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Volume 33, Issue 1:
The HEURISTIC! Squelch

Dear Mr. & Ms. Dunnegan,

It has come to my attention that you have been, erroneously, under the impression that your son Roger is gay. If you two want to cry yourselves to sleep thinking that your pride and joy has, 20 years after leaving the teat, exchanged his pacifier for a different … well, for a cock, that’s none of my business.

However, it has also come to my attention that you have concluded this about your son based on his status as my roommate, and on an (erroneous!) assumption that I am a homosexual. I am writing this to set the record straight. As in, penis entering the vagina, sustained rhythmic copulation, and orgasm, possibly mutual. Straight. Thanks.

Before I get to that, though, I wanted to thank you for the housewarming gifts. It may sound inevitably sarcastic to thank someone in writing for a set of potholders, but I have actually burned my hands several times during my young adult life and the gift, even if you couldn’t have known, was taken as exceedingly thoughtful. Notice how I wrote “thoughtful,” rather than “conducive to my gay lifestyle.”

Roger’s been a great roommate, for the most part. Sure, sometimes he doesn’t wash his dishes right away, and I wish he’d let me know when he was planning on going to Safeway, but I can state for a fact that I’ve never seen his cock and that there’s an almost 70% chance that he hasn’t seen mine.

I know that you have recently been FedExed a full-color glossy of your son and me having anal sex. Don’t ask how. I have my ways. This is a doctored photo, Mr. Dunnegan. The skin on my face doesn’t match that body, Mr. Dunnegan. I have an innie, not an outie, Mr. Dunnegan, and am willing to provide documentation to prove it. Is that also not Roger’s real body? Perhaps. Roger can fight his own battles.

I assume your assumption stems largely from my rather obvious good looks, which are often described as “cute” or even “pretty” rather than, say, “swarthy,” “rugged,” or “beefy.” I am, however, undeniably “sexy,” so perhaps it is understandable to think that Roger, if not gay already, would fall under my spell.

You may have heard through the grapevine that my previous roommate was gay, or even that I had been living with gay men for the three years prior to living with Roger. Look, I think we all know the grapevine doesn’t lie, so I’m not going to embarass myself here. I’ll just ask you to politely overlook my history of homosexual associations, because that’s not the issue. Being friends with a gay man doesn’t make you gay any more than being friends with a black guy makes you a rapper.

Sincerely,

Jim Beckett

P.S. If I were you I’d be more worried that my daughter is ugly.

Opening of Club F++t Results Results in Broken Ankles, Feet

Patrons at the new Club F++t in downtown San Francisco smiled awkwardly when 34 people suffering from Talipes equinovarus, or clubfoot, requested entry into the nightclub. Those smiles quickly turned to frowns as these latecomers had to be stabilized by emergency podiatry units after the club’s music encouraged rigorous dancing, which resulted in many snapped tarsals and metatarsals.

“All these guys and their dates have crooked feet, and they’re asking me if they can go inside the Club F++t,” recalls a despondent Russell Dawes, the nightclub’s bouncer. “And all their names were on the list! So I tried not to be a jerk and laugh. I just did my job. But after all those horrible accidents, I wish I had just laughed in their faces.”

“I was just trying to be tongue-and-cheeky with the name of the club, that’s all,” says owner Shane Demola. “It’s called Club F++t because you use your feet to dance, I’d never make fun of the gimps.”

Though the doors have closed on the F++t in San Francisco, Demola plans to start fresh by relocating to a city with a minimal clubfooted population. Meanwhile, the Club F++t building space will be rented to a store that sells golf equipment.

U.S. Sends Troops to Arctic National Refuge

Citing the presence of Al Qaeda terror cells in the region, President Bush has ordered 200,000 US troops to the Arctic National Wildlife Refuge in Alaska. The troops are expected to safeguard the Canadian border, displace the provisional Aleut government, and engineer a series of “security wells” and pipelines.

White House spokesman Ari Fleischer read from a prepared statement: “The CIA has collected evidence of Eskimo financial aid to Afghanistan, as well as polar bear terrorist training camps near the Bering Strait. The US must respond to these threats to her security by responding with force.” He added, “Either you’re with us, or you’re with the fundamentalist polar bear terrorists.”

Botanist’s Dream

Ophrys bilunulata, the cunning seductive temptress of Central Europe, discloses her arching figure, velvety hair, and fragrant scent; twisting the palpating heart of the male Andrena flavipesi to such a wicked degree that the loins of A. flavipesi swelter and pulsate, diverting A. flavipesi from his scheduled flight and into the waiting appendages of O. bilunulata. There he is lost in a maze of bliss: poking and turning, rubbing and nudging, licking and humping. A. flavipesi loses all self-control. For him to stop now, an envious murderer must slit his throat. Their dance continues while O. bilunulata responds to his every whim, a true goddess of ecstasy. Then, in a few seconds, the deed is done. The legs of A. flavipesi, exhausted, buckle under his own weight. He rests upon his mistress, looking out across the green landscape, collects his thoughts, and continues upon his intended path.

We have just now remotely experienced the unbridled passion of a male honeybee ejaculating onto the petals of the “prostitute orchid,” as referred to by botanists. Thanks to thousands of years of co-evolution the “prostitute orchid” has successfully mimicked the seductive design and scent of the posterior region of the female honeybee, stinger not included, to encourage its own selfish repro-ductive goals. The male honeybee is the humble recipient of this Darwinian gift. While God gave Man the faculties of reason, he gave the male honeybee an inviting home in which to shove his pollen attracting willy.

I question the uniqueness of honeybee-floral relations, however. Should not all beasts have reciprocal floral receptacles to thrust within? To that, I answer with a resounding YES! Yet, my assertion catapults me to a lone island away from my comfortable circle of botanist friends, who fear such statements will turn “Botanic Academia” into a wretched playground of pine tree humpers.

Man deserves better. Dilapidated gym socks, overly delicate tissue paper, and motorized suction/filtration devices are objects of the past. The future of erotic self-stimulation rests within our gardens. My calls for reformation, however, are not a mandate to haphazardly sling our wangs into the wilderness. (Masochists should be kept at bay.) The movement for hominidal-botanic pseudocopulation is an orchestrated strategy to insure proper erotification of flora that will fulfill the desires of future generations.

Do not expect immediate results. The first fleet of men will encounter complications. The path we travel is uncharted. Only through vigilance and an unified goal will we ever achieve Man’s Prostitute Orchid. The first generation will not make much progress, nor will the second. However, when we reach the 10,000th, then, my friends, we will feel our flora slowly conform to our phalluses. They will be lush, sturdy, soft, and moany. They’ll grow tall and large, gripping our asses as we pump with careful delight out in the open wilderness. We’ll move from plant to plant, remembering those that bring us pleasure and destroying those that cannot compare. Thereupon, in 100,000 generations or more, history will look back at the initial flora lot and thank us for a job well done. Manual self-stimulation will be outdated and floral-cock-gripping, leaf-ass-holding, and sweet titty-berry-eating are the future. To the garden my brothers. To the garden….

Americans To Vote On New Color For Terror Alerts, M&Ms

When Americans file their tax returns in April, or purchase a package of Peanut Butter M&Ms, they will have the chance to choose between cobalt, periwinkle twill, and electric lime. In a joint effort between M&M-Mars and the Depart-ment of Defense, voting will be held to determine the new color for M&Ms and terror alerts. Defense Sceretary Donald Rumsfeld indicated that the new terror color would indicate a slightly heightened alert level with warnings on international travel. “When this new warning/candy color is revealed, Americans are urged to stock up on duct tape as well as a variety of delicious milk chocolate confec-tions, available in Original, Peanut, and Crispy,” Rumsfeld announced. He added, “American freedom melts in your mouth, not in your hand.”

Counting Problem

U.S. health officials announced that by the time most Americans have been peeing for a long time, they feel it’s too late to start counting the seconds, thus artificially lowering the standards for the Guinness Book of World Records’ “longest urination” entry.

“I mean, sometimes I’m like, damn, this is a long fucking pee, but, like, how long have I been peeing man? So I just say probably 10 seconds and then start counting from there. But that sort of guess work results in shoddy record keeping and flagrantly un-American looseness in competition,” said spokesman Ryan Chong.

Efforts to cut down on inaccurate estimates include a “standard starting time” value of 13 seconds. The federal government is, of course, also installing billions of automatic counting devices in urinals worldwide.

When questioned on the matter, President Bush responded, “I doubt bitches care about this sort of shit, so toilets were excluded from the process.”

Man Discovers True Love

Last Tuesday, Pleasanton, California resident Matthew Smith, though a self-professed normal and even mediocre guy, discovered true love, which sci-entists had previously claimed was impossible. “It was easy,” he claimed. “It was right next to the Loch Ness Monster and the agent from William Morris the whole time!”

Searching for true love had long been a hobby of Smith’s, and he would go to great lengths in pursuit of it. After searching everywhere he could think of, he finally decided to try looking in his own backyard. “At first, I thought I was lowering my standards by looking there. I mean, it just seemed too easy. But there it was!”

Millions, meanwhile, continue to go without a Hollywood agent or comparable mythical creature.

Oh, Those Alienated Teenagers!

_Fact of life: we all went through our sullen, withdrawn phases sometime in our teenage years. Some may deny it, but they will only turn out to be bitter alcoholics that quietly seethe about marrying young and taking a job in automotive sales. But for all the rest of us level-headed, fully matured college students, we can look back on our alienated teenager phases and laugh. Yes, there was a time when even Berkeley students were irrational and contrarian. In this spirit of reminiscence, let us look back at the awkward years of some noted authors. They too were somehow able to understand the unending vortex of emptiness and pain that only you could know. _

From Emily Dickinson’s private diary, age 13

June 12: I really like Bobby! He’s so cute!! But so is Jacob. I wonder which one I’ll marry.
June 13: My kitty died. It was real sad.
June 17: Death is a dialogue between the spirit and the dust. “Dissolve,” says death. From the haiku scrolls (“Keep out!”) of Lao Tzu, age 16:

Lotus petals float,

swimming in the summer breeze

I hate my parents.

From the correspondence of John Keats and an adolescent friend, apparently named “Marty”:

Note #1: HeY jOhN, wHaT R U dOiNg?

Note #2: Nothing. Curse this school-related busywork! I adore beautiful idolence!

Note #3: Why? Doing nothing sUx0rz!

Note #4: Oh but Marty, I don’t want to be in class. I want to run and jump and fondle my private bits all of the day! Yesternight I could do nothing save for daydreaming and staring at a Grecian urn of mine. I stared and stared until the figures became as moving figures on a carousel, except they were naked maidens! Verily, I reveled in my splend’rous youth, and masturbated!

Note #5: Dood, John, that’s all you ever do anymore. Seriously, it’s a problem. Chill. From a journal entry of Samuel Taylor Coleridge, age 14 > I was really bored today so I went down to the docks. It was cool ’cause I shot this huge albatross. Bam! Straight down, like a rock. When it fell at my feet, I just kind of looked at it. But it was boring so I went home. I hope Mom made potatoes for dinner. From Friedrich Nietzsche’s 10th grade class project entitled “Religion”: > Hey, church is pretty sweet.

Top Ten Best Things that can Fit in an Egg

  1. Friendly Yolkels
  2. 73% of your RDA of cholesterol
  3. My hatred for those Jesus murderers who couldn’t appreciate Easter if you lit it on fire and stuck it in a menorah
  4. Fucking three yolks! I swear man, this one time. It was AWESOME!
  5. The femur, the tibia, fibia, calf muscles, and more! What? Oh, I thought you said leg.
  6. Potential
  7. Sacagawea dollars, not fucking pennies
  8. Silly Putty
  9. Bird fetus
  10. Two yolks

Top Ten Greenest Things in the World. Ever

  1. Blue and Yellow mixed together, smartass
  2. Your mom’s crotch. Seriously, she should get that checked.
  3. Green Lantern, jealous
  4. A gangrenous leprechaun
  5. I’m serious, have you tried this Palmolive?
  6. Green Apple Palmolive. It smells as good as it looks. It’s incredible.
  7. St. Patrick’s Day Palmolive
  8. Popeye’s crap
  9. A Green polar bear in a green blizzard at the North Pole
  10. Ralph Nader smoking a joint on St. Patrick’s Day