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To: Rambi who wrote (4845)12/8/1997 10:07:00 AM
From: Gauguin  Read Replies (2) | Respond to of 71178
 
<<<gift problems??? Ha. How about a father-in-law who's had a stroke and reads the same book over and over?>>>

How about an ant farm.
(Apologies to our farmers; and as they say,
don't criticize farmers with yer mouth full.)

<<<Or a sister-in-law who lives in the woods and prides herself on living in the most basic survival mode?>>>

possum-bilities:
explosives
toilet - moss
That Thoreau book ~ Possum in the Woods
JF Quinnelly



To: Rambi who wrote (4845)12/8/1997 5:25:00 PM
From: Janice Shell  Read Replies (1) | Respond to of 71178
 
You get her toilet paper. I've told you:

I [not I I I, the person I copied this from] found the following on the misc.survivalism newsgroup:

> In article <19971127.094855.9367.18.goddesshera@juno.com>,
> goddesshera@juno.com (Anonymous Remailer) wrote:
>
> > I have a 2 year supply of toilet paper. Do you think that it is enough
> > to prepare for TEOTWAWKI? Thank you.
> >
>
> No. When Y2K doom hits the paper companies, they won't be able to file
> their required 10-K's and 10-Q's to the SEC. Therefore all production of
> toilet paper must grind to a halt, due to one of those little understood
> structural interdependence factors (see the Y2K ng for details). You
> should stock enough for the rest of your natural life (or longer,
> depending on your religious persuasion).


Think about it.



To: Rambi who wrote (4845)12/9/1997 1:20:00 AM
From: JF Quinnelly  Respond to of 71178
 
You obviously get father-in-law another copy of the same book he reads over and over. And you get sister-in-law in the woods a new Whole Earth Catalog. And a stuffed possum.