HDTenEightyP/NetNews huggingface dataset:
From: aaron@space.ualberta.ca (Aaron Humphrey)
Subject: Re: Anagram
Reply-To: aaron@space.ualberta.ca
Organization: University Of Alberta, Edmonton Canada
X-Newsreader: Tin 1.1 PL4
Date: Thu, 13 Aug 1992 17:05:29 GMT

state@sargent.cs.unc.edu (Andrei State) writes:
: aaron@space.ualberta.ca writes:
: >
: > I'm just happy that my eail address has only one "s", and Polewka is thus
: > unable to anagram it into a phrase containing Carasso.
: 
: aaron@space.ualberta.ca -- anagram (@=s):
: 
: *****************************
: rn, Carasso, alu. bat: peace!
: *****************************
: --
: ========================
: "Avert one severe doper"
: ========================

See, Polewka?  It just takes some creativity...and a willingness to change
self-imposed rules.

--
---Alfvaen(a.k.a. Aaron V. Humphrey)
"So you found a girl who thinks really deep thoughts
 what's so amazing about really deep thoughts"  -- Tori Amos
Current Album--The Iron Man Soundtrack
Current Read--Henry David Thoreau:Walden and Other Writings
Newsgroups: talk.bizarre
From: chaos@netcom.com (chaos)
Subject: pass (me an) ion
Date: Mon, 17 Aug 92 11:22:05 GMT
Organization: tyrninog and the heisenberg vortex


in the chaotic swirls and currents of events that flow about
the world, an eddy of passion collected in the space between
the first and second floor of the apartment complex in which
i live.  the wisps that descended upon me awoke an overwhelming
desire to write; those which rose drove two neighbors to clasp
one another upon the bed in the room above my head.  This most
notable -- that i was able to continue with my work throughout
the shrapnel of theirs.  thus, of our two passions, mine was the
stronger.


chaos

they weren't telling me to keep it down
From: rone@alcor.usc.edu (Ron Echeverri)
Newsgroups: talk.bizarre
Subject: Re: SSC
Date: 13 Aug 1992 21:49:48 -0700
Organization: University of Southern California, Los Angeles, CA
NNTP-Posting-Host: alcor.usc.edu

In article <1992Aug13.225121.29735@kakwa.ucs.ualberta.ca> aaron@space.ualberta.ca writes:
>I always get mr HEINOUS and JOHN HEIM mixed up.

I always get 5150 mixed up.

5150
i shit you not
From: rdc@netcom.com (Roger David Carasso)
Newsgroups: talk.bizarre
Subject: A PERSONAL APOLOGY TO CJ ET AL
Date: 12 Aug 92 20:28:37 GMT
Organization: 'Be at Peace, and Peace will be with you.'



You will note that I created alt.elvis.sighting.  This is bound to
gather the most newbial crowd imaginable.  There will be crosspostings
to talk.bizarre.  As a bit of advise to you all, for this first month,
add "/alt.elvis.sighting/h/:j" to your talk.bizarre kill file.  If the
fight over a.e.s's creation is of interest to you, I suggest you look
for "/alt.config/hr" articles that may have been deleted by removing
a.e.s postings.  A more general rule might be to simply do what I do:
look for the following key phrases in articles and throw all other
articles out: rdc, carasso, mathew, cj, moslem, fuck, gypsy, gooley,
misc.test, shameful, ssc.

-- 
____________________________________________________________
___________________________ If you'd like my phone number,
Roger David Carasso,        please me ask and I will give it,
Celebrity                   so that we may talk about life.
From: hoconnel@physics.adelaide.edu.au (Heath O'Connell)
Newsgroups: talk.bizarre
Subject: Re: Reading notes
Date: 19 Aug 92 03:12:10 GMT

tolman%asylum.cs.utah.edu@cs.utah.edu (Kenneth Tolman) writes:


[Writings of anguish deleted]

>  Well, no one is reading this anyway, so I am going to go back to writing
>this horrible paper for this god damned conference which forces you to
>put the god damned margins at specific places and LATEX sucks shit.
>If this fucking paper gets published it will be a miracle, I am telling ya.

\begin
	LaTeX is wonderful. I'm glad no-one is reading this, if this is the
	way he is going to act.
\end



--
		hoconnel@adelphi.physics.adelaide.edu.au
From: larne@canetoad.UUCP (Larne Pekowsky)
Newsgroups: talk.bizarre
Subject: Re:  Once in sync, always in sync
Distribution: world
Date: 21 Aug 92 21:32:43 EDT
Organization: The Satellite of Love

grendel@csd4.csd.uwm.edu (The Big Squeegee) writes:
>In article <larne.02li@canetoad.UUCP> larne@canetoad.UUCP (Larne Pekowsky) writes:
>*I 'discovered' Sandman, and recalled someone's (Gooley's?) comments
>*about two of the three comics he reads containing Death as a major character.

>Not Gooley.  You may call me the Timekeeper, if you wish.

OK, I've made an interesting discovery about myself; I think everyone in
the Universe is Gooley.  First I make a total ass of myself in front of
Dominus, (who came to my defense when some total non-entity flamed me, and
later sent me e-mail complimenting me on one of my pieces) by saying
something about "those morphing stories of yours."  And now this.  Maybe
the problem is I have only one 'mark' register in my brain and Mark,
Markian, and Mark-Jason can't all fit into it.  I think I also have a
cousin Mark.  The fact that I can remember almost nothing about him
is probably significant.

>Hope you haven't gotten too attached to Sandman; it's only got about 18
>months left.

Yeah, that's typical.  Everything I like I discover when it's about to
die (Sandman), once it's already dead and gone (Galaxy Express 999),
long after it's glory days are over (Genesis, arguably talk.bizarre)
or it's something that only pops up once in a blue moon (Pirate Corp$
(Milk & Cheese may already be in the previous category)).

>I haven't been this disappointed since they cancelled "Voyagers!"

Well, there's always Quantum Leap (another for category 3).

---
...uunet!canetoad!larne                          canetoad!larne@uunet.uu.net
From: drseuss@gorn.echo.com (David Bedno)
Newsgroups: talk.bizarre
Subject: use these words
Date: 16 Aug 92 04:39:57 GMT
Followup-To: alt.prose,talk.bizarre
Organization: Attention Span, Ltd.

The words: alabaster, voodoo, lyrical, defenestrate

The condition: the story must be in alphabetical order

						make my day

-- 
      David Bedno		   	             drseuss@gorn.echo.com
		"Well shit eat, dude."  - Starcap'n Ra
Xref: sparky talk.bizarre:26426 alt.flame:12156
From: rone@alcor.usc.edu (Ron Echeverri)
Newsgroups: talk.bizarre,alt.flame
Subject: Re: Band Information sought
Followup-To: junk,misc.test,comp.sys.amiga.advocacy
Date: 18 Aug 1992 00:57:05 -0700
Organization: University of Southern California, Los Angeles, CA
NNTP-Posting-Host: alcor.usc.edu

In article <Bt639o.1qu@world.std.com> rissa@world.std.com (Patricia O Tuama) writes:
>In article <MJD.92Aug13230642@saul.cis.upenn.edu> mjd@saul.cis.upenn.edu writes:
>>    I can believe that you missed this, because greg was a giant, and
>>you are a piker. 
>Christ, these newbies, I swear.

Exsqueeze me?  MJD?  Newbie?  Are we talking about the same Dominus?


5150
remembers when he called legare a newbie
From: cj@eno.wpd.sgi.com (C J Silverio)
Newsgroups: talk.bizarre
Subject: differences: Usenet vs the WELL
Date: 18 Aug 92 16:52:21 GMT
Reply-To: cj@sgi.com (C J Silverio)
Organization: SGI TechPubs

---
The difference between the Whole Earth 'Lectronic Link
and the Usenet is that the WELL people aren't certain that
"bozo filters" are a good idea.  What if someone who doesn't
have something to contribute in one group has good things
to say in another? they ask.  On Usenet, the only question
is whether it's more efficient to put people in global killfiles,
or to kill crossposts, or to kill by hand.

On the WELL, groups are like clumps of people talking at a party.
You can feel free to make remarks as they come to mind, knowing
that they'll be received enthusiastically.  People might
disagree, but they'll be polite about it.

On Usenet, you have to package your idea in barbed wire.  Once
you make it public, you must be prepared to defend it.  Somebody 
is going to jump on your head for it, guaranteed.

I'm not sure which one I like better.  There's nothing like
talk.bizarre on the WELL.  There are a lot of Deadheads on the
WELL, and fewer computer weenies.  This is sometimes fun, and
sometimes frustrating.

---
cj@sgi.com
ceej@well.sf.ca.us
Newsgroups: talk.bizarre
From: aaron@space.ualberta.ca (Aaron Humphrey)
Subject: Re: Twin Peaks Convention
Reply-To: aaron@space.ualberta.ca
Organization: University Of Alberta, Edmonton Canada
X-Newsreader: Tin 1.1 PL4
Date: Wed, 19 Aug 1992 17:12:40 GMT

heim@vms.macc.wisc.edu (JOHN HEIM) writes:
: I was watching one of those semi-news programs last night while making 
: supper and they had a story about a Twins Peak convention out west 
: somewhere.  (I was going to say Oregon but it couldn't be - the sun was 
: shining.)
: 
: They showed some kid talking to a character who I believe they called 
: 'The Log Lady'.  He was carrying around a stick and he told her that 
: it was easier to carry around a stick than a log.  The kid's 
: father was standing behind him looking just as proud as could be.
: 
: I will never again make fun of Star Trek conventioneers.

And I missed it.  I'll never forgive myself.

This is what I get for unsubcribing to alt.tv.twin-peaks.

--
---Alfvaen(a.k.a. Dale Cooper's biggest fan)
"The owls are not what they seem."
Current Album--Iron Maiden:Powerslave
Current Read--Henry David Thoreau:Walden and Other Writings
Newsgroups: talk.bizarre,alt.politics.bush
From: bard@cutter.ssd.loral.com (J H Woodyatt)
Subject: How to Watch the Republican National Convention
Reply-To: bard@cutter.ssd.loral.com
Organization: Abiogenesis 4 Less
Date: Wed, 19 Aug 1992 20:22:07 GMT

The trouble with the RNC is that speakers don't have any musical
accompaniment.  Their speeches are much easier to listen to with music
of the appropriate tone, and -- trust me on this one -- C & W doesn't
do the Republicans justice.

I generally mix the speech with the music at roughly equal volume.
Here's what has worked for me:

	Pat Buchanan  -- Front 242, `Trigger 2'
	Ronald Reagan -- KMFDM, `Help Us/Save Us/Take Us Away'
	Jack Kemp     -- MC 900 FT Jesus, `O-Zone'

I intend to use the following on Thursday night:

	Dan Quayle    -- Mindless, `Mindless'
	George Bush   -- Danny Elfman, `Beetlejuice - Opening Titles'

Your mileage may vary.  Please direct followups appropriately.


-- 
J H Woodyatt (a.k.a. Dr. Strychnine)  <-- One of them there
Space Systems/Loral                       `Kultural Uhleet' [1]

[1] The .sig arrow is a trademark of Sho Kuwamoto, Esq.
From: rone@usc.edu (Ron Echeverri)
Newsgroups: talk.bizarre
Subject: Today's Assignment (well, it's 3 days late. so sue me)
Supersedes: <l8mlsuINNm4f@alcor.usc.edu>
Date: 13 Aug 1992 23:55:36 -0700
Organization: University of Southern California, Los Angeles, CA
NNTP-Posting-Host: alcor.usc.edu

In article <1992Aug10.161609.12266@kakwa.ucs.ualberta.ca> aaron@space.ualberta.ca writes:
>Ron "5150" Echeverri
>Words: Spoon Rhombus Loin Odour
>Other Condition: At least one character must be named Dave.


<cracks knuckles, loosens neck, breathes out>

<writer's block. shit>

Spoon, Rhombus, Loin, Odour?  Too easy.

"Dave gave it to her up the ass; their pelvises fit together like spoons in
a drawer.  Mike meanwhile went down on her, licking her loins and her labia,
shaped like a slender rhombus, and relished in her excited odour [sic]."


But this is not what talk.bizarre has paid for.
Therefore, i will make a less obvious story.

=====

"Hi Pris!"

"Hi Cath!"

Smooches on opposite cheeks.

"How've you been?"

"Oh just great... i have a new boyfriend, his name is Dave, he is SO nice."

"You ALWAYS managed to get the nice ones, and i always got the assholes."

"Well, ALL guys are assholes.  I just get the nice assholes."  Giggles.
"You know what his nickname is?  'Rhombus.'  His friends gave it to him
because, according to his best friend, he's a square, only different."

"Well, is he?"

"Um, he IS a bit wierd, but then since he's from Beverly Hills, i just think
it's because he hasn't gotten the silver spoon out of his mouth yet."

"Wow!  A rich boyfriend!  Doesn't he have any available friends?"

"Sure he does!  As a matter of fact, he's going to pick me up soon to go to
a club to meet some of his friends.  Tag along!"

"I will!  Cool!... so tell me, how is he in bed?"  Sly wink.

"You just HAD to ask, didn't you... we haven't had sex yet, but the way he
kisses me... oh my GAWD!  He just makes me SO hot.  I just love the way he
smells... and he calls me -get this-  the 'warmth in his loins'.  Isn't that 
the weirdest nickname you've heard?"

"Gosh!  Wow, i must meet him!"

"Oh look!  There he is!"  She waves him over.

"Hi cutie."

"Hi Dave.. this is my friend, Cath..."

Catherine was standing, raging.  "You ASSHOLE!"  She swung a left hook.  Only
then did Priscilla notice they had matching rings on their hands.

=======

5150
mission accomplished
From: lefty@apple.com (Lefty)
Newsgroups: talk.bizarre
Subject: Re: Campaign Buttons
Date: 22 Aug 92 00:04:39 GMT
Organization: Our Lady of Jumbo Shrimp

In article <1992Aug21.002623.19025@cco.caltech.edu>, ajm@wag.caltech.edu
(Abner "Junior" Mintz) wrote:
> 
> /---------------\
> | NEWBIE PRIDE! |
> \---------------/

No, no, no.  We've done oxymorons to _death_.

--
Lefty (lefty@apple.com)
C:.M:.C:., D:.O:.D:.
From: dsc3jfs@nmrdc1.nmrdc.nnmc.navy.mil (Jim Small)
Newsgroups: talk.bizarre
Subject: Re: The Daily Struggle To Remain Under Quota
Date: 18 Aug 92 20:40:58 GMT
Organization: Naval Medical Research & Development Command

In article <l8mr47INNcoh@chort.usc.edu> rone@chort.usc.edu (Ron Echeverri) writes:
>
> % quota -v
> Disk quotas for rone (uid 22265):
> Filesystem    usage  quota  limit    timeleft  files  quota  limit    timeleft
> /tmp_mnt/auto/skat3
>                4998   5000   6000                371   5000   6000           

You know, at UCLA, we don't have quotas . . . .
-- 
I love the 3b2
The 3b2 is my friend.
From: plord@pioneer.uspto.gov (Paul Lord)
Newsgroups: talk.bizarre
Subject: Re: The wages of Stupidity are Death
Date: 17 Aug 92 23:52:57 GMT
Organization: United States Patent and Trademark Office

bc intones:
>but you better keep those fucking clove things outta my sight or I'll
>make you eat them. Cloves are for hams.

I beg to differ.  No, scrap that, I don't beg, I just differ.
Cloves are the cheapest heavy buzz I know of.  They almost guarantee you'll
smoke less because 1) a few drags makes my head swim, and 2) everyone
who ever swore off cloves wants to bum one when they smell them.  So you buy
a 20 pack of Sampoernas, give 8 or 10 away, and the rest will last you a
month of clubbing.

Plus, I can never smoke them two days running because the blood would
overflow whenever I spoke...

paul
"Cloves: for that three-packs-a-day feeling without the effort"
--
Paul Lord / Pope Festering Meme 	
Werner Heisenberg Cabal and Ethnobotanical Pharmacy
In girum imus nocte et consumimur igni
Newsgroups: talk.bizarre
From: rdc@netcom.com (Roger David Carasso)
Subject: Re: I'm bored please send me mail!!!
Date: Fri, 14 Aug 92 21:50:10 GMT
Organization: 'Be at Peace, and Peace will be with you.'

IN ALT.PERSONALS jrd70@JUTS.ccc.amdahl.com (John R Delgado) writes:
)
)Hi,
)
)I'm so bored I'm watching the paint peel off the walls.  Please send me
)something to read!!!!
)
				   
			DUE TO POPULAR DEMAND,
				   
		      I CALL FOR THE CREATION OF
				   
		       alt.send.junk.mail.to.me
				   
		      IT NEED ONLY BE ALIASES TO
				   
			alt.test and misc.test

-- 
____________________________________________________________
___________________________ If you'd like my phone number,
Roger David Carasso,        please me ask and I will give it,
Celebrity                   so that we may talk about life.
From: 5405P@CC.NPS.NAVY.MIL ("rpwhite")
Newsgroups: talk.bizarre
Subject: Que es mas macho?
Date: 13 Aug 92 19:23:24 GMT

HE-CVT o VT-FRAG?

rp -- I'll take 5 inch projectiles for $400 Alex.
Newsgroups: talk.bizarre
From: rwd4f@poe.acc.Virginia.EDU (Rob Dobson)
Subject: Re: BEST IN BED
Organization: University of Virginia
Date: Wed, 19 Aug 1992 15:48:14 GMT

In article <1992Aug17.134751.24740@walter.cray.com> nelson@eastrg1.cray.com (Christine Nelson) writes:
>
>which female in t.b would be most likely to get this title?
>
>c 
>oh, and men...no votes for your sisters, please.

Oh, an easy one.
Ken Johnson's little daughter, in a walk.

Just ask Wavey if you dont believe me....

-r
From: rone@nunki.usc.edu (Ron Echeverri)
Newsgroups: talk.bizarre
Subject: Re: A BAD CASE OF RICTUS HEP
Date: 14 Aug 1992 15:27:39 -0700
Organization: University of Southern California, Los Angeles, CA
NNTP-Posting-Host: nunki.usc.edu

In article <1992Aug14.170049.5299@cs.rose-hulman.edu> jdavidso@nextwork.rose-hulman.edu (Jeff Davidson) writes:
>In article <schnitzi.713807640@eola.cs.ucf.edu> schnitzi@cs.ucf.edu (Mark  
>Schnitzius) writes:
)>mattb@ctron.com (Matt Brown) writes:
)>>In article <3514@atlas.tegra.COM> vail@tegra.COM (Johnathan Vail) writes:
)>>>Is there any known cure?
)>>You can return the case to your neighborhood adult book store for a full
)>>refund, if you saved the receipt, and you haven't gotten any gooey residue
)>>on the product. 
)>>Or from the product, as the case may be.
)>I swear to God I read that as "gooley residue" the first time.
>That IS a relief; I thought I was the only one.


You idiots.  It IS "gooley".  Matt just makes untimely typos.

5150
Gooley's name is an anglicization, of course
From: chaos@netcom.com (chaos)
Newsgroups: talk.bizarre
Subject: it has come to our attention (with a right smart salute)
Summary: just as long as you don't ask WHY
Date: 17 Aug 92 11:35:13 GMT
Organization: tyrninog and the heisenberg vortex


some of you might remember my resignation from this group.

fools never change their minds.  
some fools improve their writing style 
or eventually figure out something they are good at. 
some fools still haven't figured out that they would be
very good at leaving talk.bizarre.  really.

but that's what greg's here for.


chaos

not good at leaving talk.bizarre
Newsgroups: talk.bizarre
From: schnitzi@cs.ucf.edu (Mark Schnitzius)
Subject: Re: Wishing
Organization: University of Central Florida
Date: Thu, 20 Aug 1992 19:46:52 GMT

aaron@space.ualberta.ca (Aaron Humphrey) writes:

>I wish I could killfile all articles that contain the combination 'oe' anywhere
>in their body.  I mean, by this point I'd rather vote for Dan Quayle(assuming
>that I was given an American Citizenship or whatever was necessary)than hear
>another allusion to his famous misspelling.  Not that I'd want an American
>Citizenship anyway.

>[Anyone want to do a proxy vote for me?]

>Of course, that would get rid of all references to poetry as well, which makes
>it, in a word, ideal.

I was going to include a list of other topics that you'd miss out on that 
include the "oe", but that would be too damn obvious.  Let's consider this 
a newbie trap like the "naked GIF of your sister" hubbub and see who falls
for it.

mark
From: sabbott@nmsu.edu (SDA)
Newsgroups: talk.bizarre
Subject: visual oxymoron
Date: 13 Aug 92 23:05:48 GMT
Organization: WHorshipers of Lady LibertY (WHoLLY)



   ivy growing on razor-wire fence
--

"Life is like a big C program with no documentation"  - Ted Slater

	\\\\\sean/////
Newsgroups: talk.bizarre
From: Sparky
Subject: Re: MORMON HANDBOOK ON MASTURBATION
Organization: None Worth Mentioning
Date: Wed, 19 Aug 1992 13:51:51 GMT

In article <1992Aug18.205839.22830@fcom.cc.utah.edu> PJF4081@cc.utah.edu
(that's mr. wonderful to you) writes:
>From: abraham@micromed.com (Abraham Roots)
>Newsgroups: alt.sex
>Subject: Mormons guide to Jerking off
>
>I got this cute little thing off a local BBS that claimed to be from a 
>book for Mormon teens. real good reading....
>-------------Clip & Save ------------ Clip & Save -------------
>
>
>Mormon Instructions on Masturbation 
> 

[Stuff Deleted]

>:: Set Goals
> 
>Set a goal of abstinence. Begin with a day, then a week, month, year.
>Finally, commit yourself to never doing it again.
> 
>Make a pocket calendar for a month on a small card.  Carry it with you 
>but
>show it to no one.
> 
>If you masturbate, color that day black.  Your goal will be to have no
>black days.
> 

Hmmmm 
That explains my roommate's calendar.  The entire first quarter of 1992 is
blacked out.  And the month of September has several pencilled over days!

-Sparky
Newsgroups: talk.bizarre
From: heard@franklin.cc.utas.edu.au (George Heard (Laurie 8))
Subject: Re: My 4 Word Assignment for Alfvaen
Organization: University of Tasmania, Australia.
Date: Mon, 17 Aug 1992 00:48:22 GMT

aaron@space.ualberta.ca (Aaron Humphrey) writes:
>jfw@jfwhome.FUNHOUSE.COM (John F. Woods) writes:
>: Having completed my 4 word assignment, I offer the following four words
>: to Alfvaen:
>: 
>:  "
>: Mobel
>: friedlich
>: Kolbenstange
>: Steiss
>Auf Englisch, bitte schoen.
>Geez, he's worse than Laurie 8.

Now come(t) on, Alfvaen! I retracted my suggestion in email to you, since it
was a joke. I think this is being a tad unfair on Mr Woods, it should be quite
easy to write a story about those four words...

Mobel - the awards for excellence that an oil company hands out.
Friedlich - an undead delicacy
Kolbemstange - perhap's you're right
Steiss - Schnell, schnell, Donner Und Blitzen!

Laurie ocht


  \---/    Laurie ocht (der glamen fan mit Down Under Alles)
  |   \     
  | `---|      Disclaimer: This is not jumping on the bandwagon
 C      -)     Disclaimer: I didn't do it, nobody saw me do it, 
 | (o)(o)                   it was all Rodney King's fault
 |      |             
 |      |   Send me mail. Mend me sail. Mind me seal. Seal me mind. 
 |/\/\/\|
Newsgroups: talk.bizarre
From: dwindera@cix.compulink.co.uk (Wavey Davey)
Subject: 10 things you didn't know about Wavey   
Cc: dwindera@cix.compulink.co.uk
Reply-To: dwindera@cix.compulink.co.uk
Date: Tue, 18 Aug 1992 20:59:04 +0000


10 things you didn't know about Wavey Davey:

1:  His name is Wavey Davey
2:  He is not a Jewish Pygmy call "Hamish"
3:  He wears ladies underwear
4:  He is a legend
5:  He has sex with hippies
6:  His penis is well known throughout Europe
7:  He has never watched Eastenders
8:  He is not Fis
9:  He always says please and thank you
10: He can have an orgasm just by thinking of Amanda Donohue



                    -------------------------------------
                    -  There is only one Wavey Davey    -
                    -                                   -
                    -      Ooh yeah, bang bang          -
                    -         Sex on Wheels             -
                    -------------------------------------
                    -       49% SON OF A BITCH          -
                    -        51% MOTHERFUCKER           -
                    -------------------------------------
                    -   M-O-O-N that spells Norman      -
                    -------------------------------------
From: vail@tegra.COM (Johnathan Vail)
Newsgroups: talk.bizarre
Subject: Re: what used to be the Monitor Channel
Date: 18 Aug 92 17:53:01 GMT
Organization: Tegra, Inc., Billerica, MA
In-reply-to: cj@eno.wpd.sgi.com's message of 17 Aug 92 21:58:25 GMT



In article <omsu0s0@fido.asd.sgi.com> cj@eno.wpd.sgi.com (C J Silverio) writes:

   Okay.  So it's been replaced by something even more FUCKING BIZARRE 
   than the Christian Scientists.


the really bizarre thing about the Monitor channel is how utterly
unbizarre it really was.  For some reason the Church (after having the
newspaper and the shortwave radio stations) decided they wanted to be
the next CNN.  And this was for real award-winning news, devoid of
church stuff.  The only concession was they avoided medical news that
might be against church policies.

I know several people who worked there (they were regular people, not
Church people) and visited many times.  I got to go beneath the
reflecting pool, pass the presses and on the roof of the tower. It was
an absolute state of the art first class operation.  Much nicer than
CNN (which I have also visited).  They even used Symbolics LISP
machines to generate some of the graphics.


jv <- "I should go back and visit the Maparium sometime"