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  1. Newsgroups: talk.bizarre
  2. Path: sparky!uunet!zaphod.mps.ohio-state.edu!darwin.sura.net!spool.mu.edu!umn.edu!uum1!digiboard!digibd!merlyn
  3. From: merlyn@digibd.digibd.com (Merlyn LeRoy)
  4. Subject: Re: Short, shameful confession
  5. Message-ID: <merlyn.725064236@digibd>
  6. Sender: news@digiboard.digibd.com (USENET News)
  7. Nntp-Posting-Host: digibd.digibd.com
  8. Organization: DigiBoard, Incorporated, Eden Prairie,MN
  9. References: <schnitzi.725044278@eola.cs.ucf.edu>
  10. Distribution: talk
  11. Date: Tue, 22 Dec 1992 22:43:56 GMT
  12. Lines: 12
  13.  
  14. schnitzi@cs.ucf.edu (Mark Schnitzius) writes:
  15. >When I was little, I thought the "No Sales To Minors"
  16. >sign on the cigarette machines was actually talking
  17. >about miners, who weren't allowed to smoke because of
  18. >all the explosive gas down in the mines.
  19.  
  20. No, it's so the canaries don't die of lung cancer & panic the
  21. miners thinking there isn't enough oxygen.  But "No Sales
  22. to Canaries" sounded too silly.
  23.  
  24. ---
  25. Merlyn LeRoy
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