Relay-Version: version B 2.10 5/3/83; site utzoo.UUCP Posting-Version: version B 2.10.1 6/24/83; site sphinx.UChicago.UUCP Path: utzoo!linus!philabs!cmcl2!seismo!lll-crg!dual!qantel!ihnp4!gargoyle!sphinx!beth From: beth@sphinx.UChicago.UUCP (Beth Christy) Newsgroups: net.origins Subject: Paul's Right Message-ID: <963@sphinx.UChicago.UUCP> Date: Mon, 12-Aug-85 12:06:51 EDT Article-I.D.: sphinx.963 Posted: Mon Aug 12 12:06:51 1985 Date-Received: Sat, 17-Aug-85 06:19:24 EDT References: <367@imsvax.UUCP> Organization: U. Chicago - Computation Center Lines: 28 From: ted@imsvax.UUCP (Ted Holden), Message-ID: <367@imsvax.UUCP>: > A friend of > mine from Rhodesia described an event which occured ten miles > from his home in which two idiots from New York city blew the > horn of their little Ford Cortina at a herd of elephants which > was crossing the road and taking their time about it. That, of > course, to a bull elephant, is a challenge. When the elephants > finished with the Cortina, it looked like a piece of modern > sculpture; you couldn't tell what it was. The two idiots > were luckier than they deserved to be, only cuts, bruises, and a > few broken bones. They had to be cut out from under the dash > with torches. Paul DuBois is right - you *are* a nasty bugger. For being unfamiliar with the nature of elephants, they deserve worse than needing to be cut out from under the dash with torches? I sincerely hope you know abso- lutely everything, 'cause if you don't, and somebody decides to apply your own standards to you (like a god, or maybe a christ?), you're in deep sh*t, buster. -- --JB (Beth Christy, U. of Chicago, ..!ihnp4!gargoyle!sphinx!beth) "Oh yeah, P.S., I, I feel, feel like, I am in a burning building And I gotta go." (Laurie Anderson)