Date: Wed, 16 Aug 95 21:17:29 CDT From: Patrick Douglas CrispenTo: tourbus@colossus.net Subject: TOURBUS 8/17 -- SOME NEAT LISTS ---------------------- TOURBUS - 17 Aug 1995 ---------------------- /~~~|~~~~|~~~~|~~~~|~~~~|~~~~|~~~~|~~~~|~~~~|~~~~~/~~~|~\ |____|____|____|____|____|____|____|____|____|____/ | \ | /_____|---\ / --T-H-E---I-N-T-E-R-N-E-T---T-O-U-R-B-U-S--> ///////| | | |///////| | ~~~/~~~\~/~~~\~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~/~~~\~~~~ \___/ \___/ "Why Surf When U Can Ride The Bus?" \___/ Today's Stop: SOME NEAT LISTS "My way of joking is telling the truth; that is the funniest joke in the world." -- George Bernard Shaw Hi, kids :) In light of my recent success in that introductory Internet class I was taking (thanks to some extra credit, I made a 104% in the class), I decided to make today's stops totally e-mail based :) THE DAVID LETTERMAN TOP-TEN LIST -------------------------------- If you are a fan of David Letterman's Top-Ten lists but can't stay up late enough to watch his show on CBS every night (or if don't want to watch Dave because you are a super-huge Ted Koppel groupie), you probably should check out the TOPTEN list. TOPTEN is a free LISTSERV e-mail distribution list. The owners of the TOPTEN list watch the Late Show on CBS, copy down Dave's list, and then (with Dave's and CBS' permission) redistribute that night's Top Ten list to thousands of e-mail subscribers. It seems that TOPTEN is a pretty popular LISTSERV list ... over 82,000 people are subscribed to it. To subscribe to TOPTEN, send an e-mail letter to LISTSERV@LISTSERV.CLARK.NET which says SUBSCRIBE TOPTEN YOURFIRSTNAME YOURLASTNAME in the body of your e-mail letter, replacing YOURFIRSTNAME and YOURLASTNAME with your first and last names. THE NEWS OF THE WEIRD LIST -------------------------- This one is kind of hard to explain. There is a syndicated newspaper column called News of the Weird which republishes true (and often humorous) news stories such as: "Jeremy E. Bennett and three juveniles were arrested in Waynesboro, Va,. in February and charged with burglary after allegedly throwing a bowling ball through a store window to gain entry. Police knew who to look for because the gang left behind the bowling ball, which had the name of one of the juveniles engraved on it [Waynesboro News- Virginian, 2-14-95]" The News of the Weird column can usually be found in you local newspaper, but if your newspaper doesn't carry the column you can get it from the Net (albeit on a two week delay). The News of the Weird list is a free Internet e-mail distribution list that distributes the News of the Weird column to its subscribers every Friday. To subscribe to the News of the Weird list, send an e-mail letter to notw-request@nine.org and in your letter beg to be added to the News of the Weird mailing list (your letter is going to a person, not to a machine, so please be really nice ... and patient). DOGBERT'S NEW RULING CLASS -------------------------- This one is even harder to explain. If you are a big fan of Scott Adams' syndicated cartoon "Dilbert" (and who isn't?), I am pleased to announce that Dogbert is accepting members into Dogbert's New Ruling Class (the DNRC). By becoming a member of the DNRC (in other words, by subscribing to the Dilbert list), not only will you ensure your place at Dogbert's side when he conquers the world, you will also receive letters from Dilbert creator Scott Adams on a "whenever I feel like it" basis. You also get to give yourself a nifty DNRC title :) Anyway, to subscribe to the Dilbert newsletter, send an e-mail letter to listproc@internex.net and in the subject line of your letter put Dilbert and in the body of your letter put Subscribe Dilbert_List YOURFIRSTNAME YOURLASTNAME replacing YOURFIRSTNAME and YOURLASTNAME with your first and last name (by the way, that _ between Dilbert and List is not a typo -- you must include it in your letter). Scott posts an e-mail letter once every three or four months, so don't expect anything until September :( SOME TOURBUS CHANGES -------------------- Bob and I kind of swapped two days coming up. Since Bob needs next Tuesday (Aug. 22) off, I am going to be writing both of next week's TOURBUS posts (YIPPEE! *TWO* Southern words of the day in one week!). In return, Bob is going to cover for me on Thursday, September 7 (which is my birtday). :) TODAY'S SOUTHERN WORD OF THE DAY -------------------------------- ALL - noun. A petroleum-based lubricant. Usage: "I sure hope my brother from Jawjuh puts all in my pickup truck." NOTE: Some of you mentioned that you received two copies of the last TOURBUS posting. As far as I can tell, it was a glitch. Sorry, and I sincerely hope you only get one copy of this one! ====================================================================== SUBSCRIBE : Send SUBSCRIBE TOURBUS to LISTSERV@LISTSERV.AOL.COM unSUBSCRIBE: Send UNSUBSCRIBE TOURBUS to LISTSERV@LISTSERV.AOL.COM Web Site : http://csbh.mhv.net/~bobrankin/tourbus (stop in for back issues and the logo contest) Advertising: E-mail BobRankin@MHV.net w/ Subject: SEND TBRATES ====================================================================== TOURBUS - (c) Copyright 1995, Patrick Crispen and Bob Rankin All rights reserved. Redistribution is allowed only with permission. (\__/) .~ ~. )) /O O ./ .' PATRICK DOUGLAS CRISPEN {O__, \ { PCRISPE1@UA1VM.UA.EDU / . . ) \ THE UNIVERSITY OF ALABAMA |-| '-' \ } )) HTTP://UA1VM.UA.EDU/~CRISPEN/CRISPEN.HTML .( _( )_.' '---.~_ _ _& Warning: squirrels.
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