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bu...@calvin.assiniboinec.mb.ca

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Feb 17, 1994, 5:15:33 PM2/17/94
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I am very interested in collecting jokes, anecdotes and humorous stories
related to environmental issues. I'm discovering that sometimes humor can
radicalize and energize people for effective action more readily than
information alone, and more willingly than stories of impending environmental
emergencies, no matter true they may be. Please e-mail me directly or post to
this ng. Thanks very much.

Mark Burch
Coordinator, Sustainable Development
Assiniboine Community College
bu...@adminnet.assiniboinec.mb.ca

Barry Mosher

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Feb 18, 1994, 1:41:03 PM2/18/94
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Seen on a bulletin board at the Ministry of Forests, Victoria, B.C.

"Earth First! We'll log the other planets later."

Frank Reid

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Feb 18, 1994, 6:42:33 PM2/18/94
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In article <1994Feb18.1...@sol.UVic.CA> bmo...@sol.UVic.CA (Barry Mosher) writes:
>Seen on a bulletin board at the Ministry of Forests, Victoria, B.C.
>
>"Earth First! We'll log the other planets later."

Seen on a load of logs: SPOTTED OWL MOTOR-HOME

--

Frank re...@ucs.indiana.edu

Daniel Convissor

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Feb 18, 1994, 11:25:21 PM2/18/94
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The cartoonist Tom Toles, who appears in the Buffalo News and is syndicated by
Universal Press Syndicate, has great stuff.
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bu...@vax.sonoma.edu

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Feb 19, 1994, 3:45:31 AM2/19/94
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>>"Earth First! We'll log the other planets later."
>
> Seen on a load of logs: SPOTTED OWL MOTOR-HOME
>

I saw this on a bumper sticker one day:

We're out of toilet paper - wipe your butt with a Spotted Owl.

Steve Milewski

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Feb 23, 1994, 4:57:26 PM2/23/94
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Stumps Don't Lie!

Steve Milewski

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Feb 25, 1994, 11:32:23 AM2/25/94
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Save our environment... Ship a logger to Japan

Barz

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Feb 25, 1994, 1:53:20 PM2/25/94
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Save the Rainforest, Eat a vegetarian!!

rb...@slate.mines.colorado.edu

DR J

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Mar 1, 1994, 8:09:25 AM3/1/94
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Steve Milewski (mile...@oregon.uoregon.edu) wrote:

: Stumps Don't Lie!

Preserve wildlife, pickle a squirrel!


DR J

Tan Siah Yeow Kevin

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Mar 2, 1994, 2:03:18 AM3/2/94
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Barz (rb...@slate.mines.colorado.edu) wrote:
: Save the Rainforest, Eat a vegetarian!!

: rb...@slate.mines.colorado.edu

Stay Green....have sex with frogs!

Minda

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Mar 2, 1994, 11:02:42 AM3/2/94
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In article <1994Feb25.1...@slate.mines.colorado.edu> rb...@slate.mines.colorado.edu (Barz) writes:
>Save the Rainforest, Eat a vegetarian!!
>
>rb...@slate.mines.colorado.edu
>
I'm afraid we may not taste very good! PPPTTTT!!! :P


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Mar 2, 1994, 5:56:39 PM3/2/94
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Save the whales! (Collect the whole set!)

Nuke the Gay Unborn Baby Whales for Jesus!


-- Mike "Don't put these stickers on any car you want to keep..." Bartman --

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Denny E. Miller

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Mar 3, 1994, 2:25:43 AM3/3/94
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DR J (me9...@brunel.ac.uk) wrote:
}Steve Milewski (mile...@oregon.uoregon.edu) wrote:

}Preserve wildlife, pickle a squirrel!

They wouldn't let me into the Sierra Club for that one! They asked me how
I felt on the preservation of wildlife and I said, "I feel that all
wildlife should be preserved for posterity, preferably with formaldehyde.
What's the use in letting something that's already almost extinct just
cavort around and get killed, and lay rotting in the forest? We should
round up all the endangered species we can and pop them in jars and
distribute them to several sites worldwide. That way our children can
point and say, 'what a stupid little bastard it was.' (Whereupon we slap
them and admonish against such language.) And when we finally perfect the
art of cloning, we'll have all that DNA ready and waiting. And have you
compared the cost of pickling a frog with buying the land it lives on..."
I would have gone on, but at that moment three 6'2" men in big,
tight-fitting shirts suggested that a stroll *through* the asphalt parking
lot might be a singularly awe inspiring way to end the day...

--
And the Thought of the Moment (tm) is...

Been there, done that, got caught, did time.

kalm...@esvx11.es.dupont.com

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Mar 3, 1994, 2:34:25 PM3/3/94
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Here's one:

I'm a vegetarian not because I love animals but because I really hate
plants.

(Borrowed from someones sig. file on rec.music.gdead)

Ross Kouhi

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Mar 3, 1994, 4:47:09 PM3/3/94
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Others wrote:

>
> > >>"Earth First! We'll log the other planets later."
> > >
> > > Seen on a load of logs: SPOTTED OWL MOTOR-HOME
> > >
> >
> > I saw this on a bumper sticker one day:
> >
> > We're out of toilet paper - wipe your butt with a Spotted Owl.
>
> Stumps Don't Lie!

> Save our environment... Ship a logger to Japan

My fav. bumper sticker with both an environmental and religious
bent was...

"Nuke the whales for Jesus"

-Ross.

Minda

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Mar 7, 1994, 11:19:32 AM3/7/94
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In article <1994Mar3.1...@es.dupont.com> kalm...@esvx11.es.dupont.com writes:
>In article <1994Mar2.1...@oz.plymouth.edu>, m_st...@oz.plymouth.edu (Minda) writes:
>>In article <1994Feb25.1...@slate.mines.colorado.edu> rb...@slate.mines.colorado.edu (Barz) writes:
>>>Save the Rainforest, Eat a vegetarian!!
>>>
>>>rb...@slate.mines.colorado.edu
>>>
>>I'm afraid we may not taste very good! PPPTTTT!!! :P
>>
>>Minda

>>
>Here's one:
>
> I'm a vegetarian not because I love animals but because I really hate
>plants.
>
> (Borrowed from someones sig. file on rec.music.gdead)

I like that one!!
Minda

Arthur Hlavaty

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Mar 8, 1994, 8:29:20 AM3/8/94
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Vegetarians are what they eat.

--
Arthur D. Hlavaty hla...@panix.com
"The Mason's face is ajar."--Firesign Theater

Frank Reid

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Mar 8, 1994, 11:02:57 AM3/8/94
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In article <2lhujg$f...@panix.com> hla...@panix.com (Arthur Hlavaty) writes:

> Vegetarians are what they eat.
>

If they were cannibals, they'd be humanitarians.

--

Frank re...@ucs.indiana.edu

Greg Stagbouer

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Mar 8, 1994, 8:03:19 PM3/8/94
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> "Nuke the whales for Jesus"

A similar one I have seen
"Nuke the gay whales for God"
Others
"Mining stinks - because the greenies stir up so much shit"
"Ban mining - let the bastards freeze in the dark"
"Its either farmed or mined"


Checked for speling errors

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Mar 16, 1994, 4:49:46 PM3/16/94
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From a Dave Barry daily calander:

The major industry in Oregon is trying to locate a tree that does
not have an ecologinst wrapped around it and cutting it down and
selling it to Japan to be converted into price stickers and pasted
onto the car windows for sale in the United States.

enjoy

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