[Prev][Next][Index]
Yucks Digest V2 #20 (shorts)
Yucks Digest Tue, 17 Mar 92 Volume 2 : Issue 20
Today's Topics:
Alpha summary
AND THE MINKS ON MY WIFE'S COAT ALL COMMITTED SUICIDE
Best signature I have seen lately
bush's confession
Dog Protected Me From Jehova's Witnesses
extra terminator
Joke from AstroPhysicist Boyfriend
Lawmaker Bashes Elvis Stamp
Laws of the Weird
license plate
men, women, and roaches (true)
More chickens crossing roads
Movie combinations
Mr. Happy
Musical mnemonics
Musicians give disused public toilets a new flush of life
Somehow, I think "special interest" is the right phrase here...
Strange Ad [for yucks]
SUN announces new division
Tammy Faye Bakker wants divorce
That old black magic (know your office equipment)
what's the deal?
Yes, I usually run when I hear this term...
Yucks Digest V2 #17
The "Yucks" digest is a moderated list of the bizarre, the unusual,
the sometimes risque, the possibly insane, and the (usually) humorous.
It is issued on a semi-regular basis, as the whim and time present
themselves.
Back issues and subscriptions can be obtained using a mail server. Send
mail to "yucks-request@cs.purdue.edu" with a "Subject:" line of the single
word "help" for instructions.
Submissions and problem reports should be sent to spaf@cs.purdue.edu
----------------------------------------------------------------------
From: tk@ai.mit.edu (Tom Knight)
Subject: Alpha summary
Newsgroups: comp.arch
In article <28953@skye.dcs.ed.ac.uk> dhd@dcs.ed.ac.uk (Damon Hart-Davis)
writes (quoting a Digital sales-droid):
ALPHA - DID YOU KNOW ?
> The Alpha chip, which is barely a quarter of an inch square,
contains nearly two million transistors.
> To make each individual transistor on an Alpha chip visible to
the naked eye, the chip would have to be enlarged to the size of
Switzerland.
Either Switzerland has gotten even smaller than I remember, or this
sales-droid needs very much improved glasses. If we expand a 13 x 16
mm die to 13 x 16 Km (let alone Switzerland) we end up with 1 micron
devices measuring a meter. Even I can see those.
------------------------------
Date: Thu, 12 Mar 92 14:32:58 -0800
From: bostic@okeeffe.CS.Berkeley.EDU (Keith Bostic)
Subject: AND THE MINKS ON MY WIFE'S COAT ALL COMMITTED SUICIDE
To: /dev/null@okeeffe.CS.Berkeley.EDU
The Eddie Bauer catalog offers pitch-saturated kindling
wood "felled by lightning or other natural causes".
-- from an article on Political Correctness in US News & World Report
------------------------------
Date: Thu, 12 Mar 92 19:30:54 EST
From: young
Subject: Best signature I have seen lately
To: spaf
Cogito Eggo Sum -- "I think, therefore I am a waffle."
(from Katie Livingston, katie@brownvm.brown.edu)
------------------------------
Date: Tue, 17 Mar 92 13:27:40 CST
From: meo@netmail.austin.ibm.com (Miles E O'Neal (Contractor))
Subject: bush's confession
To: spaf (Gene Spafford)
"Early in the race, I saw that Duke and Buchanan would be
much more formidable foes than my campaign people wanted
to believe. I took steps to make sure I got the four more
years my programs require to turn this country around.
"I consulted the Usenet Oracle.
"Based on what I was told, I left Quayle in the Oval Office
wearing a Bushbo mask, and snuck off to California. The
worst point came early on, when I was almost recognized
by the California Customs Police at the airport. The last
thing I needed was Brown realizing what I was up to.
"Special Agent Foley rented the big Caddie at Alamo, and
Special Agent Pettit got the glass. We filled it with
Perrier, and hit the freeway. I quickly accelerated to
80 MPH, the glass balanced on my head. My escorts were
not the least bit amused, but had no choice. With no
chase vehicles, they said they felt naked, but I felt
like a winner.
"I almost blew it once. The glass fell off when I had
to dodge behind a van to avoid being seen by a CHiPS
officer. I caught it before it hit the floor, and
replaced it on my head. Most of the water was gone,
but not all of it, and the glass never touched the
carpet.
"I drove the required 70 miles, and returned back here.
Just as the Oracle predicted, my opponents never got
past 40% of the vote in any state.
"I can hardly wait to find out what the November elections
require."
------------------------------
Date: 17 Jun 91 21:51:50 GMT
From: cohen@mips2.ma30.bull.com (Steve Cohen)
Subject: Dog Protected Me From Jehova's Witnesses
Newsgroups: rec.pets.dogs
Several years ago as my family was about to eat dinner, several Jehova's
Witnesses got inside my fence ( my wife made the mistake of letting them in)
and were busy proselytizing my wife. Since it was time for dinner and
my wife was having trouble getting rid of them, I decided to take action.
Our dog who was named Pou Chi was a 65 pound chow that looked
exactly like a lion. I let Pou Chi out the door, and yelled,"
Don't eat them!" The Jehova's witnesses disappeared like characters
in a cartoon.
Steve Cohen
Bull HN
PS: I have nothing against Jehova's witnesses, but they can be a pain
at dinnertime.
[ And the followup...]
From: kae@hpfcso.FC.HP.COM (Karen Erickson)
Newsgroups: rec.pets.dogs
Subject: Re: Dog Protected Me From Jehova's Witnesses
Date: 18 Jun 91 11:00:29 GMT
They aren't too bad if you prepare them with Brother Mel's barbeque sauce,
serve them with a good beer and some potato salad. They tend to be a bit
chewy though so cook 'em for at least two hours.
------------------------------
Date: Sat, 14 Mar 92 08:51:20 -0500
From: paul%dblegl.atl.ga.us@mathcs.emory.edu (Paul D. Manno)
Subject: extra terminator
To: spaf
>From the Earthweek Column by Steve Newman
Yang Siqi, a former exterminator in China's Jiangxi province, opened
three factories to make termite-based drugs after his life seemingly
was saved by eating large quantities of the insects seven years ago.
Mr. Yang is director of the Yingtan Termite Research Institute, but
he began his career controlling termite damage. His interests turned
to medicine in 1987 when he became gravely ill, and ate termites for
three months as a last resort. Doctors were surprised to find that
he apparently had cured himself of snail fever, gastritis and a neurotic
disorder. Mr. Yang's institute now makes termite-based drugs by using
only three of 2,442 species of the insects.
[I wonder what you can do with the other 2,439? - Paul]
------------------------------
Date: 16 Oct 91 10:30:05 GMT
From: erica@cc.gatech.edu (Erica Liebman)
Subject: Joke from AstroPhysicist Boyfriend
Newsgroups: rec.humor.funny
An astronomer on an extended lecture tour became weary of delivering the
same lecture night after night. He confided this state of mind to his
chauffeur as they were driving to their next destination. The chauffeur
expressed a similar boredom in his line of work.
"I've got it!" said the astronomer. "You are bored with driving and I am
weary of lecturing. Let's exchange places for one night. It will be a
refreshing change for both of us. My lecture is all written out word for word
and nobody in the next town knows me by sight anyway." The driver agreed and
the exchange of roles and dress was made. That night the lecture hall filled
to capacity. At the appointed time those in attendance heard a flawlessly
delivered lecture. At its conclusion the lecturer basked in the euphoric
applause. Then came the question and answer period.
"Who discovered Uranus?" came from a boy in the front.
"Uh...William Herschel." He remembered that from somewhere.
"And who discovered Pluto?" continued the boy.
"Aaaa...that would be Clyde Tombaugh." He had read a little.
Then from the back: "Would you please comment on the relative merits
of the pulsation instability model and the accretion disk instability model for
the explanation of outbursts of cataclysmic variable stars?"
The speaker paused for a moment, then said, "I am surprised that you
would bother to ask me such a simple question. To show you how really simple
it is I shall have my chauffeur answer it for you."
------------------------------
Date: Thu, 5 Mar 92 17:50:33 PST
From: one of our correspondents
Subject: Lawmaker Bashes Elvis Stamp
To: yucks-request
WASHINGTON (AP)
Rep. Marge Roukema, R-N.J., is all shook up about the new Elvis
stamp scheduled for issuance next year.
"Elvis Presley's drug and alcohol abuse was widely recognized, and
I do not believe the U.S. Postal Service should honor such a negative
role model by placing Elvis' likeness on a postage stamp," the
congresswoman wrote Postmaster General Anthony M. Frank.
"Many children collect postage stamps. I certainly do not want
young people to mistakenly assume that the United States government
condones Elvis Presley's behavior," she continued.
A Postal Service spokeswoman said the agency was not addressing
Elvis's private conduct. "We're honoring ... his accomplishment with
music. It has nothing to do with his lifestyle," Robin Minard said
Thursday.
She had a different interpretation of what the stamp might convey
about the singer.
"It kind of sends a message to American youth that if Elvis hadn't
abused his body and hadn't led the life he led, he'd still be
entertaining us. It's a loss associated with the way he lived, not a
gain," she said.
In an interview, Mrs. Roukema said she was also indignant that in
a time of tight money, the Postal Service would spend taxpayer
dollars so Americans could pick between likenesses of the young
singer from Mississippi and the jumpsuited, older resident of
Graceland in Memphis, Tenn.
But Minard pegged the total promotional cost of the balloting at
$150,000, predicting confidently that "we will more than make that up
with the sale of the stamp."
"It will be one of the fastest selling stamps ever. It's the kind
of stamp a lot of people will save," Minard said. "It's almost pure
profit."
Balloting take place April 6-24, with the voters paying to mail
their ballots, she said.
[Remember to stamp your ballot, or it's "Returned to Sender"! --spaf]
------------------------------
Date: Mon, 9 Mar 92 15:40:15 -0800
From: bostic@okeeffe.CS.Berkeley.EDU (Keith Bostic)
Subject: Laws of the Weird
To: /dev/null@okeeffe.CS.Berkeley.EDU
From: pope@kpc.com (John Pope)
Subject: Laws of the Weird
"Legally, corporations are considered entities separate from their
owners, even when only one person owns basically all of the corporation,
as in the case of Peter E Maxwell, employee and 95% owner (with his
wife) of Hi Life Products of Chino, Calif. Last summer, the U.S. Tax
Court ruled Maxwell could keep the $122,000 settlement he won from his
firm for negligence when he was injured at work in a 1977 accident. He
had hired a lawyer to represent himself as an employee, then hired a
lawyer to represent the firm, then worked with the two lawyers to
arrange a settlement satisfactory to both Maxwell the corporate owner
(which got a tax deduction) and Maxwell the employee (who received his
money tax-free)."
"In October, Memphis judge Joe B. Brown gave burglar Carlos Haley a
choice: a prison term or three years' probation and restitution. Haley
took the latter, and Brown authorized Haley's victim, Prentiss Robbins,
to visit Haley's home and take any five items of his choice."
"In England, the House of Lords rejected the appeal last year by a
Canadian oil company, which had been ordered to return "The Nataraja,"
a twelfth-century Hindu statue it had come to possess after it had been
stolen. As a matter of legal tactics, the plaintiffs had included as a
party to the lawsuit a phallic symbol representing the Hindu god Shiva,
marking the first time a god had been given standing to sue in England."
"Richard Stowell was arrested in Syracuse in November after robbing a
bank and attempting to escape on a municipal bus. Stowell was on parole
at the time for a 1988 bank robbery, in which he unsuccessfully
attempted to escape on a municipal bus."
------------------------------
Date: Mon, 9 Mar 92 14:17:00 PST
From: ross@harpo.qcktrn.com (Gary Ross)
Subject: license plate
To: spaf
Not long after I moved to Silicon Valley, I saw a license plate that read:
I GREP U
That's when I knew I was in the right place.
------------------------------
From: harris@grok73.columbiasc.ncr.com
Subject: men, women, and roaches (true)
Newsgroups: rec.humor.funny
In The Utne Reader, January/February 1992
From American Demographics, Nov. 1991
Psychographic marketing techniques helped Raid roach spray
marketers discover that the reason low-income Southern women
were the heaviest users of roach spray was that "a lot of their
feelings about the roach were very similar to the feelings that
they had about the men in their lives," said the advertising
executive on the account. They said the roach, like the man in
their life, "only comes around when he wants food." The act of
spraying roaches and seeing them die was satisfying to this
frustrated, powerless group.
------------------------------
Date: 26 Apr 91 10:30:03 GMT
From: JRP1@phoenix.cambridge.ac.uk (Jonathan R. Partington)
Subject: More chickens crossing roads
Newsgroups: rec.humor.funny
Adolf Hitler: It needed Lebensraum.
Margaret Thatcher: There was no alternative.
Saddam Hussein: This was an unprovoked act of rebellion and
we were quite justified in dropping 50 tons of nerve gas on it.
Buddha: If you ask this question, you deny your own chicken-nature.
Darwin: It was the logical next step after coming down from the
trees.
Moses: Know ye that it is unclean to eat the chicken that
has crossed the road, and that the chicken that crosseth the
road doth so for its own preservation.
Stan Laurel: I'm sorry, Ollie. It escaped when I opened the run.
Michael Palin: Nobody expects the banished inky chicken!
Basil Fawlty: Oh don't mind that chicken, it's from Barcelona.
Brad Templeton: Do you think I have time to answer questions like that?
I'm NOT a riddle-answering service. Anyway I've heard it before.
------------------------------
Date: Mon, 9 Mar 92 14:37:41 PST
From: ross@harpo.qcktrn.com (Gary Ross)
Subject: Movie combinations
To: spaf
The trend towards multi-cinema complexes combined with the limited
amount of space for lettering on a movie marquee (sp?) has, I've noticed,
has resulted in some interesting combinations of movie titles. Upon
going to the theater this weeked I saw the movie title "Bellboy Gladiator",
a combination of Blame It On The Bellboy & Gladiator. I was then
reminded of some other interesting combinations I've seen recently.
Last Christmas I saw a theater that was showing:
What I Want For Christmas
Other People's Money
By far the best combination I've ever seen, however, was at one of those
discount movie houses that show main stream movies about 6 months after
they've been released. They were showing a double feature of Die Hard and
Big (an interesting combination in it's own right). Inside, above the
entrance to the showing room, the sign read, "Big & Hard". I always
suspected that if I had driven by the next week the sign would have read,
"Help Wanted".
------------------------------
Date: Wed, 11 Mar 92 11:40:09 -0800
From: bostic@okeeffe.CS.Berkeley.EDU (Keith Bostic)
Subject: Mr. Happy
To: /dev/null@okeeffe.CS.Berkeley.EDU
>From the March 11 San Francisco Chronicle:
Investigation Sought Into Surgeon's 'Artistry'
Cincinnati -- Shriners Burns Institute has asked a surgeons' group to
investigate complaints of nurses who charged that the hospital's chief
surgeon used a marker to draw "happy faces" on patients' sex organs,
hospital officials said yesterday.
The Ohio chapter of the American College of Surgeons was asked to
investigate claims that Dr. Glenn Warden drew on the penises of two
patients and on the lower abdomen of a female patient in th past several
years.
Gene Bracewell, board chairman of the national Shriners Hospital
organization, said none of the allegations involves Warden's surgical
ability.
In 1991, Warden was forced to publicly apologize to hospital staff
after he scratched his initials into the skull of a 9-month-old boy
during surgery. Dr. Newton C. McCollough III, director of medical
affairs for the Shriners Hospitals for Crippled Children, said the
initials were put there as part of a procedure to improve blood flow and
help the skin grow better over the dead bone, damaged by injuries.
The child had been burned over 80 percent of his body and later died.
------------------------------
Date: Wed, 4 Mar 92 13:31:06 -0500
From: Roger Lustig <roger@phoenix.Princeton.EDU>
Subject: Musical mnemonics
JBL mentions the conjunctability (?) of the Humoresque and Swanee River.
The Humoresque, eh? You REALLY want the Humoresque?
OK, you asked for it...
Customers will please refrain
from flushing toilets while the train
is standing in the station, I love YOU, dear!
We encourage constipation
while the train is in the station;
Moonlight always makes me think of you.
Once, when I was in the park
I goosed a statue in the dark.
If Sherman's horse can take it, so can YOU, dear!
You're my one and only Venus;
you do something to my
........................heartstrings.
Moonlight always makes me think of you.
------------------------------
Date: Sun, 15 Mar 92 22:39:26 PST
From: one of our correspondents
Subject: Musicians give disused public toilets a new flush of life
To: yucks-request
By Christa Thelen
Hamburg, March 16 dpa - For decades the public conveniences of the
Free and Hanseatic City of Hamburg were part of a proud architectural
heritage.
Then came the 1970s - and budget cuts which ruthlessly pared down
spending on many a public facility. Among the victims were those who
rattled the doors of municipal toilets in vain.
For a while, facilities which proved too expensive to run provided
handy storage for the city's public gardeners - a place to deposit
rakes, spades and other equipment for nearby parks.
Until, three years ago, a group of young musicians decided that
making music was just as pressing a human need as that for which the
buildings originally catered - and just as ideally suited.
The group's founder, Andreas Kleinert, got together with a score of
friends and formed "Musical Toilets", with the aim of bringing the
buildings back to life as sorely-needed rehearsal rooms.
In a city with a solid rock and jazz music tradition (it was not
just the Beatles who have felt at home here) and a chronic shortage of
places make much noise, the idea caught on.
Rock, blues, jazz and folk bands began bombarding municipal
authorities with requests to take over the buildings - not taking
"no" for an answer when confronted by sceptical civil servants.
The result: In December 1990 the first former convenience was
officially declared a rehearsal room in the city's Wandsbek district,
with the help of a 15,000-mark (10,000-dollar) grant.
------------------------------
Date: Sat, 14 Mar 92 23:00:17 -0800
From: bostic@okeeffe.CS.Berkeley.EDU (Keith Bostic)
Subject: Somehow, I think "special interest" is the right phrase here...
To: /dev/null@okeeffe.CS.Berkeley.EDU
From: vgriscep@wam.umd.edu (VGR (Craig Pell))
Newsgroups: alt.sex.bestiality
Subject: "Procreation in the Wild" video
Thought I'd let you all know about an interesting video I bought through
the mail from S.I. Video. It's called "Procreation in the Wild." It's
about an hour and a half long. The good news is that it has plenty of
close-ups. The mediocre news is that it's not 100% about mammals; not
every scene is exciting but it's still all pretty interesting. Whether
it's really worth the price is something I can't say; you'll just have
to judge for yourself.
The video is listed in their catalog as #VCT000. It costs $39.95; orders
of $50 or less require $4.95 shipping. The place that sells it is:
Special Interest Video
100 Enterprise Place
P.O. Box 7022
Dover, DE 19903-7022
Or you can order it by phone: 800-336-9660.
(Fax is 302-678-9200, but I doubt if anyone will use that.)
If anyone bothers to get it, I'd be interested to hear (i.e. post if
possible) what you think of it.
That's all.
------------------------------
Date: Tue, 17 Mar 92 16:07:51 CST
From: brennan@hal.com (Dave Brennan)
Subject: Strange Ad [for yucks]
To: spaf
Someone stuck this posted on the bulletin board in our kitchen. I have no
idea where it came from. I assume it isn't "real."
[ Picture of closed hand with field of stars as
background and Sperry logo up in the corner. ]
Technology. We know that if offers no evidence whatsoever of having
any sympathy for the nature of the world, and has nothing to do with human
desires for an earth on which to dwell.
We're the people who create it, perfect it and make it part of the
American dream. We bring you the computer which touches all our lives in
ways we can hardly begin to imagine. And who can say what lies ahead?
Let us take you along. Surrender to the pressure to play video games.
Help us realize alienated humanity's dream of nature completely tamed.
Remember: you too may soon have your own computer!
Our project is the complete isolation of people from earth and their
reduction to a uniform, disciplined workforce. The universal language of
the machine is now carrying us toward a global network of cybernetic
planning. As more animal species and tribal languages are extinguished
each year, look forward to new, more exciting video adventures!
To those who say that the planet is being destroyed, that our gleaming
plans rest upon slavery in the mines, factories and offices, that the
computer replaces living speech with an ugly, impoverished language, we
answer: you will not stay away from us for long.
SPERRY - UNIVAC
We understand how important it is to program your desires.
------------------------------
Date: Wed, 11 Mar 92 16:33:03 -0800
From: bostic@okeeffe.CS.Berkeley.EDU (Keith Bostic)
Subject: SUN announces new division
To: /dev/null@okeeffe.CS.Berkeley.EDU
For Immediate Release:
SUN ANNOUNCES NEW POWER TOOL DIVISION. Sun Microsystems,
located in Tuscon AZZZZ. announced the creation of a new division to
manufacture a line of power saws: SunSaws. The first product released by
SunSaws will be a circular saw, available in several configurations.
The base model will have a 16 tooth blade and will run at 1750 rpm.
This, SunSaw claims, gives the unit a 10 GIPS (Gnashing Inches per
Second) rating.
Many industry pundits say that a 20 tooth model running at 2000 rpm
is more efficient but SunSoft spokesman Alan "Buzz" Heinrich said, "We
felt that the getting the 16 tooth model to market early was more
important, a 20 tooth model will be announced in the near future."
The saw, code named "plaid", accepts a wide variety of scalable
lumbers, and has an expansion port for a dust coprocessor.
In what many industry watcher see as a move that will open up the
whole power tool industry to high tech, the saw will have add-in
capabilities for memory addition. While no specific circular saw
application currently requires memory, SunSoft stated they didn't want
to limit the future expansion possibilities of the saw.
DEC President Ken Olson stated "DEC has looked into scalable
circular saws, but we felt that it was an inferior technology, and we
will be pursuing a line of jig saws, which will be announced by the end
of the second quarter." Mr Olson continued, "we feel the jig saw will
give end users more control and flexibility of their design".
Apple Computer has announced lawsuits against Sun, DEC and Black &
Decker.
------------------------------
Date: Thu, 12 Mar 92 19:02:10 PST
From: one of our correspondents
Subject: Tammy Faye Bakker wants divorce
To: yucks-request
HENDERSONVILLE, North Carolina, March 12 (AFP) - The wife of jailed
television evangelist Jim Bakker said Thursday she wanted a divorce.
Tammy Faye Bakker could not bear the separation and the uncertainty of not
knowing when her husband will be released, said Jim Toms, the attorney who
represents Jim Bakker.
"For years, I have been pretending that everything is all right, when in
fact I hurt all the time," Mrs. Bakker said in a letter to the New Covenant
Church, the Florida congregation she heads. "I cannot pretend anymore."
The 52-year-old Bakker went to prison in 1989 after being convicted of
federal fraud and conspiracy charges stemming from a scandal at the PTL
television ministry which he founded.
He was initially sentenced to 45 years but an appeals court dismissed the
sentence and in August a judge ordered an 18-year term instead. Bakker will be
eligible for parole in 1995.
"Jim doesn't want the divorce but at this point this is the only thing he
can give her," Toms said.
Bakker resigned from PTL -- which church officials say stands for Praise
the Lord or People that Love -- amid a sex and money scandal involving church
secretary Jessica Hahn.
[Wow! This gives Jim the chance to reconcile with Jessica. :-) --spaf]
------------------------------
Date: Thu, 12 Mar 92 17:59:19 -0800
From: bostic@okeeffe.CS.Berkeley.EDU (Keith Bostic)
Subject: That old black magic (know your office equipment)
To: /dev/null@okeeffe.CS.Berkeley.EDU
BLACK MAGIC, 9 TO 5
From "The Office Witch" by Laurel Olson, in the Beltaine
1991 issue of the Lavender Pagan Newsletter, a quarterly
published in Oakland, California. Beltaine is a pagan
holiday that occurs on May 1.
The Topic of the day is photocopiers, which have some pretty strange
things inside them that enhance their ability to catch and hold psychic
energy. The corona wires, for example, are twenty-four-karat gold, and
some of the lenses can take a "charge" as well as a crystal can. So
obviously, copiers are very sensitive to negativity; frequent
breakdowns are the result.
My solution is to hang a totem behind the copier to attract all the
loose, unfocused energy that is directed at the machine. I take four
one-inch-wide strips of black construction paper and string them
together with cotton twine. With my glue stick, I draw a
counterclockwise circle on each strip. (The glue stick is the wand that
binds the spell.) Every two weeks or so I put up a new circle. I take
the old one to a public waste receptacle at a busy intersection near
work, dump it in, and go on my way **WITHOUT LOOKING BACK**.
While nothing except divine intervention can make a copier completely
breakdown-proof, what this spell does is alter the energy in the room
where the copier is located. Users have a calmer attitude and breakdowns
due to "operator error" are reduced to nil.
------------------------------
Date: Mon, 16 Mar 1992 20:32:57 -0600
From: Byron Rakitzis <byron@archone.tamu.edu>
Subject: what's the deal?
To: eniac@mejac.palo-alto.ca.us
I subscribed to rec.food.veg to see if there were any interesting
recipes, and here they are, flaming each other over whether it's
immoral to eat wheat because you kill the little wheat embryos.
Oh, and don't forget that it's immoral to wear leather shoes because
the skin used to belong to an animal once. I think snails are a
no-no, too, because didn't you know that snails form an integral
society...
I think I'll coin a new aphorism:
"Usenet breeds contempt"
------------------------------
Date: Fri, 13 Mar 92 17:27:00 EST
From: rsk@gynko.circ.upenn.edu (Richard Kulawiec)
Subject: Yes, I usually run when I hear this term...
To: yucks-request
>From: weinrib@pilot.njin.net (Eileen Weinrib)
>Newsgroups: nj.general,ny.general,ny.seminars,pa.general
>Subject: festival
>Keywords: The World's Longest Running Personal Computer Show!
>Date: 13 Mar 92 21:30:08 GMT
>Organization: Rutgers Univ., New Brunswick, N.J.
>
> AT
> MERCER COUNTY COMMUNITY COLLEGE
> APRIL 11-12, 1992
>
>Saturday from 9 a.m. to 6 p.m. and Sunday from 10a.m. to 4.p.m.
>
> *FEATURING*
>
>1. The largest Personal Computer Flee Market
^^^^
Aieeeeeeeeyah! Death from above!
------------------------------
Date: Sun, 8 Mar 92 11:20:40 PST
From: spl@dim.UCSD.EDU (Steve Lamont)
Subject: Yucks Digest V2 #17
To: spaf
> People with medical problems are advised that cost for medical
> treatment in the U.S. is astronomical. All travellers should have
> medical insurance. A pregnant individual should remain at home, since
> he should note that the infant mortality rate in the U.S. is as high as
^^
> many third world countries.
Hmmmm... this must pertain to *real* aliens!
------------------------------
End of Yucks Digest
------------------------------