moriarty@fluke.UUCP (The Napoleon of Crime) (07/10/85)
Well, as you've no doubt read elsewhere, I've bowed to popular demand and
decided to take 10 of my best signoff quotes and have a contest to see who
can guess the sources of the quotes. The 10 quotes are at the bottom of
this article; the rules follow hence. The fantastic prizes follow the rules.
RULES
-----
#1) All responses must be MAILED to me. Posted responses will be ignored
and not counted.
#2) Responses must reach me by July 31st, 1985. My mailing list is at the
bottom. Winners will be announced (posted) by August 5th, and the
prizes will be mailed.
#3) Try to make your responses as accurate as possible; however, if your
guess as to a quote's source is close, I'll probably count it as accurate.
#4) In case of a tie, tie-breaker questions will be mailed to the runners-up
until the tie is broken or one of them kills the other.
#5) Please include the text of the quote with each source you provide. If
I can't figure out which quote you were referring to, I won't give you
credit for it.
#6) This should be obvious, but -- only ONE guess per quote. If you give
multiple guesses, your answers for that question, right or wrong, will
be ignored.
------
PRIZES
------
Well, there's only one way to describe the prizes available in this Contest
of Contests: cheap but wonderful. Inspirational but inexpensive. Something
I can bang out in 5 minutes on my Mac. That sort of thing.
FIRST PRIZE: A *personalized* letter, sent by *US MAIL*, to your address!
A sheet of GOOD QUALITY paper, with the *OFFICIAL* Moriarty "Napoleon of
Crime" Logo at the top! And, as your family breathlessly looks on, a *NEW
QUOTE*! Never-before-use (by me), with the source provided, for your own
*PERSONAL* use! It comes with standard equipment, surrounded by quotation
marks, and even in an interesting font! Wow! You better tell your family
to start breathing!
RUNNER-UP PRIZE(S): For the person (people) whose score was the
second-best, a letter will be mailed to you (same stationary, same logo)
describing what you screwed up on, how badly you lost, and subtley hint at
what a worthless human being you are for losing. Something to pin on the
wall.
Both prizes are signed by me, but in a different way than I sign my checks
and VISA receipts, so you can't pull anything funny.
Well, here are the quotes. Good luck, and remember, if you don't enter, you
can't be Ed MacMahon...
Moriarty, aka Jeff Meyer
John Fluke Mfg. Co., Inc.
{princeton,ulysses}!allegra -\
{decwrl,qubix}!sun -\
{akgua,gatech,harpo,purdue,uf-crgl}!sb1 -\
{cornell,decvax,ihnp4,sdcsvax,tektronix,utcsri}!uw-beaver -- !fluke!moriarty
{hplabs,megatest,nbires}!lbl-csam -/
{microsoft,ssc-vax,telmatic,tikal,uw-vlsi} -/
ARPA:
fluke!moriarty@uw-beaver.ARPA
------ QUOTES -------------
----
"You are still dead, then?"
"Oh yeah, hey, totally."
----
"I have no talents. I have genius or nothing. But all genius is
distorted, even my own."
----
"You can't go in there!"
"Yes I can. This is America. I can go anywhere I want to."
----
"There they are! Dirty Towel-Heads! HEEEEEEY-OOOOH!"
"What are you doing? We're on your side! We're with the U.N.!"
"You-Win, huh? I'll show you what we think of you One-Worlders! Eat
Lead, Bedouin Thugs!"
----
"Honey, this is GREAT coffee."
----
"He even looks like God... except his hands are in his pockets."
"They should be, he's got four dead Presidents in 'em."
----
"Take that, you hostile sons-of-bitches!"
----
"DANGER is my BUSINESS"
----
"Do what you want with the girl, but leave me alone!!"
----
"Silver bullets MY ASS!"
----moriarty@fluke.UUCP (The Napoleon of Crime) (07/13/85)
[Excuse me, please, if you've seen this already -- had a problem with the
initial posting, and had to repost it...]
Well, as you've no doubt read elsewhere, I've bowed to popular demand and
decided to take 10 of my best signoff quotes and have a contest to see who
can guess the sources of the quotes. The 10 quotes are at the bottom of
this article; the rules follow hence. The fantastic prizes follow the rules.
RULES
-----
#1) All responses must be MAILED to me. Posted responses will be ignored
and not counted.
#2) Responses must reach me by July 31st, 1985. My mailing list is at the
bottom. Winners will be announced (posted) by August 5th, and the
prizes will be mailed.
#3) Try to make your responses as accurate as possible; however, if your
guess as to a quote's source is close, I'll probably count it as accurate.
#4) In case of a tie, tie-breaker questions will be mailed to the runners-up
until the tie is broken or one of them kills the other.
#5) Please include the text of the quote with each source you provide. If
I can't figure out which quote you were referring to, I won't give you
credit for it.
#6) This should be obvious, but -- only ONE guess per quote. If you give
multiple guesses, your answers for that question, right or wrong, will
be ignored.
------
PRIZES
------
Well, there's only one way to describe the prizes available in this Contest
of Contests: cheap but wonderful. Inspirational but inexpensive. Something
I can bang out in 5 minutes on my Mac. That sort of thing.
FIRST PRIZE: A *personalized* letter, sent by *US MAIL*, to your address!
A sheet of GOOD QUALITY paper, with the *OFFICIAL* Moriarty "Napoleon of
Crime" Logo at the top! And, as your family breathlessly looks on, a *NEW
QUOTE*! Never-before-use (by me), with the source provided, for your own
*PERSONAL* use! It comes with standard equipment, surrounded by quotation
marks, and even in an interesting font! Wow! You better tell your family
to start breathing!
RUNNER-UP PRIZE(S): For the person (people) whose score was the
second-best, a letter will be mailed to you (same stationary, same logo)
describing what you screwed up on, how badly you lost, and subtley hint at
what a worthless human being you are for losing. Something to pin on the
wall.
Both prizes are signed by me, but in a different way than I sign my checks
and VISA receipts, so you can't pull anything funny.
Well, here are the quotes. Good luck, and remember, if you don't enter, you
can't be Ed MacMahon...
Moriarty, aka Jeff Meyer
John Fluke Mfg. Co., Inc.
{princeton,ulysses}!allegra -\
{decwrl,qubix}!sun -\
{akgua,gatech,harpo,purdue,uf-crgl}!sb1 -\
{cornell,decvax,ihnp4,sdcsvax,tektronix,utcsri}!uw-beaver -- !fluke!moriarty
{hplabs,megatest,nbires}!lbl-csam -/
{microsoft,ssc-vax,telmatic,tikal,uw-vlsi} -/
ARPA:
fluke!moriarty@uw-beaver.ARPA
------ QUOTES -------------
----
"You are still dead, then?"
"Oh yeah, hey, totally."
----
"I have no talents. I have genius or nothing. But all genius is
distorted, even my own."
----
"You can't go in there!"
"Yes I can. This is America. I can go anywhere I want to."
----
"There they are! Dirty Towel-Heads! HEEEEEEY-OOOOH!"
"What are you doing? We're on your side! We're with the U.N.!"
"You-Win, huh? I'll show you what we think of you One-Worlders! Eat
Lead, Bedouin Thugs!"
----
"Honey, this is GREAT coffee."
----
"He even looks like God... except his hands are in his pockets."
"They should be, he's got four dead Presidents in 'em."
----
"Take that, you hostile sons-of-bitches!"
----
"DANGER is my BUSINESS"
----
"Do what you want with the girl, but leave me alone!!"
----
"Silver bullets MY ASS!"
----