Message Found in a Bottle

[pameladean]

Well, technically, in a dusty stack of papers that somehow got shoved on top of a filing cabinet and then buried in other stuff.

For former Fidonet aficionados, I reproduce the message format as near as may be.

To: Pamela C. Dean          Message #: 6844          6837 Thread

From: John M. Ford          Submitted: 30 Jun 93 00:17:00

Subject: Whitling Down the Masses      Status: Public


"Good morning, Mr. Baggins.  The man you're looking at is Sauron, Dark Lord of Mordor.  Sauron has placed his power in these rings, which transform his subordinates into creatures hostile to the ideals of Western democracy.  Your mission, should you decide to accept it, is to destroy the One Ring and liberate Middle Earth.  As always, should you or any of your Company be caught or killed, the Elf-Kings will disavow any knowledge of your actions.  This inscription will self-destruct in five heartbeats.  Good luck, Frodo."


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  * Origin: The Terraboard, Mpls MN: Home of the SF Echo (1:282/341)

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Pamela

Comments

Yikes, sorry

[pameladean]

Fidonet was much tidier, but my efforts to edit don't seem to have had any effect.

P.

Re: Yikes, sorry

[sraun]

Put it in <blockquote>'s - i.e., put a <blockquote> in front of it, and a </blockquote> after it. Then it should render the way you want it to.

Re: Yikes, sorry

[pameladean]

Thanks so much, Scott! That's much better.

P.

Re: Yikes, sorry

[sraun]

You're welcome!

[abostick59.livejournal.com]

The first season, with Martin Landau as Faramir and Barbara Bain as Eowyn, was best. I always thought casting Leonard Nimoy as Haldir, as they did in Season 4, was kinda lame.

[pameladean]

So what did you think of the changing voices of Sauron? They were never satisfied, always casting somebody different. I kind of liked Ricardo Montalban, myself.

P.

[tool-of-satan.livejournal.com]

I wish I had saved the post he made on the Pyramid newsgroups for the Anachronistic Missions Force assignment, in Chaucerian style.

[pameladean]

Oh, gosh, I do too. But there was so much, it was hard to keep up.

P.

[tool-of-satan.livejournal.com]

Absolutely.

However, I find I do have a Tolkien-related post he made there. I will post it in a new entry. As I recall he was not necessarily in favor of his Pyramid posts being made permanent (people occasionally asked about the possibility of them being published in a book), but I don't imagine he'd begrudge the one.

[apostle-of-eris.livejournal.com]

Fidonet . . . your office's filing must resemble mine.