From: friedman@adena.cis.ohio-state.edu (Mark "Crimson" Friedman)
Subject: Re: LNH/LNV/BoENV continued....
Organization: NAIVE - New And Improved Virtual Environment
Date: Mon, 7 Sep 1992 03:44:21 GMT

In article <1992Sep7.003424.26087@magnus.acs.ohio-state.edu> dvandom@magnus.acs.ohio-state.edu (David VanDomelen) writes:
]	He then began to look for a digital scanner, but alas, the lab
]with the scanner was closed for the Labor Day Weekend, and even if he
]could find it, only Netlurker had the access codes!  "Aha!" shouted
]Acton Lord, looking up in the queue, "There he is!  I need only reply
]to Krimson Klone, include myself in the file, and enlist his aid from
]there!"

	Netlurker's power of UNIX-grep signaled him that his abilities
were required by none other that Lord Acton...

	WHAM!  Someone hit him on the head.  It was the Re-Editor!
"It's 'Acton Lord', ya feeb!  Get it right!"  Re-Editor scampered away
back to the Redistributor's lair...

	 "OWCH!  Okay okay!!!", Netlurker rubbed his head and started
again...

	|	|	|	|	|	|	|	|

	Netlurker's power of UNIX-grep signaled him that his abilities
were required by none other that Acton Lord!  "My hand has been
forced," he cried as he surveyed the letter to the Kromatic Klone
kalled Krimson...there was Acton Lord, *included* in the post!

	"I need your assistance, Lurking One!", the Lord said.  "I
need you to distribute me in a digital format, preferably colour
GIF..."

	"GIF?  Like the peanut butter, 'Jiff'?"  Netlurker always became
confused at the supposed 'official' pronunciation...

	Acton Lord became impatient, "Whatever!  Just make sure I'm
safe when the RAC Universe implodes!"  He handed Netlurker a photocopy
and promptly ftp'd himself anonymously to the realm of "wuarchive"...

	Netlurker curiously opened the folded photocopy and looked at
it.  There was Acton Lord blasting Sig-Lad into submission just as was
revealed earlier on RAC, but something was amiss... "Blast!  This
thing isn't even *coloured*!  This is going to waste precious time..."
He turned off the screensaver of his terminal and his fingers flew
over the keyboard...

	\	\	\	\	\	\	\	\

stealth 11:01pm 69> ftp wuarchive.wustl.edu
Connected to wuarchive.wustl.edu.
220 wuarchive.wustl.edu FTP server (Version 6.38 Wed Jul 29 13:24:28 CDT 1992) ready.
Name (wuarchive.wustl.edu:netlurker): villain
331 Villain login ok, send your complete e-mail address as password.
Password:
230-Next time please use your complete e-mail address as your password
230-        for example: joe@stealth.villain.net.legion.com
230-  This system may be used 24 hours a day, 7 days a week by users on
230-  Earths A-K.  Users on Earth-J must adhere to the 12 hour day.
230-
230-  The local time is Sun Sep  6 22:01:41 1992.
230-
230-Please read the file README
230-  it was last modified on Mon Mar  2 08:29:25 1992 - 188 days ago
230 Villain login ok, no access restrictions need be obeyed.
ftp> cd comics
250 CWD command successful.
ftp> cd villains
250 CWD command successful.
ftp> cd a
250 CWD command successful.
ftp> dir
200 PORT command successful.
150 Opening ASCII mode data connection for /bin/ls.
total 4464
-rw-rw-r--  1 root     archive     86253 Jul 21  1991 aaaaaarrrrrggghhhh!
-rw-rw-r--  1 root     archive    109568 Jul 21  1991 action.lord
-r--r--r--  1 20001    archive    132204 Nov 30  1991 acton.lord
-rw-rw-r--  1 root     archive    122880 Jul 21  1991 amply.endowed.woman
-rw-r--r--  1 20001    archive     52367 Aug 17 15:39 annoying.man
-rw-r--r--  1 20001    archive     63195 Jul 20 12:43 art.critic
226 Transfer complete.
7769 bytes received in 0.87 seconds (8.7 Kbytes/s)
ftp> binary
200 Type set to I.
ftp> hash
Hash mark printing on (8192 bytes/hash mark).
ftp> get acton.lord
200 PORT command successful.
150 Opening BINARY mode data connection for acton.lord (40824 bytes).
##############################################################################
226 Transfer complete.
local: acton.lord remote: acton.lord
40824 bytes received in 0.78 seconds (51 Kbytes/s)
ftp> quit
221 Goodbye.

	/	/	/	/	/	/	/	/

	Acton Lord stumbled out of Netlurker's computer screen a bit
disoriented: "Who?  What?  Huh?"

	Netlurker slapped him a few times.  "Get a hold of yourself!"
He held up the black and white photocopy.  "In your great haste you
forgot to *colour* it!"

	Acton Lord grimmaced, grabbed the paper, and attacked it with
a flash of colour from his fingertips.  "It is done!"

	Netlurker took the copy, broke down the Fourth Wall, and began
speaking conspiratorially to the reader.  "Ahhh, the plan is set in
montion.  I'll throw up my array of diversions in the Graphics Lab and
waylay the monitor while he's confused.  Then I shall use the scanner
to convert Acton Lord's image to colour GIF.  After uuencryption and a
quick posting, he shall be safely stashed on news-spools worldwide!"

	Acton Lord laughed maniacally: "Not even the end of RAC can
stop me now!  BWAHAHAHAHAAA!!!"

-- 
Mark "Klone Crimson" Friedman is friedman@cis.ohio-state.edu .................
"There is nothing former   "Beat poets,    "If you put a hungry ferret in your
 about King Crimson."       not children."  trousers, he'll run around..."
 - Robert Fripp, 5/11/90    - anonymous     - Nigel Tufnel (Spinal Tap)
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