBER
Subject: 2nd Generation
Date & Time: 01/22/90 23:39:10
Message Number 1482
You should make a "master" copy on vhs, then give it and a bunch of
blank tapes to me some time and let me copy them with the professional
video editing system in the New College media center. (BTW, I'd like a
copy of the RufusCon and Furry Party tapes...)
--A video Turtle
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From: BEATLE
To: RUFUS
Subject: The Furry Tape
Date & Time: 01/23/90 07:09:27
Message Number 1483
Documentaries are hard to do. I tried a pseudo-documentary once and
never finished it. I tried a REAL documentary once and never got past
the first minute.
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From: BEATLE
To: RUFUS
Subject: abortions...
Date & Time: 01/23/90 07:11:19
Message Number 1484
Might have been Freshmen in college. I dunno. I just glanced at it and
caught it....
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From: BEATLE
To: KEN OBER
Subject: 2nd Generation
Date & Time: 01/23/90 07:13:47
Message Number 1485
And everyone MUST have SP because SLP will degrade your work! (almost
a quote)
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From: BEATLE
To: KEN OBER
Subject: Documentary
Date & Time: 01/23/90 07:15:06
Message Number 1486
Like that's gonna be easy.
"Hey, Dad. Lemme take that steeo VCR all the way over to Tyler's, OK?"
"You mean he doesn't have one?"
"No, I don't believe it either."
Actually, I have a friend with a nice Hi-Fi stereo model from Sharp
(as opposed to my Goldstar generic linear stereo-big difference). He'S
interested in coming to a Con sometime and he'd probably be willing to
unhook his VCR and bring it. He takes it to Elenton sometimes...
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From: BEATLE
To: TURTLE
Subject: 2nd Generation
Date & Time: 01/23/90 07:19:39
Message Number 1487
Does the diting system clear up the picture? Every time Tyler made a
new copy, it got worse. He does have a sloppy VHS master, though...
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From: CORWYN OF AMBER
To: SAURON
Subject: catchy slogans
Date & Time: 01/23/90 16:18:53
Message Number 1489
Brickbats.
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From: CORWYN OF AMBER
To: THE SPECIALIST
Subject: abortions...
Date & Time: 01/23/90 16:20:30
Message Number 1490
So, has she talked to god recently, and which god might that be?
Do they let her out of her padded room on week-ends?
(Or does she not usually speak of her conversations w/ god?)
- Corwyn
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From: CORWYN OF AMBER
To: CORWYN OF AMBER
Subject: catchy slogans
Date & Time: 01/23/90 16:22:56
Message Number 1491
At 200 yards.
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From: CORWYN OF AMBER
To: ALL
Subject: shadow
Date & Time: 01/23/90 16:24:02
Message Number 1492
To anybody who's tried calling The Shadow, I apologize. The modem was
sent in for repairs... hopefully we won't have any more problems w/
my modem not talking to other people's modems...
Should be up at 11:00 tomorrow night tho' -
- Corwyn
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From: BEATLE
To: TURTLE
Subject: Me, the stupid
Date & Time: 01/23/90 16:34:17
Message Number 1493
ARGGH!! I called over to Wyvern's Den last night after a long hiatus
and I forgot to write down my stupid password. Someone tell Donthen to
mail me my password somewhere! (Or even more stupidly, why didn't I
address this to DONTHEN?????) ARGGGHHHH!
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From: RUFUS
To: TURTLE
Subject: 2nd Generation
Date & Time: 01/23/90 16:49:54
Message Number 1494
Maybe we can get together this weekend and do the CalArts tape, along
with a few other tapes.
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From: RUFUS
To: BEATLE
Subject: abortions...
Date & Time: 01/23/90 16:51:08
Message Number 1495
>I just glanced at it and caught it....
What did you do once you caught it? Do you still have it? Did you let
it go?
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From: TURTLE
To: BEATLE
Subject: 2nd Generation
Date & Time: 01/23/90 21:25:45
Message Number 1497
It can't actually clean up a signal that's already degraded, but the
copies it produces look pretty much like the original--no degredation
at all. I think it can sort of maybe fix a graphled sync signal, too,
a little bit, sometimes, possibly. It's a pretty neat machine.
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From: TURTLE
To: CORWYN OF AMBER
Subject: shadow
Date & Time: 01/23/90 21:28:19
Message Number 1498
Hey, like, welcome back, dude.
Niklaus Wirth still sucks eggs.
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From: TURTLE
To: RUFUS
Subject: 2nd Generation
Date & Time: 01/23/90 21:28:59
Message Number 1499
I dunno about this weekend; I have acquired a fairly nasty illness, and
as I sit typing this my head is filled with cottony fog, I keep having
hot flashes, and simple motion is painful or impossible. So why am I
logged on rather than being in bed? Because I'm stoopid, that's why!
It's one of the consequences of being a /real/ hacker.
--A foggy Turtle
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From: TURTLE
To: YOU (YES, YOU!)
Subject: News Flash
Date & Time: 01/23/90 21:31:12
Message Number 1500
BBS COMMUNITY IN MOURNING AFTER EXPLOSION
Sarasota (Turtle Press): The Sarasota BBS community suffered a tragic
loss this afternoon when Remote Control went down due to a catastrophic
failure of a mass storage device. Tyler Robinson, sysop of Remote
Control, reports that the system was experiencing difficulty with its
serial I/O devices earlier this week. A call to a local repair shop
produced a technician who suggested that he switch around the cables
running into his 1581 disk drive. When this was done and the computer
was powered up, Tyler says, "It shot out lots of sparks from the 1581,
and it caught fire." The extent of the damage is not yet known, but
the board may be down for "a real long time."
No one was injured in the explosion.
(c) 1990 Turtle Press Ltd.
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From: CHIP P. UNICORN
To: ALL
Subject: Proverb
Date & Time: 01/24/90 11:12:33
Message Number 1502
(Referring, of course, to FurSchism...)
If there are three furries in a town, there will be one furry fan
club. If there are four furries in a town, there will be two furry
fan clubs.
Chip P. Unicorn
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From: CHIP P. UNICORN
To: BEATLE
Subject: abortions...
Date & Time: 01/24/90 11:13:50
Message Number 1503
Dear Beatle,
All that I can think of is that this means the nation's turning more
liberal... (Maybe. At least on one issue.)
Then again, what age group uses abortions the most?
Chip P. Unicorn
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From: CHIP P. UNICORN
To: RUFUS
Subject: Simulated crime
Date & Time: 01/24/90 11:15:32
Message Number 1504
Dear Rufus,
Personally, I prefer simulated crime to the real thing. :)
Chip P. Unicorn
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From: CHIP P. UNICORN
To: TURTLE
Subject: heresy
Date & Time: 01/24/90 11:19:04
Message Number 1505
Dear Turtle,
Hate to say this, but God doesn't have a fax machine. His Son bought
one to keep in touch with some of His business associates, and His Wife
occasionally sends recipes through it, but as far as I know, He Himself
hasn't used it.
However, He does have a two hundred line telephone system to His
house... if you can get past His secretary. And occasionally His Uncle
answers for Him, but only occasionally. The Southern Baptists usually
reach the Uncle...
How do I know this? Visited His House one night, when I was dating
His Daughter.
Although I hate to say it, I agree with you. Too many people have
used God as an excuse to force their views on others. The God of the
New Testament threw away the old laws -- why do people still feel that
they're under them? (Some of the moralizing reminds me of comments by
Jesus to the Pharisees...)
Chip P. Unicorn
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From: CHIP P. UNICORN
To: CORWYN OF AMBER
Subject: abortions...
Date & Time: 01/24/90 11:37:59
Message Number 1506
Dear Corwyn,
<Welcome back!> Of course they let God out of her padded room on
week-ends. She can leave whenever She wants!
Personally, I have no problems hearing that people speak to God.
It's only when they claim they've heard Her voice that I have problems.
Chip P. Unicorn
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From: CHIP P. UNICORN
To: RUFUS
Subject: 2nd Generation
Date & Time: 01/24/90 11:40:04
Message Number 1507
Dear Rufus,
One of these weekends, we'll have to take you up to Tampa. We've
discovered another furry up there... talked with her on the phone.
Maybe even induct her into the halls of MSTF?
Chip P. Unicorn
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From: CHIP P. UNICORN
To: TURTLE
Subject: shadow
Date & Time: 01/24/90 11:41:51
Message Number 1508
>Welcome back, dude.
You misspelled d00d.
Chip P. Unicorn
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From: KEN OBER
To: BEATLE
Subject: Gee, thanks
Date & Time: 01/24/90 14:09:17
Message Number 1509
it isn't like Ihave any professional video editing equipment or
anything of that nature....And it isn't like I'm getting paid for it!
hehhehe....but you have to admit, the tape is fairly good for what I
have...of course, it'd be much better if I bought a video mixer and
probably a genlock & Deluxe Video III for my Amiga.....I'll be able to
afford that stuff after next month, probably, so, the next CON video
will be /much/ better, and I'll have fun making it too!
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From: KEN OBER
To: TURTLE
Subject: Well, NOW!
Date & Time: 01/24/90 14:12:38
Message Number 1510
You tell me....BRINg ME ALONG...the problem, the *master* I have of
the music video is already 3rd generation on a 2head VCR...not too
great, but livable, as long as it is recorded in SP, it looks fairly
good....I should re-do my master tape, tho, it has a few blank spots
and stuff like that that I should be removing.....I saw a pro VCR in
a magazine...only $2000! I wanna' get it, of course, Idon't have
to take it to MCC, the video tape wasn'T that good as an original in
the first place.....both tapes Iused had been recorded over many times,
and Video 8 doesn'T give a spectacular pucture anyways, so, there's
no need to bring it there...if Ireally wanted to, anyways, I could just
use the equipment the Booker Radio/TV VPA uses.... Ihave a few friends
there, maybe Icould borrow the $20,000 camera they have down there for
the next party, eh? hehehhe
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From: KEN OBER
To: TURTLE
Subject: FLASH REVISED!
Date & Time: 01/24/90 14:19:18
Message Number 1511
It was amazing! Shot sparks 5-feet across the room! I never knew
my computer was capable of sending that much power through the serial
port! Initial diagnosis points to the printer interface short-circuting
and sending a power jolt along the srial cable to everything Iown except
my Amiga! Fortunately, the only damaged parties seem to be the 1581 and
my printer...it seems the 1581 absorbed the shock and triggered an auto-
shutdown, which gave me the impression my 128D was dead, but it was just
because the 1581 made /everything/ shut down and blocked the serial
cable output to keep the surge contained.....pretty smart drive if you
ask me! Anyways, the BBS is back up on a /very/ limited basis running
off of only one drive, Hopefully my 1581 will be fixed /very/ soon,
the repair tech said that since the 1581 still turns on and tries to
boot a disk that "You were lucky, it should be fixed this afternoon."
But, that's what they always say...anyways, stay tuned for updates..
-TRR
REMOTE CONTROL! - 378-2218 - 300/1200 Baud
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From: TURTLE
To: CHIP P. UNICORN
Subject: Simulated crime
Date & Time: 01/24/90 14:31:07
Message Number 1512
>Personally, I prefer simulated crime to the real thing.
The real thing is more profitable.
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From: TURTLE
To: CHIP P. UNICORN
Subject: God & Stuff
Date & Time: 01/24/90 14:32:21
Message Number 1513
When we talk to God, we're praying.
When God talks to us, we're insane.
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From: BEATLE
To: CHIP P. UNICORN
Subject: abortions...
Date & Time: 01/24/90 16:05:02
Message Number 1515
> Then again, what age group uses abortions the most?
Good point.
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From: BEATLE
To: CHIP P. UNICORN
Subject: Simulated crime
Date & Time: 01/24/90 16:05:51
Message Number 1516
It's much more fun and safe, wouldn't you say?
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From: BEATLE
To: KEN OBER
Subject: Gee, thanks
Date & Time: 01/24/90 16:08:07
Message Number 1517
Sorry, but you're the one who kept griping to me about the same kind
of picture degradation.
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From: RUFUS
To: CHIP P. UNICORN
Subject: 2nd Generation
Date & Time: 01/24/90 16:54:18
Message Number 1519
Another furry, wow, they're popping up all over. Anyone know where I
could get a list of cons in the Florida area ( South/Central would be
best)?
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From: RUFUS
To: TURTLE
Subject: sick
Date & Time: 01/24/90 16:59:48
Message Number 1520
Well, I hope you and Crystal recover from being sick.
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From: KEN OBER
To: KEN OBER
Subject: NEW FLASH!
Date & Time: 01/24/90 20:57:43
Message Number 1521
HHmm, well, the BBSis now /totally/ up and in /completely/ working
order...The amazing thing is, nothing broke, an nomatter how hard we
tried, we couldn't recreate the problems I was experienciing at the
shop... (eg--Printer screwing up, sparks shooting, etc...) Ican't
believe what I just think Irealized...Ithink I'll have to check this
out....hhmm, anyways, the BBS is totally open, so call!
REMOTE CONTROL! - 378-2218 - 300/1200 Baud
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From: MIKE L
To: ALL ATARI WANTERS
Subject: ATARI
Date & Time: 01/24/90 21:34:55
Message Number 1522
ATARI 130XE FOR SALE WITH 1050 DISK DRIVE AND XM301 MODEM WITH ALL DISKS
I HAVE TWO MODEM PROGRAMS ABOUT 10 MISC. PROGRAMS AND A GEOS LIKE
PROGRAM WITH JOYSTICK
ASKING 160$
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From: MIKE L
To: ALL
Subject: R/C PLANES
Date & Time: 01/24/90 21:38:31
Message Number 1523
I HAVE TWO REMOTE CONTROL PLANES FOR SALE,ONE IS A LANIAR SEA BIRD
AND THE OTHER IS A BIG STICK 40
WITH A SUPER TIGER 40 ENGINE AND ARISTO CRAFT 4 CHANNEL RADIO
COME COMPLETE WITH ACCESORIES TOOOOOOO MANY TO LIST
OVER 550$ INVESTED SELL FOR 299
OR TRADE FOR A COMMADOR COMPUTER WITH DRIVE AND MODEM
CALL 756 6344 MIKE
OR LEAVE MAIL
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From: DONTHEN
To: RUFUS
Subject: 2nd Generation
Date & Time: 01/25/90 10:50:17
Message Number 1525
> Anyone know where I could get a list of cons in the Florida area?
Well, there are a few coming up that I'll try to track down. Other
big Florida cons besides Necro include Omnicon and Tropicon, and it
occurs to me that we should be trying to organize furry parties at these
cons, too, if possible.
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From: TURTLE
To: RUFUS
Subject: sick
Date & Time: 01/25/90 14:34:43
Message Number 1526
Roumors of our dissolution into the halls of the Mountain King have
been mildly overstated; I don't think I'm actually going to die, I
just wish I would, that's all. (Hack cough sputter) My internal temp
is finally below 103, though, which is really cool; I can think
coherently again, or at least as close to coherently as I ever get,
without being distracted by images of people stroking pianos under the
full moon. I think I was having a dream about that last night, but I'm
not quite sure. I also just realized that I wildly misspelled "rumours"
up there a few lines ago, so I think I'm going to stop ranting now.
Crystal feels better, too.
--A recovering (but not fast enough) Turtle
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From: BEATLE
To: TURTLE
Subject: sick
Date & Time: 01/25/90 16:15:42
Message Number 1527
You didn't misspell "roumours" if you're speaking with a British
accent.
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From: SAURON
To: DONTHEN
Subject: IBM's
Date & Time: 01/25/90 16:51:02
Message Number 1529
Yes, and I wish a more sensible brand would become dominant in the
home market. "Big Blue" will have us at their mercy much as General
Motors did 30 years ago.
On the other hand, look what happened to them!
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From: SAURON
To: DONTHEN
Subject: VGA
Date & Time: 01/25/90 16:54:31
Message Number 1530
Wait a second...is there someone alive today who NEEDS more than 4096
colors?
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From: SAURON
To: RUFUS
Subject: It's...
Date & Time: 01/25/90 16:56:01
Message Number 1531
"Dark Star" has become a genuine cult classic.
"War of the Worlds" (the 1953 Gene Barry film) is interesting, if only
for it's advanced (for 1953) special effects.
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From: SAURON
To: CYBERPUNK
Subject: my bbs
Date & Time: 01/25/90 17:17:30
Message Number 1533
Glad to hear you finnaly got it up and runnig. Good luck with it. Were
you using an un-regestered copy before?
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From: SAURON
To: CHIP P. UNICORN
Subject: abortions...
Date & Time: 01/25/90 17:29:19
Message Number 1534
All the truth in that last message is contained in one sentence.
>Myself, I'm a born-again Christian...
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From: SAURON
To: TURTLE
Subject: heresy
Date & Time: 01/25/90 17:33:14
Message Number 1535
Devastating! Keep that wit turned in the right (so to speak)
direction.
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From: SAURON
To: BEATLE
Subject: abortions...
Date & Time: 01/25/90 17:41:59
Message Number 1536
Hmmm, Are these the same high school seniors who can't find the
Pacific Ocean on a map? It figures.
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From: CHIP P. UNICORN
To: TURTLE
Subject: Simulated crime
Date & Time: 01/25/90 19:18:58
Message Number 1537
Dear Turtle,
Not really. In most cases, simulated crime people (including the
stoorkeeper) get paid a sure amount. In real crime, the amount made
is either piffle -- or, there's a fair chance of getting caught and
losing more than one gained. (in court costs.) Of course, there's
white-collar crime, which pays wonderfully well...
Chip P. Unicorn
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From: CHIP P. UNICORN
To: TURTLE
Subject: God & Stuff
Date & Time: 01/25/90 19:21:42
Message Number 1538
>When God talks to us, we're insane.
Not necessarily. Depends on your god. I mean -- if Karsten Henckell
were your god, there'd be no problem with him talking with his servant.
Then again, C. S. Lewis admitted that Christ must have been either
insane, lying through his teeth -- or real. (Guess which one he picked?)
An objective reader (I am NOT one!) would probably pick the first.
Chip P. Unicorn
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From: CHIP P. UNICORN
To: BEATLE
Subject: Simulated crime
Date & Time: 01/25/90 19:24:48
Message Number 1539
>It's much more fun and safe, wouldn't you say?
Fun, no. Safe, yes. And everyone makes money from it (especially TV
stations.)
Chip P. Unicorn
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From: CHIP P. UNICORN
To: DONTHEN
Subject: 2nd Generation
Date & Time: 01/25/90 19:27:02
Message Number 1540
Sounds like fun. I can get a list from Jennifer ("Guinivere Cat")
of cons in North Florida -- she's already payed for my membership
for one of them (in August.)
Chip P. Unicorn
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From: CHIP P. UNICORN
To: SAURON
Subject: VGA
Date & Time: 01/25/90 19:29:11
Message Number 1541
Dear Sauron,
If you're an exacting artist who wants absolutely true-to-life
colorization, you might need more than 4096 colors.
Then again, it depends on what the 4096 colors ARE, exactly. Heck,
if they're all just slightly different shades of carambola, we might
want a few more.
Chip P. Unicorn
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From: CHIP P. UNICORN
To: SAURON
Subject: abortions...
Date & Time: 01/25/90 19:32:51
Message Number 1542
Dear Sauron,
You've misunderstood me. I actually AM quite interested in hearing
the responses of the Specialist's girlfriend to those questions. Heck --
I'd be interested in hearing MY answers to those questions.
I am neither pro-choice nor pro-life. (Okay, okay... neither pro-
death nor anti-choice.) I have not been convinced that either extreme
is what our country needs. Although I am born-again, I am also a
Libertarian -- and my born-again-edness does NOT mean I am necessarily
conservative, politically. I have met many born-again Christians (one
of which lead the New College Bible Study four years ago) who are also
vehemently pro-choice.
I am opposed to the pro-lifers in that they don't really provide
solutions to the problems that would happen if abortion were outlawed.
Many mistake slogans for solutions. Thousands have "Adoption, not
abortion" bumper stickers, but they themselves haven't adopted any
children -- let alone the children who would be difficult to adopt.
(That is, "crack babies," or babies born with genetic diseases.) They
have no solutions for should happen after abortion is made illegal,
and they generally don't practice what they preach.
I am opposed to the pro-choicers because one of their main reasons:
"If abortion were outlawed, people would still seek them out." is
worthless. This argument also works perfectly for murder and rape --
heck, any crime. A second issue "the reproductive freedom of the woman"
is probably better taken care of by birth control.
I'll admit -- I don't have a solution. In my "perfect world,"
abortions wouldn't ever be necessary, because there would exist a
100%-successful birth control device that's easy to use (preferably a
one-application thing that lasts forever), easily reversable, and
does not detract from the joy of sex, and cheap, and that EVERYONE
knows about it. (Through schooling.) If this existed, abortions would
become unnecessary, and could be removed.
Chip P. Unicorn
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From: RUFUS
To: DONTHEN
Subject: 2nd Generation
Date & Time: 01/25/90 20:34:23
Message Number 1543
And plan on attending well enough in advance so that the younger furries
can let their parents stew on it for a while. Not like "Hey guys, wanna
drive to California next weekend?" Another reason for planning in
advance is to scrape together enough money for the trip.
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From: RUFUS
To: TURTLE
Subject: sick
Date & Time: 01/25/90 20:36:15
Message Number 1544
Last time I got sick, I had this medicine which was about 5% alchol, and
contained some opium. For some reason I enjoyed, even craved for my
medicine. Wish I could find that stuff, but it's been lost in the
kitchen jungle.
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From: RUFUS
To: SAURON
Subject: abortions...
Date & Time: 01/25/90 20:38:53
Message Number 1545
I can't believe people in Florida can't find the Pacific Ocean on the
map. It is right smack dab in the middle of our state!
Yarg! Yarg! Yarg!
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From: DONTHEN
To: SAURON
Subject: VGA
Date & Time: 01/26/90 12:24:51
Message Number 1546
> is there someone al ive today who NEEDS more than 4096 colors?
Not displayed at one time, but I can think of applications where a
greater palette range would be necessary--for instance, if you were
doing video animation work, i.e., recording each frame of the movie
separately onto a VCR, or digitizing external video sources in order to
add animation or special effects. Right now, the Mac II is the only
microcomputer whose off-the-shelf graphics capabilities are at this
level, but the Amiga can be shoved into that range for less than the
price of a low-end Mac II -- and the software for doing animation and
complex VCR control (genlock, frame grabbing, sound synchs, etc.) is
considerably better for the Amiga than for any graphics system I've
seen, including a few $40K dedicated graphics workstations.
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From: DONTHEN
To: CHIP P. UNICORN
Subject: God & Stuff
Date & Time: 01/26/90 12:31:39
Message Number 1547
> ... Christ must have been either insane, lying through his teeth --
> or real.
I've seen that argument. It's interesting, but it eliminates the second
possibility by stating that anyone who was lying must be doing it for
evil ends, which would have been at odds with the teachings, therefore
that couldn't have been what was really going on -- Q.E.D. For an
eloquent (if probably unintentional) rebuttal to that line, see David
Brin's novel THE POSTMAN, in which the main character ends up claiming
to be a legal representative of the U.S. Government after a nuclear war;
even though he is not what he says he is, and he knows he's lying
through his teeth (i.e., he's not insane), both he and what he
"represents" become reasons for hope in what seems to be a hopeless
situation.
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From: DONTHEN
To: CHIP P. UNICORN
Subject: 2nd Generation
Date & Time: 01/26/90 12:37:31
Message Number 1548
August, huh? With any luck, Turtle, Bart Fox and I will be in
California then, going to the '90 Comic Con....
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From: BEATLE
To: SAURON
Subject: VGA
Date & Time: 01/26/90 15:43:26
Message Number 1549
I dunno if I NEED 4096 colors, but they would sure look neat and make
computer graphics REAL realistic!
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From: BEATLE
To: SAURON
Subject: It's...
Date & Time: 01/26/90 15:44:50
Message Number 1550
Well, the film "War of the Worlds" inspired the TV series. I see no
comparison. I think the show sucks, but it has its fan. I prefer ST:TNG,
but (as with WOTW), some people think it sucks.
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From: BEATLE
To: SAURON
Subject: abortions...
Date & Time: 01/26/90 15:46:55
Message Number 1551
> Are these the same high school seniors who can't find the Pacific
> Ocean on a map?
Probably. That fact makes me sick. In a similar vein, my Geography
tests have a curve. This gives a B student an A grade. It works well,
but I think the class should be smarter than that.
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From: BEATLE
To: CHIP P. UNICORN
Subject: Simulated crime
Date & Time: 01/26/90 15:50:19
Message Number 1552
If it's not fun, then why do they simulate it?
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From: BEATLE
To: DONTHEN
Subject: 4096 colors
Date & Time: 01/26/90 15:54:09
Message Number 1553
Now with computers that can use 1000's of colors, don't you just want
to puke when they just HAVE to colorize a movie with less than 10 colors
in a frame? I mean, if they have to desecrate a movie, why not do it
WELL! Make it look real! Color inside the lines! Don't make the suits
look like they've been puked on. Don't make the water GREY with NO COLOR
!!! Does anyone agree?
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From: BEATLE
To: BEATLE
Subject: It's...
Date & Time: 01/26/90 15:58:42
Message Number 1554
OOPS! I seemed to imply something in a message. I was speaking about
the TV series "War of the Worlds" and Iforgot ONE letter at the end of a
word, giving the sentence a different meaning I didn't intend.
The sentence ending:
"...it has its fan."
should read:
"...it has its fans."
I didn't want to anger anyone who watches the show regularly and likes
it...
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From: CORWYN
To: TURTLE
Subject: Reformat
Date & Time: 01/26/90 18:11:39
Message Number 1555
SpinRite (Now in version //), Norton Disk Doctor, and I Think Paul
Mace's Gold Utilities all have non-destructive Low-level format routines
Sorry, I don't have any of 'em.
- Corwyn
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From: BLACK MAGIC
To: TURTLE
Subject: No Problem!
Date & Time: 01/26/90 21:34:07
Message Number 1556
Turtle, sorry I didn't answer any sooner....I can never get a hold of
this BBs, so I kinda slacked off as far as calling goes. I'm going to
the Keys in March to do some reef diving. I dive every so often, took
Marine Biology, but I don't think I'll pursue it as a career...haven't
yet decided. I dive in the Gulf of Mexico, or where ever. Not too
crazy about lakes because the visibility tends not to be really
wonderful! Who exactly is Lorelei? Haven't seen her on the BBS's....
Anyway, talk to you later...
The Lady In Black
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From: DONTHEN
To: BEATLE
Subject: 4096 colors
Date & Time: 01/26/90 22:09:16
Message Number 1558
Actually, I would rather they not bother to colorize movies at all.
Some motion pictures, like pen-and-ink drawings, look better in black
and white, especially if (like the drawings) they were created with
that "limitation" in mind. Colorizing a movie correctly would require
extremely sophisticated shading effects and wouldn't be cost-effective,
hence, the dopey colors colorized films end up with. Anyone who would
refuse to watch a movie because it is black-and-white probably isn't
able to "get" complex movies to begin with, color or not, and would be
just as baffled by "Blade Runner" as by "Citizen Kane". Such people are
better off sticking to "Ice Pirates" and drooling in their Kool-Aid.
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From: YNGLING
To: CHIP P. UNICORN
Subject: abortions...
Date & Time: 01/26/90 23:34:19
Message Number 1559
Unfortunately Chip we dont live in your "perfect world," and while I
find myself in the same boat as you - I dont have a solution either -
I think that I would rather err on the side of caution and consider
abortion a most horrible form of homicide until /proven/ otherwise.
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From: YNGLING
To: BEATLE
Subject: Colorization
Date & Time: 01/26/90 23:40:19
Message Number 1560
Colorization of the classics makes me sick! I refuse to watch them. At
X-mas I had to go to six different places before I could purchase a copy
of "Its A Wonderful Life" that hadnt been ruined with colorization! I
dont care if they perfect the methods so that it comes out perfect - if
they ever desecrate "Casablanca" I'll hunt down Ted Turner and shoot him
like a dog in heat!!!
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From: RUFUS
To: YNGLING
Subject: Ted Turner
Date & Time: 01/27/90 00:32:31
Message Number 1561
Ted Turner should be beat over the head with a blunt object for
colorizing movies, but his choice in bad films in impecable.
Night of the Lepus
Dark Star
lessse...geesh, I can't remeber, but there were so many bad ones.
----
HELP!!! I've been lulled into watching Flash Gordon, help..
accck...arrghh (oh yea, it's on TBS!)
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From: KEN OBER
To: SAURON
Subject: 16,000,000
Date & Time: 01/27/90 10:48:46
Message Number 1562
Personally, Iprefer 16,000,000 possible colors on the Amiga...hehehehe
Well, Digi-View can manage to squeeze 16,000,000 colors, of course,
that's what they /claim/...
-- A Digi Ken Ober
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From: KEN OBER
To: SAURON
Subject: Cy's BBS
Date & Time: 01/27/90 10:50:29
Message Number 1563
did I remember to tell everyone here that his BBSis again DOWN?
He ran up a $1000 (yes, THREE ZEROS) Compu$erve bill, and his parents
password-locked him out of the computer....hehehhehe
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From: TURTLE
To: BEATLE
Subject: sick
Date & Time: 01/27/90 13:31:35
Message Number 1564
"Rumors" and "rumours" are both correct (the latter is British);
"roumors" and "roumours" are not. However, "roumours" is the
correct spelling of the Sanskrit expression meaning "My, what a
colorful rabbit that is"--a linguistic oddity, since rabbits are
not native to any part of the world where Sanskrit is spoken. It is
believed that the phrase was coined by intrepid archeologist Sir
Raymond Misnomer, upon returning to his tent one day and discovering
that a large and ill-tempered bear had been there before him and
absconded with his backpack, notebook, and two assistants; this is,
however, apocrypha, and the true origin of the expression is rightfully
shrouded in mystery.
--A linguist Turtle
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From: TURTLE
To: CHIP P. UNICORN
Subject: Simulated crime
Date & Time: 01/27/90 13:42:01
Message Number 1565
Well, fine, how do I become a stoorkeeper and engage in simulated
crime, then? (And what is a stoorkeeper?)
The real thing is more fun and profitable, IF THE PERSON ENGAGING IN
IT HAS A BRAIN THAT WORKS. If the prospective criminal /doesn't/ have
a brain, well, then it's just one more example of Social Darwinism at
work...
--A Social Darwinist Turtle
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From: TURTLE
To: SAURON
Subject: VGA
Date & Time: 01/27/90 13:45:15
Message Number 1566
>...is there someone alive today who NEEDS more than 4096 colors?
Yes. Professional video editing technicians, artists, in some cases
professional modeling and simulation programmers, special effects
people... On the other hand, I've never seen the compelling need for
sixteen million colors, particularly where the human eye can only
differentiate between two to four million distinct colors.
--A colorful Turtle
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From: TURTLE
To: RUFUS
Subject: sick
Date & Time: 01/27/90 13:49:12
Message Number 1567
When I was going to college in Pennsylvania, I got a really nasty cough,
so the nice campus doctor gave me this really neat-O green cough syrup.
Unfortunately, he forgot to mention that it was 15mg coedine per ml, and
I took my first dose of it on my way to my calculus final exam. This
Was A Bad Mistake. Since then I have had an aversion to the color green;
any time I see a green liquid I break down into complete hysterics and
start singing old Slim Whitman songs while trying to differentiate
seventh-degree polynomials in my head. But there is hope! I have just
recently found out about a new cure for this tragic affliction; doctors
in Berne can treat it in a rigorous ten-day program that involves
skiiing in the Swiss Alps and receiving Swedish massages from Nastassia
Kinski. Unfortunately, the program is /very/ expensive; so if you could
perhaps find it in your heart to assist a long-suffering Turtle, all
donations (c/o the Save Turtle Foundation) are joyfully accepted. Thank
you, and God bless.
--A neurotic Turtle
(c) 1990 The Save Turtle Foundation, Inc.
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From: TURTLE
To: BLACK MAGIC
Subject: No Problem!
Date & Time: 01/27/90 13:59:22
Message Number 1568
Lorelei is a friend of mine who calls this board rarely and other
BBSes never. She is, however, a fanatic diver/dolphin watcher/etc,
as well as being a really neat person.
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From: TURTLE
To: YNGLING
Subject: abortions...
Date & Time: 01/27/90 14:01:45
Message Number 1569
>...I would rather err on the side of caution and consider abortion
>a most horrible form of homicide until /proven/ otherwise.
Since that is essentially a value judgement, I don't see how you're
going to /prove/ that abortion is or is not homicide. The decision to
have an abortion is an individual one with absolutely no hard and fast
moral rules to guide it, despite what all the fanatics on both sides of
the issue say, and those who think it's wrong have no right to impose
that view on people who don't agree with them. If you are uninvolved
with the people in question, you simply don't have the authority to
tell them how to decide--unless perhaps you were planning to adopt
the unwanted baby. If you /aren't/ willing to go that far for your
beliefs, well, don't try forcing them down someone else's throat.
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From: TURTLE
To: YNGLING
Subject: Colorization
Date & Time: 01/27/90 14:08:02
Message Number 1570
>Colorization of the classics makes me sick!
So watch them with the color control turned all the way down.
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From: MIKE G.
To: SYSOP
Subject: SAYING HELLO
Date & Time: 01/27/90 22:23:14
Message Number 1571
THANK YOU FOR ALLOWING ME TO USE YOUR BOARD TONIGHT. I hope that you liv
e long and prosper.
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From: RUFUS
To: TURTLE
Subject: sick
Date & Time: 01/27/90 23:42:38
Message Number 1572
>skiiing in the Swiss Alps and receiving Swedish massages from Natassia
>Kinski.
Weird, they said that was sure to cure all my problems! I suppose it's
a universal cure-all. The question is, will it clean up my Cal-Arts
tape? :)
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From: ICEMAN
To: A REALITY
Subject: CHANGE PHONE NO
Date & Time: 01/28/90 09:43:28
Message Number 1574
CHANGE NUMBER TO READ: (813) 484-6554 FOR MODEM. THX.
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From: DONTHEN
To: KEN OBER
Subject: 16,000,000
Date & Time: 01/28/90 13:01:47
Message Number 1575
DigiView digitizes in 16M colors, but it still only displays 4096 on
the screen! It does use dithering effects, though, so in hi-res mode on
an expensive monitor it looks like you're getting around 100,000.
DigiView and a few other Amiga graphics programs, like Turbo Silver,
use 16M or 24M-color "virtual palettes" so if you port their pictures
over to a high-end graphics system that can display all those colors,
their output takes full advantage of it.
I know of at least one case where a company uses the MS-DOS Targa
display system for the final output, but uses Turbo Silver to do all the
actual "work" because the Targa's software lags far behind the Amiga's--
despite the fact that Targa has been around for about 6 years...
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From: BEATLE
To: DONTHEN
Subject: 4096 colors
Date & Time: 01/28/90 18:25:10
Message Number 1576
Good point. I would not refuse to watch a movie in balck and white.
One of my favorite movies is "A Hard Day's Night" which is black and
white.Some films would loose something in black and white though (ever
see "Yellow Submarine"???)
I'm getting better at watching more dramatic movies and movies with a
heavy message. Well, I mean movies that are complete opposites of things
like you mentioned (Ice Pirates)...
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From: BEATLE
To: YNGLING
Subject: Colorization
Date & Time: 01/28/90 18:29:46
Message Number 1577
Uhhh, I think they did colorize "Casablanca" already. I have a black
and white (albeit cheap) copy of "It's A Wonderful Life". I think it's
black and white because it's a public domain version and the colorized
version is copyrighted.
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From: BEATLE
To: RUFUS
Subject: Ted Turner
Date & Time: 01/28/90 18:31:44
Message Number 1578
Yeah, there are a lot of bad films on TBS and TNT.. (well, the type
that you're speaking of)
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From: BEATLE
To: TURTLE
Subject: Colorization
Date & Time: 01/28/90 18:39:20
Message Number 1579
Well, that works to some extent, but when you put a color over some-
thing which already has a value, it's value is changed. Some parts may
be lighter or darker than the original black and white film.
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From: TURTLE
To: MIKE G.
Subject: SAYING HELLO
Date & Time: 01/28/90 18:54:25
Message Number 1580
Well, you are most graciously welcome. Live long and prosper, dude!
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From: TURTLE
To: RUFUS
Subject: sick
Date & Time: 01/28/90 18:55:12
Message Number 1581
>The question is, will it clean up my Cal-Arts tape?
Further research is indicated to obtain an answer to that question...and
I believe this is just the turtle to engage in that research! I always
was really big on the quest for truth. Wonder if I can get a grant...
--A scholarly Turtle
Hmm...What's Nastassia Kinski's phone number?
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From: TURTLE
To: BEATLE
Subject: 4096 colors
Date & Time: 01/28/90 18:58:18
Message Number 1582
Will youse guys stop with the "Ice Pirates" already? I /loved/ that
movie! I thought it was touching, poignant, and cast a new light on
the human condition. It wasn't quite as profound as some movies I've
seen, like, say, "Death Wish 3" or "Cobra," but on the whole I think
it displayed a remarkable sensitivity to the plight of its characters
and was in general just a milestone on the road of cinematographic
achievement...a masterpiece future generations will gaze at in awe.
Yarg! Yarg!
--A two-thumbs-up Turtle
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From: TURTLE
To: ALL
Subject: *
Date & Time: 01/28/90 19:39:35
Message Number 1583
F yu cn rd ths, itn tyg k myxbl cd.
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From: RUFUS
To: TURTLE
Subject: sick
Date & Time: 01/28/90 21:04:46
Message Number 1584
>Hmm...What's Nastassia Kinski's phone number?
Ha! You think I'd tell you! No, never, not in a million years.
Me and the Cal-Arts tape are going over sometime, but I doubt we'll
get around to the tape! :)
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From: RUFUS
To: TURTLE
Subject: 4096 colors
Date & Time: 01/28/90 21:06:33
Message Number 1585
Come on, Ice Pirates did have it's moments. Lesse, umm....errrr. O.K.,
so it had no value.
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From: DONTHEN
To: TURTLE
Subject: Ice Pirates
Date & Time: 01/28/90 22:19:45
Message Number 1586
Ice Pirates is notable, albeit in a warped way, for starring Ron
Perelman, who went on to play Vincent on "Beauty & the Beast". Ice
Pirates was the second of two or three stupid movies Perelman was in,
and in all of them he was wearing heavy facial makeup. After Pirates he
told his agent to never give him another role that required six-hour
effects make-up before each scene. The agent, of course, ignored him.
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From: DONTHEN
To: TURTLE
Subject: Weirdness.
Date & Time: 01/28/90 22:24:57
Message Number 1587
I just got out of a 2-hour long Real Time Conference with Wendy and
Richard Pini, along with a few other people, on GEnie. Very, very
odd, especially when we were talking about computer animation and the
Mac II and the Amiga, and somebody interjected "Mac is just a passing
fad. CP/M computers never die, they just become less user friendly",
and I discovered that 2 other people there were using CP/M computers...
and one of them immediately asked "Watts, do you use Z-System"? I
explained that all of this is on topic, because all elves use LS-DOS and
think that Bill Gates is Winnowill's second cousin. Richard Pini
thinks I'm weird now. Someone suggested that Phil Foglio do an
ElfQuest/XXXenophile (Phil's X-rated nasty book) crossover and Richard
asked him "Is Watts doing your market research"? (This was after I
suggested that they make their new slogan "From Warp Graphics come
Warped products".)
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From: CHIP P. UNICORN
To: RUFUS
Subject: 2nd Generation
Date & Time: 01/28/90 23:35:08
Message Number 1589
>Not like "Hey guys, wanna drive to California next weekend?"
Awww... you take all the fun out of it!
Chip P. Unicorn
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From: CHIP P. UNICORN
To: RUFUS
Subject: sick
Date & Time: 01/28/90 23:36:11
Message Number 1590
Dear Rufus,
5% alcohol? That's it? Sheesh... Turtle's gotta introduce you to
H. and H. Foxes.
(But I know what you mean by opium. I've taken a stronger opium
product while I was in Mexico -- they lace it with belladonna so you
won't get addicted. But it makes you feel wonderful, nonetheless.)
Chip P. Unicorn
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From: CHIP P. UNICORN
To: DONTHEN
Subject: 2nd Generation
Date & Time: 01/28/90 23:40:13
Message Number 1591
'90 Comic Con? I wanna go... I wanna go... I wanna go... (Of course,
it depends if my summer job will allow me to take time off...)
Chip P. Unicorn
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From: CHIP P. UNICORN
To: BEATLE
Subject: Simulated crime
Date & Time: 01/28/90 23:41:40
Message Number 1592
Dear Beatle,
>If it's not fun, then why do they simulate it?
The answer to all questions: money.
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From: CHIP P. UNICORN
To: YNGLING
Subject: abortions...
Date & Time: 01/28/90 23:43:49
Message Number 1593
Dear Yngling,
I';ve been erring on th liberal side, calling abortion a "necessary
evil" -- by no means even a good solution, but unfortunately a
solution that people rely on.
If George Bush is really anti-abortion, he should give a lot of
money to scientists to create better birth control methods -- and money
to educate students about the importance of birth control. A lot of
conservatives are shocked by this idea -- but if there's no abortion,
there has GOT to be some alternative to keep unwanted children from
being procduced. (Please don't quote from the Gospel of Abstention. It
doesn't work in a mass scale.)
Chip P. Unicorn
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From: CHIP P. UNICORN
To: KEN OBER
Subject: Cy's BBS
Date & Time: 01/28/90 23:49:53
Message Number 1594
Dear Ken,
How many tickets did he buy on the OAG?
Chip P. Unicorn
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From: CHIP P. UNICORN
To: TURTLE
Subject: Simulated crime
Date & Time: 01/28/90 23:53:15
Message Number 1595
>And what is a stoorkeeper?
Glad you asked. According to Webster's New Universal Unabridged
Dictionary (you know, the one which gives hernias to everything under
the size of a Clydesdale...), it gives the following definition of
a stoor:
1. Combat or conflict. 2. Turmoil. 3. A storm. 4. Wind-blown dust.
So, then a stoorkeeper is one who keeps either combat, conflict,
turmoil, storms, or wind-blown dust. If you wish to become a stoor-
keeper, I woud advise the last one... it's the easiest to box, and
you might be able to sell some. Then again, some sysops of local
BBS's are excellent at keeping the first two.
>The real thing is more fun and profitable, if the person engaging in it
>has a brain that works.
The problem most people who try the real thing have is that they
forget that some policemen have brains that work as well.
Chip P. Unicorn
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From: CORWYN OF AMBER
To: CHIP P. UNICORN
Subject: God & Stuff
Date & Time: 01/29/90 02:40:29
Message Number 1596
> -- if Karsten Henckell were your god, there'd be no problem with him
talking to his servant.
^ A very scary thought... get rid of one problem and get a plethora of
others... I mean Karsten's pretty nice in general.. but a /god/ ??? NO.
- Corwyn
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From: CORWYN OF AMBER
To: DONTHEN
Subject: Harry
Date & Time: 01/29/90 02:43:25
Message Number 1597
- The Postman was at times deluding /himself/ into beleiving that the
Eastern United States /did/ really exist. By most measures he would be
deemed at least partially insane. But I do get your point. Most people
who die for causes are clinically insane.. doens't necessarilly mean
they should be locked up though.
- Corwyn
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From: KEN OBER
To: CHIP P. UNICORN
Subject: OAG
Date & Time: 01/29/90 13:05:05
Message Number 1598
Sorry, that message was above my head and under my feet...
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From: KEN OBER
To: ALL
Subject: Did I Tell You?
Date & Time: 01/29/90 13:05:48
Message Number 1599
I dunno' if I have told anyone (besides on my board), but I found
a cable that we had hooked up to our 2nd ver...One of those German
deals that are like gold or something...ANyways, I re-did the
"Furry Tape" with that in place, and cleaned the VCR's heads &
used a new tape...anyways, the result is a dramatic improvement in
tape quaility...for easier duplication, I have combined the Rufus CON
and Tampa Bay Furry Party into a 2 hour spectatular! It'll fit
perfectly on a T-120 tape in SP mode...Anyways, remember that it is
still availible...I have had alot of "I want it" messages, but noone
seems to do anything about getting it...The tape features TURTLE CAM
I & II and rthe music video....the cost is nothing, and it is great
fun, and I think it accuarately represents what goes on at a "Furry
Party"....
* TURTLE CAM (tm) Anarchy Now, Inc. 1990
-Ken Ober
(A Note To Callers Of My BBS: No, the 2400 baud didn't come in the
mail last week like it was /supposed/ to, but hopefully it will be in
today..)
P.S. -- Is noone ggoing to wish me a happy birthday? (Was Sunday)
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