Relay-Version: version B 2.10 5/3/83; site utzoo.UUCP Posting-Version: version B 2.10.2.fluke 9/24/84; site tpvax.fluke.UUCP Path: utzoo!linus!philabs!prls!amdimage!amdcad!amd!pesnta!hplabs!tektronix!uw-beaver!fluke!inc From: inc@fluke.UUCP (Gary Benson) Newsgroups: net.misc Subject: Re: Re: Re: Re: Save the Guars Message-ID: <672@tpvax.fluke.UUCP> Date: Mon, 19-Aug-85 04:58:20 EDT Article-I.D.: tpvax.672 Posted: Mon Aug 19 04:58:20 1985 Date-Received: Fri, 23-Aug-85 08:21:51 EDT References: <533@grkermi.UUCP> <232@kitty.UUCP> <703@umd5.UUCP> <> <205@proper.UUCP> Distribution: net Organization: John Fluke Mfg. Co., Inc., Everett, WA Lines: 33 > 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? -- Gary Benson * John Fluke Mfg. Co. * PO Box C9090 * Everett WA * 98206 MS/232-E = = {allegra} {uw-beaver} !fluke!inc = = (206)356-5367 _-_-_-_-_-_-_-_-ascii is our god and unix is his profit-_-_-_-_-_-_-_-_-_-_-_