From: jmm25@po.CWRU.Edu (Jessica M. Mcgeary)
Newsgroups: alt.pagan
Subject: Re: Some disgustingly mushy stuff
Date: 9 Oct 1992 14:58:16 GMT
Organization: Case Western Reserve University, Cleveland, Ohio (USA)
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Courtesy of the DOS shell and VDE, not the actual editor... sigh.

>Article #20508 (20515 is last):
>Newsgroups: alt.pagan
>Subject: Re: Some disustingly mushy stuff
>From: haley@husc10.harvard.edu (Elizabeth Haley)
>Date: Fri Oct  9 03:09:38 1992

>jmm25@po.CWRU.Edu (Jessica M. Mcgeary) writes:

>Gee, Must be a pretty bizarre world you live in... Let me give you
>a bit of new perspective on your lists:
>>  The case for the existence     The case against the existence
>>  of God                                                 of God

>>  Corvettes
>  (read, "Chevrolet Penises"

   I hadn't thought they looked QUITE like that. I was rather fond of cars 
that went much too fast and wasted gasoline like nothing on Earth at the 
time, but I didn't put the Ferrari Testarossa (penis with cheese-grater 
sides?) down because of the price.

>>  Grading curves
>  (read "lowering your standards")
   True enough. I was thinking of my chemistry teacher, who taught a chem 
class of five sixteen-year-old girls AP Chem as if they were a class of 200 
21-year-old chem majors with Cray 2000's where their cerebra ought to be. 
None of us ever got higher than about 70% on any of his tests, so he curved 
them. The only nice thing that man ever did... he couldn't teach worth 
scheisse, pardon my German.

>>  25-cent stamps
>  (25? I can remember 11 Cent Stamps, And I ain't that old)
   Had a lot of penpals.

>>  Necco Wafers
>  (read Chalk and koolaid)
   So I'm a disgusting person. B-)

>>  Beef                           Road kills
>  (read "Elsie, just $1.69 a pound!")
   I have farmers in my family, and I can deal with the idea of properly 
raised beef. Once you start putting antibiotics in... gah. Veal has been 
something I won't eat ever since I was around five (before that my parents 
never told me what it was), and I don't eat pig products anyway. I figure, 
eventually something's gonna wind up feeding off me, so as long as I do it 
in a respectful manner...

>>  1940's                         1950's
>>                                 1960's
>>                                 1970's
>And When Were You Born?
   1974. We'd just covered the WWII chapter of AP history and I was feeling 
pretty psyched about kicking Nazi butt- especially after the teacher showed 
us her pictures, taken by a soldier who liberated one of the death camps. 
The fall of the Nazis ALONE makes me feel good about then... right 
afterwards, though, it all goes downhill. Scratch the 1940's from the list, 
then.

>>  Florida                        The Keating Five
>  (I'd say right now Florida is a prime example of an Angry God)
   No argument there. The list was composed some time ago, when Florida was 
still nice & sunny and the Land of Disneyworld.

>>  Labor unions                   Roe v. Wade
>  (Ever Met a Teamster?      Ever Missed a period?)
   ^^^Grandfather in              ^^^Nun looking over my shoulder at the
      the bricklayer's               time
      union

(my sigfile deleted)

>Though I do agree that Chocolate is proof of the existance of God, I
>think American Politics is proff the God has a sense of Humor.
   So are turtles, come to think of it. Walking rocks.

   Thanks.

-- 
Jessica McGeary
jmm25@po.cwru.edu
Case Western Reserve University
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