Conference back40::soapbox

    
    
    	Mr. Bill's back.....we'll all be ok under his watchful eye.
    
    
    

    Cheese soup?  Yummy!  A dollop or three or four of tobasco, some
    pimiento, maybe a little cauliflower or broccoli or
    asparagus...uuuummmmmmm.  

    
    	Darn, there's never a toilet around when you need 1.
    
    	Blurgh!!
    

    I only like cheese if it's melted. ex, I like grilled cheese, and I
    like cold ham sandwiches, but I don't like cold ham and cheese
    sandwiches.
    
    				dave

    Somehow, I don't think this is what .0 had in mind......  

    
    	It would appear that this is actually adding to the problem that
    	the base noter mentioned.
    
    	The CPU cycles are whizzing by even faster than I can count them.
    

    Topaz is wrong about many things.  I am right about most things he's
    wrong about.

    Awwww...what fun can it be.  The good ole mucky muck isn't here to
    aggravate!

    
    >Topaz is wrong about many things.  I am right about most things he's
                          ----
    >wrong about.
    
    
    	Change that to "very few" and I'll believe it.
    

    I get it! It's a true/false quiz.
    
    From -.1
    
    1. Topaz is wrong about many things.  True!
    2. I am right about most things he's wrong about.  False!
    
    That was easy, what's next? 

    Grilled cheese rulz!

    I have a good recipe for grilled cheese if anybody wants it.
    
    
    					dave

                          
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    buzatt! zzzzz... honk? unnnnh?? wuzzat?
    
    {sound of covers being pulled over head}
    
    yes, dear, I never touched ms_deb. never looked at her once.
    
    snork, snurfle, 
    
    zzzzzzzzzzz......

    I think the title should be changed to "Get up, stand up" in honor of
    the late, great Bob Marley.
    
    
    				dave

    By the by, who is considered a critical noter? I hope to be, one day
    but I'm afraid people in here might consider me a peon because I'm
    still "wet behind the ears".
    
    				dave

    and now that I am awake and can think about it:
    
    what can you do with cheese?
    
    - be Canadian (aka a Cheesehead)
    - preen over having a half pound of Maytag cheese in the 'fridge
    - make fondue with it
    - eat too much of it and become groaningly constipated
    - wonder what happens if you mix Velveeta and Spam in the same
      nuclear reactor
    

    Green bay Packers fans often wear replica styrofoam cheese on their
    heads.

    His intimate friends called him "Candle ends,"
    And his enemies, "Toasted-cheese."
    
    -The Hunting of the Snark

    His intimate friends called him "candy yams"
    And his enemies,"lucky mcmanus"
    
    -The hunting of the snarf

     His intimate friends called him "bill"
     And his enemies, "bill"
    
    -The hunting of Billary

         Good evening, everybody. I see people are still sketching
    giraffes. This conference appears to be all mixed up. What's the main
    topic? 

    
    
    	There is no main topic.
    
    

    I would love a good grilled cheese recipe, thank you.

    
    
    	cheese
    	bread 
    	butter
    	frying pan
    
    
    	put butter on bread, put cheese in between bread, fry on hot stove.
    
    
    hth,
    
    jim

    As a bonus, I'll throw in a recipe for buttered toast!!!
    
    I'm a swell guy.
    
    				dave

    how did Jim get my granny's recipe?

    THANKS JIM!!  
    
    You make it sound soooo easy.  Which side of the bread do you butter?
    

    .2 Why stop at 4?

    
    
>    You make it sound soooo easy.  Which side of the bread do you butter?
    
    	The side that would fall on the ground if you were to drop the
    buttered bread.
    
    :)

    If the bread is buttered on teh inside, does the space time continuum
    become severly distroted as the sandwich tries to but cannot fall onthe
    buttered side as it is on the inside? 

A critical noter is one who would think of this: in ELF, set a surname
to GURU or GENIUS. Then, when someone tries to FIND A GENIUS, they'll
find you!

I found a boxer, but I couldn't find DAVE SECURITY. What's up?

Pete

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    .8
    
    > Awwww...what fun can it be.
    
    There is no need for Topaz to return from the dead that he might rebut
    your assertion.  Those Who Count know how how things really are.

    
    re: .34
    
    >There is no need for Topaz to return from the dead that he might rebut
    >your assertion.  Those Who Count know how how things really are.
    
    
    
    They they do do????

    Yes yes.

    
    Okay here's an item.
    
    The information revolution has allowed an unprecedented amount of
    information to be available to anyone who wants it.  This in theory
    would make the general populace informed on issues, and that population
    could then make informed decisions.
    
    Unfortunately, there is so much information, and it is growing at such
    an increasing rate, that no one can even remotely keep up.  Also, the
    techology and social changes are so fast and large that decisions need
    to be made quickly.
    
    Thus, even though in theory the population can make informed decisions,
    there is no way they can actually get informed.  Thus decisions on the
    highly complex issues end up being made by emotional reaction alone.
    
    Consider some issues - Ozone depletion, Globabl warming, NAFTA, GATT,
    Nuclear Power, Solar Energy, Asbestos removal, the Federal Reserve, S&L
    Bailout, Genetic Engineering, Direct TV, Deregulation of phone and
    cable, international trade, the space program, guns, drugs, and on and
    on.
    
    Who should make the decisions, and how should they be made?  What
    happens to society when those making the decisions don't have a clue?
    Is the information revolution a boon or a bane?  Am I just rambling? 
    Does anyone care?  Was there a gunman on the grassy knoll? A hospital!
    what is it? (a place where sick people go, but that's beside the point)
    
    Anyway, society is changing extremely quickly.  Just how will the
    individual be able to cope?
    
    	Skip

   re:   <<< Note 664.25 by SUBPAC::SADIN "Freedom isn't free." >>>


   So, do you use Fromunder cheese to make that??
kb

    
    	GAK! I'll try not to think of that whilst partaking of food...%*P
    
    

    
    I fear that the box's replies lately have fallen below par.

    > I fear that the box's replies lately have fallen below par.
    
    

>    I fear that the box's replies lately have fallen below par.

This brings us to that chronic, age old question: is life like bowling or
is it like golf?

TTom

    > is life like bowling or is it like golf?
    
    I assume that this depends on the size of your balls.

re: Note 664.37 by TRLIAN::MIRAB1::REITH

Those issues ...

ozone depletion, Globabl warming, NAFTA, GATT, Nuclear Power, Solar
Energy, Asbestos removal, the Federal Reserve, S&L Bailout, Genetic
Engineering, Direct TV, Deregulation of phone and cable, international
trade, the space program, guns, drugs

... what is the problem? I'm not aware of problems in any of those
areas.
    
And re: who should make the decisions: what do you think Congress and
our President do all day?

And some of us don't *want* to cope, so leave us the hell alone and
take your chicken-little stuff with you, you foofoo.

Best regards,
Pete

    
      double bogey
    
      bb

    
    .44>... what is the problem? I'm not aware of problems in any of those
    >areas.
    
    That may be true, in which case the problem is a major chunk of your
    pay check is going to fund a lot of this stuff.  Also, you may be
    losing rights and freedoms that you don't care about until the police
    pound down your door, confiscate your car, computer, TV and anything
    else they think is worth while and then tell you to have a nice day.
    
    Also, take NAFTA for example - are you or someone you know about to
    lose your job because of it?  or will you or someone you know lose a
    job if it is revoked?  Then again, if you don't care, then how do
    you decide to vote, or do you decide not to vote?
    
    All of that aside, what products will you buy next?  If someone is ill,
    how you will pay for that care now or in the future?
    
    >And re: who should make the decisions: what do you think Congress and
    >our President do all day?
    
    Are they doing their job?  How are they to decide if they are also
    clueless?
    
    Society is changing in a number of both dramatic and subtle ways.  The
    changing of the millenium may be momentus (whether 4 or 5 years away). 
    How will we as a society prepare and fair from the changes coming?
    
    One note - computers are big and an important part to being part of the
    changes that are coming.  Yet there are many in my parent's generation
    (who are also the ones primarily in power or high positions) who are
    totally afraid of these tools.  Yet there are few in my son's
    generation who are afraind of the things.  Thus this is a big
    transition period.  I wonder how well society will survive the
    transition.
    
    I would just like to point out that the last time we had this level of
    societal upheval was during the industrial revolution.  No society that
    went through the experince survived unscathed into the 20th century. 
    The ripples are still being felt today as changes started in the 1800s
    finish working through the system.  Note that some of the biggest
    economies of the time took the biggest falls (Russia, Germany, Austria,
    France, Ottoman Empire, and Britian).  Yet developing countries such as
    USA and Australia ended up lesser changed an in a stronger position.
    
    This does not bode well for the USA and Japan, but Korea is looking
    good.
    
    	Skip

    Strata????  You're on the SCOMAN Cluster!!  Identify yourself!!!

    
    	Can't slide one past OJ, that's for sure.
    

    I don't like OJ with my grilled cheese, good with eggs though.

Speaking of OJ, I'm headed back to the OJ trial topic to see what's
going on in there. There are too many serious people in this room.

See ya there,
Pete

    
    In Korea, they serve grilled cheese with filet of dog. It's an
    aquired taste, though.

    A Korean hotdog.

    acquired

    Lest anybody think my last note had anything to do with Korea and
    canines, it didn't.
    
    I was reading *somewhere in here* about the first man to win a Pilsbury
    bake off and he won $1,000,000. The topic was "easy money" .  I hit
    reply, typed in the note now known as 664.56 and it ended up here.
    
    					dave

    again, it's gettin late, but i ain't asleep, so just what am I doing
    here anyways?

 Same thing I'm doing?  Nothing on TV, so I've been reading.  I've been home
 ill for the past 2 days (still not feeling great..sore throat, etc) and I'm
 kinda bored.  I could use a good night's sleep, that's for sure.




 Jim

Bummer, Jim.

Get better.

 I'm working on it, jack...thanks.  I'm gettin' ready to boil some water, make
 some (whatever kind it is) nighttime cold medicine which is made with hot
 water, and hit the sack.



 Jim

Yawns are fairly weird.

What if there was another gesture or movement, completely
uncontrollable (lika a yawn), like sticking your feet up in the air
and spreading your legs as far as you can.

That'd be pretty weird, too.

Pete

    
    	Weird?  Maybe.
    
    	But it could be quite the welcoming gesture at times.
    

Welcoming? I don't follow.

Does one yawn in one's sleep?

Pete

re .62

yes a welcoming gesture in my house ANYTIME!

unfortunately the dog is the only one that responds in that fashion.

    Only carnivores yawn.  Herbivores are yawnless.

    
>What if there was another gesture or movement, completely
>uncontrollable (lika a yawn), like sticking your feet up in the air
>and spreading your legs as far as you can.
    
    
    	Pete, this was the gesture I referred to as "possibly welcoming".
    

    
    re: .66
    
    >Only carnivores yawn.  Herbivores are yawnless.
    
    really?? Interesting...
    
    As an aside... I was talking to a gorgeous young female over the phone
    the other night, and she stifled (or is that stiffled?) a yawn. I heard
    it and immediately had the urge to yawn myself..
    
     I wonder what causes that?

>    As an aside... I was talking to a gorgeous young female over the phone
>    the other night, and she stifled (or is that stiffled?) a yawn. I heard
>    it and immediately had the urge to yawn myself..
    
>    I wonder what causes that?

You bored her, son.


Dating Tip:

If she immediately thereafter sez she has to go 'cos her mom's calling her, either check her driver's license (if
she HAS one yet), or try again in the Great Gene Pool Of Life.

    
    re: .69
    
    >You bored her, son.
    
    No.. no... please go back to your Comprehension manual...
    
    I asked... " I wonder what causes that?"
    
    That being my reaction (yawn) to her (yawn)
    

boy, you got flattened by The Joke Truck and you never saw it coming, eh?

The Comprehension Manual pp 103-171 should explain the idea of "humour".

call if you still have trouble.


BTW:

you did bore her, she called me when she hung up with you and sobbed hysterically for HOURS.

have ms_deb explain how to avoid these sorts of problems.

*8)

BTW:

you yawned after she yawned, 'cos you bored yourself.

'nuff said.

    
    re: .71
    
    >boy, you got flattened by The Joke Truck and you never saw it coming,
    >eh?
    
    
     Nope... I knew it were a joke...
    
    I'm just using the Lady-Di-School-of-Noting-where-you-keep-em
    guessing-when-you-don't-put-in-a-smiley, style is all...
    
    You should know that by now.... unless of course you think I should
    take more Porzac and/or think I'm teched in the haid...
    

    > You should know that by now.... unless of course you think I should
    > take more Porzac and/or think I'm teched in the haid...
    
    speaking of which, you got any more Miltowns or P'zac?
    
    I'm out.

    
    
    >speaking of which, you got any more Miltowns or P'zac?
    
    Sure!
    
    Wanna wash it down with some nice Mad Dog 20/20 (I hear the 3rd week in
    January was an excellent vintage)???
    

    > Wanna wash it down with some nice Mad Dog 20/20 (I hear the 3rd week
    > in January was an excellent vintage)???
    
    I prefer Thursday afternoon vintage.
    
    t'was brillig and the gyre did tove (or something like that)..
    

    
    >I prefer Thursday afternoon vintage.
    
    
    Ooooo.. I'll have to read up on that in my Wino-Connosewer magazine..
    
    
    twas Brillig and the slythy toad...
    
    Or some such mumble-jumble...

    'Twas brillig, and the slithy toves
    Did gyre and gimble in the wabe.
    All mimsy were the borogoves,
    And the mome rath outgrabe.

  .78  i thought it was "raths".  no?

Es brillig war.  Die schlichten Toven
Wirrten und wimmelten in Waben;
Und aller-m�msige Burggoven
Die mohmem R�th' ausgraben.

�Bewahre doch vor Jammerwoch!
Die Z�hne knirschen, Krallen kratzen!
Bewahr' vor Jubjub-Vogel, vor
Frumi�sen Bandersn�tzchen!�

Er griff sein vorpals Schwertchen zu,
Er suchte lang das manchsam' Ding;
Dann stehend unterm Tumtum Baum,
Er an-zu-denken fing.

Als stand er tief in Andacht auf,
Des Jammerwochen's Augen-feuer
Durch turgen Wald mit Wiffek kam
Ein burbelnd Ungeheuer!

Eins, Zwei!  Eins, Zwei!  Und durch und durch
Sein vorpals Schwert zerschnifer-schn�ck,
Da blieb es todt!  Er, Kopf in Hand,
Gel�umfig zog zur�ck.

�Und schlugst Du ja den Jammerwoch?
Umarme mich, mein B�hm'sches Kind!
O Freuden-Tag!  O Halloo-Schlag!�
Er schortelt froh-gesinnt.

Es brillig war.  Die schlichten Toven
Wirrten und wimmelten in Waben;
Und aller-m�msige Burggoven
Die mohmem R�th' ausgraben.

.79 Diane is correct.

>>                        -< what about the rest of her? >-

	aagagagagag.  ;>

    orry 'bout that.  Thi plint get in the way.

  .84  what - no cold?

    >             <<< Note 664.80 by COVERT::COVERT "John R. Covert" >>>
    
    > Es brillig war.  Die schlichten Toven
    > Wirrten und wimmelten in Waben;
    > Und aller-m�msige Burggoven
    > Die mohmem R�th' ausgraben.
    .
    .
    . 

    - guess this would've gotten deleted in -wn_

    
    So what?
    

    
    	So it must be an obscene note.
    
    	I know it's early and everything, but really, Deb.
    

       Man, you can tell when 5:00 comes.(east coast, that is)  This
    conference dies right down.
    -ss

| <<< Note 664.90 by BSS::SMITH_S "lycanthrope" >>>

| Man, you can tell when 5:00 comes.(east coast, that is)  This
| conference dies right down.

	And I'm sure that you getting into the conference then has absolutely
nothing to do with it...... ;-)

       No, it must be the commute home.  Well you are still around.  What
    does that say?
    -ss

| Well you are still around.  What does that say?

	That I can log in from home? :-)

    >>  That I can log in from home? :-)
    
    ....and must be really bored.

| <<< Note 664.94 by BSS::SMITH_S "lycanthrope" >>>

| ....and must be really bored.

	Yeah, that too! :-)

    Once again I'm forced to note by myself.  Isn't anyone out there?  
    -ss

    
    Nope.

Neither am I.

    I left 20 minutes ago...

    Snoring Snarf!

    >  Snoring Snarf!
    
    Izzis when you take advantage of someone's sleeping state?
    

I have heard that satisfaction is heightened when you do it by
yourself.