[1578] in Central_America
New quotes for Sat Jun 24
daemon@ATHENA.MIT.EDU (daemon@ATHENA.MIT.EDU)
Sat Jun 24 01:34:52 1989
Date: Sat, 24 Jun 89 01:34:40 EDT
From: root@CHARON.MIT.EDU (Initializer.SysDaemon)
To: ca-mtg@BLOOM-BEACON.MIT.EDU
---------------------------------------------------------------------------
amgreene (Andrew Marc Greene):
``The Sad Truth: Nobody's Perfect (And We've Proved It Many Times)''
(The Wall Street Journal Centennial Edition, Page C6)
It's All Over
------------------------
World's End Catches
Americans by Surprise,
Disrupts Many Plans
---
Wall Street Wasn't Ready,
Travelers Are Stranded;
But Some Hope in Chicago
---
You Can't Take it With You
That headline won't appear. But last Jan. 19 this one did:
Rest of the Year May Not Follow January
We meant stock prices, not doom.
....
Journal people aren't prudes, but we're culturally conservative. That is
why our 1,000-word, front-page story in 1970 about the increasing popularity
of vasectomies never got around to mentioning what part of the anatomy was
involved in the operation or what the surgeon actually did.
And in 1980 we quoted Thomas L. Krebs, director of the Alabama Securities
Commission, as saying, ``Throwing white-collar crooks in jail is more fun
than choking chickens,'' We didn't know that the latter phrase was a
regional euphamism for male masturbation.
We're touchy about profanity, too. For years we guarded against the S-word
sneaking into print by avoiding words likely top be misspelled. We called
work shifts are factories work ``turns.'' The S-word eventually broke into
print, and it was Richard Nixon's fault. We agonized, then quoted him in
the Watergate tapes as saying, ``I don't give a s--- [ we used the actual
word then, but have since re-agonized]. I want you to stonewall it.''
....
In a Nov. 4, 1986 front-page story about the Egyptian army we temporarily
forgot our Bible and misplaced three Egyptian plagues. The next day we
amplified: ``Egypt, according to the Bible, was visited by 10 plagues.
An earlier edition incorrectly referred to seven plagues.''
---------------------------------------------------------------------------
jtkohl (John T Kohl):
"You made me first!"
-Batman
---------------------------------------------------------------------------
lschleng (Lee H Schlenger):
Don't you know that its not nice to finger people in public.
That's okay, I'll forgive you.
---------------------------------------------------------------------------
paul (Paul Boutin):
Waiting for the sandworms in Building 11....
---------------------------------------------------------------------------
sctse (Clifford Tse):
{From system: This user's .plan file is not world readable}
---------------------------------------------------------------------------
sethf (Seth Finkelstein):
See your favorite (?) athena people in uncensored xpix!
There is now a new subdirectory, "athena", containing monochrome images
of various athena people. These bitmaps were created by Paul Boutin.
Current contents:
aleonard.x11.Z dkk.x11.Z jnrees.x11.Z mackay.x11.Z wdc.x11.Z
carla.x11.Z jis.x11.Z jon.x11.Z paul.x11.Z
To get access to uncensored xpix, type the following:
attach -n -m /mit/XPIX -e bander:/site/xpix
cd /mit/XPIX
Remember, uncensored xpix is totally unsupported and is not guaranteed to
be stable. Its host machine changes administrative control on July 1.
Make your copies NOW!
---------------------------------------------------------------------------
swmpthng (Timothy J Stellmach):
<WARNING! Good one-liner from the "BATMAN" movie below.>
"Why didn't someone TELL me he had one of those ... THINGS?!!!"
- The Joker
--- End of Central America ---
