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- From: kovarik@martha.utcc.utk.edu (MerryMinionOfDeath)
- Subject: Re: hamster-ball reality
- Message-ID: <1993Jan27.202755.19132@utkux1.utk.edu>
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- Organization: University of Tennessee Computing Center
- References: <86639@ut-emx.uucp>
- Date: Wed, 27 Jan 1993 20:27:55 GMT
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- In article <86639@ut-emx.uucp> llama@ccwf.cc.utexas.edu (sine nomine) writes:
- >
- >the ball i bought my hamster had a little door in the top you used to
- >put the hamster in and take him out. sometimes i think that i do
- >things like drop acid as a way to look for that door, to figure out
- >its mechanism. if i ever found it, though, would i be brave enough to
- >go out? and what would i do out there, run off into the front yard and
- >play in the leaves? or just creep around the edges and steal crackers?
- >
-
- If we all live in one hamster ball or another, and *I* think that
- there really is no escape from this, then we might as well pick a
- hamster ball that we like..... Maybe I am kinda juvenile in my thinking,
- but the "Key West" hamster ball as described in the new Fox TV series
- is a much more appealing hamster ball than, for example, Oak Ridge,
- Tennessee, or Kansas. Of course, to live in an ideal hamster ball, one
- might have to sacrifice material things for spiritual things. One might
- have to start eating tofu, and alfalfa sprouts, and channelling the soul
- of a long-dead Egyptian barge pilot through one's body.
-
- Is there any call for a hypercube programmer down in Key West? :-)
-
- Meech
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