Date:  Saturday, 6 October 1984 22:19 mst
From:  James J. Lippard <Lippard>
Subject:  Miscellaneous Digest V3 #31
Reply-To:  {mbx >udd>Multics>Lippard>misc>misc}
To:  {list >udd>Multics>Lippard>misc>misc}

Miscellaneous Digest                              Volume 3 : Issue 31

Today's topics:
                    Proper fate for COBOL programmers
                    2nd Law of Thermodynamics

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Date:  Tuesday, 2 October 1984 20:43 mst
From:  dfm at MIT-CHARON (Daniel F. Morgan)
Subject:  Proper fate for COBOL programmers
Fcc:  outbox

From the UPI wire via National Lampoon's True Facts section:

          Ashington, England -- Safety engineers checking the emergency
braking system on a 480-foot mine-shaft elevator said they had no idea
two miners were trapped inside during the bouncing tests.
          "I never want to get back in a pit cage as long as I live," said
Mark Hetherington, who was bounced up and down inside the elevator for
two hours.
          The elevator was raised to the surface and then sent into free
fall four times to test the braking system before safety engineers
realized the two men were inside.


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Date:  Thursday, 4 October 1984 19:54 mst
From:  Barry Margolin <Margolin at MIT-MULTICS>
Subject:  2nd Law of Thermodynamics

From Gloria, 7/24/84:

           LITTLE KNOWN FACTS THAT COULD SAVE YOUR LIFE

   ...

   * The Second Law of Thermodynamics languished for eleven years in various
     congressional subcommittees.  It finally passed after all of the
     molecules of air in the capitol locked themselves into a cloakroom
     and refused to come out until everyone had promised to support the bill.

  **==> That was Kevin Lang's plan file.

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