At 07:26 AM 8/19/97 -0500, ROBERT MORRISON wrote:

I just realized something while going over this morning's mail...

Please note the following items of ill fortune which have befallen 
various among us this past week:

  <list of disasters and misfortunes>

Everyone be on your guard this week, there's a bad moon rising, and I 
don't mean the Black Moon or an evil Tsukino Usagi.

  I really hope that this is just a statistical fluctuation.  It appears
that I will be leaving for Romania next week and enough problems occur even
ordinarily when working in Eastern Europe.

                                                                          dml