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From: rcharbon@athena.mit.edu (Ray Charbonneau)
Subject: Re: How many characters represent each group?
Organization: Massachusetts Institute of Technology
Date: Wed, 14 Oct 1992 12:44:50 GMT

In article <1992Oct13.065524.8850@sactoh0.sac.ca.us>, jcl@sactoh0.sac.ca.us (John C. Laviolette) writes:
|>  
|>     THE ONLY MOVIE STAR?
|>     Are you forgetting my personal favorite  --  McBain?
|>  
|>     Interesting side note: it seems there was an actual action/adventure
|> picture called "McBain," starring Christopher Walken.  But it's **1991**.
|> So who was copying whom?

FYI... I rented _McBain_ for the obvious (to any Simpsons fan) reason.  Let me
take this oppourtunity to tell any of you who might be wondering about the movie
- DON'T BOTHER.  It's a brainless violent movie with no humor.  Makes Steven
Segal look intelligent.  Makes Rambo seem like a philosopher.  And
(unsurprisingly) no connection to OFF.

-- 
Ray Charbonneau              | The fifth dentist makes all the money.
rcharbon@athena.mit.edu      |             -- me
MIT and the Library Systems Office are glad that I'm posting my opinions
here so that they don't have to listen to them anymore.
From: cb366@cleveland.Freenet.Edu (Mark B. Bendiksen)
Newsgroups: alt.tv.simpsons
Subject: Re: Couch & Chalkboard (was Re: [9F01] Homer the Heretic)
Date: 9 Oct 1992 16:38:03 GMT
Organization: Case Western Reserve University, Cleveland, Ohio (USA)
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Jim Dean writes:

>Several posts have noted shortened or recycled openings. On Global, we got:
>                                         
>Chalkboard: I will not defame New Orleans. 
>                                  
>Couch: OFF sits on the couch, the wall pivots (like a secret passage)
>       and the family disappears, with an empty couch taking their place.

I'm confused.....how come the rest of us saw the short, crappy
version? What is "Global", a Canadian network?

Upset and Bewildered,
Mark B. Bendiksen
cb366@freenet.cwru.edu
-- 
"If we don't get some cool rules ourselves, pronto,
 We'll just be bogus, too."-- Dr. Jeff Spicolli
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From: ami@leland.Stanford.EDU (Amitava Biswas)
Subject: Re: [9F01] Homer the Heretic
Organization: DSG, Stanford University, CA 94305, USA
Date: Fri, 9 Oct 92 20:59:28 GMT

In article <4oeDsB1w165w@sys6626.bison.mb.ca> dave@sys6626.bison.mb.ca (Dave Hall) writes:

>  Like when Apu reached down, behind the counter, I thought he was going
>  to pull out a weapon, instead he produced the little boy (did anyone
>  catch his name?).  And yet another surprise when the boy produced the
>  weapon and the looks on Jimbo, Kerny and Dolph's faces when he cocked
>  it? (Ah, there's nothing like the sound of a shotgun being cocked to
>  chill the hearts of young thugs everywhere >;)

Anyone think this might have been a reference to the LA Riots, where many
Asian-American Businesses were ransacked (though of course those were Korean
owned, not Apu owned). Or is this too much of a stretch? It certainly did have
its political implications. Any comments?

I especially enjoyed the continuing development of Apu's character - BTW, whose
kid was that anyway?

"Hindu! There ARE 700 Million of us, you know!" - great line.


>Downside: Homer has 6 months left??!


Yeah, what the hell is THAT all about?

Ami
ami@leland.stanford.edu


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From: cantor@spot.Colorado.EDU (Evan Cantor)
Subject: Re: Hendrix and Franklin
Organization: University of Colorado, Boulder
Date: Fri, 16 Oct 1992 15:20:29 GMT

Yo! I'm the one who originally posted the "electric" connection between
Benjamin Franklin and Jimi Hendrix. It still works for me and I'm still willing
to run with it as opposed to a Johan Sebastian Bach metaphor.  I PREFER
Hendrix/Franklin to Hendrix/Bach and although that doesn't make it so, it
makes it sufficiently for me!  Has anybody contacted OFF producers to find out
for sure who it was?

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From: ami@leland.Stanford.EDU (Amitava Biswas)
Subject: Re: Hindu God Wearing Sunglasses, more
Organization: DSG, Stanford University, CA 94305, USA
Date: Wed, 14 Oct 92 00:27:40 GMT

In article <1992Oct12.205657.17554@leland.Stanford.EDU>I wrote:
:
>In article <1992Oct10.003959.26608@leland.Stanford.EDU> kessler@roses.Stanford.EDU (Will Kessler) writes:
>>My roommate swears that the Hindu Elephant God in the 7-11 was
>>wearing sunglasses... any concurrence out there?
>>
>
>Sorry for not answering the question (I can't remember whether he was wearing
>sunglasses or not), but there are a few things to note about this scene.
>
>First, Ganesh (they pronounced it "ga-nee-sha", which is acceptable) is not
>the "Elephant God", but a god with an elephant's head. Yes, I know this is
>nitpicky and nobody meant any offence, I just thought that you might like to
>know. (if you wanna know how he got the head, you can e-mail me).

Hmmm, I didn't expect this many people to actually be interested in this, so
I didn't post it, but I've gotten so many requests on the e-mail....

Hindu mythology tends to vary somewhat from region to region, so bear in mind 
that my version is what I got from Mom. 

According to Mom, Durga, the wife of Shiva the Destroyer, wanted to take a nap
and didn't want to be bothered, so she made herself a son, Ganesha, to stand
watch at her door, with explicit instructions not to let anyone in. When Shiva
showed up, Ganesha didn't recognize him and barred his entry, at which point,
Shiva, being a Destroyer and all, destroyed Ganesha by cutting off his head.

When Durga woke up, she freaked, and told Shiva to get him another head. Shiva
told his minions to get the head of the first one they found sleeping with
their head to the East (I think). That turned out to be...an elephant.

This is also why some Hindus prefer not to sleep with their head to the (what
ever direction it was). 

This is a Bengali version, but since "Apu" is most likely taken from Satyajit
Ray's Apu Trilogy (3 Films: Pather Panchali, Apu's Family, Aparajito, about
the life of a Bengali kid, Apu), I feel justified in offering that version.

Oh, I rechecked the tape, and Ganesha was not wearing sunglasses.

Later, dudes,

Ami
ami@leland.stanford.edu


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From: cantor@spot.Colorado.EDU (Evan Cantor)
Subject: Answer to the Tortilla Question
Summary: THE ANSWER TO THE TORTILLA QUESTION!!!
Keywords: Answer to the Tortilla Question
Organization: University of Colorado, Boulder
Date: Fri, 16 Oct 1992 15:31:21 GMT

Here is the answer to the tortilla question;  several years ago (1989? 1990?),
a woman in Ohio got over-excited about the image of the virgin Mary appearing
on a tortilla; the Inquirer reported it and thousands of people started making
a pilgrimiage to see the holy tortilla.  I figure this has GOT TO BE IT!  I
wonder what the tortilla looked like after all those pawing zealots got done
with it.  No wonder God was wistful about football.

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From: rkb6116@zeus.tamu.edu (MR. WEATHER)
Subject: Re: [9F01] Homer the Heretic
News-Software: VAX/VMS VNEWS 1.41    
Organization: Texas A&M University, Academic Computing Services
Date: Thu, 15 Oct 1992 19:51:00 GMT

Calvin Henry-Cotnam writes...

[lots of lines deleted]

>....The one scene that had me in stitches
>was where Flanders threw out the mattress then prayed that Homer would
>be "guided" to it.  I immediately said, "He won't", but to my surprise
>he landed on it but bounced through the first floor window.  This had
>me rolling in laughter...

also, remember that Flanders jumped out the window and bounced through the
downstairs window.  Then, moments later, he bounded though the window with
Homer in his arms.  Note: Flanders didn't just jump through the window, but
he did some kind of flip in the middle of the air.

Mr. Weather <> aka Ken Blair <> rkb6116@zeus.tamu.edu <> Aggieland USA
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From: jwlr@okeeffe.cc.rochester.edu (James Willer)
Subject: Re: Couch & Chalkboard (was Re: [9F01] Homer the Heretic)
Organization: University of Rochester - Rochester, New York
Date: Fri, 9 Oct 92 18:16:15 GMT

jimdean@bnr.ca (Jim Dean) writes:

>As for "defaming New Orleans". Is this a reference to Jim McMahon at
>the Super Bowl a few years ago (didn't he call New Orleans women sluts
>or something?) or is this a reference to something more recent I have
>missed?

Did you miss last weeks episode?
I heard it got quite a response in New Orleans....

				James Willer
{the opinions above are probably NOT those of
 anyone at all}
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From: rcharbon@athena.mit.edu (Ray Charbonneau)
Subject: Re: OFF getting dehumanized and Cynical
Organization: Massachusetts Institute of Technology
Date: Thu, 8 Oct 1992 16:04:25 GMT

In article <RFM.92Oct7151802@urth.eng.sun.com>, rfm@urth.eng.sun.com (Richard McAllister) writes:
|> In article <1992Oct7.184728.12610@tamsun.tamu.edu> eckert@geordi.tamu.edu (Stephen Eckert) writes:
|> 
|>    As an example of this, why must *every* episode have a song in it? 
|> 
|> They're putting out an new album, so they needed to gen up more songs.
|> Once you gen them up, seems a waste not to use them.

One would hope OFF is not The Partridge Family.

-- 
Ray Charbonneau              | The fifth dentist makes all the money.
rcharbon@athena.mit.edu      |             -- me
MIT and the Library Systems Office are glad that I'm posting my opinions
here so that they don't have to listen to them anymore.
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From: AH.PBL@forsythe.stanford.edu (Mark)
Subject: Re: PORNO IN SIMPSONS
Organization: Stanford University, California, USA
Distribution: usa
Date: Wed, 14 Oct 1992 22:15:10 GMT

In article <1992Oct13.175647.27393@jarvis.csri.toronto.edu>,
flaps@dgp.toronto.edu (Alan J Rosenthal) writes:
>chris.burgess@outlan.ersys.edmonton.ab.ca (Chris Burgess)  writes:
>>There is NOTHING pornographic about a cat licking its butt.
>
>Um, it was licking its genitalia, not its backside.  I assume that this is
>masturbation when cats do it.  (Actually, I've only seen dogs do it, but I'm
 ^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^
>not an animal person.)

  I guess we all know what *you* do when you "wash yourself".


  (Why do dogs lick themselves?  Because they can.)

-- Mark

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From: Adriene_Nazaretian@QM.YCC.YALE.EDU (Go GIANTS!)
Subject: Re: RE: Tracey litigates
Organization: Yale University Computing & Information Systems
Date: Tue, 13 Oct 1992 13:50:53 GMT

In article <1beeb8INN4hd@cs.widener.edu> syracurg@lp.musc.edu writes:
>From: syracurg@lp.musc.edu
>Subject: RE: Tracey litigates
>Date: 13 Oct 92 12:10:16 GMT


>     The following clip was in my morning paper 10/13/92:
>         Simpsons under suit
>             Tracey Ullman has gone to court to get a cut of the
>         money raked in by that most successful of cartoon fami-
>         lies, the Simpsons.  The British performer, noting that
>         Matt Groening's characters first appeared in segments of
>         her TV show, said in court papers that she is entitled
>         to 7.5percent of net merchandizing profits plus damages.
>         Added Ullman: "I breast-fed those little devils."

I read the same information in a local paper, she insists that since she 
encouraged the writers and allowed OFF to develop on her show that she is 
entitled to royalties on the merchandising.
Ullman never had signed rights to OFF, though.
Any legal buffs out there who can comment.
Adriene L. Nazaretian        
Yale University              
ADRIENE@YALEADS.BITNET        
ADRIENE@YALEVM.YCC.YALE.EDU
From: bw462@cleveland.Freenet.Edu (Bucky Whaley)
Newsgroups: alt.tv.simpsons
Subject: Re: `Lisa the Beauty Queen' - 9f02 - Mo' SloMo Mania, refs, misc.
Date: 16 Oct 1992 17:12:09 GMT
Organization: The Lutefisk Watch, Menthol Moose Division
            <1992Oct16.052625.13750@mnemosyne.cs.du.edu>
Reply-To: bw462@cleveland.Freenet.Edu (Bucky Whaley)
NNTP-Posting-Host: hela.ins.cwru.edu


In a previous article, elm@cs.berkeley.edu (ethan miller) says:

>In article <1992Oct16.052625.13750@mnemosyne.cs.du.edu> rcarter@nyx.cs.du.edu 
 (Ron Carter) writes:
>=>-Movie and other refs (including some in very bad taste)
>=>    -`Apocalypse Now'
>=>    -`Proud Mary'
>=>    -`Flashdance'
>=>    -Joe Camel
>=>    -`Hey There, Georgy Girl'
>=>    -The fiery wreck of the Hindenberg
>=>    -The swearing in of LBJ after the JFK assasination
>
>Don't forget 'Revenge of the Nerds' -- nerds chasing a football team
>off the field.

Also:  -"Bill & Ted's Excellent Adventure" ("Some people say that to love
          your country is ... real Melvin." -Lisa)
       -"Fiddler on the Roof" and/or any movie featuring eastern/central/
          northern European immigrants/deportees (Lisa's wharfside welcome
          of deportees to "the land of opportunity.")
       -"MacArthur Park" ...  on the tabla ... "No, I am serious!"  
          Hahahahahaha!  This song, originally recorded by Richard "Call
          me Horse" Harris, I believe, has the most atrociously cheesy  
          lyrics:
 
          Someone left a cake out in the rain...
          I don't know if I can take it
          'Cause it took so long to bake (make?) it
          And I'll never find the recipe agaaaaaaaaaaaiiiiiiiiiiiiinnnnnnnn

          ("Ohh... that just kept goin', huh?")

Wasn't there a news anchor who walked off the set (a la Kent "I cannot work
under these conditions" Brockman) a few years back?  I wanna say Rather, but
I don't trust my memory.

 -Bucky "Hey, I'm startin' to think *I* can win!" Whaley

-- 
Bucky Whaley                          It's funny because it's true.
bw462@cleveland.freenet.edu         - Fat Tony, "Bart the Murderer"
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From: pi@bronze.ucs.indiana.edu (Raymond L. Gilbert)
Subject: Re: Lorne Michaels in '66 ?
Organization: Indiana University
Date: Sat, 10 Oct 1992 23:59:40 GMT

In article <BvxH13.EE0@csugrad.cs.vt.edu> crvich@csugrad.cs.vt.edu (Ernest Crvich) writes:
>The first episode of SNL didn't appear until the mid/late '70s (75?  78?)

You're right... it was '75.  And I have no clue what else LM could have
been doing before then except to say he's old enough to have had a
career in '66. Any old timers out there born before '66?

>   Freeze Frame Note : In the scene with the fire truck, one sequence shows
>a side view of the truck zooming past...this is where we see Otto hanging
>on for dear life.  Anyway, just before the scene reverts to a rear view,
>the door to an apartment is shown...the number above the door is something
>like "8463" or a similar 4-digit number.  Surely there's no significance
>to this?!  :)

    Actually, I believe it was 8428.  But what's really funny about this
scene is that the truck passes 3 *different* places with the address
8428.  Could they have been going around in circles?  Or is this another
animation goof?
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From: LJ09735@LMSC5.IS.LMSC.LOCKHEED.COM (JEFF)
Subject: Re: Hey, Where did everybody go?
Organization: O/19-61
Date: Sat, 10 Oct 92 21:16:11 GMT

In article <1992Oct9.225356.25297@ucsu.Colorado.EDU>, cantor@spot.Colorado.EDU (Evan Cantor) writes:
> 
> Hey, here it is 5 oclock Mountain time and not a single net comment on
> what has to rate as one of the best (of many) Simpsons episodes ever aired!
> I can't believe it; where's the DYNs? The questions? The comments? Good God,
> don't tell me you're all out there _composing_ your posts so you'll seem
> smarter by the time you DO post?  Cripes! What Bloated Sacks! Cling
> Tenaciously To My Buttocks! Are you reeceeveeeng me?
> 
> I believe in Bart's mantra; Krusty is Coming,Krusty is coming! Krusty IS
> come!
> 
>
Evan, old boy, I think that no one has posted comments on the latest
episode due to the God-thing!  After all that Sinead O'Conner crap perhaps
people are going to leave this one alone???  I noticed you didn't have any
pertinent thoughts to put forward regarding the latest show's content, BTW!
 
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From: pi@bronze.ucs.indiana.edu (Raymond L. Gilbert)
Subject: Re: Name tally for titles
Organization: Indiana University
Date: Wed, 7 Oct 1992 09:16:55 GMT

In article <6OCT92.20224912@umbc2.umbc.edu> noel@umbc2.umbc.edu writes:
>Going by the last writer/director list, here is the lastest tally on names:
>
>Flanders, Moe, Burns, Sideshow Bob, Otto, Jacques:  1

Didn't SSBob have not 1 but 2 shows named after him?
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| IUB Dept. of Physics     |  - Bill No. 246, Indiana State Legislature, 1897|
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From: york@oakland-hills.lucid.com (Bill York)
Subject: Re: Flanders misses church
Reply-To: York@Lucid.COM
Organization: Lucid, Inc.
Date: 12 Oct 92 16:13:52

In article <1992Oct9.180453.20413@news.columbia.edu> egl1@cunixf.cc.columbia.edu (Elizabeth G. Levy) writes:

   "Moors."  "Moops."  "Moors."  "Moops."  Psssssssssssss.....

Hey!  Non of that!  This is the SIMPSONS newsgroup.
From: chris.burgess@outlan.ersys.edmonton.ab.ca (Chris Burgess) 
Newsgroups: alt.tv.simpsons
Subject: RE:DAN CASTELLANETA/LALAW
Date: 15 Oct 92 12:16:00 GMT
Reply-To: chris.burgess@outlan.ersys.edmonton.ab.ca (Chris Burgess) 
Distribution: world
Organization: Outland BBS-UUCP

Speaking of Dan in other roles, did anyone catch him on "Dream On" (the
HBO show) last season when he played Martin's cousin (?), and was the
guy who ended up taking Toby's virginity?
                                                                        
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From: nittmo@camelot.bradley.edu (Christopher Taylor)
Subject: Re: Oct 15 episode
Organization: Bradley University
Distribution: na
Date: 16 Oct 92 22:00:53 GMT

In <16OCT199213402071@jhuvms.hcf.jhu.edu> doctor8@jhuvms.hcf.jhu.edu (Jason Abner Miller) writes:

>	HUH??????????????????????????
>	THAT was FUNNY???? 
>	I BEG to differ.  Watching someone get hit by lightning is by no
>means funny.  In an animated series, it is only funny if the person appears
>again, totally unharmed in the very next scene (as in any RoadRunner cartoon).
>	The fact that Amber is never mentioned again in the episode does not
>help that bit of humor.  Along with the reference to the Hindenberg crash, I
>found these to be two of the most tasteless bits of humor in the entire
>series.

I'm not saying I thought the 'Amber struck by lightning' thing was funny,
but didn't they mention her again at the end?  I thought they said
something to the effect of "We need to get Lisa out and Amber back in." and
then they found that Homer had written 'OK' under the 'Do Not Write In This
Space' on the application.
From: dsimon@informix.com (Don Simon)
Newsgroups: alt.tv.simpsons
Subject: Re: Bart's Food Groups
Date: 13 Oct 92 17:25:41 GMT
Reply-To: dsimon@informix.com
Organization: Informix Software

In article 1bd02pINNpq1@cs.widener.edu, higgins%tiss.DEcnet@mdcgwy.mdc.com (TISS::HIGGINS) writes:
>Can anybody tell me, in the Butterfinger advertisement on television
>in the USA, what does he say the four food groups are? Obviously one
>is The Butterfinger group, but the others....?
>
>Earl T. Higgins
>Saint Louis - Home of the first of the '92 USA Presidential Debates


Milk was 'cow group'
Bannana was 'jungle group'
and I think his sandwich was 'sandwich group'


don simon
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From: bwatson@nyx.cs.du.edu (bruce watson)
Subject: [9f02] Lisa the beauty queen - faves
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: Fri, 16 Oct 92 19:44:22 GMT

One of the best. Lot's of action. Lot's of refs.

See those circular patterns--central pivot irrigation (were you thinking
crop circles?)

It's how you might look as a cartoon character.

Lot of cigarette references--Laramie, Joe Camel, a lot of people who use
our product are, well, dying, Lisa kicks butt.

What were all the movements Bart made during his solo at the table?

Do you know anything else about women? Nope that's it.

Who's watching the Kwicky Mart? Stealing the Squishy machine.

Plastic? ... Nope, metal. She's already won the Miss Intensive Care pagent.

Bruce "Oh, the humanity ... Anyway..." Watson


--
Bruce Watson  wats@nyx.cs.du.edu  Toy Cows, Toy Cows in Africa, Toy Cows
From: syracurg@lp.musc.edu
Newsgroups: alt.tv.simpsons
Subject: RE: 9F01 [Homer the Heretic]
Date: 12 Oct 1992 07:58:06 -0400
Organization: Widener University Mail/News Gateway
Distribution: world
NNTP-Posting-Host: cs.widener.edu

     DYN, Homer was at Apu's store in his robe.
     I thought APU called his kid Jump Shot, or Jump Shit, but another
   poster's Dumb Shit makes more sense, but I doubt the censors would
   have allowed "shit" in prime time???
     GOD told Flanders to go to the early service the Sunday of the
   fire so he could be home in time to save Homer.
     What's this about Homer's having to wait "6 months" to find
   out what it's like to die???
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From: pkor@phoenix (Pasi Korhonen)
Subject: Simpson pics ?
Organization: Ripoff Industries
X-Newsreader: TIN [version 1.1 PL6]
Date: Fri, 9 Oct 1992 16:12:00 GMT

	Yo !

What's the definitive FTP site for Simpsons GIFs or other format pics ?
I'm a newcomer to this group and I just LOVE it....

	Pasi

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From: ami@leland.Stanford.EDU (Amitava Biswas)
Subject: Re: No Soap, Radio (Homer the Heretic)
Organization: DSG, Stanford University, CA 94305, USA
Date: Fri, 9 Oct 92 20:52:11 GMT

In article <1992Oct9.040236.25113@magnus.acs.ohio-state.edu> mconte@magnus.acs.ohio-state.edu (Marc Vincent Conte) writes:
>Did anyone catch this reference?  No Soap Radio was printed on 
>(I think) a shower radio in Homer's shower.  "No Soap, Radio" was
>a TV that lasted only a few episodes in the early '80s.  The only
>think I remember about the show was that Tony Rosato from SNL 
>starred in it.

I believe the show came from the punchline of an old old "non-sequitor" joke:

Q: What did the elephant say to the other elephant in the bathtub?
A: No Soap, Radio!

Ami
ami@leland.stanford.edu