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From: inc@fluke.UUCP (Gary Benson)
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Subject: Re: Re: Re: Re: Save the Guars
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Date: Mon, 19-Aug-85 04:58:20 EDT
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Posted: Mon Aug 19 04:58:20 1985
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> Yah!  Anyone ever wonder where VELCRO comes from???  Out in the deserts,
> these little creatures called velcros (I think they're distant relatives
> of the coyote) are slaughtered every day.  Male and female velcros are
> slaughtered while stuck together (one has hook-like fur, the other loops)
> and trying to perpetuate the species.  Doesn't anyone know where we get
> all this stuff that is attributed to modern technology? 
			
>				  Carl Greenberg


You bet, Carl. First the guar, then the naugas, and now, sheesh! Who would
have thought that those cute little coyote's would ever get near extinction?
Just like baby sealskins, if there's a profit to be had, it will get had, by
gad! We saw that with the "ASCII bug" --  ASCIIentius Hydroptera, the
microbial code converter. Gone within 7 years of its discovery. 

But it's not just creatures useful to the technocracy, it's also those
that have found unique niches within it.

I kid you not, man, I have read things about the Datamedia terminal
ecosystem that you would not believe! They are talking about attacking
actual *lifeforms* that find pasture and sustenance in the domains of a
Datamedia terminal. Can you imagine? They are speaking of destroying the
primordial digital ooze that seeps from its case! They want to commit
specicide on the ONLY KNOWN colony of a light absorbing lichen! It boggles
the imagination. What next?  Will someone be trying to spray OFF on the Line
Eater?


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