:::::::::::::: nonsense/1 :::::::::::::: Return-Path: eichin@athena.MIT.EDUFriNov810:28:351985 Received: from ATHENA (ATHENA.MIT.EDU) by MIT-TEELA (4.12/4.7) id AA07880; Fri, 8 Nov 85 10:28:20 est Received: from MIT-CHARON (MIT-CHARON.MIT.EDU) by ATHENA (4.12/4.7) id AA11575; Fri, 8 Nov 85 10:28:20 est Received: by MIT-CHARON (4.12/4.7) id AA08851; Fri, 8 Nov 85 10:27:33 est Resent-Message-Id: <8511081527.AA08851@MIT-CHARON> Return-Path: &.Hall@AddamsTueNov519:17:441985 Received: from ATHENA (ATHENA.MIT.EDU) by MIT-CHARON (4.12/4.7) id AA10920; Tue, 5 Nov 85 19:17:34 est Received: from MIT-NESSUS (MIT-NESSUS.MIT.EDU) by ATHENA (4.12/4.7) id AA05539; Tue, 5 Nov 85 19:18:09 est Received: from mit-grape-nehi.ARPA (MIT-GRAPE-NEHI.MIT.EDU) by MIT-NESSUS (4.12/4.7) id AA18012; Tue, 5 Nov 85 19:18:07 est Received: from mit-speaker.ARPA by mit-grape-nehi.ARPA (4.12/4.7) id AA00259; Tue, 5 Nov 85 19:18:12 est Date: Tue, 5 Nov 85 19:18:11 est From: &.Hall@addams Message-Id: <8511060018.AA00259@mit-grape-nehi.ARPA> To: Quantum-Ducks@mcdonald's-farm Subject: Noisy neighbors Resent-To: amit@mit-charon, starkman@mit-charon, ayshames@mit-charon, info-cobol@mit-mc, braud@alcvax, sr.pitrelli@speech Resent-Subject: Beware Of Quantum Ducks... (QUARK! QUARK!) Resent-Date: 08 Nov 85 10:26:46 EST (Fri) Resent-From: eichin@athena.MIT.EDU -------- Dear Mr. McDonald: I am writing to you to complain about the loud quarking noise from your quantum ducks. Occasionally we also hear various explosive leptons and hadrons (particularly when your dog gets loose and jumps all over the ducks). Please try to keep them quiet, especially between the hours of 12:00 and 12:00, when our black hole is open and it disturbs the Schwarzchild Doppelgangers. Sincerely yours, The Families Addams and Hall P.S. A mathematician named Hall Has a hexahedronical ball, And the cube of its weight Times his pecker's, plus eight Is his phone number -- give him a call... :::::::::::::: nonsense/2 :::::::::::::: Return-Path: eichin@athena.MIT.EDUTueNov2610:36:511985 Received: from ATHENA (ATHENA.MIT.EDU) by TEELA (4.12/4.7) id AA09295; Tue, 26 Nov 85 10:35:49 est Received: from CHARON (CHARON.MIT.EDU) by ATHENA (4.12/4.7) id AA01388; Tue, 26 Nov 85 10:35:45 est Received: by CHARON (4.12/4.7) id AA20926; Tue, 26 Nov 85 10:35:19 est Message-Id: <8511261535.AA20926@CHARON> To: LUNJONT%YALEVMX.BITNET@wiscvm.wisc.edu, mtuchman@charon, csmith@charon, nlgilman@charon, amit@charon, eichin@charon, ayshames@charon Subject: Multics calling... Date: 26 Nov 85 10:35:08 EST (Tue) From: Mark W. Eichin One Ring for the System-kings around the core, Two for the Daemons and all their lore Four for Mortal Users doomed to loose One for the Operator always confused In the Land of Multics where the Wizards lie. One ring to read them, One Ring to write them, One Ring to edit, compile, link and bind them In the Land of Multics where the Wizards lie. :::::::::::::: nonsense/3 :::::::::::::: Return-Path: eichin@athena.MIT.EDUTueNov2621:31:431985 Received: from ATHENA (ATHENA.MIT.EDU) by TEELA (4.12/4.7) id AA14005; Tue, 26 Nov 85 21:00:26 est Received: from CHARON (CHARON.MIT.EDU) by ATHENA (4.12/4.7) id AA06690; Tue, 26 Nov 85 21:00:07 est Received: by CHARON (4.12/4.7) id AA27799; Tue, 26 Nov 85 20:59:36 est Message-Id: <8511270159.AA27799@CHARON> To: nlgilman@charon, csmith@charon, cjsmith@charon, mtuchman@charon, amit@charon, eichin@charon, ayshames@charon, jdr@speech2.cs.cmu.edu Subject: Proofs Date: 26 Nov 85 20:59:31 EST (Tue) From: Mark W. Eichin /***** charon:misc-digest / mit-charon!"James / 4:10 pm Nov 26, 1985*/ >From @MIT-MULTICS.ARPA:Lippard.Multics@HIS-PHOENIX-MULTICS.ARPA Tue Nov 26 16:10:04 1985 From: "James J. Lippard" Subject: misc: Proof methodologies To: "{list >user_dir_dir>Multics>Lippard>misc>misc}"@HIS-PHOENIX-MULTICS.ARPA Date: 19 Nov 1985 0026-PST (Tuesday) From: Stuart Marks Subject: Found! list of proof methodologies [Forwarded from the Stanford bboard by Laws@SRI-AI.] I have received several responses to my request for proof techniques, some with pointers, and some with actual "proofs." But credit goes to Greg Satz, who dug out of his jokes archive the list that I had in mind. The original author is someone named Dana Angluin, for whom no professional association was given. [John McCarthy reports that Dana Angluin is now in the Computer Science Department at Yale, but probably compiled this list while a graduate student at UCB. -- KIL] There were a couple of references to the following work: Dunmore, Paul V., "The Uses of Fallacy", in R. L. Weber, @i{A Random Walk in Science}. New York: Crane, Russak, & Co. Inc., 1973, p. 29. This contains a similar list of proof techniques. I haven't looked it up yet, but I'll report if I find anything of interest. Here is Dana Angluin's list. ======================================================================= Proof by example: The author gives only the case n=2 and suggests that it contains most of the ideas of the general proof. Proof by intimidation: 'Trivial.' Proof by vigorous handwaving: Works well in a classroom or seminar setting. Proof by cumbersome notation: Best done with access to at least four alphabets and special symbols. Proof by exhaustion: An issue or two of a journal devoted to your proof is useful. Proof by omission: 'The reader may easily supply the details.' 'The other 253 cases are analogous.' '...' Proof by obfuscation: A long plotless sequence of true and/or meaningless syntactically related statements. Proof by wishful citation: The author cites the negation, converse, or generalization of a theorem from the literature to support his claims. Proof by funding: How could three different government agencies be wrong? Proof by eminent authority: 'I saw Karp in the elevator and he said it was probably NP-complete.' Proof by personal communication: 'Eight-dimensional colored cycle stripping is NP-complete' [Karp, personal commmunication]. Proof by reduction to the wrong problem: 'To see that infinite-dimensional colored cycle stripping is decidable, we reduce it to the halting problem.' Proof by reference to inaccessible literature: The author cites a simple corollary of a theorem to be found in a privately circulated memoir of the Slovenian Philological Society, 1883. Proof by importance: A large body of useful consequences all follow from the proposition in question. Proof by accumulated evidence: Long and diligent search has not revealed a counterexample. Proof by cosmology: The negation of the proposition is unimaginable or meaningless. Popular for proofs of the existence of God. Proof by mutual reference: In reference A, Theorem 5 is said to follow from Theorem 3 in reference B, which is shown to follow from Corollary 6.2 in reference C, which is an easy consequence of Theorem 5 in reference A. Proof by metaproof: A method is given to construct the desired proof. The correctness of the method is proved by any of these techniques. Proof by picture: A more convincing form of proof by example. Combines well with proof by omission. Proof by vehement assertion: It is useful to have some kind of authority relation to the audience. Proof by ghost reference: Nothing even remotely resembling the cited theorem appears in the reference given. Proof by forward reference: Reference is usually to a forthcoming paper of the author, which is often not as forthcoming as at first. Proof by semantic shift: Some standard but inconvenient definitions are changed for the statement of the result. Proof by appeal to intuition: Cloud-shaped drawings frequently help here. ------------------------------ Date: 20 Nov 85 2304 PST Don Woods Subject: Proof Methodologies [Forwarded from the Stanford bboard by Laws@SRI-AI.] The list of proof methodologies also appeared in SIGACT News, v15 #1 (Spring '83). Incidentally, it omits the one I first heard from RPG, who suggested the following as the generic form of proof methodology used in some theological argument or other: Proof by elimination of the counterexample: 'Assume for the moment that th hypothesis is true. Now, let's suppose we find a counterexample. So what? QED.' ------------------------------ Date: 22 Nov 1985 9:37-PST From: Soon Yau Kong Subject: addendum to list of proof methodologies [Forwarded from the Stanford bboard by Laws@SRI-AI.] "For the last century no one acquainted with the facts has disputed ... - An equivalent statement is "I didn't look up the actual facts but since most people I know think this way,it follows that everyone else does too". Also called proof by assumption -Soon [This was in reference to a bboard discussion on evolution. -- KIL] /* ---------- */ :::::::::::::: nonsense/4 :::::::::::::: Return-Path: eichin@athena.MIT.EDUThuNov2812:13:501985 Received: from ATHENA (ATHENA.MIT.EDU) by TEELA (4.12/4.7) id AA04831; Thu, 28 Nov 85 12:13:37 est Received: from CHARON (d003a12) by ATHENA (4.12/4.7) id AA00735; Thu, 28 Nov 85 12:13:24 est Received: by CHARON (4.12/4.7) id AA08511; Thu, 28 Nov 85 12:13:00 est Message-Id: <8511281713.AA08511@CHARON> To: nlgilman@charon, csmith@charon, cjsmith@charon, mtuchman@charon, amit@charon, eichin@charon, ayshames@charon, jjc@ee Subject: For those of us without a Turkey... Date: 28 Nov 85 12:12:52 EST (Thu) From: Mark W. Eichin GREEN EGGS AND HAM a Dr. Seuss classic "I am Sam" "Sam I am" That Sam-I-am! That Sam-I-am! I do not like that Sam-I-am! Do you like green eggs and ham? I do not like them, Sam-I-am. I do not like green eggs and ham. Would you like them here or there? I would not like them here or there. I would not like them anywhere. I do not like green eggs and ham. I do not like them, Sam-I-am. Would you like them in a house? Would you like them with a mouse? I do not like them in a house. I do not like them with a mouse. I do not like them here or there. I do not like them anywhere. I do not like green eggs and ham. I do not like them, Sam-I-am. Would you eat them in a box? Would you eat them with a fox? Not in a box. Not with a fox. Not in a house. Not with a mouse. I would not eat them here or there. I would not eat them anywhere. I would not eat green eggs and ham. I do not like them, Sam-I-am. Would you? Could you? In a car? Eat them! Eat them! Here they are. I would not, could not, in a car. You may like them. You will see. You may like them in a tree! I would not, could not in a tree. Not in a car! You let me be. I do not like them in a box. I do not like them with a fox. I do not like them in a house. I do not like them with a mouse. I do not like them here or there. I do not like them anywhere. I do not like green eggs and ham. I do not like them, Sam-I-am. A train! A train! A train! A train! Could you, would you, on a train? Not on a train! Not in a tree! Not in a car! Sam! Let me be! I would not, could not, in a box. I could not, would not, with a fox. I will not eat them with a mouse. I will not eat them in a house. I will not eat them here or there. I will not eat them anywhere. I do not eat green eggs and ham. I do not like them, Sam-I-am. Say! In the dark? Here in the dark! Would you, could you, in the dark? I would not, could not, in the dark. Would you, could you, in the rain? I would not, could not, in the rain. Not in the dark. Not on a train. Not in a car. Not in a tree. I do not like them, Sam, you see. Not in a house. Not in a box. Not with a mouse. Not with a fox. I will not eat them here or there. I do not like them anywhere! You do not like green eggs and ham? I do not like them, Sam-I-am. Could you, would you, with a goat? I would not, could not, with a goat! Would you could you, on a boat? I could not, would not, on a boat. I will not, will not, with a goat. I will not eat them in the rain. I will not eat them on a train. Not in the dark! Not in a tree! Not in a car! You let me be! I do not like them in a box. I do not like them with a fox. I will not eat them in a house. I do not like them with a mouse. I do not like them here or there. I do not like them ANYWHERE! I do not like green eggs and ham! I do not like them, Sam-I-am. You do not like them. So you say. Try them! Try them! And you may. Try them and you may, I say. Sam! If you will let me be, I will try them. You will see. Say! I like green eggs and ham! I do! I like them, Sam-I-am! And I would eat them in a boat. And I would eat them with a goat . . . And I will eat them in the rain. And in the dark. And on a train. And in a car. And in a tree. They are so good, so good, you see! So I will eat them in a box. And I will eat them with a fox. And I will eat them in a house. And I will eat them with a mouse. ANd I will eat them here and there. Say! I will eat them ANYWHERE! I do so like green eggs and ham! Thank you! Thank you, Sam-I-am! ---- /* ---------- */ :::::::::::::: nonsense/5 :::::::::::::: Return-Path: eichin@athena.MIT.EDU Received: by TEELA (5.15/4.7) id AA14866; Mon, 20 Jan 86 00:26:11 EST From: Received: by ATHENA (5.15/4.7) id AA10242; Mon, 20 Jan 86 00:25:49 EST Received: by CHARON (5.15/4.7) id AA00884; Mon, 20 Jan 86 00:24:52 EST Date: Mon, 20 Jan 86 00:24:52 EST Message-Id: <8601200524.AA00884@CHARON> To: nlgilman@athena.MIT.EDU, csmith@athena.MIT.EDU, mtuchman@athena.MIT.EDU, amit@athena.MIT.EDU, ayshames@athena.MIT.EDU, jjc@ee Subject: [aweinste: The key to contentment revealed] Date: Thu, 16 Jan 86 19:12:40 EST From: Anders Weinstein To: metaphilosophers%mit-oz@MIT-MC.ARPA Subject: The key to contentment revealed The following advertisement appeared in New York's "Village Voice". I have no affiliation with the organization described. PESSIMISM ========= THE SKEPTICAL PATH TO CONTENTMENT ================================= What makes life sad? When what you were optimistic about, what you hoped would happen, doesn't. What makes life happy? When things unexpectedly work out well. So, if you are optimistic about life, eventually you must be disappointed because in reality things don't always go right. As a matter of fact, if you really look at life, doesn't it seem that things rarely work out as we have hoped and expected they would? If you are pessimistic, eventually you must be thrilled because when things don't work out as a pessimist thought they would, that means that something good has occurred. Therefore, it always pays to be skeptical and pessimistic! PESSIMISM is the only attitude to approach life with that can't fail to bring rewards. When this philosophy goes wrong, the Pessimist experiences a smug satisfaction of being "right" that is unknown to the ever-disappoint- ed Optimist. HOW TO VIEW EVERY EVENT IN LIFE WITH A PESSIMISTIC, SKEPTICAL ATTITUDE In Reality, the Earth and everything on it are a grain of sand on the galactic beach, a drop in the universal ocean. So, anything that happens in anyone's life on Earth has no real significance or importance to anything anyway. Just keep this in mind! Even though we don't think it will do any good, to help you remember to "Think Pessimism", we are offering you a chance to join together with other cynics in the P.I.T.S. -- Pessimism International Theoretical Society. Send $10.00 and you'll receive an imitation parchment scroll proclaiming the Pessimist philosophy, a subscription to the very esoteric P.I.T.S newslet- ter, a "Think Pessimism" bumber sticker and pin and an official membership card in P.I.T.S that serves as an ever-ready reminder that things aren't going to work out and don't matter anyway even if they do. Also available are "Think Pessimism" or "Be Skeptical" T-Shirts for $9.00, Sweat Shirts for $12.00 (all sizes available), pins or bumper stickers for $2.50. [The ad shows a "thumbs-down" hand signal ("Think Pessimism") and a "thumbs-up" hand in a Ghostbusters-style slashed circle ("Be Skeptical") -- AW] Send check or money order payable to: B. Rose, P.O. Box 419, Springfield, PA 19064. :::::::::::::: nonsense/6 :::::::::::::: Return-Path: eichin@athena.MIT.EDU Received: by TEELA (5.15/4.7) id AA07872; Wed, 22 Jan 86 03:11:28 EST From: Received: by ATHENA (5.15/4.7) id AA27683; Wed, 22 Jan 86 03:11:09 EST Received: by CHARON (5.15/4.7) id AA28990; Wed, 22 Jan 86 03:10:30 EST Date: Wed, 22 Jan 86 03:10:30 EST Message-Id: <8601220810.AA28990@CHARON> To: nlgilman@athena.MIT.EDU, csmith@athena.MIT.EDU, cjsmith@athena.MIT.EDU, mtuchman@athena.MIT.EDU, amit@athena.MIT.EDU, eichin@athena.MIT.EDU, ayshames@athena.MIT.EDU, jjc@borax.lcs.mit.edu, amsmrz@athena.MIT.EDU Q: How many members of the Impossible Missions Force does it take to screw in a light bulb? A: Five. While Cinnamon creates a diversion by wearing a skimpy dress, I use a tiny narcotic dart to knock out the fascist dictator and remove his body. Rollin, wearing a plastic mask, masquerades as the dictator long enough for Barney to sneak up to the next floor, drill a hole down into the light fixture, remove the burned-out bulb, and replace it with a new super-high- wattage model of his own design. Meanwhile, Willie has driven up to the door in a laundry truck. Just before Rollin's real identity is revealed, we escape to the laundry truck, drive to the airfield, and return to the United States. You should try looking for me on achilles instead. :::::::::::::: nonsense/7 :::::::::::::: Return-Path: eichin@athena.MIT.EDU Received: by TEELA (5.15/4.7) id AA28210; Thu, 6 Feb 86 14:15:34 EST Received: by ATHENA (5.15/4.7) id AA13779; Thu, 6 Feb 86 14:14:51 EST Received: by CHARON (5.15/4.7) id AA20823; Thu, 6 Feb 86 14:10:24 EST Date: Thu, 6 Feb 86 14:10:24 EST From: Mark W. Eichin Message-Id: <8602061910.AA20823@CHARON> To: nlgilman@athena.MIT.EDU, csmith@athena.MIT.EDU, cjsmith@athena.MIT.EDU, mtuchman@athena.MIT.EDU, amit@athena.MIT.EDU, eichin@athena.MIT.EDU, ayshames@athena.MIT.EDU, jjc@borax.lcs.mit.edu, amsmrz@athena.MIT.EDU, VY9147%suny-bing.csnet@csnet-relay.arpa Subject: That's why they call 'em Users... Overheard on the information-center hotline of a Fortune 500 manufacturing company: USER: My screen is blank. CONSULTANT: Check to see if the monitor cable is firmly attached to the connector on the back of the system unit. USER: I can't see back there. We had a power outage and there are no lights. - From _PC_Week_ , Nov 5, 1985 Reprinted in January's CURSOR :::::::::::::: nonsense/8 :::::::::::::: Return-Path: eichin@APHRODITE Received: by TEELA (5.15/4.7) id AA27371; Wed, 5 Mar 86 14:27:42 EST Received: by ATHENA (5.15/4.7) id AA11224; Wed, 5 Mar 86 14:27:24 EST Received: by APHRODITE (5.15/4.7) id AA01388; Wed, 5 Mar 86 14:27:15 EST Date: Wed, 5 Mar 86 14:27:15 EST From: Mark W. Eichin Message-Id: <8603051927.AA01388@APHRODITE> To: nlgilman@APHRODITE, csmith@APHRODITE, cjsmith@APHRODITE, mtuchman@APHRODITE, amit@APHRODITE, eichin@APHRODITE, ayshames@APHRODITE, jjc@borax.lcs.mit.edu, amsmrz@APHRODITE, VY9147%BINGVAXB.BITNET@mit-multics Subject: [bnevin@BBNCCH.ARPA: More things to do with your TV] Date: Wed, 5 Mar 86 12:40:49 EST From: Bruce Nevin Subject: More things to do with your TV To: metaphilosophers%mit-oz%MIT-MC.ARPA@BBN-VAX.ARPA Cc: bn@BBNCCH.ARPA The following appeared in the editorial section of the Gloucester [Massachusetts] Daily Times for Tuesday, March 4: YOU CAN ACT TO SAVE YOUR PLANET If you're young, old, rich or poor you can act to help save your planet, whatever your political views are. Your television set gives you the chance to secretly send synchronized thought waves to the face that you see on the screen. Stare into the man's eyes without hearing and with all your willpower repeat the words "peace, no bombs" for instance. Television viewers all around the world have the power to influence the mind of the man that they see on the screen. Do it during his entire appearance knowing others who read this do the same and that a concerned minority has power. I ask you to print this letter to protect our children. H. G. Wakelam Yacht Operculum Box 91, P, Tahiti French Polynesia The audience for this is obviously self-selecting. I can imagine responses of two kinds: o The guy's obviously a wacko. Probably thinks Venusians are tuning in through his sideburns. Of course no such influence is possible. (I wonder how the lucky S.O.B. got to be in Tahiti to be crazy . . .) o Yeah, she's got something there . . . I know about the hundredth monkey and the Sheldrake experiments, anything's possible, I'll try it. Either way, I thought you'd enjoy it. :::::::::::::: nonsense/9 :::::::::::::: Return-Path: eichin@APHRODITE Received: by TEELA (5.15/4.7) id AA07636; Sat, 15 Mar 86 17:41:32 EST Received: by ATHENA (5.15/4.7) id AA01260; Sat, 15 Mar 86 17:41:15 EST Received: by APHRODITE (5.15/4.7) id AA29101; Sat, 15 Mar 86 17:41:48 EST Date: Sat, 15 Mar 86 17:41:48 EST From: Mark W. Eichin Message-Id: <8603152241.AA29101@APHRODITE> To: nlgilman@APHRODITE, csmith@APHRODITE, cjsmith@APHRODITE, mtuchman@APHRODITE, amit@APHRODITE, eichin@APHRODITE, ayshames@APHRODITE, jjc@borax.lcs.mit.edu, amsmrz@APHRODITE, VY9147%BINGVAXB.BITNET@mit-multics Seen in a cmu .plan file: Ted Nugent (aka motor city madman) offered to buy muzak (which is up for sale) for $10M. what would he do with it? he wanted to buy it for the sole purpose of shelving it because as ted puts it: muzak causes people to have severe fits of blandness. hooray ted :::::::::::::: nonsense/10 :::::::::::::: Return-Path: eichin@APHRODITE Received: by TEELA (5.45/4.7) id AA11889; Thu, 17 Apr 86 10:45:13 EST Received: by ATHENA (5.45/4.7) id AA05698; Thu, 17 Apr 86 10:45:01 EST Received: by APHRODITE (5.45/4.7) id AA02433; Thu, 17 Apr 86 10:45:05 EST Date: Thu, 17 Apr 86 10:45:05 EST From: Mark W. Eichin Message-Id: <8604171545.AA02433@APHRODITE> To: nlgilman@APHRODITE, csmith@APHRODITE, cjsmith@APHRODITE, mtuchman@APHRODITE, amit@APHRODITE, eichin@APHRODITE, ayshames@APHRODITE, jjc@borax.lcs.mit.edu, amsmrz@APHRODITE, VY9147%BINGVAXB.BITNET@mit-multics Subject: [eichin@APHRODITE: pw] Date: Thu, 17 Apr 86 10:38:16 EST From: Mark W. Eichin To: eichin@APHRODITE Subject: pw Excerpts from the footnotes to "The Original HITCHHIKER Radio Scripts:" ...The other worldly disco music was in fact the Bee Gees "Staying Alive" made in 7/4 time by cutting out a note every two bars, and then played backwards (some people might think this a distinct improvement on the original)... ...Some would-be clever people wrote in to point out that six times nine actually equals fifty-four and didn't we know how to do elementary mathematics? Some would-be even cleverer people wrote in to point out that six times nine does indeed equal 42 if calculated in base thirteen. (What no one so far has spotted is that if you play a part of one of the episodes backwards you'll hear Bob Dylan explaining just what's gone wrong with Paul McCartney's career.)... **==> That was Doug Philips' plan file. :::::::::::::: nonsense/11 :::::::::::::: Return-Path: eichin@APHRODITE Received: by TEELA (5.45/4.7) id AA27268; Fri, 18 Apr 86 19:37:13 EST From: Received: by ATHENA (5.45/4.7) id AA18452; Fri, 18 Apr 86 19:37:16 EST Received: by APHRODITE (5.45/4.7) id AA22572; Fri, 18 Apr 86 19:37:26 EST Message-Id: <8604190037.AA22572@APHRODITE> To: nlgilman@APHRODITE, csmith@APHRODITE, cjsmith@APHRODITE, mtuchman@APHRODITE, amit@APHRODITE, eichin@APHRODITE, ayshames@APHRODITE, jjc@borax.lcs.mit.edu, amsmrz@APHRODITE, VY9147%BINGVAXB.BITNET@mit-multics, flash~~From: Date: Fri, 18 Apr 86 19:24:07 EST Apparently-To: eichin ~.~. Subject: [eichin@ATLAS: ] Full-Name: Mark W. Eichin DETERIORATA Go placidly amid the noise and waste, And remember what comfort there may be in owning a piece thereof. Avoid quiet and passive persons, unless you are in need of sleep. Rotate your tires. Speak glowingly of those greater than yourself, And heed well their advice -- even though they be turkeys. Know what to kiss -- and when. Remember that two wrongs never make a right, But that three do. Wherever possible, put people on `HOLD'. Be comforted, that in the face of all aridity and disillusionment, And despite the changing fortunes of time, There is always a big future in computer maintenance. You are a fluke of the universe... You have no right to be here. Whether you can hear it or not, the universe Is laughing behind your back. :::::::::::::: nonsense/12 :::::::::::::: Return-Path: eichin@APHRODITE Received: by TEELA (5.45/4.7) id AA22689; Tue, 22 Apr 86 02:37:39 EST Received: by ATHENA (5.45/4.7) id AA06126; Tue, 22 Apr 86 02:37:45 EST Received: by APHRODITE (5.45/4.7) id AA11617; Tue, 22 Apr 86 02:38:10 EST Date: Tue, 22 Apr 86 02:38:10 EST From: Mark W. Eichin Message-Id: <8604220738.AA11617@APHRODITE> To: nlgilman@APHRODITE, csmith@APHRODITE, cjsmith@APHRODITE, mtuchman@APHRODITE, amit@APHRODITE, eichin@APHRODITE, ayshames@APHRODITE, jjc@borax.lcs.mit.edu, amsmrz@APHRODITE, VY9147%BINGVAXB.BITNET@mit-multics Subject: quebecois humour I saw this Saturday, painted on the wall of an Avis parking lot in Montreal: One Relgion = Homosectuality. ..........Ed. :::::::::::::: nonsense/13 :::::::::::::: Return-Path: eichin@APHRODITE Received: by TEELA (5.45/4.7) id AA24017; Mon, 5 May 86 16:32:17 EDT Received: by ATHENA (5.45/4.7) id AA02214; Mon, 5 May 86 16:32:23 EDT Received: by APHRODITE (5.45/4.7) id AA11101; Mon, 5 May 86 16:32:02 EDT Date: Mon, 5 May 86 16:32:02 EDT From: Mark W. Eichin Message-Id: <8605052032.AA11101@APHRODITE> To: nlgilman@APHRODITE, csmith@APHRODITE, cjsmith@APHRODITE, mtuchman@APHRODITE, amit@APHRODITE, eichin@APHRODITE, ayshames@APHRODITE, jjc@borax.lcs.mit.edu, amsmrz@APHRODITE, VY2575%BINGVAXB.BITNET@mit-multics Subject: News Flash! (fotune cookie) In case of atomic attack, the federal ruling against prayer in schools will be temporarily canceled. :::::::::::::: nonsense/14 :::::::::::::: Return-Path: eichin@APHRODITE Received: by TEELA (5.45/4.7) id AA02697; Tue, 6 May 86 11:01:23 EDT Received: by ATHENA (5.45/4.7) id AA08449; Tue, 6 May 86 11:01:45 EDT Received: by APHRODITE (5.45/4.7) id AA20790; Tue, 6 May 86 11:01:45 EDT Date: Tue, 6 May 86 11:01:45 EDT From: Mark W. Eichin Message-Id: <8605061501.AA20790@APHRODITE> To: nlgilman@APHRODITE, csmith@APHRODITE, cjsmith@APHRODITE, mtuchman@APHRODITE, amit@APHRODITE, eichin@APHRODITE, ayshames@APHRODITE, jjc@borax.lcs.mit.edu, amsmrz@APHRODITE, VY2575%BINGVAXB.BITNET@mit-multics Subject: Famous Quotes "I gained nothing at all from Supreme Enlightenment, and for that very reason it is called Supreme Enlightenment." -Gotama Buddha "Let me control a planet's oxygen supply and I don't care who makes the laws." -Great Cthulhu's Starry Wisdom Band