dave debry asked me to repost this to brutes. (i just sent it to lunch about 20 minutes ago.) so here it is. apologies to those of you who are on both lists and are now reading this twice... ----8<----8<----clip and save! valuable coupons below!---->8---->8---- so i'm watching tv. and there's a snickers commercial on. you know the one. big, buff athlete with a discus, and he keeps doing the discus thang, but he cant make it past this white line that someone's painted out in the middle of nowhere. and his coach (who bears a striking resemblance to the coach in Rocky) is always hunched over behind him, going "just another inch, man. just another inch." now that's funny enough, now that i re-read it. this gnarled old while guy hunched over behind a big buff black athlete muttering "just another inch, man!" sick, but funny, and when has my sense of humor been anything but sick? but the athlete quickly takes a break to chow down on a snickers bar, while all that lovely snickers theme music plays in the background, and you can tell he's really getting into it, just like... well, just like he was in a snicker's commercial, which is somehow appropriate. anyway, he goes back, does the whirling dervish discus thing, and hurls the damned thing right out of the stadium. and some narrator cuts in and says "snickers - the official snack food of the 1992 olympics." and i'm thinking, "man, that's a smart move on their part. snickers must be putting steroids in their candy bars now. athletes all over the place will be inhaling the things before the olympic committee catches on." now that i read over this, i think the "just another inch, man!" stuff is funnier. but when i originally started this post, i was honestly only intending to make the steroids comment. the other stuff only came up as i was writing this. maybe i should just post my entire life story to the net. i'll bet it'd seem a lot funnier as i wrote it down... ---mike "am i stupid or stoned wbiesele@cadehp0.eng.utah.edu to even think that you care owmb@pool.info.sunyit.edu for the beauty of a sunset sky docmike@world.std.com or a dandelion's stare?" wmb@cc.utah.edu