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- From: srscnslt@telesciences.com (SRS Consultant)
- Subject: Re: SAVE THE TREES!!!
- Message-ID: <1992Dec22.170046.365@telesciences.com>
- Organization: TeleSciences CO Systems, Inc.
- References: <1992Dec8.201958.3660@pbhye.PacBell.COM> <0XTkVB4w165w@mertwig.uucp> <13593@optilink.COM>
- Date: Tue, 22 Dec 1992 17:00:46 GMT
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- In article <13593@optilink.COM> manley@optilink.COM (Terry Manley) writes:
- >Now, maybe you can help me. You see for the first time in ten
- >years I've got a cold. Runny nose, itchy eyes, sneezing, ...
- >the usual stuff up to now I've only heard about. My dilemma
- >is I can't decide whether to use handkerchiefs or tissue paper.
- >
- >If I use a handkerchief I'm supporting the damming of rivers for
- >irrigation of desert lands to grow subsidized cotton, sprayed with
- >herbicides, pesticides and processed with bleach. (Let's not mention
- >the maltreatment and overall oppression of the people (usually
- >migrants) who pick the cotton.) I also then need to wash the
- >handkerchief, consuming fresh water and power, not to mention
- >supporting the petrochemical-mining, industry by using detergents!
- >
- >If I use tissue paper I'm supporting deforestation, pollution of
- >rivers with dioxin, and again bleach - blech! Once I've used the
- >tissue what do I do with it? If I throw it in the garbage I'm
- >contributing to solid waste disposal problems, leading to overfilled
- >landfills, which leach poisons into the ground water. If I throw it
- >into the toilet I'm adding to the problem of sludge disposal and
- >exacerbating my communities efforts to dispose of treated waste water.
- >If I burn it I'm adding to global warming. If I just keep the tissue,
- >say put it in a box in my attic, I'm just leaving the problem for
- >somebody else to deal with.
- >
- >So far I'm just sucking the snot down and/or wiping it on my
- >sleeve. Neither of these are too attractive. Please help.
- >
-
-
-
- Simple solution, really. You must not hang around swimming competitions,
- much, or you'd've thought of this yourself.
-
- Take the index finger of your right hand, and use it to close off your
- right nostril. Close your mouth. Now exhale explosively, forcing a jet
- of snot to be expelled from your left nostril (or your eyeballs to
- explode, whatever). Repeat this operation until your left nostril is
- clear as mountain spring water. Then switch sides.
-
- The best thing about this is that snot is biodegradable.
-
- Bonus points if you nail Sioux or Catherine with the Snot Jet [tm].
-
- Cheers!
- --
- Mitch Gorman srscnslt@telesciences.com emrys@cellar.org
- "You can tell he's doing well by the look in inhuman eyes,
- Better not compromise -
- It won't be easy!"
-