Relay-Version: version B 2.10 5/3/83; site utzoo.UUCP Posting-Version: version B 2.10.2 9/5/84; site reed.UUCP Path: utzoo!watmath!clyde!cbosgd!ihnp4!houxm!vax135!cornell!uw-beaver!tektronix!reed!agb From: agb@reed.UUCP (Alexander G. Burchell) Newsgroups: net.suicide Subject: Re: twinkies Message-ID: <2113@reed.UUCP> Date: Wed, 6-Nov-85 05:21:48 EST Article-I.D.: reed.2113 Posted: Wed Nov 6 05:21:48 1985 Date-Received: Thu, 7-Nov-85 06:05:16 EST References: <10780@ucbvax.BERKELEY.EDU> <3128@hplabsb.UUCP> <8988@ritcv.UUCP> Reply-To: agb@reed.UUCP (Alexander G. Burchell) Organization: Ancient Illuminated Seers of Bavaria Lines: 19 In article <8988@ritcv.UUCP> msl5864@ritcv.UUCP (Michael S. Leibow) writes: > In article <3128@hplabsb.UUCP> morrell@hplabsb.UUCP writes: > > > Yesterday I went to the store to buy a box of Twinkies, and the > > > clerk told me that they only come in two-packs. Is this true? How > > > can it be? Dan White must have been a determined man. > > He must have meant he only carries the two-packs. > > I have bought a ten-pack of twinkies. They definitely exist. > What in the hell do Twinkies have to do with suicide? You may remember Dan White, the killer of the mayor of San Francisco some years back. You also may remember his "twinkie defense", in which it was claimed that his consumption of junk foods (such as twinkies) made him temporarily insane. Dan White committed suicide recently. Alexander G. Burchell UUCP: ..!{decvax,ucbvax,hplabs,ihnp4,zehntel}!tektronix!reed!agb MAIL: Box 172, Reed College, 3203 SE Woodstock Dr., Portland OR 97202