From: Fire Chief Area: Metaphysical To: QMAIL 21 Sep 94 16:31:00 Subject: CONFIG UpdReq DROP 7031 --- GEcho 1.00 SLMR 2.1a * Origin: Sufficiently Breathless -=> 1-907-451-9465 <=- (93:9042/5) SEEN-BY: 102/943 382/502 9000/8 10 9005/0 9007/0 9008/0 9010/0 9020/0 9030/0 SEEN-BY: 9040/0 3 6 7 10 9042/0 4 5 9050/0 9060/0 9081/0 9090/0 9100/0 SEEN-BY: 9200/0 9300/0 9400/0 3 6 23 9420/0 9430/0 9500/0 9600/0 7 8 39 SEEN-BY: 9601/0 9603/0 9605/0 9606/0 9608/0 9609/0 9610/0 9620/0 9630/0 SEEN-BY: 9640/0 9650/0 9660/0 9697/0 9800/0 9900/0 201434369420143436942014343694201434369420143436942014343694718 From: Albertus Magnus Area: Metaphysical To: All 11 Oct 94 02:20:56 Subject: The Week in Death: 09/23 - 09/29 UpdReq CELEBRITY BIRTHDAY ROSTER, Friday, September 30 Crystal Bernard, actress (33) Deborah Farentino, actress (35) Barry Williams, actor (40) Victoria Tennant, actress (41) Marilyn McCoo, singer (51) Jody Powell, former White House press secretary (51) Len Cariou, actor (55) Johnny Mathis, singer (59) Angie Dickinson, actress (63) Elie Wiesel, author (66) Deborah Kerr, actress (73) Lester Maddox, former Ga. governor (79) QUOTE OF THE WEEK: He must have made that before he died -- Yogi Berra, commenting on a Steve McQueen film THE WEEK IN DEATH (September 23-September 29) BARRY BISHOP (62), explorer. A member of the Hillary expedition to Everest in 1961, and of the first American expedition to that mountain's summit in 1963. ROBERT BLOCH (77), author. Curious that someone so often described as being among the gentlest of people could write such chilling fiction. Bloch was among the first writers working in the horror/fantasy/thriller field to explore the dark side of human psychology. His most famous achievement was ``Psycho,'' which would have been enough. CHERIF GOUSMI, aka Abu Abdallah Ahmed (NA), terrorist. The Armed Islamic Group, the Algerian Muslim faction that Gousmi headed, were militant opponents of anything other than a fundamentalist Islamic state. The AIG claims responsibility for an assassination campaign that has killed 60 foreigners in the past year, as well as several local journalists. The group was threatening to disturb peace talks, when Gousmi was killed by security forces. No details were available. LOUIS FERDINAND (86), prince. The grandson of KAISER WILHELM II, who designated the prince as head of the House of Hohenzollern, the royal house of the kingdom of Prussia (wonder if he had all that on his business cards...). Anyway, he would have been Kaiser if Germany still had a throne. MARI YORIKO SABUSAWA MICHENER (74), wife of JAMES MICHENER. DOUGLAS S. MORROW (81), screenwriter. Won the 1949 Best Screenplay Oscar for ``The Stratton Story,'' which starred JIMMY STEWART and JUNE ALLYSON. FOREST SAGENDORF (79), cartoonist. Sagendorf drew the POPEYE strip from 1958 to 1986; he introduced the characters DUFUS and GRANNY. He started drawing Popeye in 1929, as an assistant to ELZIE SEGAR, the man who originated the character. HARRY SALTZMAN (78), producer. Saltzman produced several of the James Bond films, including ``Goldfinger,'' ``Dr. No,'' and ``Thunderball.'' For those of you who don't believe in coincidences, we'd like to remind you that TERENCE YOUNG, the director of some of the early Bond films, including those latter two, died three weeks ago. Saltzman also produced ``Look Back In Anger,'' ``The Ipcress File,'' and ``The Entertainer.'' From the That's A Heck Of A Product Pitch Department (TAHOAPPD): A recent ad from clothing company Britches Great Outdoors has a b/w photo of several young men carrying a casket. ``You're going to be wearing a suit for a long time,'' sez the line. ``Dress comfortably... while you can.'' Well, yeah. From The King Is Dead! Long Live The King! Department (TKIDLLTKD): Okay, so like there's this dentist in Memphis, and like, he thinks the local medical examiner -- who's been in the job for literally like a third of a century -- is a total incompetent if not like corrupt, and he (the dentist) thinks he can get this M.E. bounced from his job if he can prove the guy (the M.E.) purposefully screwed up, so he's been agitating to re-open the ELVIS PRESLEY death case, because everybody knows something hinky was going on there what with the drugs, the unlikelihood that The King actually died and the aliens and whatnot. So anyway, somebody looked at the M.E.'s autopsy report and decided that Elvis died from heart failure, which is not surprising because that's what the M.E. had said in his autopsy report. The problem, of course, isn't that Elvis is dead, it's that he was never alive. That's right. Elvis was actually the invented alter ego of FREDERICK A. SEATON, the Secretary of the Interior during the EISENHOWER Administration, and we can prove it: does anybody remember seeing Seaton during the last half of the '50s, the 60s, or the early 70s? Of course not. We rest our case. ... Thinking is a momentary dismissal of irrelevancies. * Fuller 201434369420143436942014343694201434369420143436942014343694718 From: Albertus Magnus Area: Metaphysical To: All 13 Oct 94 02:20:54 Subject: The Week in Death: Sept 29 - Oct 6 UpdReq QUOTE OF THE WEEK: ==================== Earth is mounting an immune response against the human species. It is beginning to react to the human parasite, the flooding infection of people, the dead spots of concrete all over the planet, the cancerous rot outs in Europe, Japan and the United States, thick with replicating primates, the colonies enlarging and spreading and threatening to shock the biosphere with mass extinctions. -- Richard Preston, from ``The Hot Zone'' THE WEEK IN DEATH (September 30-October 6) 53 MEMBERS OF THE ORDER OF THE SOLAR TEMPLE, cultists. The millenium approaches... LINA BASQUETTE (87), actress, dog breeder. Long before MICHAEL & LISA MARIE, before MADONNA, before ELIZABETH TAYLOR, there was Lina Basquette, star of the silent film series ``Line Basquette Featurettes'' and later prima donna of the Ziegfield Follies, who was married nine times to seven different men, including SAM WARNER (one of the Warner Bros.). Her affairs were fabulously public; her paramours included JACK DEMPSEY and NELSON EDDY. She was involved in a bitter custody battle over the daughter she had with Warner, during which she attempted suicide several times. She was also a plaintiff in a famous rape case. From 1947 on she bred show dogs, mostly Great Danes. FAITH CARDWELL DAVIS (95), member of the oldest living complete set of triplets. Her sisters HOPE CARDWELL BROCK and CHARITY CARDWELL LAWSON survive her. DANNY GATTON (49), musician. Cognescenti of country music knew Gatton as one of the great guitar stylists of modern C&W. He wasn't strictly country however, having defined a distinctive amalgam of country, bluegrass, blues, and jazz. His most recent album, called ``Relentless,'' was a collaboration with JOEY DeFRANCESCO, a kid who is almost single-handedly bringing back the Hammond organ. Suicide. ANDRE LWOFF (92), biologist. Lwoff shared the 1965 Nobel in Physiology or Medicine for the discovery that not all genes act as biological blueprints, some control or regulate other genes. HARRIET NELSON (85), actress. Products of dysfunctional families indict the Nelsons and the Cleavers and their contemporary TV clans for presenting an ideal family situation unattainable by most real people, but we have little patience for people who can't -- or worse yet, won't -- understand the difference between real life and the television. It was entertainment, and specific to and for its time. Every generation tries to remake culture in its own image, and the generation that came of age in the '50s was no different. TWIDMAN can imagine wanting a little stability and quiet after three full decades of depression and war, and if the cost was the stasis and blandness of the Eisenhower Era, well, okay. Nelson, husband OZZIE, and sons RICKY and DAVID became icons of a culture trying to calm down and catch its breath. The Nelsons also helped define the concept, mores, and behavior of the nuclear family, an aggregation that was the exception rather than the rule until the 1940s or so. We can think of many worse examples for American moms. Nelson seemed to be a genuinely nice person (if there are any mommydearest stories about her floating around, we haven't heard them), and we don't consider that praise to be at all faint. WILLIAM PROCTOR (109), the oldest (formerly) living resident of Great Britain. DUB TAYLOR (87), actor. One of the most prolific character actors in the business. Taylor had a particular talent for playing rapscallions. ROBERTO VIOLA (69), dictator. A former Argentine general who in 1981 briefly led that country's vicious military dictatorship; he stepped down because of illness. In 1985 an Argentine civilian court pronounced him guilty of 100 offenses against human rights and sentenced him to 16 years in prison; he was granted an amnesty in 1990. RON WIKBERG (51), reporter. A convicted murderer who became an award-winning journalist with ``The Angolite,'' a prison newspaper based at Angola prison in Lousiana. DENNIS WOLFBERG (44 or 48), comedian. A frequent guest on the ``Tonight Show,'' and twice voted America's top male stand-up comic by comedy club owners. From the Give These Guys A Pulitzer, Pronto! Department (GTGAPPD): ``Internet World'' magazine reports that resistance to the ANTI-CHRIST is real and growing on the i-way. Those who care for this world and our children can log on to a newsgroup at alt.barney.dinosaur.die.die.die. For those of you more graphically oriented (and blessed with a T1 line), get on the World Wide Web and go to http://deeptht.armory.com/(symbol)deadslug/jihad/jihad.html. In place of (symbol), type an equivalent sign, a dingbat we don't have at our disposal in this forum. We would've thought that this world has room for only one purple monster, so we don't understand why his ROYAL FUNKNESS, the musician from Minneapolis whose name is now A SYMBOL WE ALSO DON'T HAVE, doesn't challenge that insipid incarnation of evil to a fight to the death. We'd pay BIG bucks to see that. TWIDMAN ... It is always in season for old men to learn. * Aeschylus 201434369420143436942014343694201434369420143436942014343694718