Today's Topics:
corporate benefits [from RISKS]
Monk-y Business
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To: subgenius@mc.lcs.mit.edu
Subject: corporate benefits [from RISKS]
Date: Sun, 17 May 92 20:30:01 -0400
From: Michael Travers <mt@media.mit.edu>
Date: Tue, 12 May 92 12:57:56 PDT
From: Randy Lindsey <lindsey@tincup.enet.dec.com>
Subject: Spelling checker advocates massive drug abuse
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It is not uncommon in large companies to require an annual "payout", in which
each employee picks up their paycheck in person, displaying ID. I think this
is to guard against payroll padding.
At the facility where I'm doing a project, all 1,500 employees received a memo
ordering them to report to the cafeteria for their annual "peyote". Peyote
appeared several times in the memo, and even in the title line! Eventually
one of my colleagues ran "payout" through the spelling checker, and sure
enough it suggested "peyote" as the alternative.
Perhaps the spelling checker writers are junior staff with closer ties to their
college counter-cultural days than to corporate terminology...
Randy Lindsey
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Date: Sun, 17 May 92 20:42:48 EDT
From: Mitch Silverman (SAR) <silverma@sunstroke.ec.usf.edu>
Message-Id: <9205180042.AA07137@sunstroke.ec.usf.edu>
To: SubGenius@mc.lcs.mit.edu
Subject: Monk-y Business
Monk-y Business
On Tuesday, May 5, Khenzur Losang Tenzin, a Tibetan Buddhist
monk and former abbot of the Gyumay Tantric monastery, formerly located
in Tibet but relocated to India since the Communist Chinese occupation,
gave a talk here at New College of the University of South Florida, with
a running translation from the Tibetan by Professor John Newman. The
talk was fascinating, and, since audience questions were translated back
into Tibetan by Professor Newman, I got to hear Tibetan spoken with a
Midwestern accent. But that wasn't the most amazing thing: My spiritual
colleague Rev. Xian Perez gave the monk a Dobbshead button, a button
with the likeness of our spiritual leader J. R. "Bob" Dobbs, the High
Epopt of the Church of the SubGenius on it. Xian said that after
Professor Newman explained what the button represented and who "Bob"
was, that the monk "...had a knowing look on his face, smiling like an
idiot," as if perhaps he knew of Dobbs already. Perhaps that's some of
the esoteric knowledge he said he wouldn't discuss with the uninitiated,
eh?
- Rev. Dr. Mitchell L. Silverman, KSC, usw.
(Reprinted from issue #23 (coincidentally) of _The Nerve_ ("An Orgasm on
paper!"), the student newspaper of New College of the University of
South Florida--of which I am a member of the Editorial Soviet--so
reprinted with permission. All Rights Reversed, but flatter my ego and
leave my name on it, willya?)
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