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From: cs1@oddjob.UUCP (Cheryl Stewart)
Newsgroups: net.jokes
Subject: toothpicks and screws
Message-ID: <782@oddjob.UUCP>
Date: Wed, 12-Jun-85 14:59:30 EDT
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Posted: Wed Jun 12 14:59:30 1985
Date-Received: Thu, 13-Jun-85 02:51:26 EDT
Reply-To: cs1@oddjob.UUCP (Cheryl Stewart)
Organization: U. Chicago, Astronomy & Astrophysics
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>>Speking of screws and Troy, RPI (Rensseltute Polyensselaer Institechnic) is
>>responsible for a true breakthrough in modern technology:  The Tute Screw.
>>
>>Whichever way you turn it, it goes in.
>>
>>The project was cheerfully funded by the school administration, which is still
>>quite imaginative with its use of the Tute Screw, as I can painfully attest.
>>
>>Mike Ryan

>MIT has an Institute Screw competition each year.  You vote for your favorite
>candidate at $ .01 per vote, with the proceeds going towards some charity.
>
>The winner is usually some objectionable person at the Institute:  this year,
>even though Ronald Reagan got the most votes, he wouldn't accept the award,
>so it went to the Dean for Student Affairs.
>
>			Eric Starkman

An unnamed student group at an unnamed academic institution issues 

              The Golden Toothpick Award

It goes to "the administrator who has his head stuck the furthest up his ass"
The golden toothpick is intended to help him (or her) get it out.  

                                          that Cheryl Stewart
-- 

There's one kind of favor I'll ask of you: 

  Just see that my grave is kept clean.