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From: sra@oddjob.UUCP (Scott R. Anderson)
Newsgroups: net.misc
Subject: Re: "Nuclear Event Detector" (Really Scams)
Message-ID: <1102@oddjob.UUCP>
Date: Sat, 4-Jan-86 21:31:45 EST
Article-I.D.: oddjob.1102
Posted: Sat Jan  4 21:31:45 1986
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References: <799@brl-tgr.ARPA> <67@ttidcc.UUCP> <622@cylixd.UUCP>
Reply-To: sra@oddjob.UUCP (Scott R. Anderson)
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Organization: University of Chicago, Department of Physics
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Summary: 

In article <622@cylixd.UUCP> dave@cylixd.UUCP (Dave Kirby) writes:
>I'm starting my own insurance company, and I would like to broadcast
>my advertisement here. It's called "End-of-the-World" insurance. For
>only $300/month, you can get insurance that will pay you $10,000/month,
>paid DIRECTLY TO YOU, for the rest of your life, should the world come
>to an end.

This reminds me of an old Tom Lehrer song, "We'll All Go Together when We Go",
in which he predicts that

No one will have the endurance
to collect on his insurance;
Lloyds of London will be loaded when they go.
-- 

					Scott Anderson
					ihnp4!oddjob!kaos!sra