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From: padutton@wpi.WPI.EDU (Peter Alan Dutton)
Subject: Re: ***RaI aNd TuN's LyRiCs QuIz***
Organization: Worcester Polytechnic Institute
Date: Thu, 13 Aug 1992 13:48:00 GMT

In article <1992Aug12.163413.3005@memstvx1.memst.edu> mcsweinberg@memstvx1.memst.edu writes:
>                      **RAI AND TUN'S LYRIC TRIVIA QUIZ**
>
>PoSt AnSwErS!     
>
>1. "And I've been waiting for this moment for all my life..."
"In the Air Tonight" - Phil Collins

>2. "Time on my hands could be time spent with you."
"I Guess THat's Why They Call It The Blues" - Elton John

>3. "Young Hearts beat free tonight, time is on your side.."
"Young Turks" - Rod Stewart

>4. "Never seen so many men ask you if you wanted to dance, If you were looking 
>for a little romance."
"The Lady In Red" - Chris DeBurgh

>5. "My heart's like an open book for the whole to read." 
>
>6. "Take you to my castle far away."
>
>7. "I thought that I heard you laughing. I thought that I heard you sing."
"Losing My Religion" - REM

>8. "But it was Saturday night I guess that makes alright and she said baby have
>you got enough gas."
"Little Red Corvette" - Prince

>9. "Time, Time, Time see what's become of me as I look at the possibilities.."
>(Remake Artist)
"Hazy Shade Of Winter" - Bangles (Simon & Garfunkle)

>10. "...and why do they always say, Don't look back"


Peter!
From: srp@travis.csd.harris.com ( Stephen Pietrowicz)
Newsgroups: rec.games.trivia
Subject: Re: TV show!
Date: 20 Aug 92 20:43:34 GMT

From article <BtAqH9.IB4@news.cso.uiuc.edu>, by hug@aries.scs.uiuc.edu (Eric John Hug):
]>
]>Someone suggested that Archie was a cab driver.  I don't think so.  I think he
]>worked in a mill until he bought Kelsey's bar, and it became Archie's place.
]>
] Archie was a foreman on a loading dock, before buying the bar.  
] 
] Hugman

He drove a cab for a while too.  That's how Archie met Sammy Davis Jr. on the
show.
From: winter@rainbow.ecn.purdue.edu (Nancy M. Winter)
Newsgroups: rec.games.trivia
Subject: Re: ANSWERS TO my favorite final jeopardy questions
Date: 19 Aug 92 13:16:19 GMT
Distribution: rec
Organization: Purdue University Engineering Computer Network

In article <Bt7JpB.32E.1@cs.cmu.edu> clamen+@CS.CMU.EDU writes:
>In article <1506@rwja.umdnj.edu> bawagan@rwja.umdnj.edu (Hinayana Bawagan) writes:
>
>   3.  the only state which ends with 3 consonants: MassachuseTTS, not 
>   KentuCKY which I think is considered a commonwealth
>
>Alas.  Both Massachusetts and Kentucky are Commonwealths.

this is true. i believe the reason Kentucky doesn't count is because "y"
is a vowel in this case (at least it is if my elementary school teachers
weren't lying to me).

nancy
>
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--
Nancy M. Winter                                 "Simulation is just a
School of Industrial Engineering                 word you use in court."
Purdue University                                       - from the movie 
winter@ecn.purdue.edu                                        "Rush"
From: steve1@cc.gatech.edu (Steve Adelson)
Newsgroups: rec.games.trivia
Subject: Re: WEEKLY QUIZ #14 --ANSWERS
Date: 17 Aug 92 13:44:16 GMT
Organization: Software Research Center, Georgia Tech

In article <6565@uakari.primate.wisc.edu> hamel@primate.wisc.edu (Ray Hamel) writes:
>
>#5)  The highest paid mayor in the United States happens to be a
>woman.  Who is she?
>                              (KATHY WHITMIRE - 5, as the mayor of
>                              Houston, TX, she just edges out David
>                              Dinkins' NYC salary)

Actually, Kathy Whitmire did not run in the last Houston elections, and she
is no longer mayor of Houston.  The new mayor, I assume, has the same
salary (and is male).

			- Steve, formally of Houston
-- 
ARPA: steve1@cc.gatech.edu                       Nobody here had anything to do
                                                 with this, not even me.
"Careful! We don't want to learn 
	anything from this!" - Calvin, 5/17/92
From: bawagan@rwja.umdnj.edu (Hinayana Bawagan)
Newsgroups: rec.games.trivia
Subject: my favorite final jeopardy questions
Date: 17 Aug 92 03:35:26 GMT
Distribution: rec
Organization: Robert Wood Johnson Medical School, Piscataway NJ

Try to answer without consulting references and in one minute or less
for each question:

1.  What's the first date of the 200th century?
2.  What is the only country that starts with A but doesn't end with A?
3.  This Shakespeare play begins and ends with the same 7-letter word?
4.  The only U.S. state that ends with 3 consonants
5.  The two U.S. states that do not have legalized gambling
6.  The two chemical elements that end with "D"
7.  The only chemical element named after a U.S. state
From: ace@bharh45.bnr.co.uk (A.Elly)
Newsgroups: rec.games.trivia
Subject: Lots of trivia questions
Date: 17 Aug 92 16:05:54 GMT
Organization: BNR Europe Ltd, London Road, Harlow, England.


Hello there!!


Any help with the answers to the following questions would
be much appreciated.  Please email asap.


1.  Which country singer had an international hit with the
    song "Forever and Ever, Amen"?

2.  In "Dad's Army" who played Sgt. Wilson?

3.  In "'Allo 'Allo", who plays Rene?

4.  In "It ain't half hot mum" who played Sgt-Major Williams?

5.  In what country was Molson Breweries founder John Molson born?


Thanks,

Adrienne
From: pwf2@hpmwtd.sr.hp.com (Joe Ballantyne)
Date: Thu, 13 Aug 1992 23:32:26 GMT
Subject: Name that artist!
Organization: HP Santa Rosa Site (NMD MTA MWTD)
Newsgroups: rec.games.trivia

Roberta Flack sang the song "Killing Me Softly" back in the early '70's.
Who was the artist that she sang about?

I'll post the answer in a few days, good luck!
From: wsgwwb@rwa.urc.tue.nl (Walter Belgers)
Newsgroups: rec.games.trivia
Subject: Re: ***RaI aNd TuN's LyRiCs QuIz***
Date: 13 Aug 92 10:37:18 GMT
Reply-To: wsgwwb@urc.tue.nl
Organization: The TimeWasters

In article <1992Aug12.163413.3005@memstvx1.memst.edu> mcsweinberg@memstvx1.memst.edu writes:
>PoSt AnSwErS!     
What a stupid concept! (Monty Python)
>
>1. "And I've been waiting for this moment for all my life..."
In The Ait Tonight/ Phil Collins
>
>4. "Never seen so many men ask you if you wanted to dance, If you were looking 
>for a little romance."
The lady in Red/ Chris deBurgh
>
>7. "I thought that I heard you laughing. I thought that I heard you sing."
Losing My Religion/ R.E.M.
>

Ciao,
Walter.

-- 
Walter Belgers             "The time you enjoy wasting is not wasted time"
gigawalt@info.win.tue.nl       - Bertrand Russell
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From: tabn3@isuvax.iastate.edu (Griffy)
Subject: Re: ***RaI aNd TuN'S LyRiCs QuIz II***
Reply-To: tabn3@isuvax.iastate.edu
Organization: Iowa State University, Ames, Iowa
Date: Mon, 17 Aug 1992 18:07:45 GMT

In article <4187@prune.bbn.com>, cherniac@bbn.com (Natasha Cherniack) writes:
>> 14. "Father wears his Sunday best. Mother sighs she needs a rest. The kids are
>> 	playing up downstairs."
>Beatles: Lady Madonna

   Nope.  This one is "Our House" by Madness.

???????????????????????????????????????????????????????????????????????????????
?      Daniel I. Matt       |    Now I lay me down to sleep,                  ?
?   Iowa State University   |    I pray the funk will make me freak,          ?
?                           |    If I should die before I waked,              ?
?    INTERNET ADDRESSES:    |    Allow me Lord to rock out naked!             ?
?     dmatt@iastate.edu     |                                                 ?
?  tabn3@isuvax.iastate.edu |    "Sir Psycho Sexy" -- Red Hot Chili Peppers   ? 
???????????????????????????????????????????????????????????????????????????????
From: shrum@eos.arc.nasa.gov (Rick Shrum)
Newsgroups: rec.games.trivia
Subject: Re: TV show!
Date: 20 Aug 92 15:59:13 GMT
Organization: NASA Ames Res. Ctr, Calif.

In article <AeYukpC00io709f1Ei@andrew.cmu.edu> ab4n+@andrew.cmu.edu (Anish Bharat Bhimani) writes:
>Excerpts from netnews.rec.games.trivia: 20-Aug-92 Re: TV show! Misti
>Jordan@cs.tulane.e (953)
>
>>In article <1992Aug19.195106.1@vax1.umkc.edu>
>>ttasset@vax1.umkc.edu writes:
>
>>All In The Family (Starring Carol O'Connor, I think his name was, as
>>the bigot and Sonny Bono --again, I think-- as Meathead, his son-in-law
>		 !!!!!!!!!!!!!!
>
>Wow. All I can say is, Wow.
>
Yeah, me too; but just imagine the possibilities if it was!

Yeah, I
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From: bawagan@rwja.umdnj.edu (Hinayana Bawagan)
Newsgroups: rec.games.trivia
Subject: Re: Play Jeopardy with Yen (8/20/92)
Date: 22 Aug 92 21:15:57 GMT
Distribution: rec
Organization: Robert Wood Johnson Medical School, Piscataway NJ

bawagan@rwja.umdnj.edu (Hinayana Bawagan) writes:

>You know the rules.  A maximum of one minute for each question. 
>The show is not my sole source.  And feel free to dispute the 
>answers.

>1.  In which sport does the winner move backward?
>2.  The two denominations of the dollar that are printed more than 
>    the rest
>3.  the countries which are first and last in the Olympic parade
>4.  the sport that exemplifies best the Olympic motto:  "faster,
>     higher, stronger"
>5.  the originator of this cosmetics company was an ardent admirer
>    of Shakespeare, hence the name
>6.  the two African countries whose capitals begin with the same
>    letter
>7.  the only member of the Warren Commission (that investigated
>    the JFK assassination) who went on to become vice pres and then
>    pres. 

1.  tug-of-war
2.  ones and twenties
3.  Greece and the host nation (the rest are in alphabeticaal order)
4.  What I really had in mind was the Pole Vaultf
5.  Avon
6.  Sorry about the ambiguity in the question.  What I meant was the capital
    beginning with the same letter as the country.

    Tunis, Tunisia;  Maputo, Mozambique;  Algiers, Algeria
7.  Gerald Ford
From: hamel@primate.wisc.edu (Ray Hamel)
Newsgroups: rec.games.trivia
Subject: WEEKLY QUIZZES -- TOP AVERAGES
Date: 14 Aug 92 13:45:19 GMT
Organization: UW-Madison Primate Center


	My math skills are failing me this week.  Both William Lamonaca
and James A. Berninger should be listed in the top 5 averages (each
with 3.00 over 5 quizzes) in my weekly quiz score update for quiz #14.

Ray Hamel
University of Wisconsin

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From: palomb@boulder.Colorado.EDU (Anthony Palombella)
Subject: Re: Reworked TV show theme song lyrics.
Organization: University of Colorado, Boulder
Date: 21 Aug 92 12:17:48 GMT

awpaeth@watpix.uwaterloo.ca (Alan Wm Paeth) writes:

>3) Bonanza. I'm too young to remember, but I'm told the original track had
>   words like: "if anyone wants to mess with my brooo-THER..dum da da dum da...
>   well, first, they gotta mess with ME! Bo-nan-za!"

I'm also a little young (Hooray!), but I remember something like:

We gotta right to pick a little fight -- BO-NAN-ZA!
If someone picks a fight with any one of us
He picks a fight with me.

Watching Encore the other day, I found out there was a theme song for
The Magnificent Seven.  Not the Elmer Berstein theme, but a horrible
song that went:

Seven, seven, sevennnn
The Magnificent Sevennnnnnnnnnnnnnnnnn

	One lyric I can never understand is in Aretha's Respect:

R-E-S-P-E-C-T
Find out what it means to me
R-E-S-P-E-C-T
(Say WHAT??)

				-- Tony
```````````````````````````````````'''''''''''''''''''''''''''''''''''
HA! ...*Pronoun trouble.* It's not, "He doesn't have to shoot *you*
now," it's, "He doesn't have to shoot *me* now."  Well, I say he DOES
have to shoot me now!  So SHOOT ME NOW!! [] palomb@beagle.colorado.edu
From: rone@girtab.usc.edu (Ron Echeverri)
Newsgroups: rec.games.trivia
Subject: Re: **RaI aNd TuN's TrIvIa QuIz**
Date: 15 Aug 1992 21:59:26 -0700
Organization: University of Southern California, Los Angeles, CA
NNTP-Posting-Host: girtab.usc.edu

In article <-96m4qm.cass@netcom.com> cass@netcom.com (Diana Tenery-Fisher) writes:
>>1. What is the name of Garfield's (in the Comic Strip) teddy bear?
>Pooka 

Pooky

>>4. In _Weird Science_ what did they forget to do that made the second girl
>>not appear.

Geek #2: (slaps forehead) We forgot to hook up the doll!
Kelly LeBrock: You forgot to hook up the doll.

[nuclear missile emerges from the ground and through their floor]

>>5. Who played the Scarecrow in the movie _The Wiz_?

Michael Jackson.

5150
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From: beb@pt.com (Bruce Buck)
Subject: Re: songs and responses
Organization: Performance Technologies, Incorporated
Date: Wed, 12 Aug 1992 12:32:05 GMT

In article <1992Aug4.023530.15626@leland.Stanford.EDU> suchman@leland.Stanford.EDU (Mark Charles Suchman) writes:

>By the way, can anyone think of even a single paean to my home states,
>Pennsylvania and Connecticut?  I can't.

The Pennsylvania Polka
PEnnsylvania 6-5000 (actually a phone no in NYC, but it mentions Pennsylvania).
From: jtchern@ocf.berkeley.edu (Joseph Hernandez)
Newsgroups: rec.games.trivia
Subject: JTC Useless Trivial Knowledge Quiz XIII...POETRY
Date: 17 Aug 92 15:33:49 GMT
Organization: Joseph TeleCommunications Enterprises; Berkeley, California, USA
Via: JTC Enterprises Puzzles and Games Department (Trivia Division)


                   JTC USELESS TRIVIAL KNOWLEDGE QUIZ XIII

Hi folks! This is a series of quizzes that test everyone's useless knowledge
of trivia. In the upcoming weeks, I will post a quiz each week with a certain 
topic containing seven questions. Each week the topic will change, this week 
we continue with:

			            POETRY

*******************************************************************************
* 1. Please just use your useless knowledge of trivia, not some book's.       *
* 2. Respond using this format-->  1. <answer>                                *
* 3. MAIL...DO NOT POST entries to:  jtchern@ocf.berkeley.edu                 *
* 4. Please include "JTC Quiz XIII" in the subject header.                    *
* 5. If you are a continuing participant, please type 'cont.' on your subject *
*    header.                                                                  *
* 6. This is a weekly quiz, so be ready for differing subjects each week.     *
* 7. All entries should be received by: SUNDAY, AUGUST 23, 1992 23:59:59 GMT  *
* 8. Results will be posted on Mon., Aug. 24, 1992 along with correct answers.*
* 9. By the way, each correct answer is worth 1 point. No penalty for wrong   *
*    or unanswered responses, so guess whenever you can.                      *
*10. Send any comments, questions, complaints, or suggestions to me only.     *
*11. Thank you and enjoy!						      *
*******************************************************************************

Any comments, questions, complaints, or suggestions should be addressed to
jtchern@ocf.berkeley.edu. Thanks.

1. What is the title of the collection of 44 love poems that includes the 
   immortal "How do I love thee, let me count the ways"?

2. What two poets collaborated on the 1798 collection entitled _The Lyrical
   Ballads_?
[BONUS: 1 point for each correct answer for total of two points.]

3. What was John Milton's sequel to _Paradise Lost_?

4. What famous poem is featured in Lewis Carroll's _Alice's Adventures Through
   the Looking Glass_?

5. What poem by Robert Frost was read by author at President Kennedy's
   inauguration?

6. Who is the author of _Verses on the Death of Mr. Swift_?

7. What is the name of Ezra Pound's first book of poetry?

				THE END

Thanks,
Joe Hernandez
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From: cherniac@bbn.com (Natasha Cherniack)
Newsgroups: rec.games.trivia
Subject: Re: ***RaI aNd TuN'S LyRiCs QuIz II***
Date: 17 Aug 92 14:52:59 GMT
Organization: BBN Systems and Technology, Inc.

> PoSt AnSwErS!!!!

> 1. "Keep pushin' me, Keep pushin' me, Keep pushin' my love."
Madonna:  Boarderline

> 2. "Are you somewhere feeling lonely or is someone loving you?"
Lionel Ritchie: Hello

> 3. "...sometime's wish I'd never been born at all."
Queen: Bohemian Rhapsody

> 8. "...made up my mind, I ain't wastin' no more time."
GRRRR, I know I know this....

> 14. "Father wears his Sunday best. Mother sighs she needs a rest. The kids are
> 	playing up downstairs."
Beatles: Lady Madonna

> 17. "I could flirt with all the guys, roll my hair and bat my eyes, make them
> think they have a chance then refuse to see it through." (What movie??)
The movie "Grease": The worst thing I could do (?) sung by Rizzo

> 18. "Everytime that I look in the mirror, all these lines on my face getting
> 	clearer."
Aerosmith: Dream On

> 19. "If  you're lost, you can look and you will find me."
Cyndi Lauper: Time After Time
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From: ask@cbnews.cb.att.com (Arthur S. Kamlet)
Subject: Re: ANSWERS TO my favorite final jeopardy questions
Organization: AT&T Bell Laboratories,  Columbus, Ohio
Distribution: usa
Date: Wed, 19 Aug 1992 22:23:29 GMT

In article <1506@rwja.umdnj.edu> bawagan@rwja.umdnj.edu (Hinayana Bawagan) writes:
>3.  the only state which ends with 3 consonants: MassachuseTTS, not 
>KentuCKY which I think is considered a commonwealth

Well, if you had said "y" wasn't a real consonant, I would have sort
of said ok, even though Vanna would have disagreed.

But to imply that the Great Commonwealth of Massachusetts is a
lesser commonwealth than Pennsylvania or Virginia, or to even imply
that a commonwealth is not a state, is a misreading of the
constitution.

So, I'd have to give you a zero on this question for a totally wrong
explanation.  Which rhymes with plantation.  Which is part of the
name of what state?
-- 
Art Kamlet  a_s_kamlet@att.com  AT&T Bell Laboratories, Columbus
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From: heitster@athena.mit.edu (Eric R Heit)
Subject: Re: ***RaI aNd TuN'S LyRiCs QuIz II***
Organization: Massachusetts Institute of Technology
Date: Sun, 16 Aug 1992 05:27:56 GMT

In article <1992Aug14.163822.3032@memstvx1.memst.edu> mcsnewton@memstvx1.memst.edu writes:
>
>			**RaI aNd TuN's LyRiCs QuIz II**

>1. "Keep pushin' me, Keep pushin' me, Keep pushin' my love."
>
"Borderline," Madonna

>2. "Are you somewhere feeling lonely or is someone loving you?"
>
"Hello," Lionel Richie

>4. "Not everybody does it, but everybody should."
>
"I Want Your Sex," George Michael

>8. "...made up my mind, I ain't wastin' no more time."
>
"Here I Go Again," Whitesnake

>13. "Bodies in the sand. Tropical drink sitting in your hand."
>
"Kokomo," The Beach Boys

>19. "If  you're lost, you can look and you will find me."
>
"Time After Time," Cyndi Lauper

-Eric
From: wspas43@rwa.urc.tue.nl (Kursus pascal)
Newsgroups: rec.games.trivia
Subject: Re: ***RaI aNd TuN's LyRiCs QuIz***
Date: 13 Aug 92 11:13:47 GMT
Reply-To: wspas43@urc.tue.nl


Some answers:

1. "And I've been waiting for this moment for all my life..."
	In the air tonight - Phil Collins
4. "Never seen so many men ask you if you wanted to dance, If you were looking 
for a little romance."
	Lady in red / Chris de Burgh
7. "I thought that I heard you laughing. I thought that I heard you sing."
	Loosing my religion / R E M
9. "Time, Time, Time see what's become of me as I look at the possibilities.."
(Remake Artist)
	Hazy shade of winter (Simon & Garfunkel, The Bangles)

Mark
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From: kv07@IASTATE.EDU (Warren Vonroeschlaub)
Subject: SkipShot Launcher
Reply-To: kv07@IASTATE.EDU (Warren Vonroeschlaub)
Organization: Ministry of Silly Walks
Date: Sun, 23 Aug 1992 15:44:31 GMT

  I have just submitted (no results yet) SkipShot Launcher.  This program is
based very hevily on Eric Schwertfeger's program SkipShot (definately worth
examining, some neat ideas there).

  Since the launcher is the only part I wrote, and it was really more of a
modification, I am posting the program here now.   BTW the launcher is somewhat
similar to that used by patriot (absolutely nothing like scud), but I think it
could be optimized further to launch before it finishes updating the data
fields, this would probably get 30% more skipshots in the air before the
launcher hits itself (or gets hit).

  SkipShot is a 6 process missile, so it tends to move in 2/3 the time of
patriot's missiles.  This advantage, however, may be offset by the extra two
byte suceptability to bombs and the need to wate until the SkipShot is two steps
away before launching the next.  We will see.

;redcode-x verbose
;name SkipShot Launcher
;author Kurt vonRoeschlaub
;strategy Launch SkipShots into memory
skip   EQU (245)
step   EQU (3)
sdat   dat step,step
ddat   dat step,2*step-3
start  spl launch
       mov #6,pause      ;may be able to change this to 5
       add #step,launch
       add #step,launch+1
pause  djn 0,#6          ;with this set to 5, spl launch next
       add sdat,fire
       sub ddat,dest
       jmp start
launch mov src,src-skip
       mov dest,dest-skip
       spl 2
       spl 1
       jmp fire
src    dat dest+1+skip
fire   mov <src-skip,<dest-skip
dest   jmp fire+skip,#1+(skip*2)
       end start

 |  __L__   *******************************
-|-  ___    * Warren Kurt vonRoeschlaub   *
 |  | o |   * kv07@iastate.edu            *
 |/ `---'   * Iowa State University       *
/|   ___    * Math Department             *
 |  |___|   * 400 Carver Hall             *
 |  |___|   * Ames, IA  50011             *
 J  _____   *******************************
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From: t-jcisek@microsoft.com (Julius Cisek)
Subject: I got my warriors!  Thanks!
Date: 11 Aug 92 05:26:39 GMT
Organization: Microsoft Corporation


Thanks a million to all those who helped me get my warriors back after I
lost all the code on a bad hard drive especially to Scott Adkins for his
most excellent library.

							Jules
-- 
Julius Andrew Cisek                ,_,
t-jcisek@microsoft.com   "Joy!"   /oo \  _.-.   "Quiet, you bloated
One Microsoft Way     //          <>__| /- O O       idiot!"
Redmond, WA 98052   \X/           |  U|    \|
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From: hastings-matthew@CS.YALE.EDU (Matthew Hastings)
Subject: Proposed new standard
Organization: Yale University Computer Science Dept., New Haven, CT 06520-2158
Date: Wed, 12 Aug 1992 22:11:06 GMT

No one seems to have talked about proposed new standards in a while but I
got what, IMO, is a great idea.  The only really good change in the 
instruction set I've seen proposed, again IMO, is the SLeeP instruction.
However, I'd like to suggest a change in the goals of the game.  Hows' this:
at the start, 3 (or  some other number, I just want to give a definite 
number for now) random instrutcions are created directly in front of the 
warriors code.  The goal is to protect your 'data' while destroying that of
the other side.  After 80,000 cycles (if the other warrior dies, you get to
keep going till clock runs out, sorry Bill, if this would slow things down),
the same 3 locations for each player are compared to the correct starting values
for those loactions.  You would score, say, 2 points for every piece of data 
preserved while losing, say, 1 point for every piece of your opponents data
still valid.  By automatically adding in a few extra instructions this would
help longer programs.  It adds new strategies too, such as:copy your data twice
and after 40,000 cycles or so, after your core-clear, check both your copies.
If they agree w/ each other, but not w/ the original location, correct your
corrupted data.
One note:Proteus3 is Hellicon2, just change the #900 to #500.  I think now
I should figure out the best value, since it seemed to have a very
great effect on the ranking. 
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