[4629] in Central_America
New quotes for Thu Oct 29
daemon@ATHENA.MIT.EDU (Initializer.SysDaemon)
Thu Oct 29 20:50:07 1992
Date: Thu, 29 Oct 92 20:49:44 -0500
From: root@charon.MIT.EDU (Initializer.SysDaemon)
To: ca-mtg@bloom-beacon.mit.edu
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aras:
"I hate the waiting."
I gave him a moment. His statement really meant nothing to me,
so I held a short while before asking him to explain. "What do
you mean?"
There was a brief moment of contact. His eyes looked up and into
mine and I could see him there. He was so quickly alive. He was
sitting there, so close in front of me, breathing in before he
spoke. Then he was gone. He turned away to stare at something
on the ground. He really wasn't looking there. He really wasn't
looking at all. "You know. I'm just...waiting."
There was a long pause. He changed his position a few times and
looked around at the things in the room. I watched his eyes
closely, but they never looked back at me. He never gave me the
chance to call him back. Was he so deep in thought that he
couldn't afford me the attention of the average child? Or had some
new concoction forced him into this state? He came to me just a
few minutes before. Was he begging me for my mercy? I thought
about it for a second, but I really find it hard to forgive and
forget that which never happened. You wouldn't think it would be
so difficult to push an emptiness out of your mind. "What are
you waiting for?"
It seemed like the logical thing to ask, but the reply was not so
sudden. "I don't know. So many things. There are just so many
things...some I guess I've lost and others I guess I never really
had." He looked my way only briefly recognizing that I was there
and he was there with me. There must have been some hidden humor it
what he said for his lips were pursed as in a smile, but it was not
a display of happiness. I was assured this as his features melted
back into his sadness I still could not understand. Between that
glance and his next few spoken words, he was gone again. He left
much in the same way he left before. "Some things I guess I just
won't ever have."
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ckclark (Calvin Clark):
There comes a point in the downward slide of the human condition when a
man ceases to be a man. He may still walk erect, but it is principally
a matter of skeletal arrangement, not ethics.
Harlan Ellison, "The Place with No Name"
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fmmoore (Fes-Mike Moore):
I believe in real butter on popcorn. I believe in long walks in the
rain...sad songs at midnight...boysenberry pie, total surrender to the
Communists...and long, warm, sloppy kisses. And if you wanna slap a
label on that, SLAP AWAY!!
--- Opus
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jefft (Jeff Tang):
"Destruction of property, trespassing, reckless driving, hit and run, and
manslaughter."
--- Cop reading charges to Daddy-O
"Hit and run and manslaughter?"
--- Daddy-O
"Oh that was just me getting nuts. I'll change that."
--- Joel
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nosaj (Jason M Sachs):
We're learning about something called "vector potential" in class.
It's supposed to help you visualize magnetic fields, though I don't
really see how or why.
I tried thinking about it once, and got confused, because the best I could
do was the following:
Imagine a bunch of guys (the Vector Potential Gang or something)
standing around in a circle, each of them pointing at the guy next to
him, saying "he did it, he did it, he did it...."
Now, if the direction of the pointing is counterclockwise, the person
whose fault it really is must be somewhere up above them (because
you're supposed to imagine a magnetic field in the center of the
circle with a general "up-ness" to it), and if it's the other way,
then the guy responsible is somewhere below.
So the whole thing seems kind of futile to me, although I could see how
this could be used to find the magnetic fields during a session of Congress.
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rlcarr (Richard L. Carreiro):
Announcing the USA Bankruptcy pool...
Entry fee: 1/400th oz of gold
Rules: For each 1/400th oz paid, you get to pick a date that the US govt
will default (defined later) on its bills, bonds, and notes.
The person closest to the date (taken as the absolute value of the
difference in the julian day of the default and the julian day
of the pick) wins the sum of the entry fees. If more than one
person are equally close, they split the pot equally.
Definition of default:
For this game, default will be considered to have occured at the
time (translated to UTC) that the US govt officially announces it
has taken any of the following actions:
(a) delayed interest payments [other than because of a change
in the terminal dates of the fiscal year] on its bills,
notes, and bonds.
(b) suspended interest payments on its bills, notes, and bonds.
(c) required holders to roll over bills, bonds, and notes at
maturity under penalty of loss of someor all of principal.
(d) delayed repayments of principal [other than because of a change in
the terminal dates of the the fiscal year] on its bills,
notes, and bonds.
(e) suspended repayments of principal on its bills, notes, and bonds.
(f) declared that all *private* debtors shall have their unpaid
balances indexed to inflation.
Default will also be considered to have occurred when the annualized
inflation rate as measured by the Consumer Price Index (CPI) becomes
greater than or equal to 75% for 12 consecutive months.
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starflt (Derrick Kong):
Keep America Beautiful
Montana Power Company Chairman Joe McElwain, as quoted in the Portland
Oregonian: I happen to be one of those people who think the
aethestics of an area are improved by putting a nice transmission line
through it."
from No Comment
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therese (Therese):
I'M TOO SEXY
I'm too sexy for my love too sexy for my love
Love's going to leave me
I'm too sexy for my shirt too sexy for my shirt
So sexy it hurts
And I'm too sexy for Milan too sexy for Milan
New York and Japan
And I'm too sexy for your party
Too sexy for your party
No way I'm disco dancing
I'm a model you know what I mean
And I do my little turn on the catwalk
Yeah on the catwalk on the catwalk yeah
I do my little turn on the catwalk
I'm too sexy for my car too sexy for my car
Too sexy by far
And I'm too sexy for my hat
Too sexy for my hat what do you think about that
I'm a model you know what I mean
And I do my little turn on the catwalk
Yeah on the catwalk on the catwalk yeah
I shake my little touche on the catwalk
I'm too sexy for my too sexy for my too sexy for my
'Cos I'm a model you know what I mean
And I do my little turn on the catwalk
Yeah on the catwalk yeah on the catwalk yeah
I shake my little touche on the catwalk
I'm too sexy for my cat too sexy for my cat
Poor pussy poor pussy cat
I'm too sexy for my love too sexy for my love
Love's going to leave me
And I'm too sexy for this song
--Right Said Fred
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wamprat (Irwin Lee):
Now logged in on w20-575-45
at Thu Oct 29 12:07:01 EST 1992
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