----- Original Message ----- From: CSJ <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> To: <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> Sent: Tuesday, March 13, 2001 3:06 AM Subject: [Communist-Party] spoons I pass along the following for what it's worth. I found it interesting. While checking on a number of old interests on Napster before it's much ballyhooed demise I found quite a lot of tracks by the Southern U.S. comedian, Brother Dave Gardner, a fellow who once said that he was not against communists just because he wouldn't get that close. Gardner, however, had a way of making jokes based on complex and interesting philosophical propositions and I know at least one person who got interested in ideas through his records. In a recording made in the middle sixties he told the following story which bears a number of interesting interpretations: A man went to hell and found that there everyone was seated at a banquet table overflowing with good things to eat but that they only had as eating utensils spoons with four foot handles which they could only feed themselves with the greatest difficulty. The man decided to see if things were better in heaven so he went next door and found that the conditions were exactly the same except that in heaven the people were feeding one another. This story may be in common circulation, but I never heard it before. ------------------------ Yahoo! Groups Sponsor ---------------------~-~> We give away $70,000 a month! Come to iWin.com for your chance to win! http://us.click.yahoo.com/r_1oCB/BJVCAA/4ihDAA/XvNVlB/TM ---------------------------------------------------------------------_-> To unsubscribe from this group, send an email to: [EMAIL PROTECTED] To read the updated pre-convention discussion documents, go to http://www.cpusa.org/27th_convention/discussion_docs/index.html To learn more about the Communist Party, send an email to [EMAIL PROTECTED] or visit our website at http://www.cpusa.org Your use of Yahoo! Groups is subject to http://docs.yahoo.com/info/terms/