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Security: TriStar and the new security service: www.starlink-irc.org/security/ Webring: For all who have webpages check www.starlink-irc.org/webring.html Ombudspersons: See www.starlink-irc.org/slirc-org.html#Ombudsman Email Updates: All channel owners: If you happen to change ISP's 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. DISCLAIMER - Web sites identified here may contain executable files (software). Be advised that StarLink-IRC has no knowledge of the suitability or effects such softare may have on your system. We advise everyone to make a carefully informed evaluation and decision prior to running any new software.
March
February 19 - March 20
If you're having a difficult time getting a project off the ground or finished, don't fret too much. There are no mistakes, and once it does move forward, it will probably take a whole new, but better, direction. Later this month, splurge on luxuries and enjoy the attention lavished on you from all around. The wise Pisces will discuss every idea and get to know every intriguing person that appears in his life. Some will be merely interesting, others worth his time. A few, however, will lead to the exciting ideas of offers that will make 2002 such a memorable year. Other Pisces include: Kelsey Grammer ( of Frasier TV Show), Chuck Norris (as Walker, Texas Ranger TV show), Helen Gurley Brown (author of "Sex and the Single Girl").
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.
Roving Reporter Lois Lane’s recommendations for enjoyable chatting: Late Afternoon/Early Evening (depending on where you live): #Classics Late Evening/Early Morning (depending) #50&Fantastic
A SPECIAL DAY 20 Feb 2002 Believe it or not but 8.02pm on February 20 this year will be an historic moment in time. It will not be marked by the chiming of any clocks or the ringing of bells, but at that precise time, on that specific date, something will happen which has not occurred for 1,001 years and will never happen again.
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Here we are in the copycat months ('cept for leap year they're both the same) and some unnamed dragon is now back to sunny floridia having escaped from mardi gras. Fortunately, it was reallllllly cold in the Big Easy so elleg.... the unnamed dragon froze while waiting for the parades. This just proves its never a good idea to go places that have cold weather. Or warm weather cause you could get mosquitoes. Best to just stay home and wait for the bean soup to get cooked. Your intrepid spider also has heard RUMORS that british taxicabs do not use those soooo cute litttle turn signal flags waving from the sides of the car any more. This is such a shock I have to go lay down now... Speaking of bean soup, i have this recipe....
New Channel Owners:
ELECTRIC ECLECTIC: Jim Eccleston has put together a hugely comprehensive list of references to all sorts of material in his Electric Eclectic site, which you will find at http://bloxword.ca/jimbmks.htm You can select from an alphabetical listing or from a thematic list. Click on his picture on his home page for a disclaimer, which is worth the visit by itself! Everything from "A" Aboriginal English and Acronym Finds to "Z" Zeno's Forensic Site
CS2000.MRC script update for mIRC v. 6.0, 6.01 compatibility Contributed By Wullie (#babyboomers) CS2000.MRC © Version 1.31 February 15, 2002 adapted for mIRC version 6.01 This mIRC script is free for StarLink-IRC.Org users. You can download the latest version at http://www.oorwullie.net/CS/CS2000.html This update was needed for the multi-server feature in the new mIRC versions. Also added is a new "@notice window feature". If you do not wish to have notices sent to @notice windows, use the "-=Toggle @Notice Off =-"popup in the menu to deactivate it. Some users have asked for this feature to help keep the CStar notices out of the main windows. I hope you like it. Just hit the X to close @notice windows or leave them open if you wish. MSN worm information at Symantec Contributed by Countryboy Ancient DOS Tricks - The .LOG File Contributed by Itsy Here
is a very very VERY old DOS trick from way back in the mists of history
(like 1981)
This is handy for making little 'notebooks' where you periodically want to just add entries.
All Times Eastern North America
Note: All times are Eastern US
Other Random but Fun Events: #Just4Fun (OUTBURST); #Sunshine_Again ( MADGABS)
MY MOTHER'S LESSONS From Itsy's Dad My mother taught me TO APPRECIATE A JOB WELL DONE: "If you're going to kill each other, do it outside - I just finished cleaning!" My mother taught me RELIGION: "You better pray that will come out of the carpet." My mother taught me about TIME TRAVEL: "If you don't straighten up, I'm going to knock you into the middle of next week!" My mother taught me REASON: "Because I said so, that's why." My Mother taught me LOGIC: "If you fall out of that swing and break your neck, you're not going to the store with me." My mother taught me FORESIGHT: "Make sure you wear clean underwear, in case you're in an accident" My mother taught me IRONY: "Keep crying and I'll give you something to cry about." My mother taught me about the science of OSMOSIS: "Shut your mouth and eat your supper!" My mother taught me about CONTORTIONISM: "Will you "look" at the dirt on the back of your neck!" My mother taught me about STAMINA: "You'll sit there 'till all that spinach is finished." My mother taught me about WEATHER: "It looks as if a tornado swept through your room." My mother taught me how to solve PHYSICS PROBLEMS: "If I yelled because I saw a meteor coming toward you, would you listen THEN?" My mother taught me about HYPOCRISY: "If I've told you once, I've told you a million times--Don't Exaggerate!!!" My mother taught me THE CIRCLE OF LIFE: "I brought you into this world, and I can take you out." My mother taught me about BEHAVIOR MODIFICATION: "Stop acting like your father!" My mother taught me about ENVY! "There are millions of less fortunate children in this world who don't have wonderful parents like you do!" My Mother taught me about ANTICIPATION: "Just wait until we get home." My Mother taught me about RECEIVING: "You are going to get it when we get home!" My Mother taught me MEDICAL SCIENCE: "If you don't stop crossing your eyes, they are going to freeze that way." My Mother taught me to THINK AHEAD: "If you don't pass your spelling test, you'll never get a good job." My Mother taught me ESP: "Put your sweater on; don't you think I know when you're cold?" My Mother taught me HUMOR: "When that lawn mower cuts off your toes, don't come running to me." My Mother taught me how to BECOME AN ADULT: "If you don't eat your vegetables, you'll never grow up." My Mother taught me about SEX: "How do you think you got here?" My Mother taught me about GENETICS: "You're just like your father." My Mother taught me about my ROOTS: "Do you think you were born in a barn?" My Mother taught me about WISDOM OF AGE: "When you get to be my age, you will understand." And my all time favorite... My Mother taught me about JUSTICE: "One day you'll have kids ...and I hope they turn out just like you!" Physicians Have Good Stories, Too Contributed by taurusgal of #classics A man comes into ER and yells, “My wife is going to have her baby in the cab! “I grabbed my stuff, Rushed out to the cab, lifted the lady's dress, and began to take off her underwear. Suddenly I noticed That there were several cabs and I was in the wrong one. At the beginning of my shift, I placed a stethoscope on an elderly and slightly deaf female patient's anterior chest wall. “Big breaths”, I instructed. “Yes, they used to be,” the patient said sadly. One day I had to be the bearer of bad news when I told a wife that her husband had died of a massive Myocardial infarct. Not more than five minutes later, I heard her reporting to the rest of the family that He had died of a “massive internal fart.” During a patient's two week follow-up appointment with his cardiologist, he informed his doctor that he was having trouble with one of his medication. “Which one?”, asked the doctor. “The patch. The nurse told me to put on a new one every six hours and now I'm running out of places to put it!”. The doctor had him undress and discovered what he hoped he wouldn't see…the man had over fifty patches on his body. Now the instructions include removal of the old patch before applying a new one. And you always wondered why instructions always seemed to state the obvious! While acquainting myself with a new elderly patient, I asked, “How long have you been bedridden?” After a look of complete confusions she answered, “Why, not for about twenty years, when my husband was alive.” I was caring for a woman from Kentucky and asked, “So how's your breakfast this morning?” “It's very good, except for that Kentucky Jelly. I can't seem to get used to the taste, the patient replied. I then asked to see the jelly and the woman produced a foil packet labeled “KY Jelly.” A lady walked into a pharmacy and spoke to the pharmacist. She asked, “Co you have Viagra?” “Yes,” he answered. She asked “Does it work?” “Yes”, he answered. “Can you get it over the counter?”, she inquired “I can if I take two,” he answered.
DUMB QUESTIONS from Brain Candy Why is it that when you're driving and looking for an address, you turn down the volume on the radio? Why do we put shirts in a suitcase, and put suits in a garment bad? You know that little indestructible black box that is used onplanes? Why cant they make the whole plane out of the same substance? You can't have everything. Where would you put it? Why was Evelyn Wood in such a hurry? Why isn't there a mouse-flavored cat food? Why isn't phonetic spelled the way it sounds? Why is the word dictionary in the dictionary? Why is the alphabet in that order? Is it because of that song?
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