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- Path: sparky!uunet!mnemosyne.cs.du.edu!nyx!bberbeni
- From: bberbeni@nyx.cs.du.edu (Bill Berbenich)
- Subject: Re: False economy
- Message-ID: <1992Nov13.154559.17883@mnemosyne.cs.du.edu>
- Keywords: we don' need no steenking compensators!
- Sender: usenet@mnemosyne.cs.du.edu (netnews admin account)
- Organization: University of Denver, Dept. of Math & Comp. Sci.
- References: <BxL5F8.ABD@vcd.hp.com> <lg57l1INNrp3@jethro.Corp.Sun.COM>
- Date: Fri, 13 Nov 92 15:45:59 GMT
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- In <lg57l1INNrp3@jethro.Corp.Sun.COM> geoffm@purplehaze.Corp.Sun.COM (Geoff Miller) writes:
-
- >Have you ever noticed that when people buy a newspaper at a vending machine,
- >they never want to take the top copy? I don't understand this -- like you
- >said, it's as though they fear it has cooties. Another weird fetish I've
- >noticed is the way some people won't answer a phone in mid-ring. They'll
- >place their hand on it, but they won't actually lift the handset until the
- >pause between rings.
-
-
- From Bill's Book of Common Fetishes:
-
- "Never take the top newspaper from the news stand. It is the most likely
- to have been ripped or to have inserts missing. The papers underneath
- are protected by the ones above them, except for the last one which often
- is nasty, having sat on the ground in its bundle before being placed into
- the news stand. Avoid the bottom one if you can by taking the nice one
- from the door."
-
- "Never answer a telephone in mid-ring. Your caller will get an ear-full
- of loud ringing from your telephone bell. Ouch!"
-
-
- Look for Bill's Book of Common Fetishes, a fascinating compendium of
- the foolish and the fancy. Coming soon to a bookstore near you.
- --
- No, you do not know me.
- Yes, I KNOW I look like someone you know.
-