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1. Once upon a time,       ▓   ▐▄         ▓       ░         there was a little
ferret who ran around happily ▒         ▌         ·in the frozen wasteland.
Nibbles the ferret enjoyed     .       ■    .hopping, bopping, and playing.
Until one day, when the big bad NetSplit came and threatened to eat her up!
What's a poor little ferret to do?  So Nibbles called her  good friends and
cohorts Force Ten, Friar Tuck, and Mass Delusion to set her up with new tcl
scripts.  And they all lived happily ever after in iCE.org.

1½.Oh boy.  If you haven't already noticed, I've lost it.

2. Wow October is a slow month...

3. Viper was removed from the active memberlist because he moved to Jupiter on
a bicycle built for two.

Also Split decided Motion is the group for him, although not because of the
apology listed below.  Sorry to see ya' leave, cornholio.

4. On a more  serious note,  iCE would like to  extend a warm welcome to a few
new  cohorts in  artistic  representation.   (uh, that's  like,  doodleboys
and stuff -BH  yeah! m m heh heh m -B)  They are: Visigoth, VGA Studmuffin,
Devine Styler,  ANSI Starlet, and The Green Hornet, ANSI Insect and overall
super guy.  Yep.   That's as serious  as it gets  when I do  the .NFO file,
folks.

5. Lemonade has  shocked  the  United States  by  introducing  a  new  line of
freshly  squeezed ANSI juices.   The juices are advertised  with the slogan
"OJ will kill you, drink some nice cool Lemonade!"

6. Mass Delusion failed another midterm and has been demoted to Trial Courier.
He will report to Lord Soth, who is the Senior Trial Courier. Force Ten has
been appointed  Administrative Head  to the Chief Trial  Courier Assistant,
who was not available for questioning.

7. Site News!  arpeggio.res.cmu.edu in /othergroups/ice is one site that holds
our packs!  New packs  can be found in the  /incoming directory.  Our world
wide web page is still under construction at  http://www.ice.org.  Speaking
of which, our very own domain (ice.org) is evolving as we speak!  E-mail us
with a hello to ice@kiwi.ice.org!  More ice.org news to come... stay tuned.

8. I'd like to  encourage everyone  to check out  the rad  Freedom  Intro with
graphics by our very own XTen!   It's better than audio tapes of Friar Tuck
winning the Alfred University Belching Competition.   Go Xten!  Get this on
ftp.cdrom.com at /demos/hornet/freedom/freedom.zip

9. There is no  number nine.   I don't like  this number.   Actually,  I don't
really  mind it, but since this is my first .NFO  in a long time,  I wanted
to do  something interesting to  make people think.   Bet you're  thinking.
Bet you're  thinking about number  ten huh?  What if I told you there isn't
a number ten either?   Heh Heh Heh.   Ooooooooooohhhh Baby.   You know, now
that I  think about it,  I like the number  nine.  Why?   Because  the lead
singer of  Love  Battery's name is  Ron Nine,  and I think  they're kind of
rad.  So there, I guess there is a nine.   A pseudonine.  Don't use that as
your handle.  It's like, mine.  And don't use my real name on a conference.
If you know what that means, you're oldskewl.  Hi.

10. This spot is reserved in memory of Shannon Hoon.

10½.Hi J'onn.  High Ben.  Hi Defect.

11. iCE's Canadian Headquarters, The Twisted Tower, has been attacked by large
armies of  satanic lemmings.  The lemmings  fought nobly and  overtook the
walls of the great Tower, which is now completely run by the lemmings. The
lemmings don't know much about modems though,  so they sacrificed them all
to the God of spoons and forks with blotchy complexions in purple egotism.
Sadly,  we must  bid The  Twisted Tower  good-bye.  iCE  is not  accepting
applications for a replacement at this time.

12. APOLOGIES GO HERE.  HERE.  HERE.  GOT THAT JON?

12½.I needed somewhere to apologize,  so I'll squeeze them in here, between 12
and 14.  First  I want to apologize  to Supreme for leaving him out of the
memberlist accidentally. Then I want to apologize to Hellrazor for leaving
him out of the memberlist AND  forgetting to mention that he joined in the
NFO.  Finally  I want to  apologize to  Splint and  Surreal Logic.   After
forgetting to  release the  US-VIT1.ICE  ansi 2 months ago,  I released it
last month,  although I  forgot to change  the font to VOTB.  This is what
I'd call an  unlucky ansi,  and a BAD month  for me.   So although  Splint
refused a free ansi, I did one for Surreal Logic, since he got screwed out
of an ansi.  Hey, we're not perfect  here in the iCE Pastures,  but when I
find that  I make a mistake it  really hurts, and I don't expect others to
suffer  from my mistakes.   So SL, my most  sincere apologies,  enjoy  the
ansi :).  Splint, I still owe you for putting up with me. -Slothy

14. Just to beat a dead horse because  we're good for that,  I wanted to point
out that iCE has a  permanent voice  mail request and information hotline.
The number is 1-800-221-5089, box 8iCE (8423).   This service is available
toll  free, 24/7,  from all of  the  USA and  Canada.   PS: It's  Slothy's
cheese-E  voice on  it.   It's  not mine.   I had nothing  to do  with it.
Here's  our rad  P.O. Box  for mailings,  postal bombs,  and chain letters
(don't forget by-mail requests with checks (in US Funds) too!):
iCE Advertisements
P.O. Box 11233
Fairfield, NJ 07004 USA
Attn: Turnip Department

Note that the last line of the address is optional.

15. And with that,  I bid thee  farewell until  next time.   If there  is one.
Someone from  another art group  mentioned  something about  almost dying.
Or was that the group?  I dunno.  Whatever.

Uh, like, bye!
-Force Ten-
1-800-221-5089 Box: 7058
forceten@nexxus.novasys.com
-Lord Soth-
1-800-340-6245 Box: 4,000,001:
slothy@netcom.com            |

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