From buddy Mon Nov  7 19:46:43 1994
Date: Tue, 1 Nov 1994 02:18:28
Subject: misc


   A NASA official at Kennedy Space Center was explaining to a reporter
how a module carrying human beings will be landed on Mars. The reporter
asked how the module will return to earth. 
   "That involves a highly complex plan, " the space agency representative
said. "It begins with the words, 'Our Father, who art in Heaven.' " 

   Campers roughing it in a country park in eastern Iowa plugging in so
many coffeemakers, TV sets, electric blankets, and refrigerators that the
park transformer exploded from the overload. 

   Someone once asked Benjamin Franklin what condition of mankind deserved
the most pity. His reply: "A lonesome person on a rainy day who does not
know how to read."