Date: Wed Oct 27 15:02:54 1999 From: murphy@MYBLUEHEAVEN.COM (Phil Murphy) Subject: Re: My Shame To: AZRKBA@asu.edu
>" I have to go wash my shirt again."
>
>How long will I have to bear this burden? Is there no forgiveness
>in your heart, man? It wasn't me, it was the manufacturer of
>the condiment. There was no safety cap on that bottle. Had
>there been this tragedy could have been avoided.
I understand completely, Rick, and believe me when I tell you that forgiveness flows from my heart. After all, it was *you* who were the *real* victim.
You see, had that irresponsible ketchup bottle manufacturer simply included a safety lock on the bottle cap, nobody on this list would have ever had to endure the tale of this senseless tragedy. How were you to know that the bottle might "go off" while you were pointing at my heart? Muzzle awareness isn't the individual's responsibility; that's a field of expertise that can only be addressed at the manufacturer's level. These purveyors of child-splattering must bestopped! We must sue them into the ground to send a CLEAR message that their irresponsible manufacturing policies have only caused unspeakable grief in the hearts of America's mothers every time they do a load of laundry!
As a matter of fact, I wouldn't doubt for a single minute that the bottle makers *AND* the ketchup makers are in collusion to make the least-safe containers filled with the most lethal, Tide-defeating ammunition they can in order to bring unlimited heartache into this contry's laundry rooms!
It's a sad, sad thing, Rick, but you played no part in this tragedy. Education is never the answer; more stringent regulation is!!!
After all...
It's for the children.
Phil
"You see, Kyle, we live in a liberal Democratic society, and Democrats make sexual harassment laws. These laws tell us what we can and can't say in the workplace; and what we can and can't do in the workplace." -- Gerald Broflorski, South Park, CO "Isn't that fascism?" -- Kyle Broflorski, South Park, CO "No, because we don't call it fascism." -- Gerald Broflorski, South Park, CO
-- A father to son chat, from Comedy Central's "South Park"