From: jgm@ais.org (jim miller)
Subject: Space Madness pins down Furries
Summary: [Log]
Organization: Ann Arbor Information Society -- West Lafayette Annex
Date: Mon, 12 Oct 1992 19:08:42 GMT


In the spirit of the _Harper's_ Readings section, I present a log
without commentary.
This log was made in the early afternoon of October 12th, 1992, on
Space Madness, a MUSH running at 139.78.1.15 6250.  The players
who use Space Madness, and "Furries", are two of the older distinct
social entities of MUDs.  seattle seems to be a newcomer to Space
Madness.
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seattle would like to meet some mud geeks in her area as she is new to the area and doesn't know anyone.
Tater says "what area is that, seattle?"
Finrod says "which area?"
Tater says "key west, florida?"
elthar knows two non-MUD geeks up there, and one MUD geek
elthar says "Seattle, of course.  :)"
dirque says "well uwiz is there, so is liralen"
dirque says "unfortunately elf sternberg is also there"
Tater says "who?"
Storm says "Elf Sternberg.. that guy with the Furry stories."
Tourmaline says "elf sternberg is the quintessential furry"
Tater says "argh"
Tater hates furries
Finrod borrows Xibo's Colt .45 and shoots a furry.  *BLAM*
seattle says "Do you know Uwiz's mail address?  And Elthar, who are the people you know?"
Randomness says "Yeah, but he's cooler than most furries."
Tater sees furries scurrying all over the place trying to find places to establish Furry Two now that FurryMUCK and Furry-Beta (Time Traveller) are DEAD.
Devon has arrived.
Finrod says "furryfuck's going away?"
seattle says "Not to sound naive, but whawt's a furry?"
Storm just *love*s a girl who knows how to say 'fuck off'.
elthar actually knows, hrm, four people in two groups.  "Old friends of mine from Denver, whom I knew via BBSes.  I'd have to prowl a bit to get their phone numbers."
Devon says "Afternoon."
Tourmaline says "hi devon"
Storm is establishing Psychiatry Muck, Tater.
Devon says "Good god, what a smarmy @desc I have."
seattle says "elthar, do you know uwiz's address?"
Finrod says "actually my brother lives right near Seattle, but I'm not sure I'd want to scare him with the likes of mudvolken"
Tater says "more or less, Finrod.  They lost the site abruptly and the only dbase they have is 18 days old... and the thing crashes so frequently that there are apparently about six different projects going on to pare copies of the dbase down to the point where you could use them as the core for a new muck."
elthar says "A 'Furry' is a person who plays characters which are anthropomorphic animals, usually intensely cute and interested in lots of snuggling 'n' stuff."
seattle smirks.
Randomness nods to elthar.
Tater says "the 'n' stuff usually includes total naked public humping"
elthar can dig it out, seattle.  Just a sec
Devon chuckles Tater-ward.
elthar says "What, naked?  They have fur!  :0"
Storm Naked Public HUMPING!!!!
elthar :), that is
Randomness says "Devon, hi."
Randomness snickers at elthar.
Devon says "Hiya, Randomness."
dirque says "cafe rose MUD"
Tater says "the quote "I'm typing with ONE HAND, baby" is often heard on furry muck"
Randomness considers another drink.
Randomness snickers at Tater.
Tourmaline says "personally i don't like Furryism, because it seems degrading to women, and i dislike some furries, because they act saccharine-sweetly cute and if you don't act cute TOO they tend to get very fascist"
seattle says "Sheesh Devon, long desc."
Storm says "what if yoiu HAVE only one arm?"
Storm says "and therefore, one hand."
Devon will be doing the Sangria thing if he gets called off work tonight.
Tater nods to Tourmaline.  "That bit about fascism is dead on target."
Finrod says "then you go silent for a while, Storm, obviously"
Storm laffs.
dirque says "Personally i don't like furry cause the players are even worse losers than the average mud geek"
Storm types with his nose.
Randomness nods to Tater.
auzzie saves dirque quotes.
Tater says "and they have these page-long descriptions that have lots of references to "sleek thighs" and "firm, rosy-nippled breasts" and stuff.  hence of course you know that 99 of furries are guys"
Tourmaline says "well dirque, that's what i really meant but i was trying to be tactful"
Devon says "I know a couple of Furries... one is pretty cool, the other is one of the biggest losers I know.  Bleh."
Storm is pretty glad he didn't go to ConFurrence.
Finrod says "99 FUCKING percent"
elthar says "seattle, uwiz is 'wiggli@u.washington.edu' -- a neighbor!"
Storm says "So round.. so firm..so .. tightly PACKED."
dirque nods to auzzie, you are good at that... Please edit and put player_X as you see fit
Randomness snickers at Tater.  "Yeah, tourmy visited one of the parties."
Devon says "99%?"
Devon giggles.
Tater says "at least."
Finrod says "furry parties are a truly sad affair"
Tater says "most RL females play MALE furries so as not to get constantly hit on by RL guys playing VR males and RL guys playing VR lesbians."
elthar <-- sleek thighs, rosy-nippled breasts
Randomness laughs.
Tater hates furries
Storm strokes thar's rosy nippled breasts.
elthar lignifies!
Storm oh baby. *click* you turn me *click* on
Tater wishes feste was here to log that un, 'thar
seattle says "Dirque's desc. is sortof furry."
Randomness has nothing against furries, but does mind being harassed for being insufficiently cute.
elthar says "If he were, Tater, I'd have never said it.  :)"
dirque says "well the fact remains, I'm embarassed to be seen in public with furries and not so much with any group of weenies"
Tater says "no, dirque's is !furry.  it's tasteful"
seattle says "Moose have breasts?"
Devon screeches in terror as he realizes his @desc sounds like something from an LP.
elthar says "Sure, they're mammals, ain't they?"
Finrod m00se
seattle says "I suppose....."
Randomness smiles back at seattle.  "Hi!"
Tourmaline says "the furry party i went to was SO PATHETIC, i mean, it was more pathetic than Pete from windsor, it was more pathetic than the time my nonexistent license was suspended for a nonvalid reason, it was TRULY pathetic.  100 FUCKING percent old guys who drew pictures of lightly fur-covered women getting fucked by machines or such. i mean nearly all the furry art was pornographic in nature.  the smell of sweaty frustrated testorone filled the air like cheap cigar smoke"
Randomness says "No, moose have *udders*."
seattle says "How did you know I was looking at you?"
Storm eeew
Devon says "More pathetic than Pete?  Yuck."
Finrod Protect Our big m00se head Children
Randomness grins.  'filled the air like cheap cigar smoke'.
Tater says "furries have no clue.  on time traveller, there're all those rooms called things like "Jump!  Bandwagon Lounge"  and "Glub!  Fishbowl Lounge"... but the Furries can't even get the pattern of ____! _______ Lounge right... they came up with names like "It's a fox (shwing!) Lounge" and thought it was clever."
elthar says "It's possible to be notified when you're looked at, seattle."
elthar <-- big m00se head
Randomness nods to elthar.
Storm whappa Tater. them's not furries.
Storm says "oh yeah they are."
Storm oops.
Tater says "yep, they are"
Tater says "stupid furries"
elthar says "O, come now, let's not condemn a group wholeheartedly!  How bigoted!"
Devon grins.  "With all this Furry-Bashing, I feel like I'm back on TIM!"
elthar always sticks up for the underdog.
Tourmaline says "glad to make you feel at home, Devon :)"
elthar says "Or undersquirrel, as the case may be."
Devon says "Thank you, Tourmy."
Tourmaline says "or underfox"
Finrod always sticks up for <encrypted>
Storm always sticks it up.. er, uh
seattle says "So furries are prepubescent mudders with elevevated testosterone levels?"
Finrod says "mostly, seattle"
dirque should throw some clothes on, chines food will arrive soon
dirque says "no"
Devon says "A lot of them are old frustrated men, too."
Tater says "actually, seattle, most of them are 24-25-26, no girlfriend, live with a few other male furries."
seattle says "how would anyone know if dirque had clothes on or not."
dirque says "furries are middle-age mudders with elevated testosterone levels"
seattleohhhs.
Tourmaline says "some people have the bad luck to be involved with furrymuck, but can be rescued and untaught their furry ways."
Tater seattleohhhs also.
Tater UNTAUGHT THEIR FURRY WAYS
Storm is on Furry but isn't 'Furry'.
Tater says "you're a goddamn kitten, Storm"
Storm says "lots of Furry bigotry everywhere."
dirque says "seattle, I have to pay for the food being delivered"
Storm says "well. sure. but i don't dry hump in public."
elthar listens to the Sundays
seattle says "What's that got with being dressed?"
Storm says "sunday?"
Storm says "SUNDAY! SUNDAY! MonsteRRRRR trucks! SEE the Tower of POWER! See the CARNAGE! Taste the BLOOD! See the DEATH! TASTE the excitement, and the TIRES! Watch the flames rise and fall! SEE the G.L.O.W.  wrestlers fight 'OMICRON' the 50 foot Semi-Truck that turns into a Fred-Flintstone ROOOOBBOOOOTTTT!! And if you're not there you better be DEAD! We'll sell you the whole seat, but you'll only need the EDGE edge EDGE! Additional treat: TEN Thousand DEAD babies run over BY by..  BIG FOOOOOOOOOOTTTTT!!!!!

"
Devon wouldn't be a MU*er if it wasn't for Furry... the guy that introduced him to TIM was originally a Furry.
Tourmaline says "but he got better?"
Randomness remembers the argument Tourmy had with the Furry about a squirrel characters teats.  "In particular, the *number* of teats."
seattle says "Storms been drinking a lot of coffee."
Storm just ate an ice cream bar.
Finrod "He turned me into a furry!"  "A furry?"  "I got better."
elthar knows a guy who goes to FurryMUCK solely to talk to a friend of his.  In order to qualify for the theme, his character wears a forehead toupee.
dirque says "HHAHAHAHAHA I LOVE baiting hervestia about saying it has 6 breasts"
Randomness drinks more orange drink and considers how to retrieve his inoperative car from Amherst.
Randomness nods to dirque.  "Yup.
Tater was on Furry about 30 minutes ago... left when they all spent ten minutes using their oh-so-furry hug global on each other and then started discussing something on a show called "the edge" or "edge" about plastic surgery to add breasts to people so they can have more than 2 breasts.
Tourmaline says "awww what happened to your car, ness?"
Storm shudders at Tater.

-- 
"On a makeshift outboard canoe, Debbie sailed to New York, where she was soon
adopted by a nice upper-middle class Protestant family, who introduced her to
record producer Fred Zarr-- and the rest was history." -lafolle@ucscb.ucsc.edu