Fun_People Archive
8 Feb
JsOTD - uniforms, mud, light, & Nixon - 2/8/96

Date: Thu, 8 Feb 96 12:43:39 -0800
From: Peter Langston <psl>
To: Fun_People
Subject: JsOTD - uniforms, mud, light, & Nixon - 2/8/96

Forwarded-by: bostic@bsdi.com (Keith Bostic)
Forwarded-by: dfitzpat@interserv.com

In the News: About the president's support for school uniforms to cut down
violence, Bill Williams observes, "It doesn't seem to have done much good
for the Postal Service."

"Crews in South Carolina have dug up about 12 million pounds of polluted
mud.  Says Jerry Perisho, "The state hopes to recover costs by selling the
sludge to GOP candidates for their final weeks of campaigning in New
Hampshire."

CNN quoted medical researchers saying that the winter depression many
people suffer can be cured by exposure to a special light. Says Argus
Hamilton, "They recommend Bud Light, Miller Lite, or Coors Light."

A Richard Nixon postage stamp with a printing error sold at auction for
$16,000.  Daniel Dowden says auctioneers were shocked by the price.
"No one thought a flawed Nixon was rare."

© 1996 Peter Langston