$-$-$-$-$-$-$-$-$-$-$-$-$-$-$-$-$-$-$-$-$-$-$-$-$-$-$-$-$-$-$-$-$-$-$-$-$-$-$-$ - - $ Tap.Interviews.III! $ - The Saga Continues! - $ $ - $A New Beginning$ - $ April 91st, 1987! $ - - -$-$-$-$-$-$-$-$-$-$-$-$-$-$-$-$-$-$-$-$-$-$-$-$-$-$-$-$-$-$-$-$-$-$-$-$-$-$-$- Hiho! the text file series to end all text file series, in scope, breadth, wit, originality and great wisdom. IS BACK! Before I start, here's our ElIte Phreak MC: Live Lord, to tell you about this latest and greatest installment. Hit it Live! {Any simularity between persons in the ElItE phreak/hacker and pirate domains, is totally off base. By the by, NO this file wasn't converted from prodos to dos, but we're sticking with the elite filename seperater "." anyway!} LL: You know I wouldn't miss this for the world dude! I want to state for the record that I DIDN'T write Tap.Interviews.II, that was a lie! Someone hacked into all my accounts and uploaded it and I was under demonic possesion at the time I wrote it and didn't know what I was doing and I'm not responsible for anything that was in it and the people I ragged on really like me, we're best friends now and they're cool and please just don't kill me ok? and.. {cut} ME: Getting carried away are we LL? Let's stick to the agenda ok? LL: Can I have my mom back now? ME: No! Not yet, after you're all done maybe I'll swing something. LL: Sigh, ok dude. As I was saying: It's not my fault! But whoever DID write Tap.Interviews.II was a genius, compare it to the real, I mean original Tap. Interviews. How many times does THAT make you laugh? huh? Not once by god! I made a vast improvement, I mean whoever wrote it made a vast improvement over the original. Didn't you laugh? I did! Chris did and you gotta respect anyone who would fill up 2 sides of a disk with his opinions on everything right? I sure do, in fact in the near future I hope to fill up more than two sides of a disk with my opinions, maybe even 4 or more and.. {cut} ME: Shall we get on with it? LL: Fuck you, you're cramping my style. {Live Lord's mom begins to scream as her hair is set on fire.} LL: Ok goddamnit, fucking OK. Here is the slightly changed format that will be used in Tap.Interviews.III. Since there will be so many people interviewed I will be LL: {instead of the time honored ME:} and the person I'm talking to will be their initials: {instead of the time honored AN:} After I get done with the EliTe phreak/hacker interviews, Elven Magician will come on as MC for the pirate interviews. There is also a special prize for the person who can figure out who's writing Tap.Interviews this time! I'll give you 2 hint's! It's not the real Infiltrater {just as well, Tap.Interviews.I wasn't funny!} and it's not me! The prize will be a 3 week fun filled vacation to scenic Pigs Knuckle Idaho, the town made ElItE and famous because Lord Analog said it's name in Tap.Interviews.I {can you imagine? the ultra ElItE one himself saying that? It gives me such a rush}. Which was the only funny thing in there. But that's not all! Skip Avatar & Captain Rooney will be your tour guides and The Shitman's mom will be your personal escort for the entire length of your stay! Put some pancake makeup on her and she's as good as new! Who could ask for more than this!??!?! Enough of this, on to the interviews! First up is the elitest of the elite, that god cast into mortal form himself, the {C}reator {see where his ego's at} of Ethereal Access, that preppie turned mental patient, the greatest living arguement yet that AD&D does cause Satan worship, anti-social behavior, total personality reversal and possible brain damage, the dude who has surpassed eliteness and found a new state of mind beyond it, the supre.... {cut by editor}: Lord Analog! LL: {Struggling to keep from fainting from the excitement}. Shit! It's great to meet you! My entire life is based upon yours, I think you're as elite as anyone will ever get. Except, I gotta say I was very dissapointed when Ethereal Access leaked out and ended up being real! What kind of a joke is a real program? LA: la de da.... lalalalalala.... la de da.... Hear that? echo's from space are flashing by as we speak. Woooooshhhhhh, wooooooooshhhhhhh. Can you hear the Loons? wooooooooshhhhhhhhhhhh wooooooooooooooooo..... {cut} LL: Yeah I hear them! great sounds, should tape it and it would replace Floyd in a second. Let me just take this moment to tell you how great Ethereal Access is and give you a compliment. LA: Oh grow up, when I want your opinion I'll give it to you, not only that, I'll have it tattooed to your forehead. Now shut up, you're disturbing the wooooooosh woooooosh of interstellar space you idiot. LL: Sorry, cheez, I'll never compliment you again, I was just impressed, the manual, I meant softdox, that came with it were really nice too. Big, uh total in their completeness, stupendessly large.... Reminded me of War and Peace. LA: Being the well read, well versed, all around know it all of all things that I am, I've heard of War and Peace. Some kind of short story wasn't it? I remember reading it during a commerical one day. LL: Uh........ right, you got it......... about 4,000 pages. LA: Yeah, a short story. The 666.666.666 Ethereal Access docs come in at just under 12 million pages, when I revise them they'll be available on cd. LL: Sounds great, I must read them some decade when I'm stuck in the house with nothing to do. LA: They're written in a combination of Latin, Hindi, Chinese and German, with a technical Russian translation available upon request. Did I mention the new and improved Sanskrit fontset? No I don't think I did, let me tell you about it. It......... {cut} -- more -- LL: Sounds awesome. But world is waiting for your opinion of Skip Avatar. Come on you can tell me! LA: No I can't, you saw how I avoided the direct question about Minimal Element when The Instigator asked me that in Tap.Interviews. If I don't want to answer a question, it's my divine right to give you a 12,000 paragraph answer that totally avoids the question! Like when I say something like "His life doesn't have to meet with my approval" or "he knows many people who know what they're doing, so if he knows how to do something or not, doesn't matter, because he knows enough people who know what they're doing, when they're doing it, how to do it and wax cars, chew gum, walk and do the hoola-hoop at the same time" I'm practicing what I preach and lying in a very low key way. LL: Can you translate that into one sentence? LA: They both suck. LL: Thank you, see that wasn't so bad! I only have one or two more questions to ask....... LA: Oh very well. What is it that you wanted? LL: I wanted to know if you might consider making a user friendly version of Ethereal Access that can be used without so many arcane commands and maybe a little simpler to understand. And maybe put 5 minutes of work into translating some of your source codes, or if you really don't care, telling someone to give them all out, or even give them out yourself. The great guy, I meant dipshit, who leaked it out, compiled it and the editor got lost along the way. Some of the parts and docs are missing too. Will you do anything to help us out? LA: No LL: No? LA: Yeah, No. Any other questions? LL: What exactly does the "[RL19XCQBLT0*^++--99E9946]" function in Sub-Sub-Sub- Module-Template B9137A do? I don't get it. LA: Pretty elementary actually. Let me give you a simple explanation of it, so that even you can understand it: That function compares the current Dow Jones average, squares it by the speed of light, divides that by the # of people who died in Ethiopia today, subtracts that value from the tempeture in NY minus the Tempeture in California, sqaured to the 4th power, wherin n*7-nl, whereas n=the total circumphrence of the earth and nl=the annual rainfall in the outback and puts the end result into the $ZZ(99) array for computations in the strobing matrix. When the Matrix strobes to the red zone it means your toast is ready. Got it? LL: Um..... LA: Told you it was pretty simple, any other questions? LL: Um..... any new mods in mind for version 7.0? LA: Sure! I have a few lined up ready to go. There's the new temporal hack modification {note full spelling of modification, never, ever, abbreviate modification to mod. Don't even think about it} that makes use of the flaws I found in Einstein's theories, it's not bad, right now I have it where I can finish hacking before I start. That's ok, but it needs some work. I also plan to work on a user interface that will give you something to do while the system is running, like a mini motion picture that is a graphic representation of all the easy, moderate and complex actions taking place during every nanosecond of use. LL: Sounds amazing! What does it look like? Must take a lot of memory! LA: Actually it takes very little memory, see theres the graphic representation of the system being invaded, it's a little white bunny. Then there's the graphic representation of Ethereal Access swooping down on the little white bunny, it's a large, black, armor plated mass, with a set of jaws 3 light years wide and saliva dripping down some really wicked looking fangs about to eat the little bunny rabbit. It gets sort of old after seeing it 4 or 5 thousand times, so I add little effects like blood dripping and things like that. You know, to make it more cheerfull looking. LL: Oh.... sounds user friendly. I must admit I'm a little confused about a few more things. Could you explain one more time, just how OCC dial theory works, why did you invent it and what are the benefits? I don't get it. LA: Well, see.. Let me draw an analogy for you. Let's say the OCC is this huge 9000 ton blue hedgehog named Arnold ok? Ethereal Access is represented by the gaps between galaxies in conjunction with the rotation of the zodiac and the bisecting meridians of the event horizon on a black hole. Now if the azimuth can be eqaully divided by infinity, thereby.... {cut} LL: I appreciate you taking the time to clear that up for me. Enough on the Ethereal Access questions, now I want to ask you some questions about you! LA: Say.... haven't I heard this before? Hey! what's that rectangular bulge under your jacket huh? If it's a walkman I'm going to cut off your head and feed it to the devil, he lives in my attic. I have this thing against people carrying walkmans you know? LL: No! No, nope, nope, never! I hate walkman's too, shitty things. Heh, ha,ha ha,ha.... it's.... it's a paperback book! That's it, a paperback book! No walkman for me, nope nope nope. That's what I wanted to ask you about a little, what's this thing about unreality and um... how to say it.... well, your fast approaching mental breakdown? LA: Reality isn't real, nothing at all is real, the only things that are really real are the real things you really believe to be real. So if Guido the Knife says the voices made him do it, maybe they did! Just because you can't hear the voices doesn't mean they aren't there. LL: Do you hear the voices? LA: Sure all the time! How do you think I come up with all this stuff? I just stop making the effort to hold on to reality and let my mind roam. Where would we be without the ability let our minds wander? Or is that a lyric? Anyway I'm working on a even more modified Ethereal Access 7.0, called Astral Access 66.6, with it you can do a direct batch hack of astral mainframes and have access to everything that ever existed, will ever exist, or might ever exist, period. It's in the planning stage right now, so I expect it'll be.... 5 or 6 hours before I get the finished version all done an. {cut} LL: But.... er...... th.. LA: .ee so when the plutorus humocus is in aligment with the death star and sidereal timeline 94.brt is fluctuating at 23 kilocycles with the amperage set to the nexus of sominus, it feeds the dog. ............................................................................... We break now for a brief commerical to help pay the bills. This commerical has nothing to do with anything else in this interview and shouldn't be taken to mean that it does. Hi! Peppy the Pusher here to tell you about a brand new miracle product! Are you a little on the rotund side? Do your clothes come from Omar the tent maker? face it, are you FAT? Now there's hope! no more eating 10 pounds of cucumbers! no more sensible meal plans! Eat all you want! anytime you want! yes that's right! all this and more, all you have to do is add our miracle product to each meal! or take it during snacks, instead of snacks, anytime at all! 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Remember "It's better to look good, then to feel good" brought to you as a joint effort of the better mental health clinic and Mort's embalming service, to help retain that sleek and sexy look right into the grave before the maggots eat you {and what's left of your brain!} {Editor breaks in} Peppy, you said you weren't going to do this. So I lied! buzz off! this is my ad space! All this and MORE MORE MORE! Order NOW!!!! BLOW is a product of Cocaine labratories, a wholly owned subsidiary of Crack industries. "Crack - get a piece of the rock!" Now back to you Don Pardo! ............................................................................... {we continue with the interview all ready in progress} LL: Sounds real good, but how can I run it if I don't have the hardware? LA: Oh it's not too complex this time, all you need is a Cray6 with a MacIV acting as a intelligent printer buffer, hooked to a apple //e acting as an intelligent modem, hooked to a sun workstation, acting as a intelligent tab aligment machine, hooked to a F-15 that's acting as a intelligent power supply, hooked to a.... {cut} LL: Silly me, I thought it would be complicated this time. LA: No, I decided to keep is simple. LL: How do you feel about the trend you started in Tap.Inverviews? Many people have taken it as the bible of truth for the online domain. Everywhere you see people quoting entire sentences out of it {like me for instance} and a almost complete change in peoples attitudes to elite boards. How do you feel about starting this? LA: I don't care. LL: You don't care? LA: No. LL: Anything else to say about that? LA: No. LL: What do you do to relax when you aren't........ aren't........ well aren't doing whatever it is that you usually do? LA: I like to take large amounts of acid and write weird poetry while thinking about the implications of what would happen if inner space became outer space and infinity was finite, while listening to Led Zeppelin and Doors albums. LL: Uh yeah....... sounds very relaxing. LA: It is. LL: I was just wondering, when's the last time you wrote a complete sentence that someone without a degree in English could understand, without looking up words in a dictionary? LA: Funny you should postulate such an occurance, I do beleive I wrote such a sentence back in 1982, yes I recall it fondly myself, simple, to the point, and people understood it. Can't have that now can we? LL: No, I guess not. LA: Well there you go. LL: You're one of the elitest people to ever hit the modem domain, but you aren't on any boards where anyone can reach you. What's the use of being elite if none of your followers can find you? If they can't find you, they can't kiss your ass, like me for example. I've been trying for years and when I got so tired of never finding you, I just started impersonating you on a few boards for laughs. What's wrong with you anyway? LA: I think I'm insane, but don't hold it against me. LL: You think? LA: What? LL: You think you're insane? LA: Are you trying to imply something? LL: Um.... dude.... LA: Because if you are, then you can be the next ritual sacrifice. I don't care about anything, I can get out of any jail, I just disintegrate my atomic structure and reintegrate it wherever I want to be, I don't care, I don't care, I don't care about you or anyone else! Or is that a lyric again? and al ..{cut} LL: No! I didn't say that, I meant that.... um.... th.. LA: I have Adolf's brain in a jar you know. He talks to me sometimes. LL: Heh, he. hah ha.... uh.... that's cool. uh.... I think I should be going now. It's........ LA: See I worked out this theorem about matter and light, for example let's say you sqaure infinity and subdivide it by the total refraction of a purple cow and then.... {cut} LL: Heh hah, look at the time! LA: So you see, this consitutes conclusive proof that I can dissapear at will, the only problem is reapearing, but I think I can figure that out too. So when you take a mutliple of rk2-b and apply it to the intronsic streams present in the dna/rna coding, you dissapear! like this! {Poof} LL: Ha, heh, ho.... good trick.......... LL: Hello? LL: Heh, well how about that! Great interviews wasn't it? Heh, um.... ah.... Let's move onwards now. Next up we have that hulking hunk of masculeinity, the "man" who isn't afraid to tell people he's sensitive by wearing eye shadow, the first elite phreak / hacker ever to wear eye liner and blusher, the future hardcore mega-star just waiting to be discovered in the back alley's of some dead town in Ohio, the only person who cried when he found out newsweek was almost bankrupt, that 5'4" towering inferno of great info ....{cut again by the editor}: King Blutto! LL: Heh, ha.... hey.... looking............ thin...... yeah very thin..... kind of pale too, or is that makeup? {moving away from Blutto in case he has the unspeakable disease} KB: Are you trying to imply that I'm a heterosexual you brat, rodent, wimpgeek? LL: Nooooo, nope, nononononono. I never said you were a heterosexual. KB: Are you calling me gay? chickenshit! I'll drink your blood for that you you you you {steam coming out of ears} you you rodent, geek, brat, wimp! LL: Uh.... no. I never for a second thought you might be straight, I meant gay, I'm sure you'll take the fashion world by storm someday. Nice hair.... blue offsets your mascara nicely. KB: Thanks for the compliment, I now declare you one of my subjects, so when I open all my messages in exactly the same way on every system {Impersonators start taking notes} like this "To all my subjects:" you can be a offical subject of mine too! LL: Always looking for an oppurtunity to kiss ass, thank you. KB: Anytime, I'll even throw in some tickets to see our band play over at the 65 and over Bingo reception tuesday night. We're called King Blutto and the Cathedral choir boys. LL: I'm really in your debt now, but before I get in too deap, I'll have to pass on those tickets, my Iranian diplomacy class meets that day. KB: Are you trying to say I have no talent you rodent, leach, geek, wimp, brat, chickenshit? LL: Oh nooo! nope, nononononono. Uh huh, I'd love to see you and your band get out there on the stage and........ and.... and do whatever it is that hardcore bands do, throw up into the audience was it? no, don't tell me, let it be a surprise! What I really wanted to ask was a couple of questions about you! KB: Oh! that's different. Would you like a autographed autobiography? 8X20 glossy fit for framing? our latest demo cut of this song I wrote called "I woke up one morning lying in a alley in a pool of slime", a King Blutto fan club button? A signed copy of......{cut} LL: Um.... I only wanted to talk to you about your elite board and elite friends and elite wares and all around eliteness. KB: Sure! I ran a elite board, it was the most secure board that was ever run, Richard Sandza is a close personal friend of mine, don't rag on him or else you will feel my wrath! LL: What was so great about your board? KB: I ran it. LL: Um.... ok.... Oh yeah! I wanted to ask you about Bluttoware! I remember your opening message used to say you were a elite pirate too. I can go for that, I'm serious now, when I think of the pirate greats, the names that come to my mind right away- King Blutto, Mr. Canon, Krac0ritz, Disk Rider, yeah, in that order in fact. KB: See? Told ya i was elite! LL: Yeah, I can see how wrong I was thinking you were just another loudmouth 24 year old with the emotional development of a 10 year old kid. By god, you are elite after all! KB: I know. LL: Well.. we have some of Lord Analog's accomplishment's, Lex Loother told us everything he ever did in the last installment and I'll be talking to him next anyway, so what.... um.... h...... th...... what have you ever accomplished, in phreaking/hacking that is I mean. What did you do or write or invent or contribute, or anything, um.... KB: I got a 2 word mention in newsweek LL: Uh yeah, I know. So did a bunch of oth...... KB: But they were rodent, geek, wimp brats, I'm not! LL: I can see where you're coming from. Anything else you've ever done? KB: I Invented the Blutto box! LL: But it's not real and it doesn't do anything an.... KB: That's what people said about Ethereal Access! See how wrong they were? I have built a Blutto box, it's in my pocket right now, I can blow up the entire phone system whenever I want! LL: Think I could take a peek? KB: Well.... ok! Look! ............ ! !\.! !.......!..! ! ! ! Ti{ Ta{! ! ! ! ! Mints! ! !..........! LL: Um, Blutto...... it looked like a box of tic tac's.. KB: Good disguise huh? LL: Yeah.... you really think of everything. Anything else you've ever done? KB: I discovered Qourom-P conferencing. LL: But that was another joke, just like you and Dull Gillette telling everyone that ROTL ports are really REMOB's and.... KB: You wimp, geek, brat, rodent, leach! Wasn't that funny? LL: Um.... it was a riot, but what have you done that's of any worth, that's real? KB: Teletrial! The best idea ever invented and I thought of it myself! LL: Yeah, amazing invention, the whole world took notice that time. KB: I know. LL: Uh yeah, I hear you're also very mad about the Molecule calling you a loser in his Famous Losers of 1984 file, anything to say about that? KB: That chickenshit, rodent, wimp, geek, I'll drink his blood for that! I hate rodents who make loser lists. What a rodentish thing to do! LL: Blutto........ didn't your board have one of the first online loser lists? KB: What does that have to do with anything? Those were people I called losers! Who the fuck does the Molecule think he is? Calling me a loser? LL: But you did the same thing, in fact you're the first elite to ever spend more time ragging on people than copying books into text files. You started an entire trend, an..........{cut} KB: Are you trying to say something rodent? LL: Not really, just a thought. KB: Good, why don't you shut up before I drink your blood! LL: Ok, but what did you ever accomplish though? KB: Didn't I just tell you rodent? LL: Yeah I guess you did. We'll get back to this at some other time {or maybe never if I can tactfully forget it}. Now what about these things Mr. Canon said about you being a terrible programmer and the Goonif saying the same thing in the National Enlightener's? KB: I'm the best programmer ever you wimp, rodent, leach, lose, geek! How can you say I'm not? Why look at what I've programmed! I changed the print's on GBBS for Bluttoland and I made a arcade machine game with Prof Xavier in my elite pirate days! Don't my accomplishments speak for themselves? LL: Can't argue with it KB, they sure do. Anything to say about Bluttoland being crashed, inited and uploaded all over? KB: Fucking rumors spread by rodents! not true! LL: Anything to say about the same thing happening to your current base BBS Christ's Cathedral, being crashed, the entire confidential userfile and software downloaded, packed and re-uploaded to every cat-fur around? KB: That never happened, another rumor. LL: Blutto, this happened in Sept of 86! this is not the far gone past that you can rewrite to suit yourself and.... KB: You rodent wimp geek! dare to question me? I.. LL: Blutto, I have the software myself! I've seen it an.... KB: What does that have to do with anything you chickenshit geek? I'm telling you it never happened, what are you going to believe the proof or me? LL: Now that you've put it back into perpective for me, I'm sorry, I should never have questioned you. Please forgive me my king. KB: Much better rodent, bow and kneel. LL: Thank you. ............................................................................... We pause now for another commercial message! 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Not this again, didn't I just have one of these conversations? KB: {drawing a pentagram and lighting candles} LL: What is it with you people? Are you just pagan's or what's wrong with you guys? Everywhere I turn you "elites" are doing or saying something that 18th century housewives might have come up with. Does using MCI fry your brain after x amount of phone calls or something? KB: {humming, setting up skulls at the 5 points} LL: Uh.... oh my, look at the time again, really must get going now. Thanks for this interview, it's been.... h........ uh.. it's been great! yeah.... great! KB: {something that looks suspicously like the graphic representation for Ethereal Access eating bunnies, starts to materialize in the pentagram} LL: {discretion being the better part of valor, your valiant MC starts to run} Next up we have the human xerox machine: Lex Loother! {editor's note: "Where's the intro"?} {{I can't do one, he doesn't have a personality. He just types.}} {Oh...... ok, go on} LL: Before we start I'd like to know if you have any dark hidden secrets like everyone else does, tell me the truth, does the devil live in your attic, or do you talk to the moon or draw pentagrams? {Editor's note: Not wanting to confuse our readers, Live Lord will continue as "LL" and Lex will be "L$"} L$: No, no time, no time. I haven't left my room in 6 years, so many things to type and so little time. LL: I understand! Did you know that there are these new machines called optical scanners that copy books directly into text files now? L$: Wha.... oh.... no! you mean I'm obsolete?$$$$$$$$$$$$$$$$ LL: You could make the machine put a $$$$$$-=} Lex Loother {=-$$$$$$ at the front and back of every page for you. L$: $hey$! $t$h$a$t$'$s a $elite$ idea$! LL: Lex...... you're doing it again. L$: $what$? $oh$ $orry. $$$$$$$$$$$$$$$$$$$$$$$$$$$$$$$$$$$$$$$$$$$$$$$$$$$$$$$$$$$$$$$$$$$$$$$$$$$$$$$ we pause for another commerical message! Peppy the $E$l$i$t$e Pusher $ay$ If you've already gotten to the 98 lb geek look, we have another miracle product that helps you gain weight! No more sand kicked in your face down at the beach! Even if you never leave the house and have never been within 50 miles of a beach, you'll still appreciate the results! This brand new wonder product is called "Hashish!" Yes Hashish! Whenever you want to pass up dinner and type up some manuals instead, take some of our Hashish and in a few minutes you will get the urge to eat everything in sight! If you never leave the house and don't know where your nearest foodmart is located, ask mom to stock up on munchies beforehand! It's always $elite$ to plan ahead! Lex Loother is so found of Hashish that in another few weeks he'll be ready for our alternate miracle product BLOW! $$$$$$$$$$$$$$$$$$$$$$$$$$$$$$$$$$$$$$$$$$$$$$$$$$$$$$$$$$$$$$$$$$$$$$$$$$$$$$$ {back to the interview all ready in progress} LL: Anything you want to say? L$: Me you mean? LL: Yeah L$: No, I $think I $almost covered it in my $last talk with $you,$ except $for $that $time $when $I $parted $the $red $sea $and $what $about $that $time $I $invented $the $airplane $a$nd.. LL: Thanks Lex, time for the next interview! L$: Of course I told Openheimer all about atomic power, if NASA had listened to me that disaster never would have happened, Lee Iacocca took my financial advice when he was a stuggling immigrant shining shoes and$.... LL: Uh.... yeah. thanks again lex! bye! L$: ..a$n$d$.$.$$.$.$}$.$.$.$ L0D/L0H$ 4$$$$$$$ Wait! what year is this? Is there still daylight outside$?$$$?$?$$?$? L$: ?$h$e$ll$$$o$? L$: H$e $w$asn't $elite$ anyway$$$$ $$$$$$$$-=} Lex Loother {=-$$$$$$$$ $ $ $$$$$$$$$$$$$L0D/L0H$!$$$$$$$$$$$$$ $ $ $$-=} In ca$e you forgot this {=-$$ $ $ $$$$-=} wa$ the Lex Loother {=-$$$$ $ $ $$$-=} interview$!$!$!$!$$$$ {=-$$$ $ $ $$$$$$$$-=} uploaded by {=-$$$$$$$$ $ $ $$$$$$$$-=} Lex Loother {=-$$$$$$$$ $ $ $$$-=} & the Legi0n 0f D00m! {=-$$$ $ $ $$$$$$$$$$$$$$$$$$$$$$$$$$$$$$$$$$$ $ $ $$$$L0D$L0H$L0D$L0H$L0D$L0H$L0D$$$$ $ $ $$$$$.... {cut} {cut by editor, we're running out of room} Next is that elite pirate turned elite cracker turned elite phreak turned elite hacker turned elite god in mortal form too. Lord Analog's spiritual equal, that smooth talking, game playing, egotistical, talented, inventor of everything that ever was, m.. {cut by editor's}: Mr. Canon! LL: You're still alive! MC: Sorry, but I can't talk to you. LL: Why not? what's wrong? MC: You're not worthy of my notice. LL: Hey! Lord Analog talked to me! MC: He must have thought you weren't real. LL: I'm as real as you or him! MC: We're not real. LL: Uh.... not this again, please! MC: I refuse to soil myself by engaging you in coversation. Here's to crime! {Mr. Canon pulls out a uzi and smiles. It looks like your elite mc is on the run again.} LL: Next up I have the originator of 20 part text files series, the first person to copy manuals and not give credit, {Lex Loother always gives credit!} a human word processor even before Lex, th.... {cut}: BIOC Agent 000! LL: Great to see you Bioc! What have you been doing with yourself for the last two years? B0: Life is tough, I'm still working at the same restuarant as a waiter LL. LL: You mean to say that BIOC Agent 000, speed typist extraordinare, can't find a better job then working as a waiter? B0: There aren't that many jobs out there that only require you to copy books into text files you know, it's hard to find that kind of specialized work. LL: I know the feeling, you think it's easy to find work when your only job skill is having make-believe conversations with nonexistent people? B0: I can see where you'd have problems. LL: But we're not here to talk about my problems, we're here to talk about your problems Bioc, so let's get on with it. You are almost the ideal elite you know that? You had a big name, giant following, fame, rodents worshipping you and through it all, you never did anything besides copy manuals, make 500 line copies of magazine articles, copy books on unix and become the first person to ever have a signiture 9 lines long. What happened, why'd you leave? B0: My boss threatened to fire me if I kept coming in late for work, so I had to stop being elite and take more time to be a better waiter. LL: Oh...... You are also a typical elite in the way you buried your past the moment you became famous. The average person who thinks of Bioc, thinks of "your" Basics of Telecom files, they don't think of the Bioc who was a member of APRA a Apple distributors club that lasted for 3 weeks or the Bioc who really used to own a Timex or the Bioc who got thrown off 914 boards for being such a pain in the ass for other users. Hardly any at all would remember the Bioc who had 30 message wars with Big Brother and the rest of the SF ][ members all over the general section either. B0: I know LL, I've done a good job in the PR department. Even better then LOD if I do say so myself. LL: You sure have, in recognition of that, I've decided to do you a favor! B0: What's that? LL: I'm mentioning your name! Not being elite anymore you might not know it, but you aren't even legendary anymore, if it wasn't for me bringing you back into the spotlight right now, your alias would have sunk into the limbo of people who used to be elite but don't exist anymore! A select few are destined for eternal eliteness because of their great notiriety, or some great things they've done or said or written or all 4, but Bioc, you never said anything or wrote anything or did anything! You're like Lex, you only copied things and Lex is the one remembered as the human xerox machine, I'm afraid you've sunk into obscurity! B0: No! it can't be, being elite was the one thing in the world I had going for me. I had 5 sides of files out when Lex and his $'s were a gleam in some future computer owners eye! It just can't be. LL: It's true Bioc. B0: No! nononononono I can't accept that. I'm much better at typing then Lex ever was, I'm Bioc, the man with a 9 line signiture! That was my idea too! nobody ever did that before or since then! I can't be forgotten. Wait! I have it, I'll be the first elite to ever kill a interviewer! Yeah that's it! LL: Now Bioc, wait a minute, It's not my fault you're not elite anymore and.... B0: Attack!!!!!!!!!!!!! LL: {Your elite MC runs out of the soup kitchen doing 80 as a frenzied former elite runs after him with a steak knife} LL: I've had it! all these arrogant, self centered, hostile scumbags are giving me a headache! {Editor's note the "arrogant, self centered, hostile, scumbags" have no relation to our interviews} This is the last elite phreak/hacker interview I have left before turning this over to Elven Magician. Good riddence and furtherm.... {Live, are you forgetting your mother?} LL: Fuck the stupid bitch. I never liked her that much anyway, ever since she took away my modem for 3 weeks when I got that F, set her hair on fire the bitch deserves it! LLM: {Live Lord's Mother} You little shit! I knew I never should have given you a Apple Cat! Networkers aren't good enough, Smartmodems aren't good enough and this is how you repay me you, you, you, you can just forget that //GS! and I'm sick of all your.... {cut} LL: Ok stop sniveling mom, I'll do the last interview already. I'm not eating any more brussel sprouts when this is over, you can count on that. LL: The last interview is a double feature with those masters of the blue box, those big time larceny experts, those credit card abusers who know what the score is, those 2 former LOD members grown up and nowhere to go but down, those examples of what happens to elite phreaks and hackers who "grow up and enter the real world" {to borrow someones line}, those finely tuned theft machines, the.... {cut by editor}: Mark Tabs and Karl Lenin! {MT & KL} LL: How's jail treating you guys? MT: It's not that bad. It's even taught us a lot about ourselves, we're engaged to be married next week! KL: Oh stop it you! MT: Don't be so shy! you're the best! even better then that big one Tito from cellblock 12! KL: Heh, I know it dear! LL: Um...... if this is private I can leave. KL: No, stay, you're kind of cute! LL: Uh............ thanks, yeah thanks. I appreciate it. {moving away again} MT: What did you want to ask us? LL: If you guys are or were, so good, how come you're in jail? KL: Good question, got anymore? MT: I agree, excellent question. Next question? LL: What are your plans when you get out of jail? MT: We want to get a big house together overlooking the city dump, with nice pink frilly curtains and settle down and have children. KL: Yup! that's what we want. I can get a job with AT&T as some kind of operator or something, should be making almost 4 dollars a hour! MT: Don't stretch the truth dear, you know were lying got us last time, you know that 4 dollars is before taxes! KL: I know, but true love conqours all! MT: So true! ............................................................................... Peppy the Pusher says: Remember to use Close Contact Condoms for safe sex! Better to be safe then sorry! For all your abnormal needs, use CC's, I meant CCC's! Peppy the Pusher sells them and Mark Tabs and Karl Lenin recommend them! How can you go wrong? ............................................................................... {back to the interview all ready in progress} LL: Uh, yeah...... I can see that. You look happy, really happy. Anything you want to say before I go throw up, I mean close up these interviews? MT: Read a bunch of manuals and elite files and learn all you can about how the phone network operates! Then you can grow up and become a unsuccessfull credit card thief like me and Karl! KL: He's right you know! It's a long hard {giggle} road to the top, but once you're there, you'll never turn back! {Karl and Mark together}: Stay elite, eat your brussel sprouts and remember that safe sex really works! From here in jail, to all you aspiring auspicious {good word don't you think? read my elite files for more uses of auspicious} elites out there, take it from us! stay elite! LL: Thanks guys, I know this has turned my life around, most disgusting thing I've seen since I saw that black boy in scared straight. LL: I survived! another day another paycheck, hey EM get your ass out here, it's your turn. EM: What? What's going on? I haven't been around much since the Tavern went down, what's going on? LL: How should I know, elite pirates are your department. EM: No they're not, pirates are totally different from phreaks and hackers, in that field you have about 5 names that go on forever, who might not be total losers, but they say and do so many strange things, that they're always newsworthy. With pirates, if they're any good, they're nothing to rag on, since pirates don't have personalities and never say anything. What can you do, make fun of the border color they chose for the latest crack? LL: I don't see much difference, you just described both Bioc and Lex. EM: They choose bad colors? LL: No, they never say anything or do anything besides copy manuals. EM: What about all the rest? LL: What rest? that leaves about 4 with notiriety up the ass and they worship the devil or the ozone layer or themselves or all three and are psychotics anyway, can't get too near them. EM: There are only 4 or 5 phreaks and hackers total? what about all the rest? LL: Those 4 or 5 are the ones who have at least reached some new depth of original behaviour disorder and done something, I don't know what, but something, in their chosen field, so they got a lot of press. EM: Like what? LL: I don't know, don't ask me all these questions. EM: What about all the rest? LL: They have attitude problems without having anything to back up their claims of eliteness, they mostly read phone magazines and then think they know all there is to know. There are a few thousand of those. EM: What do you call them? LL: Some people call them posers, some people call them rodents, some people ignore them which makes them mad since they feel they should be getting some kind of recognition for being elite. EM: That's who I write about! It's not so different after all! There are 8 or 9 good pirates, they're boring people, you can fall asleep listening to them drone about autosync bytes and how exciting their new clear screen routine is, or what awesome protection some 10 sided, 95 track, new ware has, but they have some kind of real claim for eliteness! The rest are called new warez kids, the equivalent of your posers or rodents. LL: I was wrong then, you write about new warez kids, not pirates, what difference does it make? get on with it so I can go home and watch Max Headroom already. EM: Go then and leave me to my work, only thing that isn't right about that is the title new warez kids, some of them are in their 20's, I tried to bring this to light on the Tavern but it went down too soon. There are new warez men out there and it's not a pretty sight. LL: So write about them and leave me alone already! bye! EM: Take care and stay elite! LL: You bet and you too! LLM: Eat your brussel sprouts dear! LL: Shut up mom, I knew I should have left you there. {Kontinyood in part 2! Don't miss a single action-packed word!}