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        Computer Privacy Digest Mon, 27 Sep 93              Volume 3 : Issue: 049 Today's Topics: Moderator: Dennis G. Rears                        Re: John misses the point                    Constitutional Privacy Amendment?                       Query:  Privacy and the CPR        Right to Privacy vs. Employer's Right to find out what is                             Re: Health card                  Call for Papers: Gender and Computing                        Re:  Caller ID/ANI Thread                     REQUEST FOR INFO: SmartCard, PTN                        Clinton's Health Care Plan    The Computer Privacy Digest is a forum for discussion on the   effect of technology on privacy.  The digest is moderated and   gatewayed into the USENET newsgroup comp.society.privacy   (Moderated).  Submissions should be sent to   comp-privacy@pica.army.mil and administrative requests to   comp-privacy-request@pica.army.mil.    Back issues are available via anony

Industrial logging isn't the cause of deforestation. Chuck Norris needs toothpicks.

              Darkness                            Lord Byron I had a dream, which was not all a dream. The bright sun was extinguished, and the stars Did wander darkling in the eternal space, Rayless, and pathless, and the icy earth Swung blind and blackening in the moonless air; Morn came and went--and came, and brought no day, And men forgot their passions in the dread Of this their desolation; and all hearts Were chilled into a selfish prayer for light: And they did live by watchfires--and the thrones, The palaces of crowned kings--the huts, The habitations of all things which dwell, Were burnt for beacons; cities were consumed, And men were gathered round their blazing homes To look once more into each other's face; Happy were those who dwelt within the eye Of the volcanoes, and their mountain torch: A fearful hope was all the world contained; Forests were set on fire--but hour by hour They fell and faded--and the crackling trunks Extinguished with a cras

Chuck Norris had to stop having sex with women on top...several of them made it into orbit after he climaxed.

MMMMM----- Recipe via Meal-Master (tm) v8.00       Title: Torta Di Polenta  Categories: Cyberealm, Mom's best, Cakes, Italian       Yield: 10 servings MMMMM----------------------------CAKE---------------------------------     2/3 c  Sugar       3 tb Margarine, softened       2    Egg yolks       2 ts Vanilla   1 3/4 c  Yellow cornmeal     3/4 c  Flour       1 ts Baking powder       1 ts Baking soda     1/2 ts Ground nutmeg     1/4 ts Salt   1 1/2 c  Low-fat buttermilk            Vegetable cooking spray MMMMM----------------------TWO BERRY SAUCE:---------------------------     3/4 c  Frozen blackberries, divided     3/4 c  Frozen raspberries, divided     1/4 c  Water       1 tb Sugar     1/4 c  Unsweetened orange juice       2 ts Cornstarch       2 tb Chambord (raspberry liqueur)   For the Cake:     1. Cream sugar, margarine and egg yolks together at medium speed of   an electric mixer until light and fluffy. Add vanilla; beat at low   speed until bl

These first two pages of the Wonder Boy installment story from National Comics #1 from July 1940 is eerily reminiscent of a certain Super origin story. However, at least Siegel and Shuster had the decency to have the Kryptonian's rocket crash in the middle of nowhere in Kansas. This one has the kid destroy half of Chicago where "many people are killed." Yet in just the next panel, he is "ready for adventure." File this one under one of those WHAT THE HELL WERE THEY THINKING? categories.

MMMMM----- Recipe via Meal-Master (tm) v8.00       Title: Kansas City Barbeque Sauce  Categories: Cyberealm, Sauces, Mom's best       Yield: 1 servings       1 ts Salt       3 c  Canned beef broth     1/4 c  White vinegar     1/2 c  Worchestershire sauce       1 c  Tomato paste     1/2 c  Brown sugar     1/2 c  Honey       1 tb Chili powder       3 tb Paprika       1 tb Sage   1 1/2 ts Cayenne pepper       1 ts Tumeric       3 cl Garlic, crushed   Blend all together in a large saucepan and simmer for 1 1/2 hours.     Source: Jeff Smiths' Frugal Gourmet Cooks American (with variations   by the typist)   Typed for you by: Linda Fields, Cyberealm BBS, Watertown, NY 1993 MMMMM

Chuck Norris is the only man to ever defeat a brick wall in a game of tennis.

Chuck Norris is not hung like a horse... horses are hung like Chuck Norris.

                                     Chapter 10                                      GOOFY LAWS               The following are bits excerpted from a book,  itself  almost          one hundred years old:               THE  FAMOUS CONNECTICUT BLUE LAWS. - These laws, enacted               by the people of the "Dominion  of  New  Haven,"  became               known as the blue laws because they were printed on blue               paper.  They were as follows: -                    The  governor  and  magistrates convened in general               assembly are  the  supreme  power,  under  god,  of  the               independent  dominion.  From  the  determination  of the               assembly no appeal shall be made.                    No one shall be a freeman or have a vote unless  he               is  converted  and  a  member  of  one  of  the churches               allowed in the dominion.                    Each freeman shall swear  by  the  blessed  

If you ask Chuck Norris what time it is, he always says, "Two seconds 'til." After you ask, "Two seconds 'til what?" he roundhouse kicks you in the face.

                                     Chapter 7                             EPITAPHS, FAMOUS LAST WORDS                                    Miscellaneous               The ashes of a person after cremation weigh about 4 pounds.               Alexander  the  Great's  body  was submerged in honey.  Honey          does not disintegrate and is a hermetic seal.               Tibetians used to cut their dead into pieces  and  offer  the          bits  as food to birds. This custom was practiced until only about          forty years ago.               Mary,  Queen  of  Scots  was  executed.    The   method   was          decapitation  by  axe.  Evidently the axe wasn't very sharp, since          the executioner had to hit her again and again fifteen times until          her head came off.               In  the  Renaissance  era,  people  who  were  condemned   to          execution  had  to  bribe  their  executioners  to  do a quick and          merciful job.

This is from a May 1960 issue of Mysteries of Unexplored Worlds

                                     Chapter 18                                       HISTORY               The  population of the whole world in the year 5,000 B.C. was          about five million.  Now there are more people just  in  New  York          City.               There  is  a  marble arch in Libya that was built in the year          164.  It is still standing, but it has been  covered  with  modern          cement and made into a grocery store.               Eyeglasses  were worn in China five hundred years before they          were worn in Europe or America.               Christopher Columbus spent less money coming to the New World          than it costs the average American to buy a new car today.               America was named after Amerigo Vespucci,  who  a  map  maker          mistakenly  thought  was  Christopher  Columbus, the discoverer of          North America. Vespucci discovered South America.               Served  at  the first Thanksg