Relay-Version: version B 2.10 5/3/83; site utzoo.UUCP Posting-Version: version B 2.10.2 9/18/84; site ucsfcgl.UUCP Path: utzoo!linus!decvax!decwrl!ucbvax!ucsfcgl!arnold From: arnold@ucsfcgl.UUCP (Ken Arnold%CGL) Newsgroups: net.jokes Subject: Re: Further Adventures of Grace Slick Message-ID: <676@ucsfcgl.UUCP> Date: Thu, 24-Oct-85 21:45:59 EDT Article-I.D.: ucsfcgl.676 Posted: Thu Oct 24 21:45:59 1985 Date-Received: Sat, 26-Oct-85 07:21:17 EDT References: <10746@ucbvax.ARPA> <309@tekcrl.UUCP> Reply-To: arnold@ucsfcgl.UUCP (Ken Arnold) Distribution: net Organization: UCSF Computer Graphics Lab Lines: 31 In article <309@tekcrl.UUCP> terryl@tekcrl.UUCP writes: > Another (supposedly)true story I heard MANY years ago: > >BUT, when she arrived at the White House, the Secret Service had gotten the >impression that she was "one of the drug-crazed hippies", and wouldn't let >her in. Many years later, Grace admitted that she was going to doctor the water >somehow with some acid (LSD, whatever you want to call it), so the Secret >Service did the right thing. She was accompanied by Abbie Hoffman, who describes this in detail in his autobiography "Soon To Be A Major Motion Picture". You need no longer be sketchy if you read it, which I recommend, since it is a very entertaining book, not to mention educational. I, for one, am not terribly convinced that the Secret Service did the right thing. Maybe a good trip would have helped Nixon. Lord knows it couldn't have *reduced* his grasp on reality. Oh, yeah, a joke: Here's a real story from a section of the SF Chronicle, titled "Who Said What": "I should have blown your (expletive) head off ... If I'd been the one that was there." Said Dennis Newton, an Oklahoma City man acting as his own lawyer during his trial for armed robbery, addressing a witness who identified him as the perpetrator of the crime. The jury took 20 minutes to agree. Ken Arnold