Conference back40::soapbox

    Bach, Berettas, Boston Celtics and Boinking

	Buck, I don't think addiction is a strong enough word....

	What would you use Glen,  Affliction ??		%^O

	I don't think there is a word that can accurately describe it Teek.

    ... oh, and that thing I do with my tongue.
    
    -b

    Oxygen

	<<------ Oh me gosh...........put that thing away........%^0

    ...we don't know where it's been.  ;')
    
    
    greg, shaddup!  
    

    Iced animal cracker cookies (you know--the pink and white ones with the 
    sprinkles)
    

	never buck!

	the smell of spent gun powder....SSSSNNNIIIIFFFFFF! ahhhh....;*)

    yeah, but what kind?

    
    
    
    Your forgot the oil, Jim.  Need something to wash the powder down with.
    :')

    
    water
    
    
    

    
    love
    

    beer

    .15
    
    see http://www.circus.com/~no_dhmo/

re: binder

	AA#2230 25grns, 55grn FMJ (winchester), .223Rem brass, winchester small
rifle primers. Trim cases to 1.750, deburr, swage primer pockets, prime brass
with RCBS hand primer, insert powder from RCBS powderflow, insert bullet with
RCBS rockchucker (only to the canneleur!), and go to the range!!! :)


re: Mike

	never forget the oil....;*)


jim

    
    Here's one. Responding to Notes file entries like this.  At 12:40 CST.
    
    Don't pass me your needle.  I don't wanna be infected by TFSO
    candidates.
    
    }|^D

    Raspberry/orange/lemon cream chocolates, pizza, reading, movies, lots
    of foods/drink that is bad for me. But, then again, I think that death
    is also bad for me, so why worry about it. One big fear is to see a
    drunk driver heading for me at high speed and knowing I should have had
    that last piece of pepperoni pizza after all. One other addiction which 
    others may consider bizarre, is tossing cats to packs of snarling alley 
    dogs. 

    looking at babes
    
    i just cannot help myself .....

    looking at patches of brown fluid

    i just can't help myself .....

    I addicted to
    
                CHERRY PIE MUCHIN'

    
    "go to" statements...
    
      bb

    
    
    	re: can I hit the target?
    
    
    	Of course monsieur! 1" groups at 100yds....
    
    
    jim

    
    
    	that sinks binder! :( I hate thieves....
    
    
    

    Cycling and double action (USRA of course).
    
    Chip

    booze

    toe sucking

    This troubles me.
    

    I went with a woman, many years ago, who enjoyed doing this...
    
    It was kinda neat at the time...
    
    Chip

    
    I prefer being the -ee not the -er so it prolly wasn't me 8^).

    speaking of being the -ee not the -er, the actual latin term for
    sucking a certain other appendage is not what most of us think.  the
    -er is an irrumator, and the -ee is the fellator.

    
    
    
    Depends upon if the lady is fresh out of the shower or has been walking
    in boots for a few hours on a 100 degree day as to whether being the er 
    is concerned. :')

re: .35, Dick

It's prolly only a shoddy Anglicization, anyway, but when used in the -rice
or -rix form, it's non-ambiguous, no?

    This troubellates me.
    

| <<< Note 167.33 by WMOIS::GIROUARD_C >>>



| I went with a woman, many years ago, who enjoyed doing this...
| It was kinda neat at the time...

	Kind of reminds me of a scene in the movie, "Serial Mom". The part when
the woman is sitting in front of the tv singing, "The Sun will come out
Tomorrow" while the movie, "Annie" was playing on the tv. She took her shoes
off, called the dog over, who went to town licking her feet! Bllleeeckk!!

    
    Don't knock it 'til you've tried it, Glen 8^).
                    

| <<< Note 167.41 by POWDML::LAUER "Little Chamber of Perdition" >>>


| Don't knock it 'til you've tried it, Glen 8^).



	I think I'll pass on it Deb. Especially seeing in the movie the woman
was killed by a slab of meat... :-)

    .38
    
    non-ambiguous to an angliski-speaker, impossible to a native speaker of
    latin, cuz mulieres (wymyns) ain't got mentulas (ahem...).

    I've sawed a wymyns with a great set of mentulas.

    .44
    
    i doubt that very much.

    er, um, oh.

    It was kinda neat... Ended up in a 5 year relationship with her...
    
    I wonder who she's er-er'g now?
    
    Chip

    WHATSA MENTULA?

    mentula is the great latin obscenity for a man's...er...umm...{ahem}...
    willie.

    .47  worries me then... 
    
    ::Richardson worries me too..
    
    Wymyns with this???? ain't no woman!!!! 

    Don't talk about hermie that way DEB!!!!

    You takin' hermie phro date?

    Not if he's not got the right plumbing!!!

    Why, would that give you a sinking feeling?
    
    He might be a tap dancer which, I guess, could be a drain on you.

    
    Shoulda known you'd pipe up with something like that.

    In loo of what?

    
    You always have to faucet on us, don't you, can't leave well enough
    alone.

        Tried tap dancing once - fell in the sink.
        
        Too much sex on TV ...
        
        

    .37 How twue :-)
    
    

    .49:
    
    Gawd, Dick, you blew it.
    
    Best translation of "mentula" I've seen was "mantool".  It even "made
    the meter"!
    
    Dick

    howzabout "mantool - oh!"

| howzabout "mantool - oh!"


	Does anyone remember Randolph Mantooth?

    Emergency.

    
    Did he have a hairy chest?

	where???

	yup.... emergency it is..... 

    No, he had a festering gob.

    Addiction snarf!

they weren't into showing guys chests then too much. i never saw it, but i
never saw the hairs springing up from the top of his t-shirt, so i would say
no, he's smooth..... 

    Means he prolly won't go bald though....

	unless he is into shaving...

    
    for a while, he was on the soap opera 'loving'...nbc 1230 est...
    
    don't know if he is still on or not.....
    
    

    Dick, Dick and Dick!
    
    :-)

    .62:
    
    It made the meter *of the English translation* (which differed somewhat
    from the original's).
    
    Dick

    If i remember correctly Mr. Mantooth[sic] is a Native American and they
    have very unique ways of getting rid of unwanted hair...like pulling it
    out...thus having to shave on a daily basis.

    Should have read "thus NOT having to shave on a daily basis".

	Mantooth did Murder She Wrote before..... he died..... 

    Of what?

	of an Indian spear being tossed into him. you know how it goes on that
show. someone dies, one of her friends gets accused, she gets them off, real
killer confesses to stupid hick police chief who never would have solved the
crime on his own. 


Glen

	<----	I hate it when one of my friends gets accused
		of tossing an Indian spear into someone.

	Ruins my day, it does.

	joanne

	joanne, a classic.... :)

	Should never have read this string.............

	Now my toes are a begginnnnnnnnnnnnnnnnnnnn.	%^)

    I might as well admit it, I'm addicted to Love.  

    
    <-- see 167.16
         

    I liked the p_name in .16 better.  ;-)

	RE .85		Kimball ??, Is that you ??............%^)

	What have they been feeding you........%^(

    
    I like the old pname too, but I like better what caused me to change to
    the new pname, if that makes sense 8^).
    
    

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

	Some of us would follow her anywhere.............%^)

    Yes, but would she enjoy it?

	Glenn, with him? Not even *I* would enjoy him! 

	Since we are on the subject of addiction...... %^)

	After a spin with me there is no going back....You're hooked. %^)

    I'm not interested in you TEEKEMA. 
    
    Besides you'd prolly insist on going dutch.
    
    

	Try it, You'll like it...........

	We dutchmen have a way with our fingers %^)

    
    
    
    He does have one reference Glenn, his hand hasn't left him yet although
    I imagine it ain't for lack of wantin to......

	{ Blush }

    Kick the SNARF habit today

| <<< Note 167.95 by GMT1::TEEKEMA "Don't need no Info Highway." >>>


| After a spin with me there is no going back....You're hooked. %^)

	Are you doing drugs Teek???

| <<< Note 167.97 by GMT1::TEEKEMA "Don't need no Info Highway." >>>



| We dutchmen have a way with our fingers %^)


	But you dutchmen haven't quite figured out that you're wasting your
time sticking your fingers in dykes. :-)

    Too dam weird.

	RE .102

	Glen, last time I made such a statement it was deleted
and mailed back to me.......%^(  Maybe the Mods like you better.

	It's all these cold showers.......They are making me 
do whirly twirlies.......%^)


	Re .103		Good one...

    Hmmmm, wonder if the folks developed their addiction to whirly
    twirlies by staring at DrDan's beanie :-)
    
    

                                     |-{:-)

    Tab
    
    I'm with Mz_Debra on the toe sucking :-)

    
    I've developed a terrible addiction to plain seltzer water.

    i'm still addicted to tab, which is bat spelled backwards and 
    truly, this troubles me.

As long as you don't start flying up chimneys.

/john

    and as long as none of y'all call me old :-)

Diet Dr. Pepper

    spam, spam, spam, spam, spam, spam, spam, spam, spam, spam, baked beans,
    spam, spam, spam and spam.
    

    
    
    Good job, Deb.  Been drinking seltzer water for a while now.  I drink
    anywhere from 2 to 4 liters a day.  Of course I go with the lemon
    seltzer water.  Beats regular water, a little less boring.
    
    
    Mike

    
    I feel somewhat like a boozebag sneaking my cans & bottles back to
    the return center so no-one will know how much I drink 8^).

    Quiting smoking.  Been two weeks and four days and counting...
    
    
    
    Dave

    <--- Go for it Dave.  Hope it works out for you.
    
    Brianz

    	re .117
    
    	Congrats!  Whether you believe it or not, the world IS a better
    	place because of it!

    re.-1
    
    Today I don't give a rats a$$ about the world. No offense. 
    But thanks anyway. 
    
    Major anxiety attacks this morning. 
    I'm not myself. 
    
    Dave

    I am addicted to milkshakes and dry cheese sandwiches !??????!

    
    
    	I'll have a chicken and dry toast please...
    
    

    ...And I'll have a coke.
    
    ME

    
    re: .122
    
    Dry "white" toast...
    

    
    I am now officially addicted to `Rold Gold' pretzels.
    

    Can we now call you 'pretzel boy'?  8^)

    
    You may.
    

	then they're fat free joan?

    
    They are...I'm not.   :^)
    

	Ahhh.... then you are pretzel boy!  Cuz he is the same as you!

    
    I'm addicted to this foolish game called Magic:the Gathering.  It has
    this feature where there are a bunch of different cards of a variety
    of rarities.  The cards fun to collect, and the game is very enjoyable.
    I shudder to think what I have spent so far on the thing.
    
    	Skip

    I've played it before.  Moves kinda slow, IME (in my experience).  They
    have Magic tourneys and such in the greater Cincinnati area.  
    
    I would like to know what's with this "pogs" craze.  I fail to see the
    appeal (but then again, I'm a tad outside the target age-group).
                                                
    
    -steve

    
    > I would like to know what's with this "pogs" craze.  I fail to see the
    > appeal (but then again, I'm a tad outside the target age-group).
    
    It's very simplistic.  You can play it anywhere.  You can win
    some pogs (kids gambling).  Also, pogs are cheap, so they can be
    collected on a .50/week budget.
    
    	Skip

> Also, pogs are cheap,


Minor correction: They may be inexpensive, but they ain't cheap. As
   a matter of fact, on the basis of production cost to market value,
   they appear to be quite dear.

    
    we sell them in the card store in which i work...since i have been
    there, i haven't seen anybody buy them, tho am told they are very
    popular.  maybe ours are just unappealing...
    
    

    
    
    <------
    
    Probably just too expensive where you work...
    
     I've seen them in the flea markets at anywhere from 20-40 for a $1.00
    

    
    @ JAK'S in Dracut you can pick up 60 Pogs for $1.00
    
    The kids go at least once a week to "check" out the new POGS.
    
    Mickey

    WHAT IN BLOODY HELL IS A POG???

The center to a milk bottle top with a picture on it, sometimes in foil.

You can't play for "keepsies" anymore in our elementary
schools - too many kids were getting into fights

Next, it'll be Pog gang wars . . . 

    .139
    
    >                      -< Irish Singing group? >-
    
    No, that's the Pogues.  And a pogey is, well, someone in the Navy could
    probably tell you.

    
    
    Good thing you didn't ask what a slammer was, Dick...
    

    I know what a slammer is, Andy, that's where they put kids in their
    later years, after they have embarked on a life of crime as a result of
    pog gambling.

    I've seen the "slammers" in grocery stores displayed by the magazines. 
    A baggie of one will set you back $2.98.  Talk about profit margin.  I
    can see the "appeal" of pogs to manufacturers.

    
    actually, andy, the store sells them at 20/1.00...so that ain't too bad
    (from what i hear)...but seriously, ours are ugly...
    
    and i didn't know what one was til i started at the store...and i still
    don't know how to play them...
    
    

    
    isn't the game in which pogs are used somewhat a hybrid
    of the old "pitching" games played with baseball cards,
    and "tiddly-winks"?
    
    -b

    	re .146
    
    	Well, what kids want to hang out in a card store?

    
    i always did!!!
    
    plus, we have some (2)penny candy in there as well!!!
    
    

    I thought a POG was a trendy type drink.
    
    Pineapple
    Orange juice
    Guava (sp?)
    
    
    Mike
    
    
    
    

    Pogs: as explained to me by a parent of pog collectors...
    
    You stack up your playing pogs on a mat (or some level area).  Your
    opponent uses his "slammer" (a heavy pog, basically, usually made out
    of some kind of metal) to slam the pile of pogs.  Those that flip over
    are his.  
    
    Repeat process for the other player.
    
    
    Sounds like kiddie gambling, as another noter mentioned previously.
    
    
    -steve

    
    
    Actually, it's funny I see this topic here today.  I happen to have
    with me my son's notebook full of almost 1,000 POGS today.  I'm going
    to go through them, and seperate the ones that he is not allowed to
    trade from the ones that are cheapies.  He has 8 slammers of different
    sizes, shapes, colors, etc.
    
    RE: .151  Your rules of the game are not quite correct.
    
    You place 11 POGS on the official round playing disc face down.
    
    You drop your slammer from two feet or more above the board, attempting
    to flip the POGS face-up.
    
    The first person to flip 6 POGS wins the game, NOT the POGS.
    
    Getting others POGS is done in the same manner as baseball cards. 
    They are traded.  Several cheaper ones for one really cool one, etc.
    
    
    BTW:  I play this game with my kids all the time.  It's great fun, and
    occupies them for hours, indoors or out.
    
    Terrie
    

    <--- That's not what I was told.
    
    I guess that is the "official" rules.  8^)  Many kids play for keeps,
    from what I was told.  Most like to trade them, similar to the trading
    of baseball cards I used to do as a youth.
    
    Glad to hear the official version does not call for gambling, tho.  8^)

    
    This discussion brings back my school days and marbles.
    
    We were all playing the normal marble game (big circle, if you
    knock a marble out, you get to keep it) when a teacher introduced
    a new version.  In this new version, you used a small wooden
    disk (about 1" in diameter).  You would sit on the ground with
    your legs in a V and the disk in the middle.  Kids would shoot
    marbles at the disk.  Anyone who hit knocked the disk over got to
    keep it.  The original owner of the disk got to keep all of the
    marbles shot at the disk.
    
    It was amazing how the value of the disk would go up (since you usually
    won about 20-30 marbles), until people came up with new disks (from
    cutting up broom handles).  It was my first hands on lesson in
    economics.
    
    I see a similar frenzy with Magic cards (but for a different reason).
    
    	Skip

    Pinball machines. Boy,I just love `em.
    
    My favourites at the moment (in no particular order) are:
    
    1) Football USA `94
    2) Star Trek
    3) Shaq Attack
    4) Star Wars (oldie but a goldie)
    5) Guns n`Roses
    6) Terminator 2 (again,a classic)
    
    If I ever see one I haven`t played before,I just have to have a go.
    
    

re: .last

	I share the same addiction, pinball. 

	My current favorite is Twilight Zone followed by
	
        World Cup Soccer
        Judge Dread
        Tales from the Crypt

mc
 	

    re: pinball
    
    I liked the older machines that are easy to figgure out.  These new
    ones take a bunch of quarters (in 50 cent intervals now-a-days, what a
    rip) just to figgure out how to score well.
    
    The new machines are neat and have lots of bells and whistles, but they
    just don't have the character of the old games.  I used to be able to
    paly all afternoon long with but a couple of quarters, which I would
    normally get back after selling 5-10 games to someone waiting for said
    machine.  I don't like pinball as much as I used to.  I do like those
    helecopter games where you blast everything that moves, though.  
    
    
    -steve

    
    
    
    My favorite is Aerosmith's Revolution X for video games.
    Don't like the old fashioned pinball games.
    

    
    
    Won't tell you how old I am, but when I was a kid, the pin-ball
    machines were 5 cents... and you got 5 balls (Gee.. can I wait to see
    the wise-cracks for this one coming???)
    

    
    
    Five balls, huh?  :*)
    
    
    
    Terrie
    

    When I put in my two cents, I feel lucky to leave with two balls...

I friend of mine has "High Speed" in his den. It was one of the games
that came out in the seventies with voice simulation. I'll never forget
the first time I was at his house after he got it. We're sitting in
the living room watching TV, and all of a sudden there's this loud
"Awright, Buddy! PULL OVER!" and I look out into the hall and see
a flashing red strobe.

Whenever the game is powered, it runs this little routine once every random
N minutes, and the bubble gum on top starts flashing/rotating while
the voice board emits some trooperese.

    HEY, I love pinball machines too....
    
    My all time fave is Judge Dred.... However, other likes are:
    
    World Cup Soccer
    Addams Family
    Demolition Man
    Creature from The Black Lagoon (I think that's what it's called)
    

Well, Martin, since I passed this bit of info on to another today,
I'll share it with you as well --

	CSSE::COINOP

(Our very own Mr_Topaz posted an extremely well written note about
 "Other VAXNOTES Conferences on the Easynet" years ago. I don't know that
 it included this one - prolly didn't. I've often wondered whether or not
 that note was preserved anywhere. One of the finest classics I've ever
 seen. I wonder if Donald could be cajoled into a repoast, if he still
 has a copy.)

    Cooooo..... I'll take a peak on the easynet and see what's going on.

    I used to think "eeeh,they don`t make pinball machines like when I were
    a lad",but I was wrong. The new breed take some getting used to,but
    they are far,far superior to anything in the past. And they just keep
    getting better.
    
    I fancy a game now,think about it.
    

    
    <------
    
    What State??
    

	downtown bawstin.  soon to all of them.

	ok, fenway bawstin.

    Well, with the old pinball machines you got two games for a quarter and
    5 balls per game.  Now you one game for 50 (or even 75) cents and only
    3 balls.
    
    Ain't progress wunnerful?  

	Some places still have 5 balls per game but the machines are
usualy set up harder then the 3 ball games.  Also most give you a
3 for a dollar special so it's not quite .25 a game.  

	Like someone said earlier, the old games just don't compare
to the new games.  It's like comparing pong to the new video games.

mc

I'm addicted to Debra.

 .174  tell us somethin' we didn't know.

    
    Might as well face it.
    

    Wouldn't that be better said
    
    "It's Debra I'm addicted to"?
    
    Seems it may earn you a bite or two :-))))

    <--- 8^)

    
    Glenn, and you call me a suck up !
    
    :-)
    Dan

    Well, I dunno Kirby, you point your nozzle everywhere it seems.

    
    SAY...NO...MORE!!
    

    re: .173
    
    Hey!  I like Pong.  They just don't make 'em like dat any more, no
    sirree.  Why, when I was a kid, I'd walk 15 miles one way, in 6' of
    snow, to get to the archade to play Pong.  Uphill both ways, too.

    With the wind in your face both ways, too, I'll bet.

Never got a wrist for pinball, myself... lousy hand/eye coord, I guess.

        Re. Pong;
        
        First job  I  had  post-military  was  with  General  Instruments
        Microelectronics,  first  project   was  to  build  the  physical
        breadboard  circuits  (two  3  ft  x  1ft  breadboards)  for  the
        prototype PONG, working with a guy called Duncan Harrower who had
        several patents on the design.   I  built  the  first  ever  PONG
        in a box (designed the oscillator/paddle controllers  etc.) using
        one of the first pre-production run chips and  this unit was used
        as the demonstrator world-wide.
        
        &y
        

    Open letter to whomever said he wuz addicted to "deBra"...  
    
    Methinx you should have this fixation with feminine upper undergarmentz
    checked into tout-suite.
    
    hth, nnttm.
    
    

    Re: .185
    
    Obviously, today, we can see that the designers of pong were
    visonaries.
    
    But did they have any idea of what they were doing then?
    
    a.k.a.: "What were they thinking?"

>    a.k.a.: "What were they thinking?"
        
        Nothing in  terms  of  "visionary"!    :*)  We  used  to hang out
        socially as well  as  in  work and consume the occasional pint or
        ten - and bounced  (heh!) all kinds of follow-on ideas around but
        GI in it's infinite wisdom  decided  that PONG was a product with
        limited appeal, sold it and layed  a  bunch  of us off (on Friday
        13th of December at that, if I remember right).  I then went into
        a  limited  partnership designing and building metering gear  for
        the  whisky  industry,  saying enough games - let's get  serious!
        ;*)
        
        &y
        

    If you don't mind me asking...
    
    What year was this?

     eeeesh!

        No problem -  '74
        

    Fun-O-Rama in York, ME still has some great old pins hangin round...

	The problem with old pins (and newer ones in some places)
is that they are usualy not in good working condition.  The flippers
will be too weak to make some shots, or some of the targets don't
register.  Pinball machines are alot harder to maintain then 
video games and it seems that alot of places arn't willing to put
in the effort or don't have the skill to keep them running properly.


mc

    
    Wow, you go away for *one day* and look what happens.
    
    Glenn, really, it took you 81 notes to see the light?  Oh dear, I must 
    be slipping 8^).						
    
    

    Math is hard.

    You're slipping?!?

    Oh! Let me catch you! Let me catch you!

    {vacuum cleaner noises}

    Are you okay sweetie?

    {vacuum cleaner noises}

    
    Can you make those vacuum cleaner noises a little closer to my carpets?
    
    

    re: .183
    
    You know the place?