[Dasbanter] Re: Comin' back to Reno! Yeehaw!

[Not Erik]

On Thu, Apr 14, 2005 at 12:44:18PM -0700, Corinna Cohn wrote:
> Now that I've breached the security feature I can get to the main point of my
> email. You see, my husband Pope John Paul II recently died, leaving over
> $20,000,000 in a Swiss bank account. I write you because a friend gave me
> you're name as somone I could trust. Please to help me in Nigerian money for
> you? Want big dollar? Meesa gots a big dollar for you Yankee Friend!

I think that's in the FAQ or something.

> > Is that the one with the happy little bunnies, or the one where the
> > old white men own everything?
> 
> The one with the old white men owning everything is actually the MBA program.
> The economics program I'm taking is more along the lines of why poor people buy
> lottery tickets when milk has such a better ROI. I guess there's some crossover
> with the old white men though. 

They're buying the lottery tickets from the old white men.

Personally, I'm fascinated with the idea of becoming one of those old
white men.  Owning everything would kick ass.

> > Sadly, there are far fewer BBSes than there once were.
> > 
> 
> Thats okay, my accoustic modem doesn't work with my cellphone anyway... or
> could it? Hmm...

Last time I cared, my cellphone worked as a modem if you connected the
serial cable to it.

I think we should bring back acoustic couplers.

> > Social lead: go to Tim Sullivan's house and drink his beer or assault
> > him with a stick.  Either way is fine and he's a passive enough guy to
> > probably be okay about it.
> 
> I'm surprised to learn that Tim Sullivan is still alive. Upon learning that
> he's alive, I'm surprised to learn that he's not in jail. Knowing that he's not
> in jail, I'm surprised that he's not teaching at MIT. 

Tim has a house up off Wells.  His address and phone number should be
in the FAQ (as an aside, do we have a FAQ?).  I used to live there.  I
still have a key, not that the door ever gets locked.

Anyway, no MIT.  Many forays into amateur law and medicine.  A good
healthy scoop of reckless eccentricity.

> But anyway, since I don't drink beer I'll have to dig around for an appropriate
> stick. 

There's usually a convenient one lying around.  Tim's been beaten with
sticks in his own house before, so it won't shock him too much.

-- 
not erik - squinky at dasbistro.com - http://www.dasbistro.com/~erik/