From: crispen@NETSQUIRREL.COM
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Subject: TOURBUS -- 29 OCTOBER 1998 -- URBAN LEGEND COMBAT KIT / OCCUPATIONAL OUTLOOK HANDBOOK
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TODAY'S TOURBUS STOP(S):
The TOURBUS Urban Legend Combat Kit /
Occupational Outlook Handbook
TODAY'S TOURBUS ADDRESS(ES):
http://stats.bls.gov/ocohome.htm
http://stats.bls.gov/oco/ocoiab.htm
http://stats.bls.gov/search/oco_s.asp
http://stats.bls.gov/k12/html/edu_over.htm
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"Talkway," and "Twin Peaks Gourmet" for bringing today's journey of
our little bus of Internet happiness to you. Please take a moment to
visit today's sponsors and thank them for keeping TOURBUS on the road!
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On with the show ...
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The Urban Legend Combat Kit
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I am happy to announce that I have FINALLY updated the TOURBUS Urban
Legend Combat Kit! You might remember that I recently wrote that the
Urban Legend Combat Kit is a collection of individual email
letters, each of which focuses on a particular Internet urban
legend or hoax. The letters are free of charge and are yours to
do with as you please. My hope is that the Combat Kit will help
you quickly fire off a canned reply to anyone who sends you an
urban legend or hoax.
[quoted from http://www.tourbus.com/archive/tb061898.htm]
Well, the Combat Kit now contains eight newly written email letters
that help you combat the following Internet urban legends and hoaxes:
- The Kidney Harvesting Story [someone wakes up in a hotel room
in a bathtub full of ice and their kidneys are missing]
- The Craig Shergold Story [a dying child wants you to send him
business cards, greeting cards, or get well cards so that he
can make it into the Guinness Book of Worlds records
- The Dying Kid Stories [in return for your forwarding an email
letter to all of your friends, a certain hospital or not-for-
profit organization will make a donation to research in the
name of a dying child]
- The 9-0-# Scare [by using 90# you end up giving the individual
that called you the ability to make a long distance call and
have the call charged to you]
- The Bill Gates Email Tracing Program Story [forward an email
letter to all of your friends, and Bill Gates will give you
money]
- The Disney Email Tracing Program Story [Walt Disney Junior will
give you a free trip to Disney World if you forward an email
letter to all of your friends]
- The Guinness Book of Records Story [sign your name to an email
letter and forward it to your friends, and everyone who signs
the letter will be named in the next Guinness Book]
- Virus Warnings [well, you probably know what these look like].
I don't mean to brag, but I am particularly proud of the Urban Legend
Combat Kit's Virus Warnings letter. :)
To retrieve all of the email letters that are in the newly updated
TOURBUS Urban Legend Combat Kit for FREE, just send a new email letter
to
URBANLEGENDS@NETSQUIRREL.COM
with the command
GET HOAX PACKAGE
in the body of your email message. That's it! Within minutes, you
should receive all of the Urban Legend Combat Kit's letters.
As I said earlier, my hope is that the Combat Kit will help you
quickly fire off a canned reply to anyone who sends you an urban
legend or hoax. :)
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Occupational Outlook Handbook
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If you are looking to start a new career, you should visit the Bureau
of Labor Statistics' Occupational Outlook Handbook at
http://stats.bls.gov/ocohome.htm
The handbook is a huge document created by the United States federal
government that predicts future job growth in vocations ranging from
able seamen to zoologist. In other words, the Occupational Outlook
Handbook will not actually get you hired (it is not a job board or an
employment agency), but it will tell you what you need to know before
entering a particular career field. The handbook contains detailed
information about thousands of career fields, telling you about the
nature of the work involved, the working conditions, what training and
qualifications you need, and even what the future job outlook is.
You can browse through the various careers by pointing your Web
browser to
http://stats.bls.gov/oco/ocoiab.htm
or you can conduct a keyword search of the careers at
http://stats.bls.gov/search/oco_s.asp
For those of you who either have or work with children, you should
also look at
http://stats.bls.gov/k12/html/edu_over.htm
This section gives elementary school students an introduction to
career guidance. Best of all, the pages in this section have been
rewritten to Flesch-Kincaid grade level scores of 6.9 and lower, so
even politicians will be able to understand them. :)
Seriously, though, this section is well laid out. The students click
on a school subject they like (music/arts, science, math, and so on)
and they are taken to a page that shows five or six careers that are
related to that school subject. For example, students who are
interested in math are shown a list of careers that includes
engineering, accounting, and computer science. For each of these
careers, the Bureau of Labor Statistics explains:
- What these workers do
- What the job is like
- How to prepare for the job
- What the future for this job holds
- The job's pay
- Similar jobs
- Where to look for more information
Cool, huh? :)
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A Quick Personal Note
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Well, it looks like my email inbox is about to go BOOM! Your fearless
bus driver currently has about one and a half GIGZILLION emails in his
inbox, dating all the way back to late August! In other words, I am
about TWO MONTHS behind in my email. :(
If you have sent me an email recently and have not received a
response, please do not take my lack of reply as a sign that I no
longer think you are a wonderful person. I still worship you and hope
to grow up to be just like you. :)
Seriously, though, I apologize for any problems my recent mail flood
may have caused you.
TODAY'S TOURBUS STOP(S):
The TOURBUS Urban Legend Combat Kit /
Occupational Outlook Handbook
TODAY'S TOURBUS ADDRESS(ES):
http://stats.bls.gov/ocohome.htm
http://stats.bls.gov/oco/ocoiab.htm
http://stats.bls.gov/search/oco_s.asp
http://stats.bls.gov/k12/html/edu_over.htm
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SOUTHERN WORD OF THE DAY
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JEET (question). An inquiry into if someone is hungry.
Usage: "Jeet?" "Nah .. didju?"
(Special thanks to comedian Jeff Foxworthy and hundreds of other
TOURBUS riders for today's wurd)
You can find *ALL* of the old Southern Words of the day at
http://netsquirrel.com/crispen/word.html
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