BS: Shooting Blanks?

Subject: BS: Shooting Blanks?
From: Metchosin
Date: 31 Oct 04 - 11:35 PM

You can't make up crap like this....

In the State of Uttar Pradesh in India you can now get a single barrel shotgun for two sterilizations or better yet a revolver licence for the price of five.

"Uttar Pradesh's population policy calls for 930,000 sterilisations this year. It has been backed by $360m of aid money from USAid, the American government's donor agency..........But officials say they only manage to meet half the annual sterilisation target and the state must reduce fertility with further incentives. With half a million pending applications for firearm licences in Uttar Pradesh, the upshot is the new "guns for sterilisation" population policy."

Seems problems occur when the boss wants a gun and has his farmworkers sterilized against their will, in order to insure that he gets his new toy. But then, with a 2 for 1 or 5 for 1 policy, I guess little problems are bound to occur.

Article here

Subject: RE: BS: Shooting Blanks?
From: Metchosin
Date: 31 Oct 04 - 11:54 PM

I wonder what you have to get done in order to get an Uzi?

Subject: RE: BS: Shooting Blanks?
From: GUEST,John O'Lennaine
Date: 01 Nov 04 - 12:43 AM

If the population can't be controlled using new-age strategies then the good old reliable traditional methods will just have to do.

Subject: RE: BS: Shooting Blanks?
From: Jack the Sailor
Date: 01 Nov 04 - 12:58 AM

Give enough of them guns and you won't need to sterilize.

Subject: RE: BS: Shooting Blanks?
From: Metchosin
Date: 01 Nov 04 - 01:59 AM

I think that's the plan Jack, its worked in other countries.

Subject: RE: BS: Shooting Blanks?
From: The Fooles Troupe
Date: 01 Nov 04 - 02:03 AM

Yeah, but the USA is behind in its target - the FBI keeps on catching them...

Subject: RE: BS: Shooting Blanks?
From: Metchosin
Date: 01 Nov 04 - 02:16 AM

Is there a vas deferens between offering someone a gun as opposed to a bag of sugar, to get snipped?

Subject: RE: BS: Shooting Blanks?
From: Dead Horse
Date: 01 Nov 04 - 04:19 AM

Weapons of vas destruction?

Subject: RE: BS: Shooting Blanks?
From: GUEST,Mingulay
Date: 01 Nov 04 - 04:49 AM

A minor problem has just suggested itself. Wouldn't someone notice that a person had been sterilised twice, let alone five times.

The guy with two Colts slung on his hips sure would have trouble riding his horse!

Subject: RE: BS: Shooting Blanks?
From: Rapparee
Date: 01 Nov 04 - 09:08 AM

So THAT'S why Wild Bill didn't leave any progeny!!

Subject: RE: BS: Shooting Blanks?
From: GUEST,Mingulay
Date: 01 Nov 04 - 10:34 AM

I assume you are talking about Wild Bill Hiccough, the celebrated Cambridgeshire belching champion, 162 Db (in the pre 1914 scale) with a duration of 1 minute 10 seconds. All this without the aid of any fizzy drinks.

He didn't leave any progeny either. Bit of a social outcast was Bill.

Subject: RE: BS: Shooting Blanks?
From: Rapparee
Date: 01 Nov 04 - 11:46 AM

No, actually I was refering to Wild Bill Hiccup, a local feller who rode a saddle with a rather large hole cut in the appropriate place. He, too, was notorious for belching, but in another direction. Back in 1883 he rang up 179.78db on the pre-1914 scale, causing an avalanche that wiped out Cootyville, Idaho completely and registered completely offscale when measure on the same scale of 0 to 5 used to determine the offensiveness of hog farms -- folks as far away as San Francisco and Chicago noted a subtle change in the air.

Subject: RE: BS: Shooting Blanks?
From: GUEST,amergin
Date: 01 Nov 04 - 01:10 PM

Rap, isn't he the fellwow who while digging a hole in Northern California caused the great earthquake with his explosion of noxious gas? I think it done him in that day...

Subject: RE: BS: Shooting Blanks?
From: Rapparee
Date: 01 Nov 04 - 02:37 PM

Yup, that's the guy. It was back in about 1906, if I remember aright. He wasn't killed outright, as many think, but actually achieved escape velocity. He's about 98 years in the general direction of the Pleiades, who are moving away from him at a considerable speed (much as girls on Earth used to).

Subject: RE: BS: Shooting Blanks?
From: Mr Red
Date: 01 Nov 04 - 02:40 PM

and farmers get 2 more acres with every vasechtomy .............

I'll get my coat.........

Subject: RE: BS: Shooting Blanks?
From: GUEST,Mingulay
Date: 02 Nov 04 - 10:01 AM

I think that our Wild Bills must be related, your spelling of the surname being the Americanised version.

The Cambridgeshire Hiccough was also noted for a degree or two of flatulence caused, in the main, by a diet composed almost entirely of brusels sprouts. His posterior emanations were the cause of the famous 'will o' the wisp', naturally igniting methane pockets in the fenland soil. In fact before Hiccough, the fens had been comprised of a series of hills and dales rising in parts to 250 feet. He was not only responsible for their levelling, but also for the resultant silting up of the Thames estuary.

I'm sure he would have been proud of his American cousin, who is, no doubt, still out there somewhere wrapped in his own atmosphere and causing damage to minor planets and the like.

Wild Bill Hiccough was eventually buried under 1000 tons of granite, anything less substantial proving unable to keep him down.

Don't you just love the history of our lesser known, ordinary ancestors and their trans-atlantic links.