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17 Aug 99 - 12:02 PM (#105840) Subject: This is the end From: Margo Who would've thunk it? http://www.opaldata.com/the_end/index.html |
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17 Aug 99 - 12:04 PM (#105845) Subject: RE: This is the end From: Margo Sorry, try again. |
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17 Aug 99 - 12:05 PM (#105849) Subject: RE: This is the end From: Bert THAT may be the end but THIS is a song that never ends it just goes on and on my friend.......... |
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17 Aug 99 - 02:17 PM (#105891) Subject: RE: This is the end From: Lonesome EJ Now I need to change the brake pads on my modem. |
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17 Aug 99 - 02:37 PM (#105905) Subject: RE: This is the end From: Charlie Baum Ill buy Nunavit! --Charlie Baum |
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17 Aug 99 - 05:31 PM (#105964) Subject: RE: This is the end From: danl very bizarre. how on earth did you find it? |
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17 Aug 99 - 07:42 PM (#105996) Subject: RE: This is the end From: Margo Ivy, my husband emailed it to me. Can you beat that? Marg |
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17 Aug 99 - 07:50 PM (#105999) Subject: RE: This is the end From: bseed(charleskratz) Help! My back button won't work and I'm stuck there! --seed |
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18 Aug 99 - 01:23 AM (#106077) Subject: RE: This is the end From: Margo Don't worry Seed, we'll send someone over to keep you company. Who would you like to be stranded with? |
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18 Aug 99 - 02:24 AM (#106082) Subject: RE: This is the end From: bseed(charleskratz) Margie, my chances of survival would be infinitesimal if I were to answer that truthfully--and my wife were to find this. --seedwhohopeswhoeveryousendplaysguitarandcansingharmony |
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18 Aug 99 - 02:28 AM (#106083) Subject: RE: This is the end From: Helen I have a tattered photocopy of a comic I found about 20 years ago (at least)in a counter culture comic book belonging to a friend of mine. I'll try to keep the explanation brief. A crack space pilot is revving his engines (or whatever space pilots do) ready for takeoff from earth. He is going for the universe speed record. He flies off into the universe going faster & faster and finally he sees these signs posted up in mid-vacuum, (as opposed to mid-air) saying "Wrong Way", "Go Back" "You have reached the end of the universe" etc. But he can't stop because he is going incredibly fast. Next thing he burst through some sort of force field-y barrier and lands soemwhere. The last frame of the comic shows a very old man with a long white beard bending down in his lounge room to pick this tiny space-ship shaped object off the floor. "Another one", he says. "Oh well, I'll just put it up here on the mantlepiece with the others". And you can see a fish-tank thing up on a pedestal where the space ship came from. That's the answer to Life, The Universe, & Everything as far as I am concerned. We are just goldfish in God's living room. Helen |
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18 Aug 99 - 02:59 PM (#106260) Subject: RE: This is the end From: Peter T. Sounds like R. Crumb to me!! yours, Peter T. |
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18 Aug 99 - 03:14 PM (#106269) Subject: RE: This is the end From: Margo Seed, you must mean me, as I do both! (Singing better than guitar) The only trouble is that I'd have to be back to make dinner, Marg |
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18 Aug 99 - 03:41 PM (#106287) Subject: RE: This is the end From: Art Thieme SEED,
Did you ever return, (WHO WANTS TO ADD VERSES...) Art |
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18 Aug 99 - 05:33 PM (#106318) Subject: RE: This is the end From: Jeri Let me tell you the story of a man named Charley Who vanished without a trace He fired up his 'puter, got his modem workin' Went to cruise in cyberspace Charley clicked on a website and then on another Until he ran out of luck Went to Nunavit just for the funavit But his back button, it got stuck
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18 Aug 99 - 06:55 PM (#106331) Subject: RE: This is the end From: Bill D Just went to the 'end'...seed was NOT there ...as I expected! After all, he got BACK to post the note about being trapped with a non-working back button..can't fool us old-timers, boy...we see right thru these tricky fellows.. (but, funny thing...there seems to be a lot of possum droppings and old banjo strings at the 'end'...surely no one HERE would be going to the 'end' to dump illegally, would they?) |
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18 Aug 99 - 10:02 PM (#106372) Subject: RE: This is the end From: WyoWoman JEri--keep going! That's great! (I'm forwarding this web address to all my friends. This is hilarious!) ww |
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19 Aug 99 - 01:15 AM (#106414) Subject: RE: This is the end From: Teresa Oh, Wow--I go away from the 'cat for a little while, and lookie what happens! Douglas Adams meets E. Annie Proulx! I love it. If there's visual stuff, I'll have to get my sweetie to put his peepers on and 'splain it to me. Teresa |
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19 Aug 99 - 08:04 PM (#106659) Subject: RE: This is the end From: Margo I've got a dandy for you but it is a photograph, and I haven't a webpage to put it on. I will send it to bbc when she gets back. Hold onto your socks, you might LYAO!! Margarita |
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20 Aug 99 - 03:42 AM (#106762) Subject: RE: This is the end From: Steve Parkes Escaping from the Universe - sometinmes it's a very appealing idea - shame it's not possible! There was a young fellow named Bright Who travelled faster than light. Hea went out one day In a relative way And returned the following night! Here's a mind-boggler for you ... if you tied a magic endless rope to the North Pole and started winding it it round and round on the ground (alright, the ice), you'd be on the outside of an increasingly wide circle of rope ... until one day, you'd be on the inside of an icreasingly smaller circle, surrounded by rope, until you ended up clinging to the South Pole. Now, stretch your imagination ... if you had a magic hod of bricks that was never empty, you could start bricking up the universe. You'd start up on the outside of the bricks, but end up bricking yourself up! (It would take a lot longer than the rope trick, though.) Steve P.S. You'd have to lay bricks faster than the universe is expanding for it to work, of course! Somebody ought to write a song about it ... |
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20 Aug 99 - 09:16 AM (#106812) Subject: RE: This is the end From: Den So if that's the end where's the begining? Den |
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20 Aug 99 - 09:42 AM (#106815) Subject: RE: This is the end From: Bert The beginning is at the other end. |
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20 Aug 99 - 10:16 AM (#106826) Subject: RE: This is the end From: Barbara Say, uh, Steve, I think it works this way: There was a young fellow named Bright Who travelled faster than light. He went out one day In a relative way And returned the previous night! |
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20 Aug 99 - 10:38 AM (#106837) Subject: RE: This is the end From: Steve Parkes In a perfect world, Barabra, it would have been the previous night! Unfortunately, since mass increases towards infinity as velocity approaches the speed of light, the force required to produce more acceleration also increases towards infinity, so the velocity of light can't be exceeded: thus no event can occur at a time not before its cause - QED. I hope this clears up any misunderstanding! I suppose now some smart-arse out there will come back with the Unified Field Theory and make me look stupid? Steve |
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20 Aug 99 - 10:47 AM (#106844) Subject: RE: This is the end From: Bert Steve, That is just what I was trying to say when I said "The beginning is at the other end." Bert. |
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20 Aug 99 - 01:27 PM (#106925) Subject: RE: This is the end From: Margo Sounds like you'd like the poems in "A Space Child's Mother Goose". Here's one:
Little Jack Horner sits in the corner, Unfortunately, I haven't the author's name handy. I'll have to look it up. Margs |