Relay-Version: version B 2.10 5/3/83; site utzoo.UUCP Path: utzoo!linus!philabs!seismo!hao!cires!nbires!ut-ngp!werner From: werner@ut-ngp.UUCP Newsgroups: net.jokes Subject: Cactus Pryor reflects on the news (7/8/83) Message-ID: <417@ut-ngp.UUCP> Date: Sat, 9-Jul-83 03:13:02 EDT Article-I.D.: ut-ngp.417 Posted: Sat Jul 9 03:13:02 1983 Date-Received: Sat, 9-Jul-83 19:54:55 EDT Lines: 31 The news , according to Cactus Prior ===================================== (Cactus is an Austin-original and these are his comments on the news in his daily column in the Austin American Statesman:) A defendant showed up for trial in Memphis, Tenn., wearing fur, bones, goggles, and green body paint explaining that he is 3,000 years old and came from another planet. He got 10 days in jail ...... on this planet. * * * * * The U.S. Naval Observatory has added one second to our clocks. Inflation. * * * * * It appears that the London Bridge in Arizona may now be America's best built bridge. * * * * * Overheard in a Canadian acid rainstorm: "I'm stinging in the rain....just stinging in the rain....." * * * * * A Salt Lake City man has had his rooster's crow removed surgically because of complaints from neighbors. Poor hens. Now they'll have no warning.