Conference back40::soapbox

    
    
    Don't everyone speak at once...
    

    
    Well..
    
    23 minutes since your .0 and .1 (and this after quitting time for most
    folks) doesn't allow for much, now does it?
    
    
    Sure there's lots of stories out there like that... problem is that
    stuff like this doesn't keep the news media in business...
    

    yes
    

    >problem is that stuff like this doesn't keep the news media in business...
    
    
    Or SOAPBOX either!!  :)
    
    ...Tom

    
    someone send .0 to haag; at least he'd be touched...
    
    -b

    Dick Assmania is still alive and well in Canada, does this count?

    
    No.
    

    The local CBS affiliate in Colorado Springs closes each newscast with
    an "Act of Kindness" that they recorded from some viewer.  Any viewer
    can phone in, record some "Act", and if selected the CBS affiliate will
    play it over the air.  Things like, "I don't know who you are, but I
    want to thank the gentleman who changed my flat tire during rush hour."
    
    Schmaltzy, but nice.
    
    Do other CBS affiliates do the same?
    
    -- Jim

    
    <--- No. 

    
    
    Here it is:
    
    The vast majority of people didn't kill anyone today, or any other day.
    
    The vast majority of husbands and/or wifes didn't abuse their spouse
    today, or any other day.
    
    The vast majority of parents didn't abuse their children today, or any
    other day.
    
    The vast majority of folks went to work today and all other days and 
    worked to provide for themselves and/or their loved ones.
    
    The vast majority of people didn't rob anyone today.
    
    The vast majority of men didn't rape anyone today.
    
    The vast majority of people are living fairly happy and productive
    lives, today and every other day.
    
    The vast majority of folks are good people who are compassionate hard
    working, loving people.
    
    These are things that might behoove each and every one of us to
    remember every day.  I try to, sometimes it's hard with all that the
    illustrious newspeople bring us, but they are indeed the facts.
    
    Good day to all,
    
    Mike

I heard a week or so ago (and it's possible I read it in here) that the 
American Bald Eagle is off of the endangered species list in all 50 states.

Geoff

    
    
    RE: .0  Well, I don't care what anyone else has to say.
    Reading your note this morning brought tears to my eyes.
    It's so good to know that there are still folks in this
    wretched world that actually care about other people.
    
    I wish there were alot more news stories like this.
    
    
    
    Terrie
    

>    The vast majority of husbands and/or wifes didn't abuse their spouse
>    today, or any other day.
>    
>    The vast majority of parents didn't abuse their children today, or any
>    other day.

Today, OK.  Any other day, no way.

    RE: .0
    
    Did the media cover the story from the angle of "will the efforts of
    these good people save this women from DYING and HORRIBLE DEATH..."?
    
    You know how they love that crap...

    
    >I wish there were alot more news stories like this.
    
     There are... and like I stated, you won't hear the majority of them
    because the news media live off of hype, murder, blood mayhem and the
    sensational...
    
     Good, kind, un-selfish acts just aren't "good copy"...
    

    
    
    Prove me wrong, Gerald.  I didn't think you could.  

OK.  Has any parent/spouse in 'Boxland *never* said anything spiteful to
his/her child/spouse?  I mean something said in anger just to hurt the
other person.  That's abuse.  QED.

    
    
    Still, on any given day, the majority of the people have not.

    You fellers is right.  Life's a bitch, the world's a ghetto, and love 
    never lasts.  How's that? 
    

    Yes, it seems that everyone knows the basic truth that good news does
    not feed the general need for sensationalism.  However I believe that
    we also need to know or be reminded every day that there are a large
    number of truly amazing things happening every day that represent the
    good in people.  I realize what was mentioned in the earlier note holds
    true (that every day a majority of people are acting responsibly). 
    What I want to hear about though are the acts that really go beyond
    doing what you are supposed to do (we are supposed to be good
    citizens, etc.) and which fall into the category of "beyond the call of
    duty".  I believe that probably every day at least 1% of Americans are
    going beyond the call and that amounts to over 2 million events every
    day!  These are the things we need to talk about a lot more. 

    re: .17
    
     Pretty generous definition of abuse, Gerald.

    Fits the dictionary definiton.

    
    The things that I do which may be considered "above and beyond" I do
    not care to mention as I do not do it to get a pat on the back.
    
    
    Mike

    .17
    I can proudly say that I haven't said anything nasty to my s.o., and she
    hasn't to me. Best damn relationship I've ever been in.
    (OK, so it's only 2 years old...)

    
    re: "abuse"
    
    Oh my dear!! When oh when will the Waffen BATF descend on my humble
    abode to correct the error of my ways????
    

re .26:

The gunnut index just went up a notch.

    
    > What I want to hear about though are the acts that really go beyond
    > doing what you are supposed to do (we are supposed to be good
    > citizens, etc.) and which fall into the category of "beyond the call of
    > duty".

    I guess not killing any of a dozen SoB's that I encounter every day on
    the highways, who richly deserve to have there reproductive organs
    rearranged, doesn't count huh?

    Too bad, I work real hard at controlling my temper even...

    Oh Well,
    Dan

There has been a big advance in plasma physics in controlling plasma 
instabilities.  This should allow an existing fusion reactor to roughly 
triple the power output with the same equipment and power input,  and moves
us that much closer to commercial fusion power.


Phil

    
    <-------
    
    Take it to the "Geek" topic...
    
    Or is that "Gak"???

RE: 509.31 by SOLVIT::KRAWIECKI "Been complimented by a toady lately?"

"Gak" does apply.  That's what our grandkids will say.  Of course,  you
don't give a damn.  You might get a tax cut,  and that's what is important.


Phil

    
      Hey, Phil, don't they do fusion in a jar these days ?  Some
     scientists said it, so it must have happened.
    
      :-)  bb
    

    
    re: .32
    
    Grow up Phil... it was a joke... or do you not recognize this:
    
      :)
    
      ^^
      ||
      ||_ this is a smile
      |
      |_ this is a pair of eyes
    
      
    Knowing you personally, I would hope that your .32 was just a sarcastic
    joke... but then of course, you may be performing for the rest of the
    'box... to show how serious you are about such scientific things...
    
     If that's the case, then you truly are a geek...
    

    
    .34

      : )
    
      ^^^
      |||
      |||_ this is a smile
      ||_ there is a nose missing here!
      |_ this is a pair of eyes
    
      
    

RE: 509.34 by SOLVIT::KRAWIECKI "Been complimented by a toady lately?"

I don't think Congress cutting most fusion research funding is funny in the
slightest.

YMMV.


Phil

    
    Good!!
    
    Grow up anyway....
    

    : )
    ^^^
    |||
    |||___ This is your mouth.
    ||____ This was your nose, but you did too much nose candy.
    |_____ These are your beady eyes.
    
    

RE: 509.37 by SOLVIT::KRAWIECKI "Been complimented by a toady lately?"

> Good!!

No,  it's bad.


> Grow up anyway....

Get a life.

    
    
    GOOD NEWS!!!  We made lots of money and they are giving some
    of it back to us!!!!
    
    
    
    
    Terrie
    

    
    
    speaq for yourself, there, ter...
    
    
    but, congrats to ya nonetheless...
    
    :>
    
    

    Terrie,
    
    I'm glad for your good fortune, but don't pour it on too thick; some
    of us field grunts probably won't see it any time soon.
                                                                 

    And then you have us contractors who slave away much harder than the
    full timers and what do we get?

    So slave away somewhere else, then.

>    And then you have us contractors who slave away much harder than the
>    full timers and what do we get?

Another day older and deeper in debt.

    >And then you have us contractors who slave away much harder than the
    >full timers and what do we get?
    
    don't know how long ya' been in the contract biz binky, but let
    an old timer offer some advice: if'n ya' want to _stay_ in this
    business, ya' best keep thoughts like this to yizself. i will add
    that in my experience, when contractors (such as myself) are
    brought in, it's usually to assist full time workers who are
    already grossly over-burdened. i know that's the case here where
    i work... the employees are highly motivated, under-compensated,
    under-appreciated, but none-the-less are peddling as fast as
    they can. if i was running a company, i don't think there's a
    single person in this group that i wouldn't be glad to have
    working for me... on the other hand, i have lots of experiences
    with contractors who i wouldn't pay a nickle for...
    
    -b

    >peddling as fast as they can...
    
    What are they selling?

    
    > And then you have us contractors who slave away much harder than the
    > full timers and what do we get?

    The wonderful experience of knowing that you have come in at their
    darkest hour, in your shining armor to save the day for the good guys! 
    If next week you are working for their competition, that's ok, 'cuz
    then they are the good guys.  Contractors are expected to walk on
    water at all times, know all, do all, and do it with a smile on their
    face.  Remember that you are a contractor, one of a rare breed.  The
    kind of individual who can come in when the chips are down, and make
    everything right again.  You are the cavalry who comes over the hill,
    the relief column that shows up just in the nick of time.  If your
    efforts come to naught, and the project still dies a miserable death,
    you have done every thing that you could to make things right.  Even
    Superman loses one every now and then.  Your, mission should you decide
    to accept it, is to ride in, clean up the town, and then ride off into
    the sunset.  Possibly never to be thought of again, but you have done a
    good job, therefore you are the hero.  If this is not what you want to
    do with your life, then I suggest you find another line of work.
    
    Dan

>    And then you have us contractors who slave away much harder than the
>    full timers and what do we get?

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CALLME::MR_TOPAZ                                     53 lines  10-AUG-1995 11:02
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       Horror movie director murdered, buried under whirlpool tub
       
       LOS ANGELES -- In a crime called more horrible than any he ever
       filmed, a director of grisly B-movies was killed and entombed in
       concrete beneath his whirlpool tub.
       
>      An independent contractor who had been living in Al Adamson's
>      house while remodeling it was arrested Monday for investigation of
>      murder.

    
    Are you saying that contractors go loony and bury bad B-movie directors
    under their hot-tubs ? Just 'cuz they work at Digital ?

    -1 Can't answer for Gerald, but it gave me my best laugh of the
    day :-)
    

    >Are you saying that contractors go loony and bury bad B-movie directors
    >under their hot-tubs ? Just 'cuz they work at Digital ?
    
    i thought it made them grow up to be homosexuals.
    
    -b

    Sorry everyone, I forgot to include my smiley.  I am not a contractor
    in the usual sense of the word. In fact, I have been at Digital as a
    "temp" employee for the last four years and have only recently been
    hired on as a full-time employee of another company that Digital has
    chosen to partner with.  I guess I feel like a Digital employee
    more than anything and although I was not really serious about being
    the harder worker, (it's kinda an inside joke around here that if you
    want something done you call one of the temps) it still does kind of 
    bug me when across the board perks like this are given, and they don't
    include employees who have worked just as hard as the full-timers. To
    those of you I offended.... sorry!  :*))))) 

    .52
    
    Nah, just makes 'em apologetic.

| <<< Note 509.52 by MPGS::MARKEY "The bottom end of Liquid Sanctuary" >>>

| >Are you saying that contractors go loony and bury bad B-movie directors
| >under their hot-tubs ? Just 'cuz they work at Digital ?

| i thought it made them grow up to be homosexuals.

	SSSShhhhhh Brian.... don't let our secret out...... :-)

Kids, nostalgic boomers put the sizzle in Fizzie sales

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By Warren Epstein

Plop, plop, fizz, fizz -- oh, what a splash from the past this is.

Fizzies, those '60s-era Alka-Seltzer-like tablets that turn water into
soda, are back and fizzing.

"It's been a hit," says Stan ("the Fizzie man") Teeple, vice president of
sales and marketing for Premiere Innovations in Santa Monica, Calif., which
reintroduced Fizzies with a national rollout last month.

"Part of the appeal is the nostalgia factor. People remember Fizzies like
they do their first kiss they had as a teen-ager. It may not have been the
best, but you remember it being a good kiss. Nobody says, `yuk!' and spits
it out."

That's not entirely true. Figuratively speaking, the Food and Drug
Administration spit Fizzies out in 1968, when it banned all products with
cyclamates, artificial sweeteners identified as possible carcinogens.

Fizzies were pulled from the shelves.

But Premiere Innovations recently decided to reformulate them. The new
Fizzies are bigger, more colorful, tastier -- and they're legal, sweetened
with NutraSweet.

Coloradans already have plopped about 24,000 packages of Fizzies into
water, Teeple says.

And it's not just nostalgic baby boomers doing the plopping.

"Kids have gotten ahold of them and they're doing funny things," Teeple
says. "They're putting them in milk, orange juice, combining three
different flavors and making `suicides.' "

The first Fizzies were invented by Emerson Drug Co., the original makers of
Bromo-Seltzer. In 1962, Warner Lambert Co. bought Emerson and released
Fizzies nationally.

The new Fizzies are available at local Albertson's supermarkets; six-tablet
boxes sell for 89 cents. Boxes also include information on getting new
Fizzies caps and shirts.

    we used to just pop 'em in our mouths. they did get uncomfortable in
    the disintegration process...

    i loved fizzies.  but then, i used to eat raw jello
    right out of the box.

    
    >raw jello
    
    You mean there's something other than powder in those little boxes??
    
    I'll have to beware next time I buy some!!!
    
     :)
    

    yeah, raw=powder, cooked=the stuff cosby shills.

   This is great news!  I loved the grape and root beer flavors of
   fizzies.  

    
    Fizzies were banned in the late 60s?  Oh dear, I had them in Japan
    as late as 1972.
    
    Am I gonna die?
    

    only if you assaulted someone in a bar to get them.

    
    	I used to eat jello powder out of the box, too.
    
    	Never had a fizzie, though.
    
    

 Jello powder is great on buttered toast (depending on the flavor jello
 you choose).




 Jim

    wouldn't jello powder be akin to pixie sticks?

    kissin' cousins, i'd say.

 Why, yes I suppose you're right!

	Bill Cosby doing a 69 with a box of Jello snarf!

    mix the jello first

| <<< Note 509.71 by SCASS1::BARBER_A "That weren't no easy thaing" >>>

| mix the jello first

	What do you think he'll be doing at the time???? :_)

    my income tax refund amount.

    TurboLax works good too!

	What's TurboLax???

    super colon blow.

    
    Glenn's just being fecestious.
    

    
    	What a crappy thing to say, Deb.
    

deb, wipe that smirk off your face!

    One of the instructors at the mountain used to work for Digital and
    either volunteered or was volunteered for one of the packages a year or
    so ago.  Has not really worked since other than teaching skiing.  He
    won $50K in the Mass Millions a few weeks ago.  I was really happy to
    hear this.  It could not have happened to a nicer individual.  

    >> It could not have happened to a nicer individual.
    
    Yes it could. Me.

    Received the actual certificate last night for fire certification.

    Better that than receiving an actual diploma for fire diplomafication.

    -1 what he said, but congratulations anyway!