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Re: Another one bites the dust: Oracle buys Sleepycat Database

From: Double Echo <doubleecho_at_your.com>
Date: Sat, 25 Feb 2006 05:46:35 -0500
Message-ID: <bAWLf.4862$6_3.3190@fe75.usenetserver.com>


DA Morgan wrote:
> 1. More than 98 percent of convicted felons are bread eaters.
> 2. Fully HALF of all children who grow up in bread-consuming households
> score below average on standardized tests.
> 3. In the 18th century, when virtually all bread was baked in the home,
> the average life expectancy was less than 50 years; infant mortality
> rates were unacceptably high; many women died in childbirth; and
> diseases such as typhoid, yellow fever and influenza ravaged whole nations.
> 4. More than 90 percent of violent crimes are committed within 24 hours
> of eating bread.
> 5. Bread is made from a substance called "dough." It has been proven
> that as little as one pound of dough can be used to suffocate a mouse.
> The average American eats more bread than that in one month!
> 6. Primitive tribal societies that have no bread exhibit a low
> occurrence of cancer, Alzheimer's, Parkinson's disease and osteoporosis.
> 7. Bread has been proven to be addictive. Subjects deprived of bread and
> given only water to eat begged for bread after only two days.
> 8. Bread is often a "gateway" food item, leading the user to "harder"
> items such as butter, jelly, peanut butter and even cold cuts.
> 9. Bread has been proven to absorb water. Since the human body is more
> than 90 percent water, it follows that eating bread could lead to your
> body being taken over by this absorptive food product, turning you into
> a soggy, gooey bread-pudding person.
> 10. Newborn babies can choke on bread.
> 11. Bread is baked at temperatures as high as 400 degrees Fahrenheit!
> That kind of heat can kill an adult in less than one minute.
> 12. Most American bread eaters are utterly unable to distinguish between
> significant scientific fact and meaningless statistical babbling.

Finally something in this newsgroup I can really use! Received on Sat Feb 25 2006 - 04:46:35 CST

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