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From: inc@fluke.UUCP (Gary Benson)
Newsgroups: talk.bizarre
Subject: Re: The Great Depression
Message-ID: <821@tpvax.fluke.UUCP>
Date: Mon, 18-Aug-86 12:52:13 EDT
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Posted: Mon Aug 18 12:52:13 1986
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Organization: John Fluke Mfg. Co., Inc., Everett, WA
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Marty, Old Bud, 
 
 Once, when you were depressed, you collected empty toilet paper rolls.  By
 the time you got back to normal you had over seven hundred.  You kept them
 in a large cardboard box that you painted baby blue, like the sky above the
 clouds above Seattle.  You made art forms out of them, by gluing them
 together side by side but skewed so they were not end to end.  One looked
 like an abstract sailing ship, another like an unraveled DNA molecule.  You
 were going to enter them in the Puyallup Fair art contest, but you were
 afraid someone would laugh at you.  So you stayed home.  It rained that
 day, and there was a terrible accident on the same road you would have
 taken to the fair.  You would've been dead now, all because you saved that
 first empty toilet paper roll.  You're a lucky man, aren't you?


-- 
			       Ensign Benson
			       -Space Cadet-
 
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