At 10:56 AM -0700 4/15/02, Roderick and Ellen Robertson wrote:
>Slightly off-topic, but has anyone else noticed that every Romanian
>> man has a moustache? Not only that, but the SAME moustache...
>
>A great Secret of Romania - there are only a limited number of mustaches
>available, left over from a Marx Brothers movie that was filmed in Romania
>but never released. All Romanian men who appear in pictures or on TV must
>borrow a mustach from the Department of Mustaches. They must be returned on
>pain of having your nose cut off and sewn back on upsidedown. When a lot of
>people are shown in crowd scenes, the ones in the back have painted-on
>mustaches.cOnly the guys in front have one of the "real" mustaches.
Roderick does not see this in the right light. Clearly, what
Wulf is suggesting that all Romanian men literally share the same
moustache -- the hair on their upper lips is coterminous. The
implications for Physics and Biology are, frankly, staggering.... Of
course, the makers of Spam have known about this for years; it's true
-- every can of Spam is exactly the same can of Spam!
Peter Larsen