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- From: al037@cleveland.Freenet.Edu (Dave Polewka)
- Newsgroups: talk.bizarre
- Subject: Re: What's Wrong with this picture?
- Date: 15 Nov 1992 19:41:45 GMT
- Organization: Case Western Reserve University, Cleveland, OH (USA)
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- References: <Bxqtwo.Ew6@rice.edu> <MJD.92Nov13133738@saul.cis.upenn.edu> <TOMF.92Nov14203347@ai.gte.com>
- Reply-To: al037@cleveland.Freenet.Edu (Dave Polewka)
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- caz@owlnet.rice.edu (HWRNMNBSOL) says:
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- > tomf@gte.com (Tom Fawcett) writes:
- >|>
- >|> MJD's sister:
- >|> > > I just want to know if I should get you a Christmas present (Pat is
- >|> > > saying that if you don't come for X-Mas you don't get no goodies and I
- >|> > > already bought you something so let me know if I should take it
- >|> > > back...Okay)
- >|>
- >|> MJD challenges:
- >|> > Find at least six things wrong here.
- >|>
- >|> 1) Your mother, Pat, is actually a marine snail _Hermissenda crassicornis_
- >|> with approximately 200 neurons in her nervous system, and is capable of
- >|> little
- >|> more than following water salinity gradients and detecting red-green light
- >|> sources, so she is clearly incapable of articulating the implied threat
- >|> mentioned by your sister, let alone the sophisticated temporal reasoning
- >|> required to plan the celebration of a major religious holiday.
- >
- >2) "X-Mas", contrary to mainstream American thought, is not a cuteified way
- >of saying "Christmas". X-Mas is an ancient feasting holiday of the Wiccans,
- >and is celebrated by dancing, howling, and the consumption of fetal pig
- >organs. Gifts are rarely given; however, heavy and repetitious blows to the
- >groin are considered commonplace. X-Mas is not celebrated at the same time
- >anually, but this year the happy occassion happens to fall on Flag Day.
- >Hence, bringing a Christmas present over X-Mas is a faux pas of extraordinary
- >callousness, and should be punished by injecting air bubbles into your
- >sister's bloodstream.
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- 3-7) Find at least six things wrong here. -- anagram
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