Relay-Version: version B 2.10 5/3/83; site utzoo.UUCP Posting-Version: version B 2.10.2 9/18/84; site mit-vax.UUCP Path: utzoo!linus!philabs!cmcl2!seismo!harvard!think!mit-eddie!mit-vax!oaf From: oaf@mit-vax.UUCP (Oded Feingold) Newsgroups: net.politics Subject: Where Don Black gets his ideas Message-ID: <552@mit-vax.UUCP> Date: Tue, 6-Aug-85 15:29:11 EDT Article-I.D.: mit-vax.552 Posted: Tue Aug 6 15:29:11 1985 Date-Received: Fri, 9-Aug-85 02:30:15 EDT Reply-To: oaf@mit-vax.UUCP (Oded Feingold) Followup-To: /dev/null Organization: MIT, Cambridge, MA Lines: 31 Keywords: Type N now, fools - this stuff is copied w/o permission Summary: The ranger ain't gonna like this, Yogi A while ago, Don Black told the story about the coyote and the hunters and the pick-um-up truck. I was enthralled -- never had such a sharp irony intruded upon my long and hideously boring life. Imagine my surprise upon reading page 63 of the August 1985 National Lampoon: "Hunters' Cruel Trick Backfires" ****************************** * A sadistic stunt with gelignite and a captive rabbit blew * up in the faces of two prankster rabbiters. ****************************** * Two men on a spotlighting expedition reportedly tied a stick * of gelignite to a rabbit they had caught by hand. The fuse * was lit and the rabbit released. ****************************** * Laughter evaporated as it doubled back and hopped for cover * under their Toyota four-wheel-drive utility. [*BOOM*] ***************** (Quentin P. Smith, the Adelaide Advertiser) Now I truly know Mr. Black is important, if even the Advertiser sees fit to track him and quote his words. If ever I tie some gelignite to... to... er, anyone, I'll park in the next state. This message does not explain why >the majority of Venezuelans are ... >malnourished. -- Oded Feingold {decvax, harvard, mit-eddie}!mitvax!oaf MIT AI Lab oaf%oz@mit-mc.ARPA 545 Tech Sq. 617-253-8598 work Cambridge, Mass. 02139 617-371-1796 home