From: erc@s116.slcslip.indirect.com (Ed Carp [khijol Sysadmin])
Date: Wed, 4 Jan 95 13:45:48 PST
To: cypherpunks@toad.com
Subject: Re: warning letter from...
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Speaking of Scientology...

Forwarded message:
> Newsgroups: rec.humor.funny
> Subject: Do we face Mount St. Helens twice a day?
> From: wb8foz@netcom.com (David Lesher)
> Keywords: topical, funny, parody, computers
> Approved: funny@clarinet.com
> Message-ID: <S7ae.2a78@clarinet.com>
> 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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