Conference 7.286::sports_91

    Gee, I'm still standing, makes me wonder who the puppet really was...
    

Well I guess that's about it on Guy Lewis Bashing...

Good Luck, Doc.

TTom

    Best of luck Doc.
    
    The Crazy Met
    

    You still going to play zone defense in 3 on 3 football games?????
    
    (8^)*
    
    JaKe
    

    Nice  to meet ya doc, Im heading out, things wont be the same without
    
    sports, but thats a writing for a time soon.. Funny i read of you
    moving on this morn, right after reading of  Warren Moon lighting
    
    it up in a football scrimmage, the oilers may get to the promised land
    
    after all.... Course you have heard of the KOD  havent you doc?
    
    Best of luck, and may  God  bless
    
    
    Dinz
    

    Things sure are changin'...
    
    Good luck, Doc.
    
    ...and you're welcome.  (-:

    K,
    
    IM ON HALLUGEONS this  morn, from the SIMMS signing.. You, hawk and doc
    
    sounds like  huey, dewey, amd looey..............
    
    dinz
    

       Best of luck to ya Doc! PLEASE try and make it to the Other Place
    Pub for the big git together nexted Friday (31st)! We're going to miss
    your opinions, even thought most a them were wrong! many 8^)
                                         Denny

 Yeah Doc you got to join us on the 31 st....Going to miss you. You certainly
 opened up my eyes on a lot of issues. Certainly not on the Celts or Bill 10X
 Wilt debates etc but more things like life itself.....

 mike

    is that parkay or margarine??
    

    Doc,
    
    I'm sorry to hear about you being shot and I think DEC's the bigger
    loser.
    You've certainly been a major player in the locker room, taking all the
    crap we dole out and flipping it right back.  
    I hope that one of your better memories is the BBall game @MikeC's when
    I let you young whippersnapper blast by me a few times for a layup!
    
    Best o' luck
    
    I remain,
    getting increasingly depressed about my friends!
    Kev
    

    FWIW - 
    
    For anybody who's being "rightsized" and leaving the sportsbar, if you
    have a PC with a modem, I understand that you can send us mail and
    receive mail if you have an account from MCI.  I believe it costs about 
    $7.00 per month and it costs you nothing to receive mail.
    
    This could be a way to stay in touch with your "network" and friends.
    
    I found out about this in the SERP notesfile (Noted::Serp) and I also
    extracted the name of the MCI contact if you want more information.
    If anybody would like it, send me some 'trons and I'll reply.
    
    Naturally, standard disclaimer - I have no personal, financial or any
    interest in MCI.
    
    I remain,
    grasping at ways to keep the Loonies together  :*(
    Kev
    

    
    Bye, Doc, and good luck.  Look for the DrM banner that will be hoisted
    to the Boston Garden rafters.
    
    Dickstah
    

    Good luck with your future endeavors, Doc.
    
    And post those five anti-Jihad questions for the Slash one lasted time
    
    MikeL
    

    Doc,
    
    Best of luck in whatever you do. I've met a lot of the folks here, but
    you were one I would have liked to have met. I hoped I'd meet you at one 
    of the get togethers, but unfortunately I'll miss the nexed one cause
    I'll be on vacation. 
    
    BTW, I saw a short black man, prob'ly early 30s, getting into a blue
    Nissan with a Houston Rockets (and a I [heart] DOS) bumper sticker on
    it, in the Acton Triple-A supermarket parking lot yesterday. I
    thought maybe.... 
    
    Tom

Tough break Doc.  

Hang in there, good luck in all your future endevors.  You always offered a well 
developed (not necessarily right 8^)) opinion, and called it as you saw it.

Keep your chin up, and hopefully land something this week.  I will not be able 
to attend on the 31st, but I'll raise a personal toast to you, Hawk, Dinz, and 
hopefully nobody else.

=Bob=

    
    You forgot to thank me in .0, but that's okay... I know you meant to.
    
    Good Luck.

    
    What the? Doc too? Say it aint so? Man pretty soon there will
    be no one left...
    
    Doc, good luck, wish I had a chance to play some footsball with
    ya I'm sure it would've been fun, even though I would have 
    rather been on the opposing team! 8^) Take care and I hope to
    see you on the 31st.
    
    
    Steve

    Good luck, Dr. Naught, aka, Dr. Double-ot, aka, Dr. Midlife-crisis.
    
    Was a pleasure meeting with you and sparring with you in here and
    Soapbox.  Looks like I'll have to defend the Erlers on my own.
    
    Mark.

    Hey Markie, the Oilers, just like the 'Canes, sip big time!
    
    By the way, Lechmere's is having a "greatest hits" sale all this week. 
    Now you can pick up that Bobby Goldsboro cd you've been eyein'.  Would
    look impressive nexted to your Paul Williams' greatest cd...  :-)
    
    Hawk
    

Hey, will the last one out do a 

		# shutdown -h now


on the way out?



Doc,

Best o' luck to you.  Yeah, we never had a chance to drill each other, but
I would have welcomed the opportunity to play beside you on the pitch.

Keep in touch, and remember that Larry Bird is GOD(tm)   8^)


Take care,
'Saw

    Nice try making it sound like 'Saw was the one doing the ducking.  You
    neglected to mention that you never took me up on my invitations to
    come to a rugby training session or two.  We could have even started
    you off with something at your speed -- we play alot of touch rugby in
    the summer time ~/~.
    
    Good Luck to you in whatever you choose to persue.

    First Danbo, now Doc.  {SIGH!}  Where have all the Faker fans gone?! ;-)
    
    At least I had the chance to meet you once.  You can always say it was
    a pleasure knowing me.
    
    And remember, Suns in '93!
    
    Mike

    re: .21
    
    Another convert to the U or O words :-)
    
    The Crazy Met
    

>    
>    Another convert to the U or O words :-)
>    
>    The Crazy Met


Not a convert.  More like an eclectic, who appreciates all that there
is to experience.....8^)


'Saw
    

Later doc,


Give me a call someday when Andre Ware becomes the DetRiot(tm) starter so I 
can bow to your QB picking wisdom :-)

Metz

    Doc,
    
    What's the package?
    
    deen to wonk et al....
    
    Kev
    

    Really wishing you the best.......Thanks for all your support with the
    3 point contest....sorry you never won..;-)
    
    Still going to be reffing?
    
    Dee

 Bye, Doc.  You wore the Anti-Jihad mantel very well indeed.
 
 Keep the faith ... always.
 
 Bob Hunt

George -

Well, since you've sent me mail over the last year, I've had a feeling I'd
see one of these notes in here one day.

Good luck - and I do hope you find a job that will use your professional
talents and ambitions to the fullest.  

Still remember the first time I met you - when you sauntered into the Sitting
Bull and axed if we were the SPORTS folks.   Still cracks me up.

And, BTW, did you ever get that oil leak fixed with yer Hyundai?

Well, adios, and remember these unarguable facks (TM)

1.  Worn Moon has inflated dastistics because of the run n' shoot.

2.  Ralph Sampson was always a stiff, and he picked fights on little guys.

3.  FloJo did 'roids.

4.  Wilt was a stiff.

5.  The Oilers play wimply-girly-mon football.

6.  Tony Rice, Major Harris, and Andre Ware are better suited to work the
    home appliance section of Sears then they are to be NFL QB's.

7.  The Browns rule!  WOOF WOOF WOOF

8.  Phil Simms is God.

9..  Larry Bird is God.

10.  Bill Russell is God.

11. The Padres and Astros both had uniforms that were like softball uniforms.

12.  The Chargers should have the lightning bolts down the side of the pants.

13.  You don't play zones in 3 on 3 football.

14.  Akeem < RObinson < Ewing

15.  I still say you should have gotten a Pat Riley hairdo

16.  Doug Williams was wearing red slippers in 1987.  He clicked them axidentally
      and 'poof' he was back home.

17.  Phil SImms > John Elway > Jay Scroeder > Doug Williams > Worn Moon

18.  Byron Scott does Dr. Midnight impersonations during the playoffs ;-)

19.  Browns > Steelers > Bengals > Oilers

20.  All of your favorite teams are worse than my favorite teams!


Take Care...

JD

    
    Don't forget that you can get an additional 10% on your separation
    benefits when you show your Pepsi "Gotta Have It" card.
    
    Dickstah
    

    re Bob
    
    Your p-name is priceless !
    
    Re JD
    
    Too rooolwaard .... pity that I actually agree with you ona few of the
    points.
    
    But Worn Moon will be in the Hall before Phillamina Simms ....
    
    Haa.
    
    Doc
    
    p.s. Where is The Other Pub ? How and when ?

    C'mon Doc,
    "where is The Other Pub"?????
    
    I know you're from another planet, being a_engineer and the like but I
    soitenly never thought you were under a rock too!
    
    OK, one last time and I'll type r-e-a-l slow so you can grasp it.
    
    Take 290 towards Woostah.  Get off at the Rte 140 North exit.  This
    will put you on rte 140 going north.  Follow the road.  It will
    go downhill for maybe a mile.  If it's light out, you'll pass by a 
    nursery/tree farm on your right.  A little further and you'll see a
    small bunch of stores on your right.  The Other Place is the first
    store there.  Turn right into the parking lot, pahk de cah and enter
    the door.
    You've gone too far it you reach a traffic light (intersection of 140
    and rte 70).  If you reach it, take appropriate actions.
    
    Hal Tried Hard(tm)
    
    Kev
    

    Mac, we need another O-lineman on our team. Be a main's main and playw
    ith us, and I'll join the rugby team ... deal ?

Gee, I may show up for this thang, if only to make sure it doesn't turn
into a touchy-feely, alan alda hugathon...

JD

 I heard through the RON grapevine that "anybody who's anybody is going to be
 there"

 JD, after we do the alan alda stuff we're going to head down to Pudgys and 
 cleanse ourselves.....

 mike

    Color me there.
    
    Mark.

    Ha ha Mikey, too funny!  Where'd you learn to be such a comedian?! :-)
    
    JD, if I were you, I'd wear a cup and one a them amateur boxing haid
    gear thangs...  :-)
    
    Hawk
    

    I'm going.  That's reason enough to be there.
    
    HTH.

       Hey Mike if you're going to 'cleanse' yourself at Pudgy's you better
    run yourself through a car wash on yer way home!
                                  Denny

    Why DennY?
    I thought Pudgy's was a Turkish steam bath.
    

    Where's Porky's?
    
    Hawk
    

Hawk,

Rollward.   The only cup I got is a coffee mug.  Sure look strange walking
into the bar with that in my pants.

I'll be easy to spot.  I'll have on my Dream Team hat, a Larry Bird t-shirt,
Air Jordan sneakers, Official Scottie Pippen jams, A Pat Ewign/Dream Team
knee pad, an official Dream Team Chris Mullin haircut, A Roger Is God wristband,
Mario Lemiuex official socks, an official Dream Team belt, and I'll be 
carrying two Nissin hamburger buns.

JD

    Yeah, And we'll know it's you cuz you'll have a lot of baloney
    between the buns, JD.
    
    8^),
    MikeL
    

    Phil  Simms  is  God..

    re .46
    
    Then I'm proud to be a heathen ....

    re: .34
    
    If it is dark out you won't pass the nursery/tree farm, it turns into
    a pumkin farm once it gets dark. :-)
    
    The Crazy Met
    

Mark,

I'll be there too.  We can compare notes on a certain actress we both
like...


And to the rest of you, I'm coming buck naked, just for the helluva it...


'Saw

Saw, coming naked?  Geez, I'll know how to spot him.......

JD

    
>>And to the rest of you, I'm coming buck naked, just for the helluva it...


>>'Saw
    
    You going to be carrying 2 cups of coffee and a dozen donuts, too????
    
    Inquiring minds and all that
    
    (8^)*
    
    JaKe
    

>    Inquiring minds and all that
>    
>    (8^)*
>    
>    JaKe
>    


Well, I figure SOMEONE needed to liven this place up.

I mean, we were talking about poor dead Uncle Bert today, and then
we find out that Hawk is really having to leave, and it was just
so sad and depressing....


'Saw

    	'Saw the thought of your naked body isn't exactly making the
    mood any better...

>    	'Saw the thought of your naked body isn't exactly making the
>    mood any better...


Well, I thought it would be good for a laugh.....

You know, bare it all in the cause of humor!


'Saw

    re .1
    
    > Gee .... [I] wonder who the puppet really was ...
    
    "Rodney Peete is GOD ... Tigers roooule ... Cecil is god ... Save Tiger
    Staidum ... Lions in 92 ... Gullickson > Clemens ...Rodney is ...."

    I wa just thinking ....
    
    
    
    
    Parking at the Mill will become *much* easier by September 1 ....

>    I wa just thinking ....
>    Parking at the Mill will become *much* easier by September 1 ....


Hell, if they keep this up, they'll ONLY need the Mill.....8^)

    Livewire reported @~4:45  Palmer was OK'd by the board.
    
    This AM we released the $ #'s.  Not good.
    
    $1.8 B loss for the quarter of which $1.5B is "restructuring".
    
    EEEEgads!
    
    Kev
    

       Operating loss was $188 million, a little bit better than expected.
                                       Denny

    re: .60
    
    Yup, stock is up 1/2 point. Crazy world! IBM announces a five fold
    earnings increas and their stock plummets.
    
    The Crazy Met
    

>    Yup, stock is up 1/2 point. Crazy world! IBM announces a five fold
>    earnings increas and their stock plummets.
    
Geez, maybe people love a loser after all.....8^)    

    
    
    	Doc, sorry to hear the news.  Good luck though in whatever and
    wherever you end up.
    
    	Remember, keep that crease in your pants, keep the shoes shined,
    and never blow my lines!
    
    
    								goose
    

    Goose,  why not carpool with 'Saw and c'mon east?
    
    It's been what, 2 years since you were in the area (playing BBall,
    remember?)
    
    Kev
    

    
    	Carpool?  With Saw... what's going on.  Sorry, but I only skimmed
    over the last 2 google worth of replies.
    
    								bill..g.
    

>    	Carpool?  With Saw... what's going on.  Sorry, but I only skimmed
>    over the last 2 google worth of replies.
    
Get together at the Other Place Pub in Boylston on the 31st.  For
Dinz, Hawk and Doc...all soon-to-be former DECcies..


I'd offer to Car pool except that when I leave OPP I don't go back towards
Springfield, I get off at 9 and head down 84 to Hebron, where men are
men, sheep are scared, and the rest I can't say in this file....


'Saw    

     See note 19.*
                                Denny

�    Mac, we need another O-lineman on our team. Be a main's main and playw
�    ith us, and I'll join the rugby team ... deal ?
    
    That's like me asking Bill Lee to give up the Grey Sox and come pitch
    for my slowpitch softball team.
    
    Besides, you don't need me, you have Walt.

    Hey !
    
    That's DOC, dinz, and Hawk .....

>    That's DOC, dinz, and Hawk .....


Well, no offense Doc, but it did start out for Dinz, and then Hawk gave
us his bad news, then you gave us yours, so we were just being
chronically chronological.....

hth
'Saw

�Well, no offense Doc, but it did start out for Dinz, and then Hawk gave
�us his bad news, then you gave us yours, 
    
    More evidence of Doc's propensity to jump on bandwagons!

It may be dInZ, Hawk, and Doc now, but by the 31st.....It could S.R.O
in the OPP.

Chap

    
    re: 31st
    
    	Sorry, but I can't make the trip.  Never would ride with 'saw-man
    anyway.  He's always making bah-baaaah sounds while driving and
    rubbing his 'wool' seat cover.  Never could quite figure out why he
    did that until he told me where he was from a couple of notes back.
    
    
    								bill..g.
    

>    	Sorry, but I can't make the trip.  Never would ride with 'saw-man
>    anyway.  He's always making bah-baaaah sounds while driving and
>    rubbing his 'wool' seat cover.  Never could quite figure out why he
>    did that until he told me where he was from a couple of notes back.
>    
>    
    								bill..g.


hahahahahahahahahaaa.... you gots me rollin' now!


Actually, I always carry rubber boots and a portable cliff in the truck,
just in case I come across any pastures with herds in them....


Beware of sheep with bald haunches...

'Saw    

    Rubber boots and a portable cliff?  Too funny!
    
    Hmmmm, sounds like a pretty good business venture...  :-)
    
    Hawk
    
    

    This may be the last note for The Doc in this DEC incarnation :
    
    Before I go off to work for a small software company, I just want to
    thank everyone who sent mail messages of support. The volume of
    mail/phone messages I've gotten has been nothing short of stunning. I
    was honestly moved by it. 
    
    Thanks again for making me welome in SPORTS. I learned a lot here. I
    hope I opened a few eyes and broadned a few horizons as mine were. If
    that happened, then I truly wil have left a meaningful mark in this
    conference.
    
    Goose, I'm sorry we won't see each other next Friday (after taking a
    year off to heal, I'll be back on the court this year), but I hope to
    see a lot of the Freakin' SPORTSroom Loonies (Gotta get ven with JD and
    a few others). If I don't, please send me your phone number et al before 
    5pm. Or get it to the mods, and I'll get it from there.
    
    Be well people. I hope we all survive the next 12 months in DEC's New
    World Order ... :-)
    
    Warm regards,
    
    George "Dr Midnight" Brooks
    
    

>    Before I go off to work for a small software company, I just want to
    
    Tell T we said, "Hey!"

I  wouldn't call 10,000 people and hiring at a rate of 2.5k every year a 
small software company. They'll pass us on  our way down in a few years..

metz

    
    BTW, I figured I'd post the truth about the Slasher ... seems he's
    pullinga Quayle on the pro-l, uh pro-Wilt debate.
    
    Ciao,
    
    Doc
    
    
    
From:	AXIS::ROBICHAUD    "Donald J. Robichaud ML 5-5/E72 Ext 3-7111" 22-JUL-1992 15:21:23.40
To:	DOC
CC:	
Subj:	wilt > RUSSELL

	...always was and always will be.  First I tole SnideAir now you.  If 
I'm stillaround I'll have to find some fresh meat to feast on come February.
But I felt that you should know this as a going-away present.  If you tell
anyone about this ... I make sure that you-know-who will be at the OPP next 
Friday.  8^)


				/Don
                    

    If anyone's interested in attending a bash for Doc on Saturday,
    send me mail...

    
    I'm there, when and where?
    

    Sorry Paul, I didn't get mail from you.  Wasn't in here a lot this
    week.  I'm sure he would have wanted you to be there...
    

    
    No problem, I'll go see him at Lechmere.  Is there going to be a
    TIGERMANIA this year?  What about TRIBEMANIA?

    No one has stepped forward to organize either, and I'm not since I've
    had my turn.  The September 22 game against the Tribe is Fan
    Appreciation Night.
    
    John

    
    How many tickets are typically needed?  I can check into it and see
    if there are any seats left.

The RON's already had their Tigermania get together....

JD

�    How many tickets are typically needed?  I can check into it and see
�    if there are any seats left.
    
    Have everyone send you a check for the number of tickets wanted.  Then
    order enough to cover the checks you get.  Make sure you don't lose the
    tickets once you get them, though.

       I think groaner is saying he'd like to check first and see if blocks
    are available. The Sox are so hot now they might be sold out!!
                                      Denny

	Well I guess I'll steal Midnight's thunder just like I used to in 
our annual RUSSELL/chamberlain debates.  8^)  The chances are pretty good 
that I'll be history come Pearl Harbor Day.  It's not 100% official yet 
and probably will not be until December 7th, but I figured I would put this in 
now in case any of you want to buy me a sympathy beer in Haafahd' this 
Saturday.  8^)  

	Seriously though, it's been fun and I was glad to meet as many of 
you as I did.  I wish the rest of you luck no matter what you choose to do.

				/Don

       Yeah, me too. Although as /Don said, it's not "official" yet. I sure
    hope it is though. The relief it makes you feel is astounding!! I'll
    take a margarita in Haffa!
                                            Denny

>       Yeah, me too. Although as /Don said, it's not "official" yet. I sure
>    hope it is though. The relief it makes you feel is astounding!! I'll
>    take a margarita in Haffa!



Wow.  I'm in shock.  

December 7, 1992, a day that will live in infamy......


Hey, maybe you guys are the lucky ones, you know.  I mean, by the time
the takeover is complete, there won't be a Digital any more.....


Let us know as soon as you hear anything concrete!


'Saw

       To tell the truth, I am feeling lucky that it's happening now. I'd
    be amazed if this isn't the lasted package to offer anything beyond 9
    weeks.
                              Denny

    
    Slasher & Denny?????
    
    Oh sheeyittt!
    
    This has not made my day, at all!
    
    Maybe we should hold the Get Together at the Maynard funeral Home?
    
    I remain,
    seeping under a cloud
    8*(
    Kev
    

    
    Would the last one out of the file kindly turn off the pilot light,
    drain the pipes, and make arrangements to feed the cat?
    

    > I'd be amazed if this isn't the lasted package to offer anything beyond 9
    > weeks.                                                           
    
    Denny, I've been "unofficially" told that by my management.
    
    
    My department will be hit on the 7th as well, I feel it could go either
    way for me...keeping my fingers crossed for all of us.
    
    
    py
      

You can add me to the December 7th hit list too (probably).  I work in the
same group as /'r, and I'm in the same (sinking) boat.

Chap

Well, I work in the same Organization as PY, and Dec. 7th is our day too.  Don't
know what will happen, it could go either way.  I won't be shocked if the
whole group is nuked, though.  Who knows?

JD

If I'm still around when this file loses its last faithful noter, 
I'll scuttle her personally and go down with the ship, like any good
Captain......


hth,
'Saw

    Geez, and I thought it was getting quiet in here now...
    
    :^(
    Joe

    
    I didn't like it when John Hendry left.  My next unseen key liked it
    when MrT and Dan left.  The objective side of me won't like it if py
    leaves. The part of me that like to laugh at the Pats won't like it if
    Denny leaves.  The part of me that likes to pick on the ill-informed
    won't like it if jd leaves.
    
    BUT...
    I'LL BE REAL PISSED IF SLASHER LEAVES!~!!  WHOSE GONNA PICK ON ALL THE
    SOCCER WIMPS WITH ME?
    
    Brews

    I Can't beleive it !!  
    
     Slasher, Denny, JD, py and Chappy...  Thats a pretty good percentage
    of this file on the way out.  This is really depressing.  Even though
    I'm only a football season noter I will miss all of you.  Slasher,
    you've been in the conference sone the first day I logged into it, I
    hope you make it through this nexted(tm) storm.  The same goes to the
    other guys who think they might be on the way out.  I hate this crap !!
    It just never gets easy (and it never should) to watch friends that 
    you have worked with and known for years be forced to move on.  We are
    getting hit out west as well.  Rumors have it that about 40 to 60
    people will be hit in CXO manufacturing.  Many of the people that are
    at risk will be told today...  I wonder if I'll be one...  I have
    enjoyed working for DEC for 13 years but I don't know how much more
    of this kind of cut throat business I can handle...  Maybe Hi-Tech
    ain't for me anymore.  I realize that these are survival practices
    for our once mighty company but it's really hard to watch the 
    dismanteling of all that I've watched built over the past 13 years.
    It truely is a sad day for DEC when good people are forced to leave.
    I am begining to understand why the autoworkers are so gung-ho on
    buy only american.  I will think long and hard before I buy another
    japanese product.  I currently own a Toyota (great truck) a Yamaha
    FZR 600 motorcycle (Rocket on wheels), Japanese Audio and Video
    equipment and god only knows what else I didn't know was imported
    when I bought it...  I'm really having second thoughts about those
    purchases now as I see our economy dip deeper and deeper into the 
    abyss.  I know now that it won't happen again...  I will buy american
    when ever possible even when I have to pay a bit more $$ for it.
    ARRRRRRRRGGGGGGGGGGHHHHHHHHH !!!!!!!!!!!!!!!   Good luck to you all,
    you will be sorely missed by this noter from CXO and by this company
    (weather they know it now or not).
    
    
    BG  :^(
    
    P.s  I have a great article thats been circulating over the NET about
         the japanese trade and market penetration policies.  It's quite 
         long but worth reading...  If you'd like a copy, send me mail
         and I'll shoot it your way.

    	Brews, if it'll make you feel better I'll head down to Foxboro
    for the World Cup games and beat up a few of those soccer sissies...
    
    				/Don

    
      Denny and Slash might be relieved even happy to go but most of
     us here, nay, ALL of us here will miss their presence greatly. Be-
     tween Slash, Denny, MikeL and Dickstah I'm guaranteed at least a few 
     chuckles a day. It looks like Dickstah and Leary are going to have 
     to pick up alot of slack. And as someone else said losing PY would 
     be losing one of the few objective voices of reason (Lord knows I'm 
     not one). And Tom Hill, you gotta like a guy who posts notes about 
     English League soccer and thinks he's doing us a great service.[isfh]
     Then there's JD, what can you say about JD that hasn't been said al-
     ready, behind his back. Let's hope the worst case scenario doesn't 
     come to pass.

    Heck of a way to start the morning, afternoon or whatever it happens to
    be now. I really hope those who are not sure will make it through the
    cuts. It just won't be the same with so many ::SPORTS stalwarts gone.
    And sure I'll buy a sympathy beer on Sat. night.
    
    The Crazy Met
    

Big Game -

I'm not definite, and in fact, my group may not get hit - but I doubt it.
As part of TNSG, I can't assume any group is safe.   I just have a gut 
feeling.

JD

    JD,
    
     Thats good,  I hope you make it !!  As for being "safe"  I don't think
    any of us (DECies) can assume that. 
    
    BG

    Cheer up guys!  I'll still be here!
    
    HA! HA! HA! HA! HA! HA! HA! HA! HA! HA! HA! HA! HA! HA! HA! 

    
    >>Would the last one out of the file kindly turn off the pilot light,
    >>drain the pipes, and make arrangements to feed the cat?
    
    Who we feeding the cat to??????????????
    
    They DO taste like chicken, in case anybody's interested.
    
    Re the next line of SPORTSters leaving, sheeeeeeeeeyit, sheeeeeeeeeyit,
    sheeeeeeeeeeeyit!!!!
    
    This place is gonna be like a morgue in a few weeks.
    
    As someone else already said, put something in here, either way, when
    it becomes concrete.
    
    JaKe
    

    
�     Thats good,  I hope you make it !!  As for being "safe"  I don't think
�    any of us (DECies) can assume that. 
 
Here, here.  Ask not for whom the bell tolls...

Right now this is worse than my days at Wang.  There, you basically knew 
your turn would come around.  Here you live in doubt, and maintain the hope 
that the company will pull out of it, or that you will be spared.

Good luck to all of us.  Sounds like we'll need a role-call after the 7th.

=Bob=
  

    great p-name =Bob=...  You must be a manly man to make it through
    Chuckies alive !!
    
    I Remain,
    
    Still having heart burn from Chuckies,
    
    BG

    RE the lasted two
    
    My 3 year old LOVES Chuck E. Cheese's.  He first went there on his 2nd
    birthday, and now, everynight before he goes to bed, he says to the
    wife,"I got to Chuck E. Cheeses on my birfday??", asking about the
    nexted birthday.
    
    The first time I tried those peppers they got in the jar(dried???) was
    there, and I put about 10 tiomes too much on the pizza, and then ate
    TONS of ice cream.
    
    The nexted day, sitting on the stool letting the peppers do their burn
    thang a second time, I was rooting BIGTIME fer the ice cream to kick
    in!!
    
    
    (8^)*
    
    JaKe
    

We went to ChuckE's to preview it for Lindsey's third birthday party.  The place
was utter chaos, with kids of all ages running around like banshees.

Lindsey, of course, loved it.  Melanie (4 mos.) was totally freaked by it, 
however, and spent the whole time hiding her face on my shoulder.  She's not 
coming to the birthday party...

=Bob=

To create a ChuckECheeses training ground for parents:


	1. Invite the neighborhood kids in.  

	2. Supply plenty of candy bars, cookies,
	   and jelly beans

	3. Put some toys out.

	4. Let the sugar high kick in.

	5. Bring in parents in small groups, for small time
	   periods.

	6. Increase time periods to the target zone of 60 minutes....


hth,
'Saw

RE: -1

Don't forget to turn the lights down, surround the kids with about a hundred
visually pleasing ways to shoot through large sums of money in a 5 minute 
time span, and dress as a 6 foot rodent.

    When my 6 year old was 2-1/2, we took him there fer his sister's birthday.
    
    This is the same kid who got the woodie watching the Disney flick.
    
    He had never been there, and to this day, doesn't like getting near
    people in costume as large rodents, etc.
    
    Well, I was holding the kid when ol' Chuck E. hisself waltzes in and
    shakes his hand, almost out of nowhere,  Robbie dug his hands into my
    neck SUPER tight, let out this blood curdling scream, and loaded his
    diaper, BIGTIME, immediately.  Literally scared the crap outta the
    kid.
    
    
    
    JaKe
    

    
    And make sure the kids spill more orange soda on the floor than the
    entire chain of Sack Cinemas received last year.
    
    Dickstah
    

    Ah yes, Chuck E. Cheeses...there's one just down the road from me in
    Manchester, I'm sure we'll end up giving Meghan a birthday party there
    sooner or later.  A college friend used to be the mouse at the one on
    the North Shore, he said that each day you could count on serveral kids
    pulling on your tail, throwing the plastic balls from the "Sea of
    Balls" at you, running you over as they run frantically to the next
    video game, etc..
    
    =Bob=, when did you work at Wang?  I was there from Sept. 1982 to March
    1987 (I was a writer in PC/2200 documentation my first 3-1/2 years
    there, and spent my last year in VS Languages/Database documentation).
    
    
    py

    
    There used to be a similar chain around when my kids were younger
    called "Showbiz Pizza."  A bunch of mechanical critters put on a "stage
    show", and in between, the kids could play ski ball and other video
    games.  For $20 they could walk out with a plastic whistle and a smile
    on their faces.  Adults should not go in without asprin, and stronger
    drugs are recommended.
    
    Chuckie Cheese, complete in costume, tried to pick up my wife's sister
    once over a pepperoni 'za.  Like, I'm sure she was highly
    impressed with the outfit.
    
    Dickstah
    

    
    >>Chuckie Cheese, complete in costume, tried to pick up my wife's sister
    >>once over a pepperoni 'za.  Like, I'm sure she was highly
    
    Lessee, he didn't invite her into the back room to "see his pepperoni",
    did he????
    
    JaKe
    

    Ok what is Chuck E. Cheese??
    
    The Crazy Met
    

>    Ok what is Chuck E. Cheese??
>    
>    The Crazy Met


Don't feel bad, Craze, because I used to not know what it was.

Jake englightened me.....


'Saw    

    re: Jake and the diper loading story...
    
     Kid takes after his dad, eh...  
    
    Chuck E. Cheese is a Pizza Joint for rug rats.
    
    BG

      We used to have showbiz pizza,  but chuckies bought 'em out.  Its the
    worst pizza I have ever had.  I would rather eat chef boy are d 1st. 
    My kids "make" me take them there all the time.
    
      If you have a party,  be so tactful as to tell the other parents to
    supply their kids with $$$$ for the games:^) I sunk $40 in less than an
    hour once.  It was worth the happiness of my daughter,  but beer funds
    were limited for that weekend;^)......
    
      Alot of people got the ax today at CXO.  I have no numbers,  but its
    very uncomfortable since most of them I just got done working with:-(
    
      Tim

I hate to interupt this rodent rapture, but I heard from one of our dear
departed brethren today - Mr. Robert Hunt.   Bob and I always bantered back
and forth when the Jints/Iggles played, and I missed that this weekend - first
time I met Bob was at a Jints/Iggles game at the Vet back in 1987.

ANyway, Bob is doing pretty well.  The consulting company he's in, which consists
of 4 ex-Deccies, has 3 of 'em full-time billed.  Bob is enjoying some bittersweet
irony in that DEC sales folks have been contacting the firm for help in
responding to some customer needs, so they get to do their old job, cept they
get to charge DEC at consultant/contractor wages, and not what they were
paid by DEC.

He said all is well with the family also.

JD

TCM

Shortly after making a sizable fortune by selling Atari, Nolan Bushnell 
decided to open a chain of places for family, playing, and spending large 
sums of money.  Picture a very large arcade, including a "ball pit" (where 
kids can get lost in a sea of brightly colored plastic balls, counter serivce 
for pizza for kids and adults, and a large "theater" where automated figures
similar to what you see at Disney World entertain every half hour or so.  Sound
pretty good?  Well add to the mix about 200 kids of all ages, who, simply by 
the nature of the atmosphere, feel they have permission to act like uncivilized
creatures.  

It's really a lot of fun.

PY

I was at Wang only from 1983-1985.  Worked in Manufacturing Information Systems
in Tewksbury.  Writing COBOL to interface with AMAPS, the big manufacturing
system at the time.  I really liked it, but at the end things started going
bad, and they made some stupid management decisions.  I left at the beginning 
of the end.

    I went there once with my brood.  Sensory Overload is the only phrase
    that adequately describes the place.  It's a place where parents feel
    they can let there kids misbehave.  If all parents were as permissive
    as the ones we encountered at CEC, there is no hope for this planet.
    If you have trouble dealing with kids that are potential future juvenile 
    delinquents, don't go to CEC. 
    
    We saw kids running up and down the skee-ball alleys throwing those
    wooden skeeballs (ouch!).  Most of the kids tried to break things.  I guess
    you'd call it supervised vandalism.  A micrcosm of all social ills.
    
    -Paul (Chuck E. Cheese Curmudgeon)
    

    
    Chuck E Cheese was also one of the largest Rainbow accounts at one
    time.  They bought hundreds of them after they came out of thier first
    Chapter 11 filing.  A Lakers fan who used to sit next to me (keeping
    this sports related) sold them.  The credit people weren't very happy
    with them/him.
    
    Brews

    My kids love Chuck E. Cheese's.

    The one CEC we go to here in Pittsburgh has pretty good pizza, AND COLD
    BEER!!!!!
    
    The kids have a good time, I get sauced and the wifey drives home.
    
    JaKe
    

    
       Mikey, that p-name is blatant violation of our agreement. My 
      lawyers will be contacting yours about possible legal action. We 
      may settle out of court for aanother week with the correct p-name. 
      You will be notified

    Sorry Tommy, I forgot to spell check it.

    
     Exactly what time yesterday do you think I was born, Mikey ?

    do you want EST, MST, RA, HA, or Sidereal time?

    
    
    Maybe someone should collect names, phone numbers and addresses of
    those who are leaving.  That way we could do some get togethers
    for Sox games and such... ?
    

    
    Send 'em to me.
    
    I've already got
    Bob Hunt
    -dan'l
    JaKe
    A&W
    ninj'
    Hawk
    Saw
    B_A ('rember him?)
    MrT
    
    I remain,
    da repository!
    Kev
    

    Hey Kev, 
    You know somethin about me that I don't???  I ain't left, YET!!!!
    
    JaKe
    

    You've got Doc's, right?
    

How's about a posting the names Kev. Some of us that might need a reference...

I cain see Mr. T  with the puss ozing from the open sores on his back talking  
to a hiring manager about what a objective noter I was. 

Jeff

    
    Sheesh, a guy takes a day off and gets all sorts of insults via mail!
    
    ;^)
    
    Walt, I have Doc manyzero's phone # but don't have his address.
    
    I'll work on the complete address list today and post it when it's
    finished.  Right now it's hard copy.
    
    I remain,
    a REPOSITORY, not a suppository!
    Kev
    

    Enet or home?
    

       How about both?

    Yeah, I know, they were only funnin with the folks in Hotlanta and the
    Springs .......
    
    
    
    
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 SUBJ: REMOTE SALES SUPPORT (1-800-DEC-SALE) 
 
        **** Please share this message with all field employees ***
   
   A decision was recently announced to close Remote Sales Support in
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   Feedback from the U.S. field organization, product management, and 
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   We have heard from scores of people about the responsiveness and 
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    OK folks,
    
    The following is the list of ::SportsNoters, past and present that I
    have home addresses, home phone #'s, and in rare cases, Internet (or
    Computerserve) addresses.
    
    If you would like to be added to the list, please send me mail with 
    the appropriate information.
    
    I feel it inappropriate to put this list here for world-read access
    so what I'll do is send out the list to anyone who personally sends me
    mail.
    
    I'll also bring copies to OPP.
    
    I anticipate making a few revision as people ask to be added so I don't
    think I'll send it until perhaps Monday. Sound about right?
    
    OK - Here's my list:
    
    Jeff Riggen
    
    MrT
    
    Denny
    
    Doc 00:00
    
    JaKe
    
    BobH
    
    Ninj'
    
    Hawk
    
    'Saw
    
    A&W
    
    Kev (that's ME!)
    
    B_A
    
    -dan'l
    
    =BobM=
    
    Tom Hill
    
    MikeC
    
    If anybody on the list has reservations, even though I got all this,
    over time from this notesfile, please send me mail expressing your
    concerns.
    
    okey dokey?
    
    I remain,
    repositorily yours,
    Kev
    

    	Well looks like I'm still here.  After getting let go on Monday
    I was asked to stay on Tuesday.  It's a story so long and complicated
    that if I tried to explain it, it would make one of Chainsaw's notes
    look like one of my one-liners.  I'm heading over to personnel to
    get my job offer right now.  Before ACC comes in here and accuses
    me of a "MrT small software company scam" my "personal package"
    is still on the kitchen table.
    
    				/Don

    Great news /Slasher!
    
    Mike (who can identify with a last gasp rescue)

    I'm suspicious, /Don, but am optimistically hoping the layoff stress is
    what forced your unexpected Tar Heel defection.
    
    Here's to see you back on the side of the good guys ...
    
    
    - ACC Chris

    I knew it.  That's why I held out on the weepy farewell speech until he
    actually turned his badge in.
    
    So, you gonna make it to the Bull tonight, /er?  Or do you have some
    early morning committments in your new job that you'll hafta to go home
    and get a good night's sleep for?

    Where's T?  Something doesn't add up?  Should we go back and read his
    notes?  More importantly...
    
    Does this mean /Don buys tonight?
    

    	I'll be at the Bull.  Hopefully around 4:00.  Hey Walt, if you
    bring the money, I'll buy the beer...
    
    				/Don

       Yup, Looks like Slasher owes a lot a people a lot a beers. He'd a
    been better off leaving!
                                      Denny 8^o

    	RE: ACC - See personal name...

Two things, Slasher.

Firsted, you owe me a beer.

Second, can I take down that pencil stand you had me build for you
in front of my house?


That's DEC, too freaking weird!


'saw

    Whoa Whoa Whoa.
    
    You better have that bill fold ready when I get there fella.
    Forget beers. I want a 1925 bottle of Bushmills, chilled but not
    too frosty. Pronto.
    
    MikeL
    

Geez, having /Don laid off had restored my faith in DEC.  Oh well.  Guess that
explains why no one was at da Bull when I showed up at 2:00.  Maybe I'll try
again at around 7:00 when you gurls might be there.

j.

    re .146, best news I've heard all day Slasher, glad to hear it!
    
    I'm out the door for the last time shortly.  Kev has my address/
    phone number, I'll certainly pass the word along when I find something.
    
    
    py

    
    Congrats /er!  Hell with the Bull, lets head over to the soccer note to
    celebrate.
    
    Brews

    Great to hear some good news /Slasher. We really do want to hear the
    whole story and promise not to compare it to one of 'Saw;s long
    winded notes.
    
    The Crazy Met
    

       The real reason they told Slash he was leaving is that they figured
    they could get him to clean his office...and it worked!
                                      Denny

    FWIW... /Don did buy me a beer lasted night...he's not a complete
    Dinz...
    

>     ACESMK::FRANCUS "Mets in '93"                         6 lines  10-DEC-1992 22:24
>--------------------------------------------------------------------------------
>    Great to hear some good news /Slasher. We really do want to hear the
                                  ^^^^^^^
    
    Hey /er, ya got TCM so excited he cain't note without stuttering.

       Well folks, I'm outta here in a few minutes. It's been a pleasure,
    you're all the best on the net. Kev's got my number in his
    'suppository'. I'll make as many git togethers as I can. You all behave
    yourselves now ya hear!
                                       Denny

    Hope PY's interview is going well... Ric LeDonne's too...
    

    Take Care Denny...  :^(
    
    BG