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EARTHDATE: September 2004

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In the Fed Funnies for September 2004:
POSTS OF THE MONTH
MOOD OF THE MONTH
QUOTES OF THE MONTH
DRINK OF THE MONTH
INEXPLICABLE ACCIDENT OF THE MONTH


POSTS OF THE MONTH

Stardate: 109369:4446 - Hazed: Where have all the flowers gone?
Stardate: 109370:1376 - Ferreri: did you check the hydroponics room?
Stardate: 109375:5468 - Gandolf: Girls have picked them, every one Hazed. When will they ever learn?

Stardate: 109370:6432 - Freya: You can let a fool kiss you, but don't let a kiss fool you.
Stardate: 109370:8210 - Ferreri: You can fool a kiss... but watch your back
Stardate: 109373:5484 - Willygene: You can kiss a fool, and I'm usually standing around somewhere.

Stardate: 109389:6206 - Wolfyn: Eye halve a speeing chequer. It came with my pea sea. It plainly marques four my revue miss steaks eye kin knot sea. - Sauce Unknown

Stardate: 109390:9239 - Freya: Humor can be dissected as a frog can, but the thing dies in the process and the innards are discouraging to any but the pure scientific mind. -- E. B. White

Stardate: 109397:2936 - Freya: Art is making something out of nothing and selling it. -- Frank Zappa
Stardate: 109400:3152 - Art: Actually, I'm making nothing out of something and giving it away.

Stardate: 109408:9429 - Racingnut: You cannot prevent the birds of sorrow from flying over your head, but you can prevent them from building nests in your hair.- Chinese Proverb
Stardate: 109409:8072 - Marina: Well duuuh...just use products to cut down on the frizzies, and never ever, I mean never attempt dreadlocks!

213162:872 - Rasal: If I leave space out in the rain, will it warp?

Stardate: 109448:7398 - Freya: The real problem is not whether machines think but whether men do. -- B. F. Skinner

Stardate: 109465:9433 - Cptrob: I guess a negative trader rating is bad, huh? ;)
Stardate: 109466:2026 - Hazed: Well I don't want to be judgmental... let's just say you are TR-challenged.

Stardate: 109469:0074 - Vlad: Some people feel like they are held over a barrel, some use it to go over waterfalls, some use it to store wine or spirits, me, I just wear it as I can't afford clothes now that I am so hot on futures trading;)

Stardate: 109474:7169 - Freya: There are painters who transform the sun to a yellow spot, but there are others who with the help of their art and their intelligence, transform a yellow spot into the sun. -- Pablo Picasso

213173:698 - Racingnut: walks over, admires the workmanship then starts spray painting *racingnut was here*
213173:814 - Wolfyn: :::draws a nose and a couple eyeballs peeping over the fence:::

Stardate: 109512:4955 - Freya: Nothing is impossible for the man who doesn't have to do it himself.

Stardate: 109517:8329 - Gandolf: Stress is an ignorant state. It believes that everything is an emergency. Nothing is that important. - Natalie Goldberg

Stardate: 109530:8992 - Gandolf: You're all just jealous because the voices only talk to me.

Stardate: 109536:4487 - Wolfyn: If you put tomfoolery into a computer, nothing comes out of it but tomfoolery. But this tomfoolery, having passed through a very expensive machine, is somehow enobled and no-one dares criticize it. -Pierre Gallois
Stardate: 109536:4724 - Squeeky: how do you fit this Tom Foolery person into a computer in the first place? :)
Stardate: 109538:3047 - Gandolf: computers used to be a lot bigger ....
Stardate: 109538:3304 - Racingnut: not to mention a lot slower...slower than your pocket calculator in fact (IE ENIAC)
Stardate: 109542:2212 - Vlad: Back in my day, a calculator was a large wooden square with beads to count with....there were many accidents with this heavy object so the town mathematician just lined up the villagers and had them remove their shoes so he could count in base 20...;)

Stardate: 109544:5116 - Vlad: The taxman actually serves a good purpose and is actually useful....Top 10 uses for the taxman (dead or alive...your choice)....10. Paperweight 9. Door stop 8. Coat/Hat rack 7. Emergency brake 6. Boat Anchor 5. Archery Target 4. Sewing mannequin 3. Puppy chow 2. Envelope moistening... and the number 1 reason... allows me to drive in the HOV lane.

Stardate: 109568:3174 - Gandolf: When you're riding in a time machine way far into the future, don't stick your elbow out the window, or it'll turn into a fossil.
Stardate: 109568:4933 - Vlad: Which, in my case, would be considered young;)

Stardate: 109576:8188 - Wolfyn: If computers get too powerful, we can organize them into a committee - that will do them in.
Stardate: 109577:6318 - Squeeky: didn't they already try that with the government and failed? :)

Stardate: 109595:1878 - Freya: Misery no longer loves company. Nowadays it insists on it.-- Russell Baker

MOOD OF THE MONTH

If ya mix Pasta and AntiPasta, does your dinner explode? Moonus has left.

QUOTES OF THE MONTH

Complaints continue to be voiced about the rapacious taxman in Fed II:
Your comm unit crackles with a message from Gwarrior, "we gave up Ming for..... this..."
Your comm unit crackles with a message from Willygene, "Well for that kind of tax money I wanna see some signs posted and kleinbottle way."
Your comm unit crackles with a message from Gwarrior, "and in the ruins"
Your comm unit crackles with a message from Willygene, "Yeah! Let's make some signs and head over to Green Peace on Sumatra and see if we can get them to arrange a tax protest."
Your comm unit crackles with a message from Freya, " Green Peace is not going to leave their air conditioned offices "
Your comm unit crackles with a message from Willygene, "Probably true. Maybe we can get the smelly wino in the dumpster to move into thier nice air conditioned rock dust free offices. Then they might move a bit."

Your comm unit crackles with a message from Squeeky, "i wonder what i could do with a card and a bottle in my inventory"
Your comm unit crackles with a message from Hazed, "Write a message on the card, stuff it in the bottle, and throw it out the window of your spaceship"
Your comm unit crackles with a message from Hazed, "Then wait to see who finds it"

Your comm unit crackles with a message from Hazed, "I am hard at work, berating my lazy newsdroids for their lack of industry "
Your comm unit crackles with a message from Hazed, "This week off has made them indolent and idle "
Your comm unit crackles with a message from Squeeky, "sounds like im glad im a mouse insted of a newsdroid :)"
Your comm unit crackles with a message from Hazed, "Oh, they love it. "
Your comm unit crackles with a message from Hazed, "They are programmed to. "
Your comm unit crackles with a message from Hazed, "You have heard of the Stepford Wives? Well my newsdroids are all Stepford Droids. "
Your comm unit crackles with a message from Hazed, "Sadly, none of them look like Nicole Kidman. "
Your comm unit crackles with a message from Hazed, "Although the society correspondent does look a little like Bette Midler. "

DRINK OF THE MONTH

Willygene has bought you a tankard-full of fermented llama's milk imported from Brass. Yum-yum. You look forward with great anticipation to the head throbbingly joyful experience of this most wonderful of natures beverages.

INEXPLICABLE ACCIDENT OF THE MONTH

Pearl: Reports are coming in of an explosion in an explosives factory.
Well! Wonder what could have caused that?


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