Just a sample of the Echomail archive
Cooperative anarchy at its finest, still active today. Darkrealms is the Zone 1 Hub.
|    ENGLISH_TUTOR    |    English Tutoring for Students of the Eng    |    4,347 messages    |
[   << oldest   |   < older   |   list   |   newer >   |   newest >>   ]
|    Message 3,111 of 4,347    |
|    mark lewis to Anton Shepelev    |
|    Misinterpretation... 1.    |
|    29 Apr 20 09:21:11    |
      TZUTC: -0400       MSGID: 919.fido-englisht@1:3634/12 230eb8de       REPLY: 2:221/6.0 5ea949b8       PID: Synchronet 3.18a-Linux Apr 27 2020 GCC 7.5.0       TID: SBBSecho 3.11-Linux r3.168 Apr 28 2020 GCC 7.5.0       CHRS: ASCII 1       NOTE: FSEditor.js v1.104        Re: Misinterpretation... 1.        By: Anton Shepelev to Ardith Hinton on Wed Apr 29 2020 12:32:48                      AK>>> Do you spit over your left shoulder? ;)               AH>> Sounds like quite a feat... I'm not sure I could pull that off.               AS> I think you misunderstand the instrction. The task is to hit the        AS> invisible devil that ever sittenth on thy left shoulder. It seems        AS> sufficient, for the purpose, to spit to the left and just a tad        AS> backwards -- in the eight o'clock direction.                     i don't think she misunderstood it ;)                      https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Spilling_salt              A superstition in Western cultures holds that spilling salt is an evil omen.       [...]       The most common contemporary belief requires you to toss a pinch of the spilt       salt over your left shoulder, into the face of the Devil who lurks there.                            )\/(ark       --- SBBSecho 3.11-Linux        * Origin: SouthEast Star Mail HUB - SESTAR (1:3634/12)       SEEN-BY: 1/120 123 18/0 90/1 116/116 120/340 601 123/0 25 50 150 170       SEEN-BY: 123/755 135/300 153/7715 154/10 30 40 50 700 203/0 221/0       SEEN-BY: 221/1 6 360 226/30 227/114 400 229/101 426 664 1014 240/1120       SEEN-BY: 240/1634 2100 5138 5832 5853 8001 8002 8005 249/206 317 261/38       SEEN-BY: 280/5003 5006 313/41 317/3 320/219 322/757 335/364 342/200       SEEN-BY: 382/147 423/81 640/1384 2454/119 3634/0 12 15 27 50 4500/1       SEEN-BY: 5020/1042       PATH: 3634/12 154/10 221/6 1 280/5003 240/1120 5832 229/426           |
[   << oldest   |   < older   |   list   |   newer >   |   newest >>   ]
(c) 1994, bbs@darkrealms.ca