Grex Enigma Conference

Item 49: The Day the War Started

Entered by remmers on Mon Mar 23 04:07:27 1992:

        between peace and war
        there is a stillness
        a moment's pause
        while they prepare their souls
        for the onslaught

        while i

        arrange flowers in a vase
        in the rays of the sun
        streaming through the window
79 responses total.
#1 of 79 by jdg on Mon Mar 23 04:58:08 1992:

Ooh!  Wow!

#2 of 79 by frf on Mon Mar 23 22:01:58 1992:

To veiw someone else's world. Is always the best way to see the
good and bad of our own.

#3 of 79 by suzie on Sat Jun 27 18:14:08 1992:

Remmers, that is sweet. I'm glad you did not write that to
the light of an a-bomb.

#4 of 79 by carl on Thu Feb 18 11:11:35 1993:

Ah, the soul of a samurai.

#5 of 79 by chris on Mon Apr 26 06:18:26 1993:

definitely kewl.......

#6 of 79 by other on Thu Mar 24 08:30:27 1994:

Long delay thy fate, 
at the hands of thy mate.
Let this then be thy right,
by light of bombs not to write.
For if by bombs thou seest thy pen
then thy blood may make thy paper fen.
Blood doth not improve thy wit
also doth it draw the sucking nit.
These things annoy, and do not aid
in thine attempt to earn thy pay.
So let the light of sun and moon
be the light under which thou dost swoon.
And let thy works upon thy passing
bring joy of remembrance, not eyes o'er glassing.
Let thy pen, and thy paper be
monuments to the life of thee
rather than containers for
the remnant of thy bodily gore.

I don't know where this came from, but I dredged it from the depths of my
imagination in response to the above thread.  Sort of...

#7 of 79 by remmers on Thu Mar 24 13:38:24 1994:

To be sung to the tune of "The Star Spangled Banner"?

#8 of 79 by kami on Thu Mar 24 19:45:54 1994:

ugh!

#9 of 79 by orinoco on Wed Mar 30 15:29:36 1994:

rather the sky would fall,
tha

#10 of 79 by orinoco on Wed Mar 30 15:30:27 1994:

Sorry, got cut off.  I'll finish it later.

#11 of 79 by vidar on Wed Mar 30 19:18:34 1994:

Isn't that last response a little *suggestive*?

#12 of 79 by kami on Thu Mar 31 06:12:23 1994:

naah- not a little suggestive...

#13 of 79 by orinoco on Thu Mar 31 14:35:34 1994:

Interrupted, then.

#14 of 79 by vidar on Thu Mar 31 16:56:49 1994:

Don't you mean "intupreted"?

#15 of 79 by ziggy on Mon Apr 4 16:12:48 1994:

The sky is fallin'

#16 of 79 by cain on Tue Apr 12 02:05:50 1994:

Very suggestive.

#17 of 79 by vidar on Tue Apr 12 19:27:18 1994:

Is not!

#18 of 79 by wavestar on Mon Jun 13 17:28:32 1994:

hu? sorry.
bah. can't type. huh?

#19 of 79 by orinoco on Sat Aug 23 21:55:35 1997:

In the long-standing tradition of the Enigma conference, I have no memory of
responses 10 or 11

Or 13.

So there.

#20 of 79 by snowth on Sun Aug 24 01:22:08 1997:

Well, neither did I until you made them new. Of course, I have an excuse.

#21 of 79 by orinoco on Sun Aug 24 17:17:47 1997:

No, I'm sorry, your behavior is inexcusable.

#22 of 79 by snowth on Mon Aug 25 18:44:15 1997:

You're one to talk. You're the bad influence. I'm just my beautiful,
lovelable, the smugest of smug self.

#23 of 79 by orinoco on Mon Aug 25 20:27:11 1997:

Mirror?  Where's the mirror?
And what's my motivation in this scene?

#24 of 79 by snowth on Tue Aug 26 05:11:10 1997:

Ok.! NOw which of these chairs is the couch?! Are these two chairs the couch?
Are all of them the couch? Where's the coffee machine??!!!

#25 of 79 by orinoco on Wed Aug 27 22:08:42 1997:

Coffee?  Tea?  Lithium?
Would you like fries with that reality?

#26 of 79 by snowth on Thu Aug 28 03:51:58 1997:

No, a small vernors would be fine. By the way, My name is Skye, and I spent
the first 9 years of my life living with hippos.

#27 of 79 by orinoco on Thu Aug 28 23:17:55 1997:

Nah, you're not Skye.  You're Liza.
Skye does grex now, tho.

#28 of 79 by snowth on Fri Aug 29 04:08:12 1997:

Well, I could have told you that! (But I thought she was a party person...it's
not the same thing.)

#29 of 79 by orinoco on Sun Aug 31 13:39:36 1997:

I'm working on her, I'm working on her.  Give me some time...

#30 of 79 by i on Thu Jan 1 04:36:43 1998:

Time's up in half an hour!  Either produce or glue those toothpick to 
your eyelashes like the Konvicted Karakalpakian Kibbutzist that you
probably are in reality #2!

#31 of 79 by orinoco on Fri Jan 2 16:32:53 1998:

Oh no!  The horror, the horror!
(I think she's on vacation - can I have an extension?)

#32 of 79 by i on Sat Jan 3 01:02:59 1998:

i think you may NOT.  Prepare to meet your fate!!!
<i anticipates orinoco facing a very unsympathetic jury and slips a bottle
of Jolt into the man-eating octopus tank so that he won't linger horribly>

#33 of 79 by diznave on Wed Jan 7 15:36:13 1998:

 You may be interested to know that I dabble in trout. But alas, chickens,
like Dan, will *never* fly (at least not in reality #1).

#34 of 79 by lee on Thu Jan 8 23:04:43 1998:

dan flies?

#35 of 79 by snowth on Mon Jan 12 00:56:53 1998:

only in the dark. After sunrise he has to go back to his coffin

#36 of 79 by lee on Mon Jan 12 20:26:56 1998:

well if its not a vampire, there's one way to fix that...

#37 of 79 by orinoco on Tue Jan 13 04:11:22 1998:

Only a misguided vampire I'm afraid.

#38 of 79 by i on Wed Jan 14 05:00:36 1998:

After spending the hot part of the day shut up in that old coffin,
his B.O. may scare the garlic away.

#39 of 79 by orinoco on Mon Jan 19 04:07:29 1998:

You just need to find a hardier breed of garlic.

#40 of 79 by snowth on Mon Jan 19 16:45:52 1998:

Or just look out for the green stones. And don't trust *anybody* wearing
poka-dots.

#41 of 79 by orinoco on Tue Jan 20 04:04:01 1998:

Nor polka dots.  Nor even pollka dots.

#42 of 79 by lee on Wed Jan 21 00:49:40 1998:

<lee polkas around the room>

#43 of 79 by orinoco on Wed Jan 21 04:30:24 1998:

The one-l lama
he's a priest
the two-l llama
he's a beast
and i will bet a silk pajama
there isn't any three-l lllama

#44 of 79 by i on Thu Jan 29 00:48:33 1998:

A lama who stutters
(that's lama the priest), 
spots a llama who's grazing
(that's llama the beast). 
"Here, lllama, here llllama", 
call out the old man. 
"I'd like to ride you back home if I can."

#45 of 79 by orinoco on Fri Jan 30 03:26:14 1998:

Most impressive.  I'llll have to llaminate it and hang it on my wallll

#46 of 79 by i on Sun Feb 8 02:31:34 1998:

Wouldn't it start to smell funny after a while?  If not...
 - How do your afford to keep the air conditioning turned down that far?
  - or -
 - What other odors in your room might hide it?

#47 of 79 by orinoco on Sun Feb 8 04:26:19 1998:

The alpaca is worse.  Trust me.

#48 of 79 by i on Mon Mar 2 04:00:12 1998:

I trust i.
I do not trust me.
I'm still trying to decide about trusting myself.
The upside of multiple personalities is never, *ever*, being lonely.

#49 of 79 by lee on Mon Mar 2 20:33:19 1998:

who are my three best friends?
me, myself and i

#50 of 79 by snowth on Tue Mar 3 22:20:17 1998:

"Trust no one. Trust us. We are forced to trust you. But trust nobody else."

#51 of 79 by orinoco on Wed Mar 4 03:24:48 1998:

I find that to be highly trustworthy advice.

#52 of 79 by lee on Wed Mar 4 19:22:22 1998:

resistanece is futile
you will be assimilated

#53 of 79 by snowth on Thu Mar 5 03:06:22 1998:

Of course it's trustworthy! It's Red Rainwear!

#54 of 79 by i on Thu Mar 5 23:26:57 1998:

In Snord we Trust.  All others fingerprinted, photographed, and rejected.

#55 of 79 by snowth on Sat Mar 7 01:59:21 1998:

Except Miss Motherworth. She's too cool to be rejected.

#56 of 79 by i on Wed Mar 11 00:09:23 1998:

Only if she bribes us heavily with vintage Ho-Ho's.

#57 of 79 by orinoco on Wed Mar 11 03:50:27 1998:

Vintage?  ye gods...

#58 of 79 by lee on Wed Mar 11 22:53:20 1998:

How old do Ho-Ho's have to be to be considered vintage?

#59 of 79 by i on Thu Mar 12 00:35:29 1998:

12 years in a good store, 8-10 if the retailer is less reputable.

#60 of 79 by lee on Thu Mar 12 22:53:59 1998:

Name some reputable retailers.

#61 of 79 by orinoco on Fri Mar 13 03:06:30 1998:

I dub thee, Sir Reputable Retailer.

(not to be confused with his arch-nemesis, the Surreptitious Retailer)

#62 of 79 by lee on Fri Mar 13 23:58:37 1998:

Oh wise one of the Skinned Cats, do enlighten us

#63 of 79 by orinoco on Sat Mar 14 17:04:43 1998:

'Fraid I can't.  Blew a fuse.

It's like a power outage in an outhouse and all that.

#64 of 79 by i on Mon Mar 16 02:55:26 1998:

Leaves you basking in the limelight, eh?
(At least after you run out of beans or matches.)

#65 of 79 by snowth on Mon Mar 16 14:17:41 1998:

But you can still bask, even with massive quanities of matches.

But not beans. You *must* be out of beans

#66 of 79 by orinoco on Tue Mar 17 19:56:15 1998:

But then you might burn the outhouse down.

#67 of 79 by i on Tue Mar 17 22:50:39 1998:

Only if you're clumsy with a match or eat *way* too many of the beans.

#68 of 79 by lee on Wed Mar 18 23:52:55 1998:

Where's the pork?

#69 of 79 by orinoco on Thu Mar 19 03:22:29 1998:

In the refridgitator

#70 of 79 by lee on Thu Mar 19 21:57:09 1998:

Not the freezer?

#71 of 79 by orinoco on Mon Mar 23 03:26:34 1998:

Heavens, no.  It's cold in there.

#72 of 79 by i on Mon Mar 23 04:19:43 1998:

Anything between -20 and -40 is fine with me.

#73 of 79 by lee on Mon Apr 6 19:07:27 1998:

Celsius, Fahrenheit, Kelvin or Rankine?

#74 of 79 by i on Tue Apr 7 02:36:46 1998:

Yes.  But i can only give you 1/2 point for the answer because it
wasn't specific enough.

#75 of 79 by jaklumen on Mon May 27 06:16:53 2002:

And I emerged long ago from the Great Freeze, lighting farts into 
furious flaming streams from pork and beans.

You want vintage Ho-Hos?  I'm the funkiest and most reputable retailer 
of them all..

Big Pimpin', baby.

#76 of 79 by gelinas on Tue Sep 17 03:33:23 2002:

Hey, there's a Blatz in that refrigerator!  It's mine!

#77 of 79 by jaklumen on Wed Sep 18 09:02:52 2002:

No, I'll consume you both.

#78 of 79 by i on Fri Sep 20 02:18:23 2002:

Blatz?  How about some real beer here!

#79 of 79 by lumen on Sat Nov 12 03:36:29 2005:

No can hear...
get beer in my ear!

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