Let's write about something!!! • Avariel 21/04/1996 00:00:000 UTC Hi peoples? Hullo? Anyone? :) Hi!! I'm Avariel, the 4Mette (A SUNY Stony Brook club/library/etc.) How are you? Just wondering, what is the speed of an unladened sparrow? ;P • Carl Pearson 22/04/1996 00:00:000 UTC Avariel wrote: > :) Now see here! We're looking for the Holy Grail, now WILL you allow us > to see it, or will we have to take your castle by force?! > P.S. What is your favourite colour? ;P Red...no, blue! AiiiiIIIIIEEEEEEeeeeeeee! Last reply for this thread, this being the skiffy conference and all. If it's to continue, let's move it to alt.fan.monty.python., or .silliness (Then again, they did show a movie camera at the end of the film, so I guess that makes it a time travel story, eh?) -- "Our Premise was to take an illogical concept, and follow it through to its logical conclusion." -- John Cleese, interviewed on the Dick Cavet Show _________________________________________________________________ Carl Pearson P.O. Box 92196, Houston, TX 77206-2196 PDGA #7777 <****@h**-**c.org> • Avariel 23/04/1996 00:00:000 UTC OK, :) I just wanted some random thing to talk about. hi! Who are you? :) And why are there almost no posts here? • Carl Pearson 22/04/1996 00:00:000 UTC First I replied to an earlier post: Carl Pearson wrote: > Avariel wrote: > > > > Hi peoples? Hullo? Anyone? > > > > :) > > > > Hi!! I'm Avariel, the 4Mette (A SUNY Stony Brook club/library/etc.) How > > are you? Just wondering, what is the speed of an unladened sparrow? ;P > *Obligatory Reply Mode ON* > African, or European? > *Obligatory Reply Mode OFF* > -- > You mother was a hampster, and your father reeked of elderberries! >___________________________________________________________________ Then I got a reply from Stefan Jones about how this was a science fiction conference, not a place to lay down pick-up lines. I didn't understand the reply, and emailed back to tell him so. He said this conference gets a lot of cross-posting from people looking for dates. Maybe it's my natural ability to tune out that in which I'm not interested (like requests from horny bachelors), but until Stefan pointed it out I hadn't noticed how many such posts there were here. Thus, I wonder if it's too late to change this conference's name to alt.skiffy ??? Were this the case, the worst cross-posting we could expect (besides the ever-burgeoning $$$ !!!MAKE CASH NOW!!! $$$ crap) would be about which was better, smooth, or crunchy-style, or maybe the occasional message intended for rec.boating Just a thought... -- Arthur Golightly doesn't mind not being able to remember where he put things. Looking for them, he always finds other things he'd forgotten he had. -- John Brunner, Stand On Zanzibar _________________________________________________________________ Carl Pearson P.O. Box 92196, Houston, TX 77206-2196 PDGA #7777 <****@h**-**c.org> • Carl Pearson 21/04/1996 00:00:000 UTC Avariel wrote: > Hi peoples? Hullo? Anyone? > :) > Hi!! I'm Avariel, the 4Mette (A SUNY Stony Brook club/library/etc.) How > are you? Just wondering, what is the speed of an unladened sparrow? ;P *Obligatory Reply Mode ON* African, or European? *Obligatory Reply Mode OFF* -- You mother was a hampster, and your father reeked of elderberries! _________________________________________________________________ Carl Pearson P.O. Box 92196, Houston, TX 77206-2196 PDGA #7777 <****@h**-**c.org> • s******j@**.com 21/04/1996 00:00:000 UTC Ok! "about something!!!" Hey, you're right! That was fun. Everybody, try it! Here's something to read. Study it carefully. There will be a quiz on Tuesday. "Modern science has imposed upon humanity the necessity for wandering. Its progressive thought and its progressive technology make the transition through time, from generation to generation, a true migration into uncharted seas of adventure. The very benefit of wandering is that it is dangerous and needs skill to avert evils. We must expect, therefore, that the future will disclose dangers. It is the business of the future to be dangerous; and it is among the merits of science that it equips the future for its duties. The prosperous middle classes, who rules the nineteenth century, placed an excessive value upon the placidity of existence. They refused to face the necessities for social reform imposed by the new industrial system, and they are now refusing to face the necessities for intellectual reform imposed by the new knowledge. The middle class pessimism over the future of the world comes from a confusion between civilization and security. In the immediate future there will be less security than in the immediate past, less stability. It must be admitted that there is a degree of instability which is inconsistent with civilization. But, on the whole, the great ages have been unstable ages." --Alfred North Whitehead,"Science and the Modern World," 1925. -- +-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-+ ***@***.com ~ s*****s@a*****.***u.edu ~ s******j@**.com http://www.ini.cmu.edu/~sjones/ • a****4@f******.********n.ca 22/04/1996 00:00:000 UTC Avariel (****@i*.******b.edu) writes: > Hi peoples? Hullo? Anyone? I had a something, but the wheels fell off. ttyl Farrell • Avariel 22/04/1996 00:00:000 UTC > You mother was a hampster, and your father reeked of elderberries! > _________________________________________________________________ > Carl Pearson P.O. Box 92196, Houston, TX 77206-2196 > PDGA #7777 <****@h**-**c.org> :) Now see here! We're looking for the Holy Grail, now WILL you allow us to see it, or will we have to take your castle by force?! P.S. What is your favourite colour? ;P