prarie@wobegon.UUCP (04/01/85)
I'm new to the net. What is this group for? -- Garrison
nm34@sdcc12.UUCP (nm34) (04/09/85)
> I'm new to the net. What is this group for? > > -- Garrison I may be way off here, but I think we have been had. I dont know what moscvax is, but kgbcyber and nsacray3 seem to be made up. So iI expect wobegon!prarie are also figments of someones imagination and not that of G.K. - Andy Bindman
jhs@druri.UUCP (ShoreJ) (04/10/85)
{ This is a late response--I haven't had a chance to read all post-April 1
[Il Giorno dei Pesci] entries yet. If anybody else has already responded
in this area, "never mind!" [said in my best Emily Littela voice :-)]. If
I have guessed wrong, then at least my track record is consistent! }
Dear Andy, I think it's a really low probability that
"Garrison" actually posted that article (...but if you did, G.,
shrug off that shy person's veneer and tell us a story...).
If he did, then the listed nodes are screamingly funny and
[still] implausibly coincidental, *especially* with the given
juxtaposition:
>From allegra!ulysses!mhuxr!ihnp4!moscvax!kgbcyber!nsacray3!stonehenge!wobegon
>!prarie ....
> -- Garrison
moscvax - Moscow Vax
kgbcyber - KGB Cyber
nsacray3 - National Security Agency (U.S.) Cray 3
[good taste in computers, wot?]
stonehenge - Stonehenge; if it ain't a node, it oughta be since it
explains the rather mystical operation of UNIX
You might also note the posting date:
>From drutx!ihnp4!mhuxn!mhuxr!ulysses!allegra!alice!jj
>Path: druri!drutx!ihnp4!mhuxn!mhuxr!ulysses!allegra!alice!jj
>Posted: Mon Apr 1 13:50:45 1985
Say, "(allegra,harpo,ulysses)!alice!jj", old buddy, by any chance are you
related to either Sidd Finch or George Plimpton? :-)
-- Jeff Shore at AT&T, Denver ("Where worlds collide..."binder@dosadi.DEC (Wherever you go, there you are.) (04/11/85)
>> I'm new to the net. What is this group for? >> >> -- Garrison > I may be way off here, but I think we have been had. I dont know > what moscvax is, but kgbcyber and nsacray3 seem to be made up. So iI > expect wobegon!prarie are also figments of someones imagination and not > that of G.K. > > - Andy Bindman Of course we (or at least some of us) have been had. It was a foregone conclusion, considering the date of that particular posting. Last year on the same date, there was a greeting posted to net.micro, with a return pathname that included ...moscvax!kremvax!chernenko On the other hand, now that Keillor and Cargill have purchased CBS, there are definitely the resources in place to install one or more VAXen in Lake Wobegon... Cheers, Dick Binder (The Stainless Steel Rat) UUCP: { decvax, allegra, ucbvax... }!decwrl!dec-rhea!dec-dosadi!binder ARPA: binder%dosadi.DEC@decwrl.ARPA Thu 11-Apr-1985 09:08 Eastern Standard Time
jj@alice.UUCP (04/11/85)
Well, folks, take a look at the original article. It was uux'ed (I assume) by someone into ihnp4, in a route that I don't even have access via. Yeah, my reply was ALSO posted 4/1, because I'm on top of things around Wobegon. Tsk, tsk. ??George Plimpton?? Are you one something impure? -- TEDDY BEARS NEED SECURITY BLANKETS, WRAP YOURS TODAY! "I think I'm going to regret this!" ihnp4!icarus!jj