From: dlady@duncan.cs.utk.edu (Don Lady)
Newsgroups: rec.motorcycles
Subject: Re: Whoever dies with the most toys, still dies
Date: 8 Jan 1993 01:57:50 GMT
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In article <1993Jan2.153959.18940@husc3.harvard.edu>, zeleny@husc9.harvard.edu (Michael Zeleny) writes:
|> In article <605.2B457629@kennel.FIDONET.ORG> 
|> john@kennel.FIDONET.ORG (John Hamilton) writes:
|> 
|> >Friday January 01 1993 21:52, Vareck Bostrom wrote to All:
|> 
|> VB:
|> >>Vareck Bostrom
|> >>bostrov@engr.orst.edu
|> >>'87 Ninja 600RX '92 CBR900RR  NeXT Turbo Color  NeXT Cube
|> >>'90 Nissan 300ZX '92 Nissan Pickup  '93 Beretta 92FS Centurion 9mm
|> >>'92 IMI Desert Eagle .41 Mag  '92 Colt King Cobra .357 Mag
|> >>'92 Glock 21 .45 ACP  '93 Ruger Single Six .22/.22 WMR
|> >>AK-47  Colt CAR-15  Mossberg 500A 12-ga.  S&W Model 29 .44 Mag
|> >>Savage 99 .250-3000  ...and other stuff
|> 
|> JH:
|> >Oh, my, I'm so impressed. Can I list my mint AutoMag 44, my Belgium Browning
|> >12 guage superimposed Pheasant Grade, or my 1802 Walthrop derringer too? Not to
|> >mention the Belgium Browning BAR in 30-06, or the Charles Daley superimposed,
|> >or the Mirouku skeet gun. After your comment about the guy only having a 600cc
|> >moto, I'd like to point out that if I traded you my weapons for yours, you'd
|> >still have to give me your car, your truck, your motos, and your computer gear
|> >to make it an even trade. Actually, even then, you'd owe me about 10 grand.
|> >So, don't pick on people because you think you've got more. Someone always is
|> >around who can show you up. Now, piss off, mate!
|> 
|> Don't you have to love it, -- a He-man pissing contest, with just the
|> right amount of ironic detachment.  Well, I guess I'll just "have" to
|> list my evil baby-killing laser-sighted semiautomatic 20-shot 7.62
|> NATO SIG AMT (with four extra magazines), the surgically precise 9mm
|> SIG P210, the 1918 9mm DWM P08, the commercial Belgian P35, or the .22
|> Browning Medalist, the 7x57 FN M98, the .380 Walther PP, the stainless
|> swimsuit special .32ACP Seecamp, the 7.63 CZ-52, or the FWB M65 Mk2.
|> Then again, there are the signed Shinto jo-saku katana and wakizashi,
|> the Randall #14 "Attack", and #19 "Camp knife".  Furthermore, I would
|> have to keep up with the Joneses, excuse me, the Hamilstroms, by
|> citing my Sparcstation and Sparcprinter, the GRiDCASE 1550sx (x2), the
|> Quad/Meridian/Linn Sondek audio system, the hundreds of Pleiade and
|> Studies in Logic volumes, the complete Bourbaki, and the unabridged
|> Second Edition of the OED, plus the CD-ROM Robert and the unabridged
|> Littre'.  Then there are the 1986 1000 Moto Guzzi LeMans, the 1980
|> Ducati 900SS, and that ultimate in internal combustion genital massage
|> units, the 1978 Laverda 1200 Mirage.  All that, and no desire to join
|> the DoD, the ACM, the NRA, the AMS, the ACLU, the GOP, or the NSDAP.
|> 
|> >John
|> >
|> >--  
|> >John Hamilton                  uucp: amdahl.com!kennel!john
|> >DoD #0327   ToT #11            internet: john@f8.n143.z1.fidonet.org
|> >ZX-11 From Hell.               arpa: john@kennel.FIDONET.ORG
|> >She said, "Its either me or that ZX-11!" Too bad, I'll miss her.
|> 
|> cordially,
|> mikhail zeleny@husc.harvard.edu
|> "Les beaulx bastisseurs nouveaulx de pierres mortes ne sont escriptz
|> en mon livre de vie.  Je ne bastis que pierres vives: ce sont hommes."
|> 
|> P.S.  Almost forgot to list a 1974 vintage, 5'7", 115#, nipple-length
|> haired, exotic Oriental bimbette bedwarmer.  
|> 
|> P.P.S.  What do I win?
|> 
|> 
|> 
The payment book.  

Don
dlady@cs.utk.edu

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