[760] in Humor
HUMOR: Ouch!
daemon@ATHENA.MIT.EDU (Andrew A. Bennett)
Thu Mar 9 15:25:21 1995
To: humor@MIT.EDU
Date: Thu, 09 Mar 1995 15:20:19 EST
From: "Andrew A. Bennett" <abennett@MIT.EDU>
Date: Thu, 09 Mar 1995 19:04:08 +0000 (GMT)
From: Espacionaute Spiff domine! <MATOSSIAN@aries.colorado.edu>
From: bostic@CS.Berkeley.EDU (Keith Bostic)
Forwarded-by: kevindu@atm.com (Kevin J. Dunlap)
Forwarded-by: Eric Anderson <eta@halcyon.com>
For those who following the less-than-mainstream sports, did you catch
the footage of the latest from the America's Cup races? It seems the main
contender from this part of the world, oneAustralia, ran into a bit o'
nasty weather 7 miles off San Diego. The yacht spilt open in the middle
and sank in less than 90 seconds (sorry, no floating sailor-based fishbait
resulted). But that's not the tasteless bit...
The following day (yesterday), a full page add appeared in the New Zealand
newspapers (they are the arch rivals of Australia; kinda like New York
and New Jersey, the British and the French, California and the rest of
the world, etc.). The add said:
"Bad luck Australia.
Try sinking one of these instead"
Then a picture of a bottle of Steinlager, the main exported beer from NZ.
The tag line at the end said:
"Steinlager. The only thing that goes down faster than an Australian yacht."
