This reminds me of a true story by an old friend of mine who was a copilot in WWII. Their bomber was shot down over Hungary; I don't know if just some or all of them survived the crash. But they were captured as prisoners of war and placed in a Hungarian jail. The crew became extremely irate because they were given only newspaper to use as toilet paper. They complained to the guards, who apologetically said they were in the same fix: the Americans had bombed the local toilet-paper factory. -- Jole --- On Sat, 12/20/08, Chuck Hards <chuck.hards@gmail.com> wrote: From: Chuck Hards <chuck.hards@gmail.com> Subject: Re: [Utah-astronomy] Beyond the North Pole: Send a message way up to the space station To: "Utah Astronomy" <utah-astronomy@mailman.xmission.com> Date: Saturday, December 20, 2008, 5:46 PM "Dear space station crew: Due to the ecconomic recession and consequent necessary cutbacks in NASA funding, toilet paper, deodorant, soap, shampoo, and toothpaste are being dropped from all future re-supply flights by the unmanned Russian vehicles. Merry Christmas, NASA Headquarters" On Sat, Dec 20, 2008 at 4:56 PM, Patrick Wiggins <paw@wirelessbeehive.com>wrote:
In today's Tribune:
Beyond the North Pole: Send a message way up to the space station http://www.sltrib.com/faith/ci_11274086
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