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To: benwood who wrote (21989)	1/9/2002 6:32:51 PM
From: haqihana	Read Replies (1) \| Respond to of 62558

A door-to-door sales vacuum cleaner salesman goes to the first house in his new territory. He knocks, a real mean and tough looking lady opens the door, and before she has a chance to say anything, he runs inside and dumps manure all over the carpet. He says, "Lady, if this vacuum cleaner doesn't do wonders cleaning up that horse manure, I'll eat every chunk of it." She turns to him with a smirk, and says, "You want ketchup on that?" The salesman says, "why do you ask?" She says, "We just moved in and we haven't got the electricity turned on yet."

To: benwood who wrote (21989)	1/15/2002 8:33:50 PM
From: Level Head	Read Replies (1) \| Respond to of 62558

The "orbits" applet is very good! The asteroid doesn't get close to Mercury, however -- the color change in the orbit indicates when it goes from above to below the orbits of Earth and (more or less) the other planets. When it looks close to Mercury, it's millions of miles "underneath" it. The dangerous part was that the color change happened at the Earth. The amazing -- and most scary -- part is that we just discovered that this was coming at us on December 26, 2001! No technology could have deflected it or lessened the damage. Period. Obligatory joke: Why did they stop grazing California cattle in marijuana fields? Because the steaks were too high. ===\|==============/ Level Head