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From: afeng@fraser.sfu.ca (Alex Feng)
Subject: bit of black humor
Organization: Simon Fraser University, Burnaby, B.C., Canada
Date: Thu, 7 Jan 1993 20:29:12 GMT

Here's a little excerpt from "Breakfast of Champions" by Kurt
Vonnegut:

.."Leroy Joyce was so dumb", Bonnie went on, "he couldn't play cards.
He couldn't understand the Bible.  He could hardly talk.  He ate his
last supper, and then he sat still.  He was going to be electrocuted
for rape.  So my husband sat out in the corridor outside the cell, and
he read to himself.  He heard Leroy moving around in his cell, but he
didn't worry about it.  And then Leroy rattled his tin cup on the
bars.  My husband thought Leroy wanted some more coffee.  So he got up
and went over and took the cup.  Leory was smiling as though
everything was all right now.  He wouldn't have to go to the electric
chair after all.  He'd cut off his whatchamacallit and put it in the
cup."


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From: goldberg@isi.edu (Joel Goldberg)
Newsgroups: rec.humor
Subject: Re: unlikely ship names
Date: 11 Jan 93 23:25:51 GMT
Reply-To: goldberg@isi.edu (Joel Goldberg)
Organization: USC-Information Sciences Institute
Keywords: ships

Along the lines of funny ship names, there's this one for the Jewish
grandmothers (a little Yiddish helps):

	S.S. Mein Kind

-- Joel
From: Treble@asc.slb.com (John Treble)
Newsgroups: rec.humor
Subject: Re: Gastronomic eruptions
Followup-To: rec.humor
Date: 7 Jan 1993 19:28:53 GMT
Organization: ASC-Austin
Distribution: world
NNTP-Posting-Host: asc438.asc.slb.com

In article <1993Jan7.150229.27505@rigel.econ.uga.edu>,
skip@rosalyn.stat.uga.edu (Skip Gundlach) wrote:
> 
> In article <1993Jan7.003149.2571@merrimack.edu> nin15b63@merrimack.edu (The Wolf) writes:
> >K. Roper <ROPERK@QUCDN.QueensU.CA> writes: 
> >>
> >>  Strong enough to admit that yes, women sweat, fart and belch.
> >
> I've left the rest of the following story intact since it's a good
> one, but want to contribute something near and dear to our family -
> gastronomic erupters all...
> 

As a dear old acquaintance of mine used to say:

     "It's better to burp and taste it, than fart and waste it!"


treble@asc.slb.com "My humble, but accurate, opinion does not necessarily
reflect that of my employer. I get full credit for my insightful and witty
comments!"
From: scridd@lims01.lerc.nasa.gov (JEFFREY RIDDLEBAUGH)
Newsgroups: rec.humor
Subject: Re: Towns Renamed, was Re: Seriously, a joke.
Date: 7 Jan 93 20:49:00 GMT
Organization: NASA Lewis Research Center
News-Software: VAX/VMS VNEWS 1.41

In article <1993Jan6.163329.14562@nwnexus.WA.COM>, pyotr@halcyon.com (Peter D. Hampe) writes...
>trifid@agora.rain.com (Roadster Racewerks) writes:
> 
>>(People who object to such things so strongly remind me of the jerks who are
>>re-naming a whole batch of American pioneer towns from things like "Poverty
>>Flats" to "Mira del Mar" (200 miles from the sea) because it doesn't sound
>>"nice" for the new developments they're pushing... The hell with history if
>>it doesn't all happen to be "nice", and Politically Correct"!  )-:<
> 
>>What kind of people are we if we can't look our history in the eye, so to
>>speak, and take from it what we need and chuckle at the rest?
> 
>>Suze
> 
>why right here in beautiful Oregon (where I no longer live due
>to assordid reasons) there were serious proposals to rename
>Whorehouse Meadows to Naughty Girl Meadows, and Bullshit Creek
>to something sissyfied.
> 
>Of course Millersville (just N of Albany) _used_ to be 
>Murder Creek until Immense Chemical Co with Defense Contracts
>got a variance in the 60's.
> 
>Not to forget Sucker Lake.
> 
>chus
>pyotr

Some Maryland Eastern Shore communities:

	Present Name		Reputed Former Name

	Deal Island		Devil Island
	Dames Quarter		Damned Quarter
	Rhodes Point		Rogues Point
Newsgroups: rec.humor
From: dwr@cci632.cci.com (Donald W. Rouse II)
Subject: Re: TEST! Ignore...
Organization: [Computer Consoles, Inc., Rochester, NY
Date: Wed, 13 Jan 1993 02:03:35 GMT

In article <8793.6831@stratus.SWDC.Stratus.COM> bruce@godzilla.swdc.stratus.com (Bruce Overby) writes:
>In article <1993Jan5.185543.26092@choate.edu> dsohl@spock.uucp (Daniel Sohl) writes:
>>In article <1738@anon.smurf.sub.org> 328@anon.smurf.sub.org (Anonymous User 328) writes:
>>>This is a test is a test is a test is a test...
>>
>>Why does everybody always post tests here?
>It seems that they sometimes make cascades appear.
I guess another one's started, I fear.
From: frank@whare.cavebbs.welly.gen.nz (Frank van der Hulst)
Newsgroups: rec.humor
Subject: Re: New Internet Farsides!;
Date: Fri, 08 Jan 93 23:14:48 NZT
Organization: Tech-Soft Systems, Wellington, NZ

frank2@odie.ee.wits.ac.za wrote the following: 
> In article <1993Jan4.235007.9307@csus.edu> arthurc@sfsuvax1.sfsu.edu (Arthur 
> Chandler) writes:
> 
> >  I propose we make up our own Far Sides, with descriptions supplying
> >the place of Larsen's visuals.  Here's one to start:
> 
> >  Scene: Neanderthal is crouching by highway, holding a long piece of
> >twine that connects to a humongous bear-trap set in the middle of the
> >road. In the distance we see a bus coming up over the rise.
> >  His friend, another slope-head, yells at him, "No Thag, that not
> >way you catch bus!" 

My one:

Scene: Cannibal butcher's shop... bits of black human body strung up round the place, cannibal (bone through nose, etc.) in butcher's apron looking benignly out into street for customers (or supplies?? :-) In the centre of the window is a white hunter's head, complete with pith helmet, monocle, etc. A sign attached to this reads: "Not for human consumption".


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Newsgroups: rec.humor
From: zmyd02@hou.amoco.com (Denton Meredith)
Subject: Re: Brilliant Woody Allen Joke
Reply-To: zmyd02@hou.amoco.com
Organization: Amoco
Date: Tue, 12 Jan 1993 21:00:32 GMT

In article 1iv57lINNhfp@mercury.kingston.ac.uk, ee_d313@ceres (  Jide) writes:
>>frank2@odie.ee.wits.ac.za writes:
>>: Sit down, take a deap breath and prepare yourself for the Brilliant Woody 
>>: Allen Joke:
>>: Woody Allen is soon to release a major new movie:
>>: 	"Honey, I fucked the kids"
>>: 
>>: 
>>: 
>>: 
>>: I ask you, just *where* do I come up with these pearls?
    ^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^

>
>IS THAT WHAT YOU CALL A JOKE ?
>
>IT'S PATHETIC, NOT INCLUDING CHEAP.
>
>I SUPPOSE YOU'VE BEEN LAUGHING YOUR PANTS
>
>OFF EVER SINCE YOU HEARD IT.
>
>P*** OFF, MAN


Geez, lighten up!  Can't you recognize sarcasm when you read it??


Newsgroups: rec.humor
From: ritc0003@student.tc.umn.edu (Kent Ritchie)
Subject: Sex Man Pages
Organization: University of Minnesota
Date: Sun, 10 Jan 1993 05:27:31 GMT

I did not write this.. a friend sent it to me.  I do not know who the
real author is... but I thought it was pretty funny.

***********************************************************************

SEX(6)              EUNUCH Programmer's Manual               SEX(6)



NAME
     sex - have sex

SYNOPSIS
     sex [ options ] ...  [ username ] ...

DESCRIPTION
     _s_e_x allows the invoker to have sex with the user(s) speci-
     fied in the command line.  If no users are specified, they
     are taken from the LOVERS environment variable.  Options to
     make things more interesting are as follows:

     -1   masturbate

     -a   external stimulus (aphrodisiac) option

     -b   buggery

     -B<animal>
          bestiality with <animal>

     -c   chocolate sauce option

     -C   chaining option (cuffs included) (see also -m -s -W)

     -d<file>
          get a date with the features described in <file>

     -e   exhibitionism (image sent to all machines on the net)

     -f   foreplay option

     -F   nasal sex with plants

     -i   coitus interruptus (messy!)

     -j   jacuzzi option (California sites only)

     -l   leather option

     -m   masochism (see -s)

     -M   triple parallel (Menage a Trois) option

     -n   necrophilia (if target process is not dead, program
          kills it)

     -o   oral option

     -O   parallel access (orgy)

     -p   debug option (proposition only)

     -P   pedophilia (must specify a child process)



Printed 2/15/87              2/15/87                            1






SEX(6)              EUNUCH Programmer's Manual               SEX(6)



     -q   quickie (wham, bam, thank you, ma'am)

     -s   sadism (target must set -m)

     -S   sundae option

     -v   voyeurism (surveys the entire net)

     -w   whipped cream option

     -W   whips (see also -s, -C, and -m)

ENVIRONMENT
     LOVERS
          is a list of default partners which will be used if
          none are specified in the command line.  If any are
          specified, the values in LOVERS is ignored.

FILES
     /usr/lib/sex/animals          animals for bestiality

     /usr/lib/sex/blackbook        possible dates

     /usr/lib/sex/sundaes          sundae recipes

     /usr/lib/sex/s&m         sado-masochistic equipment



BUGS
     ^C (quit process) may leave the user very unsatisfied.

     ^Z (stop process) is usually quite messy.

MAN AUTHOR
     Author prefers to be anonymous.

HISTORY
     Oldest program ever.

***********************************************************************

Newsgroups: rec.humor
From: dorsett@mack.geg.mot.com (Jim Dorsett x2488)
Subject: Q&A
Organization: Motorola Government Electronics Group
Distribution: rec
Date: 11 Jan 93 16:18:35

Question: What does a Thanksgiving turkey and a suntanned girl have in
common?
Answer: The white meat always tastes the best.
Newsgroups: rec.humor
From: marsh@sad.hp.com (Marshall Ward)
Subject: Re: READ MY LIPS...
Date: Mon, 4 Jan 1993 18:27:45 GMT
Organization: HP Sonoma County (SRSD/MWTD/MID)
X-Newsreader: TIN [version 1.1.4 PL6]

Robyn Clark (Robyn_Clark@mindlink.bc.ca) wrote:
:         If there is a moderator on "rec.humor" why the fuck isn't he (she or
: it) doing his (her or it's) job by removing ALL offensive (non-humourous)
: material.
  
To my knowledge, rec.humor is not a moderated group. 

: crap and it's NOT on rec.humor so stick it where it belongs.  I can just
: imagine what would happen if I attempted to post a nice juicy adult joke to
: the religious group.

Hey Robyn, no flame intended, but,

How about posting your "nice, juicy adult joke" at the end of your flame?

I want to read humor too and there was none in your post.

Marshall
From: mckeonj@ul.ie
Newsgroups: rec.humor
Subject: The REAL Confucius list #1
Date: 6 Jan 93 20:47:25 GMT
Organization: University of Limerick, Ireland

In article <1992Dec21.232054.26583@usage.csd.unsw.OZ.AU>, csh@newt.phys.unsw.edu.au (Chris Heath) writes:
> For all those ppl whom wanted a Confucious list.....here's mine.....
>    55.  Man who lose key to girl-friends apartment gets no new-key.
> 
>    56.  Confucious say: I didn't say that!!!
At least you put in the last one, otherwise you get no marks.
Seriously, can anyone give a genuine Kung-Futze saying?
Hm?
I thought not. This one may be the genuine article:
Confucius (note spelling) said that a man who has a tiger by the
tail is reluctant to let go.
-- 
"Ich am of Irlonde" (medieval fragment used by Yeats)
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Newsgroups: rec.humor
From: rdippold@cancun.qualcomm.com (Ron Dippold)
Subject: Re: So this guy goes to the doctor and...
Organization: Qualcomm, Inc., San Diego, CA
Date: Mon, 11 Jan 1993 18:35:22 GMT

butchern@zeus.swindon.rtsg.mot.com (Neil Butcher) writes:
>Hey everybody, I've caught a live one!

What you really need to catch is a clue about your .sig.  It's got 'em
rolling in the aisles on alt.fan.warlord.

ObJoke:

Q: Why do Jews answer a question with a question?
A: Why shouldn't Jews answer a question with a question?
A': Who told you that?
-- 
Two in every one people in this country are schizophrenic.
From: carr@fog.cs.odu.edu (Eric Carr)
Newsgroups: rec.humor
Subject: Re: Test
Date: 13 Jan 93 02:05:12 GMT
Organization: Old Dominion University, Norfolk, Va

In article <8791.8589@stratus.SWDC.Stratus.COM> bruce@godzilla.swdc.stratus.com (Bruce Overby) writes:
>In article <-hc=Vg@engin.umich.edu> pka@engin.umich.edu (Payman Khalili) writes:
>>In article <1993Jan5.164636.3686@csdvax.csd.unsw.edu.au> s9000289@csdvax.csd.unsw.edu.au (Cameron Hooper) writes:
>>>In article <1992Dec19.062934.133234@ns1.cc.lehigh.edu>, cej0@ns1.cc.lehigh.edu (CHARLES EDWARD JAMES) writes:
>>>> In article <1992Dec18.143400.6456@bmerh85.bnr.ca>, coop1d11@bmerh301.bnr.ca (Dav
>>>> id Smith) writes:
>>>>>In article <1992Dec18.020436.2148@news.arc.nasa.gov> nicholso@pioneer.arc.nasa.
>>>> gov (Melvin H. Nicholson YBH) writes:
>>>>>>In article <BzF6E3.Lp7@cck.coventry.ac.uk> cei352@cck.coventry.ac.uk (The Frea
>>>> k) writes:
>>>>>>>In article <1992Dec17.102719.13134@bsu-ucs> 01jmbrown@leo.bsuvc.bsu.edu write
>>>> s:
>>>>>>>>In article <1992Dec17.003955.27658@spock.UUCP>, gumby@spock.uucp (Danny Rich
>>>> man) writes:
>>>>>>>>> In article <1992Dec11.232428.9398@pasteur.Berkeley.EDU> xiaohan@euler.Berk
>>>> eley.EDU (Xiaohan Yun) writes:
>>>>>>>>>>In article <1992Dec7.232807.15638@spock.UUCP> kurgan@spock.uucp (Andrew Tw
>>>> yman) writes:
>>>>>>>>>>>In article <1992Dec7.225159.15483@spock.UUCP> ramirez@spock.uucp (Andreas
>>>>  Orphanides) writes:
>>>>>>>>>>>>In article <1992Dec6.212621.12609@spock.UUCP> bane@spock.uucp (Cameron H
>>>> uang) writes:
>>>>>>>>>>>>>In article <184434@pyramid.pyramid.com> vkhare@misdev.mis.pyramid.com (
>>>> Vilas Khare) writes:
>>>>>>>>>>>>>>.this is a test message, please ignore.
>>>>>>>>>>>>>You are a dork, and your post's a bore.
>>>>>>>>>>>>Read alt.test for tests galore.
>>>>>>>>>>>I hope this cascade doesn't go on much more.
>>>>>>>>>>But you know that you are telling a forklore.
>>>>>>>>> This is starting to make me snore.
>>>>>>>>is this the rec.humor people adore?
>>>>>>>Ommes it porn,which is hard core.?
>>>>>>Haven't when been through all this before?
>>>>>No, have some BEER and let me pour!
>>>> Why have one when we can have four!
>>>Get throughly pissed and sleep on the floor.
>>Hilary Clinton loves Al Gore!
>This is one cascade I really abhor.
So don't gripe, just send it to the guy next door!


-- 

					Eric Carr
				-- The Cyber Linguist --
Newsgroups: rec.humor
From: Robyn_Clark@mindlink.bc.ca (Robyn Clark)
Subject: Re: California
Organization: MIND LINK! - British Columbia, Canada
Date: Fri, 8 Jan 1993 04:44:44 GMT

...and for those of you familiar with Vancouver, British Columbia...

Q.      What separates the flakes and nuts from the fruit?

A.      The Burrard Street Bridge


Newsgroups: alt.tasteless.jokes,rec.humor
From: acfrodo@IASTATE.EDU ()
Subject: Re: Bunch of baby jokes
Reply-To: acfrodo@IASTATE.EDU ()
Organization: Iowa State University
Date: Mon, 11 Jan 1993 01:51:02 GMT

/Q. What's grosser than a barrell full of dead babies?
/A. A barrell full of dead babies with one live on in it.

add trying to eat its way out!
Newsgroups: rec.humor,alt.tasteless.jokes
From: veen2976@mach1.wlu.ca (veenstra christopher)
Subject: PaperSex
Organization: Wilfrid Laurier University
Date: Tue, 12 Jan 1993 17:04:05 GMT

Dear Earthling:

Hi!  I'm a creature from outer space.  I have transformed myself into
this piece of paper.  Right now I am having sexd with your fingers.
I know you are enjoying it because you are smiling.  Please pass me
on to someone else because....

I'M REALLY HORNY !!!

(works best when printed on a piece of paper and given to people)


    _/_/_/_/  _/    _/   _/_/_/    _/  _/_/_/_/  
   _/        _/    _/   _/    _/  _/  _/        
  _/        _/_/_/_/   _/_/_/    _/  _/_/_/_/   
 _/        _/    _/   _/   _/   _/        _/    
_/_/_/_/  _/    _/   _/    _/  _/  _/_/_/_/     

Chris Veenstra
veen2976@mach1.wlu.ca
From: tumidity@netlink.cts.com (Joel Garry)
Newsgroups: rec.humor
Subject: Re: interesting christian-surname combinations
Keywords: Funky Christian Names
Date: 6 Jan 93 21:56:10 GMT
Organization: NetLink Online Communications, San Diego CA

I used to work with a Long Whang.

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From: dfm2@jaguar.uofs.edu
Newsgroups: rec.humor
Subject: Re: Speaking of/Re: Left vs. Right
Date: 8 Jan 93 05:16:25 GMT
Organization: University of Scranton

many people have posted about "blanc de Noir" being a stupid name
because it means "black of white."
It also means "black from white"
That still makes little sense, but at least is syntactically (sp?) correct.

Another person posted that the left hand side was the sensible side to drive on
becuase people who used to rode horses long long ago would carry swords,
usually on their right side, because most were right-handed, and it would
be hard to mount a horse that was on your right for that reason.

"That proves it" he excliamed
proves what?
a.  People who drive on the left are so insane they think they are riding
horses?
b.  People who drive on the left are so violent they need to ride with a sword?
c.  People who drive on the left are so out of touch they haven't heard od
a shotgun?
d.  People who drive on the left are so stupid that they fail to recognize that
a sword is a fairly useless weapon for use while riding a vehicle with a
windshield?

please, answer!
Newsgroups: rec.humor
From: Robyn_Clark@mindlink.bc.ca (Robyn Clark)
Subject: READ MY LIPS (PART 2)
Organization: MIND LINK! - British Columbia, Canada
Date: Wed, 6 Jan 1993 22:17:56 GMT

        Well thanks to all, I now know that rec.humor is NOT moderated which
brings up another curious question.  With all the money being spent on
education and the fact that most of the users here are enrolled in an
institution of higher (and that in itself is questionable) learning, why is
it that so many of these users do not either read or understand plain
English?  This group (rec.humor) is called by this name, I can only imagine,
because that is what is meant to be posted here.  It appears quite simple and
very straight forward to me...  humourous stories etc. get posted in
rec.humor, things such as politics, religion, and stuff get posted to the
appropriate place, unless of course there is a humourous side to it.  Then,
who am I to question such dumbpth, after all I'm just a dumb Canuck with less
than a university education that doesn't know sweet-fuck-all!

        I'd also like to thank those of you who made me aware of the group
rec.humor.funny... I have now started reading that group and it is a real
pleasure to know that the next item appearing on my screen will NOT be some
shit that doesn't belong there.

        Also, as so many of you were eager to point out, I neglected to
include some humour in my original post (READ MY LIPS).  That was my error
and for that I do apologize.  So I will conclude this one with a little (very
little) humour (and it's tasteless too)..

        News Item:  Dateline Vancouver, BC  July 2, 1992.  The first
confirmed case of aids in a whale has been documented locally.  It appears
the whale was possibly rear-ended by a BC Ferry.


Newsgroups: rec.humor.oracle
From: asbestos@nwu.edu (Michael A. Atkinson)
Subject: Re: #517-07 one of the best!
Followup-To: rec.humor.oracle.d
Originator: mikea@casbah.acns.nwu.edu
Organization: Chaos
Date: Mon, 11 Jan 1993 08:15:39 GMT

kodak@mentor.cc.purdue.edu (Jason 'KodaK' Balicki) writes:

>I'd like to praise the authors of both the question and devine answer
>of #517-07, the space-time-matress one.  By far the one of the best 
>I've ever read.

Well, I agreed :-).

That certainly was one of the best Oracularities that I have passed, and
it's stuff like this that keeps me in the Oracle Priest business.


Mike Atkinson
Oracle Priest
-- 
Michael A. Atkinson    | "Macintoy" is Copyright (c)1992 by 
asbestos@nwu.edu       |                 Chaos Organization.
                         
            A Libertarian and an NRA member.
Newsgroups: rec.humor.oracle.d
From: julie@eddie.jpl.nasa.gov (Julie Kangas)
Subject: Re: #517-07 one of the best!
Organization: Jet Propulsion Laboratory, Pasadena, CA
Date: Tue, 12 Jan 1993 17:30:54 GMT

In article <1993Jan12.111255.27570@rhrk.uni-kl.de> kring@efes.physik.uni-kl.de (Thomas Kettenring) writes:
>mtabbott@unix.amherst.edu (MTA) writes:
>>Michael A. Atkinson (asbestos@nwu.edu) wrote:
>>: kodak@mentor.cc.purdue.edu (Jason 'KodaK' Balicki) writes:
>>: 
>>: >I'd like to praise the authors of both the question and devine answer
>>: >of #517-07, the space-time-matress one.  By far the one of the best 
>>: >I've ever read.
>>: 
>>: Well, I agreed :-).
>>: 
>>: That certainly was one of the best Oracularities that I have passed, and
>>: it's stuff like this that keeps me in the Oracle Priest business.
>>
>>I wrote the the answer on 517-07, but it was so easy given the great question--
>>a total setup.  When I first got the question, I laughed for about an hour...
>
>It seems I am missing something here.
>Are there any tags around saying "Do NOT remove this tag under penalty of law!"?
>All the talk about mattresses makes me guess they have such a tag, but I fail
>to see the sense in such a thing...
>

Well, that's the point.  There is no sense in such a tag!  Mattresses,
(and other furniture too I believe) used to come with such a tag.
It's now been changed to something like "Only to be removed by
purchaser,"  but people still laugh about the stupidity of owning
a piece of furniture where you couldn't lawfully remove a tag. 

I guess you could say this is sort of an 'in-joke' in the US.

P.S.  The last time I tried to submit questions or answer questions,
the delivery of same was incredibly slow (>1 day).  Was this me,
the time I was trying, or a hint from the Oracle?


Julie
DISCLAIMER:  All opinions here belong to my cat and no one else
Newsgroups: rec.humor.oracle.d
From: kring@efes.physik.uni-kl.de (Thomas Kettenring)
Subject: Re: #517-07 one of the best!
Organization: FB Physik, Universitaet Kaiserslautern, Germany
Date: Tue, 12 Jan 1993 11:12:55 GMT

mtabbott@unix.amherst.edu (MTA) writes:
>Michael A. Atkinson (asbestos@nwu.edu) wrote:
>: kodak@mentor.cc.purdue.edu (Jason 'KodaK' Balicki) writes:
>: 
>: >I'd like to praise the authors of both the question and devine answer
>: >of #517-07, the space-time-matress one.  By far the one of the best 
>: >I've ever read.
>: 
>: Well, I agreed :-).
>: 
>: That certainly was one of the best Oracularities that I have passed, and
>: it's stuff like this that keeps me in the Oracle Priest business.
>
>I wrote the the answer on 517-07, but it was so easy given the great question--
>a total setup.  When I first got the question, I laughed for about an hour...

It seems I am missing something here.
Are there any tags around saying "Do NOT remove this tag under penalty of law!"?
All the talk about mattresses makes me guess they have such a tag, but I fail
to see the sense in such a thing...

--
thomas kettenring, 3 dan, kaiserslautern, germany
"Pink"
(Peter Ustinov's answer to "Skin Color" on his US immigration form)
Newsgroups: rec.humor.oracle.d