EXXON SAYS ALASKA BENEFITED FROM SPILL

Exxon Corp. said yesterday that the people and industry of Alaska had
profited from the 1989 Valdez oil spill, when millions of barrels of oil 
spewed into Prince William Sound, tarring beaches and killing wildlife.
     ...
"The state of Alaska has been impacted but it's all been good," Exxon's
director of Alaskan operations Otto Harrison said at a Houston news
conference. 
     ...
An Exxon spokesman [later] said that Harrison was referring only to the
economic repercussions of the spill.

          [Believe it or not, the above is a *true* excerpt 
          from the Boston Globe, Thursday, May 9, 1991]

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A telephone sales person makes a call to an unknown prospect and
a very small, very soft, very quiet, and obviously young person
answers the phone.

Sales person: Hello, may I speak to the man of the house please?

Youngster: (whispering)  No, he's busy.

Sales person: Well then, can I please speak to your mother?

Youngster: (in a whisper)  She's busy too.

Sales person: I see, how about your brother?  Can I speak to him?

Youngster: (whispering)  No.  He's busy too.

Sales person: (losing patience) Is your sister there?  Can I talk to her?

Youngster: (in a whisper)  She's busy too.

Sales person: ( by now quite exasperated)  What are all these people
doing that keeps them so busy?!!!

Youngster: (still whispering) Looking for me.
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There was a young woman from Hyde
Who ate a green apple and died
    While her lover lamented
    The apple fermented
And made cider inside her inside.
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Politicians do it with everyone
Statisticians do it with 95% confidence
Evangelists do it with Him watching
Physicists do it with charm
Mathematicians do it in theory

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Two friends, while walking along the street,
see two Women on the opposite sidewalk.
-"Look", one of them says, "I didn't know that
my wife and my mistress knew each other."
-"Really", the other one says, "that's exactly
what I almost said myself."


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