JIP
(Juggle In Peace)
A man is talking to the Lord, trying to fathom His infinitude. "Lord,"
he asks, "what's a million years to you?" "A million years is a second
to me," the Lord explains. "And a million dollars?" A penny, the Lord
replies. "Lord," the man proceeds to ask, emboldened, "would you give me
a million dollars?" "Sure," the Lord replies. "Just a second."
(From COLORED PEOPLE, 1994, by Henry Louis Gates, Jr.)
--On Fri, 9 Dec 1994, Bert Neff wrote:
> > >Julian Orbach (julian@cs.uq.oz.au> wrote: > >>(Please, no arguments about whether unicyclists or jugglers are like > >>clowns. There is enough of that in rec.juggling at the moment.) > > > >We are as much like clowns as we want, or appear, to be. Since unicycles are > >often associated with the circus, many people will not see anything other > >than that. It's up to us to change their perceptions. > > > >How can a dummy like me hook up to rec.juggling? Somebody please lemme know. > > > >Thanks, unics! > > > >John Foss, President > >International Unicycling Federation > >unifoss@cerfnet.com > > > If you don't have access through a news reader, then there are two options: > 1) e-mail - send a message with the single word 'HELP' to > 'pnfi.forestry.ca' to get instructions on how to subscribe, -or- > 2) www - if you have a world-wide-web reader, such as Mosaic, then you can > read from the URL 'http://www.hal.com/services/juggle/', otherwise known > as juggle@hal.com, serviced by Barry Bakalar. (I'm not sure how to spell > his last name so I just went with all 'a's). > > There's generally about 30 messages a day?? in this group. Don't post anything > rashly or Andrew Conway (the self-appointed humbler of newbies) is sure to > flame you. They talk about anything - juggling, unicycling, diablos, devil > sticks, torches, contact juggling, yo-yos, whip cracking and rope tricks (er, > skills), and knife throwing. Magic and miming are sort of taboo though, and > there was the aforementioned recent controversy over what place clowning has > for jugglers). > > / > > \ 0 | Bert Neff > --|-- bneff@melpar.esys.com > | Leesburg, Virginia USA > / \ >