From: "B.D. Yager" Newsgroups: alt.out-of-body References: <19991228123559.01043.00001554@ng-ci1.aol.com> <386a1942.1335885@news.dial.pipex.com> Subject: The Astraldome..In Progress Lines: 300 X-Newsreader: Microsoft Outlook Express 4.72.2106.4 X-MimeOLE: Produced By Microsoft MimeOLE V4.72.2106.4 Message-ID: <%nJa4.3087$_n6.1082495@homer.alpha.net> Date: Thu, 30 Dec 1999 07:45:01 -0600 NNTP-Posting-Host: 156.46.129.27 X-Complaints-To: abuse@alpha.net X-Trace: homer.alpha.net 946561659 156.46.129.27 (Thu, 30 Dec 1999 07:47:39 CST) NNTP-Posting-Date: Thu, 30 Dec 1999 07:47:39 CST Path: chonsp.franklin.ch!pfaff.ethz.ch!news-zh.switch.ch!newsfeed-zh.ip-plus.net!news.ip-plus.net!news.datacomm.ch!newscore.gigabell.net!newsfeeds.belnet.be!news.belnet.be!newspump.monmouth.com!newspeer.monmouth.com!cpk-news-hub1.bbnplanet.com!cambridge1-snf1.gtei.net!news.gtei.net!homer.alpha.net!not-for-mail Good Morning, Julia..... I trust you're feeling better?.... Julia Hawkes-Moore wrote in message <386a1942.1335885@news.dial.pipex.com>... >On Wed, 29 Dec 1999 05:37:53 -0600, "B.D. Yager" >wrote: >>Why don't we mutually, as a group, mentally create our own "meeting Hall"??? >[Julia:] > This does sound like a good idea... > Thank you Julia,...I thought you'd like it! (Someone should be... making >>sure we're all on the same wavelength, and of course...to set up "trip >>times" and to be there at the doorway, ringing the "meeting bell" as it >>were. I nominate Julia as co-ordinator, if she'll accept. Anyone 2nd >>that?) > > Ouch, no, not being asked to chair yet another committee, I have to >turn these down all the time in real life, and this is my escape, >remember? > Now this is a democracy here, and a team, so I think it would be >better if we volunteer to take turns as host. Then each meeting will >have a different flavour, and be more appealing to 'taste'! As for me, >I'd be happy to take a turn, but it would have to be at a time when I >can get some peace; I have only been posting here a lot recently >because my husband has come home on holiday for a fortnight. >Once he goes back to work, I'll have much, much less time for my >'little hobby' as he calls it. I understand, Julia. But I would ask (on bended knee), for your "special talents" to cleanse, bless, and set up one of your own "guards" there? We should each do that, of course,...but I'm not so sure of my own ability to do so! I do, however, trust your own guardians! :) They shall be heavily armed, indeed! You go girl! :) But before we actually use the place.... how do your meditations feel about it? Note and Disclaimer to Group: (The following statements are to be taken "tongue in cheek" as it were. Two of me will be talking.... one of me you know quite well by now,....but the other is a bit sarcastic and, well...earthbound! Take to heart any bits you like....but please don't blame them all on me! He can be a bit of a jerk, ya know?...... {Julia} > On the other hand, as a failed fantasy architect, I'd like to >construct a stunning titanium 'Astraldome' for us all, with rainbows >bouncing down the welding on the framework Okay, let's get this Astraldome started,...I see the ground's been broken already! ~ Alright alright! What the Hell's with this titanium shit? Do you know how hard that is to get? Shut up and start welding those beams. ~ Welding? Do you know how much it costs for titanium welding rods!? Who's gonna fund this thing!? And just how the Hell do you expect me to weld these rainbows on here? Huh? You ever try striking an arc on a rainbow guy? {Julia} and the entrance lined >with four of Floating's plain white marble pillars. Hope you don't mind, Floating...but I can envision all of our names engraved into these pillars! They're huge pillars... and beautiful! Perhaps we should have each of our Akaishic records engraved on them, as well? Help me get these pillars in place....and get to engraving! ~ Engraving? ! What are you, nuts! How am I supposed to engrave all that shit on there?! Give me a break....it was bad enough getting the damned things propped up here in the first place! Just do it, okay? Use your diamond tipped astral toothpick! And don't read the records unless you're given permission! Close your eyes! {Julia} The whole ringed >with a shining mirror-smooth pool, set in a garden. Beautiful Julia, beautiful. ~'Spose there's any catfish in that there pool? What? ~Catfish,...I like fishin for Cats! Julia wouldn't have put them there, believe me. Too slimy. ~The Hell with that....I'm gonna stock it with Catfish, Bass, Crappies, Bluegills, Northern Pike, Bullheads,...and Snapping Turtles! And they're always gonna bite! Big ones! Sheesh. ~Let me get this straight.... there's this pool in a circle, surrounding the whole Astraldome, right? That's what she said, yup. ~Well how the Hell are we supposed to get in there, then?! Most of us will fly in. :) Some of us will just materialize there. ~Not very practical, is it now? I mean, I think there should be a bridge or something. You know, like a moat bridge. Well, maybe. But it shouldn't be a draw-bridge... we don't want to lock anybody out! Maybe just a nice curving wooden walkway with railings, where you can stop midway and watch the fish swimming through the crystal clear water. Yeah... ~Yeah! And we can watch the Snappers chompin up the little bluegills! And we can see right where to throw our fishin' hooks! And... Oh shut up. I'm glad you're not invited,... you'd spend the whole time out here fishing anyway, wouldn't you? ~Probably, yeah. So what's wrong with that! Somebody's gotta put fish on that table in there! And fried turtle. And Caviar. And.... Okay. You can come. But don't bother the guests, and bring the goodies around through the back door, okay? We don't want you smelling up the place... it's new 'ya know. {Julia} > Inside, a central circular slab-like granite hearth with a blazing >apple-wood log fire. The smoke rises to the space at the peak of the >dome with the stars visible above. ~Oh my God. What? ~I thought you said she was an architect. Yeah, so? ~Look,...I got nothin' against this nice circular fireplace in the center. But I think we're gonna have a problem. What? ~Where's the smoke gonna go? Well, up through that hole in the center of the roof, stupid! And then outside, I would presume! ~But you got a fire going in here, right? Yup. Nice one, too. ~But that pond out there ain't froze, or I'd be icefishing in it! And I hear tell there's gonna be a nice garden out there, huh? Yup. Beautiful one, too. ~So it's warm out there then, huh dummy! Ummm, yeah I suppose it is... ~Then how come we need a fire in here! What's the point? Because it's nice. It comes with the package, and we enjoy it. So just put the damned thing in! ~Look... let me 'splain it to ya Lucy... (sigh)... If it's warm outside, and it's warm inside, then you're not going to get any updraft! Any breeze at all out there, and you guys are gonna be chokin' on smoke! So, whatdya' want me to do, smartie? Just go with the floorplans, and quit being so damned sarcastic! Pull a Nike...just do it! I assure you, the smoke will be of the astral variety... it will go where we will it to. It'll be nice,...trust me. ~Sheesh. {Julia} Triangular windows in the structure >(think geodhesic) give glimpses into the lamplit garden. ~Now just a damned minute! What now? ~This thing is mostly glass! I can see the stars, and I can see the gardens! Look at all them huge geodhesic glass panes! So? ~Well who's gonna clean them? And look at all that smoke, smudgin' em up! That's your job. In between bites, that is. And after you're finished cleaning the fish. And of course you'll have to stay late...and clean up the place after our meetings... ~Figures. {Julia} A warm beech >plank floor, smooth, golden and glossy, strewn with glowing oriental >rugs. A ring of comfortable chairs around the fire. Oohhhh,... I like that! ~Me, too! {Julia} A long table laden >with everyone's favourite food and drink. ~Iiiiitttt'sss Party Time!!! And right at the end of one of the tables, I'm putting in a great big Frigidaire refrigerator! What? ~Yeah,...! And inside the 'fridge is a half-barrel of ice cold Miller beer, with a tap attached right on the outside of the fridge door! And a stack of plastic cups on top! Ice cold tap beer....ready and waiting anytime we want one! :) Hey, Haunter! Can I get you one? Let's get shit-faced and sit by the fire, swappin ghost stories! Grow up. ~Huh? Get a life. Please. ~Piss off! Want a cold one? Sure,...don't mind if I do! {Julia} Pots of vibrant flowers and >leafy plants.This would complete the Earth, Air, Water and Fire >combination of the Astraldome, plus metal, wood, stone and glass. >People could add their own art, sculpture, writings. > Lovely.... > Love from Julia. Hey,...this is nice! ~Yeah it is,...if I do say so myself. What? ~Well, I did most of the work! You think so, huh? ~Yes, I do! Then you can clean this mess up, here! And make sure you do a good job on them top windows! And what's THIS!!! ~What? This, here on one of Julia's favorite Oriental rugs!!! ~Oh,...that. Sorry. Haunter gave me one of those English "nudge-nudge, grin-grin, know what I mean's",....and I must have spilled a little beer. Well clean it up! ~Okay! And make sure you're done before Julia gets here! And,...what's this???!!! Alright, who threw up over in the corner? Oh, come on guys! Let's keep this place respectable, huh? And you!... ~Me? Yeah, you! Get to mopping!.......... B.D. Yager ###### From: hawksmoor@dial.pipex.com (Julia Hawkes-Moore) Newsgroups: alt.out-of-body Subject: Re: The Astraldome..In Progress Date: Thu, 30 Dec 1999 13:58:40 GMT Organization: UUNET WorldCom server (post doesn't reflect views of UUNET WorldCom Lines: 4 Message-ID: <386b64b1.11744447@news.dial.pipex.com> References: <19991228123559.01043.00001554@ng-ci1.aol.com> <386a1942.1335885@news.dial.pipex.com> <%nJa4.3087$_n6.1082495@homer.alpha.net> Reply-To: hawksmoor@dial.pipex.com NNTP-Posting-Host: usercp23.uk.uudial.com X-Trace: lure.pipex.net 946562451 7507 62.188.156.52 (30 Dec 1999 14:00:51 GMT) X-Complaints-To: abuse@uk.uu.net NNTP-Posting-Date: 30 Dec 1999 14:00:51 GMT X-Newsreader: Forte Free Agent 1.1/16.230 Path: chonsp.franklin.ch!pfaff.ethz.ch!news-zh.switch.ch!newsfeed-zh.ip-plus.net!news.ip-plus.net!News.Amsterdam.UnisourceCS!newspeer.te.net!news.indigo.ie!diablo.theplanet.net!newsfeed.wirehub.nl!tank.news.pipex.net!pipex!tube.news.pipex.net!pipex!not-for-mail On Thu, 30 Dec 1999 07:45:01 -0600, "B.D. Yager" wrote: Ha ha ha ha ha ha .... Love from Julia. ###### From: "Trish" Newsgroups: alt.out-of-body References: <19991228123559.01043.00001554@ng-ci1.aol.com> <386a1942.1335885@news.dial.pipex.com> <%nJa4.3087$_n6.1082495@homer.alpha.net> Subject: Re: The Astraldome..In Progress Lines: 322 X-Newsreader: Microsoft Outlook Express 4.71.1712.3 X-MimeOLE: Produced By Microsoft MimeOLE V4.72.2106.4 Message-ID: X-Trace: /bQfoR+9P+TYEgLN9ZaTunPyk+W9L7BlGdcEWBEowgsKPJ7aLOIVvp/2Y1qgdG+46OZzvf7L3aeX!m3Np2Vu4Wyop73Ju4wDQ70/cwFe8DXCcgZCU3LF843LhnasekJ6zRIL4usXMpc5kpzfEHvqcoCY= X-Complaints-To: abuse@gte.net X-Abuse-Info: Please be sure to forward a copy of ALL headers X-Abuse-Info: Otherwise we will be unable to process your complaint properly NNTP-Posting-Date: Fri, 31 Dec 1999 01:34:03 GMT Distribution: world Date: Fri, 31 Dec 1999 01:34:03 GMT Path: chonsp.franklin.ch!pfaff.ethz.ch!news-zh.switch.ch!news-ge.switch.ch!feed2.news.luth.se!luth.se!nntp.primenet.com!nntp.gctr.net!hermes.visi.com!news-out.visi.com!cam-news-hub1.bbnplanet.com!washdc3-snh1.gtei.net!news.gtei.net!dfiatx1-snr1.gtei.net.POSTED!not-for-mail Xref: chonsp.franklin.ch alt.out-of-body:29183 _That_ was a riot! haaaaaaaaaaaahahahahaaaaahahaha. : ) Trish B.D. Yager wrote in message >Good Morning, Julia..... I trust you're feeling better?.... > > > >Julia Hawkes-Moore wrote in message ><386a1942.1335885@news.dial.pipex.com>... >>On Wed, 29 Dec 1999 05:37:53 -0600, "B.D. Yager" >>wrote: >>>Why don't we mutually, as a group, mentally create our own "meeting >Hall"??? > > >>[Julia:] >> This does sound like a good idea... >> > > >Thank you Julia,...I thought you'd like it! > > >(Someone should be... making >>>sure we're all on the same wavelength, and of course...to set up "trip >>>times" and to be there at the doorway, ringing the "meeting bell" as it >>>were. I nominate Julia as co-ordinator, if she'll accept. Anyone 2nd >>>that?) >> >> Ouch, no, not being asked to chair yet another committee, I have to >>turn these down all the time in real life, and this is my escape, >>remember? >> Now this is a democracy here, and a team, so I think it would be >>better if we volunteer to take turns as host. Then each meeting will >>have a different flavour, and be more appealing to 'taste'! As for me, >>I'd be happy to take a turn, but it would have to be at a time when I >>can get some peace; I have only been posting here a lot recently >>because my husband has come home on holiday for a fortnight. >>Once he goes back to work, I'll have much, much less time for my >>'little hobby' as he calls it. > > >I understand, Julia. But I would ask (on bended knee), for your "special >talents" to cleanse, bless, and set up one of your own "guards" there? We >should each do that, of course,...but I'm not so sure of my own ability to >do so! I do, however, trust your own guardians! :) They shall be heavily >armed, indeed! You go girl! :) But before we actually use the place.... >how do your meditations feel about it? > > >Note and Disclaimer to Group: (The following statements are to be taken >"tongue in cheek" as it were. Two of me will be talking.... one of me you >know quite well by now,....but the other is a bit sarcastic and, >well...earthbound! Take to heart any bits you like....but please don't >blame them all on me! He can be a bit of a jerk, ya know?...... > > > >{Julia} >> On the other hand, as a failed fantasy architect, I'd like to >>construct a stunning titanium 'Astraldome' for us all, with rainbows >>bouncing down the welding on the framework > >Okay, let's get this Astraldome started,...I see the ground's been broken >already! > >~ Alright alright! What the Hell's with this titanium shit? Do you know >how hard that is to get? > >Shut up and start welding those beams. > >~ Welding? Do you know how much it costs for titanium welding rods!? Who's >gonna fund this thing!? And just how the Hell do you expect me to weld >these rainbows on here? Huh? You ever try striking an arc on a rainbow >guy? > > >{Julia} >and the entrance lined >>with four of Floating's plain white marble pillars. > > >Hope you don't mind, Floating...but I can envision all of our names engraved >into these pillars! They're huge pillars... and beautiful! Perhaps we >should have each of our Akaishic records engraved on them, as well? Help me >get these pillars in place....and get to engraving! > >~ Engraving? ! What are you, nuts! How am I supposed to engrave all that >shit on there?! Give me a break....it was bad enough getting the damned >things propped up here in the first place! > >Just do it, okay? Use your diamond tipped astral toothpick! And don't read >the records unless you're given permission! Close your eyes! > >{Julia} >The whole ringed >>with a shining mirror-smooth pool, set in a garden. > > >Beautiful Julia, beautiful. > >~'Spose there's any catfish in that there pool? > >What? > >~Catfish,...I like fishin for Cats! > >Julia wouldn't have put them there, believe me. Too slimy. > >~The Hell with that....I'm gonna stock it with Catfish, Bass, Crappies, >Bluegills, Northern Pike, Bullheads,...and Snapping Turtles! And they're >always gonna bite! Big ones! > >Sheesh. > >~Let me get this straight.... there's this pool in a circle, surrounding the >whole Astraldome, right? > >That's what she said, yup. > >~Well how the Hell are we supposed to get in there, then?! > >Most of us will fly in. :) Some of us will just materialize there. > >~Not very practical, is it now? I mean, I think there should be a bridge or >something. You know, like a moat bridge. > >Well, maybe. But it shouldn't be a draw-bridge... we don't want to lock >anybody out! Maybe just a nice curving wooden walkway with railings, where >you can stop midway and watch the fish swimming through the crystal clear >water. Yeah... > >~Yeah! And we can watch the Snappers chompin up the little bluegills! And >we can see right where to throw our fishin' hooks! And... > >Oh shut up. I'm glad you're not invited,... you'd spend the whole time out >here fishing anyway, wouldn't you? > >~Probably, yeah. So what's wrong with that! Somebody's gotta put fish on >that table in there! And fried turtle. And Caviar. And.... > >Okay. You can come. But don't bother the guests, and bring the goodies >around through the back door, okay? We don't want you smelling up the >place... it's new 'ya know. > >{Julia} >> Inside, a central circular slab-like granite hearth with a blazing >>apple-wood log fire. The smoke rises to the space at the peak of the >>dome with the stars visible above. > >~Oh my God. > >What? > >~I thought you said she was an architect. > >Yeah, so? > >~Look,...I got nothin' against this nice circular fireplace in the center. >But I think we're gonna have a problem. > >What? > >~Where's the smoke gonna go? > >Well, up through that hole in the center of the roof, stupid! And then >outside, I would presume! > >~But you got a fire going in here, right? > >Yup. Nice one, too. > >~But that pond out there ain't froze, or I'd be icefishing in it! And I >hear tell there's gonna be a nice garden out there, huh? > >Yup. Beautiful one, too. > >~So it's warm out there then, huh dummy! > >Ummm, yeah I suppose it is... > >~Then how come we need a fire in here! What's the point? > >Because it's nice. It comes with the package, and we enjoy it. So just put >the damned thing in! > >~Look... let me 'splain it to ya Lucy... (sigh)... If it's warm outside, >and it's warm inside, then you're not going to get any updraft! Any breeze >at all out there, and you guys are gonna be chokin' on smoke! So, whatdya' >want me to do, smartie? > >Just go with the floorplans, and quit being so damned sarcastic! Pull a >Nike...just do it! I assure you, the smoke will be of the astral variety... >it will go where we will it to. It'll be nice,...trust me. > >~Sheesh. > > >{Julia} >Triangular windows in the structure >>(think geodhesic) give glimpses into the lamplit garden. > >~Now just a damned minute! > >What now? > >~This thing is mostly glass! I can see the stars, and I can see the >gardens! Look at all them huge geodhesic glass panes! > >So? > >~Well who's gonna clean them? And look at all that smoke, smudgin' em up! > >That's your job. In between bites, that is. And after you're finished >cleaning the fish. And of course you'll have to stay late...and clean up >the place after our meetings... > >~Figures. > > >{Julia} >A warm beech >>plank floor, smooth, golden and glossy, strewn with glowing oriental >>rugs. A ring of comfortable chairs around the fire. > > >Oohhhh,... I like that! > >~Me, too! > > >{Julia} >A long table laden >>with everyone's favourite food and drink. > >~Iiiiitttt'sss Party Time!!! And right at the end of one of the tables, I'm >putting in a great big Frigidaire refrigerator! > >What? > >~Yeah,...! And inside the 'fridge is a half-barrel of ice cold Miller beer, >with a tap attached right on the outside of the fridge door! And a stack of >plastic cups on top! Ice cold tap beer....ready and waiting anytime we want >one! :) Hey, Haunter! Can I get you one? Let's get shit-faced and sit by >the fire, swappin ghost stories! > >Grow up. > >~Huh? > >Get a life. Please. > >~Piss off! Want a cold one? > >Sure,...don't mind if I do! > > >{Julia} > Pots of vibrant flowers and >>leafy plants.This would complete the Earth, Air, Water and Fire >>combination of the Astraldome, plus metal, wood, stone and glass. >>People could add their own art, sculpture, writings. >> Lovely.... >> Love from Julia. > >Hey,...this is nice! > >~Yeah it is,...if I do say so myself. > >What? > >~Well, I did most of the work! > >You think so, huh? > >~Yes, I do! > >Then you can clean this mess up, here! And make sure you do a good job on >them top windows! And what's THIS!!! > >~What? > >This, here on one of Julia's favorite Oriental rugs!!! > >~Oh,...that. Sorry. Haunter gave me one of those English "nudge-nudge, >grin-grin, know what I mean's",....and I must have spilled a little beer. > >Well clean it up! > >~Okay! > >And make sure you're done before Julia gets here! And,...what's this???!!! >Alright, who threw up over in the corner? Oh, come on guys! Let's keep >this place respectable, huh? And you!... > >~Me? > >Yeah, you! Get to mopping!.......... > >B.D. Yager > > >