A reminder for all who have webpages. Don't forget you can join the webring by going to www.starlink-irc.org or can ask questions concerning it in #WebRing :)

A reminder to all channel owners: If you happen to change ISP's or have a change of email address please let someone in #channels know. If for any reason cservice needs to get in touch with you in regards to your channel we need a valid email address. You can also let cservice know by sending an email to slirc-register@starlink-irc.org

• 20 Bela Lugosi's Birthday
• 20 SLIRC News 2nd Birthday (Migosh, who talked me into this? Lois)
• 24 Mother-in-Law Day
• 30 9:30 PM #Townhall Halloween Colors Show
• 31 Daylight Saving (Set your clocks)
• 31 Halloween (Take a Spook to Lunch)

November

•  1 All Saints' Day
•  2 Election Day
• 11 Veterans' Day (Honor our Veterans)

• September 25 Belated best wishes to Puriel of #ColorBook

• No anniversaries to announce this time.

StarLink-IRC thanks the color_team for putting on a GREAT color show in #Townhall on Oct 10th. There were 50 users in the channel watching all the wonderful artwork!

StarLink-IRC has a few great game channels. There is #Trivia, #TriviaPro and a word scramble game held in none other than #scramble. As you enter each of these channels a message comes up asking for new puzzles or trivia questions and where to send them. If you have any that you would like added, please check out the email addresses in each of these channels and send them in. Don't forget about kids trivia in #KIDZCHAT as well!

A short column of made-up facts and non-information brought to you by your friendly neighborhood arachnid

FOGWEB FOLLIES

#USS-Raven - Hawk
#YounGuns - LilDude
#TaskForce8 - Freak #Color_Team - MikeChat #Beulahland - Dish
#Pirch_Color - `Aaron
#Y2K4Teens - SweetRose
#Pop_Art - Charmin^ #BrazilianAmigos - Moska
#Gaia^s_Glen - Satomi #Tiki_Lounge - Kahuna

Email Facts Of Life:

1. Big companies don't do business via chain letter. Bill Gates is not giving you $1000, and Disney is not giving you a free vacation. There is no baby food company issuing class-action checks. You can relax; there is no need to pass it on "just in case it's true". Furthermore, just because someone said in the message, four generations back, that "we checked it out and it's legit", does not actually make it true.

2. There is no kidney theft ring in New Orleans. No one is waking up in a bathtub full of ice, even if a friend of a friend swears it happened to their cousin. If you are hellbent on believing the kidney-theft ring stories, please see: http://urbanlegends.tqn.com/library/weekly/aa062997.htm

And I quote: "The National Kidney Foundation has repeatedly issued requests for actual victims of organ thieves to come forward and tell their stories. None have. That's NONE, as in ZERO.

3. Neiman Marcus doesn't really sell a $200 cookie recipe. And even if they do, we all have it. And even if you don't, you can get a copy at: http://www.bl.net/forwards/cookie.html Then, if you make the recipe, decide the cookies are that awesome, feel free to pass the recipe on.

4. We all know all 500 ways to drive your roommates crazy, irritate co-workers, gross out bathroom stall neighbors and creep out people on an elevator. We also know exactly how many engineers, college students, Usenet posters and people from each and every world ethnicity it takes to change a lightbulb

5. Even if the latest NASA rocket disaster(s) DID contain plutonium that went to particulate over the eastern seaboard, do you REALLY think this information would reach the public via an AOL chain-letter?

6. There is no "Good Times" virus. In fact, you should never, ever, ever forward any email containing any virus warning unless you first confirm it at an actual site of an actual company that actually deals with virii. Try: http://www.norton.com And even then, don't forward it. We don't care!

7. If your CC: list is regularly longer than the actual content of your message, you're probably going to Hell.

8. If you're using Outlook, IE, or Netscape to write email, turn off the "HTML encoding." Those of us on Unix shells can't read it, and don't care enough to save the attachment and then view it with a web browser, since you're probably forwarding us a copy of the Neiman Marcus Cookie Recipe anyway.

9. If you still absolutely MUST forward that 10th-generation message from a friend, at least have the decency to trim the eight miles of headers showing everyone else who's received it over the last 6 months. It sure wouldn't hurt to get rid of all the ">" that begin each line. Besides, if it has gone around that many times -- we've probably already seen it.

10.Craig Shergold in England is not dying of cancer or anything else at this time and would like everyone to stop sending him their business cards. He apparently is also no longer a "little boy" either.

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In Honor of Veterans Day:

JUST A SIMPLE SOLDIER Submitted by Deano

He was getting old and paunchy and his hair was falling fast.
And he sat around the Legion, telling stories of the past,
of war that he had fought in and the deeds that he had done.
In his exploits with his buddies, they were heroes, everyone.
And 'tho sometimes to his neighbors, his tales became a joke,
all his buddies listened, for they knew whereof he spoke.
But we'll hear his tales no longer, for old Bob has passed away.
And the world's a little poorer, for a soldier died today.
No, he won't be mourned by many, just his children and his wife.
For he lived an ordinary, very quiet sort of life.
He held a job and raised a family, quietly going on his way,
And the world won't note his passing, 'tho a soldier died today.
When politicians leave this earth, their bodies lie in state,
While thousands note their passing and proclaim that they were great.
Papers tell of their life stories, from the time that they were young,
But the passing of a soldier, goes unnoticed, and unsung.
Is the greatest contribution, to the welfare of our land,
Some jerk who breaks his promise and cons his fellow man?
Or the ordinary fellow, who, in times of war and strife,
Goes off to serve his Country and offers up his life?
The politician's stipend and the style in which he lives,
Are sometimes disproportionate, to the services he gives.
While the ordinary soldier, who offered up his all,
Is paid off with a medal, and perhaps a pension small.
It's so easy to forget them, for it was so long ago,
That our Bob's and Jim's and Johnny's, went to battle, but we know
It was not the politicians, with their compromise and ploys,
Who won for us the freedom, that our country now enjoys.
Should you find yourself in danger, with your enemies at hand,
Would you really want some cop-out, with his ever waffling stand?
Or would you want a soldier, who has sworn to defend,
His home, his kin, and country, and would fight until the end?
He was just a common soldier and his ranks are growing thin,
But his presence should remind us, we may need his like again.
For when countries are in conflict, then we find the soldier's part,
Is to clean up the troubles, that the politicians start.
If we cannot do him honor, while he's here to hear the praise,
Then at least let's give him homage, at the ending of his days.
Perhaps just a simple headline, in the paper that might say:
OUR COUNTRY IS IN MOURNING,
FOR A SOLDIER DIED TODAY.

• Cataclysm: Earth tremor caused by cats stamping their feet around an empty food bowl
• Catacomb: Fluffy's grooming aid
• Catalyst: Written reminder of essentials to buy, like cat food, turkey, tuna
• Catamaran: Anything a cat can pounce on to deliver her from the tub at bath time
• Catapult: Special pounce that propels cats to the tops of bookcases and refrigerators
• Catastrophe: Running out of kitty litter
• Catechism: Kitty's prayer book
• Caterwaul: Where tomcats gather to serenade the ladies
• Catnip: Love bite from an exuberant feline
• Catskills: feline talents
• Catwalk: Cattitude in motion
• Cat and Mouse: favorite computer game
• Claws and effect: Kitty karma
• Clawstrophobia: Fear of manicures
• Furball: The main event on the feline social calendar
• Furnish: To decorate carpet, couch and chairs by shedding hairs of opposite hue
• Furtive: Cat in a seafood market
• Hisstory: Account of a catfight
• Litterature: Restroom reading matter
• Mewseum: Institution that houses the works of great artists, like Pawcasso and Mirow
• Mewspaper: Too depressing to read, but sanitary enough to shred for emergency litter box filler
• Pawtucket: Explanation for the disappearance of any shiny object
• Purrcentage: The lion's share
• Purrchase: Game of tag
• Purrcolate: Make coffee
• Purrfume: The scent of a freshly washed kitty
• Purrgatory: Where naughty cats go to be purrfected
• Purrple: Cat's favorite color
  Purrsistence: The ability to wangle all the treats you want
• Purrspective: The view from a sunny window
• Pussibilities: Candidates for adoption
• Pussport: Where you dock your catamaran Puss in Boots: Cat making a winter fashion statement
• Trivial Pursuit: Chasing a gnat
• Turkey trot: Race to the Thanksgiving table
• Vowels: Scientists' name for meows
• Wool: Smart cats pull this over their humans eyes all the time; some siamese also like to snack on it
• Zen: The art of living contentedly in the present, this is the natural state of consciousness for cats and can be learned by contemplating your kitty

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