Diana the Valkyrie

Diana the Valkyrie's Newsletter - January 1999

A hard man is good to beat

January

January brought about a quarter inch of snow, and the snowdrops arrived, they signal that spring can't be far away. The daffodils are just poking their heads up, but the crocuses ... what's happened to the crocuses?

New and updated Galleries

The Library

There's a new story from the man who recounts the Sandi Stone stories, but this one isn't about Sandi. And I wrote a new Linda Daventry story.

The Movie Theatre

The files are sorted with the most recent at the top.

DescriptionTypeWidth Heightmin:secfpsSoundKBDate
Sonia versus ShyGuy part 33 mpg35228801:0025Yes 782830/Jan/99
From tape 12. Robin lifts Lisa, and they each lift Jeff mpg17613201:0025Yes 361530/Jan/99
Madusa Miceli vs The Goddess, part 12 mpg35224000:5230Yes 657130/Jan/99
Nicole Bass in the 13th Century, part 5 mpg35228801:0025Yes 723230/Jan/99
Sheila Burgess, posing mpg35228801:0025Yes 722629/Jan/99
From tape 12. Robin lifts Lisa, and they each lift Jeff mpg17613201:0025Yes 361527/Jan/99
Susan Sexton vs The Black Venus, part 10 mpg35224000:4030Yes 545527/Jan/99
Sonia versus ShyGuy part 32 mpg35228801:0025Yes 782826/Jan/99
Sheila Burgess, posing mpg35228801:0025Yes 722826/Jan/99
Tina Small, part 37 mpg35228800:3030Yes 361425/Jan/99
From tape 11. Pam lifts a much larger woman, and they each lift a man mpg17613201:2625Yes 521324/Jan/99
Madusa Miceli vs The Goddess, part 11 mpg35224001:0030Yes 723223/Jan/99
Nicole Bass in the 13th Century, part 4 mpg35228801:0025Yes 723223/Jan/99
Sheila Burgess, posing mpg35228801:0025Yes 722623/Jan/99
Sonia versus ShyGuy part 31 mpg35228801:0025Yes 782922/Jan/99
From tape 11. Pam lifts a much larger woman, and they each lift a man mpg17613201:0025Yes 361421/Jan/99
Susan Sexton vs The Black Venus, part 9 mpg35224001:0030Yes 723220/Jan/99
Sheila Burgess, posing mpg35228801:0025Yes 722820/Jan/99
Sonia versus ShyGuy part 30 mpg35228801:0025Yes 782918/Jan/99
From tape 11. Pam lifts a much larger woman, and they each lift a man mpg17613201:0025Yes 361518/Jan/99
Tina Small, part 36 mpg35228800:3030Yes 361518/Jan/99
Competitor, posing mpg35228800:2025Yes 248317/Jan/99
Madusa Miceli vs The Goddess, part 10 mpg35224001:0030Yes 723016/Jan/99
Nicole Bass in the 13th Century, part 3 mpg35228801:0025Yes 723116/Jan/99
From tape 11. Pam lifts a much larger woman, and they each lift a man mpg17613201:0025Yes 361515/Jan/99
Scenes from the WWC, part 43, Wrestling mpg35224000:4530Yes 275815/Jan/99
Sonia versus ShyGuy part 29 mpg35228801:0025Yes 782914/Jan/99
Competitor, posing mpg35228800:5725Yes 691714/Jan/99
Susan Sexton vs The Black Venus, part 8 mpg35224001:0030Yes 723213/Jan/99
From tape 11. Pam lifts a much larger woman, and they each lift a man mpg17613201:0025Yes 361412/Jan/99
Tina Small, part 35 mpg35228800:3030Yes 361511/Jan/99
Competitor, posing mpg35228800:5925Yes 722711/Jan/99
Sonia versus ShyGuy part 28 mpg35228801:0025Yes 782910/Jan/99
Scenes from the WWC, part 42, Wrestling mpg35224001:0030Yes 361710/Jan/99
From tape 10. Jessae lifts Julie, Julie lifts Jessae, and they each lift Jeff mpg17613201:0225Yes 361509/Jan/99
Madusa Miceli vs The Goddess, part 9 mpg35224001:0030Yes 723309/Jan/99
Nicole Bass in the 13th Century, part 2 mpg35228801:0025Yes 723209/Jan/99
Competitor, posing mpg35228801:0925Yes 841408/Jan/99
She flexes and grows bigger avi32032000:0820No 165407/Jan/99
Reni vs German avi29915500:0925No 162707/Jan/99
Reni vs German avi23014500:1125No 184407/Jan/99
Reni vs German avi16711700:1225No 162407/Jan/99
Reni vs German avi17210700:0725No 89807/Jan/99
Reni vs German avi21411000:0825No 104307/Jan/99
She rides him avi16012000:1230No 146607/Jan/99
Sonia versus ShyGuy part 27 mpg35228801:0025Yes 782906/Jan/99
From tape 10. Jessae lifts Julie, Julie lifts Jessae, and they each lift Jeff mpg17613201:0025Yes 373606/Jan/99
Susan Sexton vs The Black Venus, part 7 mpg35224001:0030Yes 723406/Jan/99
Competitor, posing mpg35228800:5925Yes 722705/Jan/99
Scenes from the WWC, part 41, Wrestling mpg35224001:0030Yes 363005/Jan/99
Tina Small, part 34 mpg35228800:3030Yes 361504/Jan/99
From tape 10. Jessae lifts Julie, Julie lifts Jessae, and they each lift Jeff mpg17613201:0025Yes 361503/Jan/99
Sonia versus ShyGuy part 26 mpg35228801:0025Yes 782902/Jan/99
Madusa Miceli vs The Goddess, part 8 mpg35224001:0030Yes 723302/Jan/99
Nicole Bass in the 13th Century, part 1 mpg35228801:0025Yes 723202/Jan/99
Competitor, posing mpg35228800:5925Yes 722802/Jan/99

A total of 56 movies

A new Ladies Professional Wrestling Association series has started.

Newsgroups - NewsThumbs

This came in fits and starts in January. Scooby was delighted by the first tranche of alt.pantyhose, a tribute to Du Pont, the inventors of Nylon fibre. Boomer suffered from withdrawal symptoms every time the newsThumbs arrived late. The reason why it was feast and famine, is that I've been poking the blockage with a sharp stick, which has occasionally found a problem and released a new influx.

By the end of January, there was a total of 348,000 pictures on the NewsThumbs, although that figure will change as old stuff is expired and new stuff flows in. I've also told Narella to just reject anything that's larger than a megabyte, because there's some people who seem to be posting entire videos in 1.5 megabyte chunks. I saw one in a few hundred parts, and I very much doubt if they'll all arrive.

Of course, some of those 348,000 pictures are "inappropriate". Spam, junk, garbage. People sometimes ask me if there's anything I can do, but I'm not willing to look at the 15 to 25 thousand pictures that come in through news every day, and work out which ones to censor. I can drop a newsgroup completely, and I can add new newsgroups. Everyone else offering newgroup access, from AOL all the way up to my site, has the same problem.

Another change I made, was to the main news menu. Instead of of being able to click on the newsgroup name to get the list of available days, or else on the current day, I've added yesterday and the day before as clickable. Newsthumbs is seeing a lot of use now!

Outreach Newsthumbs

A lot of the members of this web site, run sites of their own (they'll be in my list of links somewhere). For example, Armfan, Winsock and, of course, SlowDive (the man with a million web sites, is what Clepsy calls him). And one of the problems of running a web site, is the need to update it every month, every week or (as in my case) every day.

So, I've announced a new service for webmasters (provided you're also a Member of the web site). You can have some NewsThumbs on your web site. Here's how it works.

You choose which NewsGroup you want, out of my list (if you want one that isn't on my list, I might be able to add it). Then, every day, I'll send you an email consisting of the first NewsThumbs page for that NewsGroup, plus the 30 pictures it indexes, all in one big zip file (it'll be 1 to 2 mb). That page will work just fine as soon as you unzip it and put all the files on your site, but the references to the next page, to other days, and to other NewsGroups will point back to my site, and people will have to become members to access it. As an alternative to emailing you one big zip file, if you give me an FTP address to send it to, I'll send it to there, unzipped. This means that if you arrange things right, you can wind up with having to do no work at all.

So, it means that you'll be able to put content up on your site that's fresh every day, which is what people love, and will bring them back each day to see what's new. And what I get out of it, of course, is people wanting to see the rest of the NewsThumbs, will have to join up.

Obviously I can't guarantee 30 pictures every day. But if there's less than 30, then that's because I received less than 30. And I can't guarantee what's actually in the pictures, but when Narella does her spam-sorting, she puts the ones she thinks might be spam at the end, so the first 30 are more likely to be non-spam.

Many of the pictures that are posted on the NewsGroups are copyright, some are spam, and some may even be illegal in some parts of the world. But all this material is available on every ISP (including, for example, AOL). And AOL seems to have no problem with the legality of it. I think the argument used is "common carrier", but whatever the legal position is, I don't think anyone's ever challenged it. However, I don't know if that same position would apply if you're carrying just a part of a NewsGroup. If you're concerned, consult your local lawyers.

Read about Outreach Newsthumbs and email me if you're interested.

The Shopping Mall

Nothing new, but LH-Art have just released their Fall 1998 catalogue, go look. And they've also released a few videos.

The new server

Mary, my eagerly-awaited new news-server, is starting to collect NewsThumbs. She's assisted by Nancy, who's only just arrived. Nancy talks to the outside world to collect the News, then Mary gets it from Nancy and makes the NewsThumbs. I'm hoping that Mary and Nancy can take over from Greta some time soon. Mary has 120 gigabytes of space ...

The Clubhouse

I added a thing that lets you search the new archives, if you're a member. If you're not a member, you can read, and search, the old archives.

In the Chatroom, by Warrior Poet

Hello, Folks

It's time for the February newsletter, covering all the events of note in Diana the Valkyrie's Coffee Lounge for January 1999. The month began with *many* chatters quietly attempting to survive their hangovers from New Year's Eve parties. But I think the month can best be summarized with the phrase "Invasion of the Australians." Along with the continued participation of such prolific Australian chatters as Socrates, Aussie, and Grog (aka Greg) we were blessed with the delightful presence of two of the most muscular women you'll ever meet, Australian female bodybuilders Deborah Compton and Christine Envall. These mighty and massive ladies have been seen with growing frequency and their presence promises to make the Coffee Lounge *the* place to be.

Our friends HardbodyPaul, Tex, and his lovely lady Athena are planning to get together soon and attend a powerlifting event featuring the lovely and powerful Jill Brown, a charming woman who has stolen all of our hearts.

TomNine had an encounted with the enormous Adrea Gahan and we are happy to see that he survived. Jackday finished off school and is eagerly looking for the right place to apply his unique talents. Under the advice of Slowdive (you may remember him as the fellow who has many photos of himself getting beaten by his ex-girlfriend, Elsa), Diana the Valkyrie has broadened her very considerable internet influence to make more people aware of her delightful website. This promises to bring more people here and hopefully even more female bodybuilders and wrestlers. I would also like to note that Slowdive has made the acquaintance of another lovely lady who seems to be ready to take over the huge responsibility of kicking Slowdive's ass. Good luck to you, my friend.

It was my personal honor and pleasure to be able to workout a deal between the divine Andrulla Blanchette and my employer to get her some bodybuilding supplements in exchange for her support. I hope that with my assistance, Andrulla will be able to clean-up at the Ms International this March. I am sure she knows that we are all pulling for her. There is not a nicer woman in women's bodybuilding. Good luck, IronGoddess!

The lovely Ms Sheila Burgess, a massive Canadian female bodybuilder, has decided to apply her endless supply of charm to serving the public with her juice bar in Vancouver. It is located in the gym at which she trains her fabulous body and she will be serving all sorts of healthy beverages and foods. We all know that she is bound to excel in this venture.

Scooby, everyone's favorite cartoon dog, dreamed of being killed at the feet of a beautiful femme fatale. Any beautiful femme fatale. Ghost made it back to his old haunt and was eagerly recieved by all his friends who had missed him in his absence. JoanneK wrapped-up another semester of her studies and received all A's for her efforts. JoanneFan continued his relentless support of his lovely fiance'. Crystal made one of her rare appearances, this month. We welcomed some more recent chatters into our midst. Though they may not be new, they became regulars this month. To Winsock, boomer, and jaye, welcome aboard!

We had the privilege to finally meet the Valkyrie who stole our beloved CaptainCorc from us. Miz L showed us all why the good Captain has been around less frequently of late. Congrats, CC!

Shy Guy aka Higg's Bosun aka SoniaFan aka .... well anyway, our good English friend and the nicest man I have ever encountered bravely battled a mean case of the flu. Speaking of Sonia (and her legions of fans) she made good use of her time this month by putting several eager males in their place.

Chatter of the month

Member

Posts

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TomNine2667
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A Clear victory for Winsock, in spite of the failure of the middle finger of his right hand, limiting the possibilities for self-expression.

On the Message Boards

Colette Guimond has a shoulder injury, and she's been unable to post to her Message Board, so I made it read-only, and I'll be taking it down until she's recovered.

Other news from the Message Boards

Mavis keeps a running total of who are the most frequent posters, and which message boards are most used. This figure is reset to zero each month, and you can see past figures in the web site newsletter.

She only keeps tabs on members. Non-members posts are also welcomed, of course, but since Mavis doesn't know who is posting, she can't include them in the tally.

Message board of the month       

Board

Posts

fistman236
scooby179
brown134
biceps123
fbb102
diana97
tvmovies94
tomnine86
andrulla80
shyguy78

Message poster of the month

Member

Posts

steamer211
tre1313203
Diana the Valkyrie78
Andrulla66
scooby64
jabb632863
army87561
Jill.Brown60
steve66652
femstrong47

New Wrestling club

Heather Fine has opened a new wrestling club in New York.

Back Page

First of all, the answers to last month's quiz. The Movie question - the answer was Julie Andrews in "The Sound of Music", but you had to specify the uncut version, they took all the naughty bits out to make the release. The Do-it-yourself question; you screw it in with a screwdriver, and if Mr Volespeed were to actually try what he suggested, he'd find it was not only impossible, but also quite painful. And the answer to the food question was "Meatballs and a cucumber". A lot of people got that one wrong, especially Mr Gruntfuttock, whose suggestion would definitely get the restaurant struck off the Good Food Guide.

I checked the site statistics. that Sandra counts up each night. At the end of January 1999, there were about 170,000 pictures (6.6 gigabytes), 7.3 gigabytes of video, 2700 text files (mostly stories) and a total of about fifteen gigabytes. In addition, there's NewsThumbs, which is another 348,000 pictures in 22 gigabytes and 575,000 text files, a total of 24 gigabytes.

Yippee! We've reached half a million pictures!

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