Subject: Scotch
 
   Eriskay, the Scottish island whose inhabitants have been drinking
free scotch since 1941, is returning to the real world.
   The 200 residents have finally drunk through the 20,300 cases of
scotch they salvaged from a shipwreck on rocks off the island 45
years ago.  Eriskays remarkable windfall was enshrined by Compton
Mackenzie's novel Whiskey Galore, made into a delightful movie in
1948 during Britain's post-war golden age of filmmaking.
   It's been such a marvelous party that we don't want to think
about the shock that awaits Eriskay people at the bar and the
off-license when they see what 45 years have done to the price of
scotch.
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During the Karpov-Kasparov world chess championships they came
to an adjournment and left for their hotel.  In the lobby of the hotel
several chess enthusiasts could be heard bragging,
 
     "I could beat Karpov with no problem".
     "Oh yeah, I could beat both of them at the same time."
     "That's nothing, I could beat both of them blindfolded!"
 
Finally, the hotel manager had had enough and threw them all out of the hotel.
"But why?" a bystander asked.
 
"Because," the manager replied "I hate ...
 
"chess nuts boasting by an open foyer!"