Today's Topics:
Illuminati Secret Decoder Ring
news of the weird
poetic justice?
There are no accidents
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Message-Id: <9302040027.AA25354@enet-gw.pa.dec.com>
Date: Wed, 3 Feb 93 16:27:48 PST
From: "Alan H. Martin 03-Feb-1993 1929" <amartin@tle.enet.dec.com>
To: subgenius@mc.lcs.mit.edu
Cc: amartin@tle.enet.dec.com
Subject: Illuminati Secret Decoder Ring
No way. I've seen the Illuminati Secret Decoder Ring, and its graph has
|V| = 5 and |E| = 23.
/AHM
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Date: Wed, 3 Feb 93 15:26:39 PST
From: Chuck Shepherd <cshepherd@igc.apc.org>
Message-Id: <9302032326.AA02494@igc.apc.org>
To: subgenius@mc.lcs.mit.edu
Subject: news of the weird
WEIRDNUZ.262 (News of the Weird, February 12, 1993)
by Chuck Shepherd
Lead Story
* In January, Israel's national telephone company
initiated a fax service that transmits messages to God
via the Wailing Wall in Jerusalem. And in May, the
Roman Catholic church will unveil a high-tech
confessional at a trade show in Vincenza, Italy, that
will accept confessions by fax. And in December, a
sect of Orthodox Jews in Brooklyn, N. Y., began selling
its members special beepers so they would know
instantly when the Messiah arrives on Earth. [Memphis
Commercial-Appeal-AP, 1-21-93; Houston Chronicle, 1-25-
93; New York Times, Dec92]
Courtroom Antics
* Circuit Judge Michael Hocking came under fire in
Detroit in January after he gave a rapist the minimum
18-month term, citing "mitigating" factors. Among
them: The man helped his victim off the floor, and he
did not so much use force as wear down the victim by
persistence. [Louisville Courier-Journal, 1-24-93]
* A New York administrative law judge ruled in January
that former state government accountant Julio Cruz was
entitled to unemployment compensation benefits even
though he left work voluntarily. Cruz gave up a
$52,000 salary to move to Florida, giving as his reason
that he had become disgusted with street crime in New
York City. He had been mugged three times recently;
his wife, once. [AP wirecopy, 1-13-93]
* A California appeals court decided in December to
transfer a divorce case away from Orange County judge
Ragnar Engebretsen, because of a comment the judge had
made when interpreting a prenuptial contract.
Engebretsen, certain that the husband would not have
married his wife without the contract and noting that
the couple had been living together before the
marriage, asked rhetorically, "Why, in heaven's name,
do you buy the cow [i.e., get married] when you get the
milk free [i.e., by living together]?" [San Luis Obispo
Telegram-AP, Dec92]
* A California appeals court in November upheld a
$100,000 award to the estate of Wesley Wilkins from
Wilkins's former lover, Lillie Siplin. Siplin had
invited Wilkins to her mountain cabin in 1985 to have
sex but, found the trial court, failed to warn Wilkins
that her husband was a violent man. Siplin's husband
broke in and stabbed Wilkins 17 times. As she was
taking Wilkins to the hospital, she happened to mention
that her husband had acted this way several times
before. [AP wirecopy, 11-20-92]
* In December, the Indiana Supreme Court found court
reporter Judith Hatfield in contempt, sentencing her to
seven days in jail and a $500 fine, for taking so long
to transcribe a case it wanted to decide. [L. A. Daily
News, Dec92]
* Laguna Beach, Calif., Traffic Commissioner Matt Flynn
dismissed a man's speeding ticket in October, giving as
his reason the fact that the arresting officer's
motorcycle was painted blue and white, thus violating a
state law that requires police vehicles to be either
black and white or just white. [Los Angeles Times, 11-
18-92]
Things You Think Don't Really Happen
* In December, convicted burglar Mark Fast, who is
serving 12 years in prison in Indiana, won a $12,250
lawsuit against the homeowner-victim, Mahlon Rieke II.
Rieke shot Fast with a shotgun as he was fleeing. Fast
claimed the injury made it difficult for him to sleep
or sit down. [Chicago Tribune-AP, Dec92]
* In December, Calgary, Alberta, Judge Karen Jordan
increased George Gay's visitation rights to see his
eight-month-old son, Victor, over the objections of
Victor's mother. Gay is a devout practitioner of
Wicca, ancient witchcraft. And in November, a group of
Wiccan U. S. airmen in Germany began a newspaper
letter-writing campaign to protest their insensitive
treatment by the military. [Edmonton Journal-CP, 12-18-
92; Independence, Mo., Examiner, 11-23-92]
* The assistant fire chief in Saybrook Township, near
Ashtabula, Ohio, reported in November that in the
torrential winds accompanying a cold front, a toilet in
a residential bathroom caught fire. He guessed that
methane gas had been released from backed-up sewer
lines. [Ashtabula Star-Beacon, 11-13-92]
* News anchors Tsitsi Vera and Noreen Welch were
suspended for three months in Harare by the government-
run Zimbabwe Broadcasting Company in December for
giggling uncontrollably while reporting the story of a
woman whose newborn baby fell though the toilet of a
train onto the track below. [Louisville Courier-
Journal, 12-29-92]
The Weirdo-American Community
* In San Diego, Mark Howard Larsen, 31, was ordered to
trial in the October theft and burning of the 5,000-
Barbie doll collection of Glen Offield. And in
Sandusky, Ohio, an eight-month-long series of Barbie
vandalisms in three department stores continued in
January without an arrest. Over two dozen Barbies in
each store had been slashed in their private parts.
[Columbus Dispatch, 1-7-93; 1-12-93]
Least Competent Person
* Cleveland, Ohio, police captured a young man on
December 31 who they say carjacked a van at gunpoint
from Clinton Clark, who had been sitting in it. Clark
immediately and excitedly reported the theft to police.
After recovering the van and checking the vehicle
identification, police also arrested Clark and charged
him with having stolen the van in the first place from
a neighborhood support center. [Cleveland Plain Dealer,
1-1-93]
The Diminishing Value of Life
* Cynthia Selina Anderson, 28, pleaded guilty in
Baltimore in August to the murder of her husband last
Valentine's Day. She confronted her husband and
stabbed him in the chest after he had kept her awake
almost all night playing cards with friends. According
to one of the friends, what particularly annoyed
Cynthia was an hourlong "deep and heated discussion
about which malt liquor was the best." [Baltimore Sun,
8-20-92]
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From: Charlie Stross <charless@sco.com>
To: subgenius@mc.lcs.mit.edu
Subject: poetic justice?
Date: Wed, 3 Feb 1993 9:44:28 +0000 (GMT)
Message-Id: <9302030947.aa01776@pubsco.sco.com>
RISKS-LIST: RISKS-FORUM Digest Tuesday 2 February 1993 Volume 14 : Issue 30
FORUM ON RISKS TO THE PUBLIC IN COMPUTERS AND RELATED SYSTEMS
ACM Committee on Computers and Public Policy, Peter G. Neumann, moderator
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Date: Thu, 28 Jan 93 08:31:21 -0800
From:
Subject: Bible belt broadcast bungle
Heard this on the radio this morning: a major Christian radio network is
alerting its member stations to check their latest shipments of religious
compact discs before airing them. It seems that some other CDs were
mislabelled at the factory and shipped along with the religious ones.
Unfortunately the itinerant CDs were by the Dead Kennedys. A spokesman for
the radio network said, "This is what happens whenever people get around
machines." The CBS newsreader, with masterful understatement, said, "The Dead
Kennedys CDs included songs such as, `I Kill Children,' which some Christian
listeners may not find inspirational."
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Message-Id: <9302031901.AA07642@chopin.media.mit.edu>
To: subgenius@mc.lcs.mit.edu
Subject: There are no accidents
Date: Wed, 03 Feb 93 14:01:57 -0500
From: Michael Travers <mt@chopin.media.mit.edu>
[from RISKS]
Date: Thu, 28 Jan 93 08:31:21 -0800
From: Peter J. Scott <pjs@euclid.Jpl.Nasa.Gov>
Subject: Bible belt broadcast bungle
Heard this on the radio this morning: a major Christian radio network is
alerting its member stations to check their latest shipments of religious
compact discs before airing them. It seems that some other CDs were
mislabelled at the factory and shipped along with the religious ones.
Unfortunately the itinerant CDs were by the Dead Kennedys. A spokesman for
the radio network said, "This is what happens whenever people get around
machines." The CBS newsreader, with masterful understatement, said, "The Dead
Kennedys CDs included songs such as, `I Kill Children,' which some Christian
listeners may not find inspirational."
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