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Don't do this at home, kids!
got some HEAD for ya, severed that is...
Brickbats (National Guard, EPA, Noriega)
The psychological effects of THC
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Message-ID: <19900411161259.3.MLY@ISABEL-PERON.AI.MIT.EDU>
Date: Wed, 11 Apr 90 12:12 EDT
From: Richard Mlynarik <Mly@AI.ai.mit.edu>
To: SubGenius@mc.lcs.mit.edu
Subject: Don't do this at home, kids!
Editor -- Yesterday when I came home from work my 11-year-old daughter
was listening to a rock station when a commercial came on for a movie
called ``Crybaby.'' Speaking to the teenage audience, the announcer
told the listeners that if their parents would not allow them to go to
the movie, they should take their parents' car and run over them.
I immediately told my daughter to switch the station, and explained why.
I suggested that although I know she would not do such a thing, I didn't
want violent suggestions entering my house. I also told her there are
many disturbed children who might do such a thing, and that on principle
we should not support either the radio station which airs these ads or
the movie itself. I also called the station and registered a complaint.
I would encourage other parents to do the same. We must demand that the
media uphold their responsibility towards our young people.
Rosemary Haddad, Greenbrae. [Letter to the SF Chronicle]
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Message-ID: <9004101908.AA07326@ucscb.UCSC.EDU>
Date: Tue, 10 Apr 90 12:08:24 -0700
From: Kareem du Gristle <gristle@ucscb.ucsc.edu>
To: SubGenius-Request%MC.LCS.MIT.EDU@mintaka.lcs.mit.edu
Subject: got some HEAD for ya, severed that is...
ReSent-Message-ID: <19900411181525.5.MT@OUROBOROS.MEDIA.MIT.EDU>
ReSent-Date: Wed, 11 Apr 90 14:15 EDT
ReSent-From: Michael Travers <mt@media-lab.media.mit.edu>
ReSent-To: subgenius@MC.lcs.mit.edu
>From San Jose Mercury News:
BRONX TEEN-AGERS' "SOCCER BALL" TURNS OUT TO BE SEVERED HEAD
NEW YORK- A gruesome discovery in a desolate South Bronx neighborhood
left police detectives puzzled Sunday and neighborhood residents
horrified. The mystery began Saturday afternoon when a group of boys played an
impromptu soccer game on a dead end street. The "ball" they were using was a
severed head wrapped in cloth, police said. The boys had thrown the "ball"into
a trash-can fire before the father of one of them discovered it was a human
head, police Officer Anthony Mazzola said. The arms and legs of the
dismembered body, believed to have been a Hispanic in his late teens, were
found nearby, wrapped in two green garbage bags in a cardboard box on the
sidewalk. The torso was not found, police said, but detectives were looking at
a possible link at the discovery last week of a male Hispanic torso in Fort
Tryon Park. The torso also was found wrapped in plastic garbage bags and
stuffed in a cardboard box. The medical examiner's office refused to comment
on the case. The police report of the body parts found Saturday provided the
following account: Just before 3 p.m., the boys ranging in age from 9 to 13,
found a box on the sidewalk. Inside were two plastic garbage bags and what the
boys said they thought was a ball of rags. They kicked the object up the
street for about 10 yards and then threw it in a trash-can fire. Moments
later, Ralph Rodriguez, who was washing his car at a nearby hydrant, noticed a
human leg protruding from one of the plastic bags. Rodriguez, the father of
one of the boys, then found more body parts. It "was then he (Rodriguez)
realized the boys had been kicking around a head," Mazzola said. On Sunday,
police were continuing a homicide investigation. The abandoned block is a
popular spot to wash cars because of two open hydrants. But some residents
call it "the morgue." They say there have been at least five bodies dumped
there in the last two years. A young man who identified himself only as
Roberto, 22 said: "This is one horror story I don't want to know anything
about. I don't want to end up like that." Louis Cruz, 13, said: "I saw the
hacked-up limbs. I've seen dead bodies before, but this was wild. This was
like some horror movie."
from Rev. Kareem du Gristle
gristle@ucscb.ucsc.edu
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Message-ID: <9004091538.AA07859@horus.esd.sgi.com>
Date: Mon, 09 Apr 90 08:38:57 PDT
From: thant%horus.esd@sgi.com
To: SubGenius-Request@mc.lcs.mit.edu
CC: thant@horus.esd.sgi.com
Subject: Brickbats (National Guard, EPA, Noriega)
ReSent-Message-ID: <19900411182426.6.MT@OUROBOROS.MEDIA.MIT.EDU>
ReSent-Date: Wed, 11 Apr 90 14:24 EDT
ReSent-From: Michael Travers <mt@media-lab.media.mit.edu>
ReSent-To: subgenius@mc.lcs.mit.edu
>From _Reason_ magazine, May 1990:
In Texas, the National Guard has proposed something called "Project Cactus" to
help stem the flow of drugs across the Mexican border. According to Lt. Col.
Ed Komandosky, troops would disguise themselves as cacti and hide near
drug-smuggling corridors, ready to pounce on anyone hauling drugs.
According to a recently released Environmental Protection Agency report,
livestock flatulence is a major source of methane gas and a potential cause of
global warming. The EPA urges that we take action to keep levestock from
flatulating into the atmosphere.
According to the _Washington Post_, all that cocaine that the army claimed to
have found in Noriega's refrigerator turns out to have been tamale stuffing.
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Message-ID: <9004120206.AA29676@julia.math.ucla.edu>
Date: Wed, 11 Apr 90 19:06:44 -0700
From: "Douglas J. Trainor" <trainor@math.ucla.edu>
To: geraldb@tau-ceti.isc-br.com
CC: subgenius@mc.lcs.mit.edu
Subject: Re: The psychological effects of THC
You write:
|trainor@math.ucla.edu (Douglas J. Trainor) writes:
|>John D. L. McBride) writes:
|>I heard about one guy who took an operating systems final on acid
|>and not only got the incredible score but comment from the professor
|>about the incredible vividness of his descriptions.
|
|I once played in a golf tournament with a guy who was flying high on acid.
|He said he plays his best game on acid, and sure enough -- he won. Go
|figure...
|--
|| Gerald Bryan, Secretary | "Seeking to bring peace to the War on |
|| No More Drug War Foundation | Drugs via controlled legalization & |
|| 2045 Kearney Street | rational, balanced drug education." |
|| Denver, CO 80207-3919 | 303/388-5495 days, 394-3930 evenings. |
Was his name "Bob" per chance?
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