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Re: The Advice Place Welfare Handbook

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From: Ian Paul Foot
Date: Tue, 28 Sep 1993 13:04
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krj@festival.ed.ac.uk (K Johnson) wrote:
KRJ>A couple of days ago I, krj@festival.ed.ac.uk (K Johnson) wrote:
KRJ>
KRJ> # The Advice Place Welfare Handbook is distributed to all new students at
KRJ> # the University of Edinburgh.  Among the advice contained in it are the
KRJ> # following:
KRJ> # 
KRJ> #   "Cocaine, (a class A drug) is a white powder derived from the Cocoa
KRJ> #   plant" (page 6)
KRJ>
KRJ> Since then I have received E-mail from a student at this University
KRJ> saying that he can't see what I was complaining about, since the above
KRJ> statement is grammatically correct and cocaine really does come from the
KRJ> Cocoa plant.  I shall keep the twerp's name a secret, unless I decide
KRJ> not to. 
KRJ>
KRJ> Ken "Excuse me while I inject myself with Cadbury's Dairy Milk" Johnson

Obviously the aforementioned Twerp is unable to distinguish between
Erythroxylum coca and Theobroma cacao.  An easy mistake to make IMHO.

BTW Ken, Cadbury's Bournville gives a better high, although it's more
expensive.


Ian
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Subject: Re: The Advice Place Welfare Handbook
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