Robert,

RW>->   Reminds me of the cartoon where the sheriff's office found a pair of
RW>"dirty
RW>-> underwear" from a thief on the run. The bloodhound dogs rebelled, with th
RW>-> caption "Dude!! You find him!! We're bloodhounds, not butt hounds!!" :P

RW>LOL!  God, thank you!  I needed a laugh today! :)

  Glad to help. There's too little to laugh at in the world nowadays.

  I've got a bulletin on the BBS, entitled "So, You Want To Be A Sysop??". It
is several bulletins in one, from several individuals, with segments like:

1) Definition Of A Twit - courtesy of Grant Bierman 2) You Want To Be A
Sysop?? - courtesy of Tom Ezell 3) The Thankless Job - courtesy of Kris Lewis
4) Caring For Pet Sysops - courtesy of Fred Hunt, modified by Daryl Stout 5)
The Sysop of a BBS - a poem by Daryl Stout

  While some parts of the first 4 can be amusing, sadly a lot of that is true.
Even though most of the dial-up BBS's have been replaced by telnet and web
BBS's, the problem of twits, hackets, etc. didn't go away.

  It reminds me of a C)omment to Sysop once that went something like "Why
can't I have automatic access to the adult file areas?? I need it for a school
sex education project". The response from the Sysop: "Nice try, but no dice".
;)

  Indeed, when I was originally dial-up only, one caller paged me for chat,
and asked where all the adult files were. When I replied "on the internet",
his response was "CLICK" -- NO CARRIER.

  Admittedly, I do have a file board called "The Bizarre Bazaar"...with images
of such, and it's rated PG-13 in content as a result. The movie "Kramer Versus
Kramer" with Dustin Hoffman and Meryl Streep in 1980 was rated "PG" for a few
expletives, and a comic nude scene...but all you saw was the nude woman from
the back side.

  But, the closest thing you'll get to nudity on the BBS is shots from "the
backside" (the buttocks) in some images (all humans are technically "the same
from the back side"). There are NO full frontal nudity shots of genitalia,
bestiality, pornography, etc.

  The Motion Picture Association Of America would give a picture an "R" rating
for full frontal nudity (including genitalia) or use of the "F word" for
sexual intercourse. The former "X" rating is now "NC-17", because they felt
that "X" was too closely associated with pornography. And, an "X" rating
originally denoted the picture dealt with "hard core sex". Most all of the
"soft core porn" pictures are rated "R"; the difference between "soft core"
and "hard core" was that "soft core was simulated"...yet it sure is difficult
to tell the difference.

  Nudity can be defined as "any nakedness" (reference Michelangelo's "King
David" sculpture, or the picture of "a naked baby on a bareskin rug, showing
its buttocks).

  Pornography is from the Greek word "porneia"...which is defined as "all
sexual intercourse outside the marriage relationship between a man and a
woman". Indeed, the "adult entertainment industry" is a multi-billion, if not
multi-trillion dollar industry.

Daryl
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