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- Date: Tue, 29 Dec 1992 11:55:11 +1000
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- Subject: Re: Touchtones and Alternative Librarians
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- >One of life's unsolved mysteries. Where do cows go over Christmas? I mean,
- >according to the dates on the cartons, they produce extra in the days before
- >the holidays, right? And the milk after the holidays takes over at the
- >expected date, so inbetween they must all have a holiday and stop producing
- >milk, no?
-
- No..... the poor old cows never get holidays.... they keep producing the milk
- but it gets fed to the pigs to help fatten them up for next Christmas, so we
- can enjoy porkpies and legs of ham.
-
- >And no relation to the above, but why does the milk in the week before and
- >the week after Christmas taste like it's a week old?
-
- That's an easy question to answer: Because it is probably two weeks older
- than the milk you normally get.... which is probably a week old when you get
- it under normal circumstances. Afterall, you don't think they could truck it
- from the farms; pasteurise, homogenise and water it down; bottle it; ship it to
- the distributor and have the milkman collect it and bring it to your door, all
- in a few hours, do you?
-
- >Bah, humbug.
- >
- >G
-
- I'm pleased to see that you, too, have the true Christmas spirit finally.
-
- Carolyn
-