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To: Selectric II who wrote (27744)10/12/2000 11:00:34 PM
From: pater tenebrarum  Read Replies (2) | Respond to of 436258
 
currently there's intensive work underway regarding utilizing the power stored in chicken sh*t...it looked like a very promising effort to me.

perhaps someone has a link to the post on the drilling thread where this was described?



To: Selectric II who wrote (27744)10/13/2000 8:06:20 AM
From: flatsville  Read Replies (2) | Respond to of 436258
 
You obviously don't remember the National Lampoon issue on Terminal Flatulence (TF--a lampoon on the big campaign to end CF, cystic fibrosis, that began in the mid-1970s.) I recall a picture of a field of cows wear gas collectors on their rear ends. The justification was that cows were an excellent source of natural gas and the real culprits in global warming...forget about cars.

They also profiled a Mexican family whose home had been destroyed by a gas explosion brought on by grandpa's constant intake of frijoles. They were homeless and NL was accepting donations on their behalf.

Is National Lampoon still being published?

I have taken to buying Mad Magazine under the pretext that it's for my 10 year old and then reading it cover to cover. Anyone else exhibiting this element of mid-life crisis?...I've also bought several a Hendrix CDs lately...oh my...