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From: mikea@zorba.gvg.tek.com (Michael P. Anderson)
Newsgroups: alt.stupidity
Subject: Stupid Printing Software.
Date: 28 Aug 92 22:56:43 GMT
Organization: Grass Valley Group, Grass Valley, CA

Hey, I've got a good one.

We have this SPARCprinter, OK? I guess someone as Sun said, "Wait a minute,
people are going to need to print stuff; why don't WE make a printer too!?
Yeah, and then let's write some really STUPID software to go with it!! We'll
call it NeWSprint, and alternate the cases so our marketing people will
get all excited!!!"

So anyway, we accidently bought one of these stupid things, and occasionally
it runs out of paper. Now get this. The user will invariably come over to
the printer, notice that it has a "C" lit up on the front (whatever the hell
that's supposed to mean), and fill it with paper. The first sheet to come
out says:

		NeWSprint 1.0 fcs

		    Openwin 2

		NeWSprint interpreter version 2.1

	_________________________________________
	%%[ PrinterError:out of media (paper)]%%
	%%[ PrinterError:tray not (properly) installed]%%
	%%[ status: busy; source: /var/spool/lpd/sunps/socket ]%%


	

	Hahahahahahahahahahahahahahahahahahahahahahahahahahahaha!!!!!!!

	Yeah, there's probably some way to disable this, but we have so
much fun at Sun's expense everytime this stupid printer runs out of
paper that we have no intention of disabling it. 

	Thank you Sun. You made our year!!
		
	 
Newsgroups: alt.stupidity
From: ataylor@nmsu.edu (Nosy)
Subject: Re: Originator
Organization: NMSU Computer Science
	<805@dsbc.icl.co.uk>
Date: Fri, 28 Aug 1992 15:54:25 GMT

<In article <805@dsbc.icl.co.uk> abw@dsbc.icl.co.uk (Andy Wardley) writes:

<   In article <BtKGK2.JLy.....> bmarcum@world.std.com (Bill Marcum) writes:
<   >Actually, I have no idea who created this group or why.  But any day now,<
<   >he/she is likely to show up and say that we've all got it wrong and this group
<   >is only for postings of stupid job offers, or about the new Stupidity(tm)
<   >operating system, or some such nonsense.

<   Actually I started this newsgroup.

	I knew that.

<   Oh hang on, no I didn't.

	YESYOUDIDYESYOUDIDYESYOUDIDYESYOUDID!!!!!

	IT WAS THE SAME DAY YOU REJECTED THE BUNNY TO WORSHIP
	THE TOASTER WITH A PINK FISH INSIDE WHILE DRESSED UP
	IN A GREEEEEEEN WOMBLESUIT!

	AND I SAW IT ALL, I DIDIDIDIDIDIDID!>

<   Sorry

	Probably not as sorry as you will be, now.

<   OBStupidity:  Floop floop turnip kettle bang on a power cheese.

	WAUGH! Please accept my obeisance! This is furely pargle
	obscruntizingasang!
Newsgroups: alt.stupidity
From: ataylor@nmsu.edu (Nosy)
Subject: Hope I'm Not Too Late
Organization: NMSU Computer Science
Distribution: alt
Date: Fri, 28 Aug 1992 15:57:12 GMT


	I hope my card to Myron Veeblefester isn't too late.
	Here it is:

-----------------------------------------------------------------------
         _ _ _                    __
        ' ) ) )                  /  ) /            _/_
         / / / _  __  __  __  , /    /_  __  o _   /  ______  __.  _
        / ' (_</_/ (_/ (_/ (_/ (__/ / /_/ (_<_/_)_<__/ / / <_(_/|_/_)_
                            /
                           ' 
                                               / 
                                 __.  ____  __/
                                (_/|_/ / <_(_/_
         _    ,                  _ __          _    ,
        ' )  /                  ' )  )        ' )  /
         /--/ __.  _   _   __  , /  / _  , , , /  / _  __.  __
        /  (_(_/|_/_)_/_)_/ (_/ /  (_</_(_(_/ (__/_</_(_/|_/ (_
                 /   /       /                 //
                '   '       '                 (/

========================================================================
Newsgroups: alt.stupidity
From: ataylor@nmsu.edu (Nosy)
Subject: Re: Shoo-Bop
Organization: NMSU Computer Science
Date: Tue, 1 Sep 1992 23:22:06 GMT

<In article <6050@pdxgate.UUCP> richv@rigel.cs.pdx.edu (RichardD Vanderwal) writes:

<   Ya Dot ba dooda shoobeedoovut vut vudehdaht uh uh uhdwehtda visit visit, 
<   visiphedefedefedbodoo bop.

	
	Do-booooo........tsssss!


Newsgroups: alt.stupidity
From: raj@netcom.com (Roger Lee)
Subject: Re: how stupid can you get?
Date: Sat, 29 Aug 92 07:29:32 GMT
Organization: Netcom - Online Communication Services  (408 241-9760 guest) 

In <ATAYLOR.92Aug28173959@gauss.nmsu.edu> ataylor@nmsu.edu (Nosy) writes:

><In article <guest.66@dhhalden.no> guest@dhhalden.no (.GJEST) writes:
><In article <ATAYLOR.92Aug21133449@gauss.nmsu.edu> ataylor@nmsu.edu (Nosy) writes:

><><In article <1992Aug20.044645.8838@nuscc.nus.sg> matmcinn@nuscc.nus.sg (Mcinnes B T (Dr)) writes:

><><well?

><>       I read and post to this group of which I am a princling,
><>       my deemble farthings dwamble and that in graduate school,
><>       no less.

><>       So there.


><   Anybody get this???


>	I certainly don't.

then you're far to intelligent for this newsgroup. Now go womble your
tiddlesig before it starts filing for a recall election.


wibble.

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Newsgroups: alt.stupidity
From: eepmatt@casbah.acns.nwu.edu (Matthew Friedman)
Subject: Re: how stupid can you get?
Organization: Northwestern University, Evanston Illinois.
Date: Mon, 31 Aug 1992 00:40:51 GMT

In article <ATAYLOR.92Aug28173959@gauss.nmsu.edu> ataylor@nmsu.edu (Nosy) writes:
><In article <guest.66@dhhalden.no> guest@dhhalden.no (.GJEST) writes:
><In article <ATAYLOR.92Aug21133449@gauss.nmsu.edu> ataylor@nmsu.edu (Nosy) writes:
>
><><In article <1992Aug20.044645.8838@nuscc.nus.sg> matmcinn@nuscc.nus.sg (Mcinnes B T (Dr)) writes:
>
><><well?
>
><>       I read and post to this group of which I am a princling,
><>       my deemble farthings dwamble and that in graduate school,
><>       no less.
>
><>       So there.
>
>
><   Anybody get this???
>
>
>	I certainly don't.
I do.

Newsgroups: alt.stupidity
From: agodfrey@cs1.uct.ac.za (AC GODFREY)
Subject: Re: how stupid can you get?
Organization: Computer Science Department, University of Cape Town
Date: Wed, 2 Sep 1992 11:34:32 GMT

In article <ATAYLOR.92Aug28173959@gauss.nmsu.edu> ataylor@nmsu.edu (Nosy) writes:
>From: ataylor@nmsu.edu (Nosy)
>Subject: Re: how stupid can you get?
>Date: Sat, 29 Aug 1992 00:39:59 GMT
><In article <guest.66@dhhalden.no> guest@dhhalden.no (.GJEST) writes:
><In article <ATAYLOR.92Aug21133449@gauss.nmsu.edu> ataylor@nmsu.edu (Nosy) writes:
>
><><In article <1992Aug20.044645.8838@nuscc.nus.sg> matmcinn@nuscc.nus.sg (Mcinnes B T (Dr)) writes:
>
><><well?
>
><>       I read and post to this group of which I am a princling,
><>       my deemble farthings dwamble and that in graduate school,
><>       no less.
>
><>       So there.
>
>
><   Anybody get this???
>
>
>	I certainly don't.

You sure do know how to get the wrong pineapple off the meat-cart.

What you said was probably as bland as claiming Chineses people *don't* 
often eat chopped liver when it's raining in Cuba. Shame!

-- The Mighty Fig
From: richv@rigel.cs.pdx.edu (RichardD Vanderwal)
Newsgroups: alt.stupidity
Subject: Shoo-Bop
Keywords: boop bee doop a doopa shuvashuvadup badoobop
Date: 31 Aug 92 19:13:58 GMT

Ya Dot ba dooda shoobeedoovut vut vudehdaht uh uh uhdwehtda visit visit, 
visiphedefedefedbodoo bop.

						----Scatterbrain
Newsgroups: alt.stupidity
From: matmcinn@nuscc.nus.sg (Mcinnes B T (Dr))
Subject: Re: Originator
Organization: National University of Singapore
Date: Wed, 26 Aug 1992 07:36:22 GMT

You've got it all wrong. This room is only for posting some such
nonsense.
Newsgroups: alt.stupidity
From: ataylor@nmsu.edu (Nosy)
Subject: Re: Ivor Cutler Quote
Organization: NMSU Computer Science
Date: Wed, 2 Sep 1992 03:21:55 GMT

<In article <1992Aug31.180014.28593@kakwa.ucs.ualberta.ca> aaron@space.ualberta.ca (Aaron Humphrey) writes:

<I'm posting this here not because it's stupid, or anything, but because it
<would be sheer stupidity to post it to talk.bizarre, where gypsy would use it

	If you pay attention to what gypsy, aka "That girl", aka
	"cupid's sixguns" writes....you ARE stooopid.

	Welcome home.

<to grab hold of my head and rip it off and chew it and spit it out.  And I'm
<not that stupid.  

	Mhhhhh. Mebbe you ain't stoopid enuff.

<So maybe this >is< the wrong place to post it, but I have to
<post it somewhere or I'll go mad.

	Ok, what is it?

<Enough of this--here it is:
<
<   "If your breasts are too big, you will fall over.
<    Unless you wear a Rucksack."

	Hey, that sounds like a deviant on Fugs First Law!

	Fugs First Law: "If you push something hard enough,
	it will fall over".

[neat song deleted; it wasn't too stoopid, although the virgin
 posted was, so I'm stoopid for deleting it, but too late.]

Have a womble and a smile.

Newsgroups: alt.stupidity
From: dianem@boi.hp.com (Diane Mathews)
Subject: Refreshment! ( I don't get this (or something like that...)
Organization: Hewlett-Packard, Santa Clara Division
Date: Wed, 2 Sep 1992 21:46:04 GMT

>>    ><>       I read and post to this group of which I am a princling,
>>    ><>       my deemble farthings dwamble and that in graduate school,
>>    ><>       no less.
>>    ><>       So there.
>>    ><   Anybody get this???
>>    >	I certainly don't.
>>    I do.
>> Oh, good.
>> Would you tell me?????

>I'd be more than happy too. Unfortunately, though, I have lost the original
>attribution for the quote in question, so I will refer to the author as Mandy,
>for the purposes of this explanation. Apologies if that is not the correct
>name.

[ Some delightful stuff deleted.]  This is such a refreshing place to browse!

>Or, attend my luncheon lecture this Friday at noon at the Boise Ramada Inn,
>right next door to Guy Maulin's "I made $200 million in real estate and so can
>you!" symposium.

I will bethere.  The Boise Ramada Inn.  I'll write that down.  Lovely, just
lovely!

Newsgroups: alt.stupidity
From: gunnarh@dhhalden.no (GUNNAR HORRIGMO)
Subject: Re: Ivor Cutler Quote
Organization: Ostfold College
Date: Tue, 1 Sep 1992 13:31:04 GMT


[stupidity]

>to grab hold of my head and rip it off and chew it and spit it out.  And I'm
>not that stupid.  So maybe this >is< the wrong place to post it, but I have to

Nope, don't worry, you've found your spot!


[more stupidity]


>--
>---Alfvaen(a.k.a. Nysinra, rot13 Psycho)
>"Been there, done that
> Been there, don't want to go back"  --Brian Eno & John Cale
>Current Album--A Chorus Line Soundtrack
>Current Read--Charlotte Bronte:Villette

---G.H
Newsgroups: alt.stupidity
From: ataylor@nmsu.edu (Nosy)
Subject: Re: Bubbles and toothpicks..
Organization: NMSU Computer Science
Date: Wed, 26 Aug 1992 18:17:34 GMT

<In article <1992Aug24.200308.1@cc.newcastle.edu.au> c9111192@cc.newcastle.edu.au (Sex is Sin..Sin is Fun..Come one Come all and just COME) writes:


<	   A simple question..

	Ok, a simple answer.

<		   How does the Kerosine Fridge work ??

	Very well, thanks for asking.

Newsgroups: alt.stupidity
From: shah@maumee.eng.ohio-state.edu (Shailesh Shah)
Subject: Why ??
Followup-To: shah@maumee.eng.ohio-state.edu
Keywords: key, keychain, keyboard, keystrokes, keyhole etc...
Organization: The Ohio State University Dept of Electrical Engineering
Date: Fri, 4 Sep 1992 02:46:38 GMT

How come I cannot get myself to post something stoopid? Does it mean I
am less stoopid than all you posters out there?

Thanks bugs.

Dying young with inferiorerity complex,
Shailesh
-- 
Shailesh Shah			| Office : 672 Dreese Lab
shah@ee.eng.ohio-state.edu      |       2015 Neil Avenue
Electrical Engineering Dept.	|	Columbus Ohio 43210
The Ohio State University	|       Go Buckeye ! Go deshEEs !
Newsgroups: alt.stupidity
From: ataylor@nmsu.edu (Nosy)
Subject: Re: I don't get this (or something like that...)
Organization: NMSU Computer Science
Date: Wed, 2 Sep 1992 23:25:51 GMT

In article <1992Sep2.041607.3520@news.acns.nwu.edu> eepmatt@casbah.acns.nwu.edu (Matthew Friedman) writes:

[redeanticonstructionalist stuff deleted....]


<Or, attend my luncheon lecture this Friday at noon at the Boise Ramada Inn,
<right next door to Guy Maulin's "I made $200 million in real estate and so can
<you!" symposium.

	Hey, wait a minnit; Northwestern U isn't in Boise!

	This is alt.stupididity, not alt.gullibilility.......
Newsgroups: alt.stupidity
Subject: Re: Poverty in Australia
From: nunn@nutmeg.ntu.edu.au (JsNO  BAR---NUNN)
Date: 3 Sep 92 21:55:01 +0900
Distribution: world
Organization: Information Technology, Northern Territory University
Keywords: Unknown

In article <1992Sep3.101454.3404@news.acns.nwu.edu>, eepmatt@casbah.acns.nwu.edu (Matthew Friedman) writes: 
> ... The family had to economise, so they sacked the butler."


 *HAHAHAHAH  HAH HAAHAHH AHAHAHAHAHA HAHAHAHHAHA AHAHAA!!!!!*


:jas
Newsgroups: alt.stupidity
From: brown@ccit02.duq.edu (Jason Brown)
Subject: Re: Can I fly?
Organization: Columbia University Center for Telecommunications Research
Date: Fri, 28 Aug 1992 19:57:10 GMT
X-Posted-From: ccit02.duq.edu
X-Posted-Through: sol.ctr.columbia.edu

In article <tjrad.714685131@pv0a16.vincent.iastate.edu> tjrad@iastate.edu  
(Thomas J Radosevich) writes:
> In <BtH1zn.CuG@agora.rain.com> hopkins@agora.rain.com (Scott Hopkins)  
writes:
> 
> 
> >			
> >	If I had hollow bones and feathers, would I be a bird?
> >		
> >			-Casey hopkins
> 
> 
>         Either that or a rather odd-looking bloodless mammal.
> 
>        By the way, Bush always keeps his promises--He's been
>        president for 4 years now and we still have the same
>        Texas we've ever had.  Not that I'm personally opposed
>        to the idea of a new Texas...
> 
> 
>                                       -TOM-

No no, you misunderstood G. Bush.  what he said was
	"No nude taxis"

--Jason Brown

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 no matter who's in the car"
   --Jack Lemmon
From: richv@rigel.cs.pdx.edu (RichardD Vanderwal)
Newsgroups: alt.stupidity
Subject: Stupid Virus People
Date: 1 Sep 92 22:16:08 GMT

OK, since we're going over stupid people, things, and ideas, I thought
I just might bring up the Great Michelangelo Virus Scare.  The way it was
covered by the mass media made me feel rather embarrassed for anybody
involved with the fiasco.


I still remember the greedy looks on the faces of the people where I work:
"Do you think we have that virus they mentioned on the news?  Cool!"

Now, when anything goes wrong with any of the office machines here, people
get all exited and talk about viruses (viri?) as if a circus is coming to
town.

Boy, it's hard not to sound flamey when you're talking about stupid things.

							---->Rich
From: mhl4@cunixa.cc.columbia.edu (Mark H Lee)
Newsgroups: alt.stupidity
Subject: Philosohy
Date: 28 Aug 92 04:26:47 GMT
Reply-To: mhl4@cunixa.cc.columbia.edu (Mark H Lee)
Distribution: alt.stupidity
Organization: Columbia University



	Let me ask you something.  Seriously.  Did you know that
	the leading cause of salad is lettuce?



interesing...hmm..
From: eepmatt@casbah.acns.nwu.edu (Matthew Friedman)
Newsgroups: alt.stupidity
Subject: Government Defense Logistics Initiative
Keywords: I,have,a,friend,who,would,really,like,this,group.
Date: 26 Aug 92 08:54:03 GMT
Distribution: na
Organization: Northwestern University, Evanston Illinois.

I have a friend who would really like this group.
Newsgroups: alt.stupidity
From: shah@blanc.eng.ohio-state.edu (Shailesh Shah)
Subject: Bubble bursts (was Re: Bubbles and toothpicks..)
Followup-To: shah@ee.eng.ohio-state.edu
Keywords: key, keychains, keyhole, keyboard, keystroke etc..
Organization: The Ohio State University Dept of Electrical Engineering
Date: Tue, 25 Aug 1992 17:54:20 GMT

In article <1992Aug24.200308.1@cc.newcastle.edu.au> c9111192@cc.newcastle.edu.au (Sex is Sin..Sin is Fun..Come one Come all and just COME) writes:
>
>	A simple question..
>
>
>		How does the Kerosine Fridge work ??
>

	It works just like an ordinary fridge. But as Kerosine
requires much lower temprature to solidify, fridge should be powerful
enough to rpovide that.
	BTW what are you gonna do with the icecubes of Kerosine? 
>	
>
>A most perplexing problem !!
>
> Stand up and be counted..or lie down and be mounted !!

Shailesh 

ObStoopidQuestion: How come most of the posts in alt.stoopidity
originate from Australia? I thought India (that little country with
800 million people) had monopoly over stoopidity :-)
-- 
Shailesh Shah			| Office : 672 Dreese Lab
shah@ee.eng.ohio-state.edu      |       2015 Neil Avenue
Electrical Engineering Dept.	|	Columbus Ohio 43210
The Ohio State University	|       Go Buckeye ! Go deshEEs !
Newsgroups: alt.stupidity
From: eepmatt@casbah.acns.nwu.edu (Matthew Friedman)
Subject: PowerBook Stupidity
Keywords: PowerBook, Stupid, me 
Organization: Northwestern University, Evanston Illinois.
Date: Mon, 31 Aug 1992 23:58:23 GMT

Hi there.

I recently purchased a PowerBook 100. I really liked the machine, but no
matter how often I recharged the battery, I couldn't ever get it to last more
than 5 minutes or so.

Eventually I decided to consult the manual, the Macintosh User's Guide for
Macintosh PowerBook computers. Right there on page 96, in chapter 9: Using
Power Efficiently, was the answer. I'm so ****stooooooopid****!

I quote:
"The recharger must be plugged into an electrical outlet to charge a battery."

Good thing those nice people at Apple write the manuals for
****stoooooooopid**** people like me!
Newsgroups: alt.stupidity
From: rjr@titan.ucc.umass.edu (Richard J. Resnick)
Subject: Re: Originator
Organization: University of Massachusetts, Amherst
Date: Thu, 27 Aug 1992 14:44:16 GMT

In article <1992Aug27.061307.1569@research.nj.nec.com> behanna@syl.nj.nec.com writes:
>	Actually, I remember this list as having originated to be a place to
>showcase examples of glaring human stupidity.  Like the story that was posted
>about the checkout lady at a department store who undid the tattletape on
>some video game cartridges by passing them against a MAGNET.  The customer
>complained, new cartridges were brought, and the cashier did it AGAIN.  The
>customer asked what was done with the returned items, and the store manager
>answered something to the effect of "Oh, we just repackage them and put them
>back on the shelf."  DUH!
>
>	I personally would like to see more of such stories (preferably true
>anecdotes of your own experience).

	Yes, I agree. That makes more sense to me. I can't see somebody
	working their tail off to create a newsgroup, so that people would
	jump on and just _be_ stupid. I much rather like the stupid story
	thingy.

	Richard

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Newsgroups: alt.stupidity
From: dianem@boi.hp.com (Diane Mathews)
Subject: Re: I don't get this (or something like that...)
Organization: Hewlett-Packard, Santa Clara Division
Date: Thu, 3 Sep 1992 14:40:44 GMT

>><Or, attend my luncheon lecture this Friday at noon at the Boise Ramada Inn,
>><right next door to Guy Maulin's "I made $200 million in real estate and so can
>><you!" symposium.

>>	Hey, wait a minnit; Northwestern U isn't in Boise!
>>	This is alt.stupididity, not alt.gullibilility.......

>Did I say Boise? Oh, I, um I, umm, I, I, I meant Des Plaines. Yeah. Des
>Plaines. That's near Northwestern. And it sounds like Des Moines.... Which...
>um, which, um, um, is.... a... um, is like Boise. Yeah. I just got confused.
>Yeah. Des Plaines.

Bummer.  Guess I won't be going.  I can understand the missteak though.
After all, Iowa, Idahoe, Ohioe, they're all kind of the same.  Soe if Des
Plaines sounds like Des Moines...

Newsgroups: alt.stupidity
From: bmarcum@world.std.com (Bill Marcum)
Subject: Re: Bubble bursts (was Re: Bubbles and toothpicks..)
Keywords: key, keychains, keyhole, keyboard, keystroke etc..
Organization: The World Public Access UNIX, Brookline, MA
Date: Wed, 26 Aug 1992 01:00:50 GMT

In article <1992Aug25.175420.17576@ee.eng.ohio-state.edu> shah@blanc.eng.ohio-state.edu (Shailesh Shah) writes:
>ObStoopidQuestion: How come most of the posts in alt.stoopidity
>originate from Australia? I thought India (that little country with
>800 million people) had monopoly over stoopidity :-)
                    ^and no internet sites? At least I've never seen anything
from India on ANY Usenet group.  Could be they're all either too stoopid or
too smart to post.

Bill Marcum  bmarcum@world.std.com

Newsgroups: alt.stupidity
From: aaron@space.ualberta.ca (Aaron Humphrey)
Subject: Ivor Cutler Quote
Reply-To: aaron@space.ualberta.ca
Organization: University Of Alberta, Edmonton Canada
X-Newsreader: Tin 1.1 PL4
Date: Mon, 31 Aug 1992 18:00:14 GMT

I'm posting this here not because it's stupid, or anything, but because it
would be sheer stupidity to post it to talk.bizarre, where gypsy would use it
to grab hold of my head and rip it off and chew it and spit it out.  And I'm
not that stupid.  So maybe this >is< the wrong place to post it, but I have to
post it somewhere or I'll go mad.

Enough of this--here it is:

"If your breasts are too big, you will fall over.
 Unless you wear a Rucksack."

   ---Ivor Cutler

This is the same guy who did the song "Go And Sit Upon The Grass", which I feel
like quoting for you now as well...

"Go and sit up on the grass and I shall come and sit beside you...
 [repeat]

 Then we will talk
 While we talk, I will hit your head with a nail
 To make you understand me
 [repeat]

 When I'm gone, you can sit upon the grass
 And think about what I said,
 And think about what I said.

 Go and sit upon the grass and feel your lumps."

   Or something like that--I've mangled it horribly.  But it's a great song,
and definitely suits alt.stupidity more than the part above it.  But I just had
to get it out of my system.

I don't think it worked.  Oh, well.

--
---Alfvaen(a.k.a. Nysinra, rot13 Psycho)
"Been there, done that
 Been there, don't want to go back"  --Brian Eno & John Cale
Current Album--A Chorus Line Soundtrack
Current Read--Charlotte Bronte:Villette
Newsgroups: alt.stupidity
From: eepmatt@casbah.acns.nwu.edu (Matthew Friedman)
Subject: PUHS Theorem
Organization: Northwestern University, Evanston Illinois.
Date: Thu, 3 Sep 1992 23:53:12 GMT

Before I left Chicago this summer, a good friend and I enjoyed doing research
into the area of human stupidity-- it was always interesting, and there was an
over abundance of data for us to consider. After some months of research, we
came up with the "PUHS Theorem."

We had noticed that it is human nature to enquire into why things are the way
they are. In other words, most questions asked begin with the word "Why."

Ex:
	Why does the express lane in the grocery store take longer than 
	the other regular lanes?

	Why does placing a long distance phone call on our dorm's new
	phone system involve a bigger production than Michael Jackson's
	new world tour?

	etc.

We found that in virtually all circumstances, the answers to these "why"
questions are exactly the same:

		Pure
		Unbridled
		Human 
		Stupidity

Please put our theorem to the test. Try it yourself. Whenever you, or someone
near you, asks "Why...." answer with those four words, and see if they work. I
would be very interested in hearing how well the PUHS Theorem works for you.

Thank you for your help in this matter.

Lemmings,