[Sca-cooks] Wierd powder scare

[johnna holloway]

I've had a flashback to the old Reader's Digest
column "Life in these United States" only now
it's "Life in these Post-Attack United States."
My brother-in law works for a very large (unnamed
company) that prints magazines. Turns out that they
use a certain amount of corn starch to make certain
pages go through the machinery better. And of course
some lady picks up Glamour off the newsstand and
the powder falls out and she screams the A*** word.
So now anyway his place of work is supposed to
refrain from their use of corn starch.
I keep thinking that the urban legend people must
be having a field day...
Johnna Holloway


> >> Um, forgive me if I err on the side of conservatism (Puck, are you
> getting this on tape??? Lookit me, I'm a conservative!), but is this a good
> time to be sending mysterious powders through the U.S. mail?
> >> Adamantius, down to a miniscule quarter ounce of saunders> --> Phil &
> Susan Troy

Diana Skaggs wrote:
> Sorry, I'm laughing as I type.  At Oklahoma State University yesterday all
> the snack machines were shut down.  Why?  A mysterious "white powder" was
> found in a storeroom.  The two workers who came in contact with the powder
> were quarantined until the powder could be analyzed, and were watched for
> side effects.  Well, it came out the powder started out a liquid that
> leaked onto a box of vending supplies.  When it dried, it turned into a
> harmless white powder.  Heck, we figured one of the vending guys ate a
> package of powdered-sugar donuts on the sly. Liadan