Newsgroups: rec.humor.funny [Note - What follows is one part of the True News Digest - a collection of true-life stories which didn't really warrant individual posting, but which are amusing nevertheless. The digest is quite long, and it will appear in 22 parts over the next few months - ed.] = = = = = From: bill@bessel.as.utexas.edu Subject: How's that again? Department [From _The New Yorker_, 2/25/91, p. 81] [Headline in the Pittsfield (Mass.) Berkshire Eagle] WAR WORRIES DOG CONSUMERS = = = = = From: douglips@ocf.berkeley.edu (Douglas V. Simpkinson) Subject: Politically correct recycling... This is true. Here in Berkeley, Politically Correctness center of the galaxy, in the physics building are recycling bins. One for paper, one for glass, one for cans, and one with a sign over it reading "Colored Paper". Someone with a red felt pen changed the sign to read: Paper of Color = = = = = From: oper@ncar.ucar.edu (Silence Dogood) Subject: flatulence prevention My nomination for Worthless Product of The Year (spotted in the "Univ. of Texas Lifetime Health Letter"): -------- BEANS: NO MORE EMBARRASSING ENCORES If you love beans and other high-fiber foods but often pass them up because of disconcerting sound effects, help is on the way. A commercially produced enzyme called "Beano" (Lactaid Inc.) reduces flatulence from gas-producing foods such as beans, lentils, peas, broccoli, cabbage, onions and eggplant. Made from the fungus _Aspergillus niger_, Beano prevents flatulence by breaking down gas-producing sugars. You simply add about five drops of the liquid to your first bite of an offending food - and the enzyme does the rest. One warning: because Beano is derived from a fungus, it may cause gastric upset in people who are allergic to molds or penicillin. = = = = = From: mkellner@polyslo.calpoly.edu (Captain Hook) Subject: NO SUBJECT PROVIDED Funny thing happened today in Poli-sci... Prof tells us that there will be a test next Wednesday - 30 multiple guess questions on material in the chapter, videos we've watched, and classwork. He then asked if we would like for him to tell us where exactly the information is located. So I piped up - "Sure, and why don't you give us the answers as well," - you know, just a smartass comment. The prof then promptly rattled off all 30 of the answers - much too quickly to write down, let alone realize that that was what he was doing. Damn - looks like it's time to start taping lectures.... or get a memory upgrade. = = = = = From: JRP1@phoenix.cambridge.ac.uk (Jonathan R. Partington) Subject: True story about mice The mouse on my Apple Macintosh jammed a day or two ago, so I took it to pieces to see what was wrong with it. It turned out to have a small piece of cheese wedged inside it -- I'd been using it on the dining-room table. So now I know why they're called mice... our cats don't seem to be interested in them, however, and they don't seem to make people stand on chairs, as in early 60s sit-coms. = = = = = From: garyk@hpldslx2.sid.hp.com (Gary Koerzendorfer) Subject: Contemplative humor Heard recently on the NPR show "Car Talk", and could apply to many human activities: "We've talked about it a lot, but we haven't thought about it." = = = = = From: Madis.Kaal@f30.n490.z2.fidonet.org (Madis Kaal) Organization: FidoNet node 2:490/30 - Mailbox-CG, Tallinn Subject: Weird error message The personal computer ISKRA-1030 (made in USSR, supposed to be XT clone) can generate an error message: "Write protect error reading device CON" (CON means console, AKA the keyboard.) = = = = = From: kamal@palomino.UUCP (Kamal Karlapalem) Yesterday, while I was buying tickets at the Movie hall, I heard someone say at the other counter: "Two Ghosts Please!!". = = = = = From: sjreeves@eng.auburn.edu (Stan Reeves) Subject: the ultimate in gender-neutral reporting Our local paper recently reported the following crime in the "Police Report": "The subject claimed that a wallet was stolen from his or her purse." = = = = = From: larry@birdsong.uucp (Lawrence T. Hardiman) Subject: who's the best In his introduction of Albert Lee, the MC at a Stanford Lively Arts program, "Masters of the Steel String Guitar", said that Mr. Lee had once been hired by Eric Clapton to play lead guitar. He then said: "Being hired by Eric Clapton to play lead guitar is like being hired by Jack the Ripper to be a hit man." = = = = = From: vince@bcsaic.UUCP (Vince Skahan) Subject: Re: interesting echoes from the mideast on the first day of the ground war, CNN had on some unedited footage of burning oil fields in the background, burned up Iraqi tanks in the distance, and thousands of Iraqi prisoners walking by all under arrest... a US (I assume) soldier is heard to say: "we bad...or we bad ???" = = = = = From: Emme@tweety.intel.com (David Emme) Organization: Intel Knowledge Applications Lab Subject: Object-Oriented Programming Quote without comment from a recent Apple publication entitled "Upgrade your favorite tool. Your mind." peddling Developer University courses including "Introduction to Object-Oriented Programming": "I still get goose bumps every time I override a method... Wow! I just can't believe how much fun OOP is." - Harry Wiguna, HealthCare Communications = = = = = From: franz@cs.washington.edu (Franz G. Amador) Subject: A free gift The other day I received a gift from Alzheimer's Disease Research in the hope that I would contribute to their cause. It was a packet of flower seeds. Forget-me-not's. = = = = = From: acgd@ihlpq.att.com Subject: NO SUBJECT PROVIDED Recently heard on an ad for the 10 o'clock news: "Cyanide laced Sudafed has been recalled...We'll tell you why." = = = = = From: HART@vtmath.math.vt.edu (McBryde 461I; 552-3177) Subject: TRUE, MATH-related experience: I teach advanced trig and beginning calculus at VPI. On a recent exam, I asked students to find the limit of the fraction (sin x)/n, as n approaches infinity. One unfortunate student canceled the "n"'s, and found that (sin x)/n = six. -- Selected by Jim Griffith. MAIL your joke to funny@clari.net.