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New Millennium Issue
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NET NEWS Amazing MYSTERIOUS WAFFLETOES
SIGHTED !!
General Information Webring: For all who have webpages check www.starlink-irc.org/webring.html Email Updates: 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 about your channel, we need a valid email address. You can let cservice know by sending an email to slirc-register@starlink-irc.org Word Games: Live trivia at various times and places throughout the week. #International: We hope to bring together folks from all nations and languages .. come join us for chat, good friends, and if you can volunteer to translate, all the better. Even a smattering of another language is welcomed! Leave your names with Channel Owner Wullie or one of the other regulars if we can call on you for help. ¡Muchos gracias WWW (Way With Words): Have you tried to come up with the perfect verse, greeting or message when sending a card, and your mind draws a blank? If you have some favorites, send them to Pat@pobox.com.
February
SPECIALS None this month.
January 21 - February 18 Aquarius the water bearer
You are sincere and warm-hearted with an ability to ease the tension in any situation. A true diplomat, you are clear in your own demands without failing to see the value of compromise. Because of your keen mind and your endless supply of creativity, you are a natural leader in both business and social life. Likewise, you endear yourself to others with little effort; however, you don't flourish as well when you are alone. Aquarius-born persons are versatile people who excel in all fields and professions. However, engineering, research and laboratory work are often their first areas of choice. They like company and are natural entertainers. Aquarius-born people are known for being loyal and loving. If an Aquarius marries, it will probably be for life.
Wullie's wife underwent surgery on Fri. Jan 12th. Our prayers and all our positive thoughts go out to MrsWull and Wullie :) ******************************************* A reminder to everyone, there are some good documents on the StarLink-IRC website at http://www.starlink-irc.org/index.docs.html Documents for op lessons and ban lessons are a couple of good ones to have! Also, if channel owners have a change of email address PLEASE let someone in cservice know about it. It's the only way cservice has of getting in touch with channel owners to remind them to auth or if there are any problems concerning their channel. ******************************************* StarLink-IRC extends a warm welcome to all the new users and their channels. We sometimes make jokes or poke fun at other IRC Chat Networks but it's sad that certain people feel they need to gain notoriety by attacking chat networks such as undernet and dalnet. A few people can wreck something for thousands.
Reminder: As some of you might know, there are other nets out there with the word 'starlink' in them. When telling your friends about what net you chat on -- PLEASE make sure you say StarLink-IRC.Org. And don't forget There is a 'quicklist' of servers at http://www.starlink-irc.org/serverlist.html
(Tell us what's happening on your channel - send info to newsletter@starlink-irc.org)
Well here it is January .. and we have NEWS .. among which is of course that ellegon STILL has purple hair .. which would be funny enough except that ONE of our staff has done the purple thing in sympathy. Well .. i think its in sympathy .. our unnamed channel services administrator has purple toes. This is because our "amazing" staffer managed .. WHILE SITTING DOWN IN THE CHAIR IN QUESTION .. to drive over her own toes. At least once. BUT NOW THE GOOD NEWS purplenoggin AND waffletoes are NOT reserved nicknames on the net so we will still be able to recognize ol' flambescales and toelumps when theyre on the net. Be sure to say hi and congratulate them on surviving ... ... so far. Next column February 31st. If there is no February 31st next month then its in the next ensuing February which has a 31th day. Or not. Leave me alone.. its been a long week.. LATE BULLETIN - This is NOT in the email version. Your invstigative arachnid has learned just NOW that waffletoes has ordered a new fridge AND has told them to make it open from the other side. (?) This is good since now the ham can get out when it wants .. but the real question we all want to know is .. can they move the little light out into the kitchen so that the yogurt doesn't have to stumble around when it comes out looking for a glass of water? Stay tuned for more news on this. Itsy
http://members.tripod.com/archer2000 American news and lifestyle headlines from 1900 to 1999 plus a century of sound. Broken into decades, this site gives you a thumbnail sketch of what’s happened in the last 100 years, complete with sound clips from old radio, tv, movies, Amelia Earhart, early jazz, Franklin D. Roosevelt and many others. http://www.retroactive.com/Postcards/ Send free greetings from this amusing postcard site. Here you’ll find no tacky midi music, no animations, just fun cards from the 30’s and 40’s.
No tech tips this month
All Times EST
Note: All times are Eastern US
Other Random but Fun Events: #Just4Fun (OUTBURST); #Sunshine_Again ( MADGABS)
The Second Millennium :)
ONE DAY AFTER CHRISTMAS Contributed by Misty_blue_eyes It's one day after Christmas It's nice to see the relatives They're eating everything in sight The relatives have all gone out It's Christmastime at my house, I love the decorations, Those cookie crunchers fed the dog Now they're in a free-for-all, My mother-in-law is snoring I oughta wake her up before **************************************** Amazing: “I didn’t know fish needed lawyers.” **************************************** 100 YEARS AGO From Itsy’s Dad The average life expectancy in the United States was
forty-seven. Only 8 percent of the homes had a telephone. A three minute call from Denver to New York City cost eleven dollars. There were only 8,000 cars in the US and only 144 miles of paved roads. The maximum speed limit in most cities was ten mph. Alabama, Mississippi, Iowa, and Tennessee were each more heavily populated than California. With a mere 1.4 million residents, California was only the twenty-first most populous state in the Union. The tallest structure in the world was the Eiffel Tower. The average wage in the U.S. was twenty-two cents an hour. The average U.S. worker made between $200 and $400 per year.A competent accountant could expect to earn $2000 per year, a dentist $2500 per year, a veterinarian between $1500 and $4000 per year, and a mechanical engineer about $5000 per year. More than 95 percent of all births in the United States took place at home. Ninety percent of all U.S. physicians had no college education. Instead, they attended medical schools, many of which were condemned in the press and by the government as "substandard." Sugar cost four cents a pound. Eggs were fourteen cents a dozen. Coffee cost fifteen cents a pound. Most women only washed their hair once a month and used borax or egg yolks for shampoo. Canada passed a law prohibiting poor people from entering the country for any reason, either as travelers or immigrants. The five leading causes of death in the U.S. were: 1. Pneumonia and influenza 2. Tuberculosis 3. Diarrhea 4. Heart disease 5. Stroke The American flag had 45 stars. Arizona, Oklahoma, New Mexico, Hawaii and Alaska hadn't been admitted to the Union yet. Drive-by-shootings -- in which teenage boys galloped down the street on horses and started randomly shooting at houses, carriages, or anything else that caught their fancy -- were an ongoing problem in Denver and other cities in the West. The population of Las Vegas, Nevada was thirty. The remote desert community was inhabited by only a handful of ranchers and their families. Plutonium, insulin, and antibiotics hadn't been discovered yet. Scotch tape, crossword puzzles, canned beer, and iced tea hadn't been invented. There was no Mother's Day or Father's Day. One in ten U.S. adults couldn't read or write. Only 6 percent of all Americans had graduated from high school. Some medical authorities warned that professional seamstresses were apt to become sexually aroused by the steady rhythm, hour after hour, of the sewing machine's foot pedals. They recommended slipping bromide -- which was thought to diminish sexual desire -- into the women's drinking water. Marijuana, heroin, and morphine were all available over the counter at corner drugstores. According to one pharmacist, "Heroin clears the complexion, gives buoyancy to the mind, regulates the stomach and the bowels, and is, in fact, a perfect guardian of health." Coca-Cola contained cocaine instead of caffeine. Punch card data processing had recently been developed, and early predecessors of the modern computer were used for the first time by the government to help compile the 1900 census. Eighteen percent of households in the United States had at least one full-time servant or domestic. There were about 230 reported murders in the U.S.
WWW (Way With Words) By Scorp Have you tried to come up with the perfect verse, greeting or message when sending a card, and your mind draws a blank? If you have some favorites, send them to Pat@pobox.com. BIRTHDAY Hello, welcome to voicemail. Contributors: Please eliminate the forwarding marks (> > >) from your articles before sending them. |
