| Surgeon General's Warning
Surgeon General C. Everett Koop, in conjunction with research associate Dr. Ed
Bluestone of the Surgeon General's office, has compiled for non-confidential
distribution a list of activities which, while not definitely linked to death or
established as causative factors in any specific form of physical or physiological
deterioration, have been determined through exhaustive reiteration to be detrimental to
the human condition and specifically to the welfare of their perpetrator.
While implementation of any of these activities is not specifically illegal as
cited by state or federal jurisdictions, engagement in any of said activities could very
probably be construed as a gross breach of common etiquette constraints and/or moral codes
and analogs. Widespread or accelerated participation in any of the listed activities by an
increasing or superannuated segment of the population would be frowned on by and erosive
to all reasonable, respected, and stalwart facets of American society.
The Surgeon General warns:
1.Never raise your hand during a hijacking to indicate that you get a kosher meal.
2.Never ask a bald man if you can borrow his toupee to clean your windshield.
3.Never moon a werewolf.
4.Never squeeze a parakeet to death while screaming, "I want the name of your
accomplice!"
5.Never threaten to punish your Dalmation with spot remover.
6.Never use a bulldog as a surrogate mother.
7.Never hire an attorney who can discuss specific episodes of The Flintstones.
8.Never trust an Oriental dentist who sells miniature ivory animals.
9.Never ask a dog with rabies if he would like you to floss his teeth.
10.Never believe your dog when he tells you that while you were out, your parents came
over and drank water out of your toilet.
11.Never take a cockroach hostage and expect anyone to negotiate with you.
12.Never walk your dog around someone else's living room with a pooper scooper in your
hand.
13.Never say to a lobster before you boil him, "Let me know if your bath is too
hot."
14.Never tell an IRS auditor that if he doesn't leave you alone, you plan to cheat again
next year.
15.Never tell Yasser Arafat that you think Newark should be the Palestinian homeland.
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