SubGenius Digest, Number 471
Friday, 10 August 1990
Today's Topics:
Re: H20 in NYC
Wirehead Conspiracy
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Date: Wed, 8 Aug 90 08:59:14 PDT
From: "Michael J. Tuciarone" <tooch@mongoose.eng.sun.com>
Subject: Re: H20 in NYC
Message-Id: <9008081559.AA06796@mongoose.Eng.Sun.COM>
> NEW YORK -- [A]t least 140 million gallons of untreated wastewater
> [were released] into the Harlem, Hudson and East rivers, ...[b]ut water
> quality and beaches were not expected to be greatly affected..
>
> ...Actually, from what I've heard the drinking water here (in
> Columbus, Ohio) is far worse than New York city's...
Instead of the Big Apple, it should be the Big Wazoo. You can't get a
better setup than NYC has: the water is collected in huge reservoirs
upstate, where the only health hazards are low pH and beaver shit, and
then piped through (ancient) mains to the city. Waste water and sewage
is processed in the city and (usually) discharged offshore. There's
almost nothing NYC can do to screw up its drinking water.
Since every little burg from Troy on down pisses in the Hudson River,
there's not much more NYC can do to it. Manhattan is already hip-deep
in...well, some things are best left unsaid.
This is in contrast to, say, New Orleans. Isn't the saying there
something like, "Every glass of water in the Crescent City has already
been drunk six times"?
Flush and smile.
Yr humble servant &c,
the Rightmost Right Most Rev. Touche Irony
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Date: Thu, 9 Aug 90 15:35:00 EDT
From: Michael Turyn <mturyn@psyche.mit.edu>
Subject: Wirehead Conspiracy
To: elbows@bloom-beacon.mit.edu, subgenius@media-lab.media.mit.edu
Message-Id: <9008091935.AA11816@psyche.mit.edu>
A light from the sky settled down in them trees
It left this wire in my head, and it customised me
The wire in my head, it advises me
Better living through bio--circuitry
The wire in my head, it makes me good deals
I drive a big, fancy, car and I eat good meals
You can bet I would kill any sucker who squeals
I 've got a wire in my head, and I _like_ how it feels
I 've got a wire for _your_ head, and I 'll install it for free
Better living through surgery
I 've got a wire in my head
Squeal and you 're dead.
--``Wirehead Conspiracy''
Rev. Buck Naked
from ``Greetings from Paris''
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