Re: hello all! :)
Mattis Fishman (mattis@argos.argoscomp.com)
Mon, 11 Jan 1999 17:04:50 -0500 (EST)
Scene 1
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(setting: somewhat geeky bearded figure sitting at a keyboard. the screen
shows row after row of:
$ mail
no mail for mattis
$ mail
no mail for mattis
etc. - obviously a Unix based system
around the keyboard are 6 months worth of precariously piled up documents
and tattered legal pads, several empty coffee cups and a broken rubber band.
what appear to be cobwebs lightly connect the monitor to the desk and the
red eyed occupant of the chair at the keyboard, we'll call him M. M has a
habit of talking to himself so although the only character to appear in the
following dialog is named M, you can imagine the interplay)
M: I really should start on those web pages the customer wants already, but
hey, it's 4:30, practically quitting time.
M: What a day, I tell you, what'd we have this morning maybe seven messages
on the bananafish list? That's on a Monday morning, too.
M: Yeah, the account of that wild party in Ireland certainly was
fun to read - but after that, nada.
M: Maybe everyone spent the day wondering about "Helena's proposed
trip to Boston to Jim's glass eye". Maybe while she's there she'll find
the man with the wooden leg named Smith.
M: Either that or they are flabbergasted by the thought of "Genghis
snakeskin Texas kickers". By the way, is it true that the Celtics had been
contemplating using a certain spry female septuaginarian as a center
had they been forced to go with replacement players?
M: I thought she already was with the Celtics.
Let's try one more time...
[screen shot:
$ mail
N 1 jrovira@juno.com Mon Jan 11 16:23 45/1979 "Re: hello all! :)"
Whoa! what's this?
M: Looks like some action at last!
^G^G message from mattis@argoscom.com ^G^G
--- it is time to leave, please log off ---
M: Well, have to go. Thanks Jim.