--------------- FIDO MESSAGE AREA==> TOPIC: 159 WRITING Ref: F2L00005 Date: 02/15/98 From: RICH VERAA Time: 03:03pm \/To: BARBARA SHAFFERMAN (Read 2 times) Subj: LURKING In a message to ELVIS HARGROVE, BARBARA SHAFFERMAN wrote: EH> Doing good for us too! 'Cept the farmers still need a hurricane or EH> so. BS> Well, if we get any hurricanes this summer/fall, we'll send them BS> straight down to you. He can have all the ones that come this-a-way too. Cheers, Rich http://www.netside.net/~rveraa/ * Origin: Birdsoft - North Miami (1:135/907) --------------- FIDO MESSAGE AREA==> TOPIC: 159 WRITING Ref: F2L00006 Date: 02/15/98 From: MODERATORS Time: 08:38pm \/To: ALL (Read 2 times) Subj: README.NOW This is the FidoNet International Writing echo conference (area tag WRITING). It is for the discussion of all aspects of the art, craft, and business of writing, both fiction and non-fiction, and is intended for people who are actively (not necessarily professionally) engaged in it. 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Thank you for your cooperation, Rich Veraa, Moderator Shalanna Collins, Co-Moderator Jack Ruttan, Co-Moderator * Origin: Home of the international WRITING echo. (1:135/907) --------------- FIDO MESSAGE AREA==> TOPIC: 159 WRITING Ref: F2L00007 Date: 02/06/98 From: MICHAEL TAUSON Time: 12:41pm \/To: CHRIS KLING (Read 2 times) Subj: Re: conundrum -=> Quoting Chris Kling to Elvis Hargrove <=- CK> Hi Elvis! EH> Okay, expand on Lisa's opening. EH> Rich, is this Okay? CK> I guess I missed Lisa's opening... could anybody re-post it? There is any number of ways that this exchange could be mis- interpreted, and I think I managed all of them. I think I need to review my thinker-toy's operating parameters again. *sigh* Michael ... Are there any openings in the lunatic fringe? -Linus ___ Blue Wave/QWK v2.12 --- Maximus 3.01 * Origin: SoundingBoard, Pittsburgh PA (1:129/26) --------------- FIDO MESSAGE AREA==> TOPIC: 159 WRITING Ref: F2L00008 Date: 02/06/98 From: MICHAEL TAUSON Time: 12:54pm \/To: VERN FAULKNER (Read 2 times) Subj: Re: conundrum -=> Quoting Vern Faulkner to Elvis Hargrove <=- -> "He was born..." EH> But Lisa, we ALL were. VF> Prove it. There is no absolute, undeniable proof that any of us are who we say we are, or even exist. Birth records can be falsified, as can anything else commited to either paper or computer. Who am I? I am an entity who appears in this and other echoes. An artifact, if you will. I claim that I may be identified as Michael Tauson, but that claim is based on hearsay and documents which may or may not be real. While there exists evidence that there is another entity who also claims to be identified as Michael Tauson (and, further claims to have been on the Danish Olympic Tennis Team), the likelihood of coming in contact with that entity is remote so this identification is sufficient. Who am I? Who knows? Michael ... I DO have a clue; wait while I remember where I put it... ___ Blue Wave/QWK v2.12 --- Maximus 3.01 * Origin: SoundingBoard, Pittsburgh PA (1:129/26) --------------- FIDO MESSAGE AREA==> TOPIC: 159 WRITING Ref: F2L00009 Date: 02/06/98 From: MICHAEL TAUSON Time: 01:18pm \/To: MICHAEL NELLIS (Read 2 times) Subj: Re: Chinese Hegemony -=> Quoting Michael Nellis to Carl Thames <=- MN> Dirtside means Earth. A smelly, still overcrowded, pestilent, MN> dirty, germ and bug ridden, gravity-sucking, hell hole. MN> -Evielynn Annabelle O'Tara Hmmm ... okay. Now that you've got that out of your system, tell me the bad points. MN> Evielynn is not adapted to full gravity and doesn't like it. Gravity sucks majorly. It's something that causes all kinds of evil badness and Cogress should pass a law against it. I mean, falling down hurts and stuff, and we wouldn't fall down if there wasn't any gravity! MN> Some politicians can learn. You have beat it into them with their MN> political reputations, but they can learn. *blink* ... They can? *blink* ... Er, they can? Really? Hmmm, I thought the only way to teach a politician was via the tried and true method called (in polite circles( "execution". Michael ... "That's Sultan Vile Betrayer to you." -Iago ___ Blue Wave/QWK v2.12 --- Maximus 3.01 * Origin: SoundingBoard, Pittsburgh PA (1:129/26) --------------- FIDO MESSAGE AREA==> TOPIC: 159 WRITING Ref: F2L00010 Date: 02/12/98 From: MICHAEL TAUSON Time: 09:33pm \/To: RALF GUMINSKI (Read 2 times) Subj: Re: Books, problems with -=> Quoting Ralf Guminski to Michael Nellis <=- RG> Hello Michael, RG> Yo! Bruce! Yo! Ralf! Get your butt back here a moment. RG> Last I checked none of the surviving BBS's round here carry any of the RG> echoes I'm even remotely interested in so, I'spose, this note marks my RG> descent into cyber-limbo. *Sigh* ... What's your email addy? I lost it when I switched back from OS/2 to *shudder* Windoze. Michael ... Nothing good is ever achieved without human sacrifice. ___ Blue Wave/QWK v2.12 --- Maximus 3.01 * Origin: SoundingBoard, Pittsburgh PA (1:129/26) --------------- FIDO MESSAGE AREA==> TOPIC: 159 WRITING Ref: F2L00011 Date: 02/12/98 From: MICHAEL TAUSON Time: 09:54pm \/To: LISA PEPPAN (Read 2 times) Subj: Re: Books, problems with -=> Quoting Lisa Peppan to Michael Nellis <=- LP> How long would it take to terraform the moon, making it habitable for LP> human beings? Um, 'tain't big enough. Needs a bit more mass to hold onto an atmosphere which'd have to be "imported" anyway. Need water, too. Hmmm, and maybe some stuff in the soil to make it happier to grow things so the atmosphere (that won't stick anyway) is self-maintaining, provide part of a food chain you'd have to create as well, etc. Few other details but that's a start. LP> ... I'd rather spend eternity eating shards of broken glass-- Hmmm, so you *have* eaten my cooking afterall. Michael ... SPACE-TIME.SYS not found. Universe HALTED. ___ Blue Wave/QWK v2.12 --- Maximus 3.01 * Origin: SoundingBoard, Pittsburgh PA (1:129/26) --------------- FIDO MESSAGE AREA==> TOPIC: 159 WRITING Ref: F2L00012 Date: 02/12/98 From: MICHAEL TAUSON Time: 10:38pm \/To: CHRIS KLING (Read 2 times) Subj: Re: Rights or wrongs? -=> Quoting Chris Kling to Kestrel T'rael <=- CK> Do I understand you correctly? "Even if he IS guilty "- CK> you give him credit for pretending like he's guilty of CK> nothing? He (Clinton) is a politician, therefore is guilty. Innocence and politics are mutually exclusive, which is a rather neat convenience since it provides mucho novel-fodder. Politics when joined by religion and war (in the name of either or both) forms a triumvirate that, in my opinion, is the basis for most of human history. Civilizations come and go as a result of one or all of these elements. I'm hoping that it's true of the history of alien races as well, otherwise I'm in deep doodoo. Michael ... If I had two dead mousies, I'd give you one. ___ Blue Wave/QWK v2.12 --- Maximus 3.01 * Origin: SoundingBoard, Pittsburgh PA (1:129/26) --------------- FIDO MESSAGE AREA==> TOPIC: 159 WRITING Ref: F2L00013 Date: 02/13/98 From: MICHAEL TAUSON Time: 07:43pm \/To: JAMES WALTON (Read 2 times) Subj: Re: Books by RAH -=> Quoting James Walton to Michael Tauson <=- MT> Hark, the Herald Angels shout! Six more months and I'll be MT> out. Er, something. JW> You are a brave man to out yourself in an international echo. Heh, well, if you're gonna do something, do it *big*, right? Michael ... One who thinks logically provides a nice contrast to the real world. ___ Blue Wave/QWK v2.12 --- Maximus 3.01 * Origin: SoundingBoard, Pittsburgh PA (1:129/26) --------------- FIDO MESSAGE AREA==> TOPIC: 159 WRITING Ref: F2L00014 Date: 02/13/98 From: MICHAEL TAUSON Time: 07:48pm \/To: JAMES WALTON (Read 2 times) Subj: Re: Rights or wrongs? -=> Quoting James Walton to Michael Tauson <=- MT> know in our minds they exist, but I wonder sometimes if MT> they know we exist. JW> Do they care that we exist? Ask them. Go on, I dare you to. Michael ... Portions of eternity are too great for the eye of Man. ___ Blue Wave/QWK v2.12 --- Maximus 3.01 * Origin: SoundingBoard, Pittsburgh PA (1:129/26)