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From: dougs@hammer.UUCP (Doug Smith)
Newsgroups: net.rumor
Subject: Re: killer apples
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Date: Thu, 20-Feb-86 00:43:32 EST
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Posted: Thu Feb 20 00:43:32 1986
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So, I get home from work, and settle down in front of the tube, ready
to watch last night's Hill Street Blues (taped, of course; why should
I stay up so late?); shove in the tape, kick back, and watch as G. I.
Joe starts nuking his way across the screen. Totally pissed, I realize
my 7-year-old has figured out how to run the VCR, and has used MY TAPE
(but, Dad, it was in the machine) to record "his program" because he
was forced to attend his violin lesson (which, as we all know, occurs
at that particular time to ensure that he can't see "his program").
So, as I'm about to remove the tape and chuck it across the Delaware,
this grayish blob that Joe et alia are fighting attracts (distracts)
my attention, and what do you suppose they are fighting it with?

Apples.

Seems it's a one-celled lab escapee (I estimate It covers 9 square miles)
that devours anything it touches as it runs amok, and one of the Good
Guys has figured out that if they feed it enough apples, it will get
poisoned, and die, and the world will be saved, and Joe and the Good Gal
with the big ... uh, never mind.
So, I just wondered, does Usenet have a direct link to G. I. Joe, or does
the "writer" for this show tap in somewhere on the Arpanet?

				Let's be careful out there,
				Doug Smith
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