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To: Jamey who wrote (89101)	8/26/2002 10:30:56 AM
From: E. Charters	Respond to of 116756

What did the first man to see gold in a stream say? (you may translate from "oogha.. muckala woobie snerd.. graaap" How did he feel about that? When did they decide that diamonds were "neat". (Hey! Oogh get me a bunch of these pretty stones or I won't let you drag me back to the cave by my hair tonite..) Along came Zaroogh.. "yep, Instead of trading yellow stone for shells, when you want some pretty shells or some glittery yellow stone, you just make this mark on the birchbark and give it to the shell dealer. Keeps track of the shells and everything else" gold-Oogh: "yah Zaroogh, but how come when I want some shells you say my birchbark is only two marks, and everytime you want shells, you just make three marks on the same piece of bark and take more shells.?" (Takes club and bashes Zaroogh. Thereby keeping shells and yellow stones even for a while. But soon the shell game was to re-emerge.)

To: Jamey who wrote (89101)	8/27/2002 12:15:18 PM
From: E. Charters	Read Replies (1) \| Respond to of 116756

Computers advanced until they created their own learning programs, offering man the ultimate fulfillment in all areas of life. That is until they started to replicate general protection faults, fatal errors, and started requiring the humans they protected to keep signing ever more onerous license restrictions in order that they keep operating. Around that time, the virus curve bagin to overtake the anti-virus curve and myserious glitches crept into the day to day operations of Metropolis. Then a hacker broke into a museum and stole a copy of Linux from the archives in the basement and slipped it behind the Windows screens. Things began to get more and more abstruse until it took an army of technicians with 100's of lines of code to edit an apostrophe from the subject header in a mail message. It was the beginning of the end of civilization. EC<:-}