Halloween and Protection from Pornography week

[mmcgeach at medg.lcs.mit.edu (Michael McGeachie)]

As many of you are aware, today is Halloween.  Feeling the festive
spirit, we at GSB endeavor to bring you this all-ages-approved poem to
put you in the mood for trick-or-treating:

It's Halloween! It's Halloween!
The moon is full and bright
And we shall see what can't be seen
On any other night.

Skeletons and ghosts and ghouls,
Grinning goblins fighting duels,
Werewolves rising from their tombs,
Witches on their magic brooms.

In masks and gowns
we haunt the street
And knock on doors
for trick or treat.

Tonight we are
the king and queen,
For oh tonight
it's Halloween!

( - Jack Prelutsky )

As many of you are no doubt unaware, this week is also Protection from
Pornography week.  To quote part of the president's proclamation "NOW,
THEREFORE, I, GEORGE W. BUSH, President of the United States of America,
by virtue of the authority vested in me by the Constitution and laws of
the United States, do hereby proclaim October 26 through November 1,
2003, as Protection From Pornography Week. I call upon public officials,
law enforcement officers, parents, and all the people of the United
States to observe this week with appropriate programs and activities."
(http://www.whitehouse.gov/news/releases/2003/10/20031025-1.html)

We here at GSB also feel the holiday spirit of Protection from
Pornography week, and feel that GSB does indeed qualify as an
appropriate prophylactic activity to pornography.  We hereby pledge that
today's GSB will contain 15% less pornography.

Costumes, scary stories, candy, (fully-clad) friends and good fright all
welcome at tonight's Spooky edition of...


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