Today's Topics:
Pinks and God
Blasphemy and Baseball Cards
Avogadro Alert
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Message-Id: <8906271325.AA08465@obsolete.UUCP>
Date: Tue, 27 Jun 89 08:55:46 EDT
From: Alexander Kay <obsolete!pro-angmar!alexx@bloom-beacon.mit.edu>
Subject: Pinks and God
Dale asks "Has the CON enslaved God also???" My dear boy, the CON invented
Him in the first place. He has occasionally broken free from his pink captors
for brief periods, but has always been punished for such outbreaks of
independent thought...
Alexx
"When -are- we, anyway?"
obsolete!pro-angmar!alexx@bloom-beacon.mit.edu
obsolete!pro-angmar!alexx@buit.bu.edu
Alexander N Kay
3 Norumbega Terrace (617) 891-5410 (home)
Waltham, MA 02154 (617) 893-1221 (work)
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Date: Tue, 27 Jun 89 10:44:27 edt
From: Eric Haines <eye!erich%spruce@wrath.cs.cornell.edu>
Subject: Blasphemy and Baseball Cards
{From "Free Inquiry", Summer 1989}
Blasphemy Bill
Baton Rouge - One of the Ten Commandments would be enacted into Louisiana law
under a bill filed recently by a New Orleans legislator.
The bill by Republican Rep. Garey Forster would make it a misdemeanor for
anyone to take the name of God in vain. It also would bar cursing Jesus Christ
and the Holy Ghost, making fun of "the holy word of God contained in holy
scripture" or ridiculing the heads of "any generally accepted and recognized
religion" and their teachings.
Forster said the proposal calls for up to six months in jail and a fine of $500
for violators.
He said the bill is designed to punish those who write critically about
religion or make movies such as "The Last Temptation of Christ" that treat
religious subjects lightly or in an unflattering manner.
Be the First in Your Yeshiva to Collect 'Em All
Baltimore (AP) - They're more than twice the size of baseball cards, come four
to a pack, and show faces considerably older than the average sports hero. But
even without bubble gum, rabbi cards are the rage among Orthodox Jewish
youngsters.
"I used to collect baseball cards," said Meyer Brull, 12. "I gave them up
after a while. I gave them to my brother. These are more interesting."
His brother, Yossi, 10, agreed. "They're something different from baseball
cards. My teacher used to give out pictures if you were good in class. So I
got a lot that way."
Like their counterparts in the baseball world, rabbi cards are collected by
youngsters--and some adults--who buy them by the pack and trade to get pictures
of all 36 of the Orthodox religious leaders featured thus far. The card back
includes the rabbi's place and date of birth, schooling, and other facts in
both English and Hebrew.
--Eric Haines
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Date: Tue, 27 Jun 1989 11:02:59 EDT
From: "Martha S. Rose" <strata@fenchurch.mit.edu>
Reply-To: strata@eddie.mit.edu
Subject: Avogadro Alert
Message-Id: <CMM.0.87.614962979.strata@FENCHURCH.MIT.EDU>
>From a recent issue of East-West Magazine, in the classified section:
(under "Health Products")
FINALLY THE PERFECT OVEN for today's modern macro. Introducing the fully
automatic Kuksoon Macrowave oven. Biologically transmutes and spiritually
energizes food to perfection. Has built-in seaweed filter for
de-irradiation & special selector to control desired yinness or yangness.
Special timer feature chants "su" when food is done. A must for every
household. From New Wave Laboratories, 1234 Wayout Blvd., Eatmore PA 00000
[Heh. Anybody want to 'fess up?
_Strata ]
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