Relay-Version: version B 2.10 5/3/83; site utzoo.UUCP Posting-Version: version B 2.10.2 9/5/84; site tellab1.UUCP Path: utzoo!watmath!clyde!cbosgd!ihnp4!tellab1!barth From: barth@tellab1.UUCP (Barth Richards) Newsgroups: net.bizarre Subject: Re: High Pressure Message-ID: <642@tellab1.UUCP> Date: Wed, 16-Oct-85 09:58:57 EDT Article-I.D.: tellab1.642 Posted: Wed Oct 16 09:58:57 1985 Date-Received: Fri, 18-Oct-85 02:13:30 EDT References: <2836@wateng.UUCP> Reply-To: barth@tellab1.UUCP (Barth Richards) Organization: Tellabs, Inc., Lisle, IL Lines: 16 In article <2836@wateng.UUCP> hddykeman@wateng.UUCP (Doug Dykeman) writes: >Here at the U of Waterloo a bunch of engineers have a big lab called >the High Pressure Laboratory. You might think that this is where they >teach encyclopedia salesmen, or stockbrokers, or whatever, their trade >but you would be wrong. Actually, I don't know what they do, but >the last time I walked by their door, I looked in and was amazed to see >that they were shaking the hell out of a street light (this was being >done mechanically - I didn't notice any people nearby). I thought >this was pretty bizarre. Any theories as to what these people might >be up to? Alien beings from another planet perhaps that don't understand >that earth people simply do not do such things? > dd WE DON'T ?!?!?!?!?!?