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#170109 54 Sat Sep 10 17:14:27 1994 JayDee @ Loka, sea
cope, John it is easy
#170110 54 Sat Sep 10 22:08:58 1994 John @ Saltlick Of Desire, Seattle, USA/WA/KING
In or around 1987, a network news reporter was beaten one night, and asked repeatedly, "What's the frequency, Kenneth?" R.E.M.'s new song reminded me of this curious event, but I can't remember which news reporter it was. Does anyone here remember the name?
#170112 54 Sat Sep 10 22:37:54 1994 JayDee @ Loka, sea
no
#170113 54 Sun Sep 11 10:12:57 1994 John @ Saltlick Of Desire, Seattle, USA/WA/KING
JayDee: Which question are you responding to?
#170114 54 Sun Sep 11 11:57:53 1994 JayDee @ Loka, sea
giving de-balled creatures erections, John
#170111 54 Sun Sep 11 17:55:42 1994 SkyWise @ Dystopia ][, Bellingham, US/WA/Whatcom
John> Don't use bleach, it will vaporize your hair. I'm not kidding.
#170115 54 Sun Sep 11 23:30:25 1994 John @ Saltlick Of Desire, Seattle, USA/WA/KING
JayDee: Could you explain why? Today my roommate the dog, whose balls were removed three days ago, got what sure looks like an erection. Is there some difference here physiologically that someone could explain to me?
#170116 54 Mon Sep 12 10:34:37 1994 JayDee @ Loka, Seattle
I'll check it out when I get the chance as far as eunuchs are concerned, research on that ain't gonna be easy I understand that the fashion was abandoned a long time ago... however, I think castration was used "recently" to control sex offenders so there may be some data compiled on the subject concerning human subjects as for dogs, ask a vet...
#170117 54 Tue Sep 20 23:25:05 1994 John @ Saltlick Of Desire, Seattle, USA/WA/KING
Were tanks used in the Irish Revolution?
#170118 54 Wed Sep 21 01:22:38 1994 John @ Saltlick Of Desire, Seattle, USA/WA/KING
Is there a non-pesticide way to drive off potato bugs who feel too welcome in my home?
#170119 54 Wed Sep 21 05:56:14 1994 OJ's Afro @ Saltlick Of Desire, Seattle, USA/WA/KING
My room has no bugs. nyah :)-
#170120 54 Wed Sep 21 06:02:15 1994 JayDee @ Loka, Seattle
John: iguanas
#170121 54 Thu Sep 22 15:39:33 1994 SkyWise @ Dystopia ][, Bellingham, US/WA/Whatcom
I think I can help with the iguanas. As I recall, my aunt has about 322 of 'em she is finding homes for.
#170122 54 Fri Sep 23 15:40:04 1994 John @ Saltlick Of Desire, Seattle, USA/WA/KING
What do the O and J stand for in O.J. Simpson?
#170123 54 Sat Sep 24 06:05:21 1994 OJ's Afro @ Saltlick Of Desire, Seattle, USA/WA/KING
Orange Juice.
#170125 54 Sat Sep 24 11:47:01 1994 [Life is short.] Little Nemo [Slack hard.] @ Slumberland, Seattle, USA/WA/KING
Orenthal James Simpson.
#170124 54 Sat Sep 24 12:23:13 1994 John @ Saltlick Of Desire, Seattle, USA/WA/KING
I am still looking for sincere and substantiated answers to the following questions: Can eunichs get erections? Were tanks used in the Irish Revolution? Is there a practical non-pesticide way to drive off potato bugs who feel too welcome in my home? What do the O and J stand for in O.J. Simpson?
#170128 54 Sat Sep 24 19:04:16 1994 JayDee @ Loka, sea
I haven't delved into the eunich-thing yet, John I'd suggest cats, esp. Siamese, for general small pest control see me in a decade about acquisition of Siamese cats for large problems... sooner, if I can find some that haven't been downsized...
#170126 54 Sat Sep 24 19:22:17 1994 OJ's Afro @ Saltlick Of Desire, Seattle, USA/WA/KING
Eunuchs, yes, but they don't. But I can't substanitiate it other than it's what I've been told and it makes sense.
#170127 54 Sat Sep 24 21:43:13 1994 John @ Saltlick Of Desire, Seattle, USA/WA/KING
Orenthal? Oh, the poor boy.
#170129 54 Sun Sep 25 03:03:21 1994 John @ Saltlick Of Desire, Seattle, USA/WA/KING
Unfortunately, pets are not allowed in this house.
#170131 54 Sun Sep 25 13:22:04 1994 JayDee @ Loka, sea
pyrethrin-containing bug-spray, then
#170132 54 Sun Sep 25 21:57:30 1994 [Life is short.] Little Nemo [Slack hard.] @ Slumberland, Seattle, USA/WA/KING
I gave you the correct answer for OJ's name. John. I can't give you a source, however, because it's a fact I've known for years, since I was a little kid and actually liked football. (I don't care much about it now.) But, trust me, Orenthal James Simpson is his name.
#170133 54 Sun Sep 25 22:22:24 1994 John @ Saltlick Of Desire, Seattle, USA/WA/KING
I believe you, Ms. Nemo.
#170130 54 Mon Sep 26 12:42:00 1994 [3] Honey [LOVE] @ Dystopia ][, Bellingham, US/WA/Whatcom
hello? is anyone there? \
#170134 54 Wed Sep 28 17:57:22 1994 John @ Saltlick Of Desire, Seattle, USA/WA/KING
Did the whole world get the Black Plague, or just Europe? I don't understand why the whole world wouldn't get it eventually.
#170135 54 Wed Sep 28 21:00:28 1994 JayDee @ Loka, sea
there wasn't much traffic between Europe and America @ the time, John some of the most interesting strategic biological warfare agents were delivered to portions of the Native American population, with good results ain't that just a kick?
#170137 54 Wed Sep 28 22:34:38 1994 [Life is short.] Little Nemo [Slack hard.] @ Slumberland, Seattle, USA/WA/KING
Well, I don't think we know if the New World got it. But it wasn't just Europe. It probably started in Mongolia and spread throughout Asia before it reached Europe via ports in Italy. I don't know about Africa, but considering how it ravaged the Mediterranean port cities I'm sure Africa took some heavy damage as well. It was one hell of an epidemic. I've read a few books on it; it's just staggering.
#170136 54 Thu Sep 29 02:02:44 1994 John @ Saltlick Of Desire, Seattle, USA/WA/KING
In a song from her new album, Sinead O'Conner asserts that the Irish Potato Famine never happened. I find this more than a little unsettling, considering that my ancestors supposidly fled it. Does anyone have an idea what she means by this? JayDee: I didn't ask about smallpox. I asked about the Black Plague. Neither did I specify America. Today at work I figured this much: The Plague is a bacteria, not a virus. Therefore, it can't spend much time away from a host without dying. Since death from the Plague takes only a few days (three or four), it's reasonable that it didn't escape a certain geographical region (a carrier won't make it far in four days, and who would carry their corpse any further?). But I still have some questions. I have heard the Plague is preserved somewhere. Since Europeans were exposed to it, and since the survivors are immune, it's reasonable to believe that Europeans today would not be infected at high rates. But does this hold for people of other origins?
#170138 54 Thu Sep 29 02:49:33 1994 OJ's Afro @ Saltlick Of Desire, Seattle, USA/WA/KING
And now pneumonic plague is all the rage in India. Pneumonic plauge is worse than bubonic plague. Black Plague isn't preserved anywhere, John. Or it may be, but it is still alive. Occasionally it still breaks out, even here. Smallpox is preserved at a few sites around the world. There was debate a few years ago about whether to continue or just destroy it for all time.
#170139 54 Thu Sep 29 03:00:30 1994 Grendel @ Slumberland, Seattle, USA/WA/KING
The Plague in India currently is PNEUMONIC so it is spread from person to person. The Black Death in Europe was BUBONIC. It was spread from fleas on rats. I would assume that places without a large rat population wouldn't suffer as bad. Urban areas were hit the worst. We still get a couple of plague cases a year in Utah and a few other areas with the right animals and conditions. John, a lot of Irish like to pretend that anything that happened before the Potatoe Famine didn't really happen or isn't important. Perhaps that has something to do with it.
#170140 54 Thu Sep 29 09:15:37 1994 JayDee @ Loka, sea
maybe
#170141 54 Thu Sep 29 17:39:38 1994 John @ Saltlick Of Desire, Seattle, USA/WA/KING
Who invented Daylight Savings Time? Was it Benjamin Franklin?
#170142 54 Thu Sep 29 22:45:53 1994 OJ's Afro @ Saltlick Of Desire, Seattle, USA/WA/KING
Pneumonic Plague is carried by fleas also. Which is why the Indian government is dousing the area with flea powder.
#170143 54 Thu Sep 29 22:57:21 1994 John @ Saltlick Of Desire, Seattle, USA/WA/KING
From the air?
#170144 54 Fri Sep 30 04:30:37 1994 OJ's Afro @ Saltlick Of Desire, Seattle, USA/WA/KING
I don't know. I just read a news report describing white streets, they were white from having so much flea powder.
#170145 54 Fri Sep 30 10:08:32 1994 Penthesilea @ Slumberland, Seattle, USA/WA/KING
Maybe we could send them some flea bombs. "no, they're FLEA bombs. REALLY."
#170146 54 Sat Oct 1 04:15:43 1994 John @ Saltlick Of Desire, Seattle, USA/WA/KING
Someone responded to the DST question in Topic Drift.
#170147 54 Sun Oct 2 21:50:30 1994 riktov @ Slumberland, Seattle, USA/WA/KING
I'm pretty sure Franklin invented daylight savings time.
#170148 54 Sun Oct 2 22:06:46 1994 riktov @ Slumberland, Seattle, USA/WA/KING
OK, so why _do_ we always look at the toilet paper after wiping?
#170149 54 Sun Oct 2 22:42:50 1994 John @ Saltlick Of Desire, Seattle, USA/WA/KING
I encourage you to make a new room for entry of "amusing" questions.
#170150 54 Mon Oct 3 17:12:08 1994 [if it was so, it might be] LA REINE [and if it were so, it would be] @ Dystopia ][, Bellingham, US/WA/Whatcom
how do you make croutons?
#170152 54 Mon Oct 3 19:03:51 1994 golden spud [viewable problem user] @ Golden Spud's Greasehouse, Custer, USA/WA/WHATCOM
You cut a bunch of stale (but not moldy) bread up into little squares, and you put them on a cookie sheet and bake them at a low temperature for a long time, making sure they don't burn, but do turn crisp and enjoyable.
#170154 54 Mon Oct 3 19:31:15 1994 [
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Oj's Afro: I believe it is only held in two sites. The CDC in Atlanta (I think) and somewhere in Russia. And yes, they're debating (still?) whether or not to destroy it once and for all...
#170151 54 Mon Oct 3 23:15:01 1994 [Cyberpunk] FRuG @ Dystopia ][, Bellingham, US/WA/Whatcom
oh, I give up LA REINE. Do you put toast in your mouth and make bite sized chunks?
#170153 54 Tue Oct 4 20:46:26 1994 [if it was so, it might be] LA REINE [and if it were so, it would be] @ Dystopia ][, Bellingham, US/WA/Whatcom
and you know i did that, after dipping them in butter and spices and found them quite tasty.
#170157 54 Sat Oct 8 00:10:29 1994 JayDee @ Loka, sea
food preparation, preservation, and storage duty now, for the future...
#170155 54 Sat Oct 8 01:49:59 1994 John @ Saltlick Of Desire, Seattle, USA/WA/KING
What is John Shannon's address in Bellevue?
#170156 54 Sat Oct 8 02:14:48 1994 John @ Saltlick Of Desire, Seattle, USA/WA/KING
Why do bees make honey? What function does it serve in their grand scheme of things?
#170158 54 Sat Oct 8 05:59:55 1994 Elisabeth Perrin @ Saltlick Of Desire, Seattle, USA/WA/KING
Same reason your body makes fat. But is serves the whole hive, rather than just that bee. Remember, bees don't hibernate, but you don't see them in winter. Most of them die, those that live are busy keeping the queen warm with their own body heat and living off honey.
#170159 54 Sat Oct 8 10:49:28 1994 John @ Saltlick Of Desire, Seattle, USA/WA/KING
Quite a life it must be.
#170296 54 Sat Oct 8 17:52:34 1994 JayDee @ Loka, sea
a simple one...no undefined roles or overly-complex constructs to deal with you live, work, and die the cycle goes-on, with a beautiful simplicity...like the cycles of the Sun, Moon, tides, and seasons...for millenia...
#171371 54 Sun Oct 9 10:03:02 1994 Blain Nelson @ Blain's World (not!) BBS, Ferndale, USA/WA/WHATCOM
Bees have body heat?
#171372 54 Sun Oct 9 13:26:36 1994 [Ozzie] Ozzie @ Line NoiZe, Ferndale, U.S.A.
Gee, I didn't know that either. Huh, the things you learn!
#171373 54 Sun Oct 9 20:30:55 1994 John @ Saltlick Of Desire, Seattle, USA/WA/KING
Some people watch their salt intake for health reasons. What are these health reasons? And since I drink a preposterous amount of water, does salt pose a health risk at all to me?
#171374 54 Mon Oct 10 00:33:24 1994 Torch Song [seeks...] @ Line NoiZe, Ferndale, U.S.A.
Well, John, all I know is that salt does nasty things to my blood pressure...
#171375 54 Mon Oct 10 02:24:01 1994 Elisabeth Perrin @ Saltlick Of Desire, Seattle, USA/WA/KING
Eat more salt.
#171376 54 Mon Oct 10 03:38:22 1994 Elisabeth Perrin @ Saltlick Of Desire, Seattle, USA/WA/KING
Every animal has body heat. Bees create body heat through movement. They keep the hive warm by continually moving, seemingly hyperactively. This is how most bees die during winter, overexertion. Even cold blooded animals (lizards, snakes, fish) are warmer than their surroundings, just not much.
#171377 54 Tue Oct 11 21:02:36 1994 Blain Nelson @ Blain's World (not!) BBS, Ferndale, USA/WA/WHATCOM
Hmm. I didn't know about that. Or maybe I just hadn't thought about it. John -- my understanding is that eating too much salt makes the blood a bit dry, as it were, which is where the thirst part comes in. However, once you've added enough new water to bring the blood to the proper salinity, the increase in blood volume causes the blood pressure increase.
#170800 54 Tue Oct 11 22:04:26 1994 [this drive for consistency] Spur [turns it all to mush]
john knows the answers to at least quite a few (maybe all) of these questions, yet he asks them anyways. could this possibly be a test of some kind?
#170801 54 Tue Oct 11 22:05:19 1994 [this drive for consistency] Spur [turns it all to mush]
heres one i dont know about: why do things far away look smaller? seriously now, dont take it for granted that they just do. any ideas?
#170802 54 Tue Oct 11 22:06:34 1994 [this drive for consistency] Spur [turns it all to mush]
heres another one i dont know about, this one i got from somebody else: if you fasten a spring in its tightened position with a bond of a different material so that the spring has potential energy and then dissolve the spring with acid, what happens to the potential energy?
#170893 54 Wed Oct 12 22:48:03 1994 Prick
that's nuts. n-v-t-s nuts
#170945 54 Thu Oct 13 20:45:55 1994 [i like meat] Joan Vermin [a whole bunch]
your brother dies and you get in trouble
#171958 54 Fri Oct 14 08:36:54 1994 [
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um Blain..... *not*
#171959 54 Fri Oct 14 16:57:02 1994 Blain Nelson @ Blain's World (not!) BBS, Ferndale, USA/WA/WHATCOM
not what?
#172499 54 Fri Oct 14 20:54:46 1994 MontyL @ Black Mountain, Kendall, US/WA/Whatcom
Try your hand at it, Black Wolf. I'm interested...
#172500 54 Fri Oct 14 23:58:30 1994 MontyL @ Black Mountain, Kendall, US/WA/Whatcom
I think he meant "not the drying effect on the blood". Guess he'll have to expand on that thought when next he gets to this room...
#172078 54 Sat Oct 15 10:44:27 1994 [Ozzie] Ozzie @ Line NoiZe, Ferndale, U.S.A.
My condolences, Joan. :(
#172476 54 Sun Oct 16 04:19:51 1994 John @ Saltlick Of Desire, Seattle, USA/WA/KING
I know about Ms. O'Conner's potato famine "myth" now. The Irish, she asserts, were only llowed to eat potatoes. But there were many other crops grown in Ireland at the time. But the Irish weren't allowed to eat them; the English had them shipped across the water for their own consumption. I don't know any more than this, or even that she is correct. But I'm curious now. I still want John Shannon's home address in Bellevue.
#172475 54 Sun Oct 16 09:56:37 1994 [
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let me wake up first..
#172685 54 Sun Oct 16 21:42:19 1994 John @ Saltlick Of Desire, Seattle, USA/WA/KING
Hey, my message included an ANSI switch to black. I wonder why.
#172782 54 Mon Oct 17 13:18:47 1994 Torch Song @ Twilight Voice, City in the Clouds, US/WA/WHATCOM
John -- gremlins, of course.
#173287 54 Mon Oct 17 21:19:08 1994 JayDee @ Loka, sea
he ought to get a recent build of Citadel+ then he might not have a problem with gremlins... )woo(
#173128 54 Mon Oct 17 22:17:15 1994 MontyL @ Black Mountain, Kendall, US/WA/Whatcom
CTRL-A a, John. If you missed the shift key, it'd make sense...
#173288 54 Tue Oct 18 04:19:16 1994 John @ Saltlick Of Desire, Seattle, USA/WA/KING
Under which President did we first see order-of-quantity ingredient labelling?
#173676 54 Tue Oct 18 14:56:49 1994 Elisabeth Perrin @ Saltlick Of Desire, Seattle, USA/WA/KING
Teddy?
#173677 54 Tue Oct 18 18:02:02 1994 John @ Saltlick Of Desire, Seattle, USA/WA/KING
No, it couldn't be Teddy. I think it was in my lifetime.
#173678 54 Wed Oct 19 00:54:51 1994 Torch Song @ Twilight Voice, City in the Clouds, US/WA/WHATCOM
Wild guess: LBJ?
#173838 54 Wed Oct 19 13:56:28 1994 John @ Saltlick Of Desire, Seattle, USA/WA/KING
Why do you think LBJ, Torch Song?
#173839 54 Wed Oct 19 15:51:55 1994 John @ Saltlick Of Desire, Seattle, USA/WA/KING
Is it known what became of the Children's Crusade? Were they lost at sea? Did their enemy show any mercy upon them?
#173933 54 Wed Oct 19 21:42:36 1994 [Life is short.] Little Nemo [Slack hard.] @ Slumberland, Seattle, USA/WA/KING
If I recall correctly -- the Children's Crusade had multiple fates, none of them good. Many died on the way. Many were sold into slavery; as soon as they reached the Mediterranean, the found themselves loaded on slave ships headed for Palestine. So some of them *did* reach the Holy Land, though not under the circumstances they'd hoped for. Some did make it home, I think, but very few. The Pied Piper story is based on the Children's Crusade, vaguely.
#173932 54 Wed Oct 19 23:14:42 1994 Blain Nelson @ Blain's World (not!) BBS, Ferndale, USA/WA/WHATCOM
John -- I thought they were all sold into slavery.
#174100 54 Thu Oct 20 02:25:04 1994 Torch Song @ Twilight Voice, City in the Clouds, US/WA/WHATCOM
Not really sure, John, except that the LBJ era seemed about the right time for that type of regulatory add-on...maybe...
#174246 54 Thu Oct 20 07:59:58 1994 [Just call me] Megamol [hippie child] @ Tellagraph Hill, Seattle
interesting factiod LN.....thanks
#176024 54 Tue Oct 25 21:02:09 1994 john hinkley [youre bored]
i would guess LBJ because his re-election campaign slogan was "VOTE LYNDON BAINE FOR INGREDIENT LABELANG"
#176056 54 Tue Oct 25 21:47:41 1994 Prick
genius
#176057 54 Tue Oct 25 21:47:46 1994 Prick
acting!
#176058 54 Tue Oct 25 21:47:50 1994 Prick
genius!
#176059 54 Tue Oct 25 21:47:55 1994 Prick
thank you!
#176060 54 Tue Oct 25 21:48:19 1994 Prick
no! thank you!
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