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daemon@ATHENA.MIT.EDU (Initializer.SysDaemon)
Sun Jul 19 04:02:50 1992
Date: Sun, 19 Jul 92 04:02:35 -0400
From: root@charon.MIT.EDU (Initializer.SysDaemon)
To: ca-mtg@bloom-beacon.mit.edu
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dcoufal (David E Coufal):
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kagraves (Kenneth A Graves):
(One wonders why the Guardians didn't make each battery vulnerable to somethingdifferent to confuse their enemies; the color purple, McDonalds BatDiscs,
aardvarks, whatever.)
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nosaj (Jason M Sachs):
HA HA HA!!!! I'M IN WRITING MODE AGAIN!!!!
!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!
The Road had taken on the cultural significance in Bhutan that the Defense
Budget had in the United States. All 23 of the important people in the
country refused to have the Road named after them, as did the 58
descendants of Bhutan's deceased important people; the lobbying groups
took care of most of the remaining possible adjectives -- for example,
"Greasy Road" (which had been deemed offensive to the workers
of the nation's only Crisco factory), "Bulbous Road"
(offensive to the clowns), "Callipygian Road", and "Arcane Road"
(offensive to the Dungeons & Dragons players); even the mathematicians
threatened to boycott it, if there were any numbers in the Road's
title. It was decided to use the rather undescriptive English word
(Road) as opposed to some of the more flavorful local nouns for a
means of travel, most of which did not apply to long, flat strips of
land, anyway, but rather to small sheep and oxen. In order for it to
be totally discordant with Nature, it was painted in its entirety in a
shade of highway yellow, except for a thin, unpainted line down the
middle which served as a psychological means of keeping drivers from
crashing into each other in a joint suicide effort as inspired by the
Road. The one detail which would have completed the Road's horrendousness
had thankfully been eliminated -- despite lengthy protests from the
New Jersey Parkway Authority -- after it was determined during a trial
period that people were more likely to throw tomatoes at toll booths
than deposit "Road Tokens".
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satan (Satyen Shah):
Last logout Sun Jul 19 00:08:45 1992
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starflt (Derrick Kong):
An Orange Is an Orange Is an Apple
President Reagan, responding to a press conference question: "I have
always, kind of, held to a rule that until it is --- I will talk about
vetoes in general principle. But until it actually gets to my desk, I
have always said that in the legislative process sometimes an orange
becomes an apple. And I will wait and make that decision."
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