------------------------------------ Note 16 my complaint *** A Story by Dr. Graper *** 3/1/79 10:47 pm tripp / udperuse / unidel forum / unidel 3/1/79 1:57 pm graper / newauth / unidel Dear Friends: Hey, I'm really pissed that a group of people are writing big long letters to president carter and their local governors and representatives and even librarians in some parts of this great country of ours and saying things about how we should make Elvis Presley's birthday a national holiday and how we should close up our post offices, schools and ACME discount shopping markets just for the day when Mrs. Presley brought such a stinking little grunt into this world and jeez, man, you know the government, they'll be glad to let themselves take yet another day off and they'll ratify it and then all these other people will want to have all the Beatle's birthdays made into national holidays and then we'll have them, compounded on the fact that all these other groups will want, like, the Monkees birthdays and the Bee-Gees birthdays and even John Travolta's birthday celebrated and there you and I will be, forlorn with our ---------------------------------------- Response 1 of 1 *** A Story by Dr. Graper *** 3/1/79 10:48 pm tripp / udperuse / unidel important light-company bills in hand, standing in front of closed Post Offices, cursing at signs which say, "POST OFFICE CLOSED: STUPID TELEVISION STAR'S BIRTHDAY TODAY" and then we'll find out that even the food stores are closed and then we go home and the light and power has been turned off since all the light and power employees are taking the day off for somebody's birthday and we're all hungry and cold and can't even read our comic books again because all the lights are out and we spend the evening staring out the window at the moon until we fall asleep. Damn! your Friend Dr. Graper