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Fri, 27 Aug 1999 09:46:36 -0400
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UNTITLED
 
     i've studied the situation:
i'm not sure we can win:
i went to the 'Australian Bureau of Statistics'
& asked them for:
      'one of everything':
                                        i got
how many umbrellas they made
             how many pickled onions
 
   how many:
         Dams
                   Deaths
                   Debts
                   Doctors
                   Doors
                   Drivers
                   Ducks
                          there is, are, was
           Gas
           Gates
           Geese
           Gherkins
 
           it was all there
 
           for the asking
 
then i read:
 
           52,100 people were depressed
 
                         17% said they couldn't breathe
 
65,400 people said they had headaches
 
         there were
 
        146,100 'family arguments'
 
                    and they reported into work
 
                     'sick'
 
black eyes, broken noses, husbands, lovers, friends.
 
                     (including: food poisoning)
 
                                        accounted for 6%
 
& then i read:
 
- if a woman rain into the street
& started firing into a crowd, there'd be
21 men shooting back
 
- if a dago-wog-bastard-jew ran into the street
& started firing into a crowd, there'd be
7 'ocker-aussie-wasps'
shooting back
 
- & if someone who didn't have a job
ran into the street & started firing into a crowd
there'd be 49 people with bank books
shooting back.
 
 
- PiO  (Melbourne, Australia)

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