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Conference back40::soapbox

Title:Soapbox. Just Soapbox.
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Created:Thu Nov 17 1994
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156.0. "Shade " by BOXORN::HAYS (I think we are toast. Remember the jam?) Thu Dec 08 1994 09:06

Found on the internet:

		"A man has made at least a start on discovering the
		 meaning of human life when he plants shade trees
		 under which he knows full well he will never sit."
					D. Elton Trueblood

Discuss.
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156.1KERNEL::MVD03::newberypThu Dec 08 1994 09:101
I always thought the anwser was 42
156.2SOLVIT::KRAWIECKIZebras should be seen and not herdThu Dec 08 1994 09:236
    
    The man in question is an idjit!!!
    
    Shoulda planted the tree next to a river or lake so as to allow shade
    and comfort to some poor fisherman in desperate need of stress
    management...
156.4CTHU26::S_BURRIDGEThu Dec 08 1994 10:514
    I remember the name from childhood in Baptist church...I believe he is
    an evangelical minister/writer of some sort.
    
    -Stephen
156.5USAT05::BENSONThu Dec 08 1994 11:1626
    
    i love shade's music:
    
    diamond life
    city nights
    
    no need to ahsk,
    he's a smooth operator
    smoooth 
    oper-ate-oer
    smooth operator
    smoooooth oper-ate-or
    coast to coast
    
    l.a. to chicago
    western male
    across the north and
    south to Key Lahrgo
    love for sale
    
    no need to ahsk...
    
    i've seen many concerts in my life.  her's was one of, if not, the
    best.
    
    ffej
156.6GAVEL::JANDROWAu naturelle..back 2 basicsThu Dec 08 1994 11:5512
    
    
    pssssstttt......jeff.....that's 'sade'...pronounced "sha-day"...not
    shade...
    
    
    but you are right...she's got some very good music...
    
    
    yer welcum
    
    
156.7oh!;) actually, i thought it was shar-dayUSAT05::BENSONThu Dec 08 1994 11:571
    
156.8Agreed!TNPUBS::JONGSteveThu Dec 08 1994 12:002
    Pronounced shar-day, spelled Sade.
    One of my very favorites, too.
156.9GAVEL::JANDROWAu naturelle..back 2 basicsThu Dec 08 1994 12:016
    
    
    'shar-day'???  i have never heard anyone pronounce it that way...there
    is no 'r' in it...
    
    
156.10It says so right on their first CDTNPUBS::JONGSteveThu Dec 08 1994 12:041
    Even in Boston it's shar-day 8^)
156.11USAT05::BENSONThu Dec 08 1994 12:055
    well, there's no h in it either!
    
    she's liberian/british.  that probably explains it.
    
    jeff
156.12GAVEL::JANDROWAu naturelle..back 2 basicsThu Dec 08 1994 13:066
    
    
    well, i know there is no h in in...but still...it's harder to hide an r
    than it is an h...
    
    
156.13SadeGUMDRP::MARKEYMy big stick is a BerettaThu Dec 08 1994 15:051
    Boink music too... yes it is... tyvm.
156.14Sade & Barney : The Coverup RevealedSCAPAS::RAWL::MOOREI'll have the rat-on-a-stickThu Dec 08 1994 15:324
    
    I rate her right up there with Barney.
    
    ;^)
156.15ODIXIE::CIAROCHIOne Less DogFri Dec 09 1994 13:546
    .1 - The answer IS 42.
    
    Unfortunately we were all destroyed at the moment of discovering what
    the question was...   :-(
    
    [...but wasn't it postulated to be six times nine?...]
156.16MPGS::MARKEYMy big stick is a BerettaFri Dec 09 1994 13:541
    Please _do not_ quote any Vogon poetry...
156.17WECARE::BOURGOINEFri Dec 09 1994 14:517
>>    [...but wasn't it postulated to be six times nine?...]

	Frankie and Benjy (sp?) went back to the talk show circuit 
	with 'how many road must a man walk down"

	Vogon poetry:   Not today, I fogot my babel fish!

156.18SMURF::BINDERvitam gustareFri Dec 09 1994 14:531
    just don't forget your towel, pat.