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- Newsgroups: talk.bizarre
- Path: sparky!uunet!usc!rpi!zed
- From: Zed <zed@silver.lcs.mit.edu>
- Subject: on human efficiency
- Message-ID: <m1j3lmd@rpi.edu>
- Summary: stemmed from a conversation with T.B.
- Sender: zed@madoka.its.rpi.edu
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- Reply-To: zed@silver.lcs.mit.edu
- Organization: Liars for Truth
- Date: Thu, 21 Jan 1993 16:25:09 GMT
- Lines: 17
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- You've heard the joke about who else but a civil engineer would put a
- sewage line through a major recreational area, but, really, how did we
- get that way? Well, any orifice is a vulnerable spot, and I suppose
- it's useful to minimize them.
-
- But, y'know, there's further efficiency imaginable.
-
- The guy who could show up at a party, unzip his pants, and slap that
- sucker down on the snack table, hoovering up petit-fours could be
- really popular. Especially afterwards. "Oh, Fred," she cooed. "Have
- some more nutella."
-
- Exactly how she cooed when we are positing the absence of mouths is
- beyond the scope of this article.
-
- --
- zed@silver.lcs.mit.edu I'm an anarchist, and I vote.
-