From: Danny Sichel Newsgroups: alt.humor.best-of-usenet Subject: [rec.arts.sf.written] Re: Slavery in Sudan Date: 19 Aug 1999 20:16:50 GMT Subject: Re: Slavery in Sudan From: "Jonathan Hendry" Newsgroups: rec.arts.sf.written Gareth Wilson wrote in message <37AD1B7A.4A0733F3@student.canterbury.ac.nz>... > > >William December Starr wrote: >If you're willing to accept that > >> exception then, of course, requiring children to do certain things is >> not slavery or involuntary servitude, though exactly _what_ those >> thigs are will be a subject of debate (e.g., the "community service" >> that some high school students are required to perform as part of >> earning their diplomas). > >I would have loved to be forced to do community service at my high school. >It would have provided such a great opportunity for mischief. They >couldn't have stopped me from turning up dressed in rags, wearing plastic >leg shackles, fake whip scars painted on, and accompanied by the local TV >news crew, right? A recent posting to the 'Quote of the Day' mailing list was apropos. A group of convicts in England was assigned to plant flower bulbs on a traffic median (central reservation?) in a relatively high traffic area. When the flowers bloomed, the local residents found that the flowers spelled out 'SHAG' and 'BOLLOCKS' in 3 foot wide letters. Apparently more of the bulbs haven't bloomed yet, so there may be more coming.