Here's the most interesting things I found in my weekly ransacking of my
low-priority mail queue.

1.)  An offer to sort of endorse some chocolates.  Fee was a box.  Nope.

2.)  Someone at apple.com wanted "Kibo Inside" stickers.  I promised
that if they put them all over everything at Apple, I'd apologize for
showing Carl Sagan the "BHA" stickers I put all over the 7100s at work.

3.)  I told someone who mentioned the looming possibility of PBS
becoming the Punky Brewster System,
"Yeah, but PBS would never show Punky.  After all, the show glamorized
homelessness.  PBS would only show the Very Special Episode where Punky
learns that it's ALL HER FAULT we lost the war in Vietnam."

4.)  I assured someone that William Shatner probably did write most of
"Believe.", because the ghostwriter would have been able to put coherent
sentences together if someone hadn't later scribbled all over the
manuscript with his crayons.

5.)  An Australian refused to be insulted when I described the Simpsons
episode about how their toilets went the WRONG WAY.

6.)  Responded to "i realize this could be interpreted as 'kook mail'"
with "_to_, or _from_?"  GEE, I'M SO WITTY I COULD BE ON TV CONSTANTLY
AND EVERYONE WOULD LOVE ME ALL THE TIME!!!  Someone hit me.

7.)  Got told, three times, where the SeaQuest Home Page was.
Told them what I thought of tonight's episode.  (I mean, jeez, I could
forgive the show if it just sucked, but it's a rare show where every
single episode induces a new kind of constant giggle.  And I love
looking for polygon-sorting errors in the CGI.)

8.)  About six other people asked me to visit their WWW sites, most of
which I checked out.  Best is http://www.hype.com/ with its emphasis on
stupid stuff like The Banana Splits Show and Quisp cereal.  (I know more
about the Banana Splits than the page does, but hey, I have a
photographic memory for stupid stuff.  The page is recommended.)

9.)  Ignored mail about the top quark being detected, as a physicist has
been excitedly telling me about this in person.

10.) Someone complained that they tried to "summon" me on Usenet and I
complained that I only pop in when people _don't_ want me.

I won't bore you by breaking down the other few hundred messages, even
though they were the interesting ones.

						-- K.