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Boredcast Message from 'ausman': Mon Dec 11 13:55:24 1995

reformatted disks
make sodalite weep loudly
give us /usr10

Boredcast Message from 'blojo': Mon Dec 11 13:56:29 1995

Rice paddy peasant
Works all day to make the paste
Paste that's white like zinc

Boredcast Message from 'erich': Mon Dec 11 13:57:01 1995

new law on soda
all walls must be zinc haiku
or else account gone

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Boredcast Message from 'blojo': Mon Dec 11 13:58:19 1995

Angel Lucifer
Banished to the netherworld
For his love of zinc

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Boredcast Message from 'agee': Mon Dec 11 13:54:51 1995

Bootleg cassette tape
Poor recording media
Zinc oxide is crap.

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Boredcast Message from 'peterm': Mon Dec 11 13:58:41 1995

Ancient promethius,
daily bereft of his liver,
he gave zinc to mankind.

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Boredcast Message from 'blojo': Mon Dec 11 14:01:55 1995

Starry Bethlehem,
Beware prophets bearing gold,
Frankincense and zinc.

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Boredcast Message from 'agee': Mon Dec 11 14:00:49 1995

Christmastime is here
Snow falls, peacefully, slowly
On great cliffs of zinc.

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Boredcast Message from 'geordan': Mon Dec 11 14:02:28 1995

make it stop! no more!
make it go away now, please!
I can't take much more!

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Boredcast Message from 'aspolito': Mon Dec 11 14:01:56 1995

five syllable line
rain falls like the fallout clous
ob zinc referance

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Boredcast Message from 'agee': Mon Dec 11 14:03:24 1995

Geordan does not know
The true meaning of the zinc
Perhaps he can learn

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Boredcast Message from 'blojo': Mon Dec 11 14:04:22 1995

Waiting on the dock
Shipment from Colombia
Twelve kilos of zinc

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Boredcast Message from 'agee': Mon Dec 11 14:04:31 1995

Walling dark dungeons
Like zinc on a hot tin roof
Poem makes no sense

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Boredcast Message from 'geordan': Mon Dec 11 14:03:47 1995

zinc has weight 30
its symbol is Zn
now will you all leave?

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Boredcast Message from 'peterm': Mon Dec 11 14:04:04 1995

falling from the sky,
radioactive fallout,
zinc dust in the wind

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Boredcast Message from 'blojo': Mon Dec 11 14:05:55 1995

Evil Fu Manchu
Plans to terrorize the world,
Stealing all the zinc.

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Boredcast Message from 'geordan': Mon Dec 11 14:05:54 1995

zinc after copper
though but before gallium
above cadmium.

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Boredcast Message from 'agee': Mon Dec 11 14:06:29 1995

Mean Darth Vader said,
I find your lack of faith dis-
Turbing.  What a zinc!

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Boredcast Message from 'scotsman': Mon Dec 11 14:05:59 1995

walls getting pointless
when it ends once and for all
I'll be truly glad

Boredcast Message from 'aaron': Mon Dec 11 14:07:25 1995

no zinc refernece

Boredcast Message from 'scotsman': Mon Dec 11 14:07:40 1995

Um... Signed by Zinc Tungsten.

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Boredcast Message from 'blojo': Mon Dec 11 14:07:07 1995

Daniel Holliman
Does not know that Gilman St
is a zinc haven

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Boredcast Message from 'geordan': Mon Dec 11 14:07:42 1995

this has naught about
that wondrous element
i could avoid. zinc.

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Boredcast Message from 'blojo': Mon Dec 11 14:08:11 1995

Gilman Street Restrooms
Contain no rolls of toiletry,
Force you to use zinc

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Boredcast Message from 'scotsman': Mon Dec 11 14:08:11 1995

Toilet paper hurts
When it's made of zinc it's worse
But Charmin wins out.

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Boredcast Message from 'ausman': Mon Dec 11 14:07:21 1995

seven hundred K
it turns to liquid river
hot has hell that zinc

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Boredcast Message from 'peterm': Mon Dec 11 14:10:02 1995

blojo and erich,
pinned to wooden crosses,   
nailed up there with zinc.

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Boredcast Message from 'blojo': Mon Dec 11 14:11:03 1995

Mankind's big project,
Virtual reality,
Building worlds of zinc

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Boredcast Message from 'agee': Mon Dec 11 14:11:31 1995

Boyhood memories
Tonka fire engine. Vroom!
Made of steel, zinc.

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Boredcast Message from 'geordan': Mon Dec 11 14:11:05 1995

more than twenty grams
ev'ry centimeter cubed
and it's a metal.

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Boredcast Message from 'danh': Mon Dec 11 14:13:22 1995

   Fall rain comes gently
   pond ripples with falling leaves
   fingers drop like stones.

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Boredcast Message from 'blojo': Mon Dec 11 14:13:25 1995

"Heal me, Jesus"
Says the leper as his nose
Falls into the zinc

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Boredcast Message from 'peterm': Mon Dec 11 14:13:30 1995

pincushiond blojo,
impaled with many zinc spikes, 
finally speechless.

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Boredcast Message from 'ausman': Mon Dec 11 14:12:40 1995

meaning of word zinc
comes from a German word "Zink"
origin obscure

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Boredcast Message from 'aspolito': Mon Dec 11 14:12:48 1995

coating outdoor nails
protection from winter's rains
zinc useful for all

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Boredcast Message from 'chiapet': Mon Dec 11 14:12:05 1995

most precious, i think
its mere thought turns me all pink
don't throw knives at zinc

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Boredcast Message from 'geordan': Mon Dec 11 14:13:53 1995

nuclear weapons
cause total mass destruction
fusion into zinc.

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Boredcast Message from 'danh': Mon Dec 11 14:14:18 1995

   melted brie is yum
   but it tastes much better when
   i stir with his tongue

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Boredcast Message from 'blojo': Mon Dec 11 14:15:38 1995

World War II shortage
Housewives donate pots and pans
Get zinc to the troops

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Boredcast Message from 'aspolito': Mon Dec 11 14:15:19 1995

wrintg hiku on
zinc is easier than doing
work.  procrastinate.

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Boredcast Message from 'saarp': Mon Dec 11 14:17:29 1995

zinc zinc zinc zinc zinc.
zinc zinc zinc zinc zinc zinc zinc.
zinc zinc zinc zinc zinc.

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Boredcast Message from soda!aspolito (ttyqo) at 14:17 ...

no zinc referance
well, except for the first one
you can't hide from zinc

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Boredcast Message from soda!peterm (ttys0) at 14:17 ...

geordan is writhing,
moaning so pitifully,
molten gold coats him.

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Boredcast Message from soda!agee (ttyqz) at 14:19...

You say, "What is life?"
Before you answer that, ask
Yourself "What is zinc?"

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Boredcast Message from soda!geordan (ttysy) at 14:19 ...

enough about zinc.
it's time for telebears now.
sign up for classes.

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Boredcast Message from soda!blojo (ttypX) at 14:19...

Important warning:
DO NOT TAUNT HAPPY FUN ZINC
Or you'll regret it.

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Boredcast Message from soda!scotsman (ttyqD) at 14:20 ...

Zinc is the only
element you can use as
a conditioner.

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Boredcast Message from soda!aspolito (ttyqo) at 14:21 ...

life is but fleating
but zinc, zinc last forever
trust your life in zinc

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Boredcast Message from soda!saarp (ttyqw) at 14:21 ...

haiku haiku hai-
ku haiku haiku haiku
haiku haiku zinc.

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Boredcast Message from soda!blojo (ttypX) at 14:21...

Mohandas Gandhi
Went on many hunger strikes,
Always ate his zinc.

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Boredcast Message from soda!scotsman (ttyqD) at 14:21 ...

Molten zinc is
fun to give to a child
at a small playground.

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Boredcast Message from soda!agee (ttyqz) at 14:22...

Haiku about zinc
Can become old really fast.
Woe to those annoyed.

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Boredcast Message from soda!aspolito (ttyqo) at 14:23 ...

Pulp Finction has drugs,
hamburgers and violence.
but it lacks the zinc

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Boredcast Message from soda!scotsman (ttyqD) at 14:23 ...

Those who are annoyed
should have zinc in their diets
or at least fiber.

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Boredcast Message from soda!blojo (ttypX) at 14:23...

What do you expect,
When you go throughout your life
Never touching zinc?

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Boredcast Message from soda!mehlhaff (ttypA) at 14:25...

walling zinc haiku
is a sign of great boredom
just go get a life !

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Boredcast Message from soda!peterm (ttys0) at 14:23 ...

in Hamburg's hot fires,
molten zinc flowed fast downhill,
forming hot rivers.

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Boredcast Message from soda!lwall (1?console) at 14:25...

From: Akasha <akasha@apple.com>

I once made pennies
coating them in lab with zinc
some gold, some silver.

Boredcast Message from soda!geordan (ttysy) at 14:25 ...

the power of zinc
is strong.  I got in all of
my classes today.

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Boredcast Message from soda!blojo (ttypX) at 14:26...

Letters & Science
Has such strict requirements
Can't pass without zinc.

Boredcast Message from soda!geordan (ttysy) at 14:27 ...

I break free of your chains!

I write
  in jagged
form



   like e e



                                                        cummings

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Boredcast Message from soda!chiapet (ttysB) at 14:26 ...

zinc is in my blood
zinc sustains my beating heart
when pricked, i bleed zinc

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Boredcast Message from soda!blojo (ttypX) at 14:27...

Byzantine Problem
When to synchronize, attack
Capture all the zinc

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Boredcast Message from soda!blojo (ttypX) at 14:28...

Superconductive
Crystal lattice finely tuned
Quantum Zincanics

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Boredcast Message from soda!scotsman (ttyqD) at 14:29 ...

zinc haikus are scarce
except on the walls of soda
where zinc reigns supreme

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Boredcast Message from soda!geordan (ttysy) at 14:29 ...

insanity, like
zinc, runs rampant through soda's
mindless, hopeless walls.

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Boredcast Message from soda!blojo (ttypX) at 14:30...

Figlet the word 'zinc'
Watch it fill your CRT
Lovely ASCII art

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Boredcast Message from soda!geordan (ttysy) at 14:31 ...

I've had enough zinc.
I'm going to fail physics.
Try to learn quantum.

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Boredcast Message from soda!blojo (ttypX) at 14:32...

L. Ron Hubbard wrote
Dianetics' secret code
Teaching about zinc

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Boredcast Message from soda!blojo (ttypX) at 14:41...

Twin Peaks finale
David Lynch's twisted dream
Zinc allegory

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Boredcast Message from soda!ausman (ttysE) at 14:43...

ari cannot die 
until most wonderful sense
surrounded by zinc

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Boredcast Message from soda!blojo (ttypX) at 14:44...

Christian communion
Holy wafer made of zinc
Put it on your tongue.

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Boredcast Message from soda!blojo (ttypX) at 14:45...

Posting news is fun
Erotica - dot - sensual
Don't forget - dot - zinc

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Boredcast Message from soda!geordan (ttysu) at 14:46 ...

it is most complete
from a to the last one, zinc
we call it Centrum.

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Boredcast Message from soda!ausman (ttysE) at 14:46...

wear a zinc helmet
protect your most priceless head
die in style at least

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Boredcast Message from soda!blojo (ttypX) at 14:49...

Superhero flees
X-ray vision, gift of flight
Powers blocked by zinc

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Boredcast Message from soda!blojo (ttypX) at 14:50...

Ivory soap is pure,
Ninety-nine point forty-four
Undefiled zinc

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Boredcast Message from soda!aspolito (ttyqo) at 14:50 ...

need larger title
zinc will not help me at all
latex is cryptic

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Boredcast Message from soda!blojo (ttypX) at 14:51...

"Barefoot in the Park"?
Neil Simon sucks my dick.
He should write of zinc.

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Boredcast Message from soda!blojo (ttypX) at 14:59...

TV commercial
"Zinc it does a body good"
I will grow up strong.

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Boredcast Message from soda!blojo (ttypX) at 15:01...

Look, here is your brain.
Now here is your brain on zinc.
Any questions, kid?

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Boredcast Message from soda!blojo (ttypX) at 15:06...

Perfect tokyo time
Must by cheap zinc umbrella
Ward off acid rain

Boredcast Message from soda!blojo (ttypX) at 15:06...

^by^buy

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Boredcast Message from soda!geordan (ttysu) at 15:06 ...

blojo needs whipping
take a zinc whip and flog him
over and over

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Boredcast Message from soda!scotsman (ttyqD) at 15:07 ...

a cat of nine tails
made completely out of zinc
lands on your back thrice.

Boredcast Message from soda!scotsman (ttyqD) at 15:07 ...

Okay, all walls must contain a reference to zinc and to whips.

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Boredcast Message from soda!blojo (ttypX) at 15:09...

Bubbling molten zinc
Pours across my naked skin
Pain strikes like a whip

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Boredcast Message from soda!scotsman (ttyqD) at 15:09 ...

zinc whips are fun for
flogging, beating and other
assorted actions

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Boredcast Message from soda!geordan (ttysu) at 15:10 ...

walls must have at least four references to James Bond movies
and praseodymium.

Boredcast Message from soda!blojo (ttypX) at 15:11...

Jaws shoots violin
Praseodymium gun
Diamonds forever

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Boredcast Message from soda!chiapet (ttysB) at 15:18 ...

contractor from hell
did not document his zinc
work has fallen off

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Boredcast Message from soda!blojo (ttypX) at 15:20...

Life-threatening choice
Which door will he open up,
Tiger or the Zinc?

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Boredcast Message from 'erich': Mon Dec 11 11:15:35 1995

tongue on clitoris
i savour my lover's zinc
starry autumn night

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Boredcast Message from 'erich': Mon Dec 11 11:14:24 1995

i like plastic glocks
kalashnikov's rifle
to shoot i need zinc

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Boredcast Message from 'erich': Mon Dec 11 11:17:46 1995

zinc in my bloodstream
gluconeogenesis
endless flow of life
        -blojo

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Boredcast Message from soda!chiapet (ttysB) at 15:24 ...

there is no zinc here
there is no zinc at my job
there is a large void

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Boredcast Message from soda!blojo (ttypX) at 15:26...

Headbanging music
Play it really fucking loud
I love Nine Inch Zinc

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Boredcast Message from soda!scotsman (ttyqD) at 15:34 ...

Saar sleep in pooled zinc
Breathes in the noxious fumes and
lives to repeat it.

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Boredcast Message from soda!jon (ttypM) at 16:39 ...

ZINC!  ZINC!  ZINC!  ZINC!  ZINC!  ZINC!  ZINC!  ZINC!  ZINC!  ZINC!  ZINC! 
 ZINC!  ZINC!  ZINC!  ZINC!  ZINC!  ZINC!  ZINC!  ZINC!  ZINC!  ZINC!  ZINC! 
ZINC!  ZINC!  ZINC!  ZINC!  ZINC!  ZINC!  ZINC!  ZINC!  ZINC!  ZINC!  ZINC! 
 ZINC!  ZINC!  ZINC!  ZINC!  ZINC!  ZINC!  ZINC!  ZINC!  ZINC!  ZINC!  ZINC! 
ZINC!  ZINC!  ZINC!  ZINC!  ZINC!  ZINC!  ZINC!  ZINC!  ZINC!  ZINC!  ZINC! 
 ZINC!  ZINC!  ZINC!  ZINC!  ZINC!  ZINC!  ZINC!  ZINC!  ZINC!  ZINC!  ZINC! 

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Boredcast Message from soda!blojo (ttypX) at 16:40...

Fifteen years from now
Zinc is standard currency
Rich society

----

<pedro> blojo is blinded
<pedro> zinc is standard coinage now
<pedro> look at a nickel
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From: Seth David Schoen <schoen@loyalty.org>

For young children's health
Immunosuppressants bad,
But zinc opposite.

http://dailynews.yahoo.com/headlines/ts/story.html?s=v/nm/19990418/ts/health_zinc_1.html
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From: ESP <evangelo@pigdog.org>

	Shipwreck survivor
	either saves his load or flees.
	Which one? Zinc or swim?
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From: Nick Moffitt <nick@zork.net>

        Mortal Superman
        Bad guys taking all the zinc
        Now, kneel before Zod
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From: Seth David Schoen <schoen@loyalty.org>

Healthful supplement
present here where food's prepared:
it's the kitchen zinc.
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From: Seth David Schoen <schoen@loyalty.org>

Sensations coming
from metallic reactions:
a zinking feeling.

Gossips and costly
seagoing vessels conjoined
thus: loose lips, zinc ships.

Rene Descartes finds
his elemental self: I
zinc, therefore I am.

Horrible zinc puns
you would expect from Peter
Neumann, not from me.
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From: ESP <evangelo@pigdog.org>

	Enough! This is the
	Worst form of humor. I won't
	zinc to your level.
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From: Deirdre Saoirse <deirdre@deirdre.net>

On invoking Godwin
Internet arguments end
We zinc heil
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Broadcast Message from woot@zork
        (/dev/ttyp6) at 10:49 ...

My haiku is poor
But yet not poor enough to
insult you, you git.

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Broadcast Message from pedro@zork
        (/dev/ttyp3) at 10:50 ...

today at North Park
NBC filmed a pilot
zinc was the focus

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Broadcast Message from spork@zork
        (/dev/ttyp9) at 10:51 ...

you steal woot the word
come tell me something other
now i fit zinc in this line



Broadcast Message from pedro@zork
        (/dev/ttyp3) at 10:53 ...

did you miss schoen's words
on how zinc haiku are fixed?
obstinate buffon!

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Broadcast Message from spork@zork
        (/dev/ttyp9) at 10:54 ...

yes yes yes yes yes
yes yes yes yes yes yes
zinc zinc zinc zinc zinc zinc zinc zinc

Broadcast Message from woot@zork
        (/dev/ttyp6) at 10:55 ...

I think that your zinc
Is not the true aussie zinc
Our zinc is quite the zinc.

Broadcast Message from pedro@zork
        (/dev/ttyp3) at 10:55 ...

if I did not speak,
you might think your zinc was good
what could be less true?
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Broadcast Message from pedro@zork
        (/dev/ttyp3) at 20:40 ...

I just ate some food--
Szechuan Pork and Broccoli
It is high in zinc.
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Broadcast Message from lankhmar@zork
        (/dev/ttyp7) at 22:10 ...

Bluish white metal,
magnesium-cadmium,
number thirty: zinc.
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Broadcast Message from pedro@zork
        (/dev/ttyp3) at 8:03 ...

Mick's Sticky Fingers
O, can't ya hear me knockin'?
brown sugar lacks zinc.
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Broadcast Message from lankhmar@zork
        (/dev/ttyp7) at 10:20 ...

lintian; dupload;
Another .deb on its way:
zinc in Incoming.
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Broadcast Message from nick@zork
        (/dev/ttya1) at 10:22 ...

Oh, advogato:
My diary is zincless
And yet it is read.
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Broadcast Message from pedro@zork
        (/dev/ttypc) at 13:05 ...

the album is done
symphony center is next
to zinc, perchance dream
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Broadcast Message from nick@zork
        (/dev/ttya1) at 13:07 ...

Sweltering Sunday
Cover me in zinc oxide
Hide me from the sun

Broadcast Message from pedro@zork
        (/dev/ttypc) at 13:09 ...

careful what you ask
baby ass-salve is scary--
DESITIN is zinc
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<BenB> zinc is not purple
<BenB> zinc is not blue, red or green
<BenB> it's just very zinc
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Broadcast Message from schoen@zork
        (/dev/ttyp4) at 0:47 ...

Alas, o, alas,
very sorrowful are these
mourning zinc haiku.
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Broadcast Message from pedro@zork
        (/dev/ttypc) at 0:49 ...

but don't get idears
we're not ga-ga betwixt us
just generally

Broadcast Message from schoen@zork
        (/dev/ttyp4) at 0:49 ...

Your disclaimer is
fair enough, and helpful, yes,
but where is the zinc?
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Broadcast Message from schoen@zork
        (/dev/ttyp4) at 0:50 ...

I have very bad
romantic stuff happening
just last week (no zinc)
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Broadcast Message from pedro@zork
        (/dev/ttypc) at 0:50 ...

get off my back, schoen
there is zinc enough for all
twice it's here: zinc zinc
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Broadcast Message from lankhmar@zork
        (/dev/ttyp7) at 0:51 ...

"Where's the zinc?", asked Seth,
and brought back memories of
horrid TV ads.
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Broadcast Message from schoen@zork
        (/dev/ttyp4) at 0:51 ...

pedro saves his zinc,
stockpiling so as to have
enough for later.
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Broadcast Message from pedro@zork
        (/dev/ttyp6) at 0:54 ...

eyebrow, eyebrow said
pedro the zinc stockpiler
you don't know the half
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Broadcast Message from schoen@zork
        (/dev/ttyp4) at 0:53 ...

I'll make ramen, not
a significant source of
protein, C, or zinc.
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Broadcast Message from schoen@zork
        (/dev/ttyp4) at 0:55 ...

I post diaries
about isopropanol,
zinc would be more fun.
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Broadcast Message from pedro@zork
        (/dev/ttyp6) at 0:56 ...

lacking zinc and C
I wonder if ramen lacks
Python, Lisp, and Perl?
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Broadcast Message from pedro@zork
        (/dev/ttyp6) at 1:01 ...

for all Seth's zinc, he
walls inappropriately
(I counted that thrice)

Broadcast Message from schoen@zork
        (/dev/ttyp4) at 1:02 ...

This is not soda:
one's allowed to wall something
non-zinc-haikuish.
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Broadcast Message from schoen@zork
        (/dev/ttyp4) at 1:03 ...

But I feel that, more
or less, if you're walling in
haiku, wall zinc poems.
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Broadcast Message from pedro@zork
        (/dev/ttyp6) at 1:03 ...

stephane queries zen
Seth answers in clever form
I'm a zinc lozenge

Broadcast Message from nick@zork
        (/dev/ttya3) at 1:06 ...

Zen, status report!
Ahead standard by seven!
Take us to the zinc!
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Broadcast Message from stephane@zork
        (/dev/ttyab) at 1:06 ...

i sit on the couch
walling from the yellow seat
which is quite unlike zinc
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Broadcast Message from pedro@zork
        (/dev/ttyp6) at 1:09 ...

Advogato Prime!
logarithmus dualis
Seth's brain is pure zinc
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Broadcast Message from schoen@zork
        (/dev/ttyp4) at 1:10 ...

I have found the bit
from Professor R. Hartshorne:
QED, et c.
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Broadcast Message from nick@zork
        (/dev/ttya3) at 1:12 ...

At the current rate
zinc fortunes will beat pigdog
Beaujolais to that!
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Broadcast Message from stephane@zork
        (/dev/ttyab) at 1:12 ...

Sons of bitches keep
Your mouth shut, says Dan Rather
His hair like grey zinc.

Broadcast Message from pedro@zork
        (/dev/ttyp6) at 1:15 ...

get down, get down, get
the fuck down says Harrison
you like EBN?
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Broadcast Message from pedro@zork
        (/dev/ttyp6) at 1:13 ...

I'm from the future
it is three-twenty-three here
I zinc I need sleep
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Broadcast Message from schoen@zork
        (/dev/ttyp4) at 1:14 ...

I must ask Robin
whether he will grant the right
to publish his piece.

Broadcast Message from stephane@zork
        (/dev/ttyab) at 1:15 ...

send him some e mail
it's not like he is sleeping
he hacks on code now
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Broadcast Message from stephane@zork
        (/dev/ttyab) at 1:16 ...

EBN is awesome
i saw them live -- two concerts
gardner post kicks ass
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Broadcast Message from pedro@zork
        (/dev/ttyp6) at 1:18 ...

it appeared to me
that steph was quoting a group
called EBN. Zinc!

Broadcast Message from schoen@zork
        (/dev/ttyp4) at 1:19 ...

judicious, even
artful use of that one last
syllable for zinc!

Broadcast Message from pedro@zork
        (/dev/ttyp6) at 1:23 ...

it's not every day
that Seth David Schoen calls your
zinc haiku artful
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Broadcast Message from stephane@zork
        (/dev/ttyab) at 1:19 ...

i showed crackmonkey
the tape.  he was tres amused.
zinc beaujolais gar fnord

Broadcast Message from nick@zork
        (/dev/ttya3) at 1:20 ...

Stephane's haiku
Left me feeling uneasy
Her rhythm was good
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Broadcast Message from schoen@zork
        (/dev/ttyp4) at 1:22 ...

NetHack message says:
"You have an uneasy feeling." --
You're lacking zinc.
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Broadcast Message from pedro@zork
        (/dev/ttyp6) at 1:23 ...

in the sun i shall bask
with zinc oxide on my nose
thanks to crackmonkey
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Broadcast Message from stephane@zork
        (/dev/ttyab) at 1:24 ...

This Seth David Schoen
Should go by merely 'David'.
Standard Linuxcare.
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Broadcast Message from schoen@zork
        (/dev/ttyp4) at 1:24 ...

Python ought to give
us a function for dual
logs: math.ld()
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Broadcast Message from schoen@zork
        (/dev/ttyp4) at 1:25 ...

There was a David
Schoen once, and I'm named for him:
read my old web site.

But you're right -- I do
seem to deviate from the
corporate standards.
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Broadcast Message from nick@zork
        (/dev/ttya3) at 1:25 ...

Martin Pool wrote me
"Whether it wants to or not"
His zinc is quite strong.
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Broadcast Message from pedro@zork
        (/dev/ttyp6) at 1:29 ...

i wrote two great poems
somehow i did something wrong
their zinc is now gone
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Broadcast Message from schoen@zork
        (/dev/ttyp4) at 1:30 ...

I actually did
write zinc haiku about how
Lisa broke up -- <sigh>
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Broadcast Message from pedro@zork
        (/dev/ttyp6) at 1:31 ...

eyes getting heavy
hard to keep open, focused
like zinc weights were there
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Broadcast Message from stephane@zork
        (/dev/ttya7) at 1:32 ...

when will things be okay?
i sound like a silly child
life is hard like zinc
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Broadcast Message from pedro@zork
        (/dev/ttyp6) at 1:34 ...

I zinc this is it:
adieu, adieu, to you, and
you, and you. goodnight.
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Broadcast Message from pedro@zork
        (/dev/ttyp2) at 23:20 ...

mr. bad breaks rules
his signature's seven lines
bad mr. bad, bad
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<pedro> agee knows not truth
<pedro> for zinc haiku are timeless
<pedro> woe to him unwise
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Broadcast Message from schoen@zork
        (/dev/ttyp4) at 23:34 ...

Understanding is
a three-edged sword, forged, no doubt,
of a zinc alloy.
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Broadcast Message from lankhmar@zork
        (/dev/ttyp3) at 18:56 ...

Postfix is dandy;
makes syslog wall remotely.
Walls (and zinc) are zork.
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Broadcast Message from woot@zork
        (/dev/ttypb) at 18:57 ...

Emad, together
with me, decided that no
more zinc was needed.
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Broadcast Message from muse@zork
        (/dev/ttyp0) at 15:03 ...

tech support haiku
inject inquiries with zinc
dial 5-7-5
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Broadcast Message from pedro@zork
        (/dev/ttyp6) at 23:24 ...

eyes tired, burning
all my zinc is worn away
tom waits plays late may!
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<wikkit> In an odd twist of fate, rec.humor.oracle.d has taken quite well to
          the concept of zinc haiku.
<Beaujolais> oh yeah?
<wikkit>       GW De Lacey:
<wikkit> Puddles. Leaves are brown
<wikkit> Sun and surf a memory
<wikkit> No need for cream'd zinc.

<wikkit>      Jeff Zeitlin:
<wikkit> In RHOD one can post
<wikkit> on subjects diverse and strange
<wikkit> even the kitchen zinc.
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<wikkit> Mary had a lamb.
<wikkit> It ate a bunch of bad zinc.
<wikkit> It will die real quick.
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<wikkit> Zinc is to the left,
<wikkit> now it's to the right of me,
<wikkit> someone stop it, please.
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<wikkit> I'm not hydrogen,
<wikkit> I am not potassium,
<wikkit> I am a bit zinc.
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<wikkit> Airport codes stupid.
<wikkit> Planes crash in Iowa fields.
<wikkit> Zinc killed Big Bopper.
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<wikkit> Even rec.humor.oracle.d in-joke zinc haikus...

<wikkit> Hook is a bad troll.
<wikkit> He needs to eat much more zinc.
<wikkit> Smack him good, Steve-o

<wikkit> JIM has one proton.
<wikkit> Zinc has many more than that.
<wikkit> JIM is more neat, though.
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<wikkit> Crackmonkey, who is
<wikkit> known as BangTheNunSlowly
<wikkit> on chat, showed me zinc.

<wikkit> #afda on Slashnet
<wikkit> is where I met the zinc man,
<wikkit> a San Franciscan.

<wikkit> Ask him, Sid, he may
<wikkit> be the one who knows why Zinc
<wikkit> is haiku goldmine.
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<wikkit> Rumors abound that
<wikkit> The mighty Oracle's zot
<wikkit> is nothing but zinc.
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<wikkit> I am offended
<wikkit> by attempts to make zinc a
<wikkit> special element.
<wikkit> (that was by Chris Wesling, not me)
<wikkit> as is:
<wikkit> Abe Vigoda
<wikkit> and Erik Estrada in
<wikkit> "Fish and Chips", no zinc.
<wikkit> I can't get 5 out of 'abe vigoda', but I probably pronounce it wrong.
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<wikkit> JIM is not argon
<wikkit> Iridium is not Sid
<wikkit> Maybe Ben is zinc
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<wikkit> zinc is not in here
<wikkit> you are hallucinating
<wikkit> examine your head
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<wikkit> zinc is poetry
<wikkit> like fish follow migrating
<wikkit> mammals in the fall
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<wikkit> zinc, the other white meat
<wikkit> no, wait, that's not right, stop it.
<wikkit> zinc, the cheap metal
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<wikkit> zinc is the penny!
<wikkit> an ugly copper façade,
<wikkit> the inside matters.
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<wikkit> Make Monkey Fast scheme,
<wikkit> Crackmonkey, the brains of it.
<wikkit> Just Add Zinc, he says.
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<wikkit> Wikkit made them mad,
<wikkit> without knowing how or why.
<wikkit> Come back, compadres!
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<wikkit> Damn, forgot the zinc
<wikkit> Kill me know, or forever
<wikkit> hold your piece. (gun, duh)
%
<wikkit> Apocalypse Now,
<wikkit> or a few minutes ago,
<wikkit> zinc killed this channel.
%
<wikkit> Next time, warn me, Zinc!
<wikkit> I knew I sucked, but how bad
<wikkit> was not apparent.
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Broadcast Message from kickaha@zork
        (/dev/pts/15) at 14:35 ...

day and night i roam
wandering nethack mazes
where is the zinc wand?
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Broadcast Message from pedro@zork
        (/dev/pts/11) at 22:39 ...

coffee grounds and zinc
mixed with piping hot vapours
caf-buzz eternal
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Broadcast Message from pedro@zork
        (/dev/pts/2) at 14:12 ...

a lazy thursday
4:30 can't come too soon
i wish i had zinc
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Broadcast Message from pedro@zork
        (/dev/pts/13) at 11:19 ...

slashnet is flakey
solar zinc disrupts power
only nwall stands
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From: Seth David Schoen <schoen@loyalty.org>
To: crackmonkey@crackmonkey.org
 
Mr . Bad writes:
> http://www.msnbc.com/news/474861.asp?cp1=1
> 
> Ear, Nose, Throat Journal
> Says colds could be much shorter:
> "Just inhale some zinc."

"Zinc ions fill in
virus binding sites, so it
can't attach to cells!"
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Broadcast Message from aaronl@zork
        (/dev/pts/13) at 11:19 ...

Thirtieth Atom
Zinc is used in batteries
Vraiment Beaujolais!
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Date: Thu, 11 Jan 2001 18:04:10 -0800
To: Message Of The Day <motd@zork.net>
Subject: Re: [/etc/motd] electrical power problem
From: Rick Moen <rick@linuxmafia.com>

begin  Nick Moffitt quotation:

> For the paranoid, typing "sync" at the shell helps maintain filesystem
> integrity.  

To promote Zork health,
Remedy ready at hand:
Take sync frequently.
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vhuang@ugcs.caltech.edu (No Subject) (Victor Huang)
(pub.haiku.zinc)
2001-01-20 18:38:23-08: gsend/0.99

Ancient, noble zinc:
How unhappy that your name
Must rhyme with 'NSYNC.
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Broadcast Message from pedro@zork
        (/dev/pts/11) at 7:02 ...

in state New Hampshire
I seek zinc and find Dartmouth
my plane did not burn
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<aargh> n judah passing 
<aargh> craigslist rocking back and forth 
<aargh> are they zinc powered?
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 sneakums@pts/16> One pellet contains
 sneakums@pts/16> two point five percent of the
 sneakums@pts/16> RDA of zinc.
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