genXer intros

In honor of Gena's return yesterday and in memorium for the spirit (still alive and in the flesh somewhere) of Melissa Marie Petrek: Item 1 26-MAY-94 17:54 Paul (terry) Introductions Introductions 126 responses selected of 126 total 1:1) Melissa Marie Petrek (suprnaut) 26-MAY-94 18:16 hello! i'm your self-confessed baby-buster conference host, melissa marie. being that i'm editor (dictator)-in-chief of a literary magazine that caters to the gen-x crowd, i thought we youngsters should have out own digs on the spring. feel free to add topics galore! - - - - - 1:2) Melina C. Larson (melina) 27-MAY-94 14:03 Now, in the original conception, genx meant people born in the 1960's. But I was born 1/11/70, and I feel I'm qualified. What's your magazine? - - - - - 1:3) Holly Iles (holly) 28-MAY-94 16:04 It's io isn't it? is that something to do with the illuminati? has anyone been to illuminati on-line? does anyone here play illuminati? - - - - - 1:4) Melina C. Larson (melina) 31-MAY-94 11:08 Holly! Stop it! I _do_ play Illuminati. (!) - - - - - 1:5) Holly Iles (holly) 31-MAY-94 12:33 oh god, stop it? me? I'm not doing anything! You're the one who's doing it. It's not my fault you're a copycat! nyah nyah... heh heh... you don't *really* play illuminati do you? Alex and I rarely get a chance to play because we don't know anyone down here who plays. - - - - - 1:6) Holly Iles (holly) 31-MAY-94 12:34 Melina, will you marry me? hee hee hee... We're perfect for each other. Of course, there is that thing about sharing...we would always be fighting over who's turn it is to play with all the toys! - - - - - 1:7) Melina C. Larson (melina) 31-MAY-94 15:10 Well, we'd just have to share and share alike. Play nicely together... Yeah, me and Ethan have a copy of the game and play it frequently with our pals. The fun part is the way the conspiracies are so frequently plausible. Oh, and making up your own groups. - - - - - 1:8) Holly Iles (holly) 31-MAY-94 15:26 Confession: I've only played once but I want to play some more more more! - - - - - 1:9) Stephanie Brail (spice) 22-JUL-94 18:31 Hi, I've played Illuminati once but I mean to play it more.... Anyway, I hate introducing myself...sufficed to say that I'm a 20-something and I fit several (not all) demographic patterns for people in my age group. I live in LA (by accident) and I work at home as a writer. (Or, I play at home and attempt to get paid for it.) That's all for now.... - - - - - 1:10) melissa marie (suprnaut) 27-JUL-94 18:20 welcome to the Spring, stephanie! scout around the genx conference and post away to your heart's content! - - - - - 1:11) sez me (kate) 03-AUG-94 17:53 I am _not_ a genx, that's a nice new word, I come to you from the tail end of the boom. I am a SPY. - - - - - 1:12) RoboHO (holly) 04-AUG-94 20:51 spy shmy you are DYING to KNOW what we are saying! i think that as an open loving community we can welcome a few boomers openly. We've put up with terry haven't we (just a playful jab)? he's an admitted boomer himself. - - - - - 1:13) onward (terry) 04-AUG-94 22:28 I cop. - - - - - 1:14) Wes Simonds (ginsu) 05-AUG-94 1:20 ... and not merely a boomer, but a policeman. - - - - - 1:15) I haven't decided (melina) 05-AUG-94 8:03 Bah-doom-pah. - - - - - 1:16) RoboHO (holly) 05-AUG-94 12:10 no, someone else is the policeman. oh, ha ha, I get it. bleh. - - - - - 1:17) I haven't decided (melina) 05-AUG-94 12:13 yeah, it was pretty wretched. - - - - - 1:18) sez me (kate) 05-AUG-94 17:43 spy shmy you are DYING to KNOW what we are saying! Naah, I just think y'all are so, you know, _adorable_. Cute! [smirk] - - - - - 1:19) RoboHO (holly) 05-AUG-94 23:31 *raspberry* cute, I hate cute. bunnies are cute. babies are cute. girls you name muffin are cute. cute gives me the heebies. *raspberry* - - - - - 1:20) Howard Fredrics (fredrics) 05-AUG-94 23:54 i'm a tail end boomer too. wanna make something of it? - - - - - 1:21) I haven't decided (melina) 06-AUG-94 8:59 We should arrange some kind of battle. Tug of War maybe? boomers vs. xers. Let's settle this question once and for all! - - - - - 1:22) RoboHO (holly) 06-AUG-94 13:25 Nah, we don't wanna disrespect our elders by making them wallow weakly in the mud. muhaha :-P :-b, - - - - - 1:23) Howard Fredrics (fredrics) 06-AUG-94 18:34 Wait a minute! I used to love mud wrestling. Don't knock it till you've tried it. - - - - - 1:24) RoboHO (holly) 07-AUG-94 0:30 Who said I hadn't tried it? - - - - - 1:25) Howard Fredrics (fredrics) 07-AUG-94 20:13 Alriiight! I'm glad you have. You've gone up a notch in my already high appreciation for ya, holly. - - - - - 1:26) RoboHO (holly) 08-AUG-94 19:39 You should know well enough by now that I like messy. Anything messy is good, as long as it's not sticky. I hate sticky. - - - - - 1:27) RoboHO (holly) 08-AUG-94 19:39 Although, slimey is good as long as it doesn't go sticky. - - - - - 1:28) Howard Fredrics (fredrics) 08-AUG-94 21:40 Hmmm! Whatever could you mean? - - - - - 1:29) RoboHO (holly) 09-AUG-94 11:19 sticky, you know, like dried fruit juice or anything with water and sugar dried up or drying . - - - - - 1:30) sez me (kate) 09-AUG-94 17:07 I take it back, you're none of you a bit cute. Actually I was just seeing if my time-honored way of annoying my five younger brothers and sisters--all born in the 60s--still worked. Hey, it does! - - - - - 1:31) Howard Fredrics (fredrics) 09-AUG-94 17:27 Ah, yes, holly. That's part of why I drink diet drinks. Keeps things less sticky on the inside and out. - - - - - 1:32) melissa marie (suprnaut) 29-AUG-94 17:20 howard -- 'bout time you showed yer face 'round here! (sorry guys, just got back from the middle east a couple of weeks ago and have been detoxing...) - - - - - 1:33) Louis E. Kahn (brassman) 30-AUG-94 19:37 Hey there genx ppls. I am um a genxer I guess. Born in '68 the year that all the hippy/yuppies were enjoying themselves and shit. I live in San Francisco. I am an attorney and I represent homeless ppl seeking to get public benefits in a public interest law firm in Berkeley. Um that's about it- c u all l8r :) - - - - - 1:34) RoboHO (holly) 30-AUG-94 20:16 Woo-hooo hooo...watch out ladies and germs. We have an attorney on line now. Ruh-ro. heh heh - - - - - 1:35) onward (terry) 31-AUG-94 1:45 Welcome onboard brassman, check on the law conf if you like, some other folks on here are out around Berkeley (booter and others). - - - - - 1:36) brassman (brassman) (brassman) 31-AUG-94 2:57 heheh that's right I am an attorney so watch out or I will sue you all;) Muhhahahaha. heheh Actually I am married to one of the other west coasters - groovy. Also I am best buds with another west coaster- tgitm. So we can have our own little spring meets soon and discuss spring like comments and bag on the well;) hehe bye 4 now - - - - - 1:37) melissa marie (suprnaut) 31-AUG-94 23:48 Ola, brassman -- welcome to whipper-snapper hell. - - - - - 1:38) Wes Simonds (ginsu) 25-SEP-94 18:49 Kate writes: K?> I take it back, you're none of you a bit cute. Ha! I'm extremely cute. Ask any *other* baboon and they'll tell you the same. - - - - - 1:39) Boron Bitch (holly) 26-SEP-94 9:49 Ah, so now we know your butt looks like a target. *snicker* *snicker* - - - - - 1:40) Boron Bitch (holly) 26-SEP-94 9:50 oh, sorry, you're a boy aren't you? then I guess it's your face that looks like a target. - - - - - 1:41) Boron Bitch (holly) 26-SEP-94 9:50 even better, you're an androgynous baboon and both your butt and your face look like a target! Muhahaha - - - - - 1:42) Wes Simonds (ginsu) 26-SEP-94 11:29 Since the original POINT of my post was self-critical, I refuse to take umbrage at your silly remarks and instead will only point out that yourname is an anagam of "Sly, Ill Hoe" (say it out loud for best results -- otherwise you're liable to think it refers to garden implements). - - - - - 1:43) Boron Bitch (holly) 26-SEP-94 15:53 oh don't be a poopy, I'm sure you don't look as much like a baboon as a target. And believe me, it's nice to have something attractive to aim at when venting. Ask any woman you know. hee hee - - - - - 1:44) melissa marie (suprnaut) 28-SEP-94 0:15 wow, this diatribe seems to be working its way from conference to conference. yeesh, guys ... what's this with the running baboon references? did i miss something mega-important? - - - - - 1:45) Wes Simonds (ginsu) 28-SEP-94 8:43 No; it began here with me lying about my looks, as a random post designed to test out a new Mac based quoter/editor combo I had put together to let me bypass all UNIX editors, and sprouted wings (or horns). The fact of the matter is that I resemble, if anything, a cutish lemur. - - - - - 1:46) Boron Bitch (holly) 28-SEP-94 8:46 Aaaaahhhhhhh, isn't that cute. They have a lemur at Good Day Ranch. We take Tyler there fairly often. It's the cutest little thing. It sticks it's little paw through the cage palm up asking form something, anything. They're cute little critters. - - - - - 1:47) linear salmon (melina) 28-SEP-94 11:00 I wrote a paper about lemurs once. - - - - - 1:48) Wes Simonds (ginsu) 28-SEP-94 13:26 Gee, I feel flattered! Looks like I picked the right species at last. - - - - - 1:49) linear salmon (melina) 28-SEP-94 15:36 I'd just like to say at this time that there is no longer any discernable difference in content between genx and culture and I can no longer tell which one I have just gotten done reading and so I keep getting confused. Thank you for your time. - - - - - 1:50) Boron Bitch (holly) 29-SEP-94 17:12 oh, fine, is this a hint or should I be reprimanding suprnaut for using the genx conferences as a pseudo-culture conference? or what? sheeeee's the one who's been creating topics that belong in culture but I'm too nice to say anything about it but since you're gonna attack me I guess I gotta pass the proverbial buck on this one! hee hee ;) - - - - - 1:51) melissa marie (suprnaut) 29-SEP-94 17:45 eeep! caught at last ... yeah, i know some of the topics do kinda refer to culture in general ... but i'm trying to get the more "younger"-oriented topics here, and keeping the more general tops. in the "culture" conf. - - - - - 1:52) linear salmon (melina) 29-SEP-94 20:40 Attack? Attack?!? Lady, you ain't seen an attack. That's no attack. That's just a statement. And if you wanna know the truth it's the items in culture that read like genx to me. - - - - - 1:53) melissa marie (suprnaut) 29-SEP-94 21:00 hey - somebody's gotta keep culture going! ;) - - - - - 1:54) The Viking Cowboy (terry) 29-SEP-94 22:49 Hey, culture and genx are topping the charts. - - - - - 1:55) Boron Bitch (holly) 30-SEP-94 0:31 meh-weena hurt-ed my fee-wings. *sniffle* - - - - - 1:56) Wes Simonds (ginsu) 30-SEP-94 1:05 TW> Hey, culture and genx are topping the charts. Does this mean there are stats available for the public viewing? If so, I wouldn't mind taking a look, especially if they have use by individuals as well as by groups. As a net admin I can get on quite frequently during the day without screwing around on the job and do (don't ask me what Holly's and Melina's excuses are). - - - - - 1:57) linear salmon (melina) 30-SEP-94 13:35 I'm screwing around on the job. You heard it here first, ladies and gentlemen! - - - - - 1:58) Wes Simonds (ginsu) 30-SEP-94 14:35 You be funny. - - - - - 1:59) Buddy Brannan (davros) 30-OCT-94 10:55 Humm...Hello?...Melissa told me to get my ass over here a while back, so here I are... Uhmm... I'm Buddy (Hi there). The rest ain't so important (is it?) - - - - - 1:60) melissa marie (suprnaut) 02-NOV-94 1:37 a-ha! yer finally here! welcome! - - - - - 1:61) Ne'er-Do-Well (gtobias) 15-DEC-94 6:41 Hi folks. Echoid out of water here. - - - - - 1:62) Howard Fredrics (fredrics) 15-DEC-94 11:09 Hi, gtobias. Welcom to the spring. Come on and join us in politics and music conferences. Culture's been pretty happenin' too. :) - - - - - 1:63) Six Inches Short (terry) 15-DEC-94 11:37 Shouldn't be too out of water; I'm sure you recognize the interface. - - - - - 1:64) melissa marie (suprnaut) 15-DEC-94 16:51 welcome to all newcomers here in genx! - - - - - 1:65) Rich turiel (aimee) 23-DEC-94 10:46 Hi all i'm new here too. Rich is my name. I was reading through all this and i was wondering what baboons and their butts have to do with genx (can our age group have a different name now) Also why can't I get into sex Conference??? Now that's important!!. - - - - - 1:66) Paul (terry) 23-DEC-94 11:05 Contact holly about getting into sex. - - - - - 1:67) blah (ophelia) 23-DEC-94 13:44 Greetings to everyone in Texas! This is Ophelia, waaaaayyyy up North in Canada...I'm new on the Spring...I heard about the Spring on the Melrose newsgroup...I'd love to get in on some of these wicked discussions...you know, to offer the "Canadian perspective"...yah, right...if anybody writes to me, I'll get back to them early January (I'm writing to you from work, and we have Christmas holidays next week...bad employee! oh well!)... put up your hand if you have to listen to cheesey music at work! I'm joining an American group in order to dispell any myths you ' may have heard about us!!! ciao!ophelia from the north - - - - - 1:68) Paul (terry) 23-DEC-94 15:21 Wellcome to our little backwater community Ophelia. Kick your shoes off and jump into the Melrose discussion. Melissa Marie (suprnaut) will be thrilled I'm sure, the Melrose folks hang out over in genx. Any questions? We've got a very friendly, helpful bunch here so there are a lot of folks who will help answer them. How far North in Canada are you? - - - - - 1:69) Comrade Howard (fredrics) 23-DEC-94 16:38 Hearty welcomes to Rich and Ophelia! Hope to see ya around lots! - - - - - 1:70) Someone Stop Me from Sleeping! (cbwood) 25-DEC-94 16:17 I did a long version of one of these in the telecom conference....(was it telecom or was it sci_fi or was it tv? AGH! I'm confused...) At any rate. I'm a relatively sane (not) future Electrical Engineer (yay!) from Virginia Tech. I hail from Washington, DC (hey! It's a great town) and I plan on moving to Blacksburg, Va (where I am now, at school) god willing. I've been net surfing for 3 years, back before there was gopher or the WWW. I was born in '71 (*I* think that's close enough) and I've always felt closer to the GenX'rs than any other 'age group' I've come in contact with. Dislike grundge (although I can deal with it) love Prince (or is it 0-+> now?) certain rap groups (PE in full effect!) and can tolerate a certain degree of country (how's that for musical spectrum?!?). How's that for a summary?!? PS {You guys playing Illuminati around here?!? COOL! There's a new Magic-like card game version floating around. I'm probably going to buy it sooner or later. Merry Christmas! - - - - - 1:71) Paul (terry) 25-DEC-94 17:26 Hardly anyone has talked about country in the music conference and our host there, Howard, doesn't like it, so we could use some diversity. Welcome the Spring. What do you think of genx now that you've browsed it a bit? - - - - - 1:72) Someone Stop Me from Sleeping! (cbwood) 26-DEC-94 0:35 Due to the business of the holiday season, I only have seen Item 1 (here). I'm going to read a little more, now. I'm sure I'll like it. - - - - - 1:73) melissa marie (suprnaut) 26-DEC-94 13:51 welcome all newcomers to my happy little virtual abode! feel free to enter new topic items at will! - - - - - 1:74) Comrade Howard (fredrics) 27-DEC-94 18:51 Hey, cbwood! Welcome! BTW, terry, just cause I don't like country doesn't mean people should hesitate to post about it. Besides, I've been known to write a few country songs in my time. My fav was "How can I believe in you, knowin' you'll be leavin' me." - - - - - 1:75) Mr. Ditka's ignorant slut (bcj) 27-DEC-94 18:55 Good one, Howard, that's up there with "Jesus and Momma Always Loved Me" in the country song title hall of fame! - - - - - 1:76) Someone Stop Me from Sleeping! (cbwood) 28-DEC-94 1:05 Thanks Howard. Call me Cliff. Kinda hard to pronounce 'cbwood'. Say it three times fast and you'll see what I mean. ;) I can TOLERATE country. I think the closest thing to country that I like (and no flames, please) is *Big Head Todd and the Monsters* - - - - - 1:77) melissa marie (suprnaut) 28-DEC-94 1:12 closest thing to county i can stomach is chris isaac -- if that counts as country. - - - - - 1:78) Someone Stop Me from Sleeping! (cbwood) 28-DEC-94 1:26 Chris Isaac? Never heard of him... - - - - - 1:79) melissa marie (suprnaut) 28-DEC-94 11:34 he's the guy that did "don't let me dream about you." - - - - - 1:80) I ate too much for dinner tonight... (cbwood) 28-DEC-94 18:45 Nope. Never heard of him.......(must not be musically cultured enough, yet..) - - - - - 1:81) Gravity Girl (holly) 29-DEC-94 0:15 Why haven't I seen these ppl in culture yet? - - - - - 1:82) melissa marie (suprnaut) 29-DEC-94 0:24 let's round 'em up nd head 'em on out, holly! - - - - - 1:83) Mr. Ditka's ignorant slut (bcj) 29-DEC-94 15:44 chris isaac does not count as country. - - - - - 1:84) sez me (kate) 29-DEC-94 18:23 indeed no. perish the thought! - - - - - 1:85) Nikolai Stiehl (nike) 16-JAN-95 13:14 Hi everybody born `72 I don't know if that qualifies. Saw this film "reality bites" so If being like these characters qualifies I'm outta here! Tell me! Please. ;-) Bye for now, from Germany. - - - - - 1:86) Josh Karpf (jkarpf) 17-JAN-95 10:43 And hi for now, from NYC... I've taken a common 20something career, publishing, the soft side of the corporate world. I've been at it for five years, though, straight out of college, and that's too long. I don't listen to music much, but I angst as well as the next man. Glad to be here. - - - - - 1:87) melissa marie (suprnaut) 17-JAN-95 18:10 welcome, everyone! no, this topic is not a mis-en-scene of "reality bites" (however, we do tend to bitch about this movie a lot in this conference!) part of the beauty of the genx conference is that we get to discuss all the various and sundry misconceptions and sterotypes affixed to our generation. go to it, kids! - - - - - 1:88) Nikolai Stiehl (nike) 18-JAN-95 4:30 With all this ok-stuff at the beginning do you know how this developed? The term ok stems from the French at New Orleans every time a ship came into the harbor everybody was shouting au quai to the quays or docks because everybody was glad that a new ship had arrived the meaning of ok is all is fine.. O? OK? fine and bye for now - - - - - 1:89) melissa marie (suprnaut) 19-JAN-95 1:58 tres interesting! - - - - - 1:90) Nikolai Stiehl (nike) 19-JAN-95 3:01 Nst pas? to keep things french ;-) - - - - - 1:91) Holli Kerr (jazzmin) 25-JAN-95 15:52 M. I guess if I were to be born 1-19-70 then I would be a gen-x er, too... since I was then I suppose I am. But. My daughter was born 1-19-94, what does that make her? - - - - - 1:92) Nikolai Stiehl (nike) 26-JAN-95 12:07 Gen-y or Gen-z? who knows with which terminology theyll try to summ us up. - - - - - 1:93) melissa marie (suprnaut) 27-JAN-95 12:33 i think the term is "global teen." welcome, holli! - - - - - 1:94) are you laughing in my class? (jaydbee) 07-FEB-95 16:14 okay...i've ventured forth into the world of genx...my world, so to speaak.. I'm Jan and I'm from CA (Pasadena, to be exact)...and I just hit 30 a few months ago. Still genx (cuz I wuz born 10/64)....but I never liked that term. Seeing how I work w/a bunch of folks that actually remember the day Kennedy died...and I wasn't even a fetus at the time...I actually prefer the term "Dead Kennedys". But that's cuz I'm nuts. :) cbwood...a friend is slowly but surely turning me on to the world of the Purple One...let's chat sometime... - - - - - 1:95) My Name is "Cliff" and I am funky! (cbwood) 07-FEB-95 23:10 Jan: Would be ENCHANTED. Feel free to bug me whenever you find me lurking on the Spring. Not on here as much as I used to be. - - - - - 1:96) melissa marie (suprnaut) 08-FEB-95 17:48 well, getcher butt back in gear then, cliff-thang. bring a few friends, why doncha? - - - - - 1:97) My Name is "Cliff" and I am funky! (cbwood) 21-FEB-95 3:30 Marie: Maybe. If I can find the time to Spring and do school work then definitely. - - - - - 1:98) melissa marie (suprnaut) 21-FEB-95 20:21 ah, blow off the school work. trust me: a year after you graduate, you'll remember nothing, except some insignificant detail -- kind of like i did. i have the various parts a gregorian chant mass memorized in great detail. - - - - - 1:99) Rain Woman (jaydbee) 21-FEB-95 20:44 I remember the first thing I learned as an EE freshman: V=IR And precious little else...:) - - - - - 1:100) melissa marie (suprnaut) 22-FEB-95 0:40 ... and my social security number. - - - - - 1:101) My Name is "Cliff" and I am funky! (cbwood) 22-FEB-95 0:44 Wow....thanks guys....make me look forward to getting OLDER!!!! ;) *ducks quickly* - - - - - 1:102) melissa marie (suprnaut) 22-FEB-95 0:48 hey -- this all happened when i was fresh out of college, in my early twenties. can't remember any more then than i do now. - - - - - 1:103) My Name is "Cliff" and I am funky! (cbwood) 22-FEB-95 1:14 Well, they say the first thing to go is the memory..... *ducks quicker* - Cliff (again living dangerously...) ., - - - - - 1:104) melissa marie (suprnaut) 22-FEB-95 17:44 not to mention the sane state of mind! - - - - - 1:105) Rain Woman (jaydbee) 23-FEB-95 12:21 hell, I memorized my SSN after writing it on over 30 scholarship appli- cations....and the reason why I don't remember most of my EE is because I just don't use it. I'm a software engineer...haven't seen a resistor since 1987... - - - - - 1:106) My Name is "Cliff" and I am funky! (cbwood) 24-FEB-95 0:41 Melissa: Sane?!? What's that? Jan: (Why do I insist on calling you Jay?!) -- I want to be a software engineer. I'm tired of resistors! - - - - - 1:107) Jackson Dryden (jackson) 03-MAR-95 22:59 Just thought that someone would like to here the story that I heard about how OK got into the language. There once was an indian chief in the just thought that someone would like to hear the story that i heard about how OK got into the language. There once was an indian chief in the northeast that had the reputation of being fair and even handed in all of his dealings. His name, as best that I can remember it was O Kalamachus. The early english settlers that dealt with him were so impressed with his judgement in all things that they would bring even their own disputes to him for settlement. His name and initials became symbols for fairness in trade. Hence, the generally agreed upon sense that OK meant good and not OK meant bad. It's obvious that I'm new to this, so please bear with me. I'll get the hang of this after a while, and I hope to get to know you all better soon. ttfn. - - - - - 1:108) boyce don't cry (boyce) 04-MAR-95 1:32 Welcome Jackson! I've never heard that story before... I wonder if it's true... :) - - - - - 1:109) melissa marie (suprnaut) 04-MAR-95 3:15 welcome to our humble, snide little grumblefest. feel free to post some life into some of the older topics here! - - - - - 1:110) David Miller (dmiller) 05-MAR-95 12:51 Hi, I was born in '62. Some charts show boomers going on until '64, when the pill was made available. Other charts show xers starting in '60. So I guess that demographically I'm a boomer, but attitudinally I'm an xer. Where will I be placed in the tug of war mentioned several months ago (but about which I just read today being a self-professing practicing newbie on the Spring)? Maybe in the mud holding the middle of the rope? Not cool! Quick! Somebody cheer me up! - - - - - 1:111) David Miller (dmiller) 12-MAR-95 19:15 Sheesh, what an unfriendly group! I posted my introduction a week ago, and not a soul said hello. - - - - - 1:112) melissa marie (suprnaut) 12-MAR-95 19:40 hello, hello, hello -- and hello to anyone else who's logged on since. i've been away in houston, plannning my oh-so-cheerful nuptial event. - - - - - 1:113) David Miller (dmiller) 12-MAR-95 19:50 Hi, melissa, Thanks for the hello. - - - - - 1:114) boyce don't cry (boyce) 12-MAR-95 20:38 God, that was rude of us. Sorry, David... Hello! :) - - - - - 1:115) David Miller (dmiller) 12-MAR-95 22:03 Thank you, boyce don't cry. How are you? - - - - - 1:116) boyce don't cry (boyce) 13-MAR-95 9:17 A tad tired, but Monday will do that to you... :) - - - - - 1:117) Robin Sease (bennett) 06-MAY-95 10:47 Hi. Robin here. Very new to spring and not getting a wink of work done as I'm spending all of my time on it. That's the advantage and disadvantage of working on a computer. :) Born 3/1/70. I was conceived the summer of 69 at woodstock. I believe that qualifies me for genx. i'm posted a little everywhere(books,writing,singles,etc). good to meet your acquaintances. robin - - - - - 1:118) AND NOW? !lynx http://www.spring.com (terry) 06-MAY-95 22:57 Wow, I've always heard there babies born at Woodstock, now someone in our midst *conceived* at Woodstock, amazing... - - - - - 1:119) the oak ridge boyce (boyce) 08-MAY-95 12:48 That is a great claim to fame. - - - - - 1:120) Robin Sease (bennett) 10-MAY-95 11:37 actually...no... my parents have been born again. :) so it's as if it never happened. oh well. - - - - - 1:121) where the boyce are (boyce) 10-MAY-95 17:00 Yeah, because we all know that christians never have sex, and never EVER listen to the rock and roll music... :) - - - - - 1:122) Robin Sease (bennett) 11-MAY-95 7:50 Ok. that sounds really awful of me above, no? But I went home one weekend a few years ago and was leafing through some of my mom's old albums. I started to put on the White Album. She says to me, please don't. I really don't like the Beatles anymore. ACK! I was traumatized. Truly. :) robin - - - - - 1:123) where the boyce are (boyce) 12-MAY-95 9:37 I didn't think that it sounded awful on your part, just that your parents seem to me to be sadly revisionist in their view of the past. Too bad that some born-agains seem to be genuinely revolted by their lives before christ, when in reality it coudn't have been that bad; it got them where they are today... - - - - - 1:124) Robin Sease (bennett) 15-MAY-95 17:49 I think you are very correct. I suppose I view it from a fairly subjective and selfish level. Namely, "but mom you taught me free love and pot were great!!" :) Perhaps because i'm aware of my subjective view, I'm afraid to criticize. Thanks for the input. - - - - - 1:125) where the boyce are (boyce) 16-MAY-95 13:35 I prefer love and free pot.... :) - - - - - 1:126) Robin Sease (bennett) 17-MAY-95 18:01 who doesn't? (fast forward to 1998)

and here we go all over again... Me? I was born in '66 in West Liberty, KY.

Bay City, Michigan...

1965. Earliest memory is lying down for a nap in my parents' room and watching a new show called "Sesame Street" on their little black-and-white TV.

Funny wer, never fancied you for a country boy! And Dr. U--home of that 70's icon, the Bay City Rollers? (Saturday night, Saturday night...)

That would be hillbilly, technically...

yanking my then baby brother up over the bars of his crib on a Saturday morning, carrying him to the living room and sitting him down with a box of Cheerios while we scrambled into my Barbie sleeping bag to watch cartoons...

If I've got everything sorted out right, it would be helping my grandmother make breakfast...specifically, helping to make buttermilk biscuits from scratch. If I've got it sorted wrong, then it would be leaving our house when we moved from Lexington to Winchester.

I always found hillbillies irresistible! Stacey, was it Roadrunner & Wile E. Coyote? They were our favorites, along with Mr. Peabody & Sherman.

Mayhaps that would explain our chemistry, Autumn... and why I hasn't offended you yet (well, that I know of!)...*wink* Those would be two of my favs, also.

Bullwinkle!

Never liked Rocky & Bullwinkle. How about Penelope Pitstop and the Mountie? Ooh, I've got it, the droolworthy Speed Racer?

bullwinkle absolutely rules... (oh, and tennessee tuxedo-chiefly, of course, because of the unrelentingly cool "man with all the answers", phineas j. whoopy; underdog; fractured fairytales; mr. peabody; tutor the turtle ("be what you is/ not what you is not/ them that does this/ is the happiest lot"); and the inspiring, incomparable commander mcbragg (a great irishman, needless to say))... (but bullwinkle definitely rules)... watched speed racer, of course... but the racer x thing was so depressing (had similar problems with gilligan's island)... first (solid) memory is of the beatles, doing "all my loving" ("close your eyes and i'll kiss you/ tomorrow i'll miss you/ remember i'll always be true...") on the sullivan show... and the next day, of all my 3 and 4 year old friends and i pretending to be the beatles... had a hell of an argument settling on how to replicate the hair... finally settled on wearing dish towels on our heads (and looked tres chic, i must say)...

LOL!

Do you remember which Beatle you did the dish towel impersonation of? I realize this is digging back.

most of my friends wanted to be ringo... because of the name, i guess, and because he played the drums... i pretended to be paul (of course)... mainly because it seemed like he was the main singer (and john simply seemed too fat... four year old logic, what can i say?)...

Sounds like you were already showing signs of greatness.

it's the commander mcbragg gene... deep in the race, i suppose...

1968, first memory was seeing the golden gate bridge through the windshied of my parents car.....

hey Wolf! glad to see you back!

thanks! *smile* fixin' to leave again though *frown*

never a bad thing to hang out in the real world!

My earliest memory is from 1977. I was three, and walking with my granddad through one of the cattle camps, where I saw a bull licking the backside of a cow - it was that time of the year, I now realize. Anyway, so I asked Granddad what he was doing. And he answered: 'Oh, he's just drinking his morning coffee.' I found that a very impressive answer, as anyone else would have said, 'Nothing - now SHUT your eyes!'.

Oh, and another great answer of his I remember, concerned the fat wife of the neigbouring farmer. I was six. We (him, Sonja and me) had been for a quick visit on the way to town where we were going to buy some supplies. After they had said goodbye to us at the gate, and were walking away, Sonja asked: 'Why is the lady so fat?' And he answered: 'Because she eats with both ends.' Which I didn't believe, and this I told him. Then he pointed at her wobbling rear as they were walking along the path to the house, and said, 'Look, she's chewing on a toffee right now!' Never doubted his fantastic answers again.