Path: news.duke.edu!newsgate.duke.edu!news.duq.edu!nntp.club.cc.cmu.edu!eecs-usenet-02.mit.edu!news.kei.com!news-out.internetmci.com!newsfeed.internetmci.com!207.69.200.61!mindspring!news.mindspring.com!user-38lcanq.dialup.mindspring.com!user From: peripatetic@mindspring.com (Joseph Goodman) Newsgroups: rec.games.bolo Subject: The Truth Behind SBCM Date: Sat, 11 Oct 1997 00:55:20 -0500 Organization: MindSpring Enterprises Lines: 40 Message-ID: NNTP-Posting-Host: user-38lcanq.dialup.mindspring.com X-Server-Date: 11 Oct 1997 04:54:15 GMT Xref: news.duke.edu rec.games.bolo:30644 Once upon a time there was a small steam powered river boat trudging through the powerful waters of the Peruvian Amazon. This boat's cargo was manure. It was a Small Boat Carrying Manure. No one really knew quite why the SBCM seemed to be carrying manure, nor where it was headed, much less where it came from (except it did have Tennessee tags). What was known was there was really very little use whatsoever for the manure. There was a near-unlimited supply of it, and it was applied by the river boat captain to every hindrance he encountered on his journeys, never successfully. Once he built a bridge of manure to let an aging son cross a vast ravine to see his dying mother one last time. But the dung bridge collapsed and the son died. Once he dammed the Amazon itself to keep the spring thaw from flooding downriver hamlets. But the manure dissolved and the hamlets ended up overrun with Amazon water mixed with shit. Another time the benevolent river captain tried to contribute his shit to feed a starving village. Well, you can guess where that went. The point is this manure really had absolutely no use. So why did the SBCM keep trundling further inland into the darkest reaches of the Amazon? The public never knew for sure. Some surmised a strange mental illness. Others discussed religion, politics, even a vague sense of social responsibility (ya gotta do something with all that manure) as the cause. Only a small group of select individuals knew the truth. These kindred souls had witnessed the SBCM for many years and finally understood it. You see, some people use manure for useful purposes. Occasionally it is turned into fertilizer. Usually it helps plants grow. Other times it creates bombs to blow up federal buildings. No matter what, most people use their manure for productive, successful purposes. Not the SBCM. It just kept heading up that river because the captain thought it was fun. There wasn't any inkling of success at what he did, nor any idea of goals accomplished, places visited, people known. The whole idea of disseminating manure worldwide was just so much fun! So the Small Boat Carrying Manure continued to distribute its manure. I mean, hey, if you thought being full of shit was fun, wouldn't you be full of shit, too? -- Joseph Goodman peripatetic@mindspring.com My thoughts follow my vision and dance in the sun... --Phish ---------------------------------------------------------------------- Path: news.duke.edu!newsgate.duke.edu!news.eng.convex.com!news.ecn.uoknor.edu!munnari.OZ.AU!spool.mu.edu!uwm.edu!vixen.cso.uiuc.edu!newsfeed.internetmci.com!204.128.247.5!tezcat!rmast From: rmast@tezcat.com (Russell Mast) Newsgroups: rec.games.bolo Subject: Re: The Truth Behind SBCM Date: Sat, 11 Oct 1997 00:21:34 -0500 Organization: The Effect Lines: 10 Message-ID: References: NNTP-Posting-Host: rmast.tezcat.com Mime-Version: 1.0 Content-Type: text/plain; charset=ISO-8859-1 Content-Transfer-Encoding: 8bit X-Trace: tepe.tezcat.com 876547063 14754 (None) 206.230.57.56 X-Complaints-To: news@tezcat.net X-Newsreader: Yet Another NewsWatcher 2.4.0 Xref: news.duke.edu rec.games.bolo:30649 Golly, HB, you just about split my sides with your charming little tale. I laughed so hard I peed. However, I'm not sure BL is just glowing with satisfaction knowing that you're still willing to kiss his for no reason whatsoever. Unless things have changed a lot, you've never even admitted he's twice the Bolo player you'll ever be, much less ten times the man. Butt, I'm afraid, the whole story is totally true. And you people remind me of the amazon river. The Peruvian Amazon, at that. Penis-face. -steamboatcaptainman ---------------------------------------------------------------------- Path: news.duke.edu!newsgate.duke.edu!news-relay.ncren.net!gatech!www.nntp.primenet.com!globalcenter0!news.primenet.com!nntp.primenet.com!news.maxwell.syr.edu!newsfeed.internetmci.com!207.69.200.61!mindspring!news.mindspring.com!user-38lcanq.dialup.mindspring.com!user From: peripatetic@mindspring.com (Joseph Goodman) Newsgroups: rec.games.bolo Subject: Wasn't bolo commercial? Date: Sat, 11 Oct 1997 00:59:04 -0500 Organization: MindSpring Enterprises Lines: 9 Message-ID: NNTP-Posting-Host: user-38lcanq.dialup.mindspring.com X-Server-Date: 11 Oct 1997 04:57:57 GMT Xref: news.duke.edu rec.games.bolo:30645 I vaguely remember a big to-do like a year or two ago about some company buying the rights to do the next version of bolo...right? It just dawned on me: Where the hell did that go? -- Joseph Goodman peripatetic@mindspring.com My thoughts follow my vision and dance in the sun... --Phish