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   Howdy!  Nice to see a human in here!   
      
   I'm a long way from San José, up in western Canada! (Vancouver)   
      
   I've heard of your sharks you have there -- (sharks in Texas?! Well, so says    
   the NHL games listings)   
      
   Our NHL tram is the Vancouver Canucks, but recently rebranded as the Orcas --   
   I think the new owner's holding off on making it fully in play as that name --   
   we protested mightily. We're Mighty Canucks, not a freaking FISH(close enough!)   
      
   & I'm not talking the famous:  ἰχθύς (Ichthus-- the   
   name for the drawn fish    
   used as a code for meeting places(home churches) by the earliest Christians.   
      
   It(ΙΧΘΥΣ) was(& is) also used as an acronym:  The   
   Greek letters could be referenced to the Greekl for these lines: Jesus    
   Christ   
   Son of God   
   Saviour.   
      
   Or more of a breakdown & explanation:   
   Ι Jesus   
   Χ Christ   
   Θ of God   
   Υ son   
   Σ Saviour   
      
   I would count this on topic, as all of this is in the Christian half of the    
   Bible, except maybe for the literal fish(ΙΧΘΥΣ) part,   
   but those words, phrases,    
   & concepts associated with ΙΧΘΥΣ certainly were!   
      
   Got any Bible relsated info you'd like to share and/or ask about?   
      
   I think Daryl Stout is the echo owner/moderator, but I'm not 100% sure -- go    
   ahead & write him directly, or in response to one of his daily Bible Verse    
   postings.  He's closer to you & at least in your own country, so you two   
   might  have more of a shared understanding of your own contexts as being   
   American. --  he's in Little Rock AR.   
      
   I conerct to his BBS when it's up (he's currently furiously working on fixing    
   several bugs)   
      
   I call(telnet in to) several BBSes, mostly Synchronet-based OS.  FamilyNet is   
   a free board with a Christian outlook, as is Daryl's board. I don't have a   
   boazrd up quyite yet, sorry.   
      
   I'm an old fogey from the early, pre-giant commercialized internet (pre-Google    
   & Facebook, even!), days!   
      
   I dialed into dozens of boards daily, some thousands of miles away, but still    
   accepting dialup calls from a DOS term program. . . ahh, the good ol' daze:   
   DOS IST GUT (that was my motto then, but the NSA(& DHS) has killed it off,    
   including DOSModems.   
      
   So, write back, talk about yourself a little & what you hope to find in this    
   group -- I hope to get some vigorous conversations going, so we can do the    
   iron-sharpens-iron thing for each other!   
      
   Need people in here first & you're a big step for that -- pretty much just    
   added 50% population all by yourself!   
      
   Jon us; have fun, ask questions, make bold statements (but please provide    
   backup for non-standard statements  I love to read up on new concepts &   
   learn,  whether I agree off-hand or not -- I'm in Lifelong Learning Mode, in    
   everything.   
      
   I'm going to post a convo starter after I send this to you.   
      
   --- BBBS/Li6 v4.10 Toy-6   
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