Subject: Banned for the Anthrax Duration.

From: Tesla Coil <tescoil@irtc.net>
Newsgroups: alt.slack
Date: Sun, Oct 14, 2001 10:48 AM

We can only speculate:

Hollies - "The Air That I Breathe"
Marvelettes/Beatles - "Please Mister Postman"
Ted Nugent - "Cat Scratch Fever"
Frank Sinatra - "I've Got You Under My Skin"
Van Halen - "Somebody Get Me A Doctor"
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Subject: Re: Banned for the Anthrax Duration.
From: "Rabbi Jacklyn Hyde" <rabbs@subgenius.com>

Fuck banning SONGS, can we get a temp ban on stupid junk mail? The time and
paranoia just about ripe enough for that kind of crackdown. If I get fewer
credit card applications, I'd consider it one of the few bright spots of the
past month.
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From: nu-monet <nothing@succeeds.com>
Newsgroups: alt.slack

Isn't junk mail a pain? I know a guy who got an
unsolicited package from Columbia. It was positively
full of big bags full of this mysterious white powder.
He was afraid it might be anthrax, so he threw it out.

Lotta Moslems in Columbia, huh?

--
*
"Burmese Python eats Pit Bull. Doo dah, doo dah."
*
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Subject: Re: Banned for the Anthrax Duration.
From: "LXIX" <post_replys_please@this.address.is.invalid>

I just take the envelope and all and stuff it back in the
postage paid return envelope with a nice little letter that
says "I don't want your garbage so I'm returning it to you."

Works for me and oddly the amount of junk mail has shrunk.

--LXIX--
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From: Tesla Coil <tescoil@irtc.net>

There was a company sending me weekly advertisements.
I put a quarter-inch thick piece of scrap iron in their
business reply envelope with a note: "next time, I send
something heavier." There hasn't been a next time.

If the terrorists had any brains, they'd send anthrax to
junk mailers and let them pay the postage to receive it.
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From: inigo@montoya.net (D. P. Roberts)
Newsgroups: alt.slack

>Lotta Moslems in Columbia, huh?

Yeah, those University of Missouri kids sure are great kidders.
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From: John Starrett <jstarret@carbon.cudenver.edu>
Newsgroups: alt.slack

My wife works in health care, and they have been receiving many
requests for anthrax vaccine from the panicked. Friday she got a
call from a bank teller who wanted the vaccine because she had
noticed white powder on some of the money she was handling. EEEK!

--
John Starrett
"We have nothing to fear but the scary stuff."

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