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- From: garrett@Ingres.COM (MMMMM...ESSENCE OF GELFLING)
- Subject: 1992:Year in Review
- Message-ID: <1992Dec23.005505.18008@pony.Ingres.COM>
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- Organization: ASK Computer Systems, Ingres Product Division
- Date: 23 Dec 92 00:55:05 GMT
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- I got this from the columnist Bill Mandel of the San Francisco
- Examiner. This is his collection of favorite headlines of 1992.
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- The 1982 National Father's Day Association's Father of the Year went
- to jail for failing to pay child support.
-
- Joseph Hazelwood, captain of the ill-fated oil tanker Exxon Valdez, was
- hired by New York Maritime College to teach students how to stand watch
- on a tanker's bridge.
-
- New York City authorities wired more than 200 bushes in a public park
- with burglar alarms.
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- A young couple trading oral sex on a British train continued their frolic
- when a family entered the compartment and sat down. Then the amorous pair
- performed "full sexual intercourse" in front of passengers who boarded
- latter. It wasn't until the lovers lit up post-coital cigarettes that
- witnesses admonished them and rang for the conductor.
-
- Scientists found that watching television sitting up burns 15 percent
- fewer calories than simply lying in bed.
-
- [this is one of my favorites]
- A color-bar test pattern on a Los Angeles television drew higher ratings
- than two competing stations' 10 p.m. newscasts.
-
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- There's plenty more. I'll add them in as time permits.
-
- -Garrett
-