response 175 of 257:

Apr 24 16:07 UTC 2002

I'm starting to suspect it's a parody.  It's too over-the-top to be real. 
There's also the bit about going to the WIPO to try to get Landover Baptist
shut down...the WIPO practically never hears cases directly, you generally
pay an arbitration company to hear one.

response 177 of 257:

Apr 24 16:42 UTC 2002

The merge of BSD and Mac could yield the acronym BSDM, with a very obvious
acronym. >=}
 
I vote that it's serious. I've met weirdoes like this (I met a guy who told
me, in all seriousness, that the Internet was a government plot, and that if
you looked at a computer monitor while logged on, they could infiltrate your
mind and suck out your thoughts... and, according to someone who knew this
guy better than I did, he wasn't crazy, just a little eccentric).
 
My fave bit, something of an inside joke: This OS "extensively use what are
called "daemons" (which is how Pagans write "demon" -- they are notoriously
poor spellers: magick, vampyre, etc.)"

response 179 of 257:

Apr 24 16:45 UTC 2002

hahahahah. i love this. no wonder i'm a mac user...

response 183 of 257:

Apr 25 00:44 UTC 2002

resp:182 Sounds like Willy Wonka's latest offering along 
with "Lickable Wallpaper, for nursery walls."

response 185 of 257:

Apr 25 21:16 UTC 2002

rw-rw-rw- - the file permissions of the beast.

response 187 of 257:

Apr 26 14:20 UTC 2002

        I believe in Columbus!

response 189 of 257:

Apr 26 19:55 UTC 2002

"Father, it has been one month since my last confession. I have had sex 
with Nookie Green every week for the last month." 

Nookie Green seems to be very popular with my male parishioners the 
priest thinks. 

Then, he tells the sinner, "You are forgiven. Go out and say three Hail 
Mary's." 

Soon, another man enters the confessional. "Father, it has been two 
months since my last confession. I have had sex with Nookie Green twice 
a week for the last two months." 

This time the priest has to ask, "Who is Nookie Green?" "A new woman in 
the neighborhood," the sinner replies. 

"Very well," says the priest. "Go and say ten Hail Mary's." 

The priest leaves the church wondering, who in the world is Nookie 
Green? 

The next morning in church the priest is preparing to deliver his 
sermon, when suddenly a drop dead gorgeous tall woman enters. All the 
men's eyes fall upon her as she slowly sashays up the aisle and sits 
down right in front of the priest. Her dress is green and way too 
short, with matching shiny emerald green shoes. 

The priest and altar boys gasp, as the woman in the matching green 
shoes and dress sits with her legs slightly spread apart. 

The priest turns to the altar boy and asks, "Is that Nookie Green?" 

The alter boy's eyes are popping out of his head, as he replies, "No, I 
think it's just the reflection off her shoes."

response 191 of 257:

Apr 26 23:11 UTC 2002

::gives Mike a big ol' hug for the older REM quote::

response 193 of 257:

Apr 27 04:57 UTC 2002

A man is standing in the hall after conference and is eager to use the rest
room, but the mens room is full and a line stretchs down the hall.  A woman
comes out of the womans room and see the man in discomfort say he may use the
ladies room but he must promise not to push any of the buttons.

He promises her he wuill not touch a thing and she allows him into the ladies
room. As he sits there, he notices the four buttons next to the paper
dispenser.  His curiosity gets the better of him and he pushes the top button
labeled WW.  Warm water washes his bum.  This is wonderful, he thinks.  Wonder
why we don't have anything like this in the mens room.

He pushes the next button labeled WA and warm air dries his bum.  How pleasant
he thinks, and pushes the next button labeled TP and talcum powder is applied
to his bottomside. Marvelous, he thinks.

With hardly a second thought , he pushes the last button, A red button labeled
ATR.  Immediately, there is a terrible pain and he passes out.  

He wakes up in the hospital with no idea why he is here.  He rings for the
nurse who comes in immediately.

"Nurse.  What happened to me?"  He asks.

"You know that last button you pushed?  It was the automatic tampon remover.
You'll find the missing member under your pillow.

response 195 of 257:

Apr 28 15:01 UTC 2002

A Texan is drinking in a New York bar when he gets a call on his cell 
phone.  He hangs up, grinning from ear to ear, and orders a round of 
drinks for everybody in the bar because, he announces, his wife has 
just produced a typical Texas baby boy weighing 25 pounds.

Nobody can believe that any new baby can weigh in at 25 pounds, but the 
Texan just shrugs, "That's about average down home, folks...like I 
said, my boy's a typical Texas baby boy."

Congratulations showered him from all around, and many exclamations 
of "WOW"! were heard. One woman actually fainted due to sympathy pains.

Two weeks later he returns to the bar. The bartender says, "Say, you're 
the father of that typical Texas baby that weighed 25 pounds at birth, 
aren't you? Everybody's been making' bets about how big he'd be in two 
weeks. We were gonna call you. So, how much does he weigh now?"

The proud father answers, "Seventeen pounds."

The bartender is puzzled, and concerned. "What happened? He already 
weighed 25 pounds the day he was born."

The Texas father takes a slow swig from his long-neck Lone Star beer, 
wipes his lips on his shirt sleeve, leans into the bartender and 
proudly says, "Had him circumcised."

response 197 of 257:

Apr 28 17:40 UTC 2002

In Texas, that means they cut off his head, right?

response 199 of 257:

Apr 28 19:09 UTC 2002

The beauty of arrogance is that it undermines itself.