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Re: warning letter from...
Speaking of Scientology...
Forwarded message:
> Newsgroups: rec.humor.funny
> Subject: Do we face Mount St. Helens twice a day?
> From: [email protected] (David Lesher)
> Keywords: topical, funny, parody, computers
> Approved: [email protected]
> Message-ID: <[email protected]>
> Date: Wed, 4 Jan 95 12:20:02 EST
>
> AP: BILL TAKES ON ORAL & JIM
>
> Bill Gates, Incorporated announced that the Corporation has
> purchased a controlling interest in the Church of Scientology,
> effective today. The amount of the transaction was not
> disclosed.
>
> A corporate spokesman reading from a prepared text called
> "premature" reports that the next version of the company's
> mainstay product, referred to as "Windows_2001" in the trade
> press, will incorporate an E-meter pop-up box.
>
> The spokesman did vehemently deny that BGI had really intended
> to purchase the Roman Catholic Church, but had drafted the
> contract with Microsoft Word on a Pentium, thus causing the
> error.
>
> "We got what we wanted. We see a great potential in the
> Church's auditing techniques, and plan to use them to
> investigate methods of producing more uniform structured
> thoughts, err, code."
>
> BGI is privately held.
> RCC stock closed down 1/8, in light trading.
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