Date: Friday, 25-Jul-97 12:29 AM
From: EDDIE PITCOCK
Subject: BREAKFAST AT FRYS.

Jim, first of all, let me say that if you have any balls at all you will post this letter but after you read it , my guess is you won't.

Jim, you're spineless. Just like all of the other people in the bay area. I can say that because I was raised in the bay area then a few years ago smart enough to move away from the idiots like you. When I was young the service was a little better then jerks like you started moving into the area and all of a sudden you "people" claim to have discovered it. But anyway, lets get to the real issue. Jim, you bitched and moaned about frys for 7 or 8 pages about how poor this service was and how poor that clerk is and on and on and on. Then you finally get the opportunity to tell the clerk that caught you taking pictures to stick his gestapo technics up his ass and you cower down and give in. People like you like to talk about what pisses you off and then cower down in a corner when you come face to face with the problem. Jim, you had the golden opportunity to get a "ALL RIGHT, JIM!!!!" from the entire bay area but decided to chicken-out at the end.

EDDIE PITCOCK

Breakfast at Fry's: the web page that will not die.

If you thought Elvis impersonators hanging out near the Ethernet hubs was surreal, imagine a hell-on-wheels Rabbi:

Date: Sunday, 06-Jul-97 10:58 PM
From: Minkees@aol.com
Subject: Re: It's the Bible, stupid

Gotta show this one to my motorcycling Rabbi- no kidding- laughed at the secret message stuff- he shoots that stuff at us all the time, and often I give him back a blank stare...Count the Hebrew letters, say it backwards, - you get the picture?

Heard about Zines on a cable show, and clicked into yours- Your article showed me I better pay closer attention to this stuff during the next service I attend or I could be missing the winning Lotto numbers which I keep searching for- maybe Kevin Bacon could steer me in the right direction...

Thanks I loved it-

ellen

Although not everyone was quite in agreement on my conclusions about The Bible Codes twisted conclusions:

Date: Sunday, 29-Jun-97 12:24 PM
From: Leopold M. Toribio III
Subject: Re: It's the Bible Stupid

Jim,

I believe the computer research into the Bible was originally directed at establishing a literary provenance (who wrote what, when). In fact, the original developer of these programs has thoroughtly disclaimed the notion of hidden codes predicting the future. (Why didn't you mention that?)

It was not until some entrepeneurs got hold of the software and started marketing it that these outrageous claims were invented to titillate the imaginations of prospective buyers. It is simply another case of profit motive corrupting an otherwise legitimat pursuit.

Regards,

Leo Toribio (ltoribio@nb.net)

I think a little research on and off the web will show that everyone who's stood behind this inane exercise in twentieth century Nostradamian scrying has tried to tie the Bible codes to modern day events. If one thing's a constant between ancient times and today, it's hucksters making a swift buck and running for the next town before the peasants form a lynch mob.