From: jbm@hal.trl.OZ.AU (Jacques Guy)
Subject: Weekly mutlu Index: 119, 440K *** MUTLU CULT IN PARIS! ***
Organization: Telecom Research Labs, Melbourne, Australia
Date: Thu, 20 Aug 1992 23:44:12 GMT


Yes, that is 119 mutlus, totalling 440K, on the way to the
HALF-MEGABYTER (tm)!

Tailing a rumour that mutlu cults had sprung up over the world,
our fearless reporters landed in the deepest marshes of Paris,
Frogland. There, on the Boulevard Saint-Germain, above the oaken
doors of a stately building, hung a gigantic enlargement of the
photograph of Mutlu the Great recently posted on the net. Above
it, a banner proclaiming in fiery letters: "Tre`s Saint Ordre du
Merlan Mort d'Amour" (Most Holy Order of the Whiting that died of
Love). Having dunked our feet in flour and shown them to the
porter, we were introduced into the inner sanctum, and welcomed
by a portly gentleman in powdered wig and XVIIIth-century finery.

Gent: "I am the Marquis de Saint-Glinglin, founder of the Tre`s
Saint Ordre du Merlan Mort d'Amour, to honour and serve the new
Messiah, the Great Mutlu."

MTW(tm): "Why 'un merlan', a whiting?"

MSG, pointing to a printout of mutlu.gif: "Observe the Great
Mutlu's globular eyes, like unto the whiting's. One is the
terrestrial globe, the other the vault of heaven. No fish but the
"merlan" is appropriate, for "merlan" is "verlan" [back slang],
and did not the Son of God say that the first will be the last and
the last the first, like unto the words of back slang? And hark:
the Great Mutlu is the Merlan, and at the same time the Merlan in
Verlan, which is the Lanmer, for He is .... for He is..."

MTW(tm): "He is...?"

MSG: "Lanmer d'Heur pas Tente'!" [literally: "timely, untempted
tingwhi" but we advise you to ask a native speaker of Froggish for
the true, hidden, arcane meaning of this most holy name]

MTW(tm): "?"

MSG: "Timely is the Great Mutlu! For His coming was prophesized
by Nostradamus, who wrote: 'There will be a great tumult',
wherein is hidden His Name by rearrangement of Its Letters, for
'tumult' is made of 'mutlu'".

MTW(tm): "Oh..."

MSG: "Untempted is the Great Mutlu! For never does He answer
those who doubt His Word and would tempt Him into justifying
Himself".

MTW(tm) (thinking it safer to play along): "Gory be! Gory, gory!"

MSG: "Ah, my children, how uplifting to see you so readily paying
homage to the Great Mutlu. Take these as the signs that you have
entered the Most Holy Order of the Merlan Mort d'Amour" (gives
each a bottle and a packet of white powder)

MTW(tm): "What are they, O most noble Marquis de Saint-Glinglin?"

MSG: "These bottles hold fish sauce, in homage to the Great
Mutlu's ichthyic ocular orbs; these sachets monosodium glutamate,
symbol of the Great Mutlu's humble servant and founder of this
Most Holy Order, myself".

Having left the premises of the Tre`s Saint Ordre du Merlan Mort
d'Amour and returned to the searing deserts of Antipodean Australia,
as we wait for a hire-camel to take us to the offices of MTW
Associates, we notice, across the street, a gigantic poster of
the Great Mutlu above a stately mahogany portal, and a banner
proclaiming: "Most Holy Order of the Battered Barramundi -- Count
of Saint-Gloglo, Founder". [Footnote 1]


Statistics for the period 10 Aug 1992 to 16 Aug 1992

Proudly brought to you by MTW Software (tm)
a.k.a. Mad Turk Watcher Software Associates

                    mutlu   A-related   B-related       other
    specimens         119          60          27         140
      biomass      440513      157333      149783      320308
mean specimen        3701.79     2622.22     5547.52     2287.91
    skinniest         500         176         672         134
      fattest       14686       61002       71019        9827

 Biomass is in bytes contained in the bodies of messages,
 with signature included, but origin, newsgroup, and
 subject lines excluded. Leading and trailing spaces
 also excluded, as well as CRLFs.

 A-related lifeforms contain a mutlu, B-related ones
 Turkey or Armenia, but no mutlu.

mutlus accounted for:
 34.4% of specimens received
 41.2% of the biomass of Europe

mutlus and A-related accounted for:
 51.7% of specimens received
 56.0% of the biomass of Europe

mutlus and A or B-related accounted for:
 59.5% of specimens received
 70.0% of the biomass of Europe

            Hourly Hatching Profile of mutlu Lifeforms

     Mon        Tue        Wed        Thu        Fri        Sat        Sun
       1          1          1          1          1          1          1
Hr
 0    nil        nil        nil      35.3 ( 7)    nil        nil        nil
 1    nil      12.1 ( 5)  15.7 ( 6)    nil        nil        nil      16.7 ( 5)
 2   4.5 ( 2)  18.8 ( 5)   3.3 ( 4)   8.3 ( 4)    nil        nil      14.6 ( 2)
 3    nil      11.4 ( 4)  14.0 ( 4)  11.8 ( 1)    nil        nil      16.1 ( 6)
 4    nil      16.5 ( 4)    nil        nil        nil      75.8 (21)    nil
 5    nil        nil        nil        nil        nil      15.7 ( 5)    nil
 6    nil        nil        nil        nil        nil      23.6 ( 5)    nil
 7    nil        nil        nil        nil        nil        nil        nil
 8    nil        nil        nil        nil        nil        nil        nil
 9    nil        nil        nil        nil        nil        nil        nil
10    nil        nil        nil        nil        nil        nil        nil
11    nil        nil        nil        nil        nil        nil        nil
12    nil        nil        nil        nil        nil        nil        nil
13    nil        nil        nil        nil        nil        nil        nil
14    nil        nil        nil        nil        nil        nil        nil
15    nil        nil        nil        nil        nil        nil        nil
16    nil      11.3 ( 5)    nil        nil        nil        nil        nil
17    nil        nil        nil        nil        nil        nil        nil
18    nil        nil        nil        nil        nil        nil        nil
19    nil        nil        nil        nil        nil        nil        nil
20  41.5 ( 4)  13.3 ( 3)   1.7 ( 2)    nil        nil        nil        nil
21  20.4 ( 5)   7.4 ( 1)  16.4 ( 3)    nil        nil        nil        nil
22    nil        nil      14.5 ( 6)    nil        nil        nil        nil
23    nil        nil        nil        nil        nil        nil        nil


      Biomass is in thousands of bytes, followed, in brackets,
      by the number of specimens hatched on day and hour (GMT)
      The numbers under day names indicate how many such days
      saw hatching activity (mutlu and non-mutlu) during the
      period researched on soc.culture.europe.


[Footnote 1]  Only to those who have lived in Melbourne
(pitch-blackest jungle of Antipodea) shall the hidden meaning in
that banner be revealed. What, we hear some complain, has
Antipodean Melbourne got to do with Europe? Feathers unruffled,
we answer, guided by the Spirit of the Great Mutlu: no less than
mama mumu's furry cuddly hatchlings, 'some-ian'.