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Article #429Re: The Advice Place Welfare Handbook
From: Ian Paul Foot
Date: Tue, 28 Sep 1993 13:04
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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