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Subgenius Digest V2 #49
Sunday school record holder dead at 100
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Date: Mon, 3 Dec 90 18:04:55 EST
From: Rich Rosen <rlr@toccata.rutgers.edu>
Subject: Subgenius Digest V2 #49
To: Subgenius@mc.lcs.mit.edu
> From: trainor%bill-n-ted.esd.sgi.com@sgi.com
> Subject: FROM TODAY'S SF CHRONICLE, P.A3
> To: Subgenius@mc.lcs.mit.edu
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> Satellite Porn Firm To Stop Broadcasts
>
> Owners plead guilty to obscenity charges
>
> The company pleaded guilty to one felony count of transmitting an obscene
> movie, "Hot Shorts," on Feb. 25, 1990. Assistant U.S. Attorney Richard
> N.W. Lambert described the film as "nothing but the graphic portrayal of
> sex acts without any kind of dialogue or story line."
>
> The prosecution was the first under a 1988 federal law prohibiting
> satellite and cable broadcasting of obscenity.
So, if the gist of this law is that a network broadcasting nothing but the
graphic portrayal of sex acts (e.g., people screwing other people) without
any semblance of a story line is in violation of the law...
... what does this portend for C-SPAN?
-- "Quit throwing your garbage into our dimension..." Rich Rosen rlr@toccata.rutgers.edu------------------------------
Date: Mon, 03 Dec 90 12:11:00 PST From: trainor%bill-n-ted.esd.sgi.com@sgi.com Subject: Sunday school record holder dead at 100 To: subgenius@mc.lcs.mit.edu
MARS, Pa. (UPI) -- A man who broke the world record for perfect Sunday school attendance has died at age 100, family members said Sunday. F. Otto Brechel chalked up more than 80 years of perfect Sunday school attendance during his lifetime, and was still trying to make it to classes up until his final weeks. He died Saturday of congestive heart failure at St. John's Care Home in Mars. Brechel was born Sept. 17, 1890. A carpenter, he attended his first Sunday school class in 1902 and ``I just kept on going,'' he said in a 1988 interview. ``Up until about the last few weeks, he was still trying to go to Sunday school,'' said Ken Brechel, a grandson from Wadsworth, Ohio. ``In fact, they came to his room at the hospital.'' Brechel received publicity in 1982 in the United States and Canada when he broke the world record of 80 consecutive years for Sunday school attendance held by a St. Louis man who died in 1975. Brechel's record was never listed in the Guinness Book of World Records because it had earlier discontinued its religious records category. His record led to interviews with newspapers and radio stations and an appearance on the Christian Broadcasting Network's ``700 Club.'' His greatest competitor was his wife Leah, who didn't miss a Sunday school class for 71 years before her death in 1979.
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