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no Comment Godzilla Rides Again An advertisement for the new Yamaha V-Max motorcycle describes it as a "vicious cycle" with power "that's delivered to the street with all the subtlety of a...
...It's "designed for the motorcycle rider who wants to be the most intimidating figure on the road...
...In the game, "countries are radiated beyond hope and, if a player is too hasty, the entire Earth may be destroyed and thrown into permanent and never-ending nuclear winter...
...Please send original clippings or photocopies and give name and date of publication...
...Stag Dinner Pope John Paul II, explaining why women cannot be ordained as Catholic priests: "It's an easy one to answer—because no women were present at the Last Supper, either...
...Voice of Democracy Representative Charles Wilson, Texas Democrat, commenting (to the Fort Worth Star-Telegram) on proposals to provide U.S...
...Milwaukee entrepreneur Dean Kapp is marketing, at $2.95 a can, an aerosol spray called Bombs Away, described (by Milwaukee Magazine) as "a pine-scented nuclear bomb repellent guaranteed to provide 'effective protection against most common types of hydrogen, neutron, and cobalt bombs'—or your money back...
...George is up there with all the Notre Dame saints we have in heaven, and through him I want to invoke the power of God...
...Win One for the Gipper Salvadoran President Jose Napoleon Duarte, in a commencement address at Notre Dame University: "I will return to my hpme stadium, El Salvador, where I will have to imitate George Gipp and score a victory for peace...
...If you don't have it, you learn to live without it or don't miss it,' he said...
...The latest in children's fashions from Paris, as shown in the fall collection of designer Daniel Hechter, includes an itty bitty trench coat, a teensy weensy fedora, and an eeny weeny rifle...
...Great Ideas of Western Man Texas State Representative Mark "Bubba" Stiles, as quoted in The Texas Observer...
...The right to bear arms is a right that I think is just fundamental...
...Games People Play The latest item from New-Earth Games of Oklahoma City, Oklahoma, according to Toy & Hobby World, is called Nuke, the Last Game on Earth...
...Dream Vacations of Winter Park, Florida, advertises (in The New York Times): "Your Cabbage Patch doll can stay one week in beautiful Central Florida, the number-one vacation spot in the U.S...
...Readers are invited to submit No Comment items...
...aid for anti-Sandinista contras: "I'll vote for whatever kills the most commies...
...In the event of a nuclear war, bone marrow stored safely in space might be used to treat key government officials...
...Visit Disneyland and much more...
...There Goes the Neighborhood Plans to construct fourteen luxury homes priced at $450,000 to $500,000 each in McLean, Virginia, drew protests from residents who said their property values would be adversely affected by such "moderate" housing...
...no Comment Godzilla Rides Again An advertisement for the new Yamaha V-Max motorcycle describes it as a "vicious cycle" with power "that's delivered to the street with all the subtlety of a wrecking ball taking out the side of a building...
...Frontiers of Free Enterprise The Water Jet Bath Womb costs $11,500 and features, according to the Boston Globe, "a microchip-powered, fourteen-function control center [from which] a bather can activate a touch-tone speaker phone system, a four-speaker stereo system, and nine CycloJets, each with a miniturbine and a facial mist system...
...But it did give us the fatigue sweater...
...Miracle Drug The Mount Sinai Medical Center in Miami Beach, Florida, sells ten-ounce cans of kosher chicken soup bearing the hospital's brand name...
...You get born, you go die, and while you're here, you can have a gun if you want to...
...You run into freedom of speech and all that.'" Not to Worry News item in Science Digest: "Radiation is an effective killer of bone marrow, which can be replaced only with transplants of healthy material...
...All that Jazz From a news story in the Fremont (California) Argus: "Newark Memorial High has not had a school paper since the 1982-1983 school year because of high production costs, but Principal Bob Quartar-ola said he doesn't mind...
...They can be a headache for administrators, particularly principals...
...From the San Francisco Chronicle...
...For brochure send $2.00...
...More Good News From the Land's End mail-order catalog: "War is hell...
...Submissions cannot be acknowledged or returned...
Vol. 49 • August 1985 • No. 8