From: glen mccready 
  To: 0xdeadbeef@substance.abuse.blackdown.org
Date: Thu, 20 Jun 1996 14:08:55 -0400

Forwarded-by: Keith Bostic <bostic@bsdi.com>
Forwarded-by: Phil Agre <pagre@weber.ucsd.edu>
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[RRE will get back to its usual serious subject matter very soon, but just
for today I am going to admire the reporter to got to write these profoundly
allegorical sentences.]

>From today's NY Times (page A8):

It is hard to pinpoint when the advertising onslaught began.  It might
have started with the Olympic wiener.

In the fall of 1995, Billy Payne, the chief executive of the Atlanta
Committee for the Olympic Games, stood in the Georgia Dome, the city's
football stadium, and introduced the official wiener of the 1996 Summer
Olympic Games.  Trumpets actually sounded.

The wiener, provided by the Sara Lee Corporation, another Olympic sponsor,
was 1,996 feet long, a world record for an encased pork product.  It
circled the floor of the Georgia Dome almost twice.  It was laid out on
buns, lots of buns.  A Sara Lee employee walked its length, squirting
mustard on it.  But that, as it turned out, was only for the cameras.
The wiener, unrefrigerated, spoiled during the ceremony and was not fit
for consumption.