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Volume 23 © Issue 8 * November 4 1998
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Contributors
New Westminster: Jason
Humber, Jason Rochon,
Johnson Tai, Terry Glavin, the
Martlet, Holly Keyes, Tom’s
Chemistry Homework, Court
Caldwell, Jonesy, Sean Clark,
Gweny Wong, Reverend
Tomassina, Pepsi, Mickey &
Mallory, Erin Gawne, Jamie
Woods, Derek Chezzi, Jennifer
Sim.

David Lam: .

 

 

  

 

REVEREND TOM

Tasteless. That's about the only word
one can use to describe the

  

 

hea What ome of message are we
sending to the youth of today? That

if you want to become a stripper,

impact of strippers

lute the environment. The same stuff
that sweet, innocent shore dwelling
animals are killed or maimed by. By
flaunting this

 

horrible sights seen during any
trip to a stripper bar. If you are
ever to venture into one of
these clubs, your morality will
be questioned. Your sense of
good taste will be questioned,
not to mention the thousands
of ethical standards that will
be jeopardized as your faith in
humanity will be completely
stripped naked, raped and
dismembered. And all because
strippers don't respect the
environment.

Take the boots worn by all
of the dancers seen at a down-
town strip club whose name
cannot be printed here (but
which has a number larger than
four but smaller than 6 and has
a word with which no other)
word can rhyme. It also has'the’ in
the title). The boots were not the
size of sneakers, or hiking boots, but
knee high versions made completely
of leather. Leather! That beautiful
bovines were scrapped merely so that
the professional young women could
look their best while performing.
This writer blames society's callous
attitude towards nature. Where have
the times gone when we lived in har-
mony with mother earth and her
creatures, rather than exploiting

Srirnk

PPTs

 

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Letter

Dear Editor,

Please do something
about your “sports”
section. I don’t know
what's worse: the
uninspired take on the
“baseball's not a sport,

it's men scratching

Disagree with Devil's Advocate? Hate Reverend Tom?
Have an opinion on someone elses opinion?

Write It down and sond it te the OF
Room 1020 Hew West campus or
A3107 David Lam campus er f-mail
submit@ep.deagias be.ca

You can't wait to write us your opinion
We can't wait to tell you you're wrong!

  

themselves” cliché, or
the heart-felt eulogy to
a professional wrestler
(dead over a year, I
might add) that follows

two pages later.

 
 
 
 
 
 
  
  
 
  
 
  
 
 
 
 
 
 
   

you have to destroy another living
creature? That even though a young
heifer never had a chance at life,
that’s okay? This indifference will be
revealed for what it is when the fiery,
apocalyptic Armageddon comes
crashing down.

To complement the cowhide
boots, plastic skirts are also
employed to costume the strippers.
As is common knowledge, plastic is
made from processed crude oil. The

same stuff we use in our cars to pol-

?

   

    

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all then to serve up that
kind of irony.

Love,
A faithful reader

Seriously, better to not
have a sports section at

atrocity, it
becomes apparent
that these women
] not only condone
the action of the

| corporate bigwigs,
| but also embrace

| the eradication of

in plain view is to
bring the environ-
| mentalist lobby to
| a grinding halt
and to possibly set
| the movement
dd back twenty years.
Why bother with
concerns for
mother nature
when there's a profit to be made?
Why worry about the caustic chemi-
cals released while refining the oil
when we can make a buck or two?
Heaven forbid we should have some
standards to pass on to our children.
Rather, why don’t we let the world
come to a fiery apocalyptic end with
humanity being Purolated to hell in
a basket made of cow flesh and
petroleum byproducts!

Upon closer inspection, the strip-
pers’ undergarments too posed a

     
   
    

I usetto live in
Your sTomacu!

Response

Note from editor: In fact, if you look closely, the wrestling stories are
in the Culture section, not the Sports section. We realize that “Sports” and
“Culture” are spelled very similarily, and sound identical when pro-
nounced. I assure you, appropriate measures are being taken to deal with
this problem. Thank you for your letter.

 

  
   
    
   
   
  
 

threat to decent peoples everywhere.
More than 99% of the time such
undergarments, while being very
pretty and functional simultaneousl
are made of cotton. Cotton that ma
have been picked so many years ago
by slave labour. This blatant adver-
tisement for a by-gone era in which
humans demoralized one another c
only be interpreted as the loose
morals employed by the people of
this trade. And as if promoting slav.
ery were not enough, textologists
have uncovered proof that the Nazi
party used cotton in their uniforms
when trying to take over the world.
Thus, cotton becomes the antichrist
and strippers promote such degrada.
tion to make themselves into some
sort of unholy army doing the devil’
bidding.

A trip to any strip club will reveal
that strippers are almost solely
responsible for the havoc being
wreaked upon the environment right
now. And to set foot into such a bar
is to peer into the window of the
heartless soul of the stripper. The
trees which grow to support our life
are hacked apart to make the stages
upon which they perform, the feath-
ered boas from nearly extinct bird
species, the makeup made in facto-
ries spewing out toxins into the air,
and so much more. Strippers are evil
for so many reasons. Luckily, being

naked isn't one of them.

 

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