Subj : Re: A Crappy Sales Call To : Daryl Stout From : George Pope Date : Fri Jul 23 2021 14:09:29 > I liked the documentation with my former BBS software, GT Power. In a > file "TRASHCAN.BBS", the original author, Paul Meiners, noted "This file > will test your creativity ". All the dirty words went in there, > and if I caller tried to logon with one of these, they got dumped. Reasonable -- Most boards that allowed adult language in locao chat area designated as such, didn't allow raunchy usernames, as then it's a bad ad for the BBS if the user gets onto some nets (like FamilyNet, on which I used to be a Mod) > Restricted Access is basically one level above banishment. Makers sense -- I've bnever had a problem -- I generally got upgraded to visiting sysop status on the boards I was a regular on. . . I think youj'd done so, too, for me, as I was the farthest you'd ever had a dial-in call from. I was about 3,000 miles from you, via the I-90. . . :) > GP> Rule #1: Don't be a jackass > GP> Rule #2: See Rule #1 > Rule 1 is also "The Boss (or Spouse or Significant Other) is always > right". That's the original; I edited it for the context. . . > GP> Oh, we didn't do it out of rumour that they were bad -- they > GP> demonstrated it & refused to comply with Fidonet rules & moderator > GP> directives. We were eyewitnesses o the problem, so good riddance to > GP> bad rubbish & the echo ramn nicely for mamny years after (35 years > GP> later & still going here in FUNNY Jokes and Stories!) > I'm not the only BBS around...folks don't have to logon if they don't > want to. Yup, don't like "my roof, my rules" get on out. . . I'm the only one who MUST be here! :D > Both were in Hialeah, Florida, just northwest of Miami. > 1) I was 3 years old, on the couch in the living room, with my hands > on the metal frame of a big plate glass window in the front room, > watching lightning dance across the sky from a thunderstorm in the > area (I thought "this is cool!"). We had coconut trees in the front > yard, and one of the fronds was on the house. Lightning hit the tree, > and with moisture around the metal frame, where my hands were, the > combination of the flash and the shock, made me start screaming bloody > murder. It blew tiles off the bathroom wall, sent sparks out the back > of the house, and the neighbor across the street said "it looked like > the house was encased in a ball of fire". My Dad called the Fire > Department to come out and check things. For 10 years afterwards, you > could not take a flash picture of me, as I'd scream in terror from the > flashback (pun intended). > 2) I was 16 years old, and had just finished delivering an afternoon > newspaper route, in a tropical thunderstorm. It was like taking a > shower with my clothes on. I got home, looking like a drowned rat; > closed the garage door, parked the bicycle, and went to strip out > of my wet clothes, so I wouldn't get chilled. When my wet hand touched > the washing machine (to balance myself), lightning hit the house > again. Ouch! I'd have been suddenly very a-fearin' the Lord! (aware of His might, & mighty respectful, too) > However, I carry no electrical charge, and can be handled safely. I'll never find out, don't worry. . . > > ... Deliver a pizza? Whoever heard of a liver pizza? > GP> Oh, if there's liver on a pizza, I won't even attempt to de-liver it, > GP> I'm just tossing it in the garbage! > Same here. Some things don't belong on a pizza. I don't care what the liver's on,. it's going in the trash, on top of the kale! I'm cutting back on t he meat as much as I can, but I draw the line somewhere before kale as a substitute & I don't consider myself Vegan or vegetarian, just a guy trying to remember that meat as food was just a concession to our sin, not a gift. . . Yes, I know of Peter's vision, but I see that more as metaphor, using a previously allowed concession as being recognizable. There's no sin in eating meat, but I feel, for myself, it's best to cut it out (plus too much in my diet gives me Uric Acid stones in my pooor beaten up kidneys) > ... If Barbie's so popular, why must you buy her friends?? Corporate profits, I'd presume. . . puns from Barbie dolls. . . I just do not like Russian dolls. They're so full of themselves. I ran out of material for the doll I was making and only had breathe mints left for the feet. He had Tic Tac toes The little girl lined her dolls up at the cookout. It was a Barbie queue. My friend said he made a voodoo doll of me. I think he's pulling my leg. Tried to make a doll with a clock instead of an abdomen. It was a waist of time. Your friend, <+]:{)} Cyberpope, Bishop of ROM --- SBBSecho 3.14-Linux * Origin: The Rusty MailBox - Penticton, BC Canada (1:153/757.2) .