Today's Topics:
Pranksters take lawn ornament on vacation
Very Well Built Electro Sea Plane with Paddle
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Date: Wed, 6 Nov 91 15:31:40 -0500
From: Eric Haines <erich@eye.com>
Message-Id: <9111062031.AA09375@juniper>
To: subgenius@media-lab.media.mit.edu
Subject: Pranksters take lawn ornament on vacation
Cc: erich@juniper.eye.com
I feel like I've heard this before, but here goes nonetheless,
Eric Haines
PRANKSTERS TAKE LAWN ORNAMENT ON VACATION
PATTERSON (AP) - Florence and Pat McMorrow didn't get to travel throughout
America this summer but their elf, Rufus, did.
Rufus is a 3-foot-high lawn ornament owned by the McMorrows, of Patterson, a
community north of New York City.
Someone swiped Rufus July 9 from his usual perch on a tree stump in the
couple's front lawn. He reappeared last week with an envelope tucked under his
arm. "I'm home. Vacation pictures," a note on the envelope read.
There was Rufus on the beach in California, wearing shades. There he was in
Wyoming, wearing an Indian headdress. There he was at Wrigley Field in
Chicago, watching the Chicago Cubs. In all, there were photos of Rufus in 17
states.
Police and the McMorrow family still don't know who took the statute [sic].
"It was definitely young people," Mrs. McMorrow said. "They have some sense of
humor."
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Message-Id: <9111062052.AA05601@fernwood.mpk.ca.us>
From: Lang_Zerner@go.com
Date: 06 Nov 91 12:27
To: subgenius@mc.lcs.mit.edu
Subject: Very Well Built Electro Sea Plane with Paddle
> From: Eric Haines <erich@eye.com>
> Subject: Very Well Built Electro Sea Plane with Paddle
>
> While dusting off my files, I noticed this one from rec.humor.funny from a
> year ago. Worth looking at again...
The message Eric forwarded is very likely a "safe" communication between two
parties involved in illicit or covert activities. The two parties agree to
read the classified ads of a particular periodical on a regular basis.
Messages are encoded with a cipher whose cleartext atoms are words. The code
is designed to produce surreal cleartext; this prevents either reader from
mistaking a legitimate advertisement for an encoded message. Classified ads
are an excellent medium for encoded messages, since they offer legal and
persistent broadcast of the message while at the same time eliminating the
possibility of tracing the source.
Be seeing you...
--The Rt. Rev. K'houtek Hyphen-Dache
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