Newsgroups: alt.religion.kibology
From: Plorkwort <asweinbe@midway.uchicago.edu>
Subject: cones on NPR
Message-ID: <Pine.SOL.4.10.10007292023450.14794-100000@harper.uchicago.edu>
Organization: The University of Chicago
Date: Sat, 29 Jul 2000 20:27:49 -0500

	While driving most of the way across Massachusetts today (6 hours
total in the car to go to a four-hour singing), I caught part of a
broadcast on NPR about a book on "Eccentric Britons," including a report
on a man who collected cones, and was most proud of a _black_ one he had
taken from the undertaker at his uncle's funeral.  Anybody else hear the
rest of this one? Or ever see a black traffic cone?  I was distracted by
real orange cones marking a construction site where all the Boston drivers
had to merge into one lane, a nearly impossible task, and so did not hear
the rest of the report.

Plorkwort
--
Septimus: When we have found all the mysteries and lost all the meaning,
we will be alone, on an empty shore.
Thomasina: Then we will dance.  Is this a waltz?
   -Tom Stoppard, _Arcadia_


From: David Pacheco <david_pacheco@lineone.net>
Newsgroups: alt.religion.kibology
Subject: Re: cones on NPR
Date: Sun, 30 Jul 2000 10:47:00 +0100
Organization: NO CARRIER
Message-ID: <MPG.13ee05b9458d80a49897e1@news.lineone.net>
References: <Pine.SOL.4.10.10007292023450.14794-100000@harper.uchicago.edu>

In article <Pine.SOL.4.10.10007292023450.14794-
100000@harper.uchicago.edu>, asweinbe@midway.uchicago.edu said:
> 	While driving most of the way across Massachusetts today (6 hours
> total in the car to go to a four-hour singing), I caught part of a
> broadcast on NPR about a book on "Eccentric Britons," including a report
> on a man who collected cones, and was most proud of a _black_ one he had
> taken from the undertaker at his uncle's funeral.  Anybody else hear the
> rest of this one? Or ever see a black traffic cone?  

The cones *all* turn black eventually, as they rot.  Sometimes 
you'll have a plateful of them starting to go bad, and your 
significant other keeps going on about how she's going to make 
cone bread with them, but she never does, and eventually they 
just go completely black and beyond use even for cone bread, so 
you end up selling them to the undertakers so they can use them 
in funerals.

Have you ever noticed that if you put a black cone next to a bowl 
full of apples, the apples go rotten quicker?

-dp.