* BOFH stories, 1988-1999

* BOFH stories, 2000-present from The Register

The Register has run Simon Travaglia's BOFH stories since 2000.

Some of BOFH were reprinted in Datamation.

* The Original BOFH # 1 Usenet Post, June 10th, 1992

The Bastard Operator From Hell ( BOFH ), a fictional character created by Simon Travaglia, is a rogue system administrator who takes out his anger on users ( often referred to as lusers ), colleagues, bosses, and anyone else who gets in his way.

Semich also commissioned BOFH author Simon Travaglia to write humor columns for the magazine.

BOFH 2k began with the BOFH and PFY moving to a new company.

* The BOFH, actual name of Simon.

Also, a telnet site, called towel. blinkenlights. nl, has an ASCIImation of Star Wars Episode IV: A New Hope on port 23 and a BOFH excuse server on port 666.

Most of my stories were obtained by simply seeking out the person who could give me the facts, and not as a rule by playing clever tricks.

The Hetman's `` ideas '' for news stories or editorial campaigns were by no means always fruitless or lacking in merit.

Thus such great American documentaries as The River and The Plow That Broke The Plains were composed as visual stories rather than as illustrated lectures.

Nick recalled stories that the two best fishing spots in Southern California were over the La Jolla Deep and the Redondo Deep, two spots where the ocean dropped off to fantastic depths almost from the shoreline.

The people who told the stories were sincere.

And the stories they told were true.

When the original stories were related ( e. g. The War against the Rull ) this was often successful.

His later novels included fixups such as The Beast ( aka Moonbeast ) ( 1963 ), Rogue Ship ( 1965 ), Quest for the Future ( 1970 ) and Supermind ( 1977 ); expanded short stories ( The Darkness on Diamondia ( 1972 ), Future Glitter ( aka Tyranopolis ) ( 1973 ); original novels such as Children of Tomorrow ( 1970 ), The Battle of Forever ( 1971 ) and The Anarchistic Colossus ( 1977 ); plus sequels to his classic works, many of which were promised, but only one of which appeared, Null-A Three ( 1984 ; originally published in French ).

A collection of short stories for children Gallery of Children, and other stories that became part of the Winnie-the-Pooh books, were first published in 1925.

The fictional Hundred Acre Wood of the Pooh stories derives from Five Hundred Acre Wood in Ashdown Forest in East Sussex, South East England, where the Pooh stories were set.

Houses often stood four or five stories tall, with single-story rooms facing the plaza ; room blocks were terraced to allow the tallest sections to compose the pueblo's rear edifice.

Many of the Ainu dialects, even from one end of Hokkaido to the other, were not mutually intelligible ; however, the classic Ainu language of the Yukar, or Ainu epic stories, was understood by all.

There were several revolts, the stories of chaos leading to an invasion by King William of the Norman Sicilians.

During the late 19th century, ideas about the legendary nature of Atlantis were combined with stories of other lost continents such as Mu and Lemuria.

Niven also occasionally refers to arcologies in his Known Space series, particularly in the stories involving Gil Hamilton, or the Pierson's Puppeteers, whose arcologies are enormous ( The smallest were cubes a mile in height, length and width.

There are some that are called " hero stories "; these are stories of people who lived at one time, and who were immortalized by these stories of them.

There are " trickster stories ", about the different trickster figures of the tribes ( Saynday for the Kiowa ; Coyote for the Navajo ; and so on, who were both helpful and dangerous figures in the belief.

" The Caplins were dirt poor, and Capp later recalled stories of his mother going out in the night to sift through ash barrels for reusable bits of coal.

Morton introduced the recurring characters and continuing stories that were a major feature of the column during his 51-year run.

A third source, or set of sources, were cycles of stories about various prophets ( Elijah and Elisha, Isaiah, Ahijah and Micaiah ), plus a few smaller miscellaneous traditions.

Some early ' skyscrapers ' were made in masonry, and demonstrated the limitations of the material – for example, the Monadnock Building in Chicago ( opened in 1896 ) is masonry and just 17 stories high ; the ground walls are almost thick, clearly building any higher would lead to excessive loss of internal floor space on the lower floors.

The adaptions are notable for changing the plots and characters of the original books ( e. g., incorporating lesbian affairs, changing killer identities, renaming or removing significant characters, and even using stories from other books in which Miss Marple did not originally feature ).

* In the Judge Dredd comic stories, originally published in 2000 AD, the megalopolis of Mega-City One consists of many hundreds, if not thousands, of City Blocks, in which a citizen can be born, grow, live, and die without ever leaving.

His short stories originally appeared in the magazines Weird Tales, Strange Tales, Astounding Stories, Stirring Science Stories and Wonder Stories.

Others were created by rewriting Howard stories which originally featured entirely different characters from entirely different milieus.

Smith's works consist of: a single novel, originally published in two volumes in edited form as The Planet Buyer, also known as The Boy Who Bought Old Earth ( 1964 ) and The Underpeople ( 1968 ), and later restored to its original form as Norstrilia ( 1975 ); and 32 short stories ( collected in The Rediscovery of Man ( 1993 ), including two versions of the short story " War No. 81-Q ").

The stories featured in each of the magazines were different, meaning the author was originally creating more than six stories each month.

Because many of his stories were originally published in long-forgotten magazines and journals, there are a number of anthologies by different collators each containing a different selection.

* Sleepers of Mars ( 1973 ) a collection of five stories originally published in magazines in the 1930s: Sleepers of Mars, Worlds to Barter, Invisible Monster, The Man from Earth & The Third Vibrator.

* Wanderers of Time ( 1973 ) a collection of five stories originally published in magazines in the 1930s: Wanderers of Time, Derelict of Space, Child of Power, The Last Lunarians & The Puff-ball Menace ( a. k. a. Spheres of Hell ).

Malory based his book — originally titled The Whole Book of King Arthur and of His Noble Knights of the Round Table — on the various previous romance versions, in particular the Vulgate Cycle, and appears to have aimed at creating a comprehensive and authoritative collection of Arthurian stories.

The stories that constitute the Known Space series were originally conceived as two separate series: the Belter stories, featuring solar-system colonization and slower-than-light travel with fusion-powered and Bussard ramjet ships, and the Neutron Star / Ringworld series of stories, set much further into the future, which feature faster-than-light ships using " hyperdrive ".

Helmut Koester writes that the stories of the resurrection were originally epiphanies and that the more detailed accounts of the resurrection are secondary and not based on historical records.

Short stories date back to oral story-telling traditions which originally produced epics such as Homer's Iliad and Odyssey.

These four stories were originally published separately by Fujimi Fantasia in mini-bunko format, and later they were included in different Special novels.

Further complicating the matter, the Foundation series was originally eight short stories and novelettes written for science fiction magazines ; its division into three books is more or less incidental.

* The current sister publication to 2000 AD is the monthly Judge Dredd Megazine, which originally focused exclusively on expanding the world of Judge Dredd, but in recent years has expanded its focus to include other stories set in other universes as well.

The book lies somewhere between a short story collection and an episodic novel, containing stories Bradbury originally published in the late 1940s in science fiction magazines.

In particular, many tales were originally folk stories from the Caliphate era, while others, especially the frame story, are most probably drawn from the Pahlavi Persian work Hazār Afsān (, lit.

He studied reported stories of parents giving birth to different-coloured albinos, he believed that Adam and Eve were originally white and that Caucasians could give birth to different-coloured races.

Arabesk is folk music style that originally appeared in Turkey during the 1960s as a reflection of migrant workers first experience of immigration inside the homeland As Brown writes, “ With its bittersweet longing for a homeland left behind — a homeland most Turkish-German youngsters could never have seen expect perhaps on vacation — Arabesk expresses a nostalgia and cultural pessimism that dovetails perfectly with hip hop ’ s invention of community through stories of displacement ” ( Brown, 144 ).