From: baldwin@carina.unm.edu (Chris Baldwin)
Subject: Re: Drug testing and welfare
Date: Thu, 30 Jul 92 18:05:48 GMT
Organization: Atheist for the Development of a Better God

In article <1992Jul29.052709.16176@highlite.uucp> yarvin@highlite.uucp (Curtis Yarvin) writes:
>For your information, sheep, cocaine and crack _aren't_ addictive.  True,
>they're fun; or "psychologically addictive," as the Goebbels groupies put
>it.
	While, as Curtis says sheep are fun, I have never known a sheep addict.
Considering how many sheep users^H^H^H^H^Howners there are in this country,
and around the world, if they were addictive we should have drive by shepherd
shootings all the time.

>  So are bungee jumping, Ferraris, gumbo, and sex.  Whatcha going to
>do about them, you putrefied reincarnation of Cotton Mather you?
                                               ^^^^^^
Shouldn't this be Wooley Mather?

ObPeeve: When your roommate doesn't come home one night(Nudge, Nudge. Know
what I mean? Say no more. Say no more!), but he forgets to turn his damned
alarm off. This morning I was going to get to sleep in for a whole extra
45 minutes when I was awakened by a very soft, yet incredibly persistent,
"Beep! Beep!" So, I woke up right at the normal time I get up, trudge over
to his room, hit the alarm clock until it stopped beeping and go back to bed.
Of course, in all this time, I woke up enough that there was no more real 
sleep left to be had.

ObOlympicPeeve: So there I am thinking "It's getting late. I should go to
bed." But NBC was in the middle of showing women's vollyball(USA vs Japan)
and I wanted to see the end of the match. How long could this possibly take,
think I. To play a damned game of vollyball? Not long. For NBC to show
a vollyball match? A damned long time. They spent so much time screwing
around, talking to people, showing a REALLY stupid report on some restaurant
district in Barcellona, etc, that they cut out the 4th game of the match.
Now, perhaps I am just a purist, but when they say they are going to show
a volleyball match, I expect to see a volleyball match and not footage of
some ditzy tourist showing how "user friendly"(her words) this walk is
because they have feet painted on it to show you where to walk.

ObFurtherOlympicPeeve: They are showing all of this stuff on tape delay. Now
I don't have a problem with this. All of the news stations are being careful
not to blurt out who won what, so as far as I'm concerned it is just as good
as watching it live. In fact, it should be better than watching it live, 
because they could stop the tape while they show a commercial. Do they do this?
No, of course not. You might notice that it was on tape delay or something and
get all upset about not getting up in the middle of the night to watch it. I
really hate how they go to a commercial and then come back and say "While you
were gone such-n-such happened. Too bad you were at a commercial and missed
it." I figure this is a ploy to get me to get their lame triplecast, but it 
isn't gonna work. At worst, I'll just stop watching the damned thing and hope 
NBC looses a boatload of money on it. Of course, this isn't gonna happen.

-- 
Chris Baldwin                | Robert Johnson invented the pickle! 
baldwin@carina.unm.edu       |                         - Adam Reid
          If I were a carpenter I'd on hammer my piglet. -- TMBG
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