Digest for Sunday, October 05, 1997

Topics of the day:

1. The Modern Military
2. Its A Wacky World!
3. Do what in the swimming pool
4. True German Language

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Date:    Sun, 5 Oct 1997 03:23:13 -0400
From:    Jim Moore Jr <jimjr@PIPELINE.COM>
Subject: The Modern Military

*   A Marine Recruiter was attracting a crowd at a local college
  here explaining the benefits of the Reserves.  A video was playing
  on the large screen TV near-by.
    One student asked: "As the planes are bombing the shore, and the
  ships are shelling the coast, and those little boats are heading
  towards the beach in this video, who are those guys in the boats ?"
    "Well, they're Marines, son." boasted the Sergeant proudly.
    "Uh, that's what I thought." said the boy, who then turned and
  disappeared quickly into the crowd.
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* Part of any pilot's training is what's called "Survival Tactics".
  There's even a special section for "Jungle Survival."  Both the
  modern Air Force and Navy instruct pilots attending this course
  to attempt to crash in the summer months only, as they'll find
  more edible fruit about.
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*   When my son was in the Air Force, Mrs JimJr and I visited quite
  often.  On our first visit, we were allowed inside this top secret
  Communications Center, but everything in sight was covered up so we
  could look around everywhere -- Hell, even the toilet paper in the
  Men's room was disguised.
    Anyway, at the exit, there's a sign above the door which reads:
            "You have been exposed to Top Secret Material.
         Please destroy yourself before leaving the building."
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*   During that same visit, we went to the control tower, the radar
  installation, the flight line, and so on.  We saw about everything
  that could be seen.  I even knew how many planes, US and Russian,
  were airborne at that very moment (the "Cold War" was still on).
    We stopped at the commissary for sodas and the Guard at the door
  said, "I'm sorry Sir, you'll need a military ID to enter."

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Date:    Sun, 5 Oct 1997 16:29:00 -0600
From:    Ken Brousseau Sr. <kenbruso@IO.COM>
Subject: It's A Wacky World!

           The bra's the thing in Korean art exhibit.

 SEOUL, South Korea (CNN) -- Artists featured in a new exhibit in South
Korea took a common, everyday item -- in this case, the bra -- and tried to
find the art, the message, within.

 Some of the more than 200 brassieres on display at Bra-Haus Seoul 97,
designed by artists from more than 90 countries, are decidedly for show and
not for wear. Among them: a barbed wire bra and one made from toilet
plungers.

 The month-long exhibition was the brainchild of fashion designer Samuele
Mazza, who invited artists and designers to portray the Bra-Haus definition
of "form follows function."

Artists go bra-serk!

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mmm - That barbed wire bra!    Think it will ever catch on?
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Date:    Sun, 5 Oct 1997 22:31:31 EDT
From:    Karl L. Wuensch <PSWUENSC@ECUVM.CIS.ECU.EDU>
Subject: Do what in the swimming pool <not offensive>

     "Gut Fahrt" reminded me that I often saw signs in Europe which were
humorous if you took them to be English.  One of the best was a sign we
saw in the Italian speaking region of Switzerland.  We had just visited a
public toilet, and it was nearly as bad as those in Italy proper, and we
were complaining about it when we saw a sign that read:

     Albergo Hotel
       Reber
     CON PISCINA
     SWIMMING POOL

     The message in caps seemed to us to be an invitation to urinate in their
pool.

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Date:    Sun, 5 Oct 1997 22:45:47 +0000
From:    Jack Shea <jshumor@BERK.COM>
Subject: True German Language

Years ago working with a fellow who came here from Germany, he was
talking about the flight over. He told me how thrilling it was and
the anxiety he and his wife had coming to live in a new country. They
were very anxious when the could see New York City from the sky and
as the plane was coming in they heard the Captain say they would have
to circle the airport because of mist on the runway.

Dieter told his wife there was no way he was getting off the plane.

It seems there is a German word pronounced the same as "mist" and it
means 'manure"!!!

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