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Article #1038Re: What is 'Charon's boat'?
From: David C. Kovar
Date: Thu, 12 Sep 1985 03:47
Date: Thu, 12 Sep 1985 03:47
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Charon was the boatkeeper on the river Styx that took the dead across to
Hades. (I'm probably mixing Greek and Roman here.) Subject of a few songs
and quite a few myths. Anyhow, it means that you were already dead when
you quit out of the game to save yourself from losing points.
--
David C. Kovar
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"I felt like a punk who'd gone out for a switchblade and come back
with a tactical nuke.
'Shit', I thought. 'Screwed again. What good's a tactical nuke in a
street fight?'"
"Burning Chrome" by William Gibson
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Relay-Version: version B 2.10 5/3/83; site utzoo.UUCP Posting-Version: version B 2.10.2 9/18/84; site dartvax.UUCP Path: arc1-ca.pugleaf.net!utzoo!watmath!clyde!burl!ulysses!ucbvax!decvax!dartvax!davidk From: davidk@dartvax.UUCP (David C. Kovar) Newsgroups: net.games.hack Subject: Re: What is 'Charon's boat'? Message-ID: <3577@dartvax.UUCP> Date: Wed, 11-Sep-85 23:47:33 EDT Article-I.D.: dartvax.3577 Posted: Wed Sep 11 23:47:33 1985 Date-Received: Fri, 13-Sep-85 03:42:44 EDT References: <5540@fortune.UUCP> Reply-To: davidk@dartvax.UUCP (David C. Kovar) Distribution: net Organization: Dartmouth College, Hanover, NH Lines: 18