[2789] in Central_America
New quotes for Sat Oct 6
daemon@ATHENA.MIT.EDU (Initializer.SysDaemon)
Sat Oct 6 01:30:22 1990
Date: Sat, 6 Oct 90 01:29:39 EDT
From: root@charon.MIT.EDU (Initializer.SysDaemon)
To: ca-mtg@bloom-beacon.mit.edu
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avntgrd (Kirk T Noda):
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celine (Robert Fullmer):
Mint
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horiuchi (Junjiro Horiuchi):
"Wagahai wa neko de aru"
Logged out last from m16-034-21 at Fri Oct 5 14:09:50 EDT 1990.
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lkjain (Lalit K. Jain):
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mcharity (Mitchell N Charity):
Mitchell Charity
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May your doc-u-mentation bring mem-etic-contagion that's quite free-of-mutation
(part of a evolutionary-communication-computationalist's drinking song)
((what can I say, Im slaphappy.))
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(BTW, and unrelated to this exchange really, but concerning metaphors
that concern us all, a comment on the frequent `looking out through a
window' metaphor for email: I find it helpful, and more appropriate, to
use a `looking around in a room' metaphor: `Are you in here with us?'
instead of `Are you out there?' Antidote for alienation and the illusion
of anonymity, fosters tact and forbearance, replaces possible ego trips
about addressing the wide world with a more realistic understanding of
addressing a fairly parochial select group, however geographically
dispersed. Generally good medicine.)
Bruce Nevin
bn@bbn.com
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A tale overheard (pre Gorb.):
A soviet offical was giving a lecture in the CCCP decrying the excesses
of the Stalinist purges.
Someone in the audience interupted with the querulous question
"You were one of his associates...WHY did you not DO something?"
A shocked silence locked the tense hall.
The visibly angered soviet official, his eyes raking the frozen listeners,
demanded
"WHO SAID THAT?".
There was only the hushed sound of shallow breathing as row upon row of
people sat like chilled statues.
"Precisely." he said quietly.
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mjhostet (Mat Hostetter):
Have you ever wondered, as the hearse goes by,
what it's like to die?
They wrap you up in clean white sheets
and tuck you in all tidy and neat
And put you in a wooden box
and cover you over with earth and rocks.
Oh, it's all right for the first week
But then the coffin begins to creak
The worms crawl in and the worms crawl out
They crawl in thin and they crawl out stout.
Your skin turns a horrible green
And the pus comes out like cream
Your eyes fall in and your teeth fall out
And your brain comes trickling down your snout.
Have you ever wondered, as the hearse goes by,
what it's like to die?
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paul (Paul Boutin):
From: nschmidt@ATHENA.MIT.EDU
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>>Was your statement "I have three things to tell you" at the
>>EI meeting a Twin Peaks reference?
No. But, come to think of it, the owls are not what they seem.
Naomi
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