[4505] in Central_America
New quotes for Wed Aug 19
daemon@ATHENA.MIT.EDU (Initializer.SysDaemon)
Wed Aug 19 07:18:32 1992
Date: Wed, 19 Aug 92 07:18:16 -0400
From: root@charon.MIT.EDU (Initializer.SysDaemon)
To: ca-mtg@bloom-beacon.mit.edu
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belville (Sharon Belville):
The pun o' the day is:
"You are not as gallant as when you were a boy." "You are not so buoyant as when you were a gal."
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jcbourne (Juliet C Bourne):
it's funny how everything has changed
in the course of a few months, my whole world
my whole world has become unrecognizable
i have always believed that change is good
now we will see whether i still believe
new address (effective Sept. 1st):
2145 Wightman St. #19
Pittsburgh PA 15217
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jefft (Jeff Tang):
"Kitty! Bad kitty."
--- Crow, "Robot Holocaust"
(as the snake-like monster appears and bites a cast member)
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johnrich (John A Richards):
to be a rock and not to roll
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lorianne (Lori A Weldon):
Q: How many psychologists does it take to change a light bulb?
A1: Only one, but the light bulb has to really want to change.
A2: None. The bulb will change itself when it is ready.
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starflt (Derrick Kong):
Birds of No Feathers
U.S. Department of Agriculture researchers at Beltsville, Maryland, are
producing featherless chickens. The birds tend to be nervous and
develop stomach ulcers. They run around a lot, trying to keep warm.
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therese (Therese):
Beethoven's gone but his music lives on
and Mozart don't go shopping no more.
You'll never meet Liszt or Brahms again
and Elgar doesn't answer the door.
Schubert and Chopin used to chuckle and
love whiles composing their long symphony.
But one hundred and fifty years later
there's very little of them left to see.
The decomposing composers.
There's nothing much anyone can do.
You can still hear Beethoven
but Beethoven cannot hear you.
H{ndel and Haydn and Rachmaninov
enjoyed a nice drink with their meal.
But nowadays no one will serve them
and their grave it is left to conceal.
Verdi and Wagner delighted the crowds
with their highly original sound.
The pianos like Pleyel does still working
but thereabout six feet under ground.
The decomposing composers.
There's less of them every year.
You can say what you like to Debussy
but there's not much of him left to hear.
Claude Achille Debussy. Died 1918.
Christoph Willibald Gluck. Died 1787.
Carl Maria von Weber. Not at all well 1825. Died 1826.
Giacomo Meyerbeer. Still alive 1863. Not still alive 1864.
Modest Musorgski. 1880 going to parties. No fun any more 1881.
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warlord (Derek Atkins):
I will be off the Net as of 5pm on Tuesday, August 18, 1992. I'm
going home to make my quarterly cameo appearance at my parents' home
in Cleveland, Ohio. (No comments from the peanut gallery, please)
If I get the chance, I will try to log in once from there, but I
cannot guarantee that I will have the time nor opportunity to log in
from home.
If you need me, I can be reached via phone at (216) 292-5845.
E-mail should be sent to <warlord@MIT.EDU>, although I wont get it until
I return to Boston on or around Wednesday, August 26.
See ya soon!
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