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Subject: Re: SORF rocks my world
Date: Wed, 24 Sep 1997 20:40:15 -0500
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	So when do we know if we get SORF funding or not?  Oh wait, none 
right?  Gotcha...  is there something we can do with this?  Perhaps the 
noodle we elect mascot can be sent in for free lawyer training somewhere 
and then present our case to a court of law for our rightly deserved 
funding.  I just want to know hoe much of our funding goes to mmmmm... 
Guiness and how much goes to canned meat.  Do we have a fiscal report 
ever quarter?  when do we get dividends?  And where is Skirvin?  Where's 
our FAQ?  Can we sick our lawyer noodle on Skirvin?  Or perhaps we can do 
something about all those naughty elves that hang out behind Everitt 
fishing for mutant whales in the boneyard.  And speaking of the boneyard, 
I've had too much MinuteMaid(tm) Fruit Punch, I really think the guy at 
the Quad Shop[1] should have cut me off at 6 bottles of the damn stuff, 
is there a way we can get our lawyer noodle to sue him as well?  I'm tired.


On Wed, 24 Sep 1997, Fnord Prefect wrote:

> So, I drop by the SORF office this afternoon to give them the 
> 14 required copies of our funding application so that they can 
> laugh at us and reject it, and sure enough, I find out that
> 14 copies of the application is not all that they want from me.
> No sir, they *also* want two copies of a typed Application Receipt.
> So I run over to the typewriter (note that by now I'm already 10
> minutes late for class), type one up (as far as I can tell, it's
> just an executive summary of the actual application), make a copy,
> and come back to turn those in.  
> 
> So, you might inquire, what do they do with these Application Receipts?  
> Well, naturally, one of them was immediately given back to me, since 
> it would serve as my receipt.  (Note that whereas conventionally 
> receipts are records of actual financial transactions, this receipt 
> presumably just signifies that I was dumb enough to apply for SORF 
> funding, in case I forget this fact at a later date.)  The other
> receipt is kept by SORF as record of the fact that my SORF application
> was in fact received by them.  I can just picture what happens when
> they don't have a receipt:
> 

> 	"Well, we have fourteen copies of their funding application,
> 	but without a receipt, how can we actually be sure that
> 	we received this application?"

> 
> So like I said, SORF rocks my world.
> 
> -Dan
>  
> +-------------+-------------------+------------------------------------+
> | Dan Foygel  |  foygel@uiuc.edu  |  http://www.uiuc.edu/ph/www/foygel | 
> +-------------+-------------------+------------------------------------+
> The above statements are my own.  Don't even _ask_ if you can have them.
> 
> 

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[1] - Dammit, I didn't think you'd look all the way down here, now I have 
to come up with a footnote. [2]

[2] - Oh yeah, the Quad Shop is part of a complete breakfast.  It also 
counts for 2 1/2 bread for those of you who are diabetics[3]

[3] - Whew... me go home to bed now...