From: owner-rockford-files-digest@smoe.org (The Rockford Files) To: rockford-files-digest@smoe.org Subject: The Rockford Files V1 #295 Reply-To: rockford-files@smoe.org Sender: owner-rockford-files-digest@smoe.org Errors-To: owner-rockford-files-digest@smoe.org Precedence: bulk The Rockford Files Wednesday, November 4 1998 Volume 01 : Number 295 Today's Filings: ----------------- i earned myself some karma today thoughts from the bunker........... on winning contests, and new technology, and other things the voices in my head are telling me to shut up hello CHICAGO! JESSE VENTURA, YOUR NEW... MINNESOTA... GOVERNOR!!! I heard you on my wireless back in '52.... I heard you on my wireless back in '52.... ---------------------------------------------------------------------- Date: Tue, 3 Nov 1998 01:24:25 -0800 (PST) From: "Jordan W." Subject: i earned myself some karma today either that, or fucked something up completely. sorry about the cut off post yesterday. my bad. i did the most amazing unselfish thing i've done in my life. my best friend, and ye old lady friend are sitting there, feeling very uncomfortable because of yours truly. now, i still like her, but i make a decision. these two are meant to be, they would work sooo well, so i basically spend 5 mins talking to both of them and leave them to there own devices. well, whatever i said, i wish i could bottle it because those two are the newest couple in our school. and it's so right. sigh. i set the person i'm stuck on onto my best buddy and i feel weird about it. but hey, instead of being fucked around, it's gonna be real interesting. i have cemented my place as "the single guy" and now have another happy couple to contend with, but i now become "agony aunt" for the group. you see, it's either him or me and he's gonna have problems, so looks like i'm it. maybe one day i'll find someone. either that or wait for them to break up. yeah. like THATS gonna happen. like i said, i deserve a break from life now. welp. dan, mail me with the addy for the unclub. im missing it :) preparing for the enormity of how i fucked myself over for 2 friends to hit me, Jordan _________________________________________________________ DO YOU YAHOO!? Get your free @yahoo.com address at http://mail.yahoo.com ------------------------------ Date: Tue, 3 Nov 1998 13:31:04 EST From: F2G2@aol.com Subject: thoughts from the bunker........... "i'm the baddest skinny mofo you're ever going to meet." halloween was a glorious time. it's the holiday that allows everyone to feel like they can allow the weirdness that resides in us all out. i was shaggy, my friend chris was the rainbow warrior ("john 3:16!!!!!"), meg was some femme character from the rocky horror (it varied.). this girl jen, through no fault of her own, is genetically rather butch. she came to the party as a 'fairy princess.' let's see.......ellie came like a vamp sniper gunning for chris' affections, derek came as a boy desperately smitten w/meg and the others who showed didn't wear costumes. lame. "gus johnson has de key." to dan and jordan. warning: this may be harsh, but it IS coming from the bunker. what's wrong with you 2 that you need (so desperately) the presence of another person in your life to give you fulfillment? aside from that trait, you seem like rather decent sorts to me....... cultivate hobbies, interests, activities, etc etc etc. to make YOURSELF happy and more content. when all of that is done, you'll have a more well-rounded YOU, which shows. if you want, not NEED, someone else in your life when you're done with that, it'll probably happen. neediness is unattractive in the extreme. matthew's advice, pt. 119. always take a friend over a lover. lovers can be replaced relatively easily. good friends are much, much harder to replace......... sometimes you will get lucky and find a lover who becomes your best friend. eric: hail eris........are you coming to the dionysian revel? jellyfish: i hate the buggers, but i'll fight to the death for the rights of all you freaks who do like the little ocean dwellers. markus: i was going to vote today, but i'm a card-carrying member of the sloth and indolence party. that is, i would be if it didn't take so much work to become a card-carrying member. smile. chele: uh....................greetings. blah blah blah blah. matthew ps. i'm sick of watching trends chased down and slaughtered by the merciless masses. it's sad, like baby seals. ------------------------------ Date: Tue, 03 Nov 1998 18:25:19 -0500 From: Dan Cohen Subject: on winning contests, and new technology, and other things We won a contest last week. By we I mean my dearest mother, who filled out some survey on our ISP's home page about content and improving service, and was selected the winner of the $75 gift certificate to Media Play. Although I truly believe about 4 people filled this out, it's still pretty killer that she won. So, after a lovely day that included my realization that the 79 I got on the American History unit test was the highest grade in the class (the AP class, I might add), my sleeping through English as I came down from my massive early-morning sugar buzz courtesy of all the people who brought leftover candy, and my growing hate for CD-ROM drives connected to sound cards on older computers intensifying (damn Sound Blasters), I got to go to Media Play with the fambly. Now, my 12-year-old sister, who's a bit of a hoochie, has ostensibly left home for my father's. In her most blissful ignorance, my mom invited her along. Forced to choose between three CD's, she decided on DMX. Now, I own said rap collection, and I don't think it's appropriate at all for a pre-teen. So I tell my mother this, being my best nasty older brother, and the fight ensues. She eventually decides on the ultimately more vanilla Brandy CD, but ma mere is nonplussed. They bitch and moan all the way home. This is normal, but it still annoys me. Myself? I got the Cake CD and a copy of "Rule of the Bone" by Russell Banks, my all-time favorite book. Woohah. This was all yesterday. I wrote this at 4 am but decided to sleep rather than continue. ;P New technology: I must learn Windows NT 5.0 for work next week when our betas come in. I really don't want to. I'd much rather if we used some flavor of Unix or OS/2, but clients like Windows for whatever reason. Maybe because they can play Minesweeper. Although Xpilot is far cooler (and networkable!), but such is the mindset of the corporate beast these days. Boo to the business world. Poor SyQuest. They make the best damn removable drive out there (the SparQ) and they can't promote it to save their lives. Sigh. It's a shame if they go out of business...1 gig drive for <$200? Sign me up... Scott is the man. Thanks a billion, buddy, and I owe you one...well, actually fifteen. :) Send me your address and the cash will be in the mail Saturday morning. Jordan: Oh, man, I feel so bad for you, but I understand completely. I did the same thing with Bobby and Olivia today...I just explained to both of them separately that they liked each other, and I know it's happening now. It's like I signed my own death warrant with her, but I feel it's right. I cried for a while to myself during lunch, because I didn't realize what I had done, but I know now...it's over. I'm basically left to be Dan the wallflower again. People will say at parties, "Dan, you need a woman", and they'll all laugh and pass me a beer or whatever, and it'll end at that. And I'll sit with everyone at lunch and talk, and Rob and Katrina or EJ and Tricia or whoever the couple du jour is will have their public thing, and I'll wish I was in that situation, think about it, and write another long-winded post lamenting my current state to y'all. It's a vicious circle, and when I think it's getting better it'll go around again. And that's it. I'll end it at that and go eat now, as it's been a long day at work. See you all! ~Dan ps. I've added the URL for the unclub page to my official sig. - -- "One thing appealed to me about BFF fans. There was no official "club". And some music monger wanted to change all that. And I'm PISSED OFF and it's time for a rap!" - -Lucy "It's great that you love this band enough to want to do this, but in my opinion there is no need for a "fan club," especially not for a club with this kind of attitude." - -Ginger "The Fan Club is stupid. And Erik is a ghetto boy." - Katie "I care more about the fans more than anything that is why I am doing this....."-Erik Sorenson http://emeraldsky.dyn.ml.org/unclub.html ------------------------------ Date: Wed, 04 Nov 1998 01:56:57 GMT From: "tavia -" Subject: the voices in my head are telling me to shut up yikes that last digest was depressing. love lives are not looking healthy around here. melancholia everywhere Stacy-- >What it boils down to, is that I love voices. Its why I was drawn to linguistics and radio. When I was a kid, I paid so much attention to the way words were formed. It did and still does facinate me. oooooh I love voices. ben's singing voice is half the reason I got into bff; tim freeman has the nicest australian voice you could imagine, both singing and talking; i did a show once with this actor whose voice was like listening to silk or watching wax melt (how poetic you say, but I swear he had honeyed tones). I dig words, personally, in a big way. Lurk is a lovely word. I may go back into the half-shadowed twilight limbo of lurking now. tavia 'i think that I may well regret this in the morning' you am i (girls like that) ______________________________________________________ Get Your Private, Free Email at http://www.hotmail.com ------------------------------ Date: Tue, 3 Nov 1998 22:33:07 EST From: Eriklyons1@aol.com Subject: hello CHICAGO! being stupid. don't give fl a laptap and hordes of responsibility. tuesday eve and watching election results, listen to WAEA, and hangin on AOL (4 some stupid reason). kinda bored. will hit the sky bar VERY soon. hello 6:15 wake up call. so I guess I only wanted to say hay and check and make sure you guys were not freakin out on the list. knaw. you guys rock. oh, did I forget to tell yo I have uncorked a couple bottles of merlot? whoops that outta wake spence out of hy-bur-na-tion. seeyazall - -fl ------------------------------ Date: Tue, 03 Nov 1998 23:35:55 -0500 From: Dan Cohen Subject: JESSE VENTURA, YOUR NEW... MINNESOTA... GOVERNOR!!! I don't even live in Minnesota and I'm happy as hell. I've been promoting the hell out of Jesse "The Body" Ventura the last three weeks online, often to unpleasantness, but it worked. The Body won. How must it feel to live in a state governed by the man who once tried to strangle Hulk Hogan to death with a feather boa? How awesome must it be to look up to the man who ran off with the Macho Man, Randy Savage's wife Elizabeth in 1987? I want to know. We get the same shitty Republican incumbent in NY. Dammit. But at least D'Amato, the guy who'd been running the really negative ads criticizing his opponent for aid to Mongolia, got his ass handed to him on a rusty tin platter. Yay for the American electoral system! ~Dan - -- "One thing appealed to me about BFF fans. There was no official "club". And some music monger wanted to change all that. And I'm PISSED OFF and it's time for a rap!" - -Lucy "It's great that you love this band enough to want to do this, but in my opinion there is no need for a "fan club," especially not for a club with this kind of attitude." - -Ginger "The Fan Club is stupid. And Erik is a ghetto boy." - Katie "I care more about the fans more than anything that is why I am doing this....."-Erik Sorenson ------------------------------ Date: Tue, 03 Nov 1998 21:15:32 PST From: "Courtney Knopf" Subject: I heard you on my wireless back in '52.... Like the Buggle reference? i used to play that on my show until some bastard stole the album from the studio (either that or they filed it in the wrong part of the alphabet). so hey hey hey, it's tuesday. so i think we ALL know what that means. yep, you guessed it; Yak Shaving Day! No really... not that i would ever do anything to overshadow a day such as this, but i would like to remind you all that my radio show is on tonight and you can catch it in Real Audio at http://kscr.usc.edu between Midnight and 4am Pacific time. so tune in, take a listen and let me know what you think. hell, call in and request something. if i have the CD i'll do my damndest to play it. ~Courtney The Sultraness "Hello?! She's the slayer. *I'm* a homecoming queen." ______________________________________________________ Get Your Private, Free Email at http://www.hotmail.com ------------------------------ Date: Tue, 03 Nov 1998 22:45:39 PST From: "Courtney Knopf" Subject: I heard you on my wireless back in '52.... Like the Buggle reference? i used to play that on my show until some bastard stole the album from the studio (either that or they filed it in the wrong part of the alphabet). so hey hey hey, it's tuesday. so i think we ALL know what that means. yep, you guessed it; Yak Shaving Day! No really... not that i would ever do anything to overshadow a day such as this, but i would like to remind you all that my radio show is on tonight and you can catch it in Real Audio at http://kscr.usc.edu between Midnight and 4am Pacific time. so tune in, take a listen and let me know what you think. hell, call in and request something. if i have the CD i'll do my damndest to play it. ~Courtney The Sultraness "Hello?! She's the slayer. *I'm* a homecoming queen." ______________________________________________________ Get Your Private, Free Email at http://www.hotmail.com ------------------------------ End of The Rockford Files V1 #295 *********************************