Relay-Version: version B 2.10 5/3/83; site utzoo.UUCP Posting-Version: version B 2.10.3 4.3bsd-beta 6/6/85; site decwrl.DEC.COM Path: utzoo!watmath!clyde!burl!ulysses!bellcore!decvax!decwrl!dec-rhea!dec-gramps!liss From: liss@gramps.DEC (Frederick R. Liss DTN 237-3649) Newsgroups: net.astro Subject: Re: Halley's Comet Limerick Contest Message-ID: <749@decwrl.DEC.COM> Date: Mon, 27-Jan-86 15:22:28 EST Article-I.D.: decwrl.749 Posted: Mon Jan 27 15:22:28 1986 Date-Received: Wed, 29-Jan-86 04:07:18 EST Sender: daemon@decwrl.DEC.COM Organization: Digital Equipment Corporation Lines: 40 gmp@psuvm writes..... > >THE AMERICAN FILTHY LIMERICKS ASSOCIATION (a wholly owned branch of the >American Scatalogical Society) announced the 1986 Halley`s Comet Filthy >Limerick contest. Example >An astronomer Jew named Melamed >Caught sight of the famed Halley`s comet >The backside, though pale, >is nice piece of tail >I hope SDI doesn`t bomb it. > >Rules: you may not use "vomit" as a rhyme for "comet." The word "comet" >must end the first line. The limerick must make reference to some bodily >function or sexual act. > >Judges: Lance Tumic (Sacred Scatology, Sam Houston Institute of Technology) > Herb Hardrock (Sexual Peccadillos, Florida University for Culture > and Knowledge) > Perry Priapis (Leapfrog Coach, Nashua University of Terpsichore > Science >Winners will be announced by the conference coordinator, Gerald O`Nitny >Pornographic Heraldry, Mt. Nittany Normal College. Send entries to >GMP at PSUVM. Do not put entries on the network. Winner will be announced >before the comet is seen again. Prizes are genuine Comet Diaboodles designed >by the master heraldist, HIMSELF. Happy astrorhyming! > What's this bigoted trash doing on net.astro? I believe the poster of this garbage owes us all an apology for this flagrant waste of network resources. I find the note offensive and insulting. --- Frederick R. Liss UUCP ...decvax!decwrl!dec-rhea!dec-gramps!liss Digital Equipment Corp. ARPA liss%gramps.DEC@decwrl.ARPA 333 South St. Shrewsbury MA, 01545 Mail Stop SHR1-4/D21