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daemon@ATHENA.MIT.EDU (daemon@ATHENA.MIT.EDU)
Wed Aug 10 01:21:53 1988
From: Don't reply to root! <root@ATHENA.MIT.EDU>
Date: Wed, 10 Aug 88 01:22:50 EDT
To: ca-mtg@bloom-beacon.mit.edu
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aaron (Aaron A. Goodisman):
For address information, see my .address file in my locker.
"...As the roc rose fully into view, Svetz saw that something writhed and
struggled in its tremendous talons.
Svetz recognized it ... and realized just how big the roc really was.
`It's got ELEPHANT,' he said. An inexplicable sorrow gripped his
heart. Inexplicable, for Svetz hated animals.
...
The roc had reached an enormous height. Any other bird would have
been invisible long since. But the roc was all too apparent, hovering
in the blue alien sky while it killed and ate ELEPHANT.
Bloody bones fell in the walkway."
Larry Niven, _The Flight of the Horse_
(short stories)
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athelas (Susan J. Landsman):
Present location: home (x5-9629)
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cheshire (Mary Vogt):
Once that you've decided on a killing
First you make a stone of your heart
And if you find that your hands are still willing
Then you can turn a murder into art
There really isn't any need for bloodshed
You just do it with a little more finesse
If you can slip a tablet into someone's coffee
Then it avoids an awful lot of mess
It's murder by numbers, one, two, three
It's as easy to learn as your A, B, C
Now if you have a taste for this experience
And you're flushed with your very first success
Then you must try a twosome or a threesome
And you'll find your conscience bothers you much less
Because murder is like anything you take to
It's a habit-forming need for more and more
You can bump off every member of your family
And anybody else you find a bore
Because it's murder by numbers, one, two, three
It's as easy to learn as your A, B, C
Now you can join the ranks of the illustrious
In history's great dark hall of fame
All our greatest killers were industrious
At least the ones that we all know by name
But you can reach the top of your profession
If you become the leader of the land
For murder is the sport of the elected
And you don't need to lift a finger of your hand
Because it's murder by numbers, one, two, three
It's as easy to learn as your A, B, C, D, E!
--The Police, "Murder By Numbers." Synchronicity
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dschmidt (Dan Schmidt):
If the sun refused to shine
I don't mind
I don't mind
If the mountains fell in the sea
Let it be
It ain't me
Got my own world to live through
And I ain't gonna copy you
Now if six
Turned out to be nine
I don't mind
I don't mind
If all the hippies
Cut off all their hair
I don't care
I don't care
Cause I've for my own world to live through
And I ain't gonna copy you
"If 6 Was 9" Jimi Hendrix
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mugambo (Tim Shippert):
"I think, therefore I am a squid."
-Descartes
"To be, or not to be a squid.
That is the question."
-Hamlet
"This World is Not Conclusion
A Species stands beyond
Invisible, as Music
But positive, as Sound:
The Squid."
-Emily Dickinson
"I am not a squid."
-Richard Nixon
"All in all its just
another squid in the wall."
-Pink Floyd
"And then the Lord said:
'Let there be squids.'
And there were squids."
-The Book of Genesis
"E = m(squid)^2"
-Albert Einstein
"We hold these Truths to be self evident:
That all Squids are created equal."
-The Declaration of
Independence.
"Squids are the root of all evil."
-Jerry Falwell
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weiss (Scott Weiss):
9867 NW 6 Ct. (permanent)
Plantation, Florida 33324
(305) 476-7712
JPL: weiss@devvax.jpl.nasa.gov
MIT: weiss@athena.mit.edu
Stanford: scott@portia.stanford.edu
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