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From: nsp00@ccc.amdahl.com (Nigel S Pope)
Newsgroups: rec.scouting
Subject: Was Clinton a Boy Scout???
Date: 14 Oct 92 00:21:27 GMT
Reply-To: nsp00@juts.ccc.amdahl.com ()
Distribution: usa
Organization: Amdahl Corporation, Sunnyvale CA


Ok.  There's a discussion in our office about which of the
presidential candidates was a boy scout.

We have determined that Perot and Bush were but are undecided on 
Clinton.

Can anyone settle this argument for us please.

Could you forward me the responses at my unix address or
nsp00\@amail.amdahl.com thanks as I don't usually track this board.

Thanks in anticipation.

PS: I was a boy scout and so were all the other people trying to find out.
  

-- 
nsp00@juts.amdahl.com: 'All opinions mine - Not my employers...so there'

"This here's the Wattle, the symbol of our land.  You can stick it
 in a bottle, or you can hold it in your hand."  (MP - Circa 1970)
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From: dnewcomb@whale.st.usm.edu (Donald R. Newcomb)
Newsgroups: rec.scouting
Subject: Re: Jesus vs. Cub Scouts?
Keywords: religion hyproctite rubbish
Date: 11 Oct 92 22:31:19 GMT
Followup-To: poster
Organization: University of Southern Mississippi

In article <1992Oct6.134310.3288@linus.mitre.org> edelheit@smiley.mitre.org (Jeff Edelheit) writes:
>In article <1992Oct5.214737.1354@infonode.ingr.com> stevenst@iaserv.b1.ingr.com (Todd Stevens) writes:
>>
>>I have a responsibility to share Jesus Christ with the world, but not to force
>>it upon anyone.  The problem I have is being viewed in any way as PROMOTING a 
>>false belief.
>>
>>Todd Stevens
>>stevenst@iaserv.b1.ingr.com
>>
>Todd - You are just showing how much of a hypocrite you are.  You are
>suggesting that anyone who does not agree with your view holds a false
>belief.  That is outright rubbish!!!
>
>From my perspective, you DO NOT have a responsibility to share Jesus
>with me or anyone else.  You HAVE a responsiblity to let me practice
>my religion as I wish, without any interference or proseltizing.
>
>Judaism predates your form of Christianity by several thousand years
>of practice and history.  It has well founded beliefs that state, and
>I repeat it again, that the Messiah will be announced by Elijah the

I have reread this posting several times and I wonder if the poster
would be so quick to condemn religious intolerance and bigotry on the
part of his coreligionists or in a country where his is the dominant
religion? Has he spoken out about laws in some countries that made
it a crime to raise crops that do not conform the dominant religion's
arcane dietary laws? Has he spoken out to condemn gangs that roam
the streets building barriers to prevent anyone from driving on their
day of religion-enforced non-work? Would he be so quick to condemn
a Scout Leader from that country who expressed concern that a Scout
was bringing "unacceptable" food on camp-outs? Perhaps arrows like
"rubbish", "hypocrite" should be put back in the quiver and saved
for a target a little closer to one's religious home. From someone
who claims to have Scouting's interests at heart, IMHO, the above
was a very unscoutlike argumentation.
-- 

Donald R. Newcomb
dnewcomb@whale.st.usm.edu
newcomb@usmcp6.bitnet  
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From: davis@dssdev.enet.dec.com (Peter Davis)
Subject: Re: Happy Birthday Bil!
Organization: Digital Equipment Corporation
Date: Thu, 8 Oct 1992 15:39:09 GMT


In article <1992Oct7.194534.5874@news.unomaha.edu>, torsten@cwis.unomaha.edu
(Torsten Wesley Adair) writes...
>	2) While not the first strip to be heavily comercialized (Pogo and L'il
>Abner paved the way), Peanuts was ...
>
Hardly.  Merchandising spin-offs from comic strip characters date back at
least as far as the "Yellow Kid."  Let's also not forget Buster Brown, who is
now better remembered as a brand of children's shoes than as a comic strip
character.

                   /
                  /
        /  /  /  /		Peter Davis,	Digital Equipment Corp.
       /  /  /  /				davis@3d.enet.dec.com
      /__/__/__/
     /
  __/
From: mhammond@bnr.ca (Bill Saunders)
Newsgroups: rec.arts.comics.strips
Subject: The Far Side Calendar: Monday, October 12
Date: 13 Oct 92 12:50:32 GMT
Reply-To: mhammond@bnr.ca
Organization: BNR Ottawa, Fibre Systems Development

Could somebody please explain to me the signifigance (read: what's the joke?)
in yesterday's Far Side day calendar? It reads:

	Civil Service history: On October 12, 1979 (Colum-
        bus Day), government employee George Sullivan
        goes in to work for a couple of hours to, in his own
        words, ``take care of some unfinished business.''

Thanx in advance for the help!

(By the way, please don't try to e-mail me between September and December
1992, because I won't receive it. Please post any responses instead.
Thanx. (However, feel free to e-mail any flames! :-) :-)

=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=
|      Mike Hammond      | ``Yes, I'm...too wascally for Bugs Bunny,  |
|     BNR Ottawa, and    |   Too wascally for Bugs Bunny,             |
| Co-op Student from the |   So wascally...it's almost funny!''       |
| University of Waterloo |                        Right Said Fudd,    |
|      Math Faculty      |                      ``I'm Too Wascally''  |
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From: stame@emunix.emich.edu (Stewart Tame)
Subject: Re: Far Side
Keywords: Puddin' Tame????!!!
Organization: Eastern Michigan University
Date: Tue, 13 Oct 1992 17:19:38 GMT

In article <BvB6q9.AM9@acsu.buffalo.edu> v003nnc3@ubvmsb.cc.buffalo.edu (MR. BUNGLE) writes:
>It's nice to see another Far Side fan.  I've got a question though. Does any
>one know what this weeks meant?  The guy says, " Don't write that down stupid!
>His name's not really puddin' tame!"  I have no clue.  Please post if you know.
>Thanks in advance.
>					Phil
>undertstand last Sundays (9/27) Far Side?  The one where it says, " Don't writethat down stupid 

It's an old rhyme, "What's your name?  Puddin' Tame.  Ask me again and I'll
tell you the same," which traditionally is repeated ad infinitum.  It was
also the basis of an old Wizard of Id strip ("Halt, vagrant!  What's your
name?" "Pudding Tame.  Wouldst thou aske me again, I wouldst tell thee the
same.") which our family clipped and framed for obvious reasons . . . 

		-- Stewart "Tapioca" Tame

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Disclaimer:  Not only do my opinions represent those of Eastern Michigan
University, but also those of Dan Quayle, Richard Nixon, Frank Zappa,
Pee-wee Herman, Bart Simpson, Tipper Gore, Murphy Brown, Maggie Thatcher,
and the Easter Bunny.
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From: rdippold@qualcom.qualcomm.com (Ron Dippold)
Subject: Re: Die!Die!Die!Bil Keane!Die!
Organization: Qualcomm, Inc., San Diego, CA
Date: Thu, 8 Oct 1992 07:25:46 GMT

torsten@cwis.unomaha.edu (Torsten Wesley Adair) writes:
>	Everbody knows that "Love is..." is the greatest work of art to ever
>grace a newspaper page!
>(Just some much needed sarcasm from Torsten at Omaha)

However, "Tough Love is..." is pretty good.  It's another take-off
like the Dysfunctional Family Circus.
-- 
It's is not, it isn't ain't, and it's it's, not its, if you mean it is.  If
you don't, it's its.  Then too, it's hers.  It isn't her's.  It isn't our's
either.  It's ours, and likewise yours and theirs. -- Edpress News
From: page@student.physics.upenn.edu (Chris Page)
Newsgroups: rec.arts.comics.strips
Subject: Schulz's Influence
Date: 8 Oct 92 01:03:00 GMT
Followup-To: rec.arts.comics.strips
Organization: University of Pennsylvania

Bill Watterson is not the only cartoonist to be influenced by Peanuts.
In "A look Inside For Better or For Worse the 10th Anniversary Collection,"
Lynn Johnston writes,

"Until Peanuts appeared, I tended to agree with all of my grandfather's
pronouncements, but about this one strip, he was dead wrong. No other
strip,
except for perhaps Miss Peach, featured children as intuitive, articulate
people, with all the thoughts and responses and abilities we knew we had!
Peanuts not only made kids worth listening to, it featured women as strong,
dominant characters. Women were equals. This new strip was as refreshing
to us as it was to the free-spirited adults who embraced its honesty with
open
arms. Peanuts became my favorite, and although my work differs in many
ways, it
is surely the model on which I've based my style of writing and timing."
 (pp29-30)

-Chris Page
page@student.physics.upenn.edu
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From: ilana@kiowa.scd.ucar.edu (Ilana Stern)
Subject: Re: Get your scissors out
Organization: NCAR/UCAR
Date: Mon, 12 Oct 1992 15:52:38 GMT

In article <Bvy20v.FpF@CAM.ORG>, emru@CAM.ORG (Emru Townsend) writes:
> The first pointed up that
> Calvin's mania didn't come out of nowhere; as has been shown before, his
> father is also capable of some pretty twisted stuff.  The second strip sort
> of made me wonder if Calvin's mom is just too normal to handle both her
> hubby and the little monster :)

No, Calvin's mom isn't too normal.  Remember the strip where Calvin 
walks into the kitchen making faces:  "Eww, it stinks in here!  What's
for dinner?" and she replies, "I'm stewing some monkey heads.  They'll
be soggy enough to eat in about twenty minutes."

Insanity runs in the family.

-- 
/\     It's not denial.  I'm just very selective about the reality I accept.
  \_][ <--NCAR Ilana Stern dod#009 r.b. cliff swallow ilana@ncar.ucar.edu    
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From: ncramer@bbn.com (Nichael Cramer)
Newsgroups: rec.arts.comics.strips
Subject: Re: Is Charles Schultz senile? (computer lettering)
Date: 16 Oct 1992 22:04:01 GMT
Organization: Bolt Beranek and Newman Inc., Cambridge MA
Reply-To: ncramer@labs-n.bbn.com (Nichael Cramer)
NNTP-Posting-Host: bbn.com


jrbd@craycos.com (James Davies) writes:
>Speaking of lettering, I've been noticing an awful lot of horrible spelling
>and grammatical errors in the daily strips lately.  Most recent -- this
>week one strip used the phrase "would of" instead of "would have".

In _Good Grief_, her 1989 biography of Shultz (chapt 21), Rheta Grimsley
Johnson writes about Schulz's "palsy" of his right (drawing) hand.  No
specific cause is mentioned (she seems not to have known) but it started
following Schulz's 1981 open heart surgery and has worsened steadily since
then.

She writes that the shaking is at times so bad that Schulz has trouble
holding a cup of coffee and "needs to steady the hand against the drawing-
board" in order to be able to draw.  Moreover, at the time of the writing
of the book he seems to have been developing rather serious arthritis in
his right thumb.

This was apparently a major factor in the decision to drop the famous "four
identical panel" format in favor of the current more free-form format
(which typically involves considerably less drawing).

Johnson's book is rather dry at time but the book is a wealth of
information for any Schulzophile and I heartily recommend it.
(Incidentally, her husband is Jimmy Johnson who draws "Arlo and Janis".)

Nichael
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From: ncramer@bbn.com (Nichael Cramer)
Newsgroups: rec.arts.comics.strips,rec.games.trivia,rec.arts.animation
Subject: Re: THE DEFINITIVE PEANUTS LIST (Responses)
Date: 16 Oct 92 22:22:04 GMT
Article-I.D.: news.ldug4cINNigq
Reply-To: ncramer@labs-n.bbn.com (Nichael Cramer)
Organization: Bolt Beranek and Newman Inc., Cambridge MA
NNTP-Posting-Host: bbn.com

From hellmerj@stolaf.edu Tue Oct  6 18:49:08 1992 (Jeffrey N Hellmers)
> ...  Have you heard if it is possible to buy
>the complete PEANUTS collection?

I was wondering this myself and in early 1980 I called Schulz's office (in
Santa Barbara) and asked them this very question.  (I talked to a very nice
lady, who was clearly use to exactly this sort of thing.  ;)  ;)

I was told that, so far as they were aware, there were no plans to print
the "Complete Works".  I was a little surprised by this; this was just
before the 40th anniversary and this seemed like the obvious sort of
commemoration.  Oh well, maybe on Charlie Brown's 50th birthday...

As they pointed out, this comes out to something like 15K+ strips!  On the
other hand, I can't believe I'm the only person who'd probably shell out
for a collection that was both complete and in good shape.

Anyway, they did send me what they said was a complete bibliography (but it
was less complete than some of the lists that I've seen floating around
these .nets).

N
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From: glad@Csli.Stanford.EDU (Clayton Glad)
Subject: Re: Happy Birthday Bil!
Organization: Stanford University CSLI
Date: Wed, 7 Oct 1992 23:42:03 GMT

dxf12@po.CWRU.Edu (Douglas Fowler) writes:

>     It was Jeffy who was getting married.  Jeff is his youngest son, and
>the only one named after a FC kid. 

[impressive outpouring of Keane family trivia deleted]

Do you know how to pronounce "Bil"?  Or, for that matter,
why he's called "Bil"?

Is it short for William?

Or maybe for Wiliam?

-- Clay
			"Words butter no parsnips."
				-- C.G. Jung


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From: loos@amber.mgh.harvard.edu (William D.B. Loos)
Newsgroups: rec.arts.comics.strips,rec.games.trivia,rec.arts.animation
Subject: Re: THE DEFINITIVE PEANUTS LIST - VERSION 1.1
Date: 7 Oct 92 07:05:00 GMT
Organization: Molecular Biology, Massachusetts General Hospital, Boston
News-Software: VAX/VMS VNEWS 1.41

In article <1asq54INNnv5@bigboote.WPI.EDU>, padutton@wpi.WPI.EDU (Peter Alan Dutton) writes...
>THE DEFINITIVE PEANUTS CHARACTERS LIST (still incomplete, of course)
>VERSION 1.1, OCTOBER 6, 1992.
> 
>MINOR OR ONE-SHOT CHARACTERS:
> 
>3)  Poochie (blond-haired girl who first called Charlie Brown "Charlie Brown")

What is the story behind this?  Charlie Brown was always addressed by everyone
as "Charlie Brown" when I read the strip regularly (1965 - 1972).  Does this
mean that this character appeared in the very early strips?  Or is this some
kind of bizarre retcon ...


William D.B. Loos
loos@frodo.mgh.harvard.edu
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From: kehandle@unix.amherst.edu (KEITH EDWARD HANDLEY)
Subject: Re: . . . (computer lettering)
Organization: Amherst College
X-Newsreader: TIN [version 1.1 PL6]
Date: Mon, 12 Oct 1992 15:08:18 GMT

Jym Dyer (jym@mica.berkeley.edu) wrote:
: =+= Too soulless.  EC, the great comic book company of the
: 1950s, used a "Letraset" device that did automatic lettering
: instead of having somebody write the words in.  It didn't
: look nearly as good.

While I'm not in my field here, so I could be wrong, I think that
Feldstein's EC titles used "Leroy" lettering (which may be the same
as Letraset, I don't know), which I wouldn't call a "device that did
automatic lettering."  It's practice is more like a stencil, or really
a pantograph, where the lettering man follows the lines of a template.

Harvey Kurtzman, another EC editor, used hand-lettering in all his
books, because he liked it better than the Leroy stuff.  I think
both editors made the right choices--their styles matched the lettering
they chose.

Keith Handley   kehandley@amherst.ed
From: Jym Dyer <jym@mica.berkeley.edu>
Newsgroups: rec.arts.comics.strips
Subject: Peanuts Books are Being Printed (was: Peanuts & Calvin)
Date: 7 Oct 1992 06:48:13 GMT
Organization: The Naughty Peahen Party Line
NNTP-Posting-Host: remarque.berkeley.edu

> BTW, how can I find _books_ of Peanuts strips?  Are any still
> in print?  Thanks.

=o= Henry Holt and Company are currently publishing Peanuts
Strips in a fine format not unlike the original Holt, Rinehart
& Winston books -- but with different titles and, for the first
editions, acid-free paper, for posterity.
    <_Jym_>
				"If you don't get a good night
				kiss, you get Kafka dreams."
				    -- Hobbes

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From: bell@cs.tamu.edu (Will Bell)
Subject: Re: THE DEFINITIVE PEANUTS LIST - VERSION 1.1
Organization: Texas A&M University, College Station, TX
Date: Sun, 11 Oct 1992 07:40:45 GMT

In article <1992Oct9.002219.6861@wam.umd.edu> vgriscep@wam.umd.edu (VGR (Craig Pell)) writes:

>    Is anyone willing to compile a list of all the books?  It would mean
>keeping two separate lists:  a list of small paperbacks, which were always
>"Selected cartoons from `Something' Vol I (or II)", and a list of those
>larger books, from which the "selected cartoons" were taken.  An exmaple:

There is an exhaustive bibliography in Charles Schulz's autobiography
"Peanuts Jubilee".  However that book was published a long time ago, I
think around 1975 or 1976.  So the bib would be incomplete today, natch.

WBB
--
Will Bell -- bell@cs.tamu.edu -- Live from the heart of Scenic Central Texas
"I prefer to have life filtered through television."             
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From: hathaway@stsci.edu
Subject: Re: Happy Birthday Bil!
Organization: Space Telescope Science Institute
Distribution: na
Date: Wed, 7 Oct 1992 22:03:17 GMT

In article <1992Oct7.010432.1@fnalo.fnal.gov>, morrow@fnalo.fnal.gov (Lake Elmo, MN) writes:
> In article <1992Oct6.233623.8483@Csli.Stanford.EDU>, glad@Csli.Stanford.EDU (Clayton Glad) writes:
>> Get back to us when Schultz has co-authored a book with the Dean of
>> American Humor Writing: Erma Bombeck.
> 
> 	Yeah, right.  Bombeck's funniest column is no funnier than the stock
> market listings when compared to Dave Barry's weakest efforts.
> 	And, of course, Terry Pratchett's not American, so I won't mention him.
> Nor PG Wodehouse.
> -- 
> "If a man does not keep pace with his companions, perhaps it is because he    
> hears a different drummer."--Henry David Thoreau                              
>   
> elmo (morrow@physics.rice.edu,morrow@fnal.fnal.gov)


Yo - I think the definition of "Dean" as "oldest or most senior" may have 
been the meaning intended.  As for "head of the field", yes, there are 
certainly other contenders for the title.   And individual preferences 
will probably never agree on one (even among the writers, let alone we 
readers).  

---  WHH - 'Tute - Bawlmr MD ------------- 
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From: lazlo@triton.unm.edu (Lazlo Nibble)
Subject: Re: . . . (computer lettering)
Date: Wed, 07 Oct 92 23:33:10 GMT
Organization: None for me, thanks . . . I'm driving.

Jym Dyer <jym@mica.berkeley.edu> writes:

>> I am surprised that comic book companies still imploy letterers when a
>> graphic artist at a computer could just print the words and glue them
>> to the artwork. 
>
> =+= Too soulless.  EC, the great comic book company of the 1950s, used a
> "Letraset" device that did automatic lettering instead of having
> somebody write the words in.  It didn't look nearly as good. 

It defined the look of the books, though.  Ditto for Roxanne Starr's
lettering (now done by computer) on _Flaming Carrot_.  Granted, a strip
like _Pogo_ would have lost a lot if it were lettered mechanically, and
_Tumbleweeds_ has looked like crap lately because of the worthless
lettering, but you could replace most mainstream comic-book letterers with
a computer and never miss them. 

--
Lazlo (lazlo@triton.unm.edu)

"Out in the garden there's half of a heaven"
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From: torsten@cwis.unomaha.edu (Torsten Wesley Adair)
Subject: Re: Doonesbury small format Vs Large format (was Re: Doonesbury...archives
Organization: University of Nebraska at Omaha
Date: Mon, 12 Oct 1992 20:26:57 GMT

spagiola@frinext.stanford.edu  writes:
> > 	I hope that one day in the not too distant future
> > (< 20 years), someone will release the Annotated Doonesbury,
> > which will reprint all of the strips, with historical
> > explanations of the events mentioned in the strip, on
> > acid free paper, in hardcover.  Then, and only then, will
> > I recover from growing up during the Reagan-Bush administration.
> 
> hear hear!
> How about starting right now with the pre-mid-1980s break strips?  
>
	The Annotated Doonesbury should start at the beginning.  It allows for
people to subscribe to the entire series, and there is a greater time lapse 
between now and when the strip started (twenty years).  This allows a better
analysis of history, which is prevalent in the strip.

Torsten at Omaha	I also want an annotated Pogo.
From: bn823@cleveland.Freenet.Edu (Peter Mullaney)
Newsgroups: rec.arts.comics.strips
Subject: Get your scissors out
Date: 8 Oct 1992 13:14:05 GMT
Organization: Case Western Reserve University, Cleveland, OH (USA)
Reply-To: bn823@cleveland.Freenet.Edu (Peter Mullaney)
NNTP-Posting-Host: hela.ins.cwru.edu


Tuesday's C&H (10/6/92) about "Hamster Huey and the Gooey Kabloie" was great,
but Wednesday's (10/7/92) about the "operation" is a clasic.  Get your scissors,
grab the paper, cut it out and save it!  

-- 
: Pete Mullaney              :  Always do right.  This will gratify       :
:                             :  some and astonish the rest.               :
:                             :      Samuel  Langhorne Clemens             :   
:                             :      aka Mark Twain                        :   
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From: glocke@morgan.ucs.mun.ca (Gordon Locke  )
Subject: Books _about_ Peanuts.
Organization: Memorial University of Newfoundland
Date: Fri, 16 Oct 1992 22:57:42 GMT

	Has anyone else on this group read "What's It All About, Charlie
Brown?"  I think that's the name, anyway.  How about "The Gospel
According to Peanuts" (regarding the Christian overtones in some Peanuts
strips).  Charles Shultz has said he "studies the Bible," and this is
apparent in many strips.  Anyway, what do you think of it/them?  (The
"What's it All About?" one focuses on the philosophical aspects of the
cartoon.) 
	Just curious!  I enjoyed them both, myself, because I think they
help to allow you to more fully appreciate this very enjoyable comic
strip.
	- Gord Locke, a.k.a. glocke@morgan.ucs.mun.ca 
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From: torsten@cwis.unomaha.edu (Torsten Wesley Adair)
Subject: Re: Die!Die!Die!Bil Keane!Die!
Organization: University of Nebraska at Omaha
Date: Wed, 7 Oct 1992 19:57:16 GMT

	Everbody knows that "Love is..." is the greatest work of art to ever
grace a newspaper page!

(Just some much needed sarcasm from Torsten at Omaha)
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From: rdippold@qualcom.qualcomm.com (Ron Dippold)
Subject: Re: The Far Side Calendar: Monday, October 12
Organization: Qualcomm, Inc., San Diego, CA
Date: Tue, 13 Oct 1992 19:10:14 GMT

mhammond@bnr.ca (Bill Saunders) writes:
>Could somebody please explain to me the signifigance (read: what's the joke?)
>in yesterday's Far Side day calendar? It reads:
>	Civil Service history: On October 12, 1979 (Colum-
>        bus Day), government employee George Sullivan
>        goes in to work for a couple of hours to, in his own
>        words, ``take care of some unfinished business.''

It's historical that a civil "servant" would actually go in on a
holiday to do some work, or even comprehend the concept of "fast
action." 
-- 
Hey!  Who took the cork off my lunch?!
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