DECEMBER 25, 2006: "Re: DN Defeating Death 11/21/2006 (from alt.atheism)

"Has any relative, friend, or God communicated with any of the 6 billion sane persons in the world?"

DECEMBER 18, 2006:  "Ausiello Scoopage! Gilmore Creator Returns" (from alt.tv.gilmore-girls)

"It's about a very successful, very driven, very problem-solving kind of woman who's a young adult book publisher. She has her own imprint. And she decides to have a baby on her own and the doctor says, 'Whoops, you're not going to be able to do that by yourself. Sorry, sweetheart!' And she winds up tracking down her younger, much-less-focused sister, who's the polar opposite of her. And she says to her, 'I will cut you a deal and pay you to carry my baby for me. But you have to move in with me so that I can watch you and make sure it doesn't come out with three heads.'"

DECEMBER 11, 2006: "beach diving how far is too far? (from rec.scuba)

"If I want to dive, I haul 70 pounds of gear and 6-10 tanks down the gangway to my buddy's boat and we enjoy a relaxing weekend at the island."

DECEMBER 4, 2006: "Venezuela Election News Roundup - Nov 30, 2006" (from soc.culture.usa)

"Unamuno, his riding companion Carlos Garzon, and a small group of family and supporters will drape flowers on a statue of 19th-century Latin American liberator Simon Bolivar before the bikers begin their journey. The three-day trip will take them on a winding back-roads course through towns such as Yeehaw Junction and Pahokee. One of Unamuno's sons will follow as an escort, in a truck packed with replacement bikes and equipment. Unamuno initially thought to take a more biblical route to the Orange Bowl. 'I was going to walk,' he said. 'But then a friend of mine told me I was crazy.'"

NOVEMBER 27, 2006: "Re: hydrogentated food" (from alt.health)

"It seems like from now on I'll be baking my own cookies."

NOVEMBER 20, 2006: "[Ranma][FanFic] Anijza Part1/05: 'The Confrontations'" (from rec.arts.anime.creative)

"She was pleased that nothing odd happened tonight."

NOVEMBER 13, 2006: "Re: The majority (was Re: looting)" (from rec.games. computer.ultima.online)

"If I wished to write stories in the Gor universe without mentioning the Kur or Priest-Kings, I could."

NOVEMBER 5, 2006: "Query: Ectoplasmic Form" (from rec.games.frp.dnd)

"Maybe he can walk through solids, but not see through them. This would limit his movement without interfering with his insubstantiality."

OCTOBER 30, 2006: "Review: BOA San Antonio (Prelims)" (from rec.arts. marching.band.high-school)

"My review of the Bands of America Regional Championships will cover every band that performed at the event, because every band at every show deserves to be covered, and because all students that perform are our "winners" in life. [. . .] To the bands that did not make finals, I say, 'So what?' Just being at the Bands of America Super Regional Championships was something. The bands, the staff, the fans . . . we were all a part of the great history Bands of America has given us for years and years. My hope is that next year is better than the next, and thus far this trend has stayed the course."

OCTOBER 23, 2006: "Questions remain in Palestinian's Pupil's Death" (from misc.activism.progressive)

"The army swiftly blamed Iman for her own death by entering the forbidden zone."

OCTOBER 16, 2006: "Heavy Metal Music, Culture and Philosophy FAQ (Metal as Concept 1/3) (from alt.rock-n-roll.metal.heavy)

"When society seemed even more hopelessly fallen into acceptance and worship of its own collapse, the conventional tonality and 'save the world' messages of speed metal and its ancestor, heavy metal, became too trite and ridiculous for the newest generations of alienated youth."

OCTOBER 9, 2006: "NEW: X Jedi 2: A Cross Over-- Chapter 1 (4/4) (fwd) by JackeeC@aol.com, Gheorghe2@aol.com and ginef@aol.com" (from alt.tv.x-files. creative)

"She swept out of the room, Mara following, both of them rebuffing Luke's persistent mental queries as to what had so staggered them. In the bustling corridor, they were quiet, pale, hurrying to the others, who when they met, were themselves flush with concern, having only Luke's report that something ghastly had been revealed during the negotiation."

OCTOBER 2, 2006: "The alt.flame Who's Who" (from alt.flame)

"His single brief moment of relative prominence happened a long time ago, and is widely believed to have been dumb luck anyway."

SEPTEMBER 25, 2006: "Re: MS - 'What Hurts Us, Hurts Industry' - LOAD OF B.S.!" (from comp.sys.mac.advocacy)

"'Fascism' is the only term I know of to refer to the theory that governmental power is of primary importance, and that all various governmental systems are to be employed as they are beneficial to the goal of exalting the state. The fascist may at times masquerade as a democrat, a dictator, a socialist (the Nazi part was the National Socialist Workers' Party), or anything else that befits his goal of power. The unprincipled use of power under cover of pragmatic excuse is the first hint that such politics are present."

SEPTEMBER 18, 2006: No documents found for keywords "loose," "Nyodene," "visible," "mall"

Keywords from p. 153 of White Noise: "Three of the live deer at the Kung Fu Palace were dead. The governor was dead, his pilot and co-pilot seriously injured after a crash landing in a shopping mall. Two of the men at the switching yard were dead, tiny acid burns visible in their Mylex suits. Packs of German shepherds, the Nyodene-sniffing dogs, had shed their parachutes and were being set loose in the affected communities.  There was a rash of UFO sightings in the area."

SEPTEMBER 11, 2006: "A student vanishes (Missing MA Woman)" (from alt.true-crime)

"Rausch said Murray fled with a backpack, but left many of the other items she'd packed, including the stuffed monkey he gave her and her favorite book, 'Without Peril,' behind in her car."

SEPTEMBER 4, 2006: "xfc: new short story - M/K Nowhere Man" (from alt.tv.x-files.creative)

"His mobile mouth turned downward and he rose from the comfortable chair in the sun and went inside to gaze unseeingly at the wall of pictures, his gallery of the Gone, but not Forgotten."

AUGUST 28, 2006: "What were the causes of 9/11?" (from soc.culture.indian)

"They hate us because of the freedom-loving people we are. President Bush has been the principal exponent of this view. In 2004 Bin Laden responded by asking why, if this were true, had he not attacked freedom-loving Sweden?"

AUGUST 21, 2006: "NO, NOT THE OIL! #130 (1/3)" (from aus.politics)

"The delegation has been met with a resounding lack of enthusiasm from the US military and 'coalition' officials. They have been warning the media of the dangers of the visit, at the same time as trying to persuade it that most of the country is free of violence. None of that has deterred Mr Suarez del Solar. He has a mission: to visit the spot where his son died and bring home a jar of the soil into which he bled. It will be placed in a park that the boy used to visit and marked with a white rose."

AUGUST 14, 2006: "Teh SOVEREIGN LITS'0'LIES {Was: A Note to Ignoramuses: Here's How It Works.}" (from alt.fan.art-bell)

"You claim that words are a satanic medium . . . by that logic, the fewer words they use, the less satanic they are."

AUGUST 7, 2006: "OT: Democrats who oppose illegal wars and torture want to reclaim the party" (from alt.atheism)

"Reports that the Capitol Hill cafeteria has dropped freedom fries from its menu and reverted to the traditional name French fries omit some of the careful, even tortuous, political consideration that went into the decision."

JULY 31, 2006: "Re: godard vs. truffaut" (from rec.arts.movies.past-films)

"it says bourgeois mind is subhuman pigshit. there's nothing worth knowing or exploring. bourgeois skull is only worth crushing or washing totally with maoist detergent. [. . .] it says capitalism and technology are entirely corrupt and corrupting and must be wiped out. it says high culture is irrelevant, and history should be understood and practiced as toys."

JULY 24, 2006: "Re: what makes a person great" (from alt.religion.buddhism. tibetan)

"Sometimes his T-shirts looked a little worn out and wrinkled. His straight brown hair got stringy and stuck to his forehead. But he wasn't the sort of guy who cared. Mainly, he was into practice -- meditating, praying, and finishing Ngondro. And in 1987 he'd sold his motorcycle to buy himself some time to do it."

JULY 17, 2006: "Kryalla vs. Ah'khurah" (from alt.pub.dragons-inn)

"Further inland on the island, another ebon-cloaked being watched the Shrouded One. This one was stooped in posture, decrepit in stature, and desiccated in form. Pale gray flesh kept whole long after it should have gone to dust by a combination of mummification and supernatural aid swept an unshaking hand, a gesture over the cauldron in the floor, through which he spied upon the battle."

JULY 10, 2006: "UFO Hacker to Be Extradited" (from rec.sport.pro-wrestling)

"On another occasion, he obtained access to Excel spreadsheets entitled 'Non-Terrestrial Officers,' containing the names and ranks of U.S. Air Force personnel who are not registered anywhere else [. . . .] Sure he committed a crime, but being extradited to the U.S. is like a pending death sentence."

JULY 3, 2006: "U.S. Military Detains, Beats and Threatens to Kill Four Foreign Journalists in Iraq" (from alt.impeach.bush)

"We spent our nights with the American and the British soldiers, each time in another camp, in another place where they were parked. We were with them. We got to a place which was 120 kilometers south-kilometers which I think is seventy, maybe, miles south of Baghdad and there we met a group of, of the army of soldiers, and there was there also Ted Koppel was there with uniforms, with a big helmet on his head. And Ted Koppel looked at me and said to me, 'You're crazy, you don't have a gas mask. Are you crazy? Because they're going to use chemical weapons.' And I did not recognize Ted Koppel of course."

JUNE 26, 2006:  "Re: now who votes on the law" (from uk.people.gothic,alt.gothic)

"And if he can't afford to buy a different house, in a different town, for each wife, he shouldn't be marrying them in the first place."

JUNE 19, 2006: "Big Julia Robertss in Big Trouble!" (from alt.fan.actors)

"Instant publicity is needed because I also am being taken down unfairly. Without publicity it looks as if I may be meeting Silkwood, Hoffa, Dorfman, and John, John, Kennedy."

JUNE 12, 2006: "okay, since you asked" (from B-Movies@googlegroups. com)

"A man and his wife are driving through the countryside in an automobile that looks like a bathtub. We learn that the wife is suffering from some sexual-homicidal malady and is being taken to a sanitarium for treatment. She attempts to strangle her husband, who continues driving at no reduction in speed, while fighting off her attack. As she temporarily recovers her senses, her husband asks, 'I can understand your trying to kill me -- but why try to kill yourself?'"