Conference back40::soapbox

(Not a bad grab for someone on vacation, eh?)

    
    chocolate
    
    

    
    RE: .5
    
    How about the Life Center???????
    
    
    :)
    

    Ok, lets start with the easy one, SEX.
    
              Q      Q
             /|\   /o|o\
              |      v
             / \    / \
    
            MAN    WOMAN
         (simple) (complex)
    
    Man meets woman, woman plays with mans head.
    Man discovers women functions, women pretends she's pregnant.
    Man asks to support child, woman breaks down in tears and leaves.
    
    
    This was my brothers explination of sex at the age of 7-8.
    
    8^)
    

    .7 You mean the 'Death Center'? Life goes in, death comes out.:) You
    dont workout till you drop. Then you aint doing much, execpt fanning
    yourself with your arms and weights.:)
    
    

    <-----
    
    Speakin' of which.... I ain't seen you down there in ages... 
    
    You keepin the weight off some other way???
    
    :)
    

    The week or so before Christmas I break cause lots of folks are walking
    labs of sickness. Ready to pass you that great seasonal flu! And the
    past month I have been picking on the scumbag tenant who trashed my
    unit and boogied. Soo, much of my time has been spent play Rauh,
    Attorney at Large. Off to the court house to file this, off to the
    house to call that. Lots of fun sitting on one tush on the local
    district court house benchs waiting for the DA to tell you that he will
    not help you convict scumbag because their civil rights might get
    trampled upon...
    
    But, after the first. Its back to the slot. And yes. I have my own toys
    at home. Not only do I do a walk and trott during the lunch time. I
    lift after I put my daughter to bed at 8pm. Wanna get big and strong
    someday.
    
    

    	I think the significance of this topic is lost on too many
    	people for it to have any significance.

    .12 beat me to it.  Now get thee to the basenote ;^).
    
    Mark.

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	Joe, would you swear to God that was the meaning of pitiful you meant?
I don't think you would lie to Him, so if you will just swear to God about what
you really meant, I'll believe ya. 


Glen

	You really are avoiding it, huh? Maybe you answered it in the
appropriate topic...

    
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    I have never made up a fact.  People have misinterpreted what I have
    said, but their inability to understand written English has nothing to
    do with me.

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SOLVIT::KRAWIECKI "Been complimented by a toady late" 6 lines   8-AUG-1995 10:56
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    <-------
    
    Take it to the "Geek" topic...
    
    Or is that "Gak"???

    I'm afraid Lussier isn't equal to the intellectual pressure of the
    conversation.
    
    
    
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HOTLNE::LUSSIER                                       9 lines  29-FEB-1996 16:31
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    re: Gioacchino Rossini's 49th birthday  -  can't happen if he was born
    
        Feb.29th   he's either 48 or 52 ,   Your first birthday celebration
     
        being when you turn 4, then 8, then 12. etc.
    
    
    
                 

    
    All right, it's been gently pointed out to me that I was a trifle 
    harsh on Mr.Lussier.
    
    I apologize profusely.
    
    
    Gioacchino Rossini was born in 1792.  That makes him 204 in regular
    years, or 49 in leap years.
    

    
    Shaddap, you!
    

    
    Shaddap, Hindskits, or I'll be harsh with YOU next.
    

    
    >triffle harsh
    
    
    perhaps you meant triffle hash???

    You should have just been plain harsh with him, trifle harsh was
    perhaps going too far.

    It won't work, Glenn, you has been CAUGHT!  The timestamps don't lie. 
    You wrote triffle, and we ALLL know it.

    
    	Deb, you can be harsh with me if you want.
    
    	I won't mind too much.
    

    Well, I haven't had it published yet, so where did you get a hold of
    the manuscript?

I'm still waiting for Stu's father's sherry trifle recipe.

A recipe for trifle?  Why would you need a recipe for a sherry trifle?
They're all packets, and blobs and pours, and slooshes and dashes.
Though you DO need to make sure that the jelly flavours don't clash - and 
you should have at least 2, preferrably 3, different coloured jellies.

\Chele (bemused)

I've got a few trifle recipes I've used which are good, Chele. Mostly
the non-sploosh areas have to do with the custard. I was just kinda hoping
that Stu would give us a classic.

I found a use of gin a few years ago - a dash in custard and served with 
stewed fruit works quite well.

\C

    I could go for a trifle...
    
    ...of Macallan scotch.

>    	Deb, you can be harsh with me if you want.
>    
>    	I won't mind too much.
    
Into B&D, eh Shawn?  Bring on the Miracle Whip!

Is Miracle whip some kind of fake whipped cream?  If so, what the heck is the 
point in consuming it when real cream is so easily attainable?

\C

IMO, "Miracle Whip" is the poorest excuse yet for real mayo. The
'miracle' of it is that anyone buys it, period. It tastes like salty
toe-jam.

No offense,
Pete

    
    	Miracle Whip(tm) is a faux mayonaise with less fat/calories than
    the real thing. 
    	
    	re: .35
    
    	I want to know how you know what salty toe-jam tastes like.
    
    
    jim

    No, you don't.  Trust me.

    Nah, I ran a study of PeeCee users, and they said they'd rather eat toe
    jam than use Windoze.

    
    > Is Miracle whip some kind of fake whipped cream?  If so, what the
    > heck is the point in consuming it when real cream is so easily attainable?
    
    
    IMHO:
    
    whipped cream ALWAYS tastes best when applied liberally to (the) female
    of the species, and enjoyed as an apertif.

    {thud}

{cough}

    What?!? And cover up all of that wonderful natural flavour?

             
    >>>    Note 204.43 by POLAR::RICHARDSON "Walloping Web Snappers!"
    
    >>>    What?!? And cover up all of that wonderful natural flavour?
    
    {sound of subject being carefully avoided}

    
    	Punchline:
    
    	Great ... now all the fish are going to smell like that.
    
    
    	[You can fill in the rest of the joke.]
    

    Notes> search /note=204.* jerk
    
    No notes found containing string "JERK"
    
    - M

    take it to ... oh, waitaminute, this *is* 204.
    
    Zaharee, how kind of you to remind us, amidst all our new idiotic
    boxing traditions of fluffnoting, punfests, and snarferooting, of
    one of our *old* idiotic traditions.
    
    DougO

[Holy smokes. I haven't seen Mike in here in years.]

    Maybe it's an imposter that found an old, unexpired account to make a
    "hit and run" with Mike's nodename::username...

    > <<< Note 204.0 by MOLAR::DELBALSO "I (spade) my (dogface)" >>>
    >                            -< Our Favorite topic >-
    
    >For discussion of men and women of the year - any year - your choice.
    
    Mz_deb.
    
    no discussion needed.

    
    	Uh-oh.
    
    	Bob, being named in this note is not a good thing.
    

    Any second now Rawss is gonna start talking about "that giant sucking
    sound" and he ain't gonna be talking about NAFTA!

    >         Bob, being named in this note is not a good thing.
    
    I dunno; it doesn't seem to have hurt ME yet...
    
    {bang!} {thud}
    
    {AAAAAAAAhhhhhhhhhhhhhhhhhhhhhhhhhhhhhhh!}

 Nah, heahs the deal

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Note 204.0                        You're a Jerk                      758 replies
AJAX::TOPAZ                                          11 lines  13-JUN-1984 10:59
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This note is exclusively for personal attacks. In other notes, we can
maintain a certain level of decorum by discussing the wisdom or
foolishness of ideas -- a noble purpose indeed. But sometimes one
reads a note that is so outrageous that there is a compelling need to
tell the writer that he or she is a jerk.  This is the place for it.

Obviously, if you are above this [gutter-] level of noting, or if you
don't want to read nasty comments about yourself, kindly skip to the next 
note. Thank you so much.

--Don

    Why are you resurrecting this Hemmerhoid?  Don Topaz is a boil!

Topaz is closer to a carbuncle than to a boil.

    re .57
    
    Actually, I had to restore note 240 ("Cat Lovers, Beware") for a
    certain ex-deccie and figured I'd retrieve the original 204 just for
    grins.  I was thinking I would start a bidding war between folks that
    want the original Soapbox made available and those that don't.  Maybe
    even take some side bets on which side will win the bidding.
    
    - M

    
    	Mike, I didn't even know you were still around!!
    
    	Jim Percival mentioned you last week and I realized I hadn't
    	seen your name for a LONG time.
    

    re .60
    
    And looking over the archives I'd say you would be in the bidding
    against camp... heh, heh... only kidding.
    
    - M

    
    	Wise guy.  8^)
    
    	The pleasure I would receive from reading all the jabs aimed
    	at everyone else would far outweigh the jabs aimed at me.  Or
    	so I hope.  8^)
    	

    re .62
    
    It's not the jabs aimed at anyone, it's how foolish some almost 12 year
    old notes look today.  
    
    - M

    
    	Oh, I'd be on the "yay" side.
    
    	Now that you remind me that it's about 12 years old, I don't
    	think I was even a part of the original version.  I might've
    	started with V3 or so [1987?].
    

    The original version lasted several years and the file had a '88
    timestamp on it although that may have been the last time it was moved.
    
    - M

Is this the _real_ original box started by Simon with the first topic about
"Smoking in the Office Areas" that we're talking about here?

I'd love to see it again. Those halcyon days ...

    i second that emotion!

    re .66:
    
    > Is this the _real_ original box started by Simon with the first topic
    > about "Smoking in the Office Areas" that we're talking about here?
    
    Yep.
    
    At this time the bidding against are ahead of the bidding for by a
    significant $$$ amount.  
    
    - M
    

    
    	Against is winning?
    
    	How is that possible?  No one wants to see that stuff?
    
    	What's the score so far?
    

    >Against is winning?
    >
    >How is that possible?  
    
    He mentioned "by a significant $$$ amount".
    
    Sounds like Someone has Something to hide.
    
    If the Someone doesn't pay, Mike, one presumes you'll publish not only
    the old box, but the name of the one who reneged on the payoff...
    
    DougO

> by a significant $$$ amount

Point of clarification here, please.

Should/can I assume that any $$ being bid are going to some worthwhile
charitable cause, or, at least, a bring_a_distant_boxer_to_a_bash fund,
as opposed to some "private charity"?

If so, I'm willing to bid $10 to have the original 'box put online for 
perusal by the rabble masses.

    I'm a distant_boxer!!  8^)

re: .72, Steve

It _IS_ about time we brought you back east where we could meet you,
isn't it?

I'll contribute a nickel.



OK.  Five bucks.

    If he can afford to drop big bucks on audiophile quality components, he
    can afford a trip from Cinci to Boston.

    <--- Well actually, I bought everything on sale (my Rotel amps were 1/2
    off).  And who says I can afford them?  8^)

Well, Mike's the guy holding the purse strings, here.

    
    i bet valujet has a good rate from there to here!
    
    

>    
>    i bet valujet has a good rate from there to here!
>    

Valujet does not serve Cincinnati.  Here are "3 Best Itineraries" according
to Travelocity which would get Steve here for the Cooks visit.  If it were
up to me, I'd junk the first one and spring for the extra $5.27 to avoid a
connection at ORD.  I suspect the Saturday night stay is required to get the
low fare, but I didn't check conditions or other dates.

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    nyaaaaah, as if.

>OK.  Five bucks.

Was that to put the old 'box online, or to keep it under wraps, /john?

That was to bring Steve Leech to a bash.

Yabbut -

    The issue here is which way can Mike collect the largest purse.

	i'd be in for $5.
	

I'll contribute the $5, put him up for up to three nights (maybe Mz_Debra can
board him part of the time, hoho), get him to the Brewpub on Monday evening,
and even take him to church on Sunday.  Twice, if he wants, since I think I'm
supposed to go hear the Ashmont Boys Choir that Sunday evening.

/john

    > (maybe Mz_Debra can board him part of the time...)
    
    I'm there!  8^)
    
    Well, as long as you don't mean "wack upside the head with a peice of
    lumber".  8^)
    
    
    -steve 

    Where's Don Topaz when you need him?

    Displaying his superior taste in noting companions at Lotus, sans
    doute.

>     <<< Note 204.89 by SMURF::BINDER "Errabit quicquid errare potest." >>>

>    Displaying his superior taste in noting companions at Lotus, sans
>    doute.

	sans doot.

from doot thou art and unto doot thou shalt return

Has Lotus transfered Mr. Topaz to Ohio yet?

From:	US2RMC::"Donald_Topaz/CAM/Lotus.LOTUS@crd.lotus.com" "Donald Topaz/CAM/Lotus" 13-AUG-1996 15:38:21.50
To:	sacks <notime::sacks>
CC:	
Subj:	RE: SB 204.92

> Has Lotus transfered Mr. Topaz to Ohio yet?

transferred.

Nnttm.

--Mr Topaz, not in Reynoldsville

    he is so kewl. 

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    > How could we ever manage without you around to make sure we always
    > tell the truth, the whole truth, and nothing but the truth?
    
    You don't manage.
    
    
    				-- edp
    
    
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