HDTenEightyP/NetNews huggingface dataset:
From: damianj@castle.ed.ac.uk (Damian Jackson)
Newsgroups: talk.bizarre
Subject: Re: MY FANTASTY HEARING AID COMPANY
Date: 18 Nov 92 20:12:51 GMT
Organization: Edinburgh University

bhoughto@sedona.intel.com (Blair P. Houghton) writes:

>In article <1992Nov17.050331.8219@ultb.isc.rit.edu> adw3345@ultb.rit.edu () writes:
>[...fuhgedabautit... - in response to a 'build a better hearing aid' post]

>It's been done.

>There is now (this is absolutely true, in the Dave
>Barrian sense of the pharase) a form of hearing
>device which is hidden (almost) entirely within your ear.

There was a segment related to this on 60 Minutes, on 
local tv, last night.  They had a young girl, otherwise
totally deaf, who had had a device implanted which
allowed her to hear speech and other sounds, 
and to converse normally. (obviously it also took a 
few years intensive work with her also to reach this
stage)

Thus far it was not bizarre.  

They then had representatives of organisations for
the deaf in the USA telling us that this was wrong
to do - because it implied there was something 
wrong with being deaf - with *deaf-culture* for
Blair's sake.  Where do people like that draw the 
line?  If a blind kid can be treated so that s/he
can see, or a deaf kid so s/he can hear, then what 
the fuck is wrong with that?  Oh sure, there's 
nothing at all bad about being deaf - it only means
you miss out on a vast amount of human culture,
never mind the practical side of day to day life.
Yeah, there's nothing wrong with being blind either.
Yeah - just to show how wonderful it is, let's all
play Stars 'n' Stripes as we simultaneously insert 
pokers up our nostrils and into our brains.
After all, there's a lot to be said for dead-culture.

Damian
damianj@castle.ed.ac.uk
--
Wake up and smell the coffee, xceptin' you're nasally challenged.
Newsgroups: talk.bizarre
Subject: Really old recipe
From: rmk@rmkhome.UUCP (Rick Kelly)
Organization: The Man With Ten Cats
Date: Sat, 21 Nov 1992 06:59:41 GMT
Reply-To: rmk@rmkhome.UUCP (Rick Kelly)
Keywords: Maalox
Summary: Thems good eatin

This was posted to t.b in October of 1987.

Unfortunately, I stripped the header from the file.

So, who wrote it?

--------------------------------------------------------------------------
-
Here is a quaint little recipe from the State of Maine.

My mother grew up in one of those semi-backwoods towns in central
Maine (Ellsworth Falls), and every once in a while, they get a
hankering for Trench Moose.

First, you need a moose carcass (as fresh as possible).  Do NOT remove
the innards!  Slit the belly and stuff with the bodies of dogs who were
known to have had worms.  Seal the abdomen with packed mud from the
smelliest clam flats you can locate.

Next, gouge out the eyeballs of the moose, and use battery acid to eat
away the brain (do NOT drain off either the battery acid or the
dissolved brain).  Fill the skull (via the eye sockets) with chunks
from a gallon of milk which has gone severely sour.

While all this is happening, another team of people have been at work
digging the trench.  It must be deep enough for the moose to be
inserted standing up.  That means 10 to 12 feet, depending on the
moose.

Insert the moose (in a standing position) into the trench.  Drench the
moose with water which was condensed from the air of Westbrook.  (Note
for non-Maineiacs:  Westbrook is a Maine city known for its paper
mills, and, consequently, for the overpowering stench that engulfs the
place.)  Cover the moose over with a layer of the middle pieces of
bread from a whole bunch of Big Macs.  Next, as many people as are
readily available should stand on the edges of the trench, hold their
thumbs over their right nostril, and blow the contents of the left
nostril into the trench.  Then bury the moose and tamp down the dirt.

After eight years, uncover the moose.  Run a skunk carcass through a
wringer, and douse the moose with the juice.  Throw in the skunk
carcass, and the wringer.  Re-bury the moose.

After 3 more years, dig up the moose, turn, and re-bury.

After 4 more years, dig up the moose again, and have as many people as
possible make themselves vomit by chugging bottles of ketchup. Strain
the vomit with used tampons, and add it to the pit.  Re-bury the moose.

The following spring (determined by when the ice goes out at the
nearest lake)  everybody anxiously digs up the moose.  It is consumed
by using a cookie press to force it into the rectum.

It's great!

All right, actually it's awful, but after you do this once, it makes
you appreciate regular food all the more.

-----------------------------------------------------------------------

Urp!

-- 

Rick Kelly	rmk@rmkhome.UUCP	unixland!rmkhome!rmk	rmk@frog.UUCP
Newsgroups: talk.bizarre
From: caz@owlnet.rice.edu (HWRNMNBSOL)
Subject: Insightful Yiddish Flash of Totality (?)
Organization: Rice University
Date: Mon, 16 Nov 1992 23:07:00 GMT

Oy Gestalt!

-- 
HWRNMNBSOL
Newsgroups: talk.bizarre
From: mdw@theory.TC.Cornell.EDU (Matt Welsh)
Subject: Re: TATOOING DOGS
Organization: Cornell Theory Center
Distribution: usa
Date: Wed, 18 Nov 1992 02:55:15 GMT

This is my favorite post of the month.

In rec.pets.dogs, 275s@oasys.dt.navy.mil (Wendy Bortnick) writes:
>Hi,
>
>Has anyone had their dog tatooed.  I was wondering whether it is painful
>and how long does it take.
>
>Wendy
>275s@oasys.dt.navy.mil (Wendy Bortnick)

I have all of my dogs tatooed. It's not painful at all; they love it.
Plus I have three cats, a ferret, and two goldfish with ink. It's pretty
groovy.

mdw

-- 
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Systems Programmer, Cornell Theory Center
  "We're going away now. I fed the cat."
From: mathew <mathew@mantis.co.uk>
Newsgroups: talk.bizarre
Subject: Easter approaches
Summary: Sad but 100% true
Date: Mon, 16 Nov 92 13:21:51 GMT
Distribution: world
Organization: Mantis Consultants, Cambridge. UK.

On Saturday a shop called the Baker's Oven in Cambridge had a special Easter
promotion on Hot Cross Buns.


mathew
[ So it must be time to start my Christmas shopping ]

Newsgroups: talk.bizarre
From: thoth@uiuc.edu (Ben Cox)
Subject: Re: Elevators
Originator: btc30679@uxa.cso.uiuc.edu
Reply-To: thoth@uiuc.edu (Ben Cox)
Organization: Ancient Illuminated Sears of Bavaria
Date: Wed, 18 Nov 1992 18:19:20 GMT

rmk@rmkhome.UUCP (Rick Kelly) writes:

>With the leaves off the trees, I can go up to the third floor of my victorian
>manse, and look across the reservoir to the yuppy hilltop community where
>Rocket Roger Clemens lives during baseball season.

My parents live on the 49th floor of the same building as one of the
Chicago White Sox.  Unfortunately, I can't remember his name, because
I'm a Cubs fan.

--
Ben Cox
thoth@uiuc.edu
From: terri@csd4.csd.uwm.edu (St Theresa of the Net)
Newsgroups: talk.bizarre
Subject: Re: phage
Date: 21 Nov 1992 17:16:02 GMT
Organization: Computing Something Division
NNTP-Posting-Host: 129.89.7.4

In article <1992Nov20.182158.25743@mnemosyne.cs.du.edu> pfinerty@nyx.cs.du.edu (patrick finerty) writes:
>In article <1ehm1iINN662@uwm.edu> terri@csd4.csd.uwm.edu (St Theresa of the Net) writes:
>>So my favorite ex boyfriend is a biochem goob. Do *you* own a bass saxophone?
>the only musical instrument i can play is my stereo. sometimes i play the
>harmonica though, but i don't own one.

Well, actually, -=paul=- doesn't have his bass saxophone anymore, as some
asshole stole it out of the trunk of his hurricane-andrew damaged new car;
i'm not quite sure why the boy stays in crime-ridden miami, though
something about comforting his current lass after her apartment was broken
into might have something to do with it.


-- 
A little bit of uh huh and a whole lot of oh yeah.   \  (414)CRUSH-13
T. Flynn's Casa de Interesting: 1755 N Cambridge Ave #306 Milwaukee WI 53202
From: gj@prg.oxford.ac.uk (Craig Shergold)
Newsgroups: talk.bizarre
Subject: dann hat sie sich durch seine Augen gesehn: Endstation Sehnsucht
Date: 17 Nov 92 22:37:37 GMT
Organization: The Pontifex Portable Thunderbox and Collapsible Flush Company
X-Mailer: mail-news 2.0.3

In London in 1991 there were 393 deaths in
road traffic accidents, and 185 homicides;                                 /
I guess the car lobby has hired the IRA to                                /
try to make the statistics more favourable                               / g
___
UK tax year 1991: April 1991 to March 1992
Newsgroups: talk.bizarre
From: libfgr@gsusgi2.gsu.edu (Frank G. Rogers)
Subject: Re: Rejected ABC After-School Specials
Organization: Georgia State University
Date: Fri, 20 Nov 1992 03:13:18 GMT

Well, thank God they didn't reject CINDY BLEACHES HER NEEDLES....

-f


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From: dgross@zeus.calpoly.edu (Dave Gross)
Newsgroups: talk.bizarre
Subject: Rictus hep attends the assassination, part XXII
Date: 24 Nov 92 04:40:22 GMT
Organization: Manumission:  The Campus Men's Forum

Oh where were the days of Davey Lopes and the cardinal excreting on
the living room again.  What happenstance!  Marilyn could just as soon
throw away her raconteur as take away another penniless soul from the
rapes of hardwood.
Newsgroups: talk.bizarre
From: vail@tegra.com (Johnathan Vail)
Subject: Re: just curious
Organization: Tegra-Varityper, Inc. Billerica, MA
Date: Mon, 16 Nov 1992 22:29:34 GMT



In article <1992Nov16.155912.27459@mnemosyne.cs.du.edu> mneeley@nyx.cs.du.edu (Mark Neeley) writes:

   What's the scientific name for eye gunk?


Bausch and Lomb


Newsgroups: talk.bizarre
From: Blair.Haworth@launchpad.unc.edu (Blair Haworth)
Subject: Re: SHORT SHAMEFUL GLEE
Organization: University of North Carolina Extended Bulletin Board Service
Date: Fri, 20 Nov 1992 13:08:05 GMT

In article <1992Nov19.175544.1130@netcom.com> cliftonr@netcom.com (Pope Clifton) writes:
>Arthur Delano (ajd@oit.itd.umich.edu) wrote:

> JESUS H. (hog-fucking) CHRIST. 

Actually, that's "haploid".
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From: Darrell.Cadwallader@f363.n363.z1.fidonet.org (Darrell Cadwallader)
Newsgroups: talk.bizarre
Subject: Re: All-Time Koolest Film Star Name
Date: Wed, 18 Nov 92 17:18:00 PDT
Organization: FidoNet node 1:363/363 - <Orlando Super Syst, Orlando FL

caz@owlnet.rice.edu (HWRNMNBSOL) writes:
 
H> "Yaphet Kotto"
 
"Wings Hauser" 

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Newsgroups: talk.bizarre
From: mlegare@wetware.com (Dr. Robert (BoB) Tech)
Subject: Re: Add Your Favorite Two-Word Insult
Organization: Cappo Ferra 6
Date: Sat, 21 Nov 1992 22:25:04 GMT

mjd@saul.cis.upenn.edu ("[*] Crash Dominus") writes:

] Chog hound
  rock critic? 



mpl
From: dgross@zeus.calpoly.edu (Dave Gross)
Newsgroups: talk.bizarre
Subject: Rictus Hep attends the coronation, part I
Date: 24 Nov 92 04:17:07 GMT
Organization: Manumission:  The Campus Men's Forum

When Marilyn Monroe came up to me, wearing an elephant shaft subtly
nailed to her shoulder, I was about to explain that the Jews had
nothing to do with the otherwise inexplicable explosion of feline
leukemia but my zipper was stuck. "Don't worry, Your Highness," she
wrote and her lipstick gleamed in the blue flaming neon lights that
lined the modernity ward, "we've been on to you for a long time."
From: bc@Apple.COM (bill coderre)
Newsgroups: talk.bizarre
Subject: Re: Advice on the reading of rec.humor
Date: 21 Nov 92 20:29:31 GMT
Organization: Apple Computer Inc., Cupertino, CA

Ben Fulton:
|rec.humor:!s:Ascii
.....

Just put this in your .newsrc:
rec.humor! 1-100000

It's much faster at eliminating the unfunny articles.

mr HEINOUS
almost every Usenet group should have ".NOT" appended
From: bc@apple.com (bill coderre)
Newsgroups: talk.bizarre
Subject: Short Shameful BILLBOARD
Date: 22 Nov 92 09:51:31 GMT
Organization: Apple Computer Inc, Cupertino, CA


Staying on this BILLBOARD tip, I have to admit that I have no idea how
to look up my favorite secret novelty record of all time, "M'nah
M'nah." I don't know the name of the artist or even the right spelling
of the song title.

But you have to admit, "M'nah M'nah" is bizarre, and "Shaving Cream"
(Benny Bell -- top 40 solely because of Doctor Demento) is NOT.

mr HEINOUS
the ultimate and final arbiter of all matters of taste and style
Newsgroups: talk.bizarre
From: gerald@torolab4.vnet.ibm.com (Gerald Oskoboiny)
Subject: short shameful confession
Summary: oh the humanity
Originator: gerald@gerald
Date: 17 Nov 92 22:31:05 GMT
Reply-To: gerald@torolab4.vnet.ibm.com
Organization: November is seafood month

Whenever I see the article in news.lists called
"Articles rejected at news.uu.net during the last week",
I select it, and scan for "gerald".

Gerald -nothing yet
From: srscnslt@telesciences.com (SRS Consultant)
Newsgroups: talk.bizarre
Subject: Re: dann hat sie sich durch seine Augen gesehn: Endstation Sehnsucht
Date: 19 Nov 92 17:12:56 GMT
Organization: TeleSciences CO Systems, Inc.

In article <schnitzi.722055865@eola.cs.ucf.edu> schnitzi@cs.ucf.edu (Mark Schnitzius) writes:
>gj@prg.oxford.ac.uk (Craig Shergold) writes:
>
>>In London in 1991 there were 393 deaths in
>>road traffic accidents, and 185 homicides;                                 /
>>I guess the car lobby has hired the IRA to                                /
>>try to make the statistics more favourable                               / g
>
>Does a car bomb count as both?
>

Well, it would sorta depend on whether or not the car was moving when the
bomb went off, now, wouldn't it?

Mitch Gorman		srscnslt@telesciences.com		slave@work
			emrys@cellar.org			god@home

"Stand, on hills of long forgotten yesterdays..."
From: cs199aa@uape-13.ucsd.edu (Mark Fletcher)
Newsgroups: talk.bizarre
Subject: short shameful confession
Date: 20 Nov 92 19:19:28 GMT
Organization: University of California, San Diego


When using a urinal, if there is something floating in the water,
I try to aim for it. 


Mark

Newsgroups: talk.bizarre
From: pfinerty@nyx.cs.du.edu (patrick finerty)
Subject: Re: Whatever happened to Amy S. Kahn?
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.
Organization: Nyx, Public Access Unix at U. of Denver Math/CS dept.
Date: Sun, 22 Nov 92 17:11:16 GMT

In article <1992Nov20.155655.5250@telesciences.com> srscnslt@telesciences.com (SRS Consultant) writes:
>In article <98350@netnews.upenn.edu> kahn@eniac.seas.upenn.edu (Amy S Kahn) writes:
>>>
>>Well, I do get 1/3 off employee discount...
>
>	What does one do with 1/3 off an employee?
>
	you bring them home to play with your 2.5 kids.
	someone had to do it...
--
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Newsgroups: talk.bizarre,misc.test,alt.politics.clinton
From: avery@netcom.com (Avery Ray Colter)
Subject: Re: should be taken only on the advice of a physician
Organization: Netcom - Online Communication Services  (408 241-9760 guest) 
Date: Fri, 20 Nov 1992 00:34:39 GMT

I dunno, dextrose is just a different kind of disaccharide I think,
related to sugar. What purpose the other two ingredients serve I have
no idea.

Sometimes I wonder, maybe just going back to organically grown honey
would be the best thing....

-- 
Avery Ray Colter ("Elfcat") - 	avery@netcom.netcom.com (IP 192.100.81.100)
(510) 656-1902 
"Heaviness is the root of lightness; calmness is the controller of haste"
Xref: sparky talk.bizarre:39150 alt.butt.harp:281
From: bhoughto@sedona.intel.com (Blair P. Houghton)
Newsgroups: talk.bizarre,alt.butt.harp
Subject: Re: SALMAN RUSHDIE'S ILL-CONCEIVED "PISS-BUDDHA" ROCKS THE ART WORLD
Date: 23 Nov 1992 18:05:05 GMT
Organization: Intel Corp., Chandler, Arizona
NNTP-Posting-Host: stealth.intel.com

In article <By5MwI.3B5@rice.edu> adam@owlnet.rice.edu (Adam Justin Thornton) writes:
>_Buddha You Fat Fuck_

I have no joke, here, I just like putting on my
Joe Peschi face and saying "Buddha, you are one
sick fuck, you know that?"

				--Blair
				  "Fuhgedabahtit."
From: damianj@castle.ed.ac.uk (Damian Jackson)
Newsgroups: talk.bizarre
Subject: Re: Why the Naming Contest Is Doomed to Failure
Date: 16 Nov 92 22:00:57 GMT
Organization: Edinburgh University

mlegare@wetware.com (Dr. Robert (BoB) Tech) writes:

>talk.bizarre is a box for stuff.  some of the stuff is box-shaped, and some 
>of the stuff isn't.  people put stuff in the box.  every once in a while
>someone feels the need to sort the stuff in the box.  sometimes this person

Could you just _hold it right there_ please.

Okay, who shouted "sort & post"?

Come on, somebody shouted it.
I'm quite prepared to keep you all 
right here in this classroom
*all day* if necessary.

>puts lots of little boxes into the talk.bizarre box to aid him in his 
>sorting.  unfortunately, there always seems to be one less little sorting
>box than is needed, so the sorter gets frustrated and stops sorting.

So, like, is bizarre_sort O(n lg n)?

The trouble with sorting talk.bizarre
is that no matter how 
you shuffle the boxes
there is always
only one
egg.

Speaking of which, I wonder,
do women who post to the
same newsgroup gradually
shift into the same cycle, 
all other factors being equal?

Hmmm. Maybe somebody here
could get a grant to
research that.

>talk.bizarre is a box for stuff.  unfortunately, this box is not really 
>all that box-shaped.

Amen to that, brother.

Damian
damianj@castle.ed.ac.uk
Newsgroups: talk.bizarre
From: rwd4f@poe.acc.Virginia.EDU (Rob Dobson)
Subject: Re: Advice on the reading of rec.humor
Organization: University of Virginia
Date: Fri, 20 Nov 1992 22:18:45 GMT

I Say:
>or just try
>
>1,234,876,987 unfunny articles in rec.humor, read now [ynq]? U
>

which i am mortified to discover is the same follow-up that ata boy had
previously posted. I guess this way we'll see whos in more killfiles, 
right?

-rob, cant believe i agree with him on something....
From: waldbyjf@ian.Rose-Hulman.Edu (Waldby)
Newsgroups: talk.bizarre
Subject: At last
Date: 19 Nov 1992 23:07:26 GMT
Organization: Rose-Hulman Institute of Technology
Distribution: world
NNTP-Posting-Host: ian.cs.rose-hulman.edu

Well, finals are done and I've escaped the plague
once again - although I can feel it getting close
It scarred me with E. Circuits and I should have
a gaping wound.

However, I digress

Looking back through old papers while studying, I
came upon a Computer Policy handout. It gave lots
of information about how we shouldn't mess with 
the computers due to the powerful Unix system.

But the thing that really caught my eye was the 
passage that explained that we were not to leave
the computer screens for long periods of time.
The next sentence was

"The Authorities take a dim view to this sort of
irresponsible behaviour."

With a capital A !

I have to go now. The Authorities have found me
From: kludge@grissom.larc.nasa.gov (Scott Dorsey)
Newsgroups: talk.bizarre
Subject: Re: Short Shameful Girlfriend
Date: 19 Nov 1992 17:19:50 GMT
Organization: NASA Langley Research Center and Reptile Farm
NNTP-Posting-Host: grissom.larc.nasa.gov

In article <1992Nov16.174824.27292@tc.cornell.edu> mdw@theory.TC.Cornell.EDU (Matt Welsh) writes:
>In article <1e8h1nINNj5u@rave.larc.nasa.gov> kludge@grissom.larc.nasa.gov (Scott Dorsey) writes:
>>In article <97616@netnews.upenn.edu> kahn@eniac.seas.upenn.edu (Amy S Kahn) writes:
>>>In article <1992Oct31.013114.3626@tc.cornell.edu> mdw@theory.TC.Cornell.EDU (Matt Welsh) writes:
>>>>My girlfriend is only 4' 11". Imagine the possibilities.
>>>>
>>>
>>No good.  Makes for difficulty in the shower.
>>--scott
>
>Not true, my good man. Not true at all. We can both be under the water at 
>once this way.

Yes, but who is going to hold her legs up off the ground?
--scott
Newsgroups: talk.bizarre
From: schnitzi@cs.ucf.edu (Mark Schnitzius)
Subject: Re: Rednecks on a Rampage
Organization: University of Central Florida
Date: Mon, 23 Nov 1992 01:58:30 GMT

caz@owlnet.rice.edu (HWRNMNBSOL) writes:

>We spend much of our time slaying wild creatures and rooting
>for starchy tubers in the dirt.  

Sure, but who doesn't?

>.....and, of course, one could always get shot by drunken compatriots who
>think you resemble a migratory elk.....

...in a bright orange hunting vest...

>Nope: emptied it out before putting it up.  Experience has taught me this
>lesson.  Why, on my tenth birthday, I went hunting with my uncle Alonzo
>and brought down two okapi.  On the way home, the jogging of the truck 
>discharged my rifle; he caught a round in the coccyx.  

Does anyone know why this word is always pronounced 'COXIC'?  I guess
if you pronounce it phonetically, it sounds like a venereal disease.

>He died on the spot.
>Fortunately, he survived.  From that day forward, I've always unloaded my
>weapon after hunting -- especially on fictional expeditions.

I've never heard it called THAT before.

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mark schnitzius           |  seeking guitar songbook for the
schnitzi@eola.cs.ucf.edu  |  clash's "london calling".  does
univ. of central florida  |  one even exist?  will pay top $
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From: mjd@saul.cis.upenn.edu ("[*] Angel of Sleet")
Newsgroups: talk.bizarre
Subject: Tips for Successful Posting
Date: 23 Nov 92 16:27:44 GMT
Followup-To: misc.misc
Organization: Eaters of Wisdom
In-reply-to: btb4@ns1.cc.lehigh.edu's message of 23 Nov 92 06:52:52 GMT

In article <1992Nov23.065252.63020@ns1.cc.lehigh.edu> btb4@ns1.cc.lehigh.edu (BRADLEY T BRAUN) writes:
>   a slower-than-normal rabid armadillo

    Armadillos are not susceptible to rabies.  Mr. Power Poster
recommends you substitute `leprous'.

Followups to misc.armadillo.
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Newsgroups: talk.bizarre
From: mattb@ctron.com (Matthew E. Brown)
Newsgroups: talk.bizarre
Subject: Re: Worried about board game
Date: 23 Nov 92 17:40:45 GMT
Reply-To: mattb@olympus.ctron.com (Matthew E. Brown)
Organization: Cabletron Systems INc.

andrewc@spider.co.uk (Andrew Cannon) writes:
>Me and a group of friends played Cluedo the other week.

>First we played with the British edition, then we used the American addition.

>What really disturbded me was the really loud, revolting carpetsa in the rooms
>on the American board. Are all American homes like this ?

>I think we should be told.

The first reply I thought of had rather disturbing racial and ethnic overtones,
so I'll skip that one and say that the loud colors and patterns do a better
job of masking the snack food fragments that we Americans are too lazy to
vacuum up. It's easier to brush off the kids when they get up off the floor
than it is to clean up after them. It is really only a problem for people who
don't have pets or infants, as they do remarkably well tidying up the scraps.
Besides, most of us like the crunchy sounds it makes when you walk across the
carpet. Makes us hungry for snack food.

Matt
Crunch all you want; we'll make more
From: mjd@saul.cis.upenn.edu ("[*] Crash Dominus")
Newsgroups: talk.bizarre
Subject: Re: Fan Mail I receive
Date: 17 Nov 92 03:51:18 GMT
	<BxB3tL.18y@usenet.ucs.indiana.edu>
Organization: Eaters of Wisdom
In-reply-to: fulton@silver.ucs.indiana.edu's message of 6 Nov 92 18:10:33 GMT



> To: mjd@saul.cis.upenn.edu ("[*] Angel of Peddlers")
> From: davidsor@math.concord.wvnet.edu (ROBERT DAVIDSON)
> Subject: Re: the new illuminati
> Cc: davidsor@math.concord.wvnet.edu
> Message-Id: <davidsor.44.0@math.concord.wvnet.edu>
> 
> SHIT


Of COURSE I saved it.  I save ALL my fan mail.

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                And for to se, and eek for to be seye
Mark-Jason Dominus 	  			    mjd@central.cis.upenn.edu