Anybody remember smallpox? Read up on this stuff and your hair will stand on
end. For those of you old enough: you know that little round scar on your arm
from your smallpox vacination. It expired. Really.
Geoff Branch
'74 Meejit "Yellow Peril"
'72 Innocenti 1300 Mini
----- Original Message -----
From <Ajhsys at aol.com>
To: <spridgets@autox.team.net>
Sent: Friday, October 12, 2001 1:23 PM
Subject: The value of education (No LBC)
> This just in:
>
> "MIAMI (Reuters) - Thrash metal rock band Anthrax admit their name is "not so
> cool" in light of the outbreak of the disease in Florida but said they do not
> want to change it.The band, whose multi-selling albums include "Spreading the
> Disease" and "The Threat is Real," said that when they chose the name 20 year
> ago it sounded "cool, aggressive and nobody knew what it was."Now it
> symbolized fear, paranoia and death, they said in a statement posted on their
> official web site."Before the tragedy of Sept. 11 the only scary thing about
> Anthrax was our bad hair in the 1980s and the Fistful of Metal album cover,"
> it said. "Suddenly our name is not so cool."
>
> So, 20 years ago, nobody knew what anthrax was??? And they thought it
> sounded "cool?" Back to school guys.
>
> Allen Hefner
> SCCA Philly Region Rally Steward
> '77 Midget
> '92 Mitsubishi Expo LRV Sport
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