Conference back40::soapbox

    personalities

    
    time to start using spellchecker.

    
    Roseanne Arnold or whatever her last name is, naked.

	Ernest Borgnine naked.....

	Photos from the Ernest Borgnine/Ethel Merman
	wedding night.

	Do you think she will be singing???? :-)

    
    Audio tapes of the Ernest Borgnine/Ethel Merman wedding night.
    

| <<< Note 325.7 by MPGS::MARKEY "Send John Thomas some doughnuts" >>>


| Audio tapes of the Ernest Borgnine/Ethel Merman wedding night.

	Brian, what if in the middle of the audio you heard Tim Conways
voice???? heh heh

What's the problem with seeing audio tapes?

    A sold out Christopher Cross concert.

    President Bill Clinton in the White House on 21-Jan-1997.
    
    Chris

    
    A bunch of men standing in line at Dunkin' Donuts with
    blood rushing to their penises.
    

    
    Oh, I see that all the time.

    
       You can see the blood?

    
    No, that's at the post office.

    
    no more little chambers...........................................

    I see that at Spudnuts.

    Pregnant men...
    
    

    
    a pregnant cactus

    
    Surgeon General Richard Simmons
    

    A child by Lisa Marie and Michael.

| <<< Note 325.11 by DECWIN::RALTO "Gala 10th Year ECAD SW Anniversary" >>>


| President Bill Clinton in the White House on 21-Jan-1997.

	Chris, doesn't he have to be there to hand things over??? :-)

Inauguration's on January 20.

| <<< Note 325.12 by MPGS::MARKEY "Send John Thomas some doughnuts" >>>


| A bunch of men standing in line at Dunkin' Donuts with blood rushing to their 
| penises.

	Yeah, to a cop and his donuts it can be pretty orgasmic to them.

    Boutros Boutros Beer

    
    >>	Chris, doesn't he have to be there to hand things over??? :-)
    
    I think the official "changeover" comes at or around noon on the
    20th... the old prez probably doesn't hang around for long after
    that, mainly because there's nowhere for him to sit. :-)
    
    I can imagine the scene... the new prez and his staff are busy
    in the Oval Office, and the old prez is standing around like a
    fifth wheel, watching, and occasionally trying to get into the
    conversation, with mostly futile results.  Once in a while he gets
    a puzzled stare from one of the new staffers.  Finally he slowly
    starts working his way over to the door, mumbling "Well... heh...
    I guess, uh, I guess if you don't need me for anything else,
    I'll head on out.  Okay?  I said... excuse me... uh, I... (points
    to door as new prez waves quickly in his direction) okay, bye."
    
    Chris

    .25
    
    HAHAHAHAHAHAHHAHAHAHAHAHAHAHA!  I enjoyed that. (burp)

    Whitney Houston doing an album of Barry Maniamlow greatest hits.

    re -1
    
    >Barry Manilow greatest hits
    
    there's an oxymoron...
    
    

    
    <-- {ahem} I have that album 8^).

    Off to the 12 step program with you.  I will never apologize for wine
    in a box now that you have admitted that.  Very disappointed, yes I am.
    

    
    The horrors of Barry Manilow's Greatest Hits cannot BEGIN to compare
    the the horrors of box'o'swill.

    Sutter Home can begin to compare with it..... Yes, yes it can.

    Nightmare on Elm St........ Barry Manilow's greatest hits on the CD,
    box o' blush just tapped, in front of the dura-flame fire......
    
    

    sitting on a resin chair.

....  in a polyester suit.

	Joanne, does that come in lime green by chance?

Speaking of polyester [leisure] suits, does anyone remember the episode
of "Fernwood 2-Nite" on which they had a guy who claimed that leisure suits
cause cancer?  They had rats in little leisure suits.

 President Clinton watching President-Elect Gore being sworn in 01/20/01.

    Fernwood 2-Night.  Was that a spinoff of Mary Hartman Mary Hartman?
    
    I was too young to understand what Hartman was all about but I've
    always wondered.  How was it described at the time?  In hindsight, just
    what was it supposed to be?  It was a serial so must have had a soap
    opera element.  What was wrong with Mary Hartman?  Why was she always
    so anxious?
    
    jeff

Fernwood 2-Nite was a spin-off of MHMH.  It later became America 2-Nite.
It starred Martin Mull.

MHMH was billed as a parody of soap operas.  It was on at about the same
time as "Soap," which was also a parody of soap operas.  The two were
vastly different.  I think MHMH was much better.

	I don't know which was better, as I was too young to stay up that late
to watch MHMH. I did love soap though. I had never seen a show go so much out
of it's way to make fun of soap oprahs. 

re: the polyester suit

Of *ourse* you can get it in lime green, silly Glen.
Also lavender and powder blue.

	Cooollll...... add in a pair of those pumps that ya can play basketball
in and I'm all set for the prom!

I hope I never see anyone actually playing basketball
in those pumps, especially not a fella.  That would
cause me to start sub-dividing ala Glenn.

    
    mi mi mi
    
    looks like a pump,
    feels like a sneaker...

    So, let's check the list so far:

    Barry Manilow CD playing
    Freshly tapped Box-O-Blush
    Dura-Flame fire crackling, well, hissing
    Curled up in a resin chair
    Green polyester jacket on
    Reebok pumps

    You know, I'm nearly certain this will never happen.

    Come to my house Glenn.  I would even break out the little packages of
    frozen egg rolls and cheez whiz for ya to boot!

 >> President Clinton watching President-Elect Gore being sworn in 01/20/01.
    
    Or, even worse:
    
    President Clinton watching President-Elect Clinton being sworn in 01/20/01.
    
    Chris

{hiding under desk sucking my thumb}

| <<< Note 325.54 by SUBPAC::JJENSEN "The Short-timer Fishing Widow" >>>



| {hiding under desk sucking my thumb}


	Oh, is it your group nap time AGAIN Joanne? Geezzzeee..... :-)

Hey!  HEY!!!

	What???? :-)

    Brian, do I need to bring my own resin chair and bag of shoe string
    licorice?

>    Come to my house Glenn.  I would even break out the little packages of
>    frozen egg rolls and cheez whiz for ya to boot!

Booting them would seem to be a good way to get rid of them.

    Can they boot DOS?

| <<< Note 325.60 by POLAR::RICHARDSON "Alleged Degirdification" >>>

| Can they boot DOS?


	Well, they made a movie about it once called "DOS boot"

    I thought it was Das Boot.

	Sigh...... it was a joke son, I say a joke.....

    Sigh...... so was my spelling correction son, my spelling correction.

	DOH!

    
    out of disk space error after a 55 minute 3rd Degree build..

    Boutros Boutros Butter

    the inside of a casket

    
    that was one way the GRU dealt with traitors in the old SU..

    By 69ing them?  i don't THINK so...
    

    
    no, by holding a funeral but no execution..

    (??)
    
    (does he think I didn't grok wot he meant?)
    
    (shame on 'im)
    
    :-)
    
    |-(:-)
    

    
    Boutros Boutros Bacon

    
    Cream of Dragon soup

    You don't like green?
    

Speaking of green:

To:	Multiple recipients of list GARDENS <[email protected]>
Subj:	dilemma

President Clinton comes to campus Monday to dedicate our new library.
The university is painting the grass green in front of the library.
Should I

   ignore the paint and just join in

   protest by not marching in the faculty procession

   protest by not attending

   protest by holding a protest march

   paint myself orange in order to stand out against the green

Please.  Help before I have my hair done.
William

    
    
    tenure here
    

>The university is painting the grass green in front of the library.

	We're painting the roses red, painting the roses red...

ME
	

    
    a bear with a flamethrower

    
    an empty refrigerator of cold beer

    
    a rhinocerous with an attitude

A couple hundred mail messages when I get in tomorrow (unless, they are 
love notes from females)

ME

    
    RE: .80
    
    >an empty refrigerator of cold beer
    
    
    
    Dick Binder!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!

    
    DEC stock at the $19-22 level again

    
    
    	yeah, $45 is nice......
    
    
    

    
    Yet another religious topic in the box. Are there no other topics
    worthy of discussion?

    
    massachusuetts

>    massachusuetts

A slave owner gabbing (chewing the fat): massachusuett, pl. massachusuetts.

    ...more whining about the religious discussions.

    As one of the referenced whiners, I have to add this.  Speaking for
    myself only, I could care less that you et al are happy and comfy in
    your relationship with the All Mighty.  Do we need a dozen or so notes
    to get this point across?  Folks bitched about more than one Clinton
    note ditto more than one note about most topics.  There have to be
    close to a dozen notes on how Jesus picked his nose and when Jesus got
    up and how He acted and all sorts of wonderfully fulfilling topics.  If
    you wish to praise Him and relate to us all (over and over again) how
    your relationship is special and all, great.  Pick a topic and do it
    but for crying out loud, don't start another one.  To not rat hole
    this too far, I hope I don't see yet another effing religious topic but
    I know I am only setting myself up for disappointment.   
    
    Brian

    Correct Andrew, as usual.  

    
    
    Just trying to follow in mz_deb's footsteps..

    Shorten your stride a bit then.  :-)

    Not only that, take smaller steps too!

    
    Glenn, you beat me too it.

	I want to

    Thank you little buddy....

                                  SNARF!!!!

    You want to thank me?

    I get great pleasure out of seeing snarflosers try to sleaze a snarf
    and get hosed. Thanks, Brian, for the latest. :-)

    re: .91
    
    Actually, I agree with you.  We do not need to continually add topics
    to the ranks of religious discussion. 
    
    I for one, am VERY happy to see the OJ topic stick within the confines of 
    the single OJ topic.  Makes it easy for me to next unseen, and easy for 
    those who are interested to discuss/read of the latest about this trial.
    
    I would equally like to see ONE topic to discuss religion.  I think
    this would be enough.  I understand that religion may enter other
    topics as they digress, but this should only be a brief interlude.
    
    I've restricted my discussion in here as of late, as I did not want to
    add gasoline to the fire.  However, the incessant whining (general box 
    whining, no one specifically) triggered my earlier reaction in
    this topic.  I think the whining just helps to add to the proliferation
    of religious notes, as some noters then feel obligated to explain further
    why they have participated in a given topic.  The inevitable
    misunderstandings lead to more religious-based notes, which try to
    explain said misunderstandings (etc...you get the idea).
    
    As a Christian, I feel more than a little uncomfortable with the
    current tone in the box.  I think some Christians have added gasoline
    to the fire of those who are aggrivated by the proliferation of
    religious topics/notes, and some non-Christians have done the same
    by whining or taking certain things out of context (which leads to
    defensiveness/further explanations).
    
    Let's just dust our feet off and move on, shall we?  I've enjoyed this
    file over the years, and would hate to have to extract myself from it
    for any length of time.  But if the signal to noise ratio keeps on its
    current pace of deterioration, this is a distinct possibility for me
    (and I would blame no one or group for "chasing" me away; it would just
    be a matter of getting tired of the tone and the decreasing amount of
    good discussion, to the point of it not being worth my time to go through 
    all the noise to find things of interest to comment on). 
    
    
    -steve

    Anything I can do for the cause :-).  
    
    Brian (guilty of thinking about bagging the aformentioned SNARF but I
    resisted :-)

    this truely dark and ugly argumentative side of Brian McBride ever
    again... :-)
    
    Chip
    
    P.S. Brian, a bunch of folks are going for an ATB ride on May 6th in
    the morning down to the Barre Falls Dam... interested?
    
    Chip

 . . . a revival of the vocal series on Saturday Night Live with
Frankenstein, Tarzan, Tonto and Onondaga.

    
    getting crushed in a best of 5 match in pool with our receptionist.

    Is this what they mean by secretarial pool?

    
    er Glenn and all, yes.......... 

    you guys should really get a room... :-)
    
    Chip

    I'm afraid I don't quite follow you.

    
    me either for that matter

    Which matter is that matter?

    
    brain matter of course, my good man.

    
    winter in winnipeg
    

    The wing fall off a plane I happen to be occupying.

    .117
    
    From the Curmudgeon's Dictionary:
    
        airplane n.  A cigar-shaped counterfeit bird with an alarming
        propensity for falling out of the sky at inconvenient times and in
        equally inconvenient places.
        
    Have a nice flight.  :-)

    Um Martin, what would you be doing out on the wing of a plane anyway?
    Living upside down has messed you up I think....

    More of a buzz !!!!  :*)

    
    my picture in the post office

    
    
    <------ Too late.....
    
    
    
    :*)
    

    "OJ - the mini series"
    

	It won't be a mini series.... it will be an hour long weekly series....
of course that will be shorter than the 8 hour 5 days a week version that is
out there now.... ;-)


Glen

    
    .123
    
    or better yet OJ Part II, III etc................

    Responding to a customer quickly electronically, I told him to do a
    SHOW KNOWN (line) COUNT
    
    Man, I can see making a major typo in the above command.  Imagine
    if VMS was smart enough to display ROSEANNE.GIF if you left out an
    "o" or sumtin?  Oh BOY!

    My apartment vacant on the 31st of October.
    
    Because I am breaking my lease (2 months early) I need to find someone
    to move into my apartment otherwise I'm going to lose my bond money.
    I need that money.

    You know how some people can read a friend like a book, well you don't
    want to read my mom, well you won't be able to read my mom over the
    aligator-like scaly skin, rolls of mumbo jumbo excexx body materials
    and the like...
    
    Not Roger

    Buffalo in the Super Bowl again - they beat Miami today to become the
    AFC East champs and looks like they will be heading to the Bowl again.
    What a waste.  I wonder if Don Shula is going to be able to hang on to
    his job?  I doubt it.

	I think between KC and Pittsburgh, Buffalo has almost no chance of
going to the Superbowl. 


Glen

    
    neon Deion dancing in the end zone again. great player, but he has
    more mustard than a ballpark hot dog. Also, hope pittsburgh beats
    Dallas this sunday, though I doubt they will.

    Me too, I want the Steelers to win, but Dallas looks unbeatable.

    
    
    I would like to see one of the Steelers tight ends (oh, the 280 lb.
    variety), catch a pass and head for the side-lines...
    
    Sanders will then vector in to push him out of bounds a foot or so
    before he gets there to make it look good.
    
    Then have the tight end veer back into the playing field and slam into
    Mr. Football with all 280 lbs. steaming along about 12-14 mph...
    
     yes... that would be make my day....
    

    | I would like to see one of the Steelers tight ends (oh, the 280 lb.
    | variety)
    
    If you ask nicely, they might let you in the locker room.

| <<< Note 325.134 by POLAR::RICHARDSON "Captain Dunsel" >>>

| If you ask nicely, they might let you in the locker room.

	You think?

    
    	Generic "you", not Glen "you".
    

    a Superbowl halftime show...

    
    well Chip, they usually have great commercials for the Superbowl.

    
    	Yeah, I can't wait to see who wins this year's "Bud Bowl".
    
    	Ooh boy, hold me back.
    

    i am actually looking forward to the superbowl...
    
    the s.o.'s mom or brother usually has a big lunch/dinner, and then we
    all sit around afterward watching the game.  i like the commercials
    during the game.  and i am looking forward to deion (sp) doin' da dance
    in da zone... :> :> 
    
    

    
    >deion (sp) doin' da dance in da zone...
    
    
    Bluuuuuuuuuuurgghhhhhhh!!!!!!!
    

    here, anyd, lemme get  you a buqet... ;> :>
    
    
    

   i'm with Chip.  the halftime shows are so sickening, it's
   not even funny.  worse than amaretto coffee and blueberry
   bagels.  

	Anyone remember the � time special that In Living Color ran a few years
back? Men on Football? 

    
    	I'll be at a Super Bowl party in Mendon ... I have my $100 square
    	and will have a porketta buffet.  And open bar through the entire
    	game.
    

    
    >And open bar through the entire game.
    
    So.. this means you won't know what the final score is until the next
    day... right???
    
    :)
    

    
    
    	Lady Di, leave my cullinary habits out of this! :)
    
    
    

    
    	RE: Andy
    
    	With $7K+ on the line, I'll be quite aware of the score every
    	quarter.  8^)
    

    SO, the gambling pays for the party?

    
    	Yeah, he takes about $2K off the $10K that he collects and pays
    	for the party with that.
    

    
    is that legal????
    (not him taking 2k for the party, but the gambling bit in general???)
    
    you gonna report it if you win?
    
    

    
    	Yeah, just like I claim the $50 I collect if I win a pool tourn-
    	ament.
    

    
    that's what i thought...
    
    

I hope I never see another NHL game where the only tv coverage is provided 
by Fox and their magic puck!!  Bluuuuuurrrrggghhhh!!  Do you Americans 
really have such a hard time with the game that you need a blue aura 
surrounding the puck and a red streak everytime there is a shot on goal?  
That's the party line we're being fed for the changes and I just don't buy 
it.  If that was the case, the same could be said for baseball and golf.

    I thought it was neat, personally. People who are sight impaired find
    it much easier to follow the puck. 

 It was kinda like a video game, wasn't it?  I only watched it for a 
 brief time.



 Jim

Would you want to see the same thing with baseball coverage?  I would think 
that's much harder for the eye to follow than a puck.  I wouldn't mind it if 
it was just for replays, but I think they would do better to concentrate on 
improving their play-by-play guys, camera angles and general presentation if 
they are hoping to improve their viewership. Not to be a homer or anything, 
but the Fox guys could learn a lot if they would spend some time with the 
Hockey Night in Canada producers.

    
    	So that's what they did?
    
    	FOX was making a big deal about it, and I was going to tape it
    	and watch it later to see what was going on.
    
    	Hopefully it didn't affect the players, though ... would be
    	very annoying being a goalie and seeing a bright red streak
    	coming at you every few minutes.
    

    .157
    I hope that wasn`t an insult to The Homer that I enjoy so much on any
    given day of the week?? :')

Shawn.... the effects were only visible to those of us watching at 
home :-)

>Would you want to see the same thing with baseball coverage?  I would think 
>that's much harder for the eye to follow than a puck.
    
    Apparently you've never seen a baseball game on TV. :-) It's way easier
    to follow a baseball than a hockey puck.
    
>I wouldn't mind it if it was just for replays, 
    
     I liked that it was only on one camera. Some of the other (closer)
    cameras didn't need it.
    
>Not to be a homer or anything, but the Fox guys could learn a lot if they 
    >would spend some time with the Hockey Night in Canada producers
    
     :-)
    
     I'm partial to the Bruins commentators, myself. There's nothing like
    listening to Fred Cusick call a game. (The only problem is the other
    team can score 2 goals while you're gone to the fridge for a beer and
    you'll never know it, but if the Bruins score, it's quite obvious. :-)
    

    
    	I was hoping I didn't have to add a smiley to that one, but I
    	guess I should have for those humor-impaired and/or Canadian
    	readers.
    
    	8^)
    

<-----   (Deb, please insert your raspberry here)


>>>>    Apparently you've never seen a baseball game on TV. :-) It's way 
	easier to follow a baseball than a hockey puck.

Maybe this is the definitive difference between Americans and 
Canadians  ;-)

    
    	I liked the hockey puck special effects, as did my
    	husband.  Like Mark said, it makes a big difference to
    	the visually impaired.