[4010] in Central_America
New quotes for Sun Jan 19
daemon@ATHENA.MIT.EDU (Initializer.SysDaemon)
Sun Jan 19 01:28:29 1992
Date: Sun, 19 Jan 92 01:27:45 EST
From: root@charon.MIT.EDU (Initializer.SysDaemon)
To: ca-mtg@bloom-beacon.mit.edu
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cyrus (Cyrus Shaoul):
I'm using my X-RAY VISION to obtain a rare glimpse of the
INNER WORKINGS of this POTATO!!
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danb (Daniel G Brown):
"Thank you. I was just explaining why you've come. . . . It's
because," Grey continued, "of the hike in insurance premiums we're
going to impose from January first. Of course we've always predicated
our quotations on the assumption that life expectancy in the United
States would continue to rise. But during the past three years it has
in fact started to go down."
--Thomas Grey, in John Brunner's novel Stand on Zanzibar
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eichin (Mark W. Eichin):
>> This involves a number of little things which I
>> will write in here (against my better judgement) as I accomplish them.
As threatened, err, I mean promised...
1) Cleaned my apartment. It's now fit for guests, perhaps even a
repeat house-warming party some time soon. The "playroom" still needs work,
but I *finally* hung posters in most of the other rooms...
2) Started taking ballroom dance classes. It's surprising how many people
I recognize there... and how many people get Ken and I confused. Now I know
how Chee feels.
3) Started shopping for a "real" home computer (ie. something big enough
to perform well enough to port Athena to :-) Building a database of info from
ads, right now. (look in ~eichin/hardware if you're interested, but don't
blame me for anything you do with the info - there may be typos.)
4) Further Adventures in COOKING... I successfully made *chocolate truffles*
for the first time ever! The Cocolat recipe seems the most straightforward,
and you can cheat alot and have it still work :-)
Like lightening
everybody was frightening
and the music was soothing
then everybody was MOVING...
And the man in the back said everyone attack
and it turned into a ballroom blitz........
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greg_lin (Gregory G Lin):
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11/18/92 ::: 16:27 EST
DAYS TILL I THINK I WILL GO HOME: 124
Greg's thought of the day:
it is pretty freaking cold. wind, wind, wind
i think i will rearrange my room today.
Shabel, you on-line? (send that e-mail thing if you are, i feel like i
am talking to myself)
gonna take it easy today.
feels about right.
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skanders (Stefan Keith Anderson):
"Problems worthy of attack,
prove their worth by hitting back." -- Piet Hein
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starflt (Derrick Kong):
REPRODUCTION PROBLEM
Star Patrol includes the following: "SEX -- This table is not
usually necessary as sex would hardly ever crop up in a game."
from Murphy's Rules
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therese (Therese):
Our written history is a catalogue of crime
The sordid and the powerful, the architects of time
The mother of invention, the oppression of the mild
The constant fear of scarcity, aggression as it's child
-- Sting
Dream of the Blue Turtles
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vsnair (Venugopal S Nair):
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warlord (Derek Atkins):
From: mct@praxis.co.uk (Martyn Thomas)
Newsgroups: rec.aviation
Subject: On the Air
Date: 14 Jan 92 17:44:00 GMT
Organization: Praxis, Bath, U.K.
Extracted from the UK CAA GASIL (general aviation safety info leaflet) Dec
1991.
Lady Radar Controller: "Can I turn you on at 7 miles?"
Airline Captain: "Madam, you can try."
Pilot: "Golf Juliet Whiskey, request instructions for takeoff"
Persons unknown: "Open the throttle smoothly, check temperatures and
pressures rising, keep the aircraft straight using ....."
Student pilot (who forgot to ask for surface wind) "Please pass wind"
Lost student pilot: "Unknown airport with Cessna 150 circling overhead,
identify yourself"
Tower: "Alpha Charlie, climb to 4000 ft for noise abatement"
AC: "How can I possibly be creating excess noise at 2000 ft?"
Tower: "At 4000 ft you will miss the twin coming at you at 2000 ft, and
that is bound to avoid one hell of a racket".
These may, of course, belong in alt.folklore.urban.
--
Martyn Thomas, Praxis plc, 20 Manvers Street, Bath BA1 1PX UK.
Tel: +44-225-444700. Email: mct@praxis.co.uk
From: venky@thelonious.bellcore.com (G A Venkatesh)
Newsgroups: rec.aviation
Subject: The joys of flying in controlled airspaces.
Date: 15 Jan 92 20:11:41 GMT
Reply-To: venky@thelonious.bellcore.com (G A Venkatesh)
Followup-To: rec.aviation
Organization: Bellcore
Nntp-Posting-Host: thelonious
I was flying into Westchester County Airport (HPN) which is under the
3000' floor of the NY TCA. NY approach was handling the sequencing of planes
into HPN.
As I tuned into NY approach, the first thing I heard was:
"NOW, I will be the only one speaking for the next 2 minutes, American XXX ..."
I get to Tappan Zee bridge and do 360's listening to the non-stop banter on
the radio. After about 5 minutes, I manage to sneak in:
"NY approach, Cherokee !@#$ over Tappan Zee landing at Westchester County."
"Cherokee !@#$, I didn't ask you to call me. Stand by."
Sigh.
venky
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wigie (Craig C Wiegert):
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