From: Paul Seymour Area: Mundane To: All 18 Apr 94 20:44:56 Subject: Announcement UpdReq As many of you know, I have been collecting materials from any where I can acquire them and compiling a mammoth Book of Shadows. I just finished compiling Vol. 6 for a total of 2856 pages! It is avilable from 93:9500/0 or 1:128/101 for File Request as BOS#6.ZIP. This is the WP5.0 version. I do not have the BOS#6-A. ZIP ASCII version available yet. B*B -Paul- 201434369420143436942014343694201434369420143436942014343694718 From: Ace Lightning Area: Mundane To: Gwenny The Pooh 18 Apr 94 12:23:20 Subject: Kitchen Witch UpdReq GTP>They put out good cookbooks, too. I have a neat 'puter cookbook from them >about cooking Italian--we use about six large jars of Prego every two >weeks. We LOVE Italian. My basic cookbook is Fannie Farmer (since my ancestors all came from the Boston area). I've worn out three copies in 21 years of marriage. My son cooks Italian; last year he started a vegetable garden, and wound up making (and I wound up canning!) homemade tomato sauce, with tomatoes, carrots, onions, basil, and oregano from the garden. I can't eat Italian food; I'm violently allergic to onions and garlic and all their relatives. My specialty is Chinese...especially hot & spicy. GTP>Yeast bread don't like me now that we have moved to 9000 feet. But I >agree about the piecrust. My great-grandmother, may the Goddess rest her >bigotted soul, made AWESOME pie. And it was the lard. Her recipe is >STILL the family recipe. **** politically correct, my attitude is: Don't >drink, don't smoke, eat right...die anyway. There's *GOT* to be a way to adapt yeast breads to "high altitude cooking". I'll see if I can't find something. Using lard (melted) as the shortening in yeast breads gives them a wonderful texture, too, but butter tastes better. Unless you eat like a whole pie every day of your life, there isn't going to be enough lard to kill you! And I agree; I eat what tastes good, drink what I feel like drinking, avoid exercise, and generally don't care. My father lives his life pretty much the same way, besides having the occasional cigarette, and he's 76 and probably healthier than I am (because he doesn't have the stress). GTP>Cool! My mom did cakes, too, but I stick to sewing. I sew, too. I approach sewing as a techie skill; tell me that following a pattern isn't like following a blueprint or a circuit diagram! Anyway, it uses the same areas of *my* brain. I've got some material for a ritual robe (not that we work robed all THAT much, but I felt like it) that I'm going to sew Real Soon Now. It's a nice violet-purple, with little gold metallic stars and the occasional crescent Moon all over it. Definitely "me"! GTP>I cook good "down-home" stuff, but Wild Hunter was raised upper class. >Can you imagine living in Virginia for twenty years and never tasting >grits or collard greens (mmmmmmm, mmmmmm)?? So I'm trying to learn to >cook Cordon Bleu style. Ick....it's so expensive!! Well, the high-tone equivalent to good ole cornbread is spoon bread, and that's not only pretty tasty, it's not that hard to make (or even expensive, unless chickens don't lay eggs at altitude...). I'm not fond of grits...the first time I tasted them, I realized where they got their name. Oh, yeah, baking powder biscuits, too...make 'em light and flaky enough, and they're "upper class" too. I know there are altitude adjustments for proportions of baking powder, temperature, time, etc. And I don't know how well this would work, but there are also "angel biscuits", which have both yeast AND baking powder...definitely not "po' folks" food. We sound like a couple of gossiping housewives! SLMR 2.0 There just aren't enough days in the weekend! 201434369420143436942014343694201434369420143436942014343694718 From: Tazmaniac Area: Mundane To: Paul Seymour 19 Apr 94 17:13:46 Subject: Re: Announcement UpdReq Greetings from a new member of the net! PS> As many of you know, I have been collecting materials from any where I PS> can acquire them and compiling a mammoth Book of Shadows. I just PS> finished compiling Vol. 6 for a total of 2856 pages! It is avilable PS> from 93:9500/0 or 1:128/101 for File Request as BOS#6.ZIP. This is I'll be f'reqing it from you... is it permissible to put it up on my own system for f'req/download? We're a little starved for pagan writings here in Utah :) Tazmaniac a/k/a Queen Rhianwen 201434369420143436942014343694201434369420143436942014343694718 From: Andy Bender Area: Mundane To: John Machate 15 Apr 94 15:58:06 Subject: What Is? UpdReq JM> A not-for-profit organization that maintains a database of JM> groups, circles, covens, stores etc...near military bases. [Valuable information deleted.] Aha! You know, that makes perfect sense to me, and seems to be a completely reasonable and worthwhile organization. When I first saw the phrase "Military Pagan Network" I imagined wild mobs of unshaven men, brandishing knives and rifles, screaming "IO PAN!" at the top of their lungs and attacking anybody in their way. Your explanation is a bit more sane. :-) LVX A. ___ X RM 1.3 01655 X Visualize whirled peas 201434369420143436942014343694201434369420143436942014343694718 From: Cenobyte Area: Mundane To: Bubsy 19 Apr 94 00:24:56 Subject: KURT UpdReq B> I enjoyed his music, but now he's gone, and the way I feel is 'if i B> decided to blow my head off, Kurt Kobain wouldn't go crying for day & B> days' so, unlike a little band of Nirvana groupies B> at my school who each B> now carry at minimum 10 articles about the life & B> death of Kurt, I just B> take it. B> Peace & harmony, B> BUBSY Hmmm... sounds like those girls a little outta wack huh, but I guess I can empythize with them on mourning for him. I read a news article the other day that placed "kurt" up there with likes of Bob Dylan and claimed that "kurt" was the voice for our teen agnst ridden populace, and no matter how hard I tried to laugh at thet newspaper somewhere there ringed a bit of truth because it kept bothering me. I dunno.. Maybe its because I AM from Seattle, and I AM intimatly aquainted with music scene of the area. And I kept questioning myself about how that music has effected me and the lives of my friends... Music does MOVE people... it certainly MOVES me.. whether it be soothing or angry and responsive. It's emotion, and I can understand how it can effect a nation of young adults who feel lost in a COMPLEX and unfriendly society of sorts, feeling that no one understand them and that emotion is beyond their peers... I can understand the comfort in turning to Nirvana's abstract stream of coincience... it only makes sense... atleast for a group of people intrested in what the "seattle" band had to offer... But, my worries won't about what was wrong with 'kurt' what made him plunge to drug abuse and the suicide. My thoughts are with 'kurts' wife left behind with a budding carrier and a small child goddess bless her and give her strength and support Lydia 201434369420143436942014343694201434369420143436942014343694718 From: Farrell McGovern Area: Mundane To: silveroak 19 Apr 94 11:56:52 Subject: Re: greenhouse UpdReq In a msg on , silveroak of 93:9900/0 writes: s> As regards greenhouse, I've always considered the concept s> to be a human ego-trip. To seriously believe that one species s> could accidentelly destroy everything Nature has borne over the s> millenia is a little off the wall. To Believe that the youngest s> species cold do so is laughable. Nature has been working for s> billions of year, and has survived every possible genetic s> mutation on a viable life form to arrise in that time. Human s> science has been around for 3,000 years, and only really s> developed in the last 1,500. Human science appears to be in it's s> adolecent growth spurt, or perhaps a little past it now. When the s> two are in conflict, bet heavilly on good old Gaia. I see you have never studied Chaos Theory. ttyl Farrell 201434369420143436942014343694201434369420143436942014343694718 From: Farrell McGovern Area: Mundane To: Albertus Magnus 19 Apr 94 12:02:04 Subject: enviro-fun UpdReq In a msg on , Albertus Magnus of 93:9640/0 writes: AM> The following comes to you via FidoNet-Debate. The thread is AM> between myself and this one Scott Nudds, from Canada. You see, Fidonet can corrupt even a Canadian! ttyl Farrell (Former Fight-O-Net Sysop) 201434369420143436942014343694201434369420143436942014343694718 From: Farrell McGovern Area: Mundane To: Gwenny The Pooh 19 Apr 94 12:04:50 Subject: This Echo UpdReq In a msg on , Gwenny The Pooh of 93:9900/0 writes: GTP> While bumping down stairs, Gwenny the Pooh heard Farrell McGovern GTP> say: GTP> GTP>> So, what are the rules of Metaphysical? FM>> Currently, for magazine type articles only. Later...when I FM>> have finished being Co-Chair of CAN*CON in May, that will FM>> change. ttyl, GTP> I take it, from the name, that this means articles about magic or GTP> religion, right? I need to find my April issue of Discover. GTP> There is a cool article about an archealogist named Leon de GTP> Coeur who claims to have found the Holy Grail. Sure! Anything that might be of interest to the Magickal Community. In Article format. ttyl Farrell 201434369420143436942014343694201434369420143436942014343694718 From: Merlyn Area: Mundane To: OVERLORD 19 Apr 94 11:13:14 Subject: Re: Kurt Cobain & Resh UpdReq O> > KB> when i heard that kurt cobain was dead, i got surprisingly bummed out. O> > O> >Never cared for the band, never cared for him... won't miss him. O> >If it had been Chris Cornell from Soundgarden, then I'd have O> >something to say. Of course, Cornell is thankfully no Kurt Cobain. O>personally i got kinda offended that Rolling Stone rated him as equals with O>Jimmy Hendrix, John Lennon, and Janice Joplin. How ridiculous... equals with Hendrix, Lennon and the likes. Ridiculous.... --- . QMPro 1.52 . What do you mean? You actually read this Tagline?!? 201434369420143436942014343694201434369420143436942014343694718 From: Merlyn Area: Mundane To: BUBSY 19 Apr 94 14:24:32 Subject: KURT UpdReq B>From: bubsy@hrnowl.lonestar.org (Bubsy) B>Newsgroups: pod.mundane B>Subject: KURT B>When i heard Kurt Kobain was dead, on friday night, it surprised me a B>little, and made me sad that he was gone, but mostly just surprised me. B>I enjoyed his music, but now he's gone, and the way I feel is 'if i B>decided to blow my head off, Kurt Kobain wouldn't go crying for day & B>days' so, unlike a little band of Nirvana groupies at my school who each B>now carry at minimum 10 articles about the life & death of Kurt, I just B>take it. Too true. They should just hold a wake, get drunk and say nice stuph, then get up the next day nad get on with life. B*B --- . QMPro 1.52 . There is intelligent life... and then there's Moderators! 201434369420143436942014343694201434369420143436942014343694718