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- From: antipope@rachel.ibmpcug.co.uk (charless@scol.sco.com)
- Subject: Re: Two bacon
- Organization: The IBM PC User Group, UK.
- Date: Thu, 12 Nov 1992 13:26:47 GMT
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- z1dan@exnet.iastate.edu (Dan Sorenson -- Agro-Barbarian) writes:
- > henken@ocf.berkeley.edu (Matthew J. Henken) writes:
- > >New International (hah) House of Pancakes ad: "Two eggs, two bacon, ..."
- > >
- > >Two *bacon*???
- >
- > I see you are from Berkeley. Let me set your mind at ease.
- > Those of us who kill and eat animals invariably do so without the
- > use of excess verbiage, since that would only rile the silly folk who
- > think this sort of death and dismemberment unnecessary. "Two bacon"
- > sounds a lot better than "two strips of pork flesh taken from the back
- > of a hog while said hog squealed in pain, arteries spurting blood and
- > the skin peeling back over the twisting, frightened animal like the
- > skin of a large, bloody grape."
-
- The hell it does!
-
- Sheesh, you're no carnivore! I mean, the whole POINT of eating meat
- is in knowing that a cute, dark-eyed furry forest friend has died
- in agony for your delectation. Otherwise, well ... why bother? Bowel
- cancer, obesity, cardiac disease -- the only excuse is up-front
- tastelessness. Believe me, meat-eating beats a sado-masochistic
- menage-a-trois any day of the week (with or without added Bolivian
- marching powder).
-
- Peeve: the old saw about the pleasurable things in life being illegal,
- immoral or fattening. Not so: you just need a perverse imagination
- and the ability to improvise with initially unpromising material ...
-
- > Trust me (ObMovieReference), in a
- > small state like Iowa we take our marketing of dead, charred animal
- > flesh seriously.
-
- Yurp. That's why there's a state monopoly on arson, right?
-
- --
- Antipope -- HE gives you Bull, I give you the Straight ... er ....
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