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From world!uunet!hsi!tibbetts Mon Jul 22 20:31:45 EDT 1991
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Article: 6191 of soc.women
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From: tibbetts@hsi.hsi.com (Todd Tibbetts)
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Newsgroups: soc.women
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Subject: =={ america's active unplastic global peace press }==
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Message-ID: <1982@hsi.hsi.com>
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Date: 22 Jul 91 21:27:38 GMT
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"Free Speech Is The Right To Shout
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'Theater' In A Crowded Fire."
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-A Yippie Proverb
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"After the ground war began, captured Iraqi soldiers said
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any of them caught by superiors wearing a white T-shirt
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would be executed because of the ease with which the
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shirts could be used as surrender flags. Some Iraqi
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soldiers carried bleach with them to make their dark
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shirts white..."
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Compiled by Chuck Shepherd
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Funny Times
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May 1991
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"I had never been too political, but I knew how white people
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treated black people and it was hard for me to come back
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to the bullshit white people put a black person
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through in this country. To realize you
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don't have any power to make things
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different is a bitch."
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----------> Miles Davis, the autobiography
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A Touchstone Book, 1989
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"The truth of a thing is the feel of it,
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not the think of it."
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...........Stanley Kubrick
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!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!
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!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!
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!!! "The world is moving toward the final medical epidemic: !!!!!!!
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!!! thermonuclear war. Over the last thirty-six years, both !!!!!!!
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!!! the U.S. and the U.S.S.R. have developed generations of ever !!!!!!!
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!!! more deadly nuclear weapons. Today these superpowers have !!!!!!!
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!!! between them some 50,000 such weapons. Weapons now being !!!!!!!
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!!! developed by both countries will add thousands of warheads, !!!!!!!
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!!! even though Russia and the United States now have enough !!!!!!!
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!!! nuclear weapons to target every town with a population of !!!!!!!
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!!! 10,000 or more. It is said that the Soviet Union has enough !!!!!!!
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!!! weapons to kill every American twenty times, and that !!!!!!!
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!!! America has enough to kill every Russian forty times. As !!!!!!!
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!!! a physician, I know that people can only die once." !!!!!!!
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!!! !!!!!!!
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!!! STOP NUCLEAR WAR! A Handbook !!!!!!!
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!!! !!!!!!!
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!!! David P. Barash, Ph.D. and !!!!!!!
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!!! Judith Eve Lipton, M.D. !!!!!!!
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!!! !!!!!!!
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!!! Grove Press, 1982 !!!!!!!
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!!! !!!!!!!
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!!! !!!!!!!
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!@#$%^&*()_+}{":?><|~!@#$%^&*(()_+?><:"{}_%$#@*()+":';?/.,)(#$@!#@##$%$+_=-
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"There must be more to life
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than having everything."
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===== Maurice Sendak =====
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"Once a woman is helped to see that her
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perceptions are valid and that it is all
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right to want to blame and feel like a
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victim, she can begin moving into the
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rage stage...
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THE FIRST MYTH is that the White Male System is the only thing that exists...
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THE SECOND MYTH is that the White Male System is innately superior...
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THE THIRD MYTH is that the White Male System knows and understands everything...
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THE FOURTH MYTH is that it is possible to be totally logical,
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rational,
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and
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objective."
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Women's Reality
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An Emerging Female System in a White Male Society
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Anne Wilson Schaef
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Harper & Row, 1981
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"When the 'oppressors' become too strict, we have what is
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known as a police state, wherein all dissent is forbidden,
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as is chuckling, showing up in a bow tie, or referring to
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the mayor as 'Fats.' Civil liberties are greatly curtailed
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in a police state, and freedom of speech is unheard of,
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although one is allowed to mime to a record. Opinions
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critical of the government are not tolerated, particularly
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about their dancing. Freedom of the press is also
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curtailed and the ruling party 'manages' the news,
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permitting the citizens to hear only acceptable political
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ideas and ball scores that will not cause unrest."
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Without Feathers
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Woody Allen
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Ballantine Books, 1972
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"ELEVEN
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Thirty spokes share the wheel's hub;
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It is the center hole that makes it useful.
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Shape clay into a vessel;
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It is the space within that makes it useful.
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Cut doors and windows for a room;
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It is the holes which make it useful.
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Therefore profit comes from what is there;
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Usefulness from what is not there.
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SIXTEEN
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Empty yourself of everything.
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Let the mind rest at peace.
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The ten thousand things rise and fall while the Self watches their return.
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They grow and flourish and then return to the source.
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Returning to the source is stillness, which is the way of nature.
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The way of nature is unchanging.
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Knowing constancy is insight.
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Not knowing constancy leads to disaster.
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Knowing constancy, the mind is open.
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With an open mind, you will be openhearted.
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Being openhearted, you will act royally.
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Being royal, you will attain the divine.
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Being divine, you will be at one with the Tao.
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Being at one with the Tao is eternal.
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And though the body dies, the Tao will never pass away."
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TAO TE CHING
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Lao Tsu
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Translation by:
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Gia-Fu Feng and Jane English
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Vintage Books, 1972
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OOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOO
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"The less effort,
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the faster and more powerful you will be."
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......{ Bruce Lee }......
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OOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOO
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"Astronomer Harlow Shapley estimates that there are some (10 to the twentieth
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power) stars within the range of our telescopes. When Shapley associates a
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planetary system with only one in a thousand stars, we may assume that it is
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a very cautious estimate...Without quoting fantastic figures or taking
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unknown galaxies into account,
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we may surmise that there are 18,000 planets comparatively close to the
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earth with conditions essential to life similar to those of our own planet.
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Yet we can go even further and speculate that if only 1 percent of these
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18,000 planets were actually inhabited, there would still be 180 left...
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...But what can have induced the pre-Inca peoples to build the fantastic
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lines, the landing strips, at Nazca? What madness could have driven them
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to create the 820-foot-high stone signs on the red cliffs south of Lima?
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These tasks would have taken decades without modern machines and
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appliances. Their whole activity would have been senseless if the end
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product of their efforts had not been meant as signs to beings
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approaching them from great hights. The stimulating question still has
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to be answered: Why did they do all this if they had no idea that
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flying beings actually existed?"
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Chariots of the Gods?
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Unsolved Mysteries of the Past
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Erich Von Daniken
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Bantam Books, 1968
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xxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxx
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"Jeremy Lynch, a photography student at Ryerson
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Polytechnical Institute in Toronto, claimed in
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November that Lake Ontario is so polluted with
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mercury and iron that he has been able to
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develop photographs using lake water captured
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around factories without adding any chemicals.
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A Toronto pollution control official said he
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did not dispute Lynch's claim."
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Compiled by Chuck Shepherd
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Funny Times
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March 1991
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"Cindy Havens had a problem. Her pet iguana, Pogo Longtail, refused to eat
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any of the pet food she gave him. So Havens started feeding Pogo pot she
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found growing near her house in Ottawa, Ontario. Everything was fine---until
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she was arrested on possession charges. The Canadian police didn't believe
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her tale. But Judge Bernard Ryan did. He concluded that the pot was
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ditchweed and fined her a mere $500 for possession of more than a pound.
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'Now every drug trafficker in the city will be buying iguanas,' the
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judge joked."
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High Times Magazine
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December 1990
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"Stay out of jail."
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"GILLIGAN'S
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Comedy. The series, set on an uncharted
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island in the South Pacific, follows the
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misadventures of the seven members of the
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shipwrecked S.S. Minnow, a sight-seeing
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charter boat that was caught in and
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destroyed by a tropical storm at sea, as
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they struggle for survival and seek a way
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off the island.
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C A S T
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CHARACTER WHAT THEY ACTOR
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NAME WERE NAME
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Jonas Grumby the skipper Alan Hale, Jr.
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Gilligan the first mate Bob Denver
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Ginger Grant beautiful
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movie actress Tina Louise
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Thurston Howell III a millionaire Jim Backus
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Lovey Howell Thurston's
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wife Natalie Schafer
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Mary Anne Summers a pretty
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Kansas clerk Dawn Wells
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Roy Hinkley the professor, a
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brilliant scientist Russell Johnson
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Wrong Way Feldman the pilot
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(occasional visitor to
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the island. His plane:
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'Spirit of the Bronx') Hans Conried
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Dr. Boris Balinkoff the mad
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scientist from a
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nearby island Vito Scotti
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Theme: "The Ballad of Gilligan's Island" by George Wyle and Sherwood Schwartz
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Giligan's Island - 30 minutes - CBS - September 26,
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1964 to September 3, 1967 - 98 episodes - syndicated
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Spinoff series: The New Adventures of Gilligan."
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from the book:
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Television 1970-1980
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Vincent Terrace, 1981
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"As a man abandons worn-out clothes and
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acquires new ones, so when the body is
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worn out a new one is acquired by the Self,
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who lives within.
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The Self cannot be pierced by weapons or
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burned by fire; water cannot wet it, nor can
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the wind dry it. The Self cannot be pierced or
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burned, made wet or dry. It is everlasting and
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infinite, standing on the motionless founda-
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tions of eternity. The Self is unmanifested,
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beyond all thought, beyond all change.
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Knowing this, you should not grieve."
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The Bhagavad Gita
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translated for the modern reader by
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Eknath Easwaran
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Nilgiri Press, 1985
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"Using words to describe magic is like
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using a screwdriver to cut roast beef."
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\\\ Tom Robbins ///
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" 'So tractable, so peaceable, are these people,' Columbus
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wrote to the King and Queen of Spain, 'that I swear to
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your Majesties there is not in the world a better nation.
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They love their neighbors as themselves, and their
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discourse is ever sweet and gentle, and accompanied with
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a smile; and though it is true that they are naked, yet
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their manners are decorous and praiseworthy.'
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All this, of course, was taken as a sign of weakness, if
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not heathenism, and Columbus being a righteous European
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was convinced the people should be 'made to work, sow and
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do all that is necessary and to adopt our ways.' Over the
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next four centuries (1492-1890) several million Europeans
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and their descendants undertook to enforce their ways upon
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the people of the New World...
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...The Raritans resisted arrest,...The Dutch soldiers ran
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their bayonets through men, women, and children, hacked their
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bodies to pieces, and then leveled the villages with fire...
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...The Five Nations of the Iroquois, mightiest and most advanced
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of all the eastern tribes, strove in vain for peace. After
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years of bloodshed to save their political independence, they
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finally went down to defeat. Some escaped to Canada, some fled
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westward, some lived out their lives in reservation confinement."
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Bury My Heart At Wounded Knee
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Dee Brown
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Washington Square Press, (1970) 1981
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"According to Thonglor Markmee, a guardian of the
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Erawan Hindu shrine in downtown Bangkok, increasingly
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larger crowds have made impractical the traditional
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nude dancing by females who visit the shrine to ask
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for good luck. Instead, he reports, some visitors
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seeking good luck have taken to leaving X-rated videos
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inside the shrine.
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In August, two Sweedish government nurses, working for
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a 31-year-old mentally ill man on a holiday (which the
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man paid for) to Turkey, accidentally lost the man at
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Stockholm Airport but, after looking around for him for
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'over an hour,' decided to take the holiday without
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him. Though the nurses had the man's ticket and
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passport, one said the man 'can cope by himself.' He
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was later returned to the hospital 'in worse condition.'"
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compiled by Chuck Shepherd
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Funny Times
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May 1991
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Zen, dude.
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It is like looking for the spectacles
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which rest upon your nose.
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I Q EXAM
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A government task force lead
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by Education Czar Sargent Flip
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Tojam is attempting to pass a
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new law which will require every
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U.S. citizan to take a new I.Q.
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examination to test their innate
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knowledge. Here are some of
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the questions so you can cheat.
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# #
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# PART ONE # MATH COMPREHENSION
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# # ____________________
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QUESTION #1
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If Johny has twelve apples and Susan has four oranges,
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how many pieces of fruit will they have and will they
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be able to open a fruit stand?
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A) 12
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B) 7
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C) Tuesday
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D) Where did Johny get twelve apples? His
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mother never has any fruit in her house.
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QUESTION #2
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If a train leaves Chicago at 4:32pm traveling at 120
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miles per hour and another train leaves New York at
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4:33pm traveling at 6 miles per hour, what will they
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be serving at the snack bar?
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A) Since when does a train leave at 4:32pm?
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B) Is that smoking or non-smoking?
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C) Tuesday
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D) Garbonzo Beans
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QUESTION #3
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===========
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Work the following equation using fundamental math
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skills. (Scratch paper will be provided.)
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Equation: 123+456/(43536^23)-876.9988776655+
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[125%*5423-$14]+666-.5*.6*.7*.8-1+
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(142@654&*+0+0+0-9876^65%/14])()+2=?
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A) Zero
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B) Huh?
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C) Tuesday
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D) Now wait, Susan has how many oranges?
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QUESTION #4
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Charlie has one million dollars. If Sigmund beats
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Charlie senseless and takes the money, how much
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interest will Charlie be losing over a three year
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period at 7%?
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A) Eight Zillion Dollars
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B) What was Charlie doing with that kind of cash?
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C) Tuesday
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D) Zero
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QUESTION #5
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If I intersect a plane with a binomial integer between
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670 and 675, what time will it be when I'm done?
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A) Ten minutes after the train leaves Chicago
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B) Now, were Charlies apples Macintosh or Delicious?
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C) Tuesday
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D) How dare you intersect a plane without it's permission!
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QUESTION #6
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If Pookie had a pizza which was cut into 15 slices and he
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had seven friends over, what percentage of the entire pie
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would each guest get?
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A) None! I've met Pookie before and he's a
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heartless bastard! He won't share anything.
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B) Pepperoni or sausage?
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C) Tuesday
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D) Let's not talk about food while I'm taking a test
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QUESTION #7
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===========
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If you have the number 123.76 and you multiply it by
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334.87, which way will the decimal point move?
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A) Right
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B) Left
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C) Friday
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D) South
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QUESTION #8
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===========
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If a river flows at 600 gallons per second and the wind
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blows in the opposite direction at 85 miles per hour, how
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old is my grandmother?
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A) Listen, this is getting silly
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B) 91
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C) Sunday
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D) Wind blowing at 85mph, now come on!
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E) All of the above
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F) Some of the above
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G) Maybe one or two of the above
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H) A and B
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I) A and C, but sometimes B
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J) Oh, I don't know
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########################
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# #
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# PART TWO # VERBAL COMPREHENSION
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# # _______________________
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QUESTION #1
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===========
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Shampoo is to a totally bald person as:
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A) Peanut butter is to jelly
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B) George Bush is to the U.S.
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C) Waffle irons are to teddy bears
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D) 7
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QUESTION #2
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===========
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Doorknobs are to doors as:
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A) Toes are to hands
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B) Sex is to reproduction
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C) Sex is to jello
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D) Can I have a piece of Pookie's pizza?
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QUESTION #3
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===========
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Read the following paragraph and answer the content
|
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questions to follow.
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When Bobo awoke, he found that all of his bacteria
|
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collection had been stolen. He was pissed and vowed
|
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to seek out and destroy the culprit. Bobo searched
|
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day in and day out until he found the man who had
|
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stolen his bacteria. The culprit's name was Fidel
|
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Castro. (No, not the famous one.) Fidel stabbed
|
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Bobo in the chest 365 times until he died.
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A) What are the social ramifications of
|
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Bobo's collection?
|
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B) Why do you think the author chooses to have
|
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Fidel stab Bobo 365 times? (Hint: 365 days in a year)
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C) What religious imagery is present?
|
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D) What was Bobo's last name?
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QUESTION #4
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===========
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Define Genocide:
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A) The side of a Geno
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B) George Bush
|
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C) When Genos kill themselves
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D) A clay brick
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QUESTION #5
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===========
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Define Reconnoiter:
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A) To connoiter a second time
|
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C) A new improved jelly-like bath shampoo
|
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B) Something disgusting done with the pelvic region
|
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Z) 7
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QUESTION #6
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Define Limpkin:
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A) When your family can't stand up by themselves
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2) When a family member has a leg removed
|
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C) How a German, learning English, pronounces napkin
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D) Something disgusting done with the ear
|
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E) Will this stuff really help me in real life?
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Todd Tibbetts
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Platypus Magazine, april 1989
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123456789123456789123456789123456789123456789123456789123456789123456789
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"Coltrane Live at Birdland Impulse A-50
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John Coltrane, tenor and soprano saxophones
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McCoy Tyner, piano
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Jimmy Garrison, bass
|
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Elvin Jones, drums
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(I) (II)
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1. 'Afro-Blue' 1. 'The Promise'
|
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2. 'I Want to Talk about You' 2. 'Alabama'
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3. 'Your Lady'
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ONE OF THE most baffling things about America is that despite its essentially
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vile profile, so much beauty continues to exist here. Perhaps it's as so
|
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many thinkers have said, that it is because of the vileness, or call it
|
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adversity, that such beauty does exist. (As balance?)"
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Black Music
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Leroi Jones
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Quill, 1967
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____________________________________________________________________________
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"Until we loose ourselves
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there is no hope of finding ourselves."
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_____Henry Miller_____
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XxXxXxXxXxXxXxXxXxXxXxXxXxXxXxXxXxXxXxXxXxXxXxXxXxXxXxXxXxXxXxXxXxXxXxXxXxXxX
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"RAGE
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=====
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You are the dark song
|
|
of the morning;
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|
serious and slow,
|
|
you shave, you dress,
|
|
you descend the stairs
|
|
in your public clothes
|
|
and drive away, you become
|
|
the wise and powerful one
|
|
who makes all the days
|
|
possible in the world.
|
|
But you were also the red song
|
|
in the night,
|
|
stumbling through the house
|
|
to the child's bed,
|
|
to the damp rose of her body,
|
|
leaving your bitter taste.
|
|
And forever those nights snarl
|
|
the delicate machinery of the days.
|
|
When the child's mother smiles
|
|
you see on her cheekbones
|
|
a truth you will never confess;
|
|
and you see how the child grows-
|
|
timidly, crouching in corners.
|
|
Sometimes in the wide night
|
|
you hear the most mournful cry,
|
|
a ravished and terrible moment.
|
|
In your dreams she's a tree
|
|
that will never come to leaf-
|
|
in your dreams she's a watch
|
|
you dropped on the dark stones
|
|
till no one could gather the fragments-
|
|
in your dreams you have sullied and murdered,
|
|
and dreams do not lie."
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DREAM WORK
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|
Mary Oliver
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|
The Atlantic Monthly Press, 1986
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OoOoOoOoOoOoOoOoOoOoOoOoOoOoOoOoOoOoOoOoOoOoOoOoOoOoOoOoOoOoOoOoOoOoOoOoOoOoOoO
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"After the success of "Coconuts" he [Groucho Marx]
|
|
bought a house in the suburban Long Island community
|
|
of Great Neck and inquired about joining a restricted
|
|
swimming club. The manager told him that the club
|
|
could not accept his application because of its policy against admitting Jews. Groucho thought for a moment
|
|
and asked, 'Well, then how about my son? He's only
|
|
half Jewish. Can he go into the water up to
|
|
his waist?' "
|
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|
|
The Portable Curmudgeon
|
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|
|
compiled and edited by:
|
|
Jon Winokur
|
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|
|
New American Library Books, 1987
|
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)( )( )( )( )( )( )( )( )( )( )( )( )( )( )( )( )( )( )( )( )( )( )( )( )( )(
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"the poetry reading
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|
|
|
at high noon
|
|
at a small college near the beach
|
|
sober
|
|
the sweat running down my arms
|
|
a spot of sweat on the table
|
|
I flatten it with my finger
|
|
blood money blood money
|
|
my god they must think I love this like the others
|
|
but it's for bread and beer and rent
|
|
blood money
|
|
I'm tense lousy feel bad
|
|
poor people I'm falling I'm falling
|
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|
|
a woman gets up
|
|
walks out
|
|
slams the door
|
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|
|
a dirty poem
|
|
somebody told me not to read dirty poems
|
|
here
|
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|
|
it's too late.
|
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|
|
my eyes can't see some lines
|
|
I read it
|
|
out ---
|
|
desperate trembling
|
|
lousy
|
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|
|
they can't hear my voice
|
|
and I say,
|
|
I quit, that's it, I'm
|
|
finished.
|
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|
|
and later in my room
|
|
there's scotch and beer:
|
|
the blood of a coward.
|
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|
|
this then
|
|
will be my destiny:
|
|
scrabbling for pennies in dark tiny halls
|
|
reading poems I have long since become tired
|
|
of.
|
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|
|
and I used to think
|
|
that men who drove busses
|
|
or cleaned out latrines
|
|
or murdered men in alleys were
|
|
fools."
|
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M O C K
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|
|
I N G
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B I R D
|
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W I S H
|
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M E
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L U C K
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|
|
Charles Bukowski
|
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|
|
Black Sparrow Press, 1988
|
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|
_____________________________________________%^*&$_________________-_____
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|
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|
|
"We find, in talking to nongay people about homosexuality, that there is
|
|
an enormous interest in what actually goes on in bed. We could
|
|
summarize the whole subject by saying that gay men do all the things
|
|
men everywhere either do or would like to do, and women offer each other
|
|
all the things that women everywhere like or would like to have done
|
|
to them. In most cases, lovers take turns being the active or passive
|
|
partner, but of course no hard and fast rules exist about who does what
|
|
to whom-it's a matter of individual preference. There is no way we can
|
|
describe everybody's love life because infinite possibilities for
|
|
variety exist, all of them doubtless practiced with vigor and
|
|
enthusiasm by any number of people.
|
|
|
|
But we can try, for the sake of parents who want to know, to be a
|
|
little more specific..."
|
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|
|
Now That You Know
|
|
What Every Parent Should Know About Homosexuality
|
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|
|
Betty Fairchild and Nancy Hayward
|
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|
|
Harcourt Brace Jovanovich, 1979
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:::::::::::::::::::::::::::::::::::::::::::::::::::::::::::::::::::::::::
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|
|
"Life is all memory except for the one present moment
|
|
that goes by so quick you can hardly catch it going."
|
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|
|
::: Tennessee Williams :::
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+++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++
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+ +
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+ +
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+ "And I saw in the right hand of him who was seated +
|
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+ on the throne a scroll written within and on the +
|
|
+ back, sealed with seven seals; and I saw a strong +
|
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+ angel proclaiming with a loud voice, 'Who is worthy +
|
|
+ to open the scroll and break it's seals?' And no +
|
|
+ one in heaven or on earth or under the earth was +
|
|
+ able to open the scroll or to look into it, and I +
|
|
+ wept much that no one was found worthy to open +
|
|
+ the scroll or to look into it. Then one of the +
|
|
+ elders said to me, 'Weep not; lo, the Lion of the +
|
|
+ tribe of Judah, the Root of David, has conquered, +
|
|
+ so that he can open the scroll and its seven seals." +
|
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+ +
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+ The Bible +
|
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+ Revelation 5 +
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+ +
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|
+++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++
|
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"As far as the laws of mathematics refer to reality,
|
|
they are not certain;
|
|
as far as they are certain,
|
|
they do not refer to reality."
|
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|
Albert Einstein
|
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--
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Todd Tibbetts
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tibbetts@hsi.com
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