XPost: alt.startrek, alt.tv.star-trek, alt.tv.star-trek.enterprise   
   From: invalid@address.com   
      
   >>>A Burlington Bun *is* a name used by colonial guttersnipes for... a jam   
   >>>> > doughnut.   
   >>>> >   
   >>>> > Don't even get me started on "jelly". I may become so furious as to   
   >>>> > spontaneously implode.   
   >>>> >   
   >>   
   >>>   
   >>> A doughnut without a hole is like a lifesaver without a hole. For   
   >>> some reason it doesn't taste as good. And that reason is ...   
   >>> surface area. Having a hole in the center exposes more surface   
   >>> area, hence enhanced taste. A Burlington Bun is a very nice   
   >>> confection, but it isn't a doughnut.   
   >   
   >   
   > If this were a Bermaga script, we'd be talking about doughnuton particles by   
   > now, and we'd have to reconfigure the main deflector to emit a doughnuton   
   > pulse to make a hole in the Burlington Bun.   
   >   
   > And then at the end, time would reset and the hole would have *never been   
   > there at all*.   
      
   It all makes sense now, when you explain it in terms of doughnuts.   
   And the takions would be the sprinkles!   
      
   --- SoupGate-Win32 v1.05   
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