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THE PURPLE THUNDERBOLT OF SPODE VOL 1, 16
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"Kenyon's Very Own Non Alien Run REPLIES TO: STEVENSJ
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SOMETHING WHICH MIGHT, IN THE CORRECT FRAME OF MIND, LOOK SORT OF
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LIKE A TABLE OF CONTENTS
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Introduction: The Made for TV Edition...
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News: Heaviest Element Found! PARTY INFORMATION!
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OTISian Rants: The Creation of the Universe, TOLD TWICE!
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(Diferent, nay, _Conflicting_ versions,. WHAT CAN IT MEAN?)
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Other Rants: Clip and Save Quayle Quotes, The Uses of Cheeze!
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INTRODUCTION
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("Television is called a 'medium' cause there's nothing rare or
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well done on it"-- someone on Iscabbs.)
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[Cue Sappy Music]
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Ah, you again. Well, welcome to the 16th issue of _The_
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_Purple_ _Thunderbolt_ _of_ _Spode_, the "made for TV edition".
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Like all TV presentations, it's sappy, close captioned for the
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hearing impaired, plotless and edited for television (only 15
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pages this time, folks...). Unlike most of television, it's also
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rather funny, particularly the Quayle quotes (had to have
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something in here by the made for TV vice pres. after all), but
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that can't be helped.
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Our final issue of the school year is not too far off.
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Someone should be putting this out over summer vacation, but of
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course only our non-colloege subscribers will receive summer
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copies. (Do please write and let me know if you want to be on
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the summer mailing list or not).
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Anyway, sit back and enjoy the thrills, chills, spills and
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cheezy jokes of Purps, 16, the "made for Television issue".
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[Roll Credits]
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"PURPS": The Made for TV Issue:
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Staring:
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Father Quido Sarduci as Pope Jeffe
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Don Knots as Mike Dow
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Barbra Walters as Victoria Hill
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Micky Mouse as OTIS
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James Earl Jones as B.OTIS, Too
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Vanna White in a Part With, Fortunately, Neither Lines Nor Queues
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and
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Jeff Stevens and Reid Carlberg, as himself
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The Scenery is preformed by:
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Academic Light and Magic, With Jerry Lee Louis on Bass.
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Transportation Made Possible by:
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The U.S. Army & Around 200,000 Dead [Whew! THAT should get me
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in trouble... who me, bitter?]
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Specail Thanks to:
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Jim Henson, for allowing his name to appear here
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and Liza "Q" Wirtz for providing the News.
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News
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PURPS.STUFF--- PARTIES, PARTIES, PARTIES!!!!
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WED, APR 9, 5:00pm, GUND-- Banquet of the Gods!
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We have a sheet and a box now, and need only candlesticks and
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candles to bring off the dinner of the CENTURY! "Formal" or very
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creative dress requested. Please be there at 5:00 on the nose so
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we can all parade in together, and help make everyone's day a
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little more surreal!
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FRI, APR 11, 8:00PM, Farr Hall Porch-- The SPRING OTISian
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Libation Party!
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Come libate the Kenyon monuments and your stomachs in the name of
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OTIS (to entreate her/him not to fail my comps, HAIL OTIS!). For
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those of you who missed the last one, this involves running
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around campus, drinking and pouring wine on everything in the
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name of OTIS, and avoiding security which doesn't take kindly to
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such expressions of religious freedom.
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OTHER NEWS
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<><><><><><><><> The VOGON News Service <><><><><><><>
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Local News
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Physicists at the Harwell nuclear research station claim to
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have discovered the heaviest element known to science --
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administratium. It has no protons or electrons and the atomic
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number is zero. It consists of one nutron, eight assistant
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neutrons, 10 executive neutrons, 35 vice-neutrons and 256
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assistant vice-neutrons. Completely inert, it can be detected
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chemically because it impedes every action with which it
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comes into contact...
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{News courtesy of the London Times }
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OTISIAN RANTS
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(in which everything worth knowing about absolutely everything will be
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revealed!)
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[THIS WEEK, Brown Buckets, The CREATION OF THE UNIVERSE! More!]
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From: VAX001::HILLV "Everybody dance--well, now it's more like two
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weeks..." 29-MAR-1991 21:11:59.42
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Subj: fezz hats, brown buckets and symbolism
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From the first instant of the conception of the planet earth, yea verily,
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from the dawn of time, long before the Gobi, or the birth of the first yak,
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or even ARA tofu pudding (in six tasty flavors, designed to tempt the
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tummy), there were English majors. At first, they just sat about in the
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nothingness of the pre-existant universe, and pretended to think deep
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thoughts. As there was really not all that much to think about, a precedent
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was thus set for all future English majors.
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Several billion whatevers later, when whatever it is that created the
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universe finally got organized enough to begin, and OTIS and Athena and
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Thomson popped up, laid back, ordered a few drinks and started demanding
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that they be worshipped, the English majors raised quite a fuss. After all,
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hadn't they been running about doing absolutely nothing first? It just
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wasn't fair that these upstarts who suddenly had gotten the bright idea of
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refering to themselves as "figures of power" and "deserving of worship",
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should get all the attention. (Not to mention the top billing...)
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"Look here," said one of the newly self-created gods to the English
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majors, "we need veneration, lest we cease to exist as gods, and have this
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free and easy life-style which we have so joyously embarked upon." There was
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much enthusiastic response from the rest of the gods at the words, "free and
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easy life-style." The English majors glowered at the gods, but agreed that
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this was indeed true. "Since the whole concept of worshipping us is so
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completely absurd, we need to cloud the issue. Make things so complex that
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no one will ever think to question why it is that they worship us, send us
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all their money, etc. Thus, we need to create---"there was a great hiss amid
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the assembly as the speaker fumbled to create words--"we need to
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create--create"
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"SYMBOLISM!!," cried the English majors in chorus. "Let nothing mean what it
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actually is! Let things stand for each other! Let one thing represent
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another! And let anything be whatever an English major says it might be,
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provided that they can support their claim with a thesis and a brief summary
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of all crucial points and a conclusion!"
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And there was much rejoicing from the people and the gods and the
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marsupials, and the English majors immidiately formed a large arguent as to
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the exact meaning which was in future to be attached to the words "thesis"
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"crucial points" and "conclusion" and what an appropriate length might be
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for essays on symbolism and the merits of double spacing.
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Much later, the bucket was invented. My research has inconclusivly not
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proved that the first bucket was, in fact, a purple and mauve plaid blend.
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The bucket was designed to hold things without spilling. (My research
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suggested that the first bucket ws designed to hold the all-holy aspertame
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by-products at the celebration of the Feast of St. Lulu's, but this may only
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be a legend.) The handle was considered to be a convinient way to carry said
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bucket, but probably the least important part of the sacred object.
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Much much much later, Austrolapithacus and his pals were running around the
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jungles of Australia, and noticed, as if from far off, a brown plaid bucket
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hanging from a tree branch. The holy relic of the celebration of the Feast
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of St. Lulu's, thought by its designers to have been lost forever, had been
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found! Well, it might as well have been lost forever, as the designers never
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got it back. Instead, Austrol and company carried it home and pondered
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intently upon its meaning. At length, they appealed to the gods. "Explain to
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us the mystery of the brown bucket which we have found!"
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"Be more than glad to," said a passing English major. "Just skip with the
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god stuff." The English major had not forgotten the slight of years ago, and
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saw a way in which the gods could be had. "You see, the brown bucket is
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holy. In fact, it's pretty damned neat. So here's what you're going to do.
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You're going to give it to me. In return, I will give you that which will be
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symbolic of the brown bucket, which you will then be able to replicate and
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pass on to as many of your people as you like. Out of one I can create
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many."
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"But," replied Austrol, "we like our bucket! And what is this "symbolism"
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stuff anyway?"
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And the English major didst confuse Austrol and company with full nine pages
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of a bullshit thesis, crucial points and conclusion. The assembled at
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length, not wishing to appear to be the ignorant and foolish creatures which
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the English major knew them to be, informed their neighbors loudly that "all
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right, all right, they got the point, give us the symbol already."
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The English major did then give to Austrol and company the remaining fezz
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hats (left over from the party thrown the night before). "But what of the
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handle?" The English major, having better things ot waste his time doing,
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replied, "the gold tassel. It is symbolic."
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"But--"
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"They both hang, don't they? They both tend to break and twist and warp and
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are possibly the least important part of the whole thing, don't you think?"
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Austrol and company, wishing to avoid hearing a doctoral thesis on the issue
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of fezz hats and buckets, quietly agreed. And teh English major left with
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the bucket and made some really neat punch in it that night at the party.
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Austrol and his friends just sort of evolved and died out.
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Here endeth the historical dissertation.
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(Thanks be.)
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From: VAX001::WINS%"M.S.Dow@exeter.ac.uk" 31-MAR-1991 13:00:54.56
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To: STEVENSJ
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Subj: Re: THE OTISian NEW YEAR CELEB!
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As a special new year's treat, on that special day named for me, I thought
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I'd share with you the sensational, never-before-told story of the creation
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of the Heavens, the Earth(s), and any other fiddly bits that may or may not
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have gotten lost around here somewhere(Spode swears they slipped between the
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cushions, but I don't know, I was born a week from now, not yesterday....)by
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OTIS. This is the OFFICIAL AND COMPLETE TRUTH, at least until something
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funnier comes along.
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Now, as probably all of you know, a lot of different people have
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offered many different versions of the creation or origin of universe, a
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fact which Douglas Adams used to great effect in his philosophical block-
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buster, the Hitchhiker's Guide to the Galaxy, and most of you are thus
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familiar with the Great Green Arkelsiezure theory. This explanation,
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created purely as a joke by Adams, is one of the few completely untrue
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accounts of the events in question. The idea that this universe is simply
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the dream of Brahma or Vishnu or whoever as he sits on a lotus-pad is also
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incorrect. Brahma(or whoever) IS dreaming a Universe alright, but as we now
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know, he dreams in black and white, and OUR Universe is clearly
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color(although probably not Kodakolor).
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The other mistaken version is the Big Bang theory. However crucial
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the Big Bang may have been(and that is always a dodgy and rather personal
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subject) it had been over for about nine months by the time the Universe
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first existed, so clearly any part it may have played was a behind the
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scenes indirect one. All the other theories are basically correct. Not only
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did it take six days, beginning with OTIS saying "Let's have some light" and
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exerting lots of willpower, She was also giving birth to it, which was a
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very traumatic and painful process for Her, as should be obvious from the
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immense size of the Universe. At the same time, OTIS was actually excreting
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the Universe, and realizing that He was the Universe, and that as He/it was
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rapidly expanding, He/it was thus rapidly becoming fat(which is why OTIS has
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been known to strike people down for careless wisecracks), and He/She/It was
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molding the Universe out of clay, marble, wood, sheet-metal, playing cards,
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the leavings of an ARA meal, styrofoam, cardboard, glass and/or legos. [NB
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If there's nothing better to hand, why not worship legos this week?]
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Eventually, the creating/birthing/defecating/shaping was done, and OTIS
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was knackered. (Six days is a long time to be in labor, especially with a
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Universe, and how many days to rest up after did She get???? Right, so let's
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not have any more little witticisms about OTIS sleeping late, got it?)
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Anyway, there's OTIS, (with) a brand new Universe. The problem is, the
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Universe has a real short attention-span, see. After one measley day, its
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bored out of its uh, its..... cognitive galaxies. (whew, that was close) and
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it starts pestering OTIS for more, more, more, more, MORE, MORE, MORE,
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MOREMOREMOREMORE!! Poor OTIS did #%&'s best, but after 364(a small sect I
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won't identify contend 365, and since once every four years or so they take
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over the world and change things to suit them, we have leap years. But
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that's getting ahead of myself) days of this, OTIS, still very tired from
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the Beginning, had run out of ideas. In desperation, #%& screamed "AAAAAGH,
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I'm going crazy!!!". All would have been lost, had not a small demon named
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Rupert Murdoch appeared with an idea.
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"Why not simply recycle and re-use all the ideas you had endlessly, using
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poor quality and cheap production values. That'll allow you to keep the by-
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now-several-trillion-light-years-in-diameter bugger occupied, and allow you
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some free time."
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"I/We have an even better idea,"said OTIS, and stuck the hapless demon with
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the job, which is why so much of the world's media is the way it is. OTIS,
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however, only got one day of rest when Rupert Murdoch started the year over
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again, since basically he just recycled the events of the past. Which meant
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she only got the one day.
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Now aren't you glad I told you?
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Grinnin Foole
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From: unx20028@unx2.ucc.okstate.edu (Bryan Cooper)
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Newsgroups: rec.humor
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Subject: apocolypse when
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TWENTY MODERN-DAY SIGNS OF THE APOCOLYPSE.
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1. Taxes drop.
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2. National Enquirer's pshycic predictions come true.
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3. Dick Clark ages.
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4. AFC victory in the Super-Bowl.
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5. Cosby in a funny movie.
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6. Speilberg wins an Oscar.
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7. Ann Landers and Dear Abbey reconcile.
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8. PBS captures a market-share.
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9. Cessation of MCI/AT&T marketting blitz.
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10. Vice-President we can respect.
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11. America produces own oil.
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12. Any Atlanta team produces a winning season.
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13. NBC gets another shot at the Olympics.
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14. Anything newsworthy reported in People Magazine.
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15. Cher finds Mr. Right.
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16. Joe Montana retires.
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17. Consistent NCAA basketball referees.
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18. One Unix.
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19. Bestsellers list that doesn't include Danielle Steel, Stephen
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King, or Robin Cook.
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20. Black people appear in Country and Western videos.
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OTHER RANTS
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(in which absolutely nothing will be revealed at all)
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[THIS WEEK! Clip 'n' Save [TM] Quayle Quotes!]
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From: VAX001::WINS%"<el406007%BROWNVM.bitnet%UMRVMB.UMR.EDU@uga.cc.uga.edu>"
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1-APR-1991 11:57:25.90
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To: STEVENSJ
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Subj: Quotes from the vice president
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Return-Path: <@uga.cc.uga.edu:ACTIV-L@UMCVMB.BITNET>
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It may be April Fool's day, but this is _all_ real...
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Bobby Knight told me this: 'There is nothing that a good defense
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cannot beat a better offense.' In other words a good offense wins.
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-- Vice President Dan Quayle comparing the
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offensive capabilities of the Warsaw Pact
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with the defensive system of NATO
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Why wouldn't an enhanced deterrent, a more stable peace, a better
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prospect to denying the ones who enter conflict in the first place
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to have a reduction of offensive systems and an introduction to
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defensive capability. I believe that is the route this country
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will eventually go.
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-- Vice President Dan Quayle
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Republicans understand the importance of bondage between a mother and child.
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-- Vice President Dan Quayle
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Mars is essentially in the same orbit... somewhat the same distance from the
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Sun, which is very important. We have seen pictures where there are canals,
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we believe, and water. If there is water, that means there is oxygen. If
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oxygen, that means we can breathe.
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-- Vice President Dan Quayle
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Hawaii has always been a very pivotal role in the Pacific. It is IN
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the Pacific. It is a part of the United States that is an island that
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is right here.
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-- Vice President Dan Quayle,
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Hawaii, September 1989
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What a terrible thing to have lost one's mind. Or not to have a mind
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at all. How true that is.
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-- Vice President Dan Quayle winning friends while
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speaking to the United Negro College Fund
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You all look like happy campers to me. Happy campers you are, happy
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campers you have been, and, as far as I am concerned, happy campers you
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will always be.
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-- Vice President Dan Quayle, to the American Samoans,
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whose capital Quayle pronounces "Pogo Pogo"
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Quayle stumbled in response to a question about his opinion of the
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Holocaust. He said it was "an obscene period in our nation's history."
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Then, trying to clarify his remark, Quayle said he meant "this century's
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history" and added a confusing comment. "We all lived in this century,
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I didn't live in this century," he said.
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-- Vice President Dan Quayle
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We expect them [Salvadoran officials] to work toward the elimination
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of human rights.
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-- Vice President Dan Quayle
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El Salvador is a democracy so it's not surprising that there are many voices
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to be heard here. Yet in my conversations with Salvadorans... I have heard a
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single voice.
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-- Vice President Dan Quayle
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I believe we are on an irreversible trend toward more freedom and
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democracy - but that could change.
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-- Vice President Dan Quayle
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One word sums up probably the responsibility of any vice president,
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and that one word is 'to be prepared'.
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-- Vice President Dan Quayle
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If we do not succeed, then we run the risk of failure.
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-- Vice President Dan Quayle, to the Phoenix Republican
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Forum, March 1990
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It's rural America. It's where I came from. We always refer to ourselves
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as real America. Rural America, real America, real, real, America.
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-- Vice President Dan Quayle
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Target prices? How that works? I know quite a bit about farm policy.
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I come from Indiana, which is a farm state. Deficiency payments -
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which are the key - that is what gets money into the farmer's hands.
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We got loan, uh, rates, we got target, uh, prices, uh, I have worked
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very closely with my senior colleague, (Indiana Sen.) Richard Lugar,
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making sure that the farmers of Indiana are taken care of.
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-- Vice President Dan Quayle on being asked to
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define the term "target prices."
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Quayle's press secretary then cut short the press
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conference, after two minutes and 30 seconds.
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Why wouldn't an enhanced deterrent, a more stable peace, a better
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prospect to denying the ones who enter conflict in the first place
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to have a reduction of offensive systems and an introduction to
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defensive capability. I believe that is the route this country
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will eventually go.
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-- Vice President Dan Quayle
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I not going to focus on what I have done in the past
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what I stand for, what I articulate to the American people.
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The American people will judge me on what I am saying and what I
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have done in the last 12 years in the Congress.
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-- Vice President Dan Quayle
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|
I want to be Robin to Bush's Batman.
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-- Vice President Dan Quayle
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|
We should develop anti-satellite weapons because we could not have prevailed
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|
without them in 'Red Storm Rising'.
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|
-- Vice President Dan Quayle
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The US has a vital interest in that area of the country.
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-- Vice President Dan Quayle Referring to Latin America.
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|
Japan is an important ally of ours. Japan and the United States of
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|
the Western industrialized capacity, 60 percent of the GNP,
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|
two countries. That's a statement in and of itself.
|
||
|
-- Vice President Dan Quayle
|
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|
|
||
|
Who would have predicted... that Dubcek, who brought the tanks in in
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Czechoslovakia in 1968 is now being proclaimed a hero in Czechoslovakia.
|
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|
Unbelievable.
|
||
|
-- Vice President Dan Quayle
|
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|
Actually, Dubcek was the leader of the Prague Spring.
|
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|
||
|
May our nation continue to be the beakon of hope to the world.
|
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|
-- The Quayle's 1989 Christmas card.
|
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|
[Not a beacon of literacy, though.]
|
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|
|
||
|
Well, it looks as if the top part fell on the bottom part.
|
||
|
-- Vice President Dan Quayle referring to
|
||
|
the collapsed section of the 880 freeway after
|
||
|
the San Francisco earthquake of 1989.
|
||
|
[this may be a joke; the source is unclear.
|
||
|
but it's still funny]
|
||
|
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||
|
getting [cruise missles] more accurate so that we can have precise
|
||
|
precision.
|
||
|
-- Vice President Dan Quayle referring to his legislative
|
||
|
work dealing with cruise missles
|
||
|
|
||
|
I can identify with steelworkers. I can identify with workers that
|
||
|
have had a difficult time.
|
||
|
-- Vice President Dan Quayle addressing workers at
|
||
|
an Ohio steel plant,1988
|
||
|
|
||
|
[I will never have] another Jimmy Carter grain embargo, Jimmy,
|
||
|
Jimmy Carter, Jimmy Carter grain embargo, Jimmy Carter grain embargo.
|
||
|
-- Vice President Dan Quayle during the Benson debate
|
||
|
|
||
|
Certainly, I know what to do, and when I am Vice President -- and
|
||
|
I will be -- there will be contingency plans under different sets of
|
||
|
situations and I tell you what, I'm not going to go out and hold a news
|
||
|
conference about it. I'm going to put it in a safe and keep it there! Does
|
||
|
that answer your question?
|
||
|
-- Vice President Dan Quayle when asked what he
|
||
|
would do if he assumed the Presidency,1988
|
||
|
|
||
|
Lookit, I've done it their way this far and now it's my turn. I'm
|
||
|
my own handler. Any questions? Ask me ... There's not going to be any more
|
||
|
handler stories because I'm the handler ... I'm Doctor Spin.
|
||
|
-- Vice President Dan Quayle responding to press reports of
|
||
|
his aides having to, in effect, "potty train" him.
|
||
|
|
||
|
I would guess that there's adequate low-income housing in this
|
||
|
country.
|
||
|
-- Vice President Dan Quayle
|
||
|
|
||
|
Verbosity leads to unclear, inarticulate things.
|
||
|
-- Vice President Dan Quayle
|
||
|
|
||
|
The real question for 1988 is whether we're going to go forward to
|
||
|
tomorrow or past to the -- to the back!
|
||
|
-- Vice President Dan Quayle
|
||
|
|
||
|
We will invest in our people, quality education, job opportunity,
|
||
|
family, neighborhood, and yes, a thing we call America.
|
||
|
-- Vice President Dan Quayle, 1988
|
||
|
|
||
|
We'll let the sunshine in and shine on us, because today we're
|
||
|
happy and tomorrow we'll be even happier.
|
||
|
-- Vice President Dan Quayle, 1988
|
||
|
|
||
|
We're going to have the best-educated American people in the
|
||
|
world.
|
||
|
-- Vice President Dan Quayle
|
||
|
|
||
|
This election is about who's going to be the next President of the
|
||
|
United States!
|
||
|
-- Vice President Dan Quayle, 1988
|
||
|
|
||
|
Don't forget about the importance of the family. It begins with
|
||
|
the family. We're not going to redefine the family. Everybody knows the
|
||
|
definition of the family. [Meaningful pause] A child. [Meaningful pause] A
|
||
|
mother. [Meaningful pause] A father. There are other arrangements of the
|
||
|
family, but that is a family and family values.
|
||
|
I've been very blessed with wonderful parents and a wonderful
|
||
|
family, and I am proud of my family. Anybody turns to their family. I have
|
||
|
a very good family. I'm very fortunate to have a very good family. I
|
||
|
believe very strongly in the family. It's one of the things we have in
|
||
|
our platform, is to talk about it.
|
||
|
I suppose three important things certainly come to my mind that we
|
||
|
want to say thank you. The first would be our family. Your family, my
|
||
|
family -- which is composed of an immediate family of a wife and three
|
||
|
children, a larger family with grandparents and aunts and uncles. We all
|
||
|
have our family, whichever that may be ... The very beginnings of
|
||
|
civilization, the very beginnings of this country, goes back to the family.
|
||
|
And time and time again, I'm often reminded, especially in this
|
||
|
Presidential campaign, of the importance of a family, and what a family
|
||
|
means to this country. And so when you pay thanks I suppose the first thing
|
||
|
that would come to mind would be to thank the Lord for the family.
|
||
|
-- Vice President Dan Quayle
|
||
|
--------------------------------------------------------------------------
|
||
|
From: VAX001::SCHROEDER "Lemur Fun Kit (TM)" 1-APR-1991 16:31:34.03
|
||
|
To: @MALFOLKS
|
||
|
CC: JAMES CHRIS DREW KARL TOFFER JASON SCOTT
|
||
|
Subj: Tactical Uses for Cheese in Gaming!
|
||
|
|
||
|
|
||
|
"CHEESE IN THE HOME AND GARDEN"
|
||
|
|
||
|
An amateur users guide in several parts
|
||
|
|
||
|
1. Edam:
|
||
|
Full name Dnalloh ni Edam; a bright red marker-cheese handy for
|
||
|
warning the incautious - or thick - away from danger areas such as
|
||
|
garden ponds or unreprocessed Pot Noodles.
|
||
|
In larger sizes Edam makes reasonably aerodynamic ballista
|
||
|
ammunition. Incendiaries can be made by setting light to the wax
|
||
|
coating, though a quick dip in napalm improves burning, impact
|
||
|
lethality and - frankly - your own chances of a serious accident.
|
||
|
Caution, Edam is not a suitable port-side channel marker in
|
||
|
marine contexts - it sinks.
|
||
|
|
||
|
2. Gouda:
|
||
|
Indistinguishable from Edam except in features where they
|
||
|
differ. A well domesticated Netherlands cheese; it can be taught
|
||
|
simple tricks or simply rubbed on the affected parts. Try grouting
|
||
|
your bathroom tiles with it, or not.
|
||
|
|
||
|
3. Bree:
|
||
|
A runny, French, dioxin flavoured cheese. Definitely the home
|
||
|
cheesophile's first choice in the biochemical warfare sector. In the
|
||
|
native natural state it seethes with listeria and so can be simply
|
||
|
placed in a prominent location to scare off birds or the type of
|
||
|
pretentious git who thinks eating nasty frog crap is more
|
||
|
"sophisticated" than a good honest lump of traditional Taiwanese
|
||
|
cheddar.
|
||
|
|
||
|
4. Parmisan:
|
||
|
In powdered form this Italian cheese is especially useless
|
||
|
against slugs. In solid form it has greater potential. There is a
|
||
|
case on record of an Italian woman stabbing her husband to death with
|
||
|
a piece (honest!). It remains the only civilian cheese that can be
|
||
|
properly sharpened.
|
||
|
Broken into chunks and mixed with sand and cement it makes a
|
||
|
durable concrete. Be warned however that once in this form it should
|
||
|
not be eaten with pasta as constipation and probably agonizing death
|
||
|
will result. Parmisan chunks packed around approximately half a
|
||
|
pound of plastic explosive in a large rice pudding tin can form the
|
||
|
basis for just the kind of low cost anti-personnel ordinance we all
|
||
|
need for keeping children, dogs, anarchists and Stock, Aitken and
|
||
|
Waterman off the front lawn.
|
||
|
|
||
|
Next time: Gorgonzola - an economic alternative to mustard gas?
|
||
|
Cream cheese - in the bedroom, hanging upside down from
|
||
|
the light fitting, with a green salad, it's
|
||
|
a free country!
|
||
|
|
||
|
By Duncan Cockayne. Originally printed in issue #3 of _New Fusion_,
|
||
|
published by the University of Warwick Science Fiction & Fantasy
|
||
|
Society, Coventry, England. Reproduced without permission.
|
||
|
|
||
|
|
||
|
Robert D. Schroeder \ / The Minister O' Slack, The Lemur,
|
||
|
E-mail: schroeder@vax001.kenyon.edu X Screaming Prophet Of OTIS
|
||
|
Triumphant,
|
||
|
robert@bbs.shark.cs.fau.edu / \ and various other random entities
|
||
|
-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=
|
||
|
"You can find gags anywhere, provided you're prepared to go into these odd
|
||
|
little places." - Terry Pratchett
|
||
|
|
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|
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|
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|
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Neither censored nor edited. Deal.
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