[1161] in Central_America
New quotes for Wed Dec 21
daemon@ATHENA.MIT.EDU (daemon@ATHENA.MIT.EDU)
Wed Dec 21 01:27:03 1988
Date: Wed, 21 Dec 88 01:28:55 EST
From: Initializer.SysDaemon <root@CHARON.MIT.EDU>
To: ca-mtg@bloom-beacon.mit.edu
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brlewis (Bruce R Lewis):
I am leaving for Christmas vacation Wednesday December 21.
I can be reached at
901 North Main Street
Maryville, MO 64468
phone 816 582 5832
I will return Friday January 6 at 6:05 pm on Northwest flight 42.
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capsalad (Dave Schulman):
I think six consecutive all-nighters is eight too many.
Last night, tooling madly at an Athena cluster, I looked around me on
a sudden impulse. It was about 5:00 AM. I was struck by the chilling
realization that everyone in the cluster looked like... they looked
like... Elvis!
It WAS! It IS! It was ELVIS!
And it was horrible, my friends! They was all dressed in white, with
white turned-up collars and white shiny shoes and white vinyl belts and
they was all lookin' at me, they was all gettin' up out of their chairs
and comin' towards me...
And they had burnin' red eyes and black greased-back hair and they
was comin' towards me, my friends, and there was noplace I could go, they
was all around me before I could log out and get away, yes they was comin'
over to where I was sittin' and they was swingin' their hips and they
was... they was... they was hummin'... no, they was singin', they was all
singin' "Don't Be Cruel" and I couldn't get away...
Oh, it was horrible... and when they was through they made a circle
round me and waved their arms and lip-synched "Blue Suede Shoes" and
"Jailhouse Rock"... I thought I was never goin' to get out of there. I
thought my time had come to leave this world, surrounded by ten fake
Elvises all in white singin' the soundtrack to "Blue Hawaii" off-key and
twirlin' the mouses off the VAX computers 'cause they had no
microphones...
And that's what tipped me off, my friends, that it was all a fake,
that was all a cruel joke on poor tired old Dave. I knew that a REAL
Elvis would've been prepared, yes he would have brought a microphone with
him and he wouldn't settle for no three-button VS 2000 mouse. I knew that
and I felt much better. I stood up, my friends, and the strength of ten
Elvises couldn't keep me down. My finger came down hard on the "l" key.
They grabbed my arms, but I fought them off and landed an "o" and a
"g" before they had me again. I would'nt give up! I couldn't! Slowly, I
forced my hand down and... almost... I got to the "o" again and before
they could stop me, I had the "u"...
Then they was all over me. They pinned me to the floor, and then, my
friends, one of them reached in his jacket. He pulled out... a harmonica.
I knew he was goin' to play "Elvis is Everywhere" if I didn't get out of
there fast... I struggled, but it was no use. He brought the harmonica to
his lips...
And then, from across the room I heard a sort of whistlin' sound...
someone threw a can of Jolt Cola through the air towards us... I saw it
like in slow motion on TV, saw it turnin' end over end... It whistled
through the air like a thunderbolt from the sky. It flew past me and
landed square on the "t".
It hit the "t" and bounced a foot in the air, my friends. Time
seemed to slow down. We was all watchin' the can rise up, and then come
down, floatin' down so slow I could read all the ingredients on the side
of the can. "All the sugar," it said, "and twice the caffeine."
The can floated down, light as a snowflake.
It came down smack on "carriage return".
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celine (Adam Weishaupt):
Help! I'm trapped inside this human shell!
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cpc (Christopher P. Colby):
Some say the world will end in fire,
Some say in ice.
From what I've tasted of desire
I hold with those who favor fire.
But if it had to perish twice,
I think I know enough of hate
To say that for destruction ice
Is also great
And would suffice.
- Robert Frost
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dachurch (Douglas A. Church):
Cheer Up. It's only reality
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dschmidt (Dan Schmidt):
Why does everybody have to be like that?
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reuven (Reuven M Lerner):
I plan to:
(1) Pass all my courses (that's all that counts; I'm a freshman).
(2) Enjoy United Synagogue Youth (USY) Convention 1988, in Chicago Illinois,
where I will not be on International USY board for the first time
in three years.
(3) Enjoy Israel for the first three weeks in January.
(4) Come back here for IAP.
We'll take it from there. Enjoy your vacation, everyone!
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rosencra (John R Buck):
Andrea: "Andy, why don't you just admit you're living in
the past?"
Andy: "That may be true, but you are living in the Midwest,
which is much worse."
-Genghis Khan, "Live on 41st West"
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suave (Howard G Zolla):
{From system: This user's .plan file is not world readable}
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tytso (Theodore Y. Ts'o):
Once beneath the stars,
The universe was ours
Love was all we knew
and all I knew was you;
I wonder if you care;
I wonder if you still remember:
Once upon in a time
In your widlest dreams.
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