X-Google-Language: ENGLISH,ASCII-7-bit X-Google-Thread: f996b,99e221c5a05f8f5d X-Google-Attributes: gidf996b,public From: "JRO" Subject: Re: First piece- a candle Date: 1999/05/31 Message-ID: <3752472d.0@206.103.97.91>#1/1 X-Deja-AN: 484000646 References: <374DBB53.FF3574B8@postoffice.swbell.net> <374ddefd.0@206.103.97.91> <7in4tf$i3p$1@news4.svr.pol.co.uk> <374f709e.0@206.103.97.91> <7isd5i$o7u$1@news8.svr.pol.co.uk> X-MSMail-Priority: Normal X-Priority: 3 Newsgroups: alt.ascii-art X-MimeOLE: Produced By Microsoft MimeOLE V5.00.2314.1300 Andrew Carpenter wrote in message news:7isd5i$o7u$1@news8.svr.pol.co.uk... > Suicidal candles eh? There must be a help group for them.. and if > there isn't we should set one up. > > > /^\ > \V/ > | | > | | > | | > \_|_|_/ > Yes, it is a crisis of considerable scope. The manufacturers of such things never stop to think what the poor candles have to go through. Think about the pitiful things; just when their life begins to light up, they find themselves under such duress... There is just no way for them to survive. A candle's life is an uncertain thing, anyway. It can only live for so long, it is at the whim of wind, rain, and fate - to say nothing of the persecution many must endure from small children, who callously blow them out for a cheap thrill. It is pure terror for a simple candle to be lit, brightly glowing with it's new life, filled with the promise of light and cheer and happiness and purpose... Only to find that it was designed in such a fashion that it's own lifeforce will destroy itself in a sea of its own "blood". The horror is too much for me. I swoon... Yah... there really ought to be a newsgroup to handle this issue. But I guess we will have to do it here. JRO