on 11/2/02 9:53 pm, garydawg at [log in to unmask] wrote:
> Garbage Yet Again: The Science of Garbage
>
Fun.
In Edinburgh there's a young man whose job is the rubbish detective. If
someone has dumped an old sofa on your pavement, he finds out who did the
dire deed. If someone puts rubbish sacks out on the wrong day, he has a look
to see what's in them, and works out who it was. If you have a rubbish
prblem you phone him up and he comes to see you. He'd be a good candidate
for your chair of Garbage. Sally-ee
> Pickup day.
>
> As I recover the empty can,
> I notice a small box has slid
> away from the driveway
> on its way to the neighbors
> a hundred feet away,
>
> And I wonder, why we do not
> study the science of garbage,
> what trash would tell us
> if universities funded chairs
> to determine the Laws of Refuse?
>
> If Michelangelo had studied the flight
> of soggy napkins, would Magellan
> have been the first to fly nonstop
> from Madrid to San Salvador?
>
> If Mendel had crossed-bred kitty-litter
> and pepperoni, would he have advanced
> genetics, so DNA forensics would find
> the Lindberg kidnapper without doubt?
>
> If Newton had been bonked
> by a rotting apple, would gravity
> have lead Franklin to Relativity,
> Einstein stuck in the patent office?
>
> Forget astrology, numerology,
> and political science. It is past
> time to endow chairs and construct
> labs for the Science of Garbagology.
>
> Feb guest is TE Ballard and Gar does garbage at:
> http://gardawg.homestead.com/gardawg.html,
>
> Poets for Peace. ˇPoemas sí, balas no!
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