A funny afternoon

Hi, A colleague's letter box was attacked some day by some friendly CO$ people, who left a quite pictorial pamphlet of their 40-ies anniversary in it.

Later when we had our common lunch at work he eventually protruded it, and it was immediately classified as an eternal source of fun. The first thing which almost kicked us out of our socks (<- german saying) were those pictures (oh my, the sole imagination makes me laugh again). So my first advice to americans who want sell anything here: Regardless wether you want to sell cloth pegs, vaccum cleaners or religious EOTs: >>> Please take out those pictures!!!. <<<

The used type of pictures was hip, say 30 years ago. The next thing is this really funny idea of connecting religion and technology. Again: This pamphlet released 30 years earlier and it would have been a cash buster. From the marketing point of view this concept is lethal nowerdays (please learn from the new age people). Nontheless, the E-meter idea is not that bad. I would suggest some extra HV effects, like a light blue "aura", and the ommision of the dials as they might provoke unpleasant questions. The build in clock is not mystic enough, it should show the time elapsed till the birth of Mr.H.. This is an absolute must for every successful religion. An integrated WWW-browser would also be nice. The next source of happyness was this play chart called "the bridge"(?) ("Die Bruecke" in german). First we made a magnified copy of it for better reading, later for better laughing (To avoid copyright problems we immediatly eat them up after reading). Either they should add some "monster attact" fields, or get some advisory from the robotics people in setting up real cool acronyms. Especially the german translation "operierender Thetan" (for "operating thetan"?) is brilliant. Either that means that the aim of this religion is to have the biggest machine gun factory of the world or to chop off the legs of everyone in sight. Unfortunately the second half of the writing was a little boring and the ending was really poor (as often in good american films). The section explaining the copyrighted symbols of the sections...???... Well to tell you the truth, we had some better floating around not that far ago, and eventhough they were *NOT* copyrighted, they preserved there original meaning till today. The naming convention of the churches is also a little bit outdated. The "class 5 church" should be renamed to something like "Hyper church of the mega perls, warp factor 5". The addendum "mega perls" will only work in central europe. I think that this is essential for the continuing comercial success, as potential consumers will react harsh on a decreasing bang for a buck ratio. Near the end there is a nice overview over the life of Mr. H.. As in all such cases there was that big discussion whether he really believed in it or was abused by some evil yuppies. To clear this up, I lent a book of him from a friend and I came to the point that he was simpleminded enough to really believe in it. But I'm not very shure about it. I also wonder how he managed to remember all those ideas he poorly copied from bright women and men and simultaneously to forget their names. Taken as science, I also missed the citations and the bibliography. The german issue ends up with a table of 21 rules. Well, at least they should have shuffled the numbers below 11 a little better. But still it has a high educationial value when used for the well known game: "Guess who was the first with that idea!" Besides Jews/Cristians(3 dif), I recognized Kant(5 dif), Platon(4 dif), Maciavelli(2 dif), Locke(~7 dif), Hegel(~7 dif) and Al Bundie(0 dif) (dif= degree of intellectual flattening) Can you please give me the other names? mka Just to save bandwidth, here are some answers in advance to questions I expect:

- No, I'm not one of those 1900 east german soldiers attacking Texas. I'm coming from the west. - Yes, I know what an Ohm-meter is and had a lot of mysterious fun with it. - No, I'm not a member of the jewish-commi-fem-NAZI conspiracy. Also I would be happy to join (once in a life on the winner side), they never knocked at my door. - No, actually women say that I'm good looking. I'm just a little bit too dumb for them (at least for those women I'm interested in) - Yes, I think it's OK when Garry L. gets some problems here.

---WER UMLAUTE BENUTZT, FRI T AUCH KLEINE KINDER !!--- Michael Kauschke | |\ |-\ e-mail : mka@rob.cs.tu-bs.de | o |/ <a href="|-/">|-/</a>phone : 0531-3917454 | | |\ |