Re: What scholars won't study to issue a report!

[Kathleen Warren <kwarren@eecs.wsu.edu>]

Tom, maybe you are aware of the source of your report.  If not, you will be
interested in my son's response when I forwarded it to him (since he works
for the Austin-American Statesman). As they used to say in "my day," What a
Gas!
Kathleen

>Date: Tue, 2 Jun 1998 02:45:36 +0100
>To: Kathleen Warren <kwarren@eecs.wsu.edu>
>From: "Ted S. Warren" <tswarren@mail.utexas.edu>
>Subject: Re: What scholars won't study to issue a report!
>
>Mom,
>
>This article is from an on-line PARODY/HUMOR news site called The Onion.
>Everything is completely fictional, but very very funny (with the
>occasionally off-color piece). Check it out at:
>
>
>www.theonion.com
>
>
>and let the people who sent this to you know that it is done only in parody
>and is not true.
>
>A faithful Onion reader,
>
>
>Ted
>
>
>
>
>>>Resent-Date: Mon, 1 Jun 1998 15:47:53 -0700 (PDT)
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>>>Date: Mon, 1 Jun 1998 15:41:13 -0700
>>>To: vision2020@moscow.com
>>>From: Tom.Lamar@mail-gw.fsr.net
>>>Subject: Milk vs gas
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>>>One of my favorite comparisons:
>>>
>>>>GASOLINE STILL INEXPLICABLY CHEAPER THAN MILK
>>>>
>>>>AUSTIN, TX-The University of Texas released a report Monday
>>>>stating that, for some inexplicable reason, gasoline, a steadily
>>>>depleting, non-renewable fossil fuel buried far beneath the earth's
>>>>surface, is still far less expensive than the milk of a cow. Milk, a
>>>>plentiful substance which is not made of dinosaur remains and
>>>>requires no multi-million-dollar machinery to draw it from deep
>>>>within the earth's core, costs approximately $2.45 a gallon,
>>>>compared to $1.30 for a gallon of gas. "This is puzzling,"
>>>>University of Texas agriculture-school professor Herbert Roth
>>>>said. "It's almost as if someone is trying to get
>>>>people to buy more gas."
>>>>

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Kathleen Kuehn Warren
Assistant Director, Corporate Relations
School of Electrical Engineering and Computer Science
Washington State University
509-335-6456; warren@wsu.edu