HDTenEightyP/NetNews huggingface dataset:
From: adw3345@ultb.isc.rit.edu (A.D. Williams)
Subject: CHRISTMAS CRECHE
Originator: adw3345@ultb
Reply-To: adw3345@ultb.rit.edu ()
Organization: Rochester Institute of Technology
Date: Fri, 1 Jan 1993 20:50:01 GMT


 My sister asked me to set up the creche over the holidays to properly
set the mood for the upcoming holiday celebrations.

 "What's a creche?" I asked, thinking it was some kind of disease like
crabs. She explained with exasperation in her manner to me.

 "Oh yeah" I said.

 "It's in the attic. Go get it."

 I didn't find the creche in the attic, but I found all my old Star Wars
toys. Good enough.

 So I set it up next to the door:

                            THE STAR WARS CRECHE


Wise Man #1:   Darth Vader
Wise Man #2:   Obi Wan Kenobi
Wise Man #3:   Yoda

Camel #1 and #2: Luke Skywalker's Landspeeder (Obi and Yoda)
Camel #3: Banthu Beast

Sheepherders: Sandpeople and Jawas
Sheep: Stormtroopers (3) on all fours

Gifts for Jesus: A lightsabre and two blasters

Angels: Boba Fett (Suspended with his rocket pack thingy), Shock Troop
        Stormtrooper (because of the white cape).

The guiding star: TIE Fighter

Virgin Mary: Princess Leia
Virgin Joseph: Han Solo

Baby Jesus: R2D2


 My sister didn't find it funny. "You shouldn't make fun of Jesus," she
admonished, "he died for all of our sins!" So I put R2D2 and pals away and
ate all the Christmas cookies she was baking.



                                                        Derrick

the FORCE will kick GOD's butt any day
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From: yywwyy@mixcom.com (Steven Pearson)
Subject: rictus hep:  ssc
Organization: Milwaukee Internet Xchange BBS, Milwaukee, WI U.S.A.
Date: Mon, 21 Dec 1992 04:30:13 GMT


	so tell me again, was that a 5x stock?


-- 
-stevelee- (aka anarchy now)
"it is the greatest sensation of existence:  not to trust, but to _know_."
	-ayn rand-  'atlas shrugged'
From: al037@cleveland.Freenet.Edu (Dave Polewka)
Newsgroups: talk.bizarre
Subject: Re: -=- Welcome to alt.politics.greens -=-
Date: 31 Dec 1992 05:17:40 GMT
Organization: Case Western Reserve University, Cleveland, OH (USA)
Reply-To: al037@cleveland.Freenet.Edu (Dave Polewka)
NNTP-Posting-Host: slc10.ins.cwru.edu


In a previous article, kludge@grissom.larc.nasa.gov (Scott Dorsey) says:
                       ^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^  
>You fool!  You can't put vinegar on the greens!  You'd never be able to
>keep the ball steady, for one thing.  Your caddy would look at you pretty
>oddly, too.

 kludge@grissom.larc.nasa.gov -- anagram (@=f)
**********************************************
   Mrs. Gasola ducks Vinegar Golf!
**********************************************


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From: al037@cleveland.Freenet.Edu (Dave Polewka)
Newsgroups: talk.bizarre
Subject: DATE CLACS (mon - sun)
Date: 27 Dec 1992 23:12:39 GMT
Organization: Case Western Reserve University, Cleveland, OH (USA)
Reply-To: al037@cleveland.Freenet.Edu (Dave Polewka)
NNTP-Posting-Host: slc10.ins.cwru.edu



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From: kschnitz@encore.com (Kevin Schnitzius)
Subject: metacommercials
Organization: Encore Computer Corporation
Date: Wed, 23 Dec 1992 06:30:24 GMT

I noticed that the Chia Pet commercial is in the background during
the Smart Clapper commercial.
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From: dsc3jfs@nmrdc1.nmrdc.nnmc.navy.mil (Jim Small)
Newsgroups: talk.bizarre
Subject: Re: I hate the Mac
Date: 29 Dec 92 16:07:18 GMT
Organization: Naval Medical Research & Development Command

In article <tubs0kc@zola.esd.sgi.com> cj@sgi.com writes:
>Your mistake here is in blaming the Mac instead of the idiots
>you work with.  Can you *imagine* these people trying to use a
>
>You should conclude, therefore, that you hate people.  Ordinary
>people.  People who aren't nerdy weenies like you & me.
>

BINGO!  We have a winner!


-- 
I hate the 3B2
The 3B2 can bite me.
From: dsc3jfs@nmrdc1.nmrdc.nnmc.navy.mil (Jim Small)
Newsgroups: talk.bizarre
Subject: Re: this season
Date: 29 Dec 92 18:38:04 GMT
Organization: Naval Medical Research & Development Command

In article <tvnr1tc@zola.esd.sgi.com> cj@sgi.com writes:
>I have lived 5.5 years away from my Jehovah's Witness parents.

I have no joke, I just like saying " Would you like some Literature "

-- 
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The 3B2 can bite me.
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From: ron@syacus.acus.oz.au (Ron Williams)
Subject: Re: English Class Nightmares
Organization: ACUS Australian Centre for Unisys Software, Sydney
X-Newsreader: TIN [version 1.1 PL6]
Date: Fri, 1 Jan 1993 00:40:21 GMT

Tom Boutell (boutell@isis.cshl.org) wrote:
> Myriad (n) 1. Nonsense word found in vocabulary quizzes.
> 
> -T
> 
> But "profusion" is still hip
> 
> -- 
> Tom Boutell, boutell@cshl.org
> 
> Clausthaler is the best non - alcoholic beer in the known universe.

--
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Standard Disclaimers Apply
From: gooley@netcom.com (Mark. Gooley)
Newsgroups: talk.bizarre
Subject: Re: Sioux Haiku
Date: 21 Dec 92 14:27:44 GMT
Organization: Netcom Online Communications Services (408-241-9760 login: guest)

In article <1992Dec21.052248.18884@netcom.com> thinman@netcom.com (Technically Sweet) writes:
>ssamaras@scott.skidmore.edu (susan samarasinghe) writes:
>>    i am so flattered by the thought and wit that went into that
>>haiku. thank you. . i am genuinely pleased and happy that you took the
>>time to think of me. 
>
>So sioux me.

Sioux me, sioux me,
What can yioux dioux me?
I love yioux...

--Guise and Dulls

Mark., starting to post again already
giouxley@netcom.com
From: mlegare@wetware.com (Dr. Robert (BoB) Tech)
Subject: Re: Jose, Jose, he's our man
Organization: The Flying Killfile Ranch
Date: Sun, 3 Jan 1993 05:16:12 GMT

annie@canetoad.UUCP (Picasso-puss) writes:

] In article <josh.725758740@pogo> josh@pogo.cqs.washington.edu (Josh Hayes) writes:
] >
] >P.S. we thought about "bottle of Cuervo" already. Good luck.
] >
] Easy as pie.
] 
] "Bottle of Gold
] Friend of the paroled
] When ya gonna let me stop heavin'
] Leave me alone
] Let me go home
] Let me stuff my intestines back down my gullet with some semblance of dignity"
] 
] --
] me: "Larne, can you get the phone? Grendel's hands are wet and
]      I'm standing on the stove."
] 


wimp.

ahem

Bottle of tequila
friend of mi amiga
who brought it home last night at half past nine
if i could find my wallet
with all the incriminating pictures taken after i passed out in an
alcoholic stupor and was stipped naked by my GOOD FRIENDS and tied
to the bumper of a 1974 ford futura, driven through town screetching
"DEATH TO THE LARD WARRIORS!" and ceremoniously dumped in front of
an all-night hardware store to forage for food all at my own request
to show this nice policeman
everything'll be just fine.


<available on Grunt records & tapes>

-- 
if one falls on you,
we just carve your name on it
and leave it there...
mlegare@wetware.com
From: pv@gagme.chi.il.us (Paul Vader)
Newsgroups: talk.bizarre
Subject: Synchronism
Date: 21 Dec 92 17:34:24 GMT
Organization: Inline Software Creations
Originator: pv@gagme

Some years ago, after remarking to a friend how well the music fit on her
experimental film, she explained that any arbitrary soundtrack seems to synch
up to your film footage without even trying. It's just the brain having a
good time with pattern recognition. I replied that she didn't know how to
take a compliment, and filed the data away in my endless store of useless
information.

This morning [SCENE MISSING] I came in to work early to exercise in the
health club, and "Good Morning America" was on all the video monitors. I
have a semi-religious hatred for television news (morning news especially),
so I went to plan B, my walkman.

Our basement (where the file servers and health club are) is
electromagnetically shielded -- basically one big faraday cage (can you say
paranoia? I thought you could), so I couldn't listen to the radio either.
Plan C, play whatever tape I happened to leave in the walkman n months ago.
It turned out to be the Eurythmics, Sweet Dreams. Not very current, but
what the hell.

I must say it was a surreal experience watching Somalia and
Bosnia-Herceamumblia footage synch up perfectly and rather ironically with
"Love is a Stranger" and "Wrap it Up" while I jogged my three miles. Also,
the weather came on during the first line of "I could give you"
("Oh how could you be so cold...") and I was impressed. It is obviously
coincidences like this that make credulous people think that psychic
phenomena exist. PV

P.S. Deet dee dee dee dee (taking my sister's part to avoid confusion).

P.P.S. My newsfeed is sick as usual, and for some reason the admin
       (otherwise a very cool guy) doesn't give talk.bizarre top priority
       when catching up. If you want to make a lame followup, you might
       consider a lame mail reply instead.
-- 
Paul Vader            systems analyst, hell's cavenewt, rollerblader,
pv@gagme.chi.il.us    FOAF, smartass liberal democrat
From: robohen@ocf.berkeley.edu (Henry Robertson)
Newsgroups: talk.bizarre
Subject: BIZARRE ONE-DOLLAR JAPANESE CARTOONS FOR SALE!
Date: 24 Dec 92 11:11:53 GMT
Organization: U.C. Berkeley Open Computing Facility
NNTP-Posting-Host: tsunami.berkeley.edu

Now that I have trimmed down my cartoon collection to only the very best
and out-of-print, I would like to share them with manga fans of the world.
By sending me ONE DOLLAR, you get a 10-page sample (with English subtitles!)
of cartoons by Maruo Suehiro, a man of profound artistic inspirations.
If watching movies like Akira gave you an amphetamine-high, why, these
will instantly rocket you into crack heaven.  You won't be disappointed.
If you are interested, send cash or money order with a self-addressed,
stamped envelope to:

Henry Robertson
2206 Durant Ave. #5
Berkeley, CA 94704

One dollar is not a very big risk to take, folks.  If you would like a 
complete catalog to get an idea of the selection, feel free to e-mail me.
I'll be here over winter break.

I look forward to hearing from you....
From: ajd@oit.itd.umich.edu (Arthur Delano)
Newsgroups: talk.bizarre
Subject: simon
Date: 21 Dec 1992 19:23:49 GMT
Organization: finchhaus
Distribution: world
NNTP-Posting-Host: helen.oit.itd.umich.edu

"I stand on top of the world, shouting-"
  "What the hell are you talking about?"
  "When you are at the top of the world,
nobody is there.  Your accomplishment is
meaningless.  You lord over nobody and
nothing; the only time Sartre proves 
himself right.  I stand on top of the 
world, right here, and tell everybody 
that I am above them _right_now_.  I'll 
climb the mountain later."

AjD
-- 
                       ajd@oit.itd.umich.edu
    "Whatever makes the most money will happen." -- Eleanor Glyn
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From: gary@sci34hub.sci.com (Gary Heston)
Subject: Re: Date In Error--- Bob is Feb 13.
Reply-To: gary@sci34hub.sci.com (Gary Heston)
Organization: SCI Systems, Inc., Huntsville, Al.
Date: Mon, 4 Jan 1993 00:17:51 GMT

In article <1i6nkcINN5lf@rave.larc.nasa.gov> kludge@grissom.larc.nasa.gov (Scott Dorsey) writes:
|Yes, even we make typos.  The Bob party is on the 13th of February, not
|on the third, so don't show up on my doorstep a week early or we'll make
|you cook.

What are you, a masochist or something? Anyone could have been reading
the kitchen disasters thread in rec.food.cooking, and been prepared to
give you a week of *really* bad food.


-- 
Gary Heston    SCI Systems, Inc.  gary@sci34hub.sci.com   site admin
The Chairman of the Board and the CFO speak for SCI. I'm neither.
"Data sheet: HSN-3000 Nuclear Event Detector. The [NED] senses the gamma
radiation pulse [from a] nuclear weapon." As if we wouldn't notice...
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From: srscnslt@telesciences.com (SRS Consultant)
Subject: Re: SAVE THE TREES!!!
Organization: TeleSciences CO Systems, Inc.
Date: Tue, 22 Dec 1992 17:00:46 GMT

In article <13593@optilink.COM> manley@optilink.COM (Terry Manley) writes:
>Now, maybe you can help me.  You see for the first time in ten
>years I've got a cold.  Runny nose, itchy eyes, sneezing, ...
>the usual stuff up to now I've only heard about.  My dilemma
>is I can't decide whether to use handkerchiefs or tissue paper.
>
>If I use a handkerchief I'm supporting the damming of rivers for
>irrigation of desert lands to grow subsidized cotton, sprayed with
>herbicides, pesticides and processed with bleach.  (Let's not mention
>the maltreatment and overall oppression of the people (usually
>migrants) who pick the cotton.)  I also then need to wash the
>handkerchief, consuming fresh water and power, not to mention
>supporting the petrochemical-mining, industry by using detergents! 
>
>If I use tissue paper I'm supporting deforestation, pollution of
>rivers with dioxin, and again bleach - blech!  Once I've used the
>tissue what do I do with it?  If I throw it in the garbage I'm
>contributing to solid waste disposal problems, leading to overfilled
>landfills, which leach poisons into the ground water.  If I throw it
>into the toilet I'm adding to the problem of sludge disposal and
>exacerbating my communities efforts to dispose of treated waste water.
>If I burn it I'm adding to global warming.  If I just keep the tissue,
>say put it in a box in my attic, I'm just leaving the problem for
>somebody else to deal with. 
>
>So far I'm just sucking the snot down and/or wiping it on my
>sleeve.  Neither of these are too attractive.  Please help.
>



	Simple solution, really.  You must not hang around swimming competitions,
	much, or you'd've thought of this yourself.

	Take the index finger of your right hand, and use it to close off your
	right nostril.  Close your mouth.  Now exhale explosively, forcing a jet
	of snot to be expelled from your left nostril (or your eyeballs to
	explode, whatever).  Repeat this operation until your left nostril is
	clear as mountain spring water.  Then switch sides.

	The best thing about this is that snot is biodegradable.
	
	Bonus points if you nail Sioux or Catherine with the Snot Jet [tm].

	Cheers!
-- 
Mitch Gorman		srscnslt@telesciences.com	emrys@cellar.org
"You can tell he's doing well by the look in inhuman eyes,
	Better not compromise -
		It won't be easy!"
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From: kschnitz@encore.com (Kevin Schnitzius)
Subject: Re: Vintage .sparky
Organization: Encore Computer Corporation
Date: Wed, 23 Dec 1992 06:13:30 GMT

rigler@dao.nrc.ca (Michael Rigler) writes:
>I miss Sparky....

Yes, no one from the Trilobite State would be so baited by the current
local weather.
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From: bhoughto@sedona.intel.com (Blair P. Houghton)
Newsgroups: talk.bizarre
Subject: Re: Xmas cheer, part one
Date: 22 Dec 1992 20:53:46 GMT
Organization: Intel Corp., Chandler, Arizona
Distribution: talk
NNTP-Posting-Host: stealth.intel.com
Keywords: NSF NSA FBI CIA EDS IBM AT&T GOP Bubba

In article <schnitzi.725032669@eola.cs.ucf.edu> schnitzi@cs.ucf.edu (Mark Schnitzius) writes:
>If I see one more clever rewrite of "'Twas the Night Before
>Christmas" in the paper, I'm going to fly up to Washington
>and chop down the Presidential Christmas tree, in broad
>daylight.

Watch it.

That's the sort of talk that got Finerty in trouble with
the <*ssssssschwank!*> Secret Service <*Ba-DUMMMMMM!*>

				--Blair
				  "Moo-ha-ha."
From: ajd@oit.itd.umich.edu (Arthur Delano)
Newsgroups: talk.bizarre
Subject: A quote looking for a context
Date: 2 Jan 1993 08:00:01 GMT
Organization: finchhaus
Distribution: world
NNTP-Posting-Host: helen.oit.itd.umich.edu


"Want to see my Morrisey impression?"


AjD
-- 
                       ajd@oit.itd.umich.edu
"You'll never find happiness as a human being, kid." -- Suehiro Maruo
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From: jfw@jfwhome.FUNHOUSE.COM (John F. Woods)
Subject: Re: ACK! MY ACCOUNT IS GOING AWAY
Organization: Misanthropes-R-Us
Date: Wed, 30 Dec 1992 00:05:05 GMT

In <1992Dec28.210216.26299@murdoch.acc.Virginia.EDU> carasso@Turing.ORG (Roger Carasso) writes:
>ACK!  MY ACCOUNT IS GOING AWAY.
>I NEED A NEW ACCOUNT.
>PLEASE HELP.
>CARASSO.

And they say there is no Santa Claus!

Newsgroups: talk.bizarre
From: ilana@kiowa.scd.ucar.edu (Ilana Stern)
Subject: Re: from the cultural wasteland
Organization: NCAR/UCAR
Date: Mon, 21 Dec 1992 16:59:22 GMT

In article <1992Dec20.230908.22275@netcom.com>, gooley@netcom.com (Mark. Gooley) writes:
> 
> Mark., I know that none of you give a flying fuck about this, but I am
> living in a cultural wasteland full of pretentious twits who think that
> they're cultured

Oh yeah?

I'll have you know that King Sooper's carries *eight* different brands
of yogurt.

Ilana
pretentious twit and valiant defender of Boulder

-- 
/\    "I'm only a human girl person.  I ain't always perfect."--Rambling Rose
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      \______________________________________________________________________
From: rmk@rmkhome.UUCP (Rick Kelly)
Newsgroups: talk.bizarre
Subject: Re: I Sing the Body Smoke!
Date: 21 Dec 92 04:54:11 GMT
Reply-To: rmk@rmkhome.UUCP (Rick Kelly)
Organization: The Man With Ten Cats

In article <1h2bdqINNk2h@rave.larc.nasa.gov> kludge@grissom.larc.nasa.gov (Scott Dorsey) writes:
>In article <9212200245.24@rmkhome.UUCP> rmk@rmkhome.UUCP (Rick Kelly) writes:
>>I think it's time to bring back spark gap transmitters.  Due to the fact
>>that my great grandfather was a patent attorney way back when, I have lots
>>of vintage how to books on spark gap technology.
>
>No good... too much bandsplatter and you just can't get a clean note.  What
>you want is a continuous arc transmitter.  Dunno who patented it, but Federal
>Electric made some of the better ones up until about 1915 or so.  With a 
>little bit of bandpass filtration it would probably even be legal to use on
>the air today.

As in rotary spark gap transmitters?

Guess I'll have to dig out the old books.

-- 

Rick Kelly	rmk@rmkhome.UUCP	unixland!rmkhome!rmk	rmk@frog.UUCP
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From: news@magnus.acs.ohio-state.edu
Subject: what's the deal
Organization: The Ohio State University
Distribution: usa
Date: Mon, 21 Dec 1992 22:19:40 GMT

This article was probably generated by a buggy news reader.
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From: mlegare@wetware.com (Dr. Robert (BoB) Tech)
Subject: a matter of degrees
Organization: The Flying Killfile Ranch
Date: Tue, 22 Dec 1992 08:19:19 GMT



it has been my experience that the big difference between pornography and
erotica is that one is can be ever so much more boring than the other.


-- 
if one falls on you,
we just carve your name on it
and leave it there...
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From: ilana@kiowa.scd.ucar.edu (Ilana)
Subject: short shameful christmas confession
Organization: NCAR/UCAR
Date: Wed, 23 Dec 1992 20:52:12 GMT

I like Christmas because, as an agnostic Jew, I can cheerfully participate
in gift-giving, eggnog-drinking, poker-playing, and over-eating with my
agnostic Christian in-laws, without feeling the least bit guilty about
corrupting the religious significance of the holiday. 

Ilana
and I get good loot, too

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/\    "I'm only a human girl person.  I ain't always perfect."--Rambling Rose
  \_][ <--NCAR Ilana Stern dod#009 r.b. cliff swallow ilana@ncar.ucar.edu    
      \______________________________________________________________________
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From: pfinerty@nyx.cs.du.edu (fun fun fun boy)
Subject: MUDS/MUCKS/MUSHS
Followup-To: talk.bizarre
Summary: i don't want to hear it! 
X-Disclaimer: Nyx is a public access Unix system run by the University
	of Denver for the Denver community.  The University has neither
	control over nor responsibility for the opinions of users.
Keywords: shut up
Organization: Nyx, Public Access Unix at U. of Denver Math/CS dept.
Date: Sat, 2 Jan 93 20:10:35 GMT
Expires: never, ever, not ever.

what the hell is it with all these damned logs of MUDS/MUCKS/MUSHs. who
the hell here gives a fuck? take it to
alt.games.fucking.muds.are.wasting.my.goddamned.time
i don't like to hit the 'n' button, i like to read a nifty story or weird
thought. so there.


--
			PJF--->Biochem. grad student
			      PUBLIC ENEMY #1
From: grendel@csd4.csd.uwm.edu (Jack Horkheimer: Star Hustler)
Newsgroups: talk.bizarre
Subject: Life imitates life
Date: 3 Jan 1993 04:30:05 GMT
Organization: The Church of Pat
NNTP-Posting-Host: 129.89.7.4


The latest issue of Rolling Stone has a small article about Bob Forrest,
the singer in Thelonious Monster.  The Secret Service talked to him after
he allegedly made on-stage comments that Bush should be killed instead of
re-elected.

Hey, Patrick, you wouldn't happen to be a fan of this band, would you?


MArk "Wave to the spooks everyone" Lippert
From: grendel@csd4.csd.uwm.edu (Jack Horkheimer: Star Hustler)
Newsgroups: talk.bizarre
Subject: That evil weed
Date: 3 Jan 1993 06:04:32 GMT
Organization: The Church of Pat
NNTP-Posting-Host: 129.89.7.4


Lance and I were a New Year's Eve party, where a guy offered us a hit off
his joint.  After we politly declined, he declared "It's marijuana."

The guy left the room and Lance went sarcastic.  "No!  Really?  Can I touch
it?  Jeepers!"  Then he started wondering what would happen if Jimmy Stewart
was there with us, and launched into yet another Jimmy Stewart impression
(my friends and I seem to do a lot of them).  "Say, that's not one of them
funny cigarettes now, is it?  Why, that stuff'll turn you screwy!"

It seems we drag Jimmy Stewart into things more and more lately.  I must've
been something to do with the way the guy calmly told us "It's marijuana."
It turns me screwy just thinking about it.


Mark "One bad egg" Lippert
From: cliftonr@netcom.com (Pope Clifton)
Newsgroups: talk.bizarre
Subject: Ecological threats
Date: 28 Dec 92 22:33:26 GMT
Organization: t.b, t.p.d, & a.d

Yesterday I went to Burger King for the first time in a while,
and discovered that they had followed the McDonald's marketing 
ploy of switching to recycled paper bags and wrappers.  The 
paper bag was of course covered with self-congratulatory comments
on how many pounds of trash they were saving by doing this, et 
cetera, und so weiter.  

This would have been vaguely encouraging, had their long eco-blurb
not ended thus:

"All in all, it's just one of the ways we're trying to make the
world a nicer place to eat."

Burp.
  -- Clifton

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