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- From: donb@igor.tamri.com (Don Baldwin)
- Subject: Re: Burnt Popcorn Peeve
- Message-ID: <1992Nov20.234947.6866@igor.tamri.com>
- Organization: TOSHIBA America MRI, South San Francisco, CA
- References: <lgo4vcINNdl1@jethro.Corp.Sun.COM>
- Distribution: alt
- Date: Fri, 20 Nov 92 23:49:47 GMT
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- In article <lgo4vcINNdl1@jethro.Corp.Sun.COM> geoffm@purplehaze.Corp.Sun.COM
- (Geoff Miller) writes:
- >Have you ever noticed that whenever you burn microwave popcorn at the
- >office, people come from miles around to comment on it?
- >
- {stuff deleted to save bandwidth}
- >
- >I wonder why it is that people feel this is a significant enough event,
- >in the greater scheme of things, that they must not only devote
- >valuable cogitation time to it, but verbal comment as well? People will
- >materialize out of the woodwork like wraiths, when the building seemed
- >virtually empty shortly before.
-
- Doesn't that sort of make you wonder whether you might have hit on the
- perfect distress signal? Imagine this: you're captain of the Titanic
- II, which has just hit an ice berg, severly breeching the hull and, in
- some mysterious way, simultaneously wiping out your radio capability.
- Things are looking bad, there aren't enough lifeboats and then suddenly
- you have a brilliant idea: you put popcorn in the microwave abd start
- popping it. Suddenly, the entire Coast Guard surrounds your ship and
- everyone is saved.
-
- Possible? You be the judge...
-
- >It reminds me of the equally peevesome
- >way that people feel compelled to jokingly ask, "Hey, wanna do mine next?"
- >whenever they see someone washing his car.
-
- To which you reply, "You mean your wife?" :) :)
-
- don
-