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From: truss@hotblack.gweep.net (Tom Russell)
Subject: Re: Okay, who put him up to this?
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Date: Sat, 3 Sep 1994 02:49:17 GMT

>Luckily I somehow managed to catch hold of a pipe on the bottom of the blimp
>with my legs.  So now I was hanging upside-down by my knees from a pipe
>attached to the bottom of a rogue blimp, holding a kitten in each hand.  And
>my shoe was still untied, too.  I've got to tell you, up to this point, this
>was probably the weirdest day I'd had since the marmalade incident out at
>uncle Jeb's...  I've told you that one, haven't I?

 "Marmalade inci--oh yeah! yeah, you told me about that one!," said Joey
hastily.  "Yes sir, the Marmalade incident at Uncle Jeb's!  Boy that was a
good one!"

  "Yep, the Marmalde Incident at Uncle Jeb's.  It was back a year or two
before this spaceship incident.  We'd gone out to Uncle Jeb's for the annual
picnic and family reunion..."

  Joey groaned and slowly slumped down in his seat.

  "...So there we were sitting at the table.  Lots of good food like there
always is at the annual picnic.  Including some of Aunt Helga's
prize-winning Steak Marmalade.  That Marmalade had won prize after prize
at the County and State Fairs for years.  Well, Aunt Helga had whipped
up a big batch of the stuff and everyone was heaping it on their food.

  I was just about to reach for a big helping myself when all of a sudden,
this balding, white-haired guy with horn rimmed glasses and a polyester
suit came striding out of the bushes and into the yard.  He grabbed the jar
of Aunt Helga's Marmalade and started talking.

  "A family picnic in the summertime.  Not exactly the sort of place you'd
expect to find science and technology is it?  And yet some of the most 
interesting stoies in science can be found in something as simple, as a
jar of marmalade.  Like this one.  Now you might think that this jar of 
marmalade has very little to do with modern industry and scientific 
progress.  It's just marmalade, it certainly woould change people's 
worldview right?  Wrong.  In fact, today we're going to show how this jar
of marmalade is responsible for the industrial revolution, the settling
of the American West, superconductors and the man behind them all --
James Watt.  And we'll start our journey, when we return.

  And then we went to commercial.  When we got back....

later
Truss
(Carolyn, Trish, Limey, I'm Tom, remember?)



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