Surreallyou?

[Lynn Bry]

Received from rgar...@charon.mit.edu during a nested semi-swallow ..

Message-Id: <9310122341.AA07270@charon>
Subject: surrealism
Date: Tue, 12 Oct 93 19:41:55 EDT
From: "stuff available list" available on request--just ask for it! <rgardner@ch
aron.MIT.EDU>
Status: RO

Sure. Toss me into the surrealism ring starting with...

PORTRAITS
September 19, 1993

Your phone rings. You say hello. A voice on the other end
begins to speak. It is not uncommon to create a mental picture
of that person. From the voice (and sometimes the name) one gets
clues about sex, age, nationality, ethnic origin, original lan-
guage, race, and so on.
On the net, however, one is reduced to the person's name and
their command of English. And at times neither of these provide
clues about the person. From time to time the person might use
pronouns, or a statement about their husband or wife, that give
you a gender clue. There are times when I have discovered that a
correspondent had the opposite sex of the person in my mind.
So here's the deal: you can begin this project by writing a
description of what you think I look like. Send that to me as an
email message, or leave it on the following ftp site:

ftp 141.214.4.135
anonymous [login as...]
user-id [your Internet address for password]
cd docs/rlg/portrait [directory for portraits]
dir [list portraits already here]
put rgardner.abc [your initials or other id]
get rgardner.xyz |more [display text of portrait]
get portrait.all [all portraits to date]
quit [leave ftp site]

And, of course, there are no limits to what you can de-
scribe. Maybe you think rgar...@charon.mit.edu is a specialized
version of "Eliza", or an honest-to-god alien!

You can always reach me at:

rgar...@charon.mit.edu

And, if you are always paranoid about people, like RM tells
me he is, use the finger command on me, like so:

finger rgar...@charon.mit.edu

If that isn't enough, let me know and I'll send you a copy of my
resume.

Please copy and distribute this idea.

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Please copy and distribute this idea.

[Jesse James Reklaw]

> Your phone rings. You say hello. A voice on the other end
>begins to speak.

>correspondent had the opposite sex of the person in my mind.
> So here's the deal:

>description of what you think I look like. Send that to me as an

i would like to finger you.
i believe you are not a ten-foot piece of blue corn on
hiatus from the marine corps after an uneventful rendezvous
with Trader Joe.