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Re: Warnings...from the twilight zone (was Re: Re: Warnings)
Subject:Re: Warnings...from the twilight zone (was Re: Re: Warnings) From:George Allaman <gallama -at- LOOKOUT -dot- ECTE -dot- USWC -dot- USWEST -dot- COM> Date:Fri, 12 Jan 1996 16:04:09 -0700
On Wed, 10 Jan 1996, John Hedtke wrote:
> There's also a warning I've noticed recently on the never-ending towel
> dispensers in public bathrooms enjoining the user from sticking his
> head in the loop of towels and hanging himself. (Not having been in a
> public women's bathroom for a while, I can only assume that this will
> apply in theory to women, too, though I'd hope that half the species
> would be smarter than that.)
> Gee, I dunno, though: I think you gotta be a special kind of stupid to
> intentionally hang yourself in a bathroom from the towel dispenser.
I call this type of warning an evil way of messing with nature's way of
cleaning up the gene pool.
Or, perhaps, an evil way messing nature's way cleaning the gene pool of
with of up.
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