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From: levin@bbn.com (Joel B. Levin)
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Subject: Re: Telephone Company "Inside Humor"
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Date: 27 Sep 90 20:21:03 GMT
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 From: Bob Yasi <mtxinu!algol.la.locus.com!yazz@ucbvax.berkeley.edu>

>Perhaps the perpetrators have not yet experienced much grief at the
>death of a loved one, or have not comforted a loved one going through
>such grief themselves.  Well, I hope you do, and soon, and that
>someone does something awful to make it worse and that you think of
>this when it happens.

This sounds like an incredibly cruel joke to play, if it happened that
way, but I find it hard to believe.  I think the perpetrators must
have cross connected so that the butcher's customers were connected to
the funeral home, not the other way around.

The horror is now merely bad taste.  I am amazed that everyone who has
posted so far assumed that the bereaved must have been connected to a
butcher's shop.


JBL


[Moderator's Note: I don't think it was a butcher shop; I think he
said it was a beef (or other meat) processing plant. In any event,
this thread has gone way past its normal life expectancy, as has the
thread on ATM operations and the handling of PINS. Maybe we can close
it out in the next couple issues, please.   PAT]