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SL-IRC LOGO STUFF SHAMELESS PLUG
StarLink-IRC has made some logo items (mugs, t-shirts,
sweatshirts, hats) available through cafepress.com at http://www.cafepress.com/slirc
Cafepress handles all sales, production, shipping, and warranty. StarLink-IRC
gets no money from sales of these items. (All prices and shipping costs
are set by cafepress without any additions by StarLink-IRC)
General
Information
Logo Stuffs: SL-IRC logo
items (non-profit) www.cafepress.com/slirc
Security: TriStar
and security: 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
Why We (SL-IRC) Are Here:
A #Townhall Special
Presentation
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
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informed evaluation and decision prior to running any new software.
LETTERS
TO THE EDITOR
Comments? Remarks? Send
them to Lois and if they're nice, she might put them here.
Nothing this month.
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THIS MONTH'S CELEBRATIONS
- Let's party!
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by lois
June
- 20 Ugly Truck Day
- 21 Ice Cream Cone Day
- 26 Aunt and Uncle Day
- 27 Take Plants for a Walk Day *
- 28 Sys Admins Day
- 29 NASA’s Anniversary
- 30 Father-in-Law Day
August
- 2 tricia^’s birthday (#50&fantastic)
- 4 Full Moon Day
- 4 U. S. Coast Guard Day
- 5 Sisters’ Day (Take your sister to lunch)
- 8 Senior Citizens’ Day
- 8 Sneak a Zucchini Night (Sneak your extensive crop
of zuccinis to a neighbor’s porch after dark)
- 9 Truck Drivers’ Day
- 12 Left Handers’ Day (take tortuga to lunch)
- 12 Poledra’s anniversary (#50&fantastic)
- 20 Bernie’s birthday (#50&fantastic)
- 20 Stormy’s birthday (#50&fantastic)
Please send your
channel's birthdays and anniversaries for our Celebrations Column! And
tell us which channels you are on!
July 23 - August 22 - Leo
The Lion
- Symbol: Lion
- Gemstone:
- Flowers:
- Lucky Day:
- Lucky Color:
- Lucky Numbers:
- Ruling Planet: Sun
- Element: Fire
Seeking the ultimate birthday gift for a Leo? Wrap up
fame or tie a bow around the spotlight, and you’re set! Since fame’s not
really for sale, this Fire Sign will accept a big boisterous surprise party
at which they get to be the absolutecenter of attention. Leo may be grand,
but this sign is actually easy to please…as long as all eyes are on them!
Leos are generous, loyal, lively.
Famous Leos: Woody Harrelson, Monica Lewinsky, Dorothy
Hamill, Mick Jagger, Arnold Schwartzenegger, Yves Saint Laurent, Steve
Martin,Martin Sheen, Martha Stewart, Magic Johnson, Madonna, Sean Penn,
Roert Redford, Bill Clinton, Isaac Hayes, Kenny Rogers.
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AMAZING AND LESSER THINGS!
by Amazing
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For those who missed the #Townhall meeting on Thursday July
11th the topic was 'Why we are here'.
There is a text version as well as an html version posted on the webpage
at http://www.starlink-irc.org/index.docs.html
Only In America:
1. Can a pizza get to your house faster than an ambulance.
2. The drug stores make the sick people walk all the
way to the back of the store to get their prescriptions while healthy people
can buy cigarettes at the front.
3. Banks leave both doors open and then chain the pens
to the counters.
4. We leave cars worth thousands of dollars in the driveway
and put our useless junk in the garage.
5. We use answering machines to screen calls and then
have call waiting so we won't miss a call from someone we didn't want to
talk to in the first place.
6. We use the word 'politics' to describe the process
so well: 'Poli' in Latin meaning 'many' and 'tics' meaning 'bloodsucking
creatures'.
Ever Wonder :
1. Why the sun lightens our hair but darkens our skin
2. Why women can't put on mascara with their mouth closed
3. Why don't you ever see the headline 'Psychic wins
the lottery'
4. Why is it that doctors call what they do 'practice'
5. Why is the person who invests all your money called
a 'broker'
6. When dogfood is new and improved tasting, who tests
it
7. Why didn't Noah swat those two mosquitoes
8. Why is the time of day with the slowest traffic called
rush hour
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
#OldRadio
#Oldradio meetings are held Thursdays, 5 PM Eastern,
for all those interested in OTR Chat about the shows of the golden years
of radio.
From Those Were The Days -- September 1948 -- Our Miss
Brooks, starring Eve Arden and Gale Gordon, debuted on CBS this day. Arden
played the role of Connie Brooks. The program stayed on radio until 1957,
running simultaneously on TV from 1952 to 1956.
Joe
Mackey's Home Page
#Recovery
Our room is growing! Soon we will be applying with #townhall
for a builders permit to expand the current #recovery room. New people
have been arriving daily and it is wonderful. We are a 12-step recovery
room for Alcoholics and Narcotics Anonymous, and other substance abuse
support. We are not professionals nor do we make referrals. We are here
to listen and give support as a family based support group that understands
and cares. We understand because we are drunks and addicts ourselves, and
some of us are members of Alanon too. We always recommend real life meetings
whenever possible, but an online meeting is the next best thing. So if
you or someone you care about may have a drinking or drug addiction problem
tell them about our room, and as in AA what is said in our room stays in
our room, anonymity is always a must. We have added many new meeting times
to our room, with previous meetings at 9pm on Thursday nights EST we now
try to have meetings every day at 9am and 9pm EST and we are getting
people there! There is even an Alanon meeting on Friday at 8pm EST
all other time periods are available for open chat. Plus we have hot coffee
and tea and donuts too. Recovery doesn’t mean we don’t have fun, because
boy we do. There is a trampoline in the back corner of the room and I have
seen many a chatters work on their routines on the trampolines and some
of them are even getting quite good too I might add. We even joke and laugh
you would be surprised but then again maybe you wouldn’t… We
are part of this wonderful place on Starlink-IRC, and every town has its
AA/NA meeting place we are your AA/NA meeting place, please feel
free to attend a meeting if you or a loved one needs to.
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#ChristianSoldiersOnline
and #LEFTBEHIND: Many people, in lieu of
recent events, have found themselves asking, why? Why is all of this happening?
Rising from the rubble of disaster, religions and philosophers
have attempted to make reason out of what seemed to be the unreasonable.
All promising to have the answers to the undying questions of billions
across the globe. Who is right? Who is wrong? Or can even that question
be answered? Many times at the top of the New York Times best seller lists,
the Left Behind series creates a scenario that should be truely intriguing
to the watcher of the news lately. Events discussed early in this fiction
series have been unfolding right before the eyes of world. But it's just
fiction, right? Grab your copy of Left Behind or any of the proceding novels
and come discuss them with others at #leftbehind
But what if it isn't just fiction? Time magazine dedicated
an entire issue just two weeks ago about the events we are seeing before
us right now. The msytical end-of-the-world scenario that seemed so far
beyond realism just a few years ago is quickly becoming freightingly believeable.
People are finding themselves searching for truth in a world that doesn't
have truth to give.
Written on the infamous tower of the University of Texas
in Austin are these words "You will know the truth and the truth will
set you free." Many know these words by heart yet few know the man
who said them.
How many are searching for that truth today, looking
for the freedom that they seek? If you want that freedom or are just looking
for answers, or maybe you just don't understand what the cross was really
about, come visit us at #christiansoldiersonline and we will help you find
those answers.
If you are hurting or are scared or lonely, or maybe
you just want to talk, #christiansoldiersonline is here for you as well.
Or maybe you are rejoicing, come share your joy with us and others. We
are here for you.
gracie77 from #christiansoldiersonline and #leftbehind.
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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
Contributed by Amazing
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FOGWEB FOLLIES
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A short column of made-up facts and
non-information brought to you by your friendly neighborhood arachnid
Well here we are in the middle of blekky summer and theres not a lot
of follie-ish stuff going on.. if you dont count the stock market. Todays
advice for investors: put your money in the produce market, at least you
can eat it if it tanks.
On the medical front, wildchild has been out harassing ER help at hospitals
throughout the world. This is obviously a follow up to the Amazing style
of public servant abuse ... now if they would just pick on lawyers....
Speaking of picking on people.. there is a NEWish person LindyM who
comes into your channel and makes popcorn and then goes and watches TV
and doesnt share the popcorn. Even a little. Just thought you should know.
(Rumor has it this person likes canadians too .. so no telling what could
be next!
til next month ...
AND BUY A MUG OR SHIRT at www.cafepress.com/slirc
All profits go to .. hey, wait.. they go to cafepress.
We dont't get a dime! Who set THIS deal up??? Oh. Wait. That was me. n/m
^H^H^H^H^H^
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NEW CHANNELS
New Stars Linked by Treecat ..
A warm welcome to this month's
new channels and their owners.
If you have a chance, do stop in and give these
folks a friendly Hi!
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- #40sPlayYard - buggy309
- #music-blues - funkdaman
- #CybertownArcade - Skylark7k
- #kidsnetgames - cataclysm
- #Arrows_40^s+Hideaway - Arrow
- #uss-aurora - stormwulf
- #spirituallyspeaking - MR_AL
- #50+ - wink`
- #Valinor - WargWolf
- #birdzone - Pooh26
- #SpiritTalk - TF88
- #terriclemens - clems37
New Channel Owners:
Send information on your channel to the newsletter for publication in the
next issue.
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TRAVEL
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Places to go on the net
UNUSUAL DRINKS
http://www.ifsandsbutts.com/
Have
you been longing for a coke in its Original Heavy Glass Bottle? A shop
called Ifs, Ands and Buts in Texas has over 130 of the best gourmet, nostalgic,
imported and unusual non-alcoholic soft drinks in glass bottles. There
are 11 different colas, Dr. Pepper, Crème sodas, fruit flavors,
waters, old classics (such as A&W Root Beer, Big Red, Moxie Original
Cola Elixir). Or you may wish to try something like Bawls Guaranda or Rat
Bastard Root Beer ! The original bottles are scarce.
WINDOWS VOLVO
http://msnbc.com/news/781431.asp
Contributed
by alien, IRC op, #rebels, #friends4life Read
about the new James Bond-type Volvo -It sounds pretty cool, too, until
You get to the part that mentions it runs Windows 98 as its operating system.
Yikes! Be sure to reboot your car frequently to avoid crashes.
Nothing new
this issue
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THE MEETING ROOM
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by Amazing
All Times Eastern North America
Regular
Network Event Schedule
Note: All times are Eastern US
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#TownHall
#MoonShadow
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Fans
of Old Time Radio
Net-Wide
User Meeting **
Trivia!
Every thursday
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#Islander
#Just4Fun
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Live
Trivia!
Now
and then. Outburst Game! Fun for All
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Other Random but Fun Events: #WTGO (All sorts of stuffs) #Just4Fun
(OUTBURST); #Sunshine_Again ( MADGABS)
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RESERVE TOWNHALL FOR YOUR MEETING!
#Townhall can be reserved for parties or meetings.
Send an email to slirc-register@starlink-irc.org
if you are interested in reserving the channel for an event. An email will
be sent back, confirming the reservation. Put #townhall in the SUBJECT
of the mail, and date, time and reason in the BODY.
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Yet Another Unpaid Advertisement!.
there has to be some way to make a buck here
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IN MEMORIAM
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Those who have moved on
Hubb
Memorial Page
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Hubb
of
#Family_Channel
1957
- 2002
with
deepest sympathies to Dobber
for
the loss of her brother
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Sympathies
from StarLink-IRC
to
applekid of #applekid and #mirc_rainbow
on
the passing of his dad.
Our
thoughts and prayers go out to him and his family at this time
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Amazing reminds us that there may be other folks hurting,
so take the time to think of them.
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THE LIBRARY
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contributed poems, humor, and stories
Doctor's Chart Notes From Hell
Contributed by donna518 of #50&fantastic ~~~~~~
Number of physicians in the US: 700,000. Accidental deaths caused by
physicians per year: 120,000 (AMA). Accidental deaths per physician: 0.171
(U.S. Dept. of Health Human Services)
Number of gun owners in the US: 80,000,000. Number of accidental gun
deaths per year (all age groups): 1,500. Accidental deaths per gun owner:
0.0000188
Statistically, doctors are approximately 9,000 times more dangerous
than gun owners.
"FACT: Not everyone has a gun, but everyone has at least one Doctor."
Please alert your friends to this alarming threat. We must ban doctors
before this gets out of hand.
As a Public Health Measure, I have withheld the statistic on Lawyers
for fear that the shock could cause people to seek medical aid.
North Dakota Phone Company
(Contributed by Itsy’s Dad) There was a North Dakota phone company that was going to hire one team
of telephone pole installers, and the boss had to choose between a team
of two Swedish guys and a team of two Irish guys. So the boss met with
both teams and said: "Here's what we'll do. Each team will be installing
poles out on the new road for a day.
The team that installs the most phone poles gets the job. Both teams
headed right out. At end of the shift, Pat and Mike, the Irish guys, came
back and the boss asked them how many they had installed. They said that
it was tough going, but they'd put in twelve. Forty-five minutes later,
Ole and Sven, the Swedish guys came back in and they were totally exhausted.
The boss asked, "Well, how many poles did you guys install?"
Ole, the team leader wiped his brow and sighed, "Sven and me, we got
three in."
The boss gasped, "Three? Those two Irish guys put in twelve!"
"Yeah," said Ole, "but you should see how much they left
stickin' out of the ground!"
Truly one of the All-Time best quotes
(Contributed by Wee Willie and by
donna518) In a recent interview, General Norman Schwartzkopf was asked if he thought
there was room for forgiveness toward the people who have harbored and
abetted the terrorists who perpetrated the Sep 11th attacks on America.
His answer was classic Schwartzkopf. He said, "I believe that forgiving
them is God's function. Our job is simply to arrange the meeting."
Pregnant Blonde
(Contributed by Clyde and Tish)
INNER STRENGTH
Contributed by kinseyfan of #oldradio
- If you can start the day without caffeine,
- If you can be cheerful, ignoring aches and pains,
- If you can resist complaining and boring people with your troubles,
- If you can eat the same food everyday and be grateful for it,
- If you can understand when loved ones are too busy to give you time,
- If you can overlook when people take things out on you,
- If you can take criticism and blame without resentment,
- If you can face the world without lies and deceit,
- If you can conquer tension without medical help,
- If you can Relax without liquor,
- If you can sleep soundly every night,
THEN . . . . . . . YOU ARE PROBABLY THE FAMILY DOG
STATE CHUCKLES
(Contributed by taurusgal of #classics)
- Alabama: Hell Yeah, We Have Electricity!
- Alaska: 11,623 Eskimos Can't Be Wrong!
- Arizona: But It's A Dry Heat...
- Arkansas: Litracy Ain't Everthang.
- California: By 30, Our Women Have More Plastic Than Your
Honda.
- Colorado: If You Don't Ski, Don't Bother.
- Connecticut: Like Massachusetts, Only The Kennedys Don't
Own It (Yet).
- Delaware: We Really Do Like The Chemicals In Our Water!
- Florida: Ask Us About Our Grandkids.
- Georgia: We Put The "Fun" In Fundamentalist
Extremism.
- Hawaii: Haka Tiki Mou Sha'ami Leeki Toru (Death To Mainland
Scum, But Leave Your Money).
- Idaho: More Than Just Potatoes...Well Okay, We're Not,
But The Potatoes Sure Are Real Good.
- Illinois: Please Don't Pronounce the "S".
- Indiana: 50 Million Years Tidal Wave Free.
- Iowa: We Do Amazing Things With Corn.
- Kansas: First Of The Rectangle States.
- Kentucky: Five Million People; Fifteen Last Names.
- Louisiana: We're Not ALL Drunk Cajun Wackos, But That's
Our Tourism Campaign.
- Maine: We're Really Cold, But We Have Cheap Lobster.
- Maryland: If You Can Dream It, We Can Tax It.
- Massachusetts: Our Taxes Are Lower Than The Canadians.
- Minnesota: 10,000 Lakes... And 10,000,000,000,000 Mosquitoes.
- Mississippi: Come And Feel Better About Your Own State.
- Missouri: Your Federal Flood Relief Tax Dollars At Work.
- Montana: Land Of The Big Sky, The Unabomber, Right-wing
Crazies, And Very Little Else.
- Nebraska: Ask About Our State Motto Contest.
- Nevada: Hookers and Poker! New Hampshire: Go Away And
Leave Us Alone.
- New Jersey: You Want A ##$%##! Motto? I Got Yer ##$%##!
Motto Right Here!
- New Mexico: Lizards And Scorpions Really Do Make Excellent
Pets.
- New York: You Have The Right To Remain Silent, You Have
The Right To An Attorney ...
- North Carolina: Tobacco Is A Vegetable.
- North Dakota: The Other Dakota.
- Ohio: At Least We're Not Michigan.
- Oklahoma: Like The Play, Only Without The Good Music.
- Oregon: Spotted Owl... It's What's For Dinner.
- Pennsylvania: Cook With Coal.
- Rhode Island: We're Not REALLY An Island.
- South Carolina: Remember The Civil War? We Didn't Actually
Surrender.
- South Dakota: Closer Than North Dakota.
- Tennessee: The Edyucashun State.
- Texas: Sí, Yo Hablo Inglés. Utah: Our Jesus
Is Better Than Your Jesus.
- Vermont: Yep.
- Virginia: Who Says Government Stiffs And Slack-jaw Yokels
Don't Mix?
- Washington: Help! We're Overrun By Nerds And Slackers!
- Washington, D.C.: Wanna Be Mayor?
- West Virginia: One Big Happy Family... Really!
- Wisconsin: Come Cut The Cheese.
- Wyoming: Where Men Are Men ... and the sheep are scared
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WWW (WAY WITH WORDS)
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by Scorp
Friendship
Today the kids washed the dog with cooking oil, decorated the car with
crayons and gave out free haircuts.
Remind you of anyone?
I just wanted to let you know I was thinking about you.
Have you tried to find 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
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Lois
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