Sorry about the snowflakes + swami dust.(Was RE: Assault Donuts)
My Norcal culture-informant has forwarded a picture of a sign from a SF-area bathroom which reads in red serif: Due to recent world events, please clean up all body powder before leaving the locker room Other than the fact that a number of the scares are very real, the whole thing keeps feeling more and more like a bad Monty Python episode. Friday's British Medical Journal, cited in another AP anthrax roundup story below, describes the free-floating bioterror anxiety as mass sociogenic illness. As Ken Alibek testified before the House this week, the primary desired effect is psychological disruption, not body count... ...An Australian lawmaker's office was sealed off amid confusion over ashes from a Hindu temple, and American Express apologized for sending plastic snowflakes to Swedish customers as anthrax scares multiplied worldwide on Friday Parliament security officers in Australia's New South Wales state sealed off the office of a lawmaker after a worker found a package full of ashes postmarked from the ``Wandering Swamy of Arunchala Hills.'' The package, the lawmaker later explained, was holy ash from a swami he met during a recent trip to India. American Express Co. said Friday it will send letters of apology to some 40,000 Swedish card holders who received a promotional Christmas mailing containing an envelope with plastic snowflakes marked ``spread these out.'' The mailing prompted angry phone calls. ``We understand that people are upset,'' said spokeswoman Gunnel Engberg. ``They complained that the timing was inadequate, not that it was dangerous in any way.'' http://dailynews.yahoo.com/h/ap/20011019/wl/anthrax_overseas_17.html
RE: Assault Donuts
Tim May wrote: WASHINGTON (Routers News Service) Because of false alarms involving the confectioner's sugar on powdered donuts, sale of so-called assault donuts will henceforth be restricted to law enforcement officers. Cops have always been the largest consumers of donuts, this just makes them the _only_ legal purchaser of this particular kind of donut, said Department of Donuts spokesman Ring Annulus. Don't laugh, there was an actual news item along these lines on Thursday. After truth, powdered donuts are always the second casualty of war. Then again, switching to crullers could be giving in to exactly what the terrorists *want* us to do. Thursday October 18 11:56 PM EDT Powdered Doughnuts Make Customers Nervous The anthrax scares has caused people to call 911 over bird droppings, talcum powder and laundry detergent; and now even their morning doughnut is making some people nervous. Specifically doughnuts with powdered sugar are being affected at a DeBary doughnut shop. People can find glazed, chocolate, cinnamon crumb, and jelly-filled doughnuts but not a single one with powdered sugar. Because people are afraid of them. They're afraid of the powder on the doughnut, employee Marie Cavalho said. The manager of the Go For Donuts shop banned powdered pastries after a steady customer picked up five-dozen on Monday, took them to a meeting and then called to change the order. We said why? He said they won't eat them, they're afraid of them, Rosemary Dorazio said. They're afraid the powder might contain anthrax. But the women who work the counter said that powdered sugar is simply powdered sugar and the baker is the only one who touches the doughnuts before they are set out for sale. Still, the manager wanted customers to feel comfortable. If it makes them happy and at-ease why not give them what they want? employee Marie Carvalho asked. The manager said that powdered doughnuts will stay off the shelf until customers ask for them.
RE: Assault Donuts
souce url http://dailynews.yahoo.com/h/wesh/20011018/lo/930118_1.html
RE: Assault Donuts
At 05:41 PM 10/20/01 -0700, Xeni Jardin wrote: souce url http://dailynews.yahoo.com/h/wesh/20011018/lo/930118_1.html My Norcal culture-informant has forwarded a picture of a sign from a SF-area bathroom which reads in red serif: Due to recent world events, please clean up all body powder before leaving the locker room Hysterical, hysterical. Time for a hysterectomy. ... If you die first, we're splitting up your gear.
