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Yucks Digest V1 #91



Yucks Digest                Thu, 10 Oct 91       Volume 1 : Issue  91 

Today's Topics:
                 College Dropout makes BASIC pay off
                                cutie
                 humorous newspaper story (forwarded)
                             In the News
                       Is there a correlation?
                          Jack-O-Primer [tm]
                 More anecodotes on old institutions.
           neat sentences from the hinterlands of berkeley
                                Quote
                     request for lack of ozone. 
                  Top 10 Reasons to Marry Bill Gates
                                Uh-huh
                       WhiteBoard News (2 msgs)
                           Wishful thinking

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Date: Mon, 7 Oct 91 11:30:42 PDT
From: one of our correspondants
Subject: College Dropout makes BASIC pay off
To: yucks-request

     Kluge Is Wealthiest American
   NEW YORK (AP)
   Sure the recession hurt some of America's wealthiest people. But
most just kept getting richer.
   Septuagenarian entertainment mogul John Werner Kluge is worth more
than any other American for the third straight year. But
thirtysomething computer whiz Bill Gates is closing the gap, Forbes
magazine said in its 10th annual ranking of the richest.
   The net worth of the 400 wealthiest Americans hit $288 billion 
the highest ever recorded by Forbes  despite a recession that the
unabashedly capitalist magazine claims hurt billionaires as well as
blue-collar workers.
   The recession did make ex-moguls of some, mostly in real estate,
where values have dropped and vacancies skyrocketed, Forbes said in a
report released Sunday.
   But don't shed any tears just yet. A record 71 billionaires
populate the list, up from 66 last year and 13 in the magazine's
first ranking in 1982.
   Forty-seven names were dropped this year. Six died, including Sen.
John Heinz III, who was killed in a plane crash, and CBS tycoon
William S. Paley. Fifty-eight of the 400 are women. The list's
average age is 64.
   While some fortunes dwindled, only one truly household name left
the list: chicken man Frank Perdue. But Forbes said he slipped
because the magazine had overestimated his wealth.
   While that's important for a factory worker with a family of four,
cost-of-living increases aren't essential for people with a net worth
of $275 million or more  rock bottom on Forbes' list, $15 million
more than last year.
   The richest's total wealth of $288 billion  an average $720
million per person  is enough to erase the fiscal year 1991 federal
deficit and still have enough to fund the $6.4 billion in extra
unemployment benefits President Bush plans to veto.
   The fortune of Kluge, a 77-year-old German immigrant who founded
Metromedia Co., keeps on growing. At an estimated $5.9 billion, it's
up $300 million from last year.
   No. 2 is William Henry Gates III, 35, the Harvard dropout who in
1975 formed Microsoft, now the biggest computer software maker. The
bulk of his estimated worth of $4.8 billion comes from company stock,
Forbes said. Last year, he ranked 16th with $2.5 billion.
   Gates replaces Warren Buffett, the Nebraska investor who was
tapped to clean up scandal-tainted Salomon Inc. Buffett's estimated
stock-market fortune grew to $4.2 billion from $3.3 billion, but he
slipped to eighth on the list.
   Ahead of him at Nos. 3-7 are Wal-Mart Stores Inc. founder Sam
Moore Walton and his family. Walton divided his wealth equally among
himself and his four children. Each is estimated to be worth $4.4
billion.
   Next are industrialist Henry Lea Hillman, $3.3 billion; Amway
Corp. partners Richard Marvin DeVos and Jay Van Andel, $2.9 billion
each; and publishing brothers Samuel I. Newhouse Jr. and Donald E.
Newhouse, $2.8 billion apiece.

[Drat!  I missed it again this year.... --spaf]

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Date: Wed, 9 Oct 91 05:34:15 EDT
From: dscatl!lindsay@gatech.edu
Subject: cutie

Contributed by: ihnss!ihuxq!dopey

Walter was the president of a large corporation, rich, and generally
happy.  He lived in a mansion and had many servants.  The only flaw in
his happiness was his wife, Porphyria.  (There's a little bit of
foreshadowing for you Robert Browning fans).  She drove him crazy.

It got so bad that he finally ended up calling his friend Artemus.
Artemus was a marriage "fixer," of the genus "lady killer," that is, he
was a hit man.  Since Walter and Artemus had had a very successful
business relationship for many years, Artemus gave Walter a special
rate to kill his wife: just one dollar.  Artemus was a good man.

The next day, Artemus broke into Walter's house and proceeded to
strangle his wife.  Being averse to strangulation, Walter's wife
proceeded to make as much noise as possible.  Alas, it was to no
avail.  Her maid, hearing the noise, ran into her room and was promptly
asphyxiated.  The butler also heard the noise, but had the presence of
mind to call the police before he proceeded to run into the room and
expire.

Just then the police arrived and, despite Artemus' adamant statements
that he was with the water department, they carted him off to jail.

Of course, we all know what the headlines read the next day:

"Artie chokes 3 for $1."

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Date: Mon, 07 Oct 91 12:48:47 -0400
From: jfw@ksr.com (John F. Woods)
Subject: humorous newspaper story (forwarded)
To: eniac@mejac.palo-alto.ca.us

_From this morning's _Seattle Post-Intelligencer_ (August 6, 1991):

Crime has left a wretched taste in the mouth of a young thief.
Seattle police said the 14-year-old made a tactical blunder while
attempting to siphon gas from Dennis Quigly's motor home last Tuesday.
"Apparently, the suspect was attempting to steal gasoline and got the
sewage tank instead," Officer Tom Umporowicz reported. Quigly, of 
Bellingham, was parked near 14th Avenue South and South Concord Street.
He was inside his motor home about 1am when he heard peculiar noises
outside and phoned police. When Umporowicz arrived, he found a garden
hose hanging from the sewage tank, left by someone who had sucked on 
the end to create a siphon. Umporowicz also noted a large quantity of
untreated sewage on the ground and a trail, left by the culprit, who
threw up what he ingested. The officer followed the trail to a nearby
car and found the teen-age boy curled up and retching. Please, the
boy asked the officer, call the medics. The boy was not arrested.
Quigly declined to file a complaint, figuring the boy had been punished
enough.
"It's the best laugh I've ever had," Quigly told police.

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Date: Thu Oct 10 17:28:35 EST 1991
From: spaf
Subject: In the News

Well, I was supposed to be in British Columbia this week, attending a
conference, but instead spent 4 days in bed with a middle-ear infection.

That, by itself, is not news for Yucks.  However, while visiting the
drugstore to get some nifty antibiotics, I spotted a copy of the Weekly
World News -- one of my favorite tabloids. :-)  The cover said "World's top
psychics peer into the NEW YEAR!  Predictions for 1992."

Well, this was too good to resist.  So, while lying in bed under the
influence of some codeine pain pills with a heating pad wrapped around
my head, I went through and hi-lited some of the better predictions.
These are still funny after the codeine wore off!

Selected Predictions [with selected comments]:
    * July 4th will see Evel Knievel jump over the Statue of Liberty
	with a rocket-powered motocycle. [I'd pay to see him do it
	*without* the rocket assist!]
    * Oprah Winfrey will disclose, in February, that she was abducted
	by space aliens, taken to a UFO, and forced to have
	"extraterrestrial sex."  [Making her eligible for the 
	"Light-year High Club"?]
    * In November, the entire cast of the TV show "Beverly Hills
	90210" will undergo sex-change operations. [On the air?]
    * On Christmas Eve, Elvis will appear on national TV and explain
	where he as been.  [Evading Geraldo?  Having sex with Oprah?]
    * In August, Liz Taylor will give birth to a baby girl.
    * In September, Dan Quayle will be caught in bed with a Playboy
	bunny.  [Caught napping, probably.]
    * In January, a UFO will explode over Chicago and disrupt power
	for 14 days.  [Probably collides with a Northwest jet over O'Hare.]
    * Credit cards will be outlawed in July and a black market in 
	credit will thrive.
    * In October, Axl Rose of Guns 'n Roses will heal a crippled fan
	live on MTV.  [Somebody from the cast of BH 90210, maybe?]
    * In September, scientists create 4-legged turkeys so everyone can
	have a drumstick at Thanksgiving.  [I'm sure there is a joke
	about Congress in here, somewhere.]
    * The New Zealand Olympic basketball team defeats the US team led
	by Michael Jordan and Magic Johnson.  [Too many drumsticks.]
    * An earthquake in April splits Alaska in two with a 60-mile wide
	crevice.  [Axl Rose tries to heal the rift on live MTV...]
    * George Bush dumps Quayle (because of the bunny incident) and
	names wife Barbara as running mate.  Bob Kerrey of Nebraska
	wins the election to become President.

In the same issue is a fascinating editorial on how an exterminator's
tent should be slapped over New York City, and then pumped full of bug
spray, and an article on a man 126 years old who has no hobbies except
chasing pretty girls (but no report what happens if he catches 'em).
 
Unfortunately, the other articles are pretty dull.  Still, I think it
sounds like 1992 is going to be an interesting year!    

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Date: Mon, 7 Oct 91 9:39:02 PDT
From: megatek!fritzz (Friedrich Knauss)
Subject: Is there a correlation?
To: fritzz@sahara.UCSD.EDU, rstewart@sahara.UCSD.EDU, gjohnson@sahara.UCSD.EDU,

Last week the Federal Board of Education released the results of
their latest survey. The highlight of this survey was that drug
use among school age children has dropped dramatically during the
last decade. This trend is matched by a massive drop in mathematical
abilities: Only 1 out of 5 eighth graders could calculate the
average of five numbers. Perhaps now is the time for a new official
"war on math" policy as well. (Don't Drink and Derive!)

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Date: 6 Oct 91 07:53:20 GMT
From: goodman@chaos.cs.brandeis.edu (Marc Goodman)
Subject: Jack-O-Primer [tm]
Newsgroups: talk.bizarre,local.devilbunnies

There is a clear flaw in this reasoning, however; whereas your average
christmas tree will merely dry out and drop its needles on your carpet
when purchased four weeks early, your average pumpkin will be reduced
to a puddle of grey slime and black rot after a mere two weeks.  You
must trust me on this, I know of what I speak.

Never-the-less, this provides a clearcut business opportunity for the
enterprising industrial chemist.  As this trend continues and pumpkins
are purchased earlier and earlier in the year, the need for a miracle,
pumpkin-binding polymer coating will increase.  The ideal
characteristics of this polymer will be:

o It should be deployable through aerosol spray-cans, as painting your
pumpkin with gook is an art which surpasses the ability of the average
pumpkin-carver.

o It should be, of course, completely impermeable in relatively thin
coats, as any gaps in the coating will allow fermentation to occur.

o It should be odorless, and, ideally, colorless so that the
jackolantern may be enjoyed in all its rustic splendor (however,
optionally, a variety of designer colors and textures may be offered
for the neo-jackolanternist).

o It must be economical.  Though I have conducted no surveys (as of
yet), it is my opinion that the price range for the product should be
between 4 and 8 dollars per can, and that each can should be adequate
for coating either two large-sized jackolanterns, or three to five
small jackolanterns.

o (Sorry Mr. X) It should be non-toxic.  Lawsuits resulting from
poisoned little children are double plus ungood.

The plasticized food specimens displayed in many of this nation's
great restaurants would indicate that the technology exists for such a
product.  Now that a vertical market has been identified, I feel
confident that a product can be created to fill this niche.

-Clench (Hey, I actually get paid to think of stuff like this...  OK,
maybe not quite like this, but if we put a natural-language front end
on it, or designed it around Case-Based Reasoning...)

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Date: 8 Oct 91 23:30:05 GMT
From: dgil@ipsaint.ipsa.reuter.com (Gillett, David)
Subject: More anecodotes on old institutions.
Newsgroups: rec.humor.funny

     My two favourite anecdotes on this subject demonstrate the difference
between renewable and non-renewable resources.  First the non-renewable:

     The congregation of a small stone church (in England?) decided that the
stone which formed the step up to the front door had become two worn by its
years of use, and would have to be replaced.  Unfortunately, there were hardly
any funds available for the replacement.  Then someone cam up with the bright
idea that the replacement could be postponed for many years by simply turning
the block of stone over.
     They discovered that their great-grandparents had beaten them to it.

     Now the renewable:

     An entomologist at New College, Oxford ("New" because its only a few
centuries old), discovered beetles infesting the oak beams supporting the roof
of the Great Hall.  It was fairly urgent that these be replaced before the roof
collapsed -- but anyone who has looked at the price of oak lately can tell you
that this was not something the college budget was prepared for.
     Since oak from a commercial supplier was out of the question, someone
suggested that the college Forester be sent for.  His job was to administer the
various scattered tracts of land that had been deeded to the college when it
was founded.  The trustees hoped he might know of suitable trees on college
land.
     It turned out that there was indeed a suitable stand of mighty oaks.  They
had been planted when the college was founded, and down the centuries each
Forester had told his successor:  "You don't cut those oaks; those are for when
the beetles get into the beams in the Main Hall."

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Date: 9 Oct 91 20:02:25 GMT
From: rec@planecrash.Berkeley.EDU (Rachel Elizabeth Childs)
Subject: neat sentences from the hinterlands of berkeley
Newsgroups: talk.rumors

Living here in Berkeley, one gets to overhear a lot of strange sentences:

"I could be a better Unitarian.  I didn't even participate in the Spring
Fertility Dance."
"My psychiatrist knows Von Neumann."
"Michelle's coven is so pretentious."
"What were we talking about again?  Oh, yeah, bestiality."
"I love to be dominated-but not today."
"And why can't a man lick another man's nipple?"
"I'm starving.   Let's go get some Ethiopian food."
"I have a great excuse for not going to work.  I'll just tell them that
my house is full of toxins, so I can't put on my pants."

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Date: Tue, 8 Oct 91  20:31:54 EDT
From: "C. Ian Connolly" <connolly@cs.umass.edu>
Subject: Quote
To: "The Basal Ganglia of the Electronic Brain" <eniac@mejac.palo-alto.ca.us>

	"One could not be a successful scientist without
	realizing that, in contrast to the popular conception
	supported by newspapers and mothers of scientists, a
	goodly number of scientists are not only narrow-minded
	and dull, but also just stupid."

		-J. D. Watson, "The Double Helix"

[But not Yucks subscribers.  --spaf]

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Date: Wed, 09 Oct 91 16:18:46 PDT
From: Lisa.Chabot@Eng.Sun.COM
Subject: request for lack of ozone. 

"The beer-cooled computer does not harm the ozone layer."
			--John M. Ford, aka Dr. Mike

If I can read my notes from the Ask Dr. Mike session
at Baycon, I believe he added that the beer-cooled
computer uses "Forget Only Memory".

Other quips

	"It is better to travel hopefully than to fly Continental."

	"Watch television because you don't know what it will do
	if you leave it in the room alone."

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Date: Tue, 8 Oct 91 12:28:47 -0700
From: bostic@okeeffe.CS.Berkeley.EDU (Keith Bostic)
Subject: Top 10 Reasons to Marry Bill Gates
To: /dev/null@okeeffe.CS.Berkeley.EDU

Top 10 Reasons to Marry Bill Gates

10.  Money
 9.  He works late nights at the office
 8.  Money
 7.  Necking in the Porsche
 6.  Money
 5.  Career Advancement
 4.  Money
 3.  A houseful of gadgets
 2.  Money
 1.  Steve Jobs already taken

Top 10 Reasons NOT to Marry Bill Gates

10.  Too much rain in Seattle
 9.  Those pre-bed DOS quizzes
 8.  Having to address him as Sir William
 7.  The Porsche is grounded
 6.  No college degree
 5.  Premarital agreement will take too long to read
 4.  He works late nights at the office
 3.  Legal bills from the inevitable lawsuits
 2.  Wedding vows in BASIC
 1.  Pee Wee Herman still available

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Date: Wed, 9 Oct 91 14:30:13 -0700
From: bostic@okeeffe.CS.Berkeley.EDU (Keith Bostic)
Subject: Uh-huh
To: /dev/null@okeeffe.CS.Berkeley.EDU

I think this trademarking thing just went too far:

Take a look at your next can of Diet Pepsi and note the "Uh Huh" on the
label.  It's got a little TM above it...

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Date: Wed Oct 02 19:04:14 PDT 1991
From: t-robtp@microsoft.COM
Subject: WhiteBoard News
To: 0003539738@mcimail.com, QUA@cornella.cit.cornell.edu,

This first item comes from MicroSoftie ChrisMck:

"Man Threatens to kill wife for not watching Oprah."

An excited husband threatened to kill his estranged wife when she
wouldn't watch the Oprah Winfrey Show, which was about
"forgiveness".

John Annis, 46, had called the woman and asked her to turn on
the show.

When she refused, he rushed over to her home, dived through the
kitchen window and threatened to kill her and his stepdaughter.

He scuffled with his wife and sped away when police arrived to
break it up. Authorities say he also threatened to kill one of the
cops and dragged another officer with his car.

Annis was later captured at his parents' house after a short
struggle.

He was sentenced to six months in jail (In which he'll be able to
watch Oprah regularly) in Peterborough, Ontario, Canada.

Justice Sam Murphy says Annis showed a "complete lack of
remorse" over the incidents.
==========

This next item comes from MicroSoftie MilliePa:

The Declaration of Independence was written with a quill pen on
parchment.  When Russian President Boris Yeltsin declared his
defiance of a coup in the Soviet Union, he used a personal
computer and programs by Microsoft and Aldus.

Seattle-based Aldus learned this week that Yeltsin's aides
published his call for resistance using a personal computer
running PageMaker, Aldus' desktop-publishing program.

Aldus said it was written with Microsoft Word, a word-
processing program, and used Windows, which allows a user to
control a computer by pointing to graphics.  The programs were
adapted for Russian.

Aldus received copies of two publications issued during the 72-
hour coup, one called "Megapolis Express" and the other was
called: "Russia, The Newspaper Of The Presidium Of The
Russian Soviet Federal Socialist Republic."  Two copies are
dated Aug. 19, shortly after the coup started.

Coup leaders shut down many newspapers and banned certain
radio and TV broadcasts.  Editors of "Russia" and "Megapolis"
printed their news with laser printers and then made photocopies,
said Aldus spokeswoman Pam Miller.

According to translation provided by Aldus, Yeltsin issued at
least two editions of "Russia" Aug. 19.  One edition told readers
to consider the actions of the coup as "nothing other than a state
crime." Megapolis Express on Aug. 21 is labeled "extraordinary
issue number 7" and refers to the imminent arrest of a coup
leader at the airport.

Aldus has sold about 275 copies of PageMaker in the Soviet
Union since July 1990.  No estimate of Microsoft sales was
available.

"Russia" and "Megapolis" have a bare-bones look.

"From a PageMaker perspective, this isn't a very interesting
design," said Miller.
==========

[Note from SuperChef:  SuperChef told this next contributor to
"Have a WhiteBoard News life.  He then sent this.]

>From MicroSoftie WayneR:

This happened to me:

We started with one fishtank, one goldfish, and lots of persistent
algae growth. 

After a trip to the pet store we had one fishtank, one goldfish,
persistent algae growth and a snail. Within two days we only had
one fishtank, one goldfish and one snail (no persistent algae
growth). 

Then the snail died (I interpret lying on the back of the shell for
several days as snail death) and we soon had one fishtank one
goldfish and persistent algae growth. 

Then, about a week later, we discovered something...we had one
fishtank, one goldfish, persistent algae growth, one ex-dead ex-
pregnant snail and four tiny snails. 

Soon we had one fishtank, one goldfish, one ex-pregnant ex-dead
snail and four tiny snails (again, no persistent algae growth). 

Then ex-pregnant ex-dead snail died again. We then had one
fishtank, one goldfish, four tiny snails and slowly encroaching
algae growth. This condition remained constant for about a
month. 

Then things changed... we now had one fishtank, one goldfish,
slowly encroaching algae growth, one twice ex-dead twice ex-
pregnant hermaphroditic snail, and 23 baby snails. 

Now, two months later, we have one fishtank, one goldfish,
absolutely no -- zip -- nada -- algae growth, one twice ex-dead
twice ex-pregnant snail, 23 baby snails, and an encroaching sense
of doom about what to do with the forthcoming exponentially
growing supply of hermaphroditic snails.

(Hermaphrodite: A life form with sexual organs of both gender,
capable of reproduction without a mate.)

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Date: Thu Oct 03 18:13:49 PDT 1991
From: t-robtp@microsoft.COM
Subject: WhiteBoard News
To: 0003539738@mcimail.com, QUA@cornella.cit.cornell.edu,

Hudson, FL

The police in Hudson, Florida, have their own crime wave to
worry about.  Seems that retirees gather on the beach to play
penny-ante pinochle.  

Police busted seven men who regularly wager as much as $2.00 a
week.  Each faces a $500 fine.
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Washington, DC

Congress may not be the dumbest organization in Washington,
D.C., after all.  

District police ticketed a car at least once and perhaps as many as
three times during a 15-hour period.  

That's not unusual; the car was in a no-parking zone.  

What WAS unusual was that the car's engine was idling and with
a corpse, that had been shot in the head, in the rear seat.  

Only after a passerby noticed the corpse, and notified police, did
officers suspect anything was wrong.
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London, England

A 9-year-old boy, who played havoc in his hometown in northern
England after eating chocolate, has been placed on a special diet.

Wayne Thackray, who doctors say is allergic to chocolate,
shattered all the windows in his local church and smashed dozens
of gravestones.

His rampage also included trying to derail a train by placing
concrete blocks on the track, setting fires and breaking into
garages.

The youngster is now on a strict chocolate-free diet.

"He's having to live on bland vegetables and meat," his mother,
Carol, said.  "And like it or not, he's grounded.  We don't want
him in any more trouble."
==========

Tacoma, WA

Tacoma police had to admit it was an unusual crime: a suspect
stealing a patrol car, then running down a policeman with it.

It happened when Officer Doug Jolliffe pulled a car over at South
street for a routine traffic violation.  Jolliffe put the driver, a 35-
year-old woman, in the back seat of the patrol car and returned to
her car to talk to the passenger.

The woman then crawled through the barrier between the seats of
the patrol car, put the car in gear and drove it forward, hitting
and knocking Jolliffe down and driving off.

Jolliffe, stunned but only slightly injured, radioed for help.  

Officers, with the help of witnesses and a search dog, found the
patrol car only a few blocks away.  The dog found the woman
hiding in a cabbage patch behind a nearby house.

The woman has so far refused to answer to questions of why she
did what she did since she apparently has never been in trouble
before.  Her passenger, though, was arrested on outstanding
warrants for an unrelated misdemeanor.

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Date: Sun, 6 Oct 91 12:04:24 PDT
From: one of our correspondants
Subject: Wishful thinking

   Shanghai gives criminals 55 days to give up

   BEIJING, Oct 6 (AFP) - Shanghai authorities have given criminals
55 days to turn themselves in and confess or face harsh punishment,
including execution, the city's Liberation Daily newspaper reported.
   The deadline, which ends November 30, was jointly issued Saturday
by the Shanghai high court, police, the prosecutor's office and
justice organs, the paper said.
   It "urges thieves and other criminals to surrender ... in order to
get lenient treatment." China recently launched a three-year drive
aimed at wiping out theft and has conducted scores of executions
across the country.
   Four "major" thieves were executed in Guangzhou, the capital of
Guangdong province, on September 26, the Legal Daily reported Sunday.
   "Don't hesitate to speak, don't fool yourself that you will get
away, the only way is to confess your crimes to the police. If you
miss this chance, you will regret it," the paper quoted the Shanghai
circular as saying.
   It said "all those who confess and return stolen goods and expose
other criminals will be granted leniency," adding that serious
offenders would be given light punishment while misdemeanors would be
dropped.
   The same rules could also apply to prisoners.
   The circular called on families to expose any relatives engaged in
theft.
   Two of the four men executed in Guangzhou were repeat offenders.
One, Chen Jiequan, used a knife to rob motorcycle and taxi drivers
and organized a gang to burgle 15 houses. Huang Binghui stole two
Toyota sedans.
   The other two men were peasants who were engaged in highway
robbery a total of 63 times, the Legal Daily said.

[Isn't this what Congress is now doing with the check and restaurant
mini-scandals?    --spaf]

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Date: Tue, 8 Oct 91 19:36 EDT
From: rutgers!pdn.paradyne.com!reggie (George Leach)
To: spaf

For Yucks:  A note sent home with my youngest, who is five and in
kindergarten:

This is to notify you that Jacob failed to do the following while
at school today:

	X	1.  Listen and follow directions
	X	2.  Use the proper voice
	X	3.  Follow safety procedures
		4.  Treat everyone like a friend
	X	5.  Other ___Jacob was swinging from the stall
		    and screaming in the boy's room.__________

Funny, I do the same thing at work and my boss never complains!

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