Date: Monday, 30 July 1984 10:59 mst From: James J. Lippard Subject: Miscellaneous Digest V3 #20 Reply-To: {mbx >udd>Multics>Lippard>misc>misc} To: {list >udd>Multics>Lippard>misc>misc} Miscellaneous Digest Volume 3 : Issue 20 Today's topics: Deep thoughts (from Omni) memorize your telephone credit card number (from Microwave Journal) ---------------------------------------------------------------------- Date: Thursday, 26 July 1984 01:18 mst From: RLLeatherwood Subject: Deep thoughts Following is a shortened version of an article I saw once in Omni. Every once in a while, everybody has one or two deep thoughts. I happen to get a lot of them... Whether they ever find life there or not, I think Jupiter should be considered an enemy planet. When the chairman introduced the guest speaker as a former illegal alien, I got up from my chair and yelled, "What's the matter, no jobs on Mars?" When no one laughed, I was real embarrassed. I don't think people should make you feel that way. It's amazing to me that one of the world's most feared diseases would be carried by one of the world's smallest animals: the real tiny dog. One thing that makes me believe in UFOs is, sometimes I lose stuff. The face of a child can say it all, especially the mouth part of the face. The difference between a man and a boy is, a boy wants to grow up to be a fireman, but a man wants to grow up to be a giant monster fireman. I think the monkeys at the zoo should have to wear sunglasses so they can't hypnotize you. Sometimes life seems like a dream, especially when I look down and see that I forgot to put on my pants. To me, clowns aren't funny. In fact, they're kinda scary. I've wondered where this started, and I think it hoes back to the time I went to the circus and a clown killed my dad. I wouldn't be surprised if someday some fisherman caught a big shark and cut it open, and there inside was a whole person. Then they cut the person open, and in him is a little baby shark. And in the baby shark there isn't a person because it would be too small. But there's a little doll or something, like a Johnny Combat little toy guy-something like that. I bet it was pretty hard to pick up girls if you had the Black Death. The land that had nourished him and had borne him fruit now turned against him and called him a fruit. Man, I hate land like that. It's too bad that whole families have to be torn apart by something as simple as wild dogs. It's fascinating to think that all around us there's an invisible world we can't even see. I'm speaking, of course, of the World of the Invisible Scary Skeletons. Whenever I hear the sparrow chirping, watch the woodpecker chirp, catch a chirping trout, or listen to the sad howl of the chirp rat, I think: Oh boy! I'm going insane again. by Jack Handy Gee, I wonder if Bob Guccioni will try to make more money by re-publishing the Miss America photos in OMNI. Something to think about. ------------------------------ Date: Monday, 30 July 1984 10:35 mst From: Tom Perrine Subject: Misc submission Redistributed-Date: 30 July 1984 10:53 mst Redistributed-From: James J. Lippard Redistributed-To: {mbx >udd>m>jjl>misc>misc} Jim, this item appeared in Arms-Discussion-Digest Vol 2 #49. I think you will find it interesting. It came from Microwave Journal and also Aviation and Space Week (Leak). -Tom -------------------------------------------------- Date: 25 Jul 1984 1614 PDT From: John McCluskey Subject: Everyone should memorize their Telephone credit card number. To: info-cobol@mit-mc ReSent-To: Arms-d@MC ReSent-From: GEOFF at SRI-CSL From: Microwave Journal, July 84, page 97 DoD is still generally closed-mouthed about divulging specifics from lessons learned in the Grenada operation. However we have learned of an incident involving C**3 that is a little offbeat, courtesy of MG David L. Nichols, of the Air Force office of Deputy Chief of Staff for Programs. In the early days of the conflict a small force of US troops was surrounded by Cubans in armored personnel carriers. Although US helicopter gunships that could help the US troops were in the aea, the soldiers did not have a way to communicate with the gunships. Using GI ingenuity, one of our soldiers went to a public telephone and placed a long distance call for help to Fort Bragg ***using his credit card.*** Fort Bragg, via satellite, was able to get the word to the gunships, who neutralized the Cubans, thereby saving the day for the good guys. Although the demonstration of US ingenuity is appreciated, the lack of ablity of troops to communicate with supporting gunships is an example of how sophisticated C**3 networks sometimes fail to support simple operational scenarios. ------------------------------ End of Miscellaneous Digest ***************************