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Yucks Digest V2 #36 (shorts)



Yucks Digest                Mon, 29 Jun 92       Volume 2 : Issue  36 

Today's Topics:
                       Put This in Your Shorts
                     `Crazy Eddie' Antar Arrested
                        A school for everyone
                         bad puns, anyone...
                           Camel wrestling
        Don't these green power people know where to *stop*??
                                Idaho
       If the brain's a computer, what's the operating system?
                         Medal of Technology
                        MISSPELLED CHARACTORS
            Oddity in the Parking Structure (just noticed)
              Probably won't prevent dog attacks either
                       Schroedinger's Computer
 Swiss army carrier pigeon unit marks 75th anniversary By Arno Mayer
     This is DEFINITELY a "from one of our correspondents" thang.
                         Thought for the Day
                        Today's_Jokes (2 msgs)
                         Usenet Death Penalty

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Date: Mon, 29 Jun 92 18:15:06 CDT
From: Tracy LaQuey Parker <T.LaQuey@utexas.edu>
Subject: Put This in Your Shorts
To: spaf

Fellow Yucksters,

In attempting to introduce some humor relief into a book I'm writing
on the Internet, I've decided to include a "Top 10 Reasons to Connect
to the Internet" section a la David Letterman.

I've also decided to turn this into a collaborative effort. I've
included some of my ideas below.  If any of you can improve on these,
or can add a few of your own, please send them to me,
tracy@utexas.edu.  I'll pick the best ones and credit you accordingly
if yours is one of them.  The final result will be sent to this list
and published in book form.  Contest closes really quickly as I've got
deadlines.  Try to send them in the next two weeks (before July 15).

Good luck and thanks for your support.

--Tracy LaQuey Parker

Top 10 Reasons to Connect to the Internet

10.  Can't sleep at night anyway, might as well get a penpal in Borneo.
9.   Feeling the need, the need for 45Mbps speed.
8.   World Champion Wrestling is fake and you must let everyone know it.
7.   Nothing else to do in prison.
6.   No-one can hear those noises in your head.
5.   Can't wait to become a Legend on the Net.
4.   Kicked off CompuServe, considered an outlaw on Prodigy.
3.   It's either that or a fanny tuck.
2.   More talk, less rock.

And the number one reason to join the Internet... (drum roll)

1.   Occasional irregularity won't hinder you from getting good throughput.

Other ideas:
* Can collaborate to find out exactly what is in the Colonel's Special Recipe.
* Have seen every Andy Griffin episode 3 times.  Looking for more 
  stimulation.

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Date: Thu, 25 Jun 92 10:31:13 PDT
From: one of our correspondents
Subject: `Crazy Eddie' Antar Arrested
To: yucks-request

   NEWARK, N.J. (AP)
   After more than two years on the lam, electronics mogul "Crazy
Eddie" Antar has resurfaced in Israel  with a new name, new passports
and new head of hair, federal officials say.
   Antar vanished in 1990 after taking $60 million looted from his 43
stores, prosecutors said. He was arrested by police in Israel on
Wednesday at his luxury condominium in a Tel Aviv suburb.
   U.S. officials Wednesday unsealed an indictment charging that
Antar, two of his brothers and a cousin cheated stockholders in Crazy
Eddie Inc. out of $80 million by using fake inventories and sales to
boost the company's stock price.
   Antar, who built a single store in Brooklyn into the New York
area's largest electronics chain, made himself a household name in
the region with high-decibel TV commercials touting "INSAAAAAAAANE!"
prices.
   "What was insane about Crazy Eddie was their bookkeeping," said
U.S. Attorney Michael Chertoff. "They created a giant bubble of a
company, based on phony invoices, phony financial reports and phony
inventory counts."
   Balding and bearded during his meteoric career, Antar was
cleanshaven and had a full head of hair when arrested, said U.S.
Marshal Arthur Borinsky.
   He was living under the name David Jacob Levi Cohen and carried
Israeli and Brazilian passports, as well as a bogus U.S. passport,
Borinsky said.
   U.S. officials have applied for Antar's extradition, which may
take several weeks, he said.
   Antar, 44, vanished after skipping a court hearing in 1990. A
federal judge later ordered him to pay the Securities and Exchange
Commission $73 million for insider trading and stock manipulation.
   Also charged were brothers Mitchell Antar, 36, and Allen Antar,
42, and their cousin, 37-year-old Eddie Gindi of Orlando, Fla.
   The brothers were released Wednesday after posting a total bail of
$1.9 million. Gindi will be arraigned later, Chertoff said.
   David O'Connor, defense attorney for Mitchell Antar, said the
indictment was the result of "an unholy deal" prosecutors struck with
another cousin, Sam E. Antar, the former chief financial officer of
Crazy Eddie Inc.
   He pleaded guilty in September to fraud and conspiracy.

[How could the brothers make bail of $1.9 million?  Volume! --spaf]

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Date: Sun, 28 Jun 92 0:51:09 CDT
From: meo@pencom.com (Miles O'Neal)
Subject: A school for everyone
To: spaf (Gene Spafford)

Joseph Hazelwood, convicted of misdemeanor negligence for leaving the
bridge of the Exxon Valdez before it ran aground and created the nation's
worst oil spill, has been hired to teach students at the Maritime College
of the State University of New York how to stand watch!
                                           -----------
What's Next?

o  The Leona Helmsley School of Tax Preparation

o  The Mike Tyson Charm School

o  The William Kennedy Smith Dating Service

o  The Saddam Hussein Military Academy

o  The Charles Keating Chair in Business Ethics

o  The Daryl Gates/Al Sharpton Study on Race Relations

o  The Don King Barber College

o  The Pee-wee Herman Advanced Sexuality Course

o  The Louis Farrakhan School of Diplomacy

--from the Mercury News Editorial page.....

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Date: Fri, 19 Jun 92 10:09:36 CDT
From: rutgers!iqsc.com!rex (Rex Black)
Subject: bad puns, anyone...
To: gordon%sparc@uunet.uu.net, jay%sparc@uunet.uu.net, jeff%sparc@uunet.uu.net, jimb%sparc@uunet.uu.net, lisa%sparc@uunet.uu.net, yucks

 From the risks digest....

 > Date: 14 Jun 92 06:57:14 EDT
 > From: "Richard Frantz Jr." <72570.2264@compuserve.com>
 > Subject: Computer system refuses large deposit
 > 
 >    A branch bank officer told me that they had to refuse to accept
 > deposit of a check for $200,000 because the software, used by several
 > banks in the area, couldn't handle more than $99,999.99 in the deposit
 > field.  She insisted it was a computer error even though I tried to
 > explain it was a specification error.
 >         Richard Frantz Jr.

 Well, I think Richard should have just made _two_ $99,999.99 
 deposits, _then_ he could have put his TWO CENTS in!

 Aaauuuggghhh!!!

 Rex

 P.S.	In any civilized state, such jokes are a felony.  Thank 
	the Lord I live in Texas!

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Date: Sun, 28 Jun 92 0:28:27 CDT
From: meo@pencom.com (Miles O'Neal)
Subject: Camel wrestling
To: spaf (Gene Spafford)

Absolutely unbelievable.  That's right folks, you've heard of the WWF and the 
AAF, we have the cock fights, the dog fights and the bull fights and now live 
to you from Selcuk, Turkey, you've got CAMEL WRESTLING, that's right, CAMEL 
WRESTLING.

As seen in todays Demigogue &Comical.
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SELCUK, Turkey--In an ancient arena where Roman gladiators once fought to 
the death, two combatans square off in the dust, surround by 5,000 cheering 
spectators.  It's the start of camel wrestling season in western Turkey, 
with matches being fought at the stadium of ancient Ephesus, once one of the 
major Greco-Roman cities of Asia Minor.

With exotic names like Emerald, Black Lightning and New World - or more 
prosaic ones such as Bulldozer II and Quiltmaker -- the hump-backed beasts, 
their jaws bound to prevent biting, are goaded into struggling with each 
other until referees decide the result.  That could be victory, if one crushes 
the other into the camel equivalent of a wrestling "pin", or a draw, if they 
reach a stalemate or if one is injured.

The spectators, many with substantial side bets on the outcome, make known 
their views with boos and cheers.  They day is replete with ritual.  The title 
of AGA, a kind of honorary president, is auctioned to the highest bidder, 
who receives a plaque, a small brass camel and the right to strut about the ring.

This time Ismail Sarpkaya wins the honor with a bid of 510,000 liras, about 
$670.  Sarpkaya, a ruddy-faced farmer, explained tha not only wresting is 
involved.  "Last year we voted Yorganci (Quiltmaker) the most beautiful 
camel but we will not have that election this year."  

Much prestige hangs on the outcome of the bouts and irate owners often 
protest loudly, with helmeted police sometimes called in to intervene.  
All the wresting camels are male.  Topped by colorfully decorated packs, 
each is led into the ring by his owner, often with a female camel ahead 
to enhance his interest in the event.  Owners and officials crowd around 
including a team of seven urgancis--pullers off--for each camel, who stand 
ready to separate them, a crucial role in the unusual sport.

Camelmen, as they call themselves, carouse until nearly dawn in two bars 
on the main strip in Selcuk, the town close to the ruins of Ephesus.  Most 
drink raki, the traditional Turkish anise liquor.

The main heavyweight bout of the Selcuk tournament--and the one most of 
the crowd had been waiting for--ended quickly.  Referees called a draw 
when Bulldozer II, after quickly getting on top, gave Quiltmaker a bloody nose.

[You might say he was over the hump.  --spaf]

But with 10 to 15 tournaments each winter season in this area of western 
Turkey, the old rivals will soon meet again.

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Date: Wed, 17 Jun 1992 08:13:05 -0700 (PDT)
From: Barbara Hlavin <twain@u.washington.edu>
Subject: Don't these green power people know where to *stop*??
To: eniac@mejac.palo-alto.ca.us

This is from the June '92 "Harper's" -- I love the sentence "I know I have."

>From "Orgasmic Communion: An Immodest Proposal," a flier distributed last
winter by Stan Major, a writer in Chloride, Arizona.  According to the
flier, the proposal is meant to be copied and sent "to anyone you think
might be interested."
====
Have you ever thought, "I wonder how many people are having sex at this
particular moment"?  I know I have.  And what I'm now proposing
consecrates this simple idea.  I suggest that on June 21, 1992, we set
aside the hour between 2:00 A.M. and 3:00 A.M., Greenwich Mean Time, to
celebrate an Orgasmic Communion.  That translates to 9:00 P.M., June 20,
1992, in New York; 8:00 P.M. in New Orleans; 7:00 P.M. in Denver; and 6:00
P.M. in Los Angeles.  During this hour of Orgasmic Communion, all those so
inclined will indulge in their favorite non-coercive sexual activity with
or without a partner (or with more than one partner), knowing that they do
so in conjunction with a multitude of others. 

In this age of AIDS and the repression of sexual liberty, I feel that it
is important for us to affirm the healthful and connective powers of our
capacity for sexual pleasure in all its guises, and to acknowledge that
the pleasure we find in our bodies is a thread that runs through the lives
of all the peoples of the earth, transcending race, religious creeds,
national boundaries, and physical attributes.  There is an ecological
aspect to the communion as well, because sex, as part of the natural
rhythm of life, can awaken in us a sense of our responsibility to one
another and to the earth, our home.  You could even have sex outdoors
during the event to affirm your connection with the earth. 

[Why stop there?  Why not actually have sex *with* the earth?]

Although it's called an Orgasmic Communion, please don't feel that an
orgasm is required.  You're quite welcome [thank you] to simply sit and
sip your tea, beer, or expensive champagne and try to grok the notion of so
many people throughout the world enjoying themselves.  It's also up to you
whom you tell about your participation.  It can be done without telling
anyone [except, presumably, your partner], or you can announce your
intention to join in the Orgasmic Communion on national television.  I
hope you'll join us.  
====

Gee, and I thought Robert Heinlein was dead!

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Date: Sun, 21 Jun 92 20:27:42 PDT
From: wisner@mica.berkeley.edu (Bill Wisner)
Subject: Idaho
To: eniac@mejac.palo-alto.ca.us

>From the June, 1992 issue of Alternative Press (a music magazine) in an article
about the Idaho band Treepeople:

	    But as Alice in Chains blares over the speaker in a Seattle bar,
	one can tell Treepeople are very smart.  Behind those beards, thick
	glasses, and stocking caps, they don't have to fake angst.  They're
	from Boise and their lives really do suck.

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Date: 29 Jun 92 08:30:03 GMT
From: MCGARRAH%CITADEL2.BITNET@ncsuvm.cc.ncsu.edu
Subject: If the brain's a computer, what's the operating system?
Newsgroups: rec.humor.funny

Hear this on VH1's "Stand Up Spotlight."  I don't remember the comedian's name.

"I just found out that the brain is like a computer.  If that's true, then
there really aren't any stupid people.  Just people running DOS."

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Date: Wed, 24 Jun 92 10:45:48 CDT
From: ibmpa!jc28.austin.ibm.com!meo@ibminet.awdpa.ibm.com (Miles ONeal)
Subject: Medal of Technology
To: team@rdemo5.austin.ibm.com (Pencom IBM/AWD/PC), pvt@jc28.austin.ibm.com, spaf (Gene Spafford)

People can rant and rave all they want about Quayle,
but it's Bush who has apparently sustained a high-speed
blowout in one or more of his frontal lobes.

Yesterday, President George Herbert Walker Bush presented
a Medal of Technology to one William Gates, CEO of the
that awesome monument to the depressing, berserk side
of capitalism, MicroSoft.

Note that this was NOT a Medal of Financial Prestidigitation.
This was a Medal of Technology, normally offered to
people who have made a major positive impact in areas
of technology, forwarding the state of the art.  MicroSoft,
on the other hand, bears primary responsibility for setting
back the computer industry at least 7 centuries.

If Gates were British, would he have been knighted for
singlehandedly resurrecting the concept of caveat emptor?
If he were French, perhaps he would be given a Royal Order
of Something for raising the image of Geekdom to a level
of respectability nearly on par with that of the Romantic.

In any event, it is fairly mind-boggling (or would be, if
politicians weren't involved) that Bush would use the phrase,
"pig in a poke" in reference to Perot's plan to use networks
to give the public access to the government, while giving
high recognition to the company foisting off a County Fair
Grand Prize Winning Pig in a Poke on the majority of the
US public.

One can only speculate on this in light of other recent
events.  Perhaps Bush is, in reality, NOT an ex-CIA mole
inserted into the office of President of the United States,
but a KGB mole inserted into the CIA, and thence to his
current office.  With the Soviet universe in terminal
disarray, it would be a major coup to be sure that the
United States was headed in the same direction.

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Date: 22 Jun 92 23:30:04 GMT
From: jyoung@fieldofdreams.npirs.purdue.edu (Joan Young)
Subject: MISSPELLED CHARACTORS
Newsgroups: rec.humor.funny

DESCRIBTION OF PERSONS WITH NAMES ALTERED BY ONE LETTER:

     LITTLE BOA PEEP - shepherdess who absentmindedly ate her own
                       flock.
     JOHANN SEBASTIAN BACHE - Wall Street baroquer.
     MOOSES - Hebrew prophet who parted the Maine woods.
     PERRY MASSON - television lawyer who will solve no case before
                    its time.
     EVICTOR HUGO - French landlord and author, "Lease Miserables"
     XEROXES - Persian photocopy king.
     ERICH MARINA REMARQUE - author, "All Quiet On The Waterfront."
     
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Date: 19 Jun 92 08:30:03 GMT
From: ydobyns@phoenix.princeton.edu (York H. Dobyns)
Subject: Oddity in the Parking Structure (just noticed)
Newsgroups: rec.humor.funny

(This is a real situation; the strangeness of it just struck me today.)
The Engineering School here at Princeton has a newly-built parking
structure. The elevator in the parking structure has Braille as well as
standard print for all of the floor numbers, and, in addition to the
usual lights, a loud bell goes off every time it passes a floor.

Upon reflection I am forced to conclude that this is intended for the
convenience of any blind people going out to their cars to drive home.

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Date: Mon, 22 Jun 92 21:36:29 PDT
From: Don Bennett           (408)922-2768 <dpb@viking.frame.com>
Subject: Probably won't prevent dog attacks either
To: spaf

>From New Of The Weird -

>From the "Police Report" column of the Kerrville Daily Times, Feb. 23,
1992:

A 23-year-old Kerrville man was arrested for assault on a police
officer when he allegedly tried to gore an off-duty officer with
deer antlers strapped to his bicycle handlebars. The man had become
angry after the officer had tried to stop him from running into the
street.

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Date: Mon, 29 Jun 92 09:13:06 -0700
From: bostic@okeeffe.CS.Berkeley.EDU (Keith Bostic)
Subject: Schroedinger's Computer
To: /dev/null@okeeffe.CS.Berkeley.EDU

From: donn@BSDI.COM (Donn Seeley)

I was reading the July SCIENTIFIC AMERICAN and came across an interesting
paragraph in an article on progress in quantum mechanics ('Bohr used to
say that if you aren't confused by quantum physics, then you haven't
really understood it.' -- John A Wheeler, quoted in the article).  One of
the basic peculiarities about quantum mechanics is the idea that if you
set up an experiment such that you can't tell what path is taken by a
'particle', it takes ALL the possible paths.  This has led to a proposal
for a new sort of technology for highly parallel computing:

	David Deutsch of the University of Oxford thinks it should be
	possible, at least in principle, to build a 'quantum computer,'
	one that achieves superposition of states.  Deutsch has shown that
	if different superposed states of the computer can work on
	separate parts of a problem at the same time, the computer may
	achieve a kind of quantum parallelism, solving certain problems
	more quickly than classical computers.

This is one of the most awesomely bizarre ideas I've ever heard, but it's
so cute, it's got to be true.  Do you remember the story of Schroedinger's
Cat?  In this (rather inhumane) thought experiment, a cat is imprisoned
in an impenetrable box with a vial of poison gas and a sensor which
releases the gas at a random time based on the decay of a radioactive
atom.  QM says that as long as you don't open the box and observe the cat,
it is effectively alive and dead at the same time -- all of the potential
histories are valid.  The Schroedinger's Computer envisioned by Deutsch
takes advantage of this effect by working on a different task in each
parallel history.  If an observation can't tell which history the computer
'actually' experienced, then it experiences ALL of them: the SAME computer
executes DIFFERENT jobs at the SAME TIME.  The hard part, of course, is
arranging the output so that an observation can't determine which
potential history of the computer worked on which task.  The SA article
discusses current experiments which show how to do this (using photons,
which don't have enough states to make very effective computers, alas).

A Schroedinger's Computer could make life pretty tricky for system
administrators.  I can see it now: Doctor Doolittle, Nobel Prize winner,
stomps into my office and grabs me by the collar, shouting, 'Doctor Xuong
ran ps just as my DNA database search was completing and collapsed my wave
function!!'

I'd just have to hope that in some potential history, I wouldn't get
punched out,

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Date: Sun, 21 Jun 92 11:05:20 PDT
From: one of our correspondents
Subject: Swiss army carrier pigeon unit marks 75th anniversary By Arno Mayer
To: yucks-request

   Berne, June 21 dpa - Swiss Army knives are famous the world over.
There is even a service-issue Swiss Army bicycle. But few people had
ever heard of the Swiss Army carrier pigeon unit before its 75th
anniversary was marked this weekend.
   Top army brass were on hand at the military dovecote at Schoenbuehl
north of Berne for a lot of ruffled strutting, not to mention a goodly
amount of billing and cooing.
   The feathered personnel, preened to perfection for the event,
cocked their heads inquisitively at civilian visitors during the
two-day open house - er - open cage.
   Other countries have long since disbanded their carrier pigeon
units in favour of more high-tech means of communication. France was
one of the last to do so, recently dropping a nationwide pigeon
breeder registration system which amounted to a kind of military
conscription apparatus for the birds.
   But the tradition-conscious Swiss military, which provides nuclear
fallout shelters for every man, woman and child, is reluctant to place
full faith in fallible telecommunications. The far-reaching Army 95
plan for military funding includes a line item for pigeons through the
end of the century.

[Leave it to the Swiss to be more honest about their bird-brains in
the military....  --spaf]

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Date: Thu, 25 Jun 92 20:42:36 CDT
From: one of our correspondents
Subject: This is DEFINITELY a "from one of our correspondents" thang.
To: yucks-request

Nevermind where I got this - but it was a real in-house e-memo.

**  SPECIAL URGENT EXTREMELY IMPORTANT MARKETING BULLETIN  **

RATED XXX
Children under the age of 17 not admitted.  Persons with heart  
problems or weak stomachs should not attend.

As a part of the first annual Embrace Your Customer Month, the  
Marketing Department has chosen YOU as our customer.  So let us  
EMBRACE you, let us make you smile by REVEALING ourselves on-stage in  
the auditorium of the <deleted> Building.

This SPECIAL presentation of our best ASSETS will be held at 4:00  
tomorrow (Friday) in the auditorium on the first floor of this  
building.  Your attendance is required unless you don't qualify  
according to the above restrictions.

The presentation will last approximately 45 minutes.  Plus, join us  
later for a private SHOWING of all we have to offer. You'll get a  
guided tour our new marketing and sales/production departments and  
you can get loaded at the party following.

So, if you're really lonely or just in need of a little EMBRACING,  
come see us for a LIVE show.

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Date: Tue, 23 Jun 92 09:57:14 -0400
From: vtcs1::janlee
Subject: Thought for the Day
To: vtopus::faculty

"No matter how great your triumphs or how tragic your defeats, approximately
one billion Chinese couldn't care less."

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Date: Fri, 26 Jun 92 10:35:00 EDT
From: violin!knodel@saqqara.cis.ohio-state.edu (The_Joke_Guy)
Subject: Today's_Jokes
To: yucks

I was looking at the "help-wanted ads" in the Boston Glob this weekend
(strictly out of intellectual curiosity, you understand) and I saw
this ad from the MIT AI Lab, looking for somebody to hack Scheme (a
dialect of Lisp).  I liked this paragraph about qualifications:

        Applicants must also have extensive knowledge of UNIX, although
        they should have sufficiently good programming taste to not
        consider this an achievement.

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Date: Mon, 29 Jun 92 9:36:33 EDT
From: violin!knodel@saqqara.cis.ohio-state.edu (The_Joke_Guy)
Subject: Today's_Jokes
To: yucks

You're already separating paper and plastic, recycling bottles and taking
three-minute showers.  But is there more you can do to protect the
environment?  You bet!

1.  At the supermarket, try to pay with large denomination bills
whenever possible.  A twenty-dollar bill has the buying power of twenty
one-dollar bills, but uses only five percent of the forest resources.

2.  Get in the habit of referring to every locale as "this fragile
ecosystem."

3.  If you must own a large car, be sure to purchase one with tinted
glass.  Cars equipped with tinted glass stay three percent cooler
during the summer, making it possible to turn the air conditioning
down to the "medium" setting.

4.  If you see a spotted owl, don't kill it.  The meat tastes terrible
anyway.

5.  A single toilet flush consumes five to seven gallons of water, and
the solid waste adds to already overtaxed landfills.  "Holding it in"
remains a simple and effective way to protect the environment.

6.  Americans account for seven percent of the world's population, yet
consume 65% of the world's energy resources.  Apply for Swiss citizenship.

7.  The correct way to recycle a glass beverage container:  remove label,
setting aside tiny label remnants for recycling; rinse bottle with
reclaimed "grey" water; separate glass into five categories:  clear,
green, brown, long-neck and pony.

8.  One fewer wash load per month for every American translates to an
annual savings of 12.3 billion gallons of water, 23 million kilowatts
of electricity, and 15 fewer tons of phosphates.  Buy seven more pairs
of socks and underwear.

9.  Stop all "Ten Ways to Save the Earth" lists at #9.  Environmental
books and pamphlets consume more than 580 million trees every year and
account for more than half of the world's sanctimony.

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Date: 25 Jun 92 00:52:28 GMT
From: wb8foz@skybridge.SCL.CWRU.Edu (David Lesher)
Subject: Usenet Death Penalty
Newsgroups: news.software.b

Others said
# |About the U.S. Gov:  Haven't they made it easy to export stuff for
# |authentication?
# 
# Easier yes.  Universally export?  No.
# 
# With the US Supreme Court announcing that they now feel free to ignore
# their extradition treaties by ruling that kidnappings in other countries is
# *legal*, prudence suggests some sort of caution.
# 
	Flash!
	HENRY SPENCER REPORTED MISSING!
	Fowl play suspected 

	Noted man-about-the-Net Henry Spencer has disappeared from his
	workshop - the Cnews Zoo. He was last seen in the company of
	four gentlemen in trenchcoats and sunglasses. He was heard to
	cry out "NO! not ADA.." but when others finally got past the
	/etc/passwd file guarding the gateway to the cage, he was
	gone.

	Later reports placed him in a tightly sealed hangar at the
	Wrong-Patterson archive site, but repeated fingers of the
	building's ports show nothing.

	The only response from Administration officials was "Is he the
	skinny guy on Murphy Brown?" and "P O T A T O - I checked.."

	Response from Netters world-wide was near unanimous -
	"Great, now who's going to finish the next release?

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