Edku: December 1995

Move backwards to November 1995.

1.
Landers: The "P" word.
Fuhrman: The "N" word (in spades).
What's next? The "Z" word?

--Alec Proudfoot, alec@netcom.com

2.
Ireland has Clinton,
Bosnia has loads of troops.
Peace breaks out--maybe.

--Alec Proudfoot, alec@netcom.com

3.
Things fall apart. Why?
The center cannot hold. Then--
You're left with wing nuts.

--John Cho, jync@mit.edu

4.
Steve Jobs: Billionaire.
Netscape in the stratosphere.
What's the price of life?

--Alec Proudfoot, alec@netcom.com

5.
Gore checks his schedule;
Another state funeral.
"Co-Presidency"!?

--John Cho, jync@mit.edu

6.
National campaign:
"Dare to keep cops off donuts."
Winchell's bombs White House.

--John Cho, jync@mit.edu

7.
Queen Mother sets up
Date for Di with a doctor.
Name? Kevorkian.

--John Cho, jync@mit.edu

8.
Brown dwarf discovered.
Oops--make that "star of color,
Spatially challenged."

--John Cho, jync@mit.edu

9.
Newt spurned yet again,
But Clinton will pay--you'll see!
Amphibious gaze.

--Alec Proudfoot, alec@netcom.com

10.
Soon: Galileo
Dribbling down information
to a rocky earth.

--Alec Proudfoot, alec@netcom.com

11.
The "Rev." Lou Sheldon
Stands for what? In this case Rev.
Stands for Revolting.

--John St. Croix, JSTCROIX@HR.HOUSE.GOV

12.
G. I. Joe's comin'.
Bosnians trade arms for shops.
Make money, not war.

--John Cho, jync@mit.edu

13.
U. N. leaves Rwanda.
No matter--the media
Left long time ago.

--John Cho, jync@mit.edu

14.
Yeltsin health crisis.
Al Haig shows up in Moscow.
"I'm in control here."

--John Cho, jync@mit.edu

15.
Roh, row row your boat...
Bribes? No way! They were not bribes,
just fishing money.

--Alec Proudfoot, alec@netcom.com

16.
Papandreou sees
Dreaded face from his sick bed.
Oh no! It's Al Haig!

--John Cho, jync@mit.edu

17.
Mimi offers choice
To the Greek electorate:
"Coffee, tea, or Mi?"

--John Cho, jync@mit.edu

18.
Kim "Mr. Clean" Young
Sam borrows page from Nancy:
Just say "Roh" to bribes!

--John Cho, jync@mit.edu

19.
Tis' the Season. Time
to laud the First Liberal:
Jesus Christ himself.

--John St. Croix, JSTCROIX@HR.HOUSE.GOV

20.
Clinton. Bosnia.
I'm going. No, wait! I'm not!
Let's just send the troops.

--Alec Proudfoot, alec@netcom.com

21.
"I-75?"
"No." Signature now fastest
Way out of Dayton.

--Michael J. Adams, mjadams@gol.com

22.
IFOR package tour!
Merchant of Tuzla's motto:
"Trust but VeriFone."

--Michael J. Adams, mjadams@gol.com

23.
Whoopi gets divorced
Meets guy, gets married, has kid
Whoopi gets divorced

--Alec Proudfoot, alec@netcom.com

24.
Serbo-Croatian.
The hyphen still holds--barely.
Language of anguish.

--John Cho, jync@mit.edu

25.
Bill Gates sips Java,
Watching Web surfers from beach,
Mindful of Sun burn.

--John Cho, jync@mit.edu

26.
John M.: "Soldiers." Jacques
Chirac: "Legionnaires." Congress
sideshow: "Boys and Girls."

--Michael J. Adams, mjadams@gol.com

27.
Newt finally gets
his executive branch job:
Ambass. to Elba

--Michael J. Adams, mjadams@gol.com

28.
"Boycott Air Force One!"
Newt's tantrum sings. Wags retort:
"White Man's Rosa Parks."

--Michael J. Adams, mjadams@gol.com

29.
Big Sky Autobahn.
Pedal-to-the-metal, man!
Death toll to rise soon.

--Alec Proudfoot, alec@netcom.com

30.
Bosnian-to-be
Serburb of Sarajevo.
Program or pogrom?

--Michael J. Adams, mjadams@gol.com

31.
Bob Dole, Newt Gingrich:
Protecting children from smut?
Freedom slowly dies.

--Alec Proudfoot, alec@netcom.com

32.
Gates buys NBC
Nightly News with Tom Brokaw
...
...wait, must fix bug first!

--Alec Proudfoot, alec@netcom.com

33.
Okinawa rape.
Fort Bragg shooting. Stray eagles
With bloody talons.

--John Cho, jync@mit.edu

34.
"Juppé, I pay, we
All pay for striking! Ha ha."
The French do not laugh.

--John Cho, jync@mit.edu

35.
O.J.'s Christmas gifts:
Ginsu knife, car seat covers,
Pre-shrunk leather gloves.

--John Cho, jync@mit.edu

36.
Earthquake! They all said...
California Vanishes!
Instead, it's the rain.

--Alec Proudfoot, alec@netcom.com

37.
Burning flag hubbub.
Protect symbols, not people--
and Freedom is gone.

--Alec Proudfoot, alec@netcom.com

38.
Zhirinovsky calls
His party "virgin." Maybe
VIRulent, GIN-soaked?

--John Cho, jync@mit.edu

39.
Exon's Gestapo
Spies on Internet. We sing
"Gedanken sind Frei."

--John Cho, jync@mit.edu

40.
Ebola virus
rears its ugly head again
in Liberia.

--kevin kepley (the mathineer/poet), kpk@Storz.Com <- Send verbal abuse here.

41.
Fat Joey Waldholtz
Campaign fraud, extra money
Enid seems clueless

--Kevin R. O'Brien, KOBrien@erols.com

42.
Bosnian snowfall
Hides millions of deadly mines
But they'll still explode

--Kevin R. O'Brien, KOBrien@erols.com

43.
Abiola's Ghost
Of Christmas Future: Sani
Abacha's nightmare.

--John Cho, jync@mit.edu

44.
Coming soon for your
Home-viewing pleasure: Yigal
Amir and his gun.

--John Cho, jync@mit.edu

45.
Strike fizzles; Metro
Clatters again. Bombers come
Back from vacation.

--John Cho, jync@mit.edu

46.
Clinton, alone on
Nomination raft, braces
For rough Whitewater.

--John Cho, jync@mit.edu

47.
Gingrich, Clinton, Dole,
Send the Feds home once again;
Still can't get it right.

--Kevin R. O'Brien, KOBrien@erols.com

48.
"Slick Willie" Clinton
claims to protect Medicare.
Oh, he is so slick!

--Kevin R. O'Brien, KOBrien@erols.com

49.
"Slick Willie" Clinton
claims a seven-year balance,
uses funny math.

--Kevin R. O'Brien, KOBrien@erols.com

50.
"Slick Willie" Clinton
says "My figures balance it!"
Hundred billion off!

--Kevin R. O'Brien, KOBrien@erols.com

51.
"Slick Willie" Clinton
said "CBO numbers good."
Broken promises.

--Kevin R. O'Brien, KOBrien@erols.com

52.
Mr. President
Pissing contest with Congress
Taxpayers get soaked

--Kevin R. O'Brien, KOBrien@erols.com

53.
The pols are squabbling
Workers sent home once again
Taxpayers get tab

--Kevin R. O'Brien, KOBrien@erols.com

54.
GOP Congress,
No "business as usual."
Clinton won't agree.

--Kevin R. O'Brien, KOBrien@erols.com

55.
Will they work it out,
"Slick Willie," Gingrich, and Dole?
Wouldn't bet on it!

--Kevin R. O'Brien, KOBrien@erols.com

56.
Will they all be back
after the next election?
Wouldn't bet on it!

--Kevin R. O'Brien, KOBrien@erols.com

57.
Girl chained to her mom.
But who is under arrest?
Parenthood itself?

--Alec Proudfoot, alec@netcom.com

58.
Didn't see the signs.
Pre-law or Post-law, it's still:
Drive 75.

--Alec Proudfoot, alec@netcom.com

59.
Powell new V.P.?
Could be good, could be real bad.
Hope: We'll never know.

--Alec Proudfoot, alec@netcom.com

60.
Communists don't die...
They just enter elections,
campaign hard, and win!

--Alec Proudfoot, alec@netcom.com

61.
Russian voters sing
"Back in the U.S.S.R."
Lennon or Lenin?

--John Cho, jync@mit.edu

62.
Pyongyang comrades share
Last pot of kimchi. Kim Il
Sung's portrait smiles on.

--John Cho, jync@mit.edu

63.
Budget woes go on
Newt and Clinton duke it out
Everyone loses

--Alec Proudfoot, alec@netcom.com

64.
Mothers of Kwangju's
Martyrs prepare two new graves:
Right fit for Chun, Roh.

--John Cho, jync@mit.edu

65.
Voting was great fun!
Democracy works! Now let's
Go kill those Chechens.

--John Cho, jync@mit.edu

66.
Neo-Nazi in
Austria pleads guilty. Says
"Ich bin ein Wiener."

--John Cho, jync@mit.edu

67.
Charles, Di to divorce.
Pity. Now I guess famine
and disease won't stop...

--Alec Proudfoot, alec@netcom.com

68.
Nixon film: "Not right!",
"Save his dignity!", they say.
Oh yeah, real great guy.

--Alec Proudfoot, alec@netcom.com

69.
Jerry and Barry.
Bonehead call, Aikman whining--
Nice to have known you.

--Alec Proudfoot, alec@netcom.com

70.
Christmas--Jesus born
Came from Heav'n as one of us
God's love is so great!

--Kevin R. O'Brien, KOBrien@erols.com

71.
Penitents in line
Outside each confessional
Come home for Christmas!

--Kevin R. O'Brien, KOBrien@erols.com

72.
Christmas--time of peace?
War has stopped in Bosnia
Herzegovina.

--Kevin R. O'Brien, KOBrien@erols.com

73.
Christmas--peace on earth?
No fighting in Belfast now,
Been more than a year!

--Kevin R. O'Brien, KOBrien@erols.com

74.
God's peace comes to men?
Inkatha shoots ANC--
We don't get it yet!

--Kevin R. O'Brien, KOBrien@erols.com

75.
25 years back,
Nixon deputized Elvis.
Why aren't we drug free?

--Alec Proudfoot, alec@netcom.com

76.
Jimmy Stewart fine--
cannot be felled by table.
Christmas A-OK.

--Alec Proudfoot, alec@netcom.com

77.
In the film Nixon
Hopkins never takes a shit.
True-life depiction.

--Martin Booda, booda@datasync.com

78.
Presidential types
Parade. Election year? No.
Korean courtroom.

--Martin Booda, booda@datasync.com

79.
Roh calls army as
Surprise witness. When smoke clears,
Whoa! He's not guilty!

--Martin Booda, booda@datasync.com

80.
Our troops could do what
They did for Okinawa.
Look out, Bosnia.

--Martin Booda, booda@datasync.com

81.
Dr. Chirac, or
How I Learned to Stop Worry-
ing and Love the Bomb

--John Cho, jync@mit.edu

82.
Government worker
Despondent, waiting for news.
Please pass the fruitcake.

--John St. Croix, JSTCROIX@HR.HOUSE.GOV

83.
North Koreans starve
Weather devastates harvest
World ignores their plight

--Kevin R. O'Brien, KOBrien@erols.com

84.
South sends food to North
North detains ship's crew as spies
Bites the hand that feeds!

--Kevin R. O'Brien, KOBrien@erols.com

85.
North Koreans starve,
UN food folks pack and leave,
No more food to give.

--Kevin R. O'Brien, KOBrien@erols.com

86.
Lange got a lawyer
And got a press conference
Whine, whine, whine, whine, whine

--Sandra Powell, skpdec@gnn.com

87.
Clinton takes credit
For good things of '95
Spreads blame for the rest.

--Kevin R. O'Brien, KOBrien@erols.com

88.
Pols debate budget,
Photo op for media--
No results to show.

--Kevin R. O'Brien, KOBrien@erols.com

89.
Pols collect their pay,
Wrangle, lie, like nothing's wrong;
Public disgust grows.

--Kevin R. O'Brien, KOBrien@erols.com

90.
"Slick Willie" leaves town
Golfs at Hilton Head with friends
Government stays closed

--Kevin R. O'Brien, KOBrien@erols.com

91.
U.S. GI hurt
Mine blows up in Bosnia
Don't bet he's the last

--Kevin R. O'Brien, KOBrien@erols.com

92.
President Rawlings
Kicks his rival in the groin.
Dream on, Bill Clinton!

--John Cho, jync@mit.edu

93.
Gramm wants to fire the
"Non-essentials." Okay, let's
Begin with "Gramm, Phil."

--John Cho, jync@mit.edu

94.
Puerto Rico tops
In '95. Tourism? Rum?
Coffee? No. Murder.

--John Cho, jync@mit.edu

95.
Woman passed for boy.
Tricks some towns, Utah nabs her.
Funny, her name: Hoaks.

--Alec Proudfoot, alec@netcom.com

96.
Hoaks's Hokey Hoax is:
Pretend to be boy for food.
One ugly woman.

--Alec Proudfoot, alec@netcom.com

97.
Compuserve buckles
under Weight of Germany.
Why not: "Take a leap!"?

--Alec Proudfoot, alec@netcom.com

98.
Naked pics on Net.
Can they really be that shocked
in land of "Sprockets"?

--Alec Proudfoot, alec@netcom.com

99.
Football fans throw ice,
hurt folks badly. No surprise,
where fans yell "Gi-uunts!"

--Alec Proudfoot, alec@netcom.com

100.
The ice thrower claims:
"I didn't throw it, I swear!"
Neither did O.J.

--Alec Proudfoot, alec@netcom.com

101.
World's Oldest Woman:
"Sells" rights to house to youngster.
He dies first. Bummer.

--Alec Proudfoot, alec@netcom.com

102.
Another year ends.
CNN impatient. Waits.
When is NEXT trial?

--Alec Proudfoot, alec@netcom.com

103.
Fault of O.C. crash:
Astrologer used daily.
Same one as Nancy's?

--Alec Proudfoot, alec@netcom.com


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