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Sales opportunity for the church
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From: dryfoo@athena.mit.edu
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Date: Tue, 18 Aug 92 17:48:02 EDT
A few suggested corrections:
} Subgenius Digest Tue, 18 Aug 92 Volume 3 : Issue 144
}
} From: 17-Aug-1992 0959 <berg@begin.enet.dec.com>
}
} Women's-Studies Group, Hoping to Heal Wounds, Finds More Conflict
^^^^^^^
"Persons-of-Gender's"
} This year's annual meeting of the National Women's Studies
} Association was supposed to heal fractures that crippled the
^^^^^^^^
"alternatively-abled"
} a white women should not have been selected to start the
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"differently-melaninized"
} Finally, one conferee complained that participants should be
} asked to forgo hair spray and perfume, which allergy sufferers
} might find irritating. ^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^
"histaminically-special"
-- dr foo
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Date: Tue, 18 Aug 92 17:48:31 PDT
From: Chuck Shepherd <cshepherd@igc.apc.org>
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To: Subgenius@mc.lcs.mit.edu
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WEIRDNUZ.238 (News of the Weird, August 28, 1992)
by Chuck Shepherd
Lead Story
* On July 31, three magistrates in economically
depressed Breathitt County, Ky., went to jail for
contempt of the legislature rather than follow orders
to raise local taxes. (The magistrates had to serve
the sentence in a neighboring county because
Breathitt's jails had been shut down due to the budget
shortage.) [Wash. Times-AP, 8-5-92]
Great Art
* Sculptor Janine Antoni's show at the Sandra Gering
Galley in New York City this spring featured a 600-lb.
cube of chocolate (price: $7,500) that she had gnawed
on for three days to represent people's inability to
control their weight. Said she, "[My gnawing and
spitting out chocolate] is a metaphor for a society
that's always after the binge, the fast fix." [Food
Arts, June 1992]
* In February, Canadian sculptor Helen Chadwick, 38,
offered her "Piss Flowers" creations--bronze casts of
streams of urine--for around $2,000 each. The artist
described her work to England's Guardian: "I would
build a mound of snow with a good density and then
urinate in the middle of it. Then I would get a man to
encircle my urine [stream] with a stream of his own.
The shapes would be like petals with a series of
droplets." She then made a plaster cast of the work,
creating a series of 12 flower sculptures. [Guardian,
2-18-92]
* A jury in Buffalo, N. Y., ruled in June that sculptor
Billie Lawless was not entitled to money damages from
the city just because the mayor had ordered his exhibit
dismantled after only five days' display in 1984.
Lawless's "Green Lightning" featured dancing penises,
wearing top hats. [Washington Post-AP, 6-26-92]
* Ryegate, Mont., artist Theodore Waddell, known for
making art pieces from roadkill animals, put a coyote
carcass on display this winter at the Cheney Cowles
Museum in Spokane, Wash. Soon after, fly larvae
hatched in the carcass and forced the museum to close
until exterminators cleaned up. [Great Falls Tribune,
7-5-92]
* The Josh Baer Gallery in New York City announced
recently it would soon display part of Andrew Krasnow's
"Flag Poll" sculpture--featuring a U. S. flag made of
human skin. Krasnow said he obtained the skin through
legal means, including the eight-inch patch he got from
his own buttocks. [New York, June92]
Wrong Place, Wrong Time
* Kevin Ray Goodrie, 29, was arrested in May after
escaping from a Bismarck, N. D., prison seven days
earlier. Goodrie was found hiding out in the woods
near Duluth, Minn., by sheriff's deputy James Peterson,
who had originally gone into the woods looking for a
fawn that was reportedly wounded by a passing motorist.
[Duluth News-Tribune, 5-28-92]
* A male and female student at Frankfurt University in
Germany slipped into a restroom on campus for a tryst
one evening in April but were inadvertently locked in
by the janitor. They figured their only way out was to
activate the sprinkler system, which sent firefighters
to the rescue. The water damage (around $12,000) was
billed to the students. [Minneapolis Star-Tribune, 4-
24-92]
* In New York City in April, car passenger Jose
Rodriguez, 69, got behind the wheel and mowed down nine
pedestrians in midtown Manhattan at the height of rush
hour. According to his nephew, Rodriguez took the
wheel only reluctantly. The car was parked at a curb,
and a traffic officer ordered Rodriguez to move it.
Rodriguez obliged the officer even though he did not
know how to drive. [Atlanta Journal, 4-29-92]
* James V. Harris, 38, drowned in Columbia, Mo., in
July while hiding in a drainage ditch at an apartment
complex. According to police, he was eluding security
officers who had discovered him shoplifting at a Wal-
Mart store. Harris hid in the ditch just as an intense
thunderstorm began, dumping an inch and a half of rain
in only a few minutes. [Columbia Tribune, 7-16-92]
* A 29-year-old New Westminster, British Columbia, man
was charged with DUI in June after he rear-ended a van
carrying several police officers who travel around the
community urging people not to drink and drive.
[Vancouver Sun, 6-22-92]
* Edward Amezquita, 31, died of smoke inhalation in a
fire in his girlfriend's house in Norfolk in July
because he slept through several attempts to wake him.
The girlfriend said, "I hit him on the chest about
three times and was screaming to him to wake up." She
said he awoke just enough to tell her to leave him
alone. [Newport News Daily Press, Jul92]
The Weirdo-American Community
* San Antonio police, trying to piece together the
circumstances of the death of a 40-year-old man in
July, released to the newspapers the following clues:
In a closet in his apartment were numerous bars of six
different brands of soap; bizarre messages were taped
to various objects in the home; eight TV sets were
placed in a semicircle; 40 half-dollars were found in
the man's stomach. [San Antonio Light, 7-7-92]
Least Competent Person
* Philip S. Whaley, Sr., was captured after a 28-minute
car chase around Syracuse, N. Y., in July, and charged
with grand larceny and several other crimes. The
officer in the lead chase car said later that it was
fairly easy to catch Whaley because, despite many route
changes during the chase, Whaley never failed to signal
a turn. Said the officer, "We knew exactly where he
was going." [AP wirecopy, 7-2-92]
The Diminishing Value of Life
* Tyvonne Watts was charged with the murder of bar
deejay Michael Johnson in May in Danbury, Conn. Police
said Watts shot Johnson in the neck because he objected
to various song dedications Johnson was making. [Boca
Raton Times, 5-2-92]
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Date: Tue, 18 Aug 92 11:34:57 EDT
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Subject: Sales opportunity for the church
