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From: gv@hou2e.UUCP (A.VANNUCCI)
Newsgroups: net.astro,net.jokes
Subject: Re: Halley's Comet Limerick Contest
Message-ID: <803@hou2e.UUCP>
Date: Tue, 28-Jan-86 15:22:39 EST
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Posted: Tue Jan 28 15:22:39 1986
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Organization: AT&T Bell Labs, Holmdel NJ
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>>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.

	I wholeheartedly agree with your complaint !   I think this
	offensive trash should stay in net.jokes which is the appropriate
	forum for people who take pleasure in such expressions of
	stupidity !

		Giovanni Vannucci
		AT&T Bell Laboratories      HOH R-207
		Holmdel, NJ 07733
		hou2e!gv