MITSFS meeting called to order, 1700 SST, Andy Su, President and Skinner, presiding.
Minutes of the previous meeting (7/5/85) read and corrected.
ATS: Move to approve the minutes as emanating electromagnetic radiation at a wavelength of approximately 6500 angstroms. Passes billions and billions-merely millions and millions-3 +Spehn.
BING!
ATS: Shoulda-seen-it-comingcomm: The return of the Real Thing, to be reintroduced as Coke Classic, making a total of six kinds of Coke. Also, both Coke and Pepsi spacecans are on the shuttle, which was scheduled to launch at 1630. Coca-Cola spent 250,000 developing their spacecan, and Pepsi spent 14,000,000.
Flaming about Coke as a stomach soothant.
JME: Gavelcomm: Gavels have made it to the status of high art. Robert Harmon has an exhibit of wrench sculpture at Bromfield Gallery. Article attached.
SLP: LHE Report: Income last month was 1237.95 (Finboard grant finally came in), expenditures 485.39, profit 752.56, equity 5489.25.
BPS: Jourcomm: I got another book review. That makes four. More stuff, folks!
RvdH: Moocomm: Theater of Blood and The Raven tonight. Also, The Lift is a really great Dutch movie about an elevator system that runs riot when a lightning bolt reprograms its Japanese brain. They actually took this theme and did a good job with it.
BPS: Moocomm: More people think Back to the Future is really great, specifically everyone who's seen it.
SSDT: Moocomm: Mad Max Beyond Thunderdome stinks. About half an hour in, he runs into a tribe of lost children and spends the rest of the movie babysitting.
BPS: Moocomm: Explorers opens tonight. Janice says it was written by a clerk in an SF bookstore, probably Change of Hobbit.
LAK: Moocomm: Last night there was a preview of Weird Science, in which two high school boys invent a girl.
JME: Again, dangerous Moocomm: Back to the Future is doing well for its star, Michael J. Fox. It's being used to help advertise him in a TV movie.
Connie Hirsch: Moocomm: Cocoon was good, not corny at all.
ATS: Moocomm: I hear Silverado is pretty good, but haven't seen it.
JME: Official Second: Waldenbooks has an SF club that costs nothing to join and gives some discounts. Spike's is preferable, but if you're trapped in some foreign city...
BING!
Motion to name our new copier Mr. Fusion is untabled and passes more than enough-anybody who wants to leave-3 +Spehn. Andy states that he wants no more filthy invasions by Robert's Rules.
ATS: We got a boring letter from Tim Huckelbery, and a cute Peanuts comic strip (attached).
OBA: usual garbage. Sold.
BING!
ATS: Minicult: Reagan's helping a boy get money for a kidney transplant. A senior aid said "This is America, and we don't allow six-year-olds to die." Janice suggested that he meant to say "Republican six-year-olds."
BPS: Minicult: An Atlanta disc jockey locked himself in the control room and played nothing but Bob Seger's Old Time Rock and Roll for three days. Attached.
ATS: The kicksteps are in.
KM: Move to commend the society for buying school bus colored kicksteps. Dies for lack of a second.
BPS: Minicult: Miami golfers are certainly dedicated. They kept right on playing even when the clubhouse caught fire and smoke and firehoses were all over the course. Article attached.
ATS: Minicult: Andy starts to read a hack memo concerning Institute employees who die on the job, but nobody wants to listen to it because it's been around for years. Memo attached.
BPS: Minicult: A suicidal man stole a plane and threatened to crash it into the restaurant where his wife worked. An FAA official said "He wasn't having a very rational day." Article attached.
CH: They got the voice recorder from the Air India disaster, and now they got the flight data recorder from a depth of 6700 feet using a robot submersible.
Rabbits is sung for one verse, then the effort collapses.
JME: Minicult: I forget the details. Never mind.
ATS: Move to name our pretty banana-colored kicksteps Huey, Dewey, and Louie, after the robots in Silent Running. Passes enough-no one-
Suddenly, Janice remembers her Minicult, and voting is suspended!
JME: Minicult: A step in some direction for equality of the sexes- Mayor Koch got described as a sixty-year-old bachelor in a Glob photo caption.
BPS: Minicult: The Playboy/Penthouse race to publish the Madonna pictures turned out to be a dead heat.
ATS: End of time warp! Motion passes enough-DB, in other words, no one-4 +Spehn.
Meeting adjourned, 1740 SST.