This is the item for telling people about all the *other* wonderful
conferences on Grex.  Spring Agora is NOT everything - there are about
ONE HUNDRED other conferences here on Grex, on all sorts of subjects -
books, poetry, cooking, sex, web pages, women, role playing games - 
you name it.  Type "help conferences" at the Ok: prompt to see the
list, or just check out the ones that are touted in this item. 

63 responses total.

Come, come, come to the poetry conference!  We need new faces and new 
verses.  It's a nice environment where you can get feedback and 
suggestions on your writing.  From traditional meter to freeverse, 
from rhyme to the slightly prosy, we've got quite a bit of variety.

Join the Science conference.  It's the place for all things rooted
in science, mathematics or engineering.

        Do you wanna be a slayer?  You can stop off at the 
science fiction conference to talk about Buffy and many other
fantasical things.

The Steve Conference.  It's not just for Steves anymore.

There's a Steve conference?

You know, lately it really does seem like there aren't as many people on Grex
named Steve.  Maybe we should recruit more.

Well, although several of Grex's Steves have children, none of them has a 
child named Steve.  So Steves are failing to reproduce, which indicates 
that the Steve boom is inherently temporary.  There really isn't anything 
to be done about it.

  re #4:  I thought it was settled in the previous agora that the 'Steve'
  conference was going to be the 'perky' conference henceforth..

I was once at a contra dance in Lansing where people wore name tags.  There
were 5 or 6 Steves so they started to add numbers after their names.  By the
end of the evening at least half the men there had relabelled themselves
Steve.

Please, join us in the Writing Conference, a place to get ideas and 
talk with other writers.

The same thing works the other way around, too.  I've occasionally had my
danhood revoked for showing up late at a gathering with too many other Dans.

Thankfully it's rare in this country for me to run into someone with 
the same first name or even a similar first name.

resp:9  I'm not sure why the writing conf died.  It seemed to fade 
away in favor of the poetry conference.  I would assume the former is 
more for prose, but..

hmm.. you should talk to Erinn about that, I guess, Julie.

I'm told that Anna was the most popular girl baby name the year I was born,
but i haven't really met enough others to believe it.

I know a guy named Bjorn. He lives in California though. 

I meet people all the time who have Lynn/Lynne as a middle name but I 
seldom meet anyone who has Lynn/Lynne as a first name. It isnt even my 
first name (although my folks always called me "Lynne" even when I was 
little). Most of the people I know who actually use Lynn/Lynne are 
people who started using the name as adults because they didnt like 
their first name. 

Bjorn is a cool name, but it gets me feeling like I should do my 
Swedish Chef imitation

Hr di hor di hor di.  Mm  Mork Mork Mork (throws wooden spoons 
haphazardly behind self so that they crash into the cookware hanging 
behind)

I have a cousin Lynn, short for Lynette.

Re #15: That was a pretty good Swedish Chef imitation.

<bows> thank you

I like my first name okay; I'm just easily bored.  :)
I rarely meet anyone that can even spell my first or last name, let alone
have teh same one.

Yeah, my name is frequently misspelled although usually with the exact 
same letters..i.e. Lynn Freemont instead of Lynne Fremont *shrug*

Just be thankful that they don't spell it "Myrtle Fennon".

HAHAHAHAHA

The only other Lynn I can think of right off the top of my head has the
middle name "Nancy".

and a last name of D-MI?

 :)

resp #15: Actually, I don't pronounce my name the anglicized way (i.e. 
Byor-n) but the Norwegian way (Byurr-n) and try to teach people to do 
the same.  I don't even spell it the anglicized way except when I don't 
know whether a place will accept letters that aren't part of the 
American alphabet.  So (despite not being spelled that way on my birth 
certificate or social security card for that matter), I use Bjørn.  
Granted, since I also have german heritage I have also used Björn 
(which is the way Swedes would spell it too).

        Neither of which shows up well in Picospan text off the web.

Neither of them is showing up in my telnet window either.  I'm guessing one's
meant to be a slashed O.  The other's probably an O with an umlaut.

Shows up fine on mine.  Which character set are you using?

My last name rhymes with many diseases.  :)

resp 28: The first one escapes being associated with the letter O all 
together (with the exception of being a vowel), though it looks like an 
O with a slash through it.  As for the second, you are correct.

The o-slash and o-umlaut show up fine in my telnet window.  Guess
that's what I get for using a decent terminal emulator (Konsole
under KDE 2.2.2 under Linux Red Hat 2.2.2.)

(oops, make that Linux Red Hat 7.2...)

I'm using NiftyTelnetSSH on a Mac.  I assume it uses the ISO 8859-1 charset
as its default.

Both vowels work properly for me with Windoze 98 Telnet.

help
a: help
help a:
set

Good "a:" placement, though "help" was a little overused.  The
appearance of the word "set" is rather original, however.

7.8 from the Lithuanian judge.

seems like some one is trying to acces a dos drive and set something undefined
to it. Intresting

Join the newly reperkified Steve Conference and answer such questions 
as "Can perky breasts have puffy nipples?" and "Britney Spears' 
breasts, left or right?  You decide."

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