I Made It.
Keri Miller
from Iowegia, thanks for all the replys, sorry it took me so long
to come back. To the rest, HI HI HI, I'm new and I want to meet
as many new and interesting people as is humanly possable. If you
ignore the fact that I can't spell to save my life, I'm really
quite adorable.
I live in Iowa and I don't know anyone at all. I don't have
anyone to talk to and I figured maybe this way I'd at least get
some mail. That is if anyone responds to my note.
So, if any of you out there have a thing for tiny little gothic
brunettes who love to read, write creepy poetry and cause her
parents unending distress due to her "indivuality", than I am the
tiny little gothic you should be talking to.
I hope I get lot's of reply's, I can be very friendly when I feel
like it.
Enjoy the Moon
Peace
Claudia
Eric Praetzel
>So, if any of you out there have a thing for tiny little gothic
>brunettes who love to read, write creepy poetry and cause her
first year due to some poetry I gave to someone.
>Peace
If peace is approaching heaven I would have no such thing. Stagnation
beyond belief, beyond human comprehension, beyond human sanity.
Keri Miller (note above)
>Claudia
So is this a sign of a split personality? Two names? Or am I missing
something? Either you are all SCA members (the names sort of fit) and
I should dig up a non-mundane handle or you are all AI's of someones
doing (Dreux seems to be a good one to blame for this given the volume
of posting by that collective).
- Eric
Formerly Crash, Eric 'da Red, murder of gobins, seeker of that between
the dark and light, one who treads the region of chaos neither following
good nor evil.
Kiran Wagle
>*sigh*. This one's actually kinda cute. I almost hate to mention that
>the darned thing belongs on soc.penpals or alt.personals.
What's this? No flame??? You're falling asleep on the job!
>But hang around, jump in on the conversation. Anyone who sounds this
>much like Wynona Rider in _Betelguese_ ought to be interesting.
Um. If you say so.
~ Kiran
--
This silliness brought to you by ki...@bronze.ucs.indiana.edu (Kiran Wagle)
Jeff Smith
|> So, if any of you out there have a thing for tiny little gothic
|> brunettes who love to read, write creepy poetry and cause her
|> parents unending distress due to her "indivuality", than I am the
|> tiny little gothic you should be talking to.
Well, I think you would be better off posting some of this creepy
poetry, if you ask me.
|>
|> Enjoy the Moon
|> Peace
|> Claudia
Wait a minute here...is it Claudia? Or Keri? What's going on here?!
jds
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>Peace
Not Likely!
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the two armies. The trumpets, the fifes, the oboes, the drums, and the
cannon produced such a harmony as was never heard in hell. ... then volleys
of musket fire removed from the best of worlds about nine or ten thousand
rascals who were cluttering up its surface." Voltaire
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Charles R. Martin
mar...@grover.cs.unc.edu (Charles R. Martin) writes:
>*sigh*. This one's actually kinda cute. I almost hate to mention that
>the darned thing belongs on soc.penpals or alt.personals.
What's this? No flame??? You're falling asleep on the job!
Oh, give her a break. She's probably, what, 17?
>But hang around, jump in on the conversation. Anyone who sounds this
>much like Wynona Rider in _Betelguese_ ought to be interesting.
Um. If you say so.
hyeh hyeh hyeh
--
Charles R. Martin/(Charlie)/mar...@cs.unc.edu/Dept. of Computer Science/CB
#3175 UNC-CH/Chapel Hill, NC 27599-3175/3611 University Dr #13M/Durham, NC
27707/(919) 419 1754/"I can't slow down/Like a river I'm flowing on and on/
Some day some how/I will find where I'm going someday."
Charles R. Martin
In article <qRDL1B...@iowegia.dsm.ia.us>, cla...@iowegia.dsm.ia.us (Keri Miller) writes:
|> So, if any of you out there have a thing for tiny little gothic
|> brunettes who love to read, write creepy poetry and cause her
|> parents unending distress due to her "indivuality", than I am the
|> tiny little gothic you should be talking to.
Well, I think you would be better off posting some of this creepy
poetry, if you ask me.
I think he's probably right. There have certainly been some creepy
people here off and on.
quir...@kosmos.wcc.govt.nz
> I'm new and I want to meet as many new and interesting people as is humanly
> possable.
Boy, are you in the wrong place. Tell you what, if you want to meet new and
interesting people, get off the computer, go running down the street stark
naked shouting "I'm a fish, I'm a fish !", and attempt to bite any men in white
coats who try to speak to you.
I'll guarantee you'll meet a lot of very interesting people. Well, those not
undergoing shock treatment anyhow.
> If you ignore the fact that I can't spell to save my life, I'm really
> quite adorable.
Well, you're unlikely to be invited to join the coven then, no matter *how*
adorable...
> I live in Iowa and I don't know anyone at all. I don't have
> anyone to talk to and I figured maybe this way I'd at least get
> some mail. That is if anyone responds to my note.
Is it really worth the trouble to look through 100 pieces of NewMail, all
varients on "Helo, want sum netsex, sexy" ?
> So, if any of you out there have a thing for tiny little gothic brunettes
> who love to read, write creepy poetry and cause her parents unending
> distress due to her "indivuality", than I am the tiny little gothic you
> should be talking to.
Agreed. Unfortunately, all we have is you *typing*...
> I hope I get lot's of reply's, I can be very friendly when I feel like it.
ISOBabe, where have you been all my life ?
> Enjoy the Moon
Enjoy it ? I chase it everytime it gets full. One of these days I expect to
catch it.
(I figure if she's still reading, she's deserves to be here. Keep posting,
Claudia 8-) )
--
Tony Quirke, Wellington, New Zealand. Quir...@kosmos.wcc.govt.nz
"Usenet is like a herd of performing elephants with diarrhea -- massive,
difficult to redirect, awe-inspiring, entertaining, and a source of mind-
boggling amounts of excrement when you least expect it."--gene spafford,1992
William G. Chapman
>
> I'm new and I want to meet as many new and interesting people as is humanly
> possable.
> quite adorable.
> anyone to talk to and I figured maybe this way I'd at least get
> some mail. That is if anyone responds to my note.
move there? Please expound on your "Gothicity" -- Mike C. --
rON.
I dunno, I've used 'blowfish', 'rON' and 'r.' and everybody has had a pretty
easy time figuring out who I am...
(Now if I can only figure it out myself... :)
r.
rON.
> >*sigh*. This one's actually kinda cute. I almost hate to mention that
> >the darned thing belongs on soc.penpals or alt.personals.
> What's this? No flame??? You're falling asleep on the job!
>Oh, give her a break. She's probably, what, 17?
And this from a man who recently spent his time um, studying the, ahhh,
'mating behaviors' of 13 year old girls down at the mall...
:)
r.
rON.
>Keri/Claudia: Why is it you don't know anyone in Iowa? Did you just
>move there? Please expound on your "Gothicity" -- Mike C. --
Well, Shrilley didn't know anyone in Iowa either.
Come to think of it, last time I was driving through Iowa I don't remember
seeing anyone there. Just lots of corn. Lots and lots of corn.
r.
rON.
>And this from a man who recently spent his time um, studying the, ahhh,
>'mating behaviors' of 13 year old girls down at the mall...
>:)
Just thought I would mention that not a word has been said by me about
>my< hobbies.
Probably better that way, too. :)
r.
rON.
Corn dog? Caaaanndy stick?
:)
And I wonder why I can't get a date.
r. (who will stop following up to himself now. :)
Orc
[about Iowa]
>Come to think of it, last time I was driving through Iowa I don't remember
>seeing anyone there. Just lots of corn. Lots and lots of corn.
What do you mean, just lots of corn?
What about the CGW shops in Oelwein? (misspelled for Geog
queens) And the interurban line between Mason City and Clear
Lake? And the CRANDIC? And all of the east-west railway
lines?
If nothing else, Iowa contains lots of railroad fanatics. And
what more do you need?
____
david parsons \bi/ railroad slut
\/
Ben Fulton
>Come to think of it, last time I was driving through Iowa I don't remember
>seeing anyone there. Just lots of corn. Lots and lots of corn.
I drove through Iowa once. But it was closed.
--
ben
ful...@nickel.ucs.indiana.edu (Bloomington, IN)
M-x replace-string ball disc
Andreas Tovornik
In a previous article, cla...@iowegia.dsm.ia.us (Keri Miller) says:
>Hi there eveyone, I finally made it, here I am. To those of you
>from Iowegia, thanks for all the replys, sorry it took me so long
>to come back. To the rest, HI HI HI, I'm new and I want to meet
>as many new and interesting people as is humanly possable. If you
>ignore the fact that I can't spell to save my life, I'm really
>quite adorable.
This could only come from iowegia,
Shelly Kitsis' home address...
>I live in Iowa and I don't know anyone at all. I don't have
>anyone to talk to and I figured maybe this way I'd at least get
>some mail. That is if anyone responds to my note.
More KlueLessNeoFights arrive every day...
>So, if any of you out there have a thing for tiny little gothic
>brunettes who love to read, write creepy poetry and cause her
>parents unending distress due to her "indivuality", than I am the
>tiny little gothic you should be talking to.
We have enough ISObabes in Vicky, but one plane ticky
would get you here...
>I hope I get lot's of reply's, I can be very friendly when I feel
>like it.
...Always knew there was something wrong with Iowa.
--
dreas...I read it, and answered it, and don't really feel like
repeating myself over and over again. --Edward V. Wright
William G. Chapman
>cha...@bcstec.ca.boeing.com (William G. Chapman) writes:
>>Keri/Claudia: Why is it you don't know anyone in Iowa? Did you just
>
>Well, Shrilley didn't know anyone in Iowa either.
>seeing anyone there. Just lots of corn. Lots and lots of corn.
Back in the winter of '74 when I was driving across the USA to Eugene,
Oregon, I came upon Cedar Rapids wherein was a branch of the state U.
(I think it was C.R. - we're talking 19 years ago!) I pulled into a
dorm parking lot just as it was beginning to snow heavily, asked some
passing students if they thought it would be OK if I overnighted in my
van in their parking lot. They said I'd freeze to death - better that
I'd sack out on their floor. They even bought me meal in the cafeteria -
I wasn't poverty-striken, they were just nice people. Never saw any corn.
-- Mike C. --
William G. Chapman
>
>In a previous article, cla...@iowegia.dsm.ia.us (Keri Miller) says:
>
>>So, if any of you out there have a thing for tiny little gothic
>>brunettes who love to read, write creepy poetry and cause her
>>parents unending distress due to her "indivuality", than I am the
>>tiny little gothic you should be talking to.
Dreas - thank-you for this post - when I responded to Keri's 1st
post I asked her to explain her "gothicity". She posted "Huh?"
So-o-o-o, Keri, what about th adjective "gothic"? How do you
mean that? Seriously, I'm interested. Thanks ahead of time.
Dreas - reason I'm thanking is my cluelessness in getting hold of
the original note - not that *up* on unix, yet. Thanks again.
-- Mike C. --
Keri Miller
> So-o-o-o, Keri, what about th adjective "gothic"? How do you
> mean that? Seriously, I'm interested. Thanks ahead of time.
>
I don't know how to explain it. I guess it's more like a way of
thinking. I really don't know, I'm sorry...I just can't explian
it.
I do know it starts with how you dress. I wear only black and I
have very pale skin. The rest of it is more internal. Ask
something...anything else.
bye bye
keri
Thomas Wilson
How very *gothic* of you :)
Thomas.
"The road to this paradise was not quite so comfortable and alluring
as the road to religious paradise, but it has proved itself as trust-
worthy, and I have never regretted having chosen it."
-A. Einstein, "What I Believe"(1930)
Kiran Wagle
>Ask something...anything else.
I can't resist.
What do you think of Gresham's Law? Do you think the common
formulation of it is at all useful? Is there a Gresham's Law of
relationships? If so, explain.
~ Kiran (Really I couldn't.)
--
Soon to have a new net-address...
Fred Walter
>I wear only black and I have very pale skin.
Hmmm. Sounds like a vampire to me.
fred "Aieee! The sunlight, she hurts my eyes!" walter
--
Disclaimer: everything I write is my *personal* opinion and does not represent
or reflect the opinion of the company which employs me.
Lynn Dobbs
yourself as gothic. In Amercian Gothic, the farmer's daughter is
wearing simple farm clothes. She also looks a bit worn by life. I
assume you don't mean this kind of gothic? :-)
Lynn
rON.
>Okay, Keri. I will. If you can't describe it, why do you describe
>yourself as gothic. In Amercian Gothic, the farmer's daughter is
>wearing simple farm clothes. She also looks a bit worn by life. I
>assume you don't mean this kind of gothic? :-)
Ahh, the old folks.
Ya gotta love 'em. :)
r.
Keri Miller
> formulation of it is at all useful? Is there a Gresham's Law of
> relationships? If so, explain.
>
I'm so glad you asked this, because my opinions on this subject
are very strong. Graham's law is the gueding force in my life and
everything I do and say revolves around it. Of course I think the
common formulation of it is useful, what other formulation is
there?
Graham's law of relationships has been recognized for centuries.
Archaeologists have found mention of it in the ancient Sanskrit
writings. The law is very spacific. It covers all possable kinds
of relationships from marrieage to a stint with the neighbors dog.
It is in fact, the first law of relationships to actually
recognize the neighbors dog as a viable partner in a relationship at
all.
Further study is odvioulsy required on your part. Do you read
Sanskrit?
Claudia
Keri Miller
Hmmm. Sounds like a theory worth looking into
Claudia
John Fereira
John Fereira
>> What do you think of Gresham's Law? Do you think the common
>> formulation of it is at all useful? Is there a Gresham's Law of
>> relationships? If so, explain.
>>
>
>I'm so glad you asked this,
OK, Now I have a question. Who is Keri Miller? If that is you why
do you sign your messages "Claudia" and use it as a login?
--
John Fereira
jo...@netcom.com
Keri Miller
> > What do you think of Gresham's Law? Do you think the common
> > formulation of it is at all useful? Is there a Gresham's Law of
> > relationships? If so, explain.
> >
>
Grahams's theory by mistake. THis however in know way affects the
validity of what I was saying. Trust me, I'm a trianed
proffesional.
Claudia
Keri Miller
> yourself as gothic. In Amercian Gothic, the farmer's daughter is
> wearing simple farm clothes. She also looks a bit worn by life. I
> assume you don't mean this kind of gothic? :-)
>
> Lynn
>
>
>
I guess in a way I do resemble the girl in AG. I do dress simply,
though very dark and I don't know about looking, but I sure feel
worn by life. The other thing...I guess I should have brought up
is that I have been DESCRIBED as a gothic by other people. I have
a very hard time talking about myself, so I tend to use the things
that others have said to do it. I figure they wouldn't have siad
it, if it weren't true.
I should also say this...'cause if I don't I might get flamed.
Just because I use the things that others have siad to describe
myself, doesn't mean they aren't true. It jsut means they came up
with the best way of saying what I couldn't.
Claudia
Charles R. Martin
> What do you think of Gresham's Law? Do you think the common
> formulation of it is at all useful? Is there a Gresham's Law of
> relationships? If so, explain.
>
I'm so glad you asked this, because my opinions on this subject
are very strong. Graham's law is the gueding force in my life and
everything I do and say revolves around it. Of course I think the
common formulation of it is useful, what other formulation is
there?
....
Further study is odvioulsy required on your part. Do you read
Sanskrit?
Claudia
See? I told you she had promise.
--
Charles R. Martin/(Charlie)/mar...@cs.unc.edu/Dept. of Computer Science/CB
#3175 UNC-CH/Chapel Hill, NC 27599-3175/3611 University Dr #13M/Durham, NC
27707/(919) 419 1754/"Ignorant opinions are just not as useful as informed
ones." -- James Preston
Jeff Smith
|> > What do you think of Gresham's Law? Do you think the common
|> > formulation of it is at all useful? Is there a Gresham's Law of
|> > relationships? If so, explain.
|> Graham's law of relationships has been recognized for centuries.
|> Archaeologists have found mention of it in the ancient Sanskrit
|> writings. The law is very spacific. It covers all possable kinds
|> of relationships from marrieage to a stint with the neighbors dog.
|> It is in fact, the first law of relationships to actually
|> recognize the neighbors dog as a viable partner in a relationship at
|> all.
So now we're back to Julie's friend and her job with the dogs (dog job?).
I love it how these things come full circle!
jds
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- shriekback
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Fred Walter
Hmmm. Sounds like a theory to get *someone else* to look into.
"Sharp teeth. Hypnotic stare. No reflection. What could that mean ? Aieeee!!!!"
fred "You ain't gonna trick me into being lunch" walter
Fred Walter
>I have a very hard time talking about myself, so I tend to use the
>things that others have said to do it.
>
You will find true happiness doing my dishes and cleaning my floors.
So, people only say true things about you, eh ?
fred "When can I expect you to drop by ?" walter
rON.
>cla...@iowegia.dsm.ia.us (Keri Miller) writes:
>>> Hmmm. Sounds like a vampire to me.
>>Hmmm. Sounds like a theory worth looking into.
>Hmmm. Sounds like a theory to get *someone else* to look into.
>"Sharp teeth. Hypnotic stare. No reflection. What could that mean ? Aieeee!!!!"
Seesters?
r.
rON.
>>Ahh, the old folks.
>>Ya gotta love 'em. :)
Actually, I had always thought "American Gothic" was a hoary picture.
Of course, I really like Jackson Pollack and Salvador Dali... :)
r.
Keri Miller
> do you sign your messages "Claudia" and use it as a login?
>
>
> --
OK, I guess I have to explain this AGAIN. No offense to you for
asking, but I'm sick of repeating myself. Claudia is my nickname
that my friends gave me in college. I use it because it describes
me very well. Have you read your Amme Rice lately?
Keri is my real name...and I can't stand it. I get more Keri is
so very, jokes than any decent human being should have to endure.
It just makes me happp to use Claudia instead, that's really it.
Claudia
PS of course if anyone would prefer to call me by my real name, I
really don't care.
Keri Miller
> --
Oh yes, all this and much much more. NOW HOW MUCH WOULD YOU PAY???
claudia
Herb Huston
}Actually, I had always thought "American Gothic" was a hoary picture.
No, just the house is whory.
}Of course, I really like Jackson Pollack and Salvador Dali... :)
Dali once rated a chimpanzee as being a better painter than Pollack. Of
course, he may have felt that way because the chimp, unlike Pollack, always
used a brush. (I'm a Pollack fan, though, and the husband of my first cousin,
once removed, was probably Jackson's best friend.)
-- Herb Huston
-- hus...@access.digex.com
Charles R. Martin
This is such a straight line that I forbear, out of kindness and respect
for her relative youth. Also, I figure there'll be plenty of other
responses.
Orc
I'll start the bidding at 15 quatloos and a crosspost to talk.bizarre
-david parsons
Stef Jones
>Newsgroups: soc.singles
>Subject: Re: I Made It.
>Date: Wed, 07 Apr 93 13:31:46 CDT
^^^^^^^^^^^^
>OK, I guess I have to explain this AGAIN. No offense to you for
>asking, but I'm sick of repeating myself. Claudia is my nickname
>that my friends gave me in college. I use it because it describes
>me very well. Have you read your Amme Rice lately?
But if you're so much like Anne Rice's Claudia, how can you send a post
at 13:31? Is your coffin equipped with net access? Where can I get one?
--
Stef
st...@apple.com st...@netcom.com
My role model, inspiration, and heroine is Morticia Addams. -- Siouxsie Sioux
trygve lode
>
>claudia
Well, as you might imagine, I'll need some samples before I can make
any purchase decisions....
(At least if you wear all black, you'll fit in reasonably well with
the decor--but we'll have to see how well you do with dungeons,
armor, and the collections of swords, crossbows, and the like.)
Trygve (Who has occasionally been amazed at the samples that companies
are happy to send: electronic components, digitizing equipment,
entire graphics workstations....)
Jeff Smith
|> OK, I guess I have to explain this AGAIN. No offense to you for
|> asking, but I'm sick of repeating myself. Claudia is my nickname
|> that my friends gave me in college. I use it because it describes
|> me very well. Have you read your Amme Rice lately?
|> Keri is my real name...and I can't stand it. I get more Keri is
|> so very, jokes than any decent human being should have to endure.
|> It just makes me happp to use Claudia instead, that's really it.
|> Claudia
That's funny. I made that connection without really thinking that's
where it came from. I guess its a good nickname!
Lestat
Keri Miller
> >
> >Hmmm. Sounds like a theory worth looking into.
>
> Hmmm. Sounds like a theory to get *someone else* to look into.
>
> "Sharp teeth. Hypnotic stare. No reflection. What could that mean ? Aieeee!!!
>
> --
claudia
Keri Miller
> --
I like to think that the friends I chose are honest people. I
can't be around people I don't trust. After all, they know my
secrets.
claudia
PS= don't expect me, it makes it more fun that way.
Keri Miller
> for her relative youth. Also, I figure there'll be plenty of other
> responses.
> --
nothing but whitty and urbane. I can promise at least one
mispelling per post.
claudia
Thomas Beagle
>OK, I guess I have to explain this AGAIN. No offense to you for
>asking, but I'm sick of repeating myself. Claudia is my nickname
>that my friends gave me in college. I use it because it describes
>me very well. Have you read your Amme Rice lately?
>Keri is my real name...and I can't stand it. I get more Keri is
>so very, jokes than any decent human being should have to endure.
>It just makes me happp to use Claudia instead, that's really it.
>Claudia
Well, to link in with soc.couples, why not change your name?
Claudia Miller sounds pretty good and it would free you of the name
you don't like for ever!
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Technical Writer | tho...@cavebbs.welly.gen.nz Home: 64 4 499 3832 _-\<,
Wellington, NZ | Hound for hire. Will work for dog biscuits. (_)/(_)
Keri Miller
> at 13:31? Is your coffin equipped with net access? Where can I get one?
>
> --
> Stef
claudia
Keri Miller
> the decor--but we'll have to see how well you do with dungeons,
> armor, and the collections of swords, crossbows, and the like.)
>
> Trygve (Who has occasionally been amazed at the samples that companies
> are happy to send: electronic components, digitizing equipment,
play with the toys?
claudia
Charles R. Martin
You're already ahead of the curve. But what the hell, if you're nothing
but witty and urbane you'll be a ways ahead of the rest of us.
trygve lode
>> (At least if you wear all black, you'll fit in reasonably well with
>> the decor--but we'll have to see how well you do with dungeons,
>> armor, and the collections of swords, crossbows, and the like.)
>>
>play with the toys?
Well, you can hang on the Wall if you really want to (but, even though
Jeff posts from Nyx, he's really farther from here than you are), but
if you're careful I'll probably let you play with the toys--just do be
careful: don't get fingerprints on the blade of the snake sword (though
there are a few other swords that have seen enough action that they won't
be bothered by a few fingerprints); no shooting the crossbows indoors;
and, even though the flail does make a dandy backscratcher, it can still
take out a goodly chunk of drywall if you're not careful.
(Of course I reserve the right to take pictures if you start doing
anything particularly interesting--a while ago someone of more average
stature wanted to try on my floor-length chainmail robe (with full-
length, angel-style sleeves) and, since she was much shorter than I and
doesn't have a 38" sleevelength, she looked like a metallic penguin;
it was terribly amusing.)
Trygve (Now, if you'll come over here, I'd like to show you the rack....)
Keri Miller
> you don't like for ever!
> --
Hmmm....definately a thought were looking into.
=C=
Chris Penington
>In article <XReP2B...@iowegia.dsm.ia.us> cla...@iowegia.dsm.ia.us (Keri Miller) writes:
> I'll try to do better next time. From here on out I will be
> nothing but whitty and urbane. I can promise at least one
> mispelling per post.
> claudia
>
>You're already ahead of the curve. But what the hell, if you're nothing
>but witty and urbane you'll be a ways ahead of the rest of us.
Hey Charlie, are you doing OK? You seem to be flagging a bit these
last few days. My suck-o-meter only gave this a 3.4 :(.....
Chris
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quir...@kosmos.wcc.govt.nz
> You're already ahead of the curve. But what the hell, if you're nothing
> but witty and urbane you'll be a ways ahead of the rest of us.
Well, at least I'm one out of the two. But then again, I suspect very few
people here are rurale...
--
Tony Quirke, Wellington, New Zealand. Quir...@kosmos.wcc.govt.nz
"Usenet is like a herd of performing elephants with diarrhea -- massive,
difficult to redirect, awe-inspiring, entertaining, and a source of mind-
boggling amounts of excrement when you least expect it."--gene spafford,1992
Lynn Dobbs
>In article <MARTINC.93...@grover.cs.unc.edu> mar...@grover.cs.unc.edu (Charles R. Martin) writes:
>>In article <XReP2B...@iowegia.dsm.ia.us> cla...@iowegia.dsm.ia.us (Keri Miller) writes:
>
>> I'll try to do better next time. From here on out I will be
>> nothing but whitty and urbane. I can promise at least one
>> mispelling per post.
>> claudia
>>
>>You're already ahead of the curve. But what the hell, if you're nothing
>>but witty and urbane you'll be a ways ahead of the rest of us.
>
>Hey Charlie, are you doing OK? You seem to be flagging a bit these
>last few days. My suck-o-meter only gave this a 3.4 :(.....
>
want Claudia to swoon. I mean you have to build up to the 8s and 9s.
Lynn
Keri Miller
> anything particularly interesting--a while ago someone of more average
> stature wanted to try on my floor-length chainmail robe (with full-
> length, angel-style sleeves) and, since she was much shorter than I and
> doesn't have a 38" sleevelength, she looked like a metallic penguin;
> it was terribly amusing.)
>
> Trygve (Now, if you'll come over here, I'd like to show you the rack....)
The rack might not be such a bad idea. If I put on the chainmail
robe at my height, I'ld probably look like Yoda doing an
impression of Cher after a shower.
Claudia
Charles R. Martin
You think it's *easy* to be an irascible curmudgeon and suck up besides?
Charles R. Martin
The rack might not be such a bad idea. If I put on the chainmail
robe at my height, I'ld probably look like Yoda doing an
impression of Cher after a shower.
A clear contender for image of the month.
trygve lode
>> anything particularly interesting--a while ago someone of more average
>> stature wanted to try on my floor-length chainmail robe (with full-
>> length, angel-style sleeves) and, since she was much shorter than I and
>> doesn't have a 38" sleevelength, she looked like a metallic penguin;
>> it was terribly amusing.)
>>
>> Trygve (Now, if you'll come over here, I'd like to show you the rack....)
>The rack might not be such a bad idea. If I put on the chainmail
>robe at my height, I'ld probably look like Yoda doing an
>impression of Cher after a shower.
Well, we could always skip the chainmail and go straight to the shower....
Trygve (Chainmail is wonderful stuff--after you wear it all day, when
you take it off, it feels like you're floating.)
ecou...@desire.wright.edu
> In article <1993Apr10.0...@ast.saic.com> do...@ast.saic.com (Lynn Dobbs) writes:
>
> In article <C58vB...@murdoch.acc.Virginia.EDU> cj...@dayhoff.med.Virginia.EDU (Chris Penington) writes:
> >In article <MARTINC.93...@grover.cs.unc.edu> mar...@grover.cs.unc.edu (Charles R. Martin) writes:
> >>In article <XReP2B...@iowegia.dsm.ia.us> cla...@iowegia.dsm.ia.us (Keri Miller) writes:
> >
> >> I'll try to do better next time. From here on out I will be
> >> nothing but whitty and urbane. I can promise at least one
> >> mispelling per post.
> >> claudia
> >>
> >>You're already ahead of the curve. But what the hell, if you're nothing
> >>but witty and urbane you'll be a ways ahead of the rest of us.
> >
> >Hey Charlie, are you doing OK? You seem to be flagging a bit these
> >last few days. My suck-o-meter only gave this a 3.4 :(.....
> >
> I thought Charlie was merely showing good self control. Wouldn't
> want Claudia to swoon. I mean you have to build up to the 8s and 9s.
>
> You think it's *easy* to be an irascible curmudgeon and suck up besides?
>
Guess you just do both so well that you make it *seem* easy, Charlie!
Charles R. Martin
> You think it's *easy* to be an irascible curmudgeon and suck up besides?
>
Guess you just do both so well that you make it *seem* easy, Charlie!
We'll have to wait to hear from the Slovak judge, but I'd give that an
8+....
Chris Penington
>
> > You think it's *easy* to be an irascible curmudgeon and suck up besides?
> >
>
> Guess you just do both so well that you make it *seem* easy, Charlie!
>
>We'll have to wait to hear from the Slovak judge, but I'd give that an
>8+....
Maybe the calibration on one of our suck-o-meters is off. Mine only
gave that a 6.5....
Chris (Digging himself into a hole for the next time *he*
delivers a net suckup.)
Seth Breidbart
>cla...@iowegia.dsm.ia.us (Keri Miller) writes:
>>I figure they wouldn't have said it, if it weren't true.
>
>You will find true happiness doing my dishes and cleaning my floors.
Gee, Fred, given someone that gullible, couldn't you find something
better to suggest?
Seth [This isn't a family newsgroup, you know.]
Seth Breidbart
Saturday, May 1.
If you're interested, Mysterious Bookshop is having an open house that
day, with autographing by a bunch of Edgar Allan Poe Award nominees
(the awards will be given out the previous day).
Other bookstores worth visiting include Gotham Book Mart ("Wise Men
Fish Here") (so I can replenish my supply of "So many books, so little
time" buttons) and the Strand (which measures its stock in
shelf-miles). Further suggestions, both bookstore and otherwise, are
welcome.
Seth [Even if you're not interested, the Mysterious Bookshop will
be having that open house.]
Charles R. Martin
> Guess you just do both so well that you make it *seem* easy, Charlie!
>
>We'll have to wait to hear from the Slovak judge, but I'd give that an
>8+....
Maybe the calibration on one of our suck-o-meters is off. Mine only
gave that a 6.5....
They've just been so rare recently....
aaron.l.hoffmeyer
>In article <1pvvf6...@lynx.unm.edu> blow...@leo.unm.edu (rON.) writes:
>
>}Of course, I really like Jackson Pollack and Salvador Dali... :)
>
>Dali once rated a chimpanzee as being a better painter than Pollack. Of
>course, he may have felt that way because the chimp, unlike Pollack, always
>used a brush. (I'm a Pollack fan, though, and the husband of my first cousin,
>once removed, was probably Jackson's best friend.)
I like them both, as do many other people. Both were about equally
skilled as artists, and therefore were kind of "competition" for the
other. Pollack ventured off into some very different abstractions,
while Dali's track at least retained some degree of reality.
Pollack could drip like no one before or since.
Aaron L. Hoffmeyer
T...@CBNEA.ATT.COM
Herb Huston
Congo was also a highly accomplished abstract expressionist and had his own
"one-chimp" show at an important art gallery. Many of his paintings now hang
in leading collections, and some of his other admirers included Miro and
Picasso.
-- Herb Huston
-- hus...@access.digex.com
rON.
>Oh yes, all this and much much more. NOW HOW MUCH WOULD YOU PAY???
>claudia
Does ya' come with a Ginsu knife set or do I bring my own? :)
r.
Ron Wessels
>They've just been so rare recently....
That's because most of us are afraid to pit our meager offerings
against those of True Genius.
--
Ron Wessels University of Toronto r...@turing.toronto.edu
Jeff Wall
>
> > You think it's *easy* to be an irascible curmudgeon and suck up besides?
> >
>
> Guess you just do both so well that you make it *seem* easy, Charlie!
>
>We'll have to wait to hear from the Slovak judge, but I'd give that an
>8+....
More like a 2.6. Fishing for compliments is a major deduction...
Cheers,
Jeff
Jeff Wall
>In article <0FZP2B...@iowegia.dsm.ia.us> cla...@iowegia.dsm.ia.us (Keri Miller) writes:
>>> (At least if you wear all black, you'll fit in reasonably well with
>>> the decor--but we'll have to see how well you do with dungeons,
>>> armor, and the collections of swords, crossbows, and the like.)
>>>
>>Ooooh, if I come, do I have to hand on the wall, or do I get to
>>play with the toys?
>
>Well, you can hang on the Wall if you really want to (but, even though
>Jeff posts from Nyx, he's really farther from here than you are), but
>if you're careful I'll probably let you play with the toys--just do be
>careful: don't get fingerprints on the blade of the snake sword (though
>there are a few other swords that have seen enough action that they won't
>be bothered by a few fingerprints); no shooting the crossbows indoors;
>and, even though the flail does make a dandy backscratcher, it can still
>take out a goodly chunk of drywall if you're not careful.
Yes, unfortunately Claudia seems to be somewhere around halfway between...
Cheers,
Jeff
Fred Walter
>Claudia is my nickname that my friends gave me in college. I use it because
>it describes me very well. Have you read your Amme Rice lately?
Amme Rice ?
Claudia was a little girl vampire that needed Lestat's help to feed,
and ended up getting burned to death by all the other vampires.
Some friends you have there.
fred "Of course, I may have gotten a few details wrong" walter
--
Disclaimer: everything I write is my *personal* opinion and does not represent
or reflect the opinion of the company which employs me.
Fred Walter
>fr...@mks.com (Fred Walter) writes:
>>cla...@iowegia.dsm.ia.us (Keri Miller) writes:
>>>I figure they wouldn't have said it, if it weren't true.
>>
>>You will find true happiness doing my dishes and cleaning my floors.
>
>Gee, Fred, given someone that gullible, couldn't you find something
>better to suggest?
I can find women to have sex with for free,
but I can't find women to clean my appartment for free.
fred "I'm so cheap" walter
Piglet
>A clear contender for image of the month.
.gif?
Piglet, practising her charlies...
Keri Miller
>
> Trygve (Chainmail is wonderful stuff--after you wear it all day, when
> you take it off, it feels like you're floating.)
I make it a point never to showere with men who feel a need to
take off they're clothes to get "high" :)
claudia
I have been watching way to many Beatleguise cartoons. The next
bad pun that comes out of my fingers...shoot me.
Keri Miller
> In article <C58vB...@murdoch.acc.Virginia.EDU> cj...@dayhoff.med.Virginia.E
> >In article <MARTINC.93...@grover.cs.unc.edu> mar...@grover.cs.unc.ed
> >>In article <XReP2B...@iowegia.dsm.ia.us> cla...@iowegia.dsm.ia.us (Keri
> >
> >> I'll try to do better next time. From here on out I will be
> >> nothing but whitty and urbane. I can promise at least one
> >> mispelling per post.
> >> claudia
> >>
> >>You're already ahead of the curve. But what the hell, if you're nothing
> >>but witty and urbane you'll be a ways ahead of the rest of us.
> >
> >Hey Charlie, are you doing OK? You seem to be flagging a bit these
> >last few days. My suck-o-meter only gave this a 3.4 :(.....
> >
> I thought Charlie was merely showing good self control. Wouldn't
> want Claudia to swoon. I mean you have to build up to the 8s and 9s.
>
> Lynn
>
>
I never swoon on the first post.
claudia
Keri (Claudia) Miller
Gee Seth do you really think I'm gullable, well think again. I
can however be amighty big bitch, and this note proves it.
claudia
trygve lode
>> Well, we could always skip the chainmail and go straight to the shower....
>>
>> Trygve (Chainmail is wonderful stuff--after you wear it all day, when
>> you take it off, it feels like you're floating.)
>
>I make it a point never to showere with men who feel a need to
>take off they're clothes to get "high" :)
Good--because I don't feel that it's necessary to take off my clothes
in order to get "high"; how about we take off your clothes instead?
Trygve (Hey, I'm flexible.)
Charles R. Martin
Fred Walter
>>"Sharp teeth. Hypnotic stare. No reflection. What could that mean ? Aieeee!!!
>> fred "You ain't gonna trick me into being lunch" walter
>Don't worry dear, you won't feel a thing.
Well in that case, go right ahead and nibble on my neck.
fred ":-)" walter
Fred Walter
>> fred "When can I expect you to drop by ?" walter
>I don't know if people always say things about me that are true.
If they do then you've found a truly unique bunch of people that you
should hang on to.
>I like to think that the friends I chose are honest people. I
>can't be around people I don't trust. After all, they know my
>secrets.
Secrets ... are hidden vulnerabilities that once exposed often turn out
to not have been such a big deal after all.
(Unless there are a few corpses down there with your teeth marks on them,
in which case you do have secrets that should be kept :-)
>PS= don't expect me, it makes it more fun that way.
Don't worry, I won't :-).
But I'll make an effort :-) to make sure at least part of the appartment
requires cleaning for when you do show up :-)
fred "God, I'm so thoughtful it makes me wanna puke" walter
dmc
>Seth sez:
>
>> Gee, Fred, given someone that gullible, couldn't you find something
>> better to suggest?
>Gee Seth do you really think I'm gullable, well think again.
You bit, didn't you?
> I can however be amighty big bitch, and this note proves it.
If you must announce your 'bitch-factor' then you are long
way from qualifying.
I'm bored,
Desiree
Chris Penington
>se...@panix.com (Seth Breidbart) writes:
>
>> better to suggest?
>>
>> Seth [This isn't a family newsgroup, you know.]
>
>Gee Seth do you really think I'm gullable, well think again. I
>can however be amighty big bitch, and this note proves it.
<snork!!!!>
Maybe one day you'll be "amighty big bitch" but for now you just look
like a very small female puppy: cute, appealing and innocent! I have
to wonder if there wasn't more going on in your mind than made it into
your note.
I guess it could all come back to that fundamental communication
problem: how to ensure that people get the message we're trying to
send. I think it's quite common for people to think they've said
something explicitly when in fact they've only thought about saying it
or have given a vague implication but no direct explication.
Maybe that's what happened here.
Chris
Paul Wallich
>cla...@iowegia.dsm.ia.us (Keri Miller) writes:
>>>"Sharp teeth. Hypnotic stare. No reflection. What could that mean ? Aieeee!!!
>>> fred "You ain't gonna trick me into being lunch" walter
>
>>Don't worry dear, you won't feel a thing.
>
>Well in that case, go right ahead and nibble on my neck.
If you won't feel anything, why bother?
paul who has a definite idea of the proper sensation induced
by neck-nibbling
ObCynicUL: A local newspaper advertised itself on large highway
billboards with the slogan "You won't miss a thing" and did not
stop even after receiving letters from the lawyers for the
electroshock unit of a nearby hospital.
john baez
>I can find women to have sex with for free,
>but I can't find women to clean my appartment for free.
That's reassuring, it indicates that the former is more fun. :-)
Piglet
>requires cleaning for when you do show up :-)
>
> fred "God, I'm so thoughtful it makes me wanna puke" walter
Me too.
Piglet
Piglet
>In article <isow2B...@iowegia.dsm.ia.us> cla...@iowegia.dsm.ia.us (Keri (Claudia) Miller) doesn't even come close with:
>
> If you must announce your 'bitch-factor' then you are long
>way from qualifying.
*yawn*
>I'm bored,
Now I am, too.
Piglet "ooo, this is fun..."
John Fereira
Speaking of unusual billboards...There was one near here that said
only "Four Times A Week is OK." That's it. No pictures or anything
else. Later I saw a commercial that used that slogan to indicate
that is was allright to eat eggs four times a week.
--
John Fereira
jo...@netcom.com
Keri (Claudia) Miller
> cla...@iowegia.dsm.ia.us (Keri Miller) writes:
> >Claudia is my nickname that my friends gave me in college. I use it because
> >it describes me very well. Have you read your Amme Rice lately?
>
> Amme Rice ?
>
> Claudia was a little girl vampire that needed Lestat's help to feed,
> and ended up getting burned to death by all the other vampires.
>
> Some friends you have there.
>
> fred "Of course, I may have gotten a few details wrong" walter
> --
> Disclaimer: everything I write is my *personal* opinion and does not represen
> or reflect the opinion of the company which employs me.
you should hear there nicknames
Claudia
Keri (Claudia) Miller
> in order to get "high"; how about we take off your clothes instead?
>
> Trygve (Hey, I'm flexible.)
Oh, what a gentleman you are. How could a girl say no to an offer
like that?
Claudia
Keri (Claudia) Miller
> cla...@iowegia.dsm.ia.us (Keri Miller) writes:
> >>"Sharp teeth. Hypnotic stare. No reflection. What could that mean ? Aieeee!
> >> fred "You ain't gonna trick me into being lunch" walter
>
> >Don't worry dear, you won't feel a thing.
>
> Well in that case, go right ahead and nibble on my neck.
>
> fred ":-)" walter
> --
> Disclaimer: everything I write is my *personal* opinion and does not represen
> or reflect the opinion of the company which employs me.
thanks babe, I may just
Keri (Claudia) Miller
> or reflect the opinion of the company which employs me.
your generosity is without bounds. if you do puke, clean it up,
'cause i sure as hell won't
Keri (Claudia) Miller
> In article <1993Apr13....@mks.com> fr...@mks.com (Fred Walter) writes
> >cla...@iowegia.dsm.ia.us (Keri Miller) writes:
> >>>"Sharp teeth. Hypnotic stare. No reflection. What could that mean ? Aieeee
> >>> fred "You ain't gonna trick me into being lunch" walter
> >
> >>Don't worry dear, you won't feel a thing.
> >
> >Well in that case, go right ahead and nibble on my neck.
>
> If you won't feel anything, why bother?
>
> paul who has a definite idea of the proper sensation induced
> by neck-nibbling
>
> ObCynicUL: A local newspaper advertised itself on large highway
> billboards with the slogan "You won't miss a thing" and did not
> stop even after receiving letters from the lawyers for the
> electroshock unit of a nearby hospital.
then perhaps i should come visit you instead
John Fereira
--
John Fereira
jo...@netcom.com
Lynn Dobbs
I am so much less confused.
Lynn (Bruce) Dobbs
Mark
(Claudia) Miller) says:
>
>p...@panix.com (Paul Wallich) writes:
>
>> In article <1993Apr13....@mks.com> fr...@mks.com (Fred Walter)
>writes
>> >
>> >>Don't worry dear, you won't feel a thing.
>> >
>> >Well in that case, go right ahead and nibble on my neck.
>>
>> If you won't feel anything, why bother?
>>
>> paul who has a definite idea of the proper sensation induced
>> by neck-nibbling
>>
>
Why not visit them both?
Besides, being one of the undead doesn't sound all that bad... Only
problem is the day-life... It's just dead.
d(Mark)/dt
Charles R. Martin
> cla...@iowegia.dsm.ia.us (Keri (Claudia) Miller) writes:
I am so much less confused.
Than whom?
Paul Wallich
>p...@panix.com (Paul Wallich) writes:
>> ObCynicUL: A local newspaper advertised itself on large highway
>> billboards with the slogan "You won't miss a thing" and did not
>> stop even after receiving letters from the lawyers for the
>> electroshock unit of a nearby hospital.
>
>then perhaps i should come visit you instead
You have any idea what happened to the last N net.folk who tried that?
Then again, maybe you could land on the fire escape.
paul