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Yucks Digest V1 #96
Yucks Digest Wed, 30 Oct 91 Volume 1 : Issue 96
Today's Topics:
"Do it yourself" drug enforcement
Adult Time and Temperature Phone Number
Announcement: PHENOMICON: ATLANTA'S ALTERNATIVE CONVENTION
Any good beer bars in Louisville KY near...
A Sign I Saw The Other Day [said]...
Bad Nostradamus Quatrain Theatre
bats and the F-117 stealth
Headlines
holy member
On my CS 181 exam...
REVIEW: SICK AND TWISTED FESTIVAL OF ANIMATION
SARTRE programming language
sick humor...
Tinkle Toys
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Date: Wed, 30 Oct 91 10:49:56 PST
From: one of our correspondents
Subject: "Do it yourself" drug enforcement
To: yucks-request
THE ALERT CONSUMER Drug buyer, beware
By Jason Zappe Copley News Service With government unable to
stem the flow and use of drugs in this country, one man says it's
time to get BAD.
Twenty-five-year veteran Drug Enforcement Administration agent
Michael Levine has written a manual that will help you get BAD. His
acronym is the cornerstone of his theory: Banish all druggies.
His theory focuses on ridding your neighborhood, not of drug
dealers, but of drug users. And once the area is devoid of users, the
dealers will move on to some new market location.
Levine says targeting drug users is a much more effective way of
solving the drug crisis in this country than going after the drug
trafficker. He outlines the steps private citizens can take to win
back their neighborhoods, schools and families from drug dealers in
his new book "Fight Back" (Dell).
Once you've accepted that the only real enemy in this war is the
drug consumer, Levine says, you're ready to begin organizing in your
community.
But Levine warns that once you begin employing the strategies
suggested in his handbook, never, under any circumstances confront
drug dealers.
First, Levine says, you need to organize your community members
into an organization similar to a Neighborhood Watch program, except
this new organization will be much more active.
Once you have enough able bodies and Levine says you should
try to include young members as well you are ready to begin
training in ways to take back your neighborhood.
According to Levine, "Your primary sources of training and
expertise should be your local police, federal and state district
attorney's offices, and colleges and universities."
Some of the areas training should cover include:
Probable cause. How to recognize drug-trafficking activity with
emphasis on a buyer purchasing something.
Citizen's arrest powers. To understand when a private citizen
can stop, search, detain and restrain a buyer possessing drugs after
a buy.
The drug business. To learn as much as you can about the
business how much money, how many lives lost, what kinds of drugs,
what kinds of addiction, jargon and patterns of drug trafficking in
your neighborhood.
Technical equipment. Among the useful items needed Levine
recommends CB radio equipment for cars and a base unit, loudspeakers
and bullhorns, camera, video equipment and automobiles.
Once you have some training, you're ready to begin your cleanup
operation. Levine stresses that your primary goal is to do whatever
it takes to frighten, intimidate and discourage the drug user from
entering your community.
Basically the methods employed revolve around the use of the
bullhorn, loudspeaker and video camera equipment. He says putting
people like accountants, students and other so-called normal people
on the spot and in the public eye carries more weight because these
folks have more to lose.
Levine says one time to use bullhorns is when you see a dealer
and people buying. You shout through the bullhorn "Buyer on the
block" over and over until they leave. However, this tactic only
works in urban areas where there are already a number of non-druggies
around.
In the suburban setting, Levine says you can use the same
tactic, but you will have to do it in the drive-by mode. To rid
suburban areas of drug buyers, post signs warning druggies that the
area is under surveillance by camera.
One of his better recommendations involves the use of video and
snapshot cameras. He says paranoid junkies freak out when you try to
capture them on film. This can be damaging evidence against them.
Levine says this results from the druggies' having committed more
crimes than they can remember, or they are "straights," people who
hold regular jobs.
Even if you follow all of his suggestions, you and your BAD
group will need to work in strict cooperation with the local police.
Levine reminds citizens that you want to create a hostile
environment, not a hostile situation.
[Would you believe anyone who made the statement "...people like
accountants, students, and other so-called normal people..."? --spaf]
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Newsgroups: comp.dcom.telecom
Subject: Adult Time and Temperature Service
Message-ID: <telecom11.857.12@eecs.nwu.edu>
Date: 27 Oct 91 01:03:16 GMT
Sender: Telecom@eecs.nwu.edu
In case you want something other than the standard messages to set
your clock by tonight, you might try the "Adult Time and Temperature
Service", a free program heard at 312-489-1505. In addition to the
aforementioned information, as it relates to Chicago, you get a choice
of voicemail advertisements wherein people describe their special
interests. You also get to place your own personal message on the
service if desired, subject to review before it is heard by others.
It would be a bargain at twice the cost ... or half the cost for that
matter ... and certainly more interesting to listen to than the one
sponsored by the First National Bank. Don't forget to set your clocks
back one hour tonight!
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Date: 30 Oct 91 04:17:44 GMT
From: dona@bilver.uucp (Don Allen)
Subject: Announcement: PHENOMICON: ATLANTA'S ALTERNATIVE CONVENTION
Newsgroups: alt.slack,alt.alien.visitors,alt.conspiracy
[Gee, I'm sorry we didn't get this announcement before the event
happened. Only those of us with working time travel machines, given to
us by the aliens, will be able to attend. :-) --spaf]
This announcement comes off the MUFONET UFO echo...
Message #5389 - MUFONET
Date : 28-Oct-91 23:32
From : JOHN KOMAR
To : All
Subject : Conference news-Wire
MUFONET-BBS NETWORK - MUTUAL UFO NETWORK
~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~
CONVENTION NEWS - WIRE
~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~
PHENOMICON: ATLANTA'S ALTERNATIVE CONVENTION
Location: Power's Ferry Holiday Inn
Dates: November 1-3, 1991
Speakers:
Robert Anton Wilson; Co-author of Illuminatus &
author of Cosmic Trigger, the Historical Illuminatus series,
Schrodinger's Cat & more will speak on Quantum Philosophy &
participate in a debate with author Richard Shaffer.
Bill Cooper; will lecture & present workshops on
the UFO Government Coverup Conspiracy.
Robyn Quail; on abductees & hypnotic regression.
Don Ware; of MUFON on UFOs & their implications on
world religions.
Mark Jaeger, Charlie Pilcher, Caryl Dennis; a
three-part UFO History of the World.
Tricia McCannon; on Native American Beliefs in the
Plieades.
Ivan Stang; on BOB & Jehovah, etc.
Alternative Costume Contest: categories include Underground
comic, Aliens (Grey, Nordic, etc.), Men-in-Black, Sub-Genius
Historical Conspiracy characters.
Amateur Film Making contest.
Contact: PhenomiCon, P.O. Box 12141, Atlanta, GA 30355
phone 404-239-8020, 458-4442, 925-9668
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Date: 29 Oct 91 19:06:26 GMT
From: frosty@mentor.cc.purdue.edu (Frosty D. Snowman)
Subject: Any good beer bars in Louisville KY near...
Newsgroups: alt.beer
[Another oldie I couldn't find already in the archive. --spaf]
Here is a beer drinking joke I picked up off of the net. I know no one
could appreciate it better than my beer newsgroup friends.....
Here Goes.......
A beer expert was entertaining folks at a bar by identifying all sorts of
obscure beers with a blindfolded taste test. Ten beers, and he hadn't missed
yet, and had even thrown in comments about the brewery's history or other
amusing antecdotes.
A drunk had been watching the show for sometime, and slid a beer glass into
the expert's hand, saying "Here, shmarty. Tell me what's this!"
The expert took a quick gulp and immediately spat his sample out. "Christ!
Man, this is urine!" he screamed.
"Shhure." the drunk responded, "but Whhoose?"
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Date: Mon, 28 Oct 91 20:07:12 CST
From: Mark Shoemaker <shoe@convext.convex.com>
Subject: A Sign I Saw The Other Day [said]...
To: yucks
Sexual Harassment In This Area
Will Not Be Reported
It Will, However, Be Graded.
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Date: 30 Oct 91 19:12:57 GMT
From: amorgan@Neon.Stanford.EDU (Crunchy Frog)
Subject: Bad Nostradamus Quatrain Theatre
Newsgroups: sci.skeptic,talk.rumors
In article <91303.114039SML108@psuvm.psu.edu> SML108@psuvm.psu.edu (Scott the Great) writes:
>This morning I was watching CNN and they carried a really silly story about
>Nostradamus predicting that 15 women would be murdered at a small catholic
>college in the northeast of the new world. They then interviewed a bunch
>of people at Siena College, my alma mater, who were terrified by this
>prediction. Apparently, this is also a very old rumor as when I mentioned
>it to some people I knew, it had been applied to their college too.
>
>Anyone else hear of this rumor? Does anyone know what quatrain this is
>supposed to have arisen from? On a day when the Mideast Peace Conference
>is finally occurring, is CNN really that strapped for news?
>
>Scott
Yeah, it's Quatrain XXVI and it goes like this
When armadillos shall fly
Into the greeness of walls
And below the rivers will run
With honey and Anchor Steam.
No... wait.... sorry, that's about the breaking up of the Soviet Union. How
about Quatrain CXXIII
I need to buy some eggs,
milk, lettuce, beans,
spam, egg, spam, sausage,
tomato, spam, spam, spam, wonderful spam....
No, that's about some TV show. He got it completely wrong as usual. Maybe
it's Quatrain CXX.D-27W'
In the Northeast
Of the New World
15 people will be murdered
At a small Catholic college.
It will probably be your
Alma Mater.
Live in fear sucker.
Yeah, that seems to be about right. Hope I cleared things up.
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Date: Wed, 30 Oct 91 10:58:43 PST
From: saddison@ca.novell.com (Skip Addison)
Subject: bats and the F-117 stealth
To: spaf
(From Aviation Week and Space Technology, Oct 17, 1991 --
excerpted without permission)
An accoustic-guided submunition call the BAT may be good against tanks,
but not against an F-117. A reader who works on the stealth fighter in
Saudi Arabia says bats (the natural ones) occasionally work their way
into F-117 hangers [sic]. One night a hungry bat turned right into an
F-117 rudder and fell stunned to the floor. He flew away groggily,
leaving behind a heightened impression of the aircraft's stealth. "I
don't know what the radar return is for the vertical tails of the F-117
but I always thought it had to be more than an insect's," the reader
said. "I guess I was wrong." There may be some "science" in this --
the ultrasound wavelengths used by bats are roughly the same as X-band
radar.
(relayed by Terry Murphy at 3Com)
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Date: 29 Oct 91 11:30:04 GMT
From: khushro@zip.eecs.umich.edu
Subject: Headlines
Newsgroups: rec.humor.funny
The following is the best of what was generated by the spew automatic
news headline generator (program copyright 1987 Greg Smith), "almost"
unedited by me.
Madonna Gives birth to Seventy-Two Daughters.
-- Joan Rivers May Be Involved.
"Elvis Died From Eating Plums", Says Michael Jackson.
-- National Enquirer Photo Exclusive.
"Frank Sinatra Is Really Space Alien From Mars" Claim Swiss Voice Pattern
Recognition Researchers.
Chemists Discover Linda Ronstadt Was Married to King Henry VIII in Previous
Life
Croatian AI Experts resurrect Groucho Marx.
-- Ukranian AI Experts Offer Undeniable Proof.
Nancy Reagan Files Paternity Suit Against Joan Rivers -- Claiming Sex Change.
"Killer Tigers From Israel killed My Daughter" Claims Moammar Khadafy.
Cindi Lauper Maims Ninety-Seven TV Personalities in drunken rampage.
Real Life Ghost Busters Exorcise Poltergist from Prince Charles's home in
San Rafael.
Madonna Tells Of Night Of Terror With Johnny Carson.
"He Threatened Me With a Phased Plasma Rifle".
Killer Kittens injure Eva Gabor.
-- Exclusive Pictures Inside.
"I Am The Reincarnation of Cleopatra", Claims Linda Ronstadt.
Eating Tomatoes Can Give You Chicken Pox, Claim Japanese Psychologists.
"Santa Claus kidnapped My Baby", Insists Game Show Host.
Atheist Monks report USS enterprise Sighting in Salt Lake City
"They Came From The Direction Of Pluto!".
-- National Enquirer Photo Exclusive.
British Artificial Intelligence Researcher's Bizarre Claim:
"Russian Meta-physicists Planted Mind Control Device In My Head".
[I could swear I've actually seen these as headlines.... --spaf]
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Date: Tue, 29 Oct 91 15:18:34 -0800
From: brian@UCSD.EDU (Brian Kantor)
Subject: holy member
To: spaf
[This is an oldie that I thought had made it to Yucks before, but
I can't find it in the archives, so here it is.... --spaf]
Originally from: "David R. Pickett" <pickett@quiver.enet.dec.com>:
I am forever astonished by how many mistakes could be avoided if people
would just think about what they are saying. This is especially the
case in religion. An example of this is the assumption that God is
male. Obviously God is a woman, because God doesn't have a penis. The
proof of this is by omission: nowhere in the Bible is there a reference
to the "Divine Penis," and I am sure that if God were a man He would
talk about it somewhere. No real man could go on for hundreds of pages
about himself without mentioning that thing once or twice.
Upon remarking on the above observation, I was notified by someone that
he heard the oath "by the infinite dick of God" around Caltech, though
"semi-infinite" would be more precise. Unfortunately, this further
muddles the issue. I am thankful that the ancient theologians did not
realize this point, otherwise they would have wasted much time in
debating this actually nonexistent part of God. I can see it all
now...
During the fall of Rome, St.Augustine referred to "God's mighty male
member, wider than the Coliseum, more powerful than Zeus's tool, able
to take Athena in a single bound." Then in the middle ages, Thomas
Aquinas, in an attempt to reconcile St.Augustine's remark with the
rediscovered writings of Zeno, declared that the length of God's
immense organ must be semi-infinite. But then Rene Descartes, after
spending a lifetime in philosophical thought, stated that since God is
greater than that which can be conceived, God's measureless masculinity
must be truly infinite, because an infinite length is much longer (in
fact, infinitely longer) than a semi-infinite length. However, the
followers of Aquinas immediatedly countered with a simple argument: "If
God's tree is infinite, then what holds it up? Certainly one end of
God's tremendous tree must be firmly rooted in his loins." Also, a
minor philosopher (whose name I forget, but who liked perfect islands)
argued "If God's monument to life were infinite then there must be a
fig leaf whose extent is also infinite. But then there is something
infinite that is not part of God, which contradicts the assumption that
God is the greatest. The only solution is that God's rod must be
semi-infinite, so that He can hide it by turning His back to the world
and looking over His shoulder." Since both sides had such valid
points, for a while the discussion reached a stalemate. Then the great
German philosopher Hegel attempted to reconcile the issue with his
sword-plowshare theory, where he proposed that the infinite and
semi-infinite are actually two manifestations of the same thing.
Though it seemed impossible, Hegel claimed that God does occasionally
beat His infinite sword into a semi-infinite plowshare. This theory
gained great popularity, but it didn't really solve anything primarily
because no one could understand it. Some time afterwards, the rise of
non-Euclidian geometry seemed to favor the Cartesians when it showed
that God's wondrous worm could be infinite in this dimension, yet be
attached to Him in a higher dimension. However this solution was not
totally satisfactory either, because then there isn't a preferred
direction to God's protrusion in this dimension. The answer to the
debate had to wait till the beginning of the 20th century, when Georg
Cantor, attempting to cope with his strict religious upbringing, proved
that a semi-infinite member is just as long as an infinite member;
therefore God's member may be semi-infinite and yet be no shorter than
an infinite member. Cantor's colleagues ridiculed him by showing that
his theorems also proved that a finite real dimension is commensurable
with an infinite one, suggesting that anyone's piddling plow is just as
long as God's prodigious pecker. This paradox was solved only with the
advent of quantum theory, which demonstrated that the real world
corresponds to the set of integers rather than the set of reals. In
that case Cantor's theory showed that the finite phallus was infact
infinitely shorter than the infinite one, though the theory still
retained the property of the commensurability between the infinite and
the semi-infinite. So today mathematicians agree that Cantor was
correct, finally and conclusively demolishing the central argument of
the Cartesian theory.
Thus we see that if St.Augustine had thought about the nature of God's
member, only after several centuries of the application of logic and
mathematics and physics would a definite answer be reached. And even
then the answer would be wrong, because the very basis of the argument
is nonexistent. For the reason described at the beginning of this
treatise, we the faithful know that by simply examining the Word of God
it is obvious that any discussion in this area is meaningless, since
God hath no member.
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Date: Mon, 28 Oct 1991 16:15:54 -0500
From: bxd (Buster Dunsmore)
Subject: On my CS 181 exam...
To: ssw
> Date: Mon, 28 Oct 1991 14:25:32 -0500
> From: ssw (Samuel S Wagstaff)
> To: bxd
>
> On my CS 181 exam, I asked the students to name any four
> of the eight phases of the Life Cycle of Software. Here
> is a compilation of their answers. The eight phases are:
>
> 1. Idea
> 2. Research
> 3. Creation
> 4. Abstraction
> 5. Debugging
> 6. Recursion
> 7. Change, and
> 8. This Question Sucks
I am quite sure that if I asked that same question on a CS 180 exam,
the answers would be
1. I don't know
2. I don't care
3. You never talked about this in class
4. I missed the class when you talked about this
5. I think I missed all the classes before this exam
6. This question sucks
7. This course sucks
8. All of CS sucks and I'm changing to Management at the end of this exam
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Date: 28 Oct 91 16:40:12 GMT
From: rita@eff.org (Rita Marie Rouvalis)
Subject: REVIEW: SICK AND TWISTED FESTIVAL OF ANIMATION
Newsgroups: rec.arts.movies.reviews,rec.arts.sf.reviews
(Followups are directed to rec.arts.movies.reviews. -Moderator)
SICK AND TWISTED FESTIVAL OF ANIMATION
A film review by Rita Marie Rouvalis
Copyright 1991 Rita Marie Rouvalis
THE EXTRA SICK AND TWISTED FESTIVAL OF ANIMATION
Somerville Theatre, Davis Square, MA through October 31
(Don't know where it goes from here -- but watch for it!)
So I'm waiting outside the run-down Somerville theatre, spindling,
folding, and otherwise mutilating my ticket in anticipation of the show
and thinking to myself: "Sure, they *say* it's "sick and twisted" -- oh
-- and so no one under 17 is admitted (which guarantees all the high
schoolers will be there) -- but is it really?"
Um, yeah, it's pretty warped.
The first half, touted as the "twisted" part, gets a strong start
with Bruno Bozzetto's "Baby Story." Obviously they have those corny
puberty movies over in Italy, because this cartoon is a brilliant parody
of all those films that "happen inside a woman's body." If you're a
woman, you'll never think of a trip to the gynecologist's in quite the
same light after seeing this ....
Other "twisted" shorts include "One of those Days" by Bill
Plympton, a cute "DaButt" by Steve Lee, and an Australian cartoon with odd
environmental overtones and lots of bananas called "One Man's Instrument."
"Thank You Mask Man" -- from the original sick comic, Lenny Bruce -- is
funniest when viewed with the fact that it was made in the 60's in mind.
After buying your T-shirt, Dove Bar, and video tape, you're ready
for the "sick" half. "Mutilator" by Eric Fogel (who made a guest
appearance during the intermission the night I was there) is the
mechanical-armed hero of The Wasteland. "April is the cruelest month ..."
Oops, not *that* Wasteland -- this one is based on New York, according
to the artist. The animation is crude, but the film pokes great fun at
those post-holocaust comic books.
Other notables include "Lullaby" -- a beautifully drawn story about
things that go bump in the night; "Dog Pile," which should strike a
chord with anyone from the manicured suburbs; and "Deadsy," which is
moonlighting from "the other Festival."
The most outstanding piece of the Festival is "Pink Komkommer."
Nine artists interpret the same snippet of sleazy soundtrack -- all
presented as the daydreams of one seriously repressed old lady. Whips,
Georgia O'Keefe -esqe flowers, devouring cats, and all manner of, um,
secretions are represented in the different versions. Frued would be
proud.
Billed as "the sickest film every made," "Quiet Please" *almost*
lives up to its reputation. It's offensive, all right -- but doesn't
come close to "Deep Sympathy", also a by-product of Mike Grimshaw. In
the words of one rather uptight Helmsite from Lowell, MA -- "Deep" is
truly "the most vile, offensive piece of trash I ever laid eyes on."
And I *loved* it.
SICK AND TWISTED is good mix of old favorites and new expressions
of dementia. This one really *isn't* for the kids -- they aren't
kidding. But if you enjoy distinctly un-PC entertainment on occasion,
watch for this 'FEST.
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Date: Mon, 28 Oct 1991 21:05:23 PST
From: Chris "Johann" Borton <borton@garnet.berkeley.edu>
Subject: SARTRE programming language
To: to-people-who-like-to-laugh.@garnet.berkeley.edu;
A New Programming Language: SARTRE
Bruce R. Donald
<BRD@MIT-OZ>
Named after the late existential philosopher, SARTRE is an
extremely unstructured language. Statements in SARTRE have no
purpose; they just are. Thus SARTRE programs are left to define
their own functions. SARTRE programmers tend to be boring and depressed
and are no fun at parties.
The SARTRE language has two basic data types, the EN-SOI and
the POUR-SOI. The EN-SOI is a completely filled heap, whereas the
POUR-SOI is a dynamic structure which never has the same
value. The structures are accessed through the the only operation
defined in SARTRE, nihilation, which usually results in a
?BAD FAITH at PC 02AC040
error.
Comparisons in SARTRE have a peculiar form in that the
IF statement can take no arguments and simply reads
IF;
Similarly, assignments can only be of the form
WHAT-IS := (NOT WHAT-IS);
since in SARTRE the POUR-SOI is only, and exactly, what it is not.
Although this sounds confusing, a background process, the NIHILATOR, is
constantly running, making any such statements (or any statements at
all, for that matter), completely meaningless.
SARTRE programs do not terminate, of course, since there is
No Exit.
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Date: Wed, 30 Oct 91 10:23:56 -0800
From: Rex Black <rutgers!devnet.la.locus.com!rex>
Subject: sick humor...
To: spaf
I saw something on the idiot box last night that is--in my opinion--a
classic example of black humor. As the irritating announcer in the _New
Yorker_ TV ad says,"See if you agree."
The newscaster--with an entirely straight face throughout--told the
following story. Someone in Oregon received a sentence of five years
abstinence from sex and six months house arrest on a conviction of
knowingly transmitting the AIDS virus to his girlfriend. He now has
AIDS symptoms, and she tests HIV positive. Evidently, they now have
a law in Oregon that specific deals with AIDS carriers failing to inform
sexual partners and/or taking precautions against infection.
However, things could have been much worse for the guy. Apparently,
the prosecutor decided to drop the charge of _assault_ _with_ _a_
_deadly_ _weapon_!
[Yup, I can see it now:
"Your honor, my client, Pee-Wee Herman, demands that the charges against
him be changed to "discharging a deadly weapon within city limits."
"No way. The evidence before this court leads us to reduce the
charges to a misdemeanor moving violation. Case closed." --spaf]
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Date: Mon, 28 Oct 91 15:34:49 -0800
From: bostic@okeeffe.CS.Berkeley.EDU (Keith Bostic)
Subject: Tinkle Toys
To: /dev/null@okeeffe.CS.Berkeley.EDU
>From the Oct 27, 1991 issue of Washington Post Magazine:
Men are forever complaining about the time women spend in the bathroom.
But an innovation in the men's room across from the rooftop restaurant
at the Hotel Washington this season could turn the tables.
Sticking up from the center of each urinal is a "Tinkle Toy" - a
propeller anchored by a rubber mat, with drain holes in the middle.
Once set spinning, the propeller points to the outer part of the mat,
which is divided into sections labeled: Stand Closer, Don't Drink, Try
Again, and Free Spin.
But of course this boy toy has a serious purpose. According to the
restaurant's host, the device keeps cigarette butts and other debris
from clogging the drains.
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Date: 30 Oct 91 05:19:12 GMT
From: adiseker@potomac.ads.com (Andrew Diseker)
Subject: What?
Newsgroups: alt.my.crummy.boss
In article <22970@helios.TAMU.EDU> pds5853@sigma.tamu.edu writes:
>In article <1991Oct29.140021.14555@unx.sas.com>, sasebb@unx.sas.com (Edmund Burnette) writes...
>>
>>In article <8843@ns-mx.uiowa.edu>, czahrt@umaxc.weeg.uiowa.edu (Robert D. Cappel...you can call me The Bob) writes:
>>|> What? Your boss is covered with crumbs?
>>
>>yeah, we had him breaded.
>
>Then why not alt.my.breaded.boss? Seriously, I think this newsgroup has real
>merit for disgruntled employees. We should all rise up as one body and dip
>our bosses into bubbling vats of scalding bread pudding. That would make the
>buggers sit up and say, "Well, perhaps we should have given them more office
>space and nicer computers." :)
Wow, your boss(es) let you have computers? and OFFICES?? Why,
we have to post using Teletypes, and we work in little cardboard boxes
in potholes!
[This is another of those strange little "alt" newsgroups that pop up, get
lots of traffic for a few weeks, then maybe die off. This one looks like
it will be pretty silly. --spaf]
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