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MAY-JUNE 2005

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FREE COLLEGE DEGREES AT THE GDU Tucson: The General Delivery University proudly announced that its free college diploma offer will continue through the summer. "There are thousands of people who are entitled to a college degree," said General William Delivery, President of the GDU. "And they ought not to have to pay for their sheep skin." In order to get a free GDU diploma, one must visit the GDU website and find the free diploma page. Upon finding the page, one must fill in the blanks and print their diploma on their own printer. "We suggest people buy simulated parchment," added General Delivery. GDU is the largest degree granting institution on the planet, with over 6 million free diplomas granted so far. "For a while we'd print one up and mail it out for the modest fee of $6.95," said General Delivery, "but we got kind of suspicious when we started getting lots of orders from people in India." Rumor has it a number of high ranking officials in countries with low levels of English literacy rates have used GDU diplomas to get better paying jobs. "College degrees are seriously overrated," noted Delivery. "After a few years, does anyone ask you what you majored in or what your grades were?"
BIRD WAKEUP CALL TUBAC, AZ: It is said that evolution is a critter's response to environmental stress. Some unusually evolved birds have been discovered in the vicinity of Tubac, Arizona (which is 40 miles south of Tucson). "I woke up thinking my cell phone battery was going dead," said Joe Sam, Bandersnatch Statutory Agent. "I heard this beep....beep...beep..." An investigation of the cell phone proved the sound, though similar to the phone signaling its battery was dying (using the last watt of power to do this), was coming from outdoors. "We hunted around, and discovered a Mocking Bird sitting in the tree making cell phone sounds," Sam said. A quick scientific study of the phenomena, conducted by the General Delivery University's Department of Ornithology and Optimization, resulted in the conclusion that the birds are adapting to human technology in ways unimagined. "Birds have assumed for a long time that their singing wakes people up," said Dr. Frenbush, of the GDU. "After a while, the birds realized that no one was paying any attention to them." Then, one day, a bird discovered that by mimicking the sound of a cell phone, they woke everyone up in the area. Other birds copied the new song. "Pretty soon it is going to get seriously weird out there, because we have reports of birds imitating the sound of a general protection fault, and of imminent airbag deployment," Frenbush said. THE SPARROW On the 60th anniversary of the end of WWII in Europe, take a little trip back to the past. "The Sparrow" is a screenplay based on my father's experience in WWII. This isn't exactly the sort of hero story about the war you usually hear. My dad, like a lot of others at that time, didn't really want to fight, and they came back wanting to forget what happened and go on with their lives. But even if you are a sparrow, wanting to hide from the hawks, sometimes things force you into a place you never dreamed you would be. This is a true story The Sparrow |
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