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From: rcd@opus.UUCP (Dick Dunn)
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Subject: Re: a few questions...? (useless answers)
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Date: Wed, 2-May-84 20:58:06 EDT
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>ok, what happened to streaking?
Supplanted by other forms of exhibitionism, such as posting stupid answers
to questions on the net.

>why do authors write sequels?
(1) More money.  (2) It's easier than finding a new idea.  (3) It lets them
use all the ideas that the publisher edited out of the first volume.

>does anyone really know how to use a slide rule, be honest?
But of course!  On the other hand, does anyone really know how to use a
calculator?

>will lennon & mccartney be considered the shelly and keats of our time?
No.  Such accolades will go to people such as the fellow who conceived the
"Where's the beef?" routine - certainly one of the most quoted of our time.

>where have all the flowers gone?
Underground, still waiting for the @#&%$%^!!! snow to stop.

>why do homo sapiens have pubic hairs?
To give meaning to the phrase "beating around the bush".

>what really are joy sticks....?
See above, under pubic hairs...

>are bio-chip based robots going to replace what we consider to be man?
Yes.  They will not, however, replace woman.

>how come when most people talk of time travel, they say you can go into
>the past but not the future, because it hasn't happened yet.. or has it? 
Time-travel stories about traveling into the past invariably end up coming
back to the present, which is future to the past, so they do consider
both.  It's easier to get the plots for travel to the past; you just use a
history book.

>how about holmes? he snorted coke.. could he have really been that smart?
But consider Napoleon.  He lost in the end...could he really have been such
a great general?

>is dnd really devil worshiping?
No, it is trivia-worshipping.  Not even the devil himself could follow it.

>what are blacks holes,(in reality)?
(1) Evidence that physicists have a sense of humor.  (2) An embarrassing
but necessary consequence of relativity.

>ergonomics has been around for an awful long time.. so how come people
>are just coming up with these ergonomically designed chairs?
For centuries into the past, people have had enough sense not to stay
sitting down so damn long that chairs became a problem.

>is there a philosophy of sex?
No.  It's too simple. There is only one question ["Sex?"] and the correct
answer is already known ["Yes"].

>p.s. does life really exist after college?
If you mean "after graduating from college", yes, of course (sic).  Where
do you think college professors come from?
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...Relax...don't worry...have a homebrew.		Dick Dunn
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