bing MITSFS meeting called to order, Friday, October 19th, 1990,
1700 SST, John Conger, President and Skinner presiding.
(DKK) (Reads minutes very fast.)
(KRJ) motiontoapprovetheminutesasmumble.
Motion passes lotstononetomaybealittleplusspehn.
bing Committee Reports
(WDS) FameComm: (Something about a local guy who claims to have invented the carbon 12 diamond.)
(RPP) CorneliaOtis: The BBC is starting a sitcomm called Heil Honey, I'm home. The premise is that Adolf Hitler and Eva Braun are living in an apartment in Berlin next to a Jewish couple. This is supposed to be funny.
(WDS) StreckComm: Brent Spiner is a really cool actor.
(RPP) There was an article in NewsWeek about the new Trek. It's supposedly more popular than the old show ever was.
(Malcolm) Last Sunday's Land of the Lost, they actually are getting to the good episodes. This last episode they showed was scripted by Larry Niven.
(JCC) On Twin Peaks, they just introduced signals from space to explain away the supernatural stuff.
(WDS) The two top editors of Omni have quit in protest of the cover of the latest issue. An ad was visible on the cover through an oval hole.
bing Old Business
(JCC) I was going to get an LSC slide for MITSFS. Well, I was busy.
(S G) Motion to commend the Skinner for his promptness.
Motion passes lots to 1 to 1 plus Spehn.
(C H) SnakeComm: In the Boston Globe: Apparently, a pet distributor sent out a shipment of deadly poisonous snakes as garter snakes.
(Malcolm) Madonna is threatening to spank 18 year olds who do not register to vote.
ALGOL.
bing New Business
(D K) Kendall and Friedman won the Nobel Prize.
(C H) Total Recall tonight.
(S G) Motion to cleverly disguise a deadly East-Asian water snake as a bananna.
Motion passes 9 to 2 to 3 plus Spehn.
Meeting adjourns 1717 SST.