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*****NUMBERS 181 TO 185***********BY DANIEL BOWEN (tcwf@gnu.ai.mit.edu)*****
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"N-n-n-n-not another Toxic Custard"
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|| // || || || // // \\ \\ 10/1/94
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|| || || || ||___ //| \\___// |\\ Written by
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TOXIC CUSTARPEDIA - VOLUME 14
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NEEDLE
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An object of evil. It was devised by the evil Count Pierre
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deNeedle, one of those French bastards who wore a top hat and was
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always tying maidens to railway tracks in deserted black-and-white
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valleys, and setting off nuclear bombs on peaceful Pacific islands.
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The needle was designed for two purposes:
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- To be found in unexpected places by sitting on it, catching
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your finger on it, or having some other part of your anatomy
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punctured by it, followed by a loud hailing from the vocal
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chords, often the phrase "shit!"
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- To infuriate any person trying to sew, by waiting until you
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are just about to get the thread through the little hole, then
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concentrating all its energies and moving two millimetres to
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the right.
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NEIGHBOUR
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One of those people you occasionally smile at when walking down the
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street, but rarely develop such a bond with that they are concerned
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when your burglar alarm goes off when you're on holiday.
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"NEIGHBOURS"
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Australia's revenge on Britain for constant royal tours.
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NEWT
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One of those really small beasties that annoys little kids because
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they're too small to step on. I dunno though - if you were flying
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along and got caught in the downward air-draught of a descending
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foot, it'd do serious damage, wouldn't it?
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NIGHT
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That time of day when it isn't. Night is generally recognised by an
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overall lack of light, and the sudden manifestation of strange
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noises which feed paranoia.
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NLQ (NEAR LETTER-QUALITY)
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Euphemism in the field of computer printers. When the salesman says
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"yes sir or madam, this printer here offers Near-Letter-Quality
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printing" they actually mean "what, you're too stingy to shell out
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on a laser printer? Why not just write it all out by hand? Don't
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want to invest in the pencils? You scumbag."
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NOBODY, MR
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Semi-mythical person whom I was always told would come to clean my
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room. But he never did.
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NOSE
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Outlet located in the middle of the face. Used for smelling,
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breathing, and the output of extraneous waste. Beats me why snot
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couldn't have exited through the arse like most of the other waste
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coming out of the body. Perhaps it was more economically viable to
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have a secondary solids outlet. Actually it's just as well that
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people don't send their other waste through the nose. Then we'd
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need flushing handkerchiefs. And farts would be much more
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noticeable.
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NOTICEBOARD
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A large board placed somewhere in the office, where administrative-
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type people place important notices that no-one ever reads. Also the
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location of very bad cartoons on the subject of office life, pinned
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up by the office wag. [See wanker.] 97% of office workers ignore
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these, and instead find their entertainment in the Gary Larson
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calendar that at least one person per office has on their desk[*].
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This desk will become a focal point for meeting throughout the
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year, where from will be heard guffaws aplenty[+], except from the
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person who actually sits at that desk, who will wish that everyone
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will piss off so they can do some work.
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[*] Yes, it's me this year.
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[+] Accompanied by cries of "oh isn't he great!" and "how is he
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so imaginative!"
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NOVEMBER
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Oh come on, that was months ago, it's pointless dwelling on it now.
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The word November is actually Latin. Nov means nine, indicating the
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ninth month, which is due to the guy who made up all the months
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having a bit of a problem with adding up. Ember is something to do
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with open fireplaces, which are popular in some parts of the
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Northern Hemisphere, making the name of this month hemispherist, of
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course.
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NULL MODEM
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Another one of those things which sits around on your desk for
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months, but mysteriously vanishes the day before you need it.
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- - - - - - - - - - - - - - - - - - - - - - - - - - - - - - - - - - -
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CUSTARD BAND-AIDS - THE BEST BAND-AIDS
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To prove that Custard band-aids are the best band-aids, we took three
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healthy people, and inflicted identical serious cuts in their arms.
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[*Arghh!*]
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[*Arghh!*]
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[*Arghh!*]
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We left one cut untreated. The second one, we treated with another
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band-aid brand. And the third we treated with new improved Custard
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band-aids. Then we left them locked in a room with no food or water
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for three days.
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The first person died. [*Thump*] His family are suing us.
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The second person had to have their arm amputated at the
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shoulder [*Nnnnnneeeeeoooooowwwwww* *Argh!*] and is suing us.
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The third person survived without any effects whatsoever,
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although he's having difficulty in writing, but that should be okay
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in a couple of days. With the profits from sales from this promotion,
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we paid off the other two court cases.
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Custard band-aids. The best.
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~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~
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If pain persists, please see your Toxic Custard
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back-issues. Available by ftp - send email to
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tcwf@gnu.ai.mit.edu for details
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~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~
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Copyright (c) 1994 Daniel Bowen
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--
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Daniel Bowen, NTC Systems------| My brain spat out the above words. My hands
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Telecom Australia, Melbourne---| typed them in, and my computer (and one at
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dbowen@vcomtelc.telecom.com.au-| MIT) sent them around the world. Telecom
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TCWF stuff: tcwf@gnu.ai.mit.edu| Australia is responsible for none of these.
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"OOOOOOver the top Toxic Custard"
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/ \
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< M A > Medium-level Christian jibes
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Mature Athiests
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\ / \ \ \ \ January 15th 1994
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_\___ ___ \__ \ \___\ __\ Written by Daniel Bowen
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\ \ \ \ \ \ \ \ \ (but don't tell his
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\__/ \___ \__\__\ \ \ \___\ \___ psychiatrist)
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TOXIC CUSTARPEDIA - VOLUME 15
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OBJECT
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Another of those words which is very good an being fairly anonymous
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in its description of anything, and not actually meaning very much.
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Generally most useful when you want to describe something, but are
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unaware what the fuck it is.
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About as useful as "The definite article", which is not only
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stupid enough to be a definition which includes the word it's
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trying to define, but also includes the word "article", which means
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the same thing as object, yet nobody knows what it is. Which is
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pretty vague for something which is supposed to be "definite".
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OBJET
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The same as "Object", but for the French and/or pretentious.
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OCEAN
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A large body of water between countries, which is probably the
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biggest peace-keeper in the world, preventing more countries from
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being permanently at each others' throats.
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Readers are advised when crossing oceans to always look both
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ways, and never walk on the water unless you are Christ. (Yeah
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look, I don't want to gloat or anything, but I did recently get a
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subscription request from a jc@heaven.rel)
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Once again, I apologise to any Christians reading this. (Of
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course, if I really cared, I wouldn't have written the last
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paragraph, would I.)
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OCTOPUS
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Eight-legged sea creature that I just can't bring myself to eat.
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Even when I have the advantage over it that it's dead and I'm
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alive. And hungry. And sitting in a restaurant being offered food
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to eat. (See Order)
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ODD
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Odd things that you don't want people find in your house include:
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- that dead insurance salesman that you lost your rag at and
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buried under the stairs
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- the New Kids On The Block records that someone bought you as a
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joke
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- the fungus that is growing all over one side of the shower
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- all those Readers Digest metal tokens that you decided to keep
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because "they looked nice" when you opened the envelope just
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after downing forty-three consecutive stubbies
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- the (now dead) cat buried in the sofa that's been missing for
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three months, and which gives the livingroom that special
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aroma
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OPERA
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For centuries now, Opera has been the foremost method of
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humiliation available to the security forces. It began in the late
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1600s, when peasant rebels were made to dress up as ridiculously
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fat people and get up on wooden planks in front of hundreds of
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their peers and shout the same things over and over and over, to a
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musical accompaniment.
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By the time the French Revolution came rolling along, it was
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the aristocrats who were forced to the stage to sing, gesticulate
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wildly and loudly perform plays devised to spread Revolutionary
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propaganda.
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Nowadays, Opera has been driven underground, but is still
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carried out by the perverse, the deviant, and those with very big
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tits (both men and women), their audiences made up almost
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exclusively of establishment figures.
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ORDER
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The process of telling the waiter what you would like to eat,
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preferably a choice from that on the menu. Following the ordering
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process, you will make a note of everything that they forget to
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bring you, and finally find the courage to kick up a stink when the
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meal's over and everyone's leaving. The procedure then is for the
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restaurant to fall over themselves trying to make it up for you, by
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offering a free X (insert your forgotten choice here) even though
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you're not hungry, you're leaving now, and you didn't order X
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anyway, you ordered Y.
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ORIGINAL SOFTWARE
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Something of a rarity in this universe.
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OXYGEN
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A thoroughly useful substance to the vast majority of us. Without
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oxygen, we would die, and then life wouldn't be worth living. Which
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is irrelevant because we would be dead. And yet what would life be
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without life itself? A void of nothingness to be pondered by
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theologians. And yet without life there would be no theologians to
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ponder it... so I guess it wouldn't be quite so bad.
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- - - - - - - - - - - - - - - - - - - - - - - - - - - - - - - - - - -
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In between watching Countdown repeats and blowing my nose, I've been
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getting out and about town a bit. I managed to catch "Much Ado About
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Nothing" at the Rivoli Cinema - for discerning cinema goers, or so
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they say. The same film was also showing in the city, but that was
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obviously the edited, non-discerning version. You could tell the
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audience was discerning because apart from us there was no-one below
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45. Actually, perhaps that's what discerning means. "The theatre for
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people over 45, but the Drug Offensive will still put in one of their
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Speed Catches Up With You ads anyway in the hope that you crumblies
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will stop taking Speed when you're at dinner parties."
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~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~
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A few selected Toxic Custard back-issues are
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available by ftp. Email for details.
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~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~
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Copyright (c) 1994 Daniel Bowen
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Daniel Bowen, NTC Systems------| My See how
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Telecom Australia, Melbourne---| words far apart Telecom's
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dbowen@vcomtelc.telecom.com.au-| and <-------they---------> Responsibilities
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TCWF stuff: tcwf@gnu.ai.mit.edu|thoughts are?
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"P'd off Toxic Custard"
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* * * * * * | \__/ _/
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* * * * * * **** | / \ \ 24th January 1994
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* ***** * * * | \__/ \__/ by Daniel Bowen
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TOXIC CUSTARPEDIA - VOLUME 16
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PADLOCK
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Security device which anyone can cut through if they have the
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determination (and the cutters). Either operated by key, which is
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then lost, or by combination, which is cracked by people passing
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who have nothing better to do. About as secure as Pyramid / A
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Savings And Loan / BCCI (delete according to continent).
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PARADIGM
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One of those words which is perfectly clear when you look it up in
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the dictionary, but which is awfully difficult to work into
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everyday conversation, not only because it sounds complex, but
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also because of extreme paranoia about mispronouncing it.
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PARENTHESES
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What people say when they mean brackets, but are trying to sound
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smart.
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PATRIOT
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One who blindly loves their country, no matter what terrible things
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it might be getting up to while they aren't looking. "Oh yeah, well
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I know they might have been experimenting on peasants in
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neighbouring countries, but Christ, isn't this a great country!!"
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PAY
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Compensation for having to go to work and put up with all the
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cretins in your office.
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PENECTOMY
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I'm pretty sure in thinking that when they first heard of the
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Lorena Bobbit trial, most men squirmed a fair bit. This is
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instinctive. I also discovered on Friday what happens if you happen
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to be playing in an office indoor soccer game and someone, later to
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be known as "ballcrusher", accidentally aims a soccer ball in your
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direction, which manages to hit what, we shall say, are the most
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delicate parts of a man's body.
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The human body does not mess about in this situation. Every
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nerve is screaming at the brain "Christ, that hit me in the balls!"
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The message goes express to Brain Central, which initiates
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emergency gasping procedures, and puts into action the disaster
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foetal position. And as the other men around you squirm in
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sympathy, the brain goes into recovery "act cool" mode, and begins
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to think of jokes involving high-pitched voices and doubts about
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the possibilities of offspring.
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PISS
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The are so many and varied uses for the word piss that I have
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decided to compile a list, as follows:
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on the piss drinking alcohol
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piss artist one who messes around (esp when drunk)
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pissed intoxicated
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pissed (US) annoyed
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pissed off annoyed
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piss elegant pretentiously elegant
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pissing away wasting (esp money)
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pissing down raining heavily
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piss-up party (esp involving alcohol)
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to piss to urinate
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to piss off to go away
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to piss about to mess around
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to piss-fart around to mess around
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I've almost certainly missed something, but I think you get the
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general idea. Now, I want you all to write a sentence which gets
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all of those meanings into less than 25 words.
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POETRY - "The Nastiness Of Your Flea-Ridden Scalp"
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I think that I shall never see,
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Anything as small as a flea,
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It hops and hops and bites and bites,
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And gets into your hair and shites,
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And no matter how you swat,
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You'll never get it; that's your lot,
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And though the flea is not shaped like a dome,
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That's about the end of this poem.
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POLYCRATES (c536-522 BC)
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Lots of boxes. Invented container lorries.
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POND
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Small body of water, which, with the right light, a few ducks, and
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overhanging trees, you can just about think looks nice and restful,
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before a bunch of screaming kids run past, throw a rock in the
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water, and spoil the whole atmosphere.
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POST OFFICE
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A vast system of little vans, sorting rooms and people on bicycles.
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Together they ensure that if you need to get something sent from A
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to B in a hurry, three weeks after you've mailed it at A, it still
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hasn't turned up at B. It's either languishing in a big sack at C,
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or has by some complete mystery been detoured via D, which is
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generally on a different continent to both A and B.
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PUBLIC ADDRESS
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Why is it that the most vitally important PA announcements - the
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ones you actually want to hear the contents of - are drowned out by
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the noise of the crowd?
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PUNS
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The following puns have no homes to go to-:
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Chefs have a license to grill.
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Carpenters have a license to drill.
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Man's liver takes a turn for the wurst!
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Breakfast eater has fatal bran tumour!
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~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~
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A few selected Toxic Custard back-issues are
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available by ftp. Email for details.
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~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~
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Copyright (c) 1994 Daniel Bowen
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--
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Daniel Bowen, NTC Systems------| Don't hold Telecom responsible
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Telecom Australia, Melbourne---| for my words. And don't ask me
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dbowen@vcomtelc.telecom.com.au-| to connect Call Waiting for
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TCWF stuff: tcwf@gnu.ai.mit.edu| you. Ring 1800-052-052 instead.
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"Queued Toxic Custard"
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T C W F 3 1 9 i n a B
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T x c C s a W r hop F es 8 31/1 99 rit n y a i l B n
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T x c Custar Wor shop Fi es 18 , 31/1/ 99 . Writ en y Dani l Bo en
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Toxic Custard Workshop Files 184, 31/1/1994. Written by Daniel Bowen
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TOXIC CUSTARPEDIA - VOLUME 17
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Q
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The letter with the least number of amusing words in the alphabet.
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(So far). Generally found just before the letter U, entries for
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which will appear in several weeks.
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QUANTUM SUFFICIT
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The type of phrase that makes you wonder if this language would be
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any better off if there was someone in charge who had power of veto
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over the introduction of new words.
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QUEEN
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Not much of a career to get into if you can help it. Tends to
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involve flying all over the place being famous. But you don't get
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to make lots of movies. It must get a bit dull after a while
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actually. Everywhere the Queen goes all she gets to do is open
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things, do walkabouts, go to the races...
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But the really scarey thing about the Queen is that she has
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kids. This means that at sometime she and the Duke of Edinburgh...
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must have... you know... *done it*. Eugghghgghh. That's pretty
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frightening. And think of the possible embarrassment. What if a
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servant or a bodyguard walked in. "Oops, sorry your Maj.. hey, how
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did you two get into that position? Should I pick these robes up
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for you... oh, I should just go? Okay then.. yes, I'll just go.
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Just please try not to get any marks on the red carpet. Yes, I'm
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averting my eyes.. Oh. Beheaded? Thank you very much your Majesty."
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QUEUE
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Something that supermarket supervisors obviously have no idea how
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to manage. It's tempting when you're waiting to grab a PA
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microphone and shout "Yes, shoppers, don't leave yet, 'cos we've
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got mega bargains now! All breakfast cereal, meat and dairy produce
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bought in the next fifteen minutes is 90% off! Stock up now!" Wait
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thirty seconds and all the queues will have disappeared.
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I sometimes get quite infuriated in supermarkets. Keep me off
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the roads - people are in enough trouble when they get in the way
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of my trolley. Some of them leave their shopping trolleys in the
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middle of the aisle. Next time that happens I'm gonna move it for
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them and then watch as they try to work out where they left it.
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I dream that one day they'll turn the whole supermarket into
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one big one-way system. "Hey, too bad if you don't want dog food
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because you haven't got a dog... too bad! You gotta go via the dog
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food anyway! What'dya mean you forgot the eggs... too late now!
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You'll just have to go around again! See you in hell, shopper! You
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there! Trying to climb over the frozen food section to get back to
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the shampoo! Get down here now! Reg - get the shotgun! ... <BANG>
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... Your attention shoppers, due to an... incident in the frozen
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food section, all shoppers will be detoured via hygiene products.
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We apologise for any inconvenience. Do not attempt to enter the
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frozen food section. Thank you for shopping at Dangerousway."
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QUIBBLE
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Recreational sport. Quibbling began as a pastime for bored
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consumers. Since then it has spread, and we can soon expect to see
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Olympic Quibbling.
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"Here come's Anderson, Quibbling for Australia... yes, he's
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asking about the discount price... oh, and the special bonus offer.
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That shop assistant's on the run now... and I think he's getting
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ready to deal his most devastating final blow... yes, he's noticed
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the scratch in the upper corner. But oh no! He's just mentioned how
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they used to make them in the old days! Anderson has just
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bullshitted! Sensational news! Anderson, out of the Quibbling Final
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on a bullshit. Tragedy for the young athlete..."
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QWERTY
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Type of keyboard designed to slow the typist down and confuse
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people who are learning to type.
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Sometimes I wonder what I'm really doing on this planet. Do you? Do
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you get up in the morning and think... hell, will I really make a
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difference to the world by living? Will the rest of the human race
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even know that I exist? And then I look at the figures of history...
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like Hitler. Did he wake up one morning and think "I have to do
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something with my life... why don't I try genocide"? Was Hitler
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planning for the future... perhaps to try and set up a family
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business. "A. Hitler and Sons - Dictators and Genocidal Services to
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the General Public".
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~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~
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Do you ever think your life is empty?
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Without meaning? Have you considered
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the possibilities of Toxic Custard
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back-issues? For details, just email
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tcwf@gnu.ai.mit.edu today!
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Copyright (c) 1994 Daniel Bowen
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--
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Daniel Bowen, NTC Systems------| Telecom Australia is not
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Telecom Australia, Melbourne---| responsible for the above
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dbowen@vcomtelc.telecom.com.au-| thoughts and words.
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TCWF stuff: tcwf@gnu.ai.mit.edu| Honest.
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YES, THIS TOXIC CUSTARD IS SHORTER THAN USUAL. SEE IF I CARE. WE
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CAN'T ALL BE FUNNY ALL OF THE TIME. IN FACT, SOME OF US HAVE TROUBLE
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IN BEING FUNNY EVEN SOME OF THE TIME. I BLAME THE WORLDWIDE JOKE
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SHORTAGE. OH SOD IT, WHO CARES. YOU'VE GOT MORE SENSIBLE THINGS TO BE
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DOING. SO GO DO THEM.
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"Arrrr.. it's Toxic Custard"
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/ \ / \ \ / / \
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\ oxic / ustard \ \ /orkshop /\iles 185 7th February 1994
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\ \_/ \/\/ __/ written by Daniel Bowen
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TOXIC CUSTARPEDIA - VOLUME 18
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RAFFLE
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A way to get you to spend $2 in the mistaken belief that you have a
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newt's chance in a grinder of winning a hamper/car/holiday. There's
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something just not quite right about the principle of making money
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for charities which involves giving away expensive prizes. There's
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probably a loop-hole in the raffle laws that allows the raffle
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organisers *not* to give away prizes if the proceeds are to
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charity.
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Most proceeds actually go to rebuilding churches, upgrading
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kindergartens, etc. The more dubious ones go to sending brass bands
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to Queensland, building athletics clubs, and of course the newly
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created Custard Development Fund. The Custard Development Fund is
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dedicated to sending the author of Toxic Custard on a Hawaiian
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holiday.
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RAIN
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Another one of those things that is great to watch when you're not
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caught in it. Perhaps what we need to do is somehow make
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intelligent clouds that rain, but not actually *on* people.
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READERS DIGEST
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Ever wondered how effective those mailing campaigns are? Toxic
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Custard has obtained this internal Readers Digest report.
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Summary of mailing campaign:
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43,000 sent competition letter
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15,000 stupid enough to send back entry form
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15,000 sent secondary draw letter with offer of Readers Digest
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sample and exclusive small brass token
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3,000 request Readers Digest sample
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3,000 sent Readers Digest sample with subscription offer
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9 subscribe
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REAP
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Formerly used in descriptions of agriculture, "reap" is now almost
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exclusively found in bad retail advertising campaigns, eg "We've
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cut prices so you reap the benefits!" shouted by manic announcers
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over footage of crazed shoppers smashing in doors.
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RECEIPT
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Proof of the purchase of goods. There are two distinct types of
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receipt:
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- the receipt that sits in your wallet for the best part of a
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year before you clean it out, and then pops up again regularly
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for the rest of your life, in desk drawers, stuck in books as
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bookmarks, or attached to the fridge with a magnet
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- the receipt that you think you put safely somewhere, but can't
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find when the goods that you bought falls apart/breaks down/
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causes you to want to return the goods, for whatever reason.
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(See Return)
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REFERENCE
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The academic way of copying what someone else has written. The best
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references don't actually exist. Which means they can say precisely
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what you want them to say.
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RENOVATION, IDEAL FOR
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See Demolition, Condemned, Wreck, Pile of bricks.
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REPEATS
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*Sigh*. Last week I finished watching the Countdown repeats. What a
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nostalgia trip. Back to the late-70s. Bit of a nightmare, actually.
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The memories came flooding back. I think that now I am ready to
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atone for my sins. Yes, it's true. I once had brown cords. I'm not
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proud. It's just something I did in the foolish years of my youth.
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One of many things, actually. On the other hand, when it comes to
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embarrassing fads of the Seventies, I do have several points on my
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side. To my knowledge, I never wore flares. I didn't like Kiss. Or
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Abba. Sometimes I think I was pretty smart, considering I was just
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a kid.
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REPRODUCE
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The sort of thing that Jeremy Beadle should be banned from. The
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Beadles actually have a history of practical jokes, right back to
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the days of Christ, when Jeremiah Beadle convinced Joseph that the
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only accomodation left in town was a stable.
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RETURN
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An experience of sheer terror. Here's some advice for when you want
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to return goods to their place of purchase.
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- Find the receipt. Okay, so you only bought your product X
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yesterday, the shop you bought it from probably only sells an X
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once in a blue moon and the shopkeeper in question has known
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you personally for a period of decades. But severe paranoia
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about the shop's denial of any knowledge of product X means you
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must have the receipt with you when you stroll in the door to
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have any confidence or strength when you begin with the words
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"I bought this yesterday..." (See Receipt).
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- Find the bag that your product X came in, which naturally has the
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shop's logo plastered all over it. Failing this, you should try
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and find another bag, from a different time you went to that
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particular shop. No, it doesn't really make sense, just don't
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worry about it.
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- When you get to the shop, radiate confidence. For some reason,
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whenever I'm in this situation I get pangs of guilt going
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through my mind... "You don't really need to return it! It
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works okay if you hold it at a 30 degree angle! Don't be so
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petty! It only singed a bit of the carpet! Only the garden shed
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burnt down! It didn't fry the whole family! You've got a nerve,
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daring to declare the manufacturers to have failed in their
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goal of trying to bring you the perfect product X! They'll
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probably shed jobs over this! And you'll be personally
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responsible for the decline of dozens of families, and the
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eventual joint suicide of the workers at the ruined site of the
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bankrupt factory."
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- If you're going to even think about mentioning refunds, take
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along proof of identity, a shotgun, several lawyers, and all of
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the above.
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RHETORICAL
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Well if you didn't want an answer, why did you bother asking a
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question? It's that kind of behaviour that leads to extreme
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irritation and eventual violence involving a jack-hammer, three
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bananas in various orifices and strangulation with a vacuum
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cleaner hose.
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ROLLERBLADING
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By far the most fashionable way to injure yourself at the moment.
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The clouds disperse. Your eyes open
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again. Ah, so that Toxic Custard was
|
|
just a dream. That's a relief. Back-
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issues are available by ftp; just
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email here for details!
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~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~
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Copyright (c) 1994 Daniel Bowen
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--
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Daniel Bowen, NTC Systems------| Telecom Australia is
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Telecom Australia, Melbourne---| not responsible for
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dbowen@vcomtelc.telecom.com.au-| the complete crap that
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TCWF stuff: tcwf@gnu.ai.mit.edu| spouts from my brain.
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the Toxic Custard Workshop Files by Daniel Bowen, Melbourne, Australia
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Copyright (c) 1994 Daniel Bowen. May be freely distributed
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without profit provided this notice remains intact.
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For subscription information, contact tcwf@gnu.ai.mit.edu
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