MIT Science Fiction Society

84 Massachusetts Avenue

Cambridge, MA 02139



Minutes

Friday, May 11th, 1990



bing MITSFS meeting called to order, Friday, May 11th, 1990, 1700 SST, John Conger, President and Skinner presiding.

Minutes are read by RPP.

(JCC) Motions concerning the minutes?

(HAM) Cowabunga.

(A S) (Waves hands wildly.)

(WDS) This guy's gonna practice medicine!

(HAM) Practice, that's the key word.

(C H) I'll second that.

Motion passes 9 to 3 to 1 plus Spehn.



bing Committee Reports

(WDS) People's Albanian Embassy: Albania is starting to de-isolate itself; I think the end of the world is near myself.

(A S) In addition to that, I put up an article on Albania.



bing Old Business

(C H) Andy's here!

ALGOL Klannng!



New Business

(WDS) Mini-Cult: Madison, WI: A smoker who thought his nicotine fit constituted an emergency faces a possible jail term and fine for calling the 911 emergency center to have cigarettes delivered. The geek called the center at 9 PM Monday and asked for an ambulance; when the paramedics arrived, he told them he was having a nicotine fit and needed cigarettes. Quote: “I just want what I have coming to me.”

(KRJ) And he's gonna get it!

(HAM) Do we have Janice's mini-cult she brought us, about the galaxy shaped like the space baby?

(John holds up clipping from a rag.)

(JCC) New galaxy discovered, shaped like a human fetus -- and scientists detect a heart beat!

(WDS asks about caution signs for parts of library. Suggests “Caution: Corrosive Materials -- Wear Required Protection” for GOR novels.)

(JCC) What's wrong with the Gor Novels?

(WDS) Move to force John and Stephanie to read out loud to one another from imaginative sex!

(JCC) Oh, I don't think that's a good idea; I'll destroy that right now.

(LAM) Move to commend Andy for wearing a bananna colored shirt with Teenage Mutant Ninja Turtles on the front.

John seconds it.

Motion passes 7 to 2 to 3 plus Spehn.

Meeting adjourns 1710 SST.



Respectfully submitted,

Robert Poole, Onseck