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Feb. 4 -Feb. 10
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out on her ass by her tough and rugged and she'll start snowing again. ~t>
boyfriend Cleveland, Ohio and if you haven't • ,,
noticed, Pittsburgh hasn't stopped snowing Cleveland, who is not ladylike, had his rea-
since. Friends of Pittsburgh say that, "she sons for encl~ng the relationship with some- ',J

needs to get over it and quit what unpopular Pittsburgh,


snowing every two seconds has been reported to have ..~. •~r v~.n•. ..
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because she's thinking eyes for Philadelphia, who is


about that bastard Pittsburgh's older sister and
Pennsylvania Trading
Cleveland." Pittsburgh has is known for being better Company Opens Online
been a real cold bitch to than Pittsburgh in almost Division
everyone since the breakup every way. Supposedly,
and doesn't show any signs Cleveland made his move by In a bold move, the long established
comforting Philadelphia Pennsylvania Trading Company of
of cheering up just vet.
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after her Eagles lost the Milford, PA has announced the opening
NFC Championship Game of its brand new online branch. "It's a
Longtime friend and gay,
non-threatening city and then comforted leer with very exciting time for the PTC. We feel
Allentown has been helping `*f` .: :>~~~>~hilari.ous tales of his horrible like this is rea11y the Perfect fit, and we
Pittsburgh get through this We don't need him anyway sports teams. are glad to have been able to seize this
for a few days now, and oppoi-tiuiity and f ll the niche." said PTC
Pittsburgh has been able to control her snow As of todatiT, Pittsburgh has hopefully stopped president L.D. Johnson.
ing a bit, but not completely. ~~ few times a snowing for this year, but she's still being a
day, something will remind her of some cold bitch to everyone living in her. "We want to make it easy for everyone to
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become a Penna-Trader, to take the

Gave Everybody Food Poisoning plunge, if tiTou will. BtiT 2005, eighty-five
percent of Pennsylvanians can be
Penna-Trading in the comfort of their
Yeah, sorry gutiTs. I know it was mostly , me. I was deft-
some of you are really upset niteltiT the di-Luzkest one. They own homes. This is a godsend for rural
about your stomach prob- all egged me on, though, and Pennsylvanians who do not have access
lems, and I Bear it was pretty I was so excited that it wasn't to upfront brokerage. They can finally
nasty. I really couldn't resist until I had mti= pants down take the bta.11 by the horns and get right
the temptation, though. I over a bowl of soup I didn't in the thick of it, where all of the action
mean, somebody left the realize that theti= had all run is."
door into the kitchen upstairs off giggling.
in the UC open what pen- Johnson described more of the PTC
s on in their right nand ~-~nywatiT, I've never been one vision: "You'll soon find .tiTourself Perna-
wouldn't take the opportuni- Tastes better than Andy's! to back down when I've got Trading at home, in the office, or while
ty to poo in the campus attacks on campus food sely my mind set on something, casually relaxing at your neighborhood
food? ices, but then we got really plus I was already halfway Internet cafe. There really is no end to
laztiT and drunk. My friend there. So I went for the gold how far you can go."
Alright, I'll admit it, it started Adam poo'ed in his dresser and dropped a load in some
as a stupid joke with me and drawer for $5 but it didn't campus food. In fact, when I PTC's outlook is especially good riding
mtiT friends. We were talking reall`7 get us anywhere toward was done with that soup on the shoulders of successful field test-
about how campus food is all our ultimate goal. In fact, we ttueen, I went and did it ing of the new service. "Sure, those who
really shitty, and then we didn't think we were going to again in several other strate- were used to dealing with a traditional
thought, "Whoa, what if get it done at all. gic locations. I won't tell yTou broker were a bit sore at first, but after
somebody REALLY made which ones that would Ilan tlzetiT got used to the user friendltiT inter-
the food slzittjT?" What we Then, random chance inter- the surp~se! face and, they just couldn't wait to get in
meant by that was, of cotuse, vened. We were really dtl~.nk there and Perna-Trade with their friends
that we were going to poo in and wande~ng around in the That's fight! St~-pnise! Half of and family."
the food. UC, and to and behold, one you have gastroentefitis! Ha!
o f the kitchen doors was left Gosh, I sure love college. Lucky Penns~.Tlvanians can expect Penna-
It started out as a pretty elab- open! We coL~ldn't resist the Imagine what zany antics I'll Trader to come into their neck of the
orate plan, with stealth oppomuzit`T. Well, in honest~T, get up to next week! woods as earltiT as next month.
Issue 7,000,014 - readme p. 2 - February 4 -February 10

Winter's Here... Lock Up Your Daughters CMU Completes Transition


Morris continued his diatribe, but readme to Day Care Center
had promptly snuck away upon the discov- ........<::~;:v r::: ......~....
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ery of peculiar and foul odors in the area.

Others were even more at arms regarding


Old Man Winter's recent antics. "Old Man
Winter? I really don't l;ke him at all. First,
it's hells,-cold and nasty outside... plus, he
keeps groping my f~.end's ass." said junior .. i . >:.::::>::.::. :;.:::::::.>::::
~::::. >::,
mechanical engineering major Erica McGee.
President Jared Cohon has announced that
This is not the only incident of similarly
within the next several months, Carnegie
indecent behavior from Mr. Winter accord-
l~2ellon will enter the final stages of its for-
ing to CMU Police. "Over the past few mal transition to a daycare center for pre-K
weeks, we have had dozens of reports of
through second-grade children.
inappropriate sexual advances and weather-
Old "Fred" Man "Merkle" Winter rela.ted annoyances." said Chief Doyle. The
Students, faculty and staff might have
Well, if you've had a chance to prance assailant is reported to be on old, bearded
noticed the children involved in daycare
around outside in shorts and atee-shirt, well man of about five foot and nine inches in
activities rt~nn;ng around in resident;al areas,
my friend, you're a jackass. l~s for the rest height, smelling of old wine and bad cheese.
and in public areas such as the University
of us Carnegie Mellonists, we've been freez- His mustache has been reported to conta;n
Center. The number of children has
ing our collective asses off trekking hither fragments of cucumbers and herring also,
increased gradl~ally in the past months, until
and tither amidst Old Man Winter's alcohol he was black... yea, definitely a black guy.
some students complained that there were
binge induced suckstravagan7a. Cl~TCJ police asks that you contact them if
"more children than students." Little did
you have any information regarding this
they know they were right; Cohon's plan
Winter hit hard and fast taking many by sur- ruffian.
calls for the students to be phased out in
prise. One of the most affected was fresh-
favor of daycare children.
man economics major, Jonathan Morris, So while we may never know exactlti= where
"Yea, I totally wasn't expecting it at all. I Old Man Winter lives or what he has in
"When it comes right down tc it, students
mean, one day the leaves are falling from the store for us in the upcoming months, one
aren't very lucrative," said Cohon, "but small
trees, and the next, you find yourself having thing remains clear: if tiTou are wearing
children are. Plus, when push comes to
to soil yourself for warmth... it's a total shorts outside, you are a jackass.
shove, we can grind them up and give them
suckstravaganza. Is that even a word?"
to Food Services."

Point/Counter-Point: I have the worst name ever! Andre 3000 Replaced by


Point: Counter-Point: Newer and More Efficient
By Ted Hockface By Saddam bin Hitler-Stalin Andre 4000
I have the worst name ever. It's like, so lire you kidding me? ~ dick joke is the least
easy to make fiuz of. Hockface... see, ti=ou of your name-related worries. r1t least
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already know I can never make friends you're not if "that's a nuclear missile in your
because I just become the brunt of all the pocket, or are you just happy to see me, ~=ou
jokes. "When's good `ol Cockface coming Communazi?"
over?" He's not, because tiTou douches
won't stop making fun of him!

I want to change my last name, but my dad


won't let me because he says that "The
Hockfaces are a prideful people and are
proud of their name." Bullslvt, dad! You
grew up in a simpler time where people 4000 » 3000. QED
wouldn't rip on ti=ou all the time for this
dumb name. Even my professors do it. Half of OutKa,st, r~ndre 3000, was way
"Cockface... Ted? Ted Cockface? past due for an upgrade and last week he
Ohhl~li... Hockface, I'm so sorry." was replaced with the new model, which is
a 4000 sefies. The 4000, which is approxi-
This name sucks so much I'm never going mately 35% more Ice Cold will be able to
to get a girlfriend so I can get mar~.ed and create even more awesome music that is
have little Cockfaces of my own. playing rti.ght now
Issue 7,000,014 - readme p. 3 - February 4 -February 10

Top Other Things Which The Most Offensive Article to be Written


Your Parents Lied About Sometime in the Future
Being Real Sometime in the future readme will w~te
the most offensive, cruel, and derogatoiti~
article ever known to man. It will be so
shocking and insulting that people who
lead it will randomly burst into flames
from the sheer audacity of this forthcorn-
ing article. Tliat week we will not give
issues to people with heart conditions or
people that have no sense of humor.

What the article will actually be about is


not yet known, but it'll probably be a taste-
Nope, not real. Sorry less gad=joke or something about terro~sm.
You know, the bottom of the barrel in the
Your grandma comedtiT barrel, which is a fun barrel to
All killer, no filler
have, by the way. Maybe some racism?
The Middle East That's usually offensive... No, that's not insult our enemies into complaini_g about
going to work, racism is never furuzy, just how offensive it is. Then while they are
Christmas like rape. Well, unless its Osama bin Laden complaining and writing a sto~.-~~. about the
getting raped by burly lumberjacks, of article in Al Jatartan, out soldiers will
Captain Steals-Your-Socks course. I guess it'll be a combination of shoot them in the face. George W. Bush
terroflsm and sex. will give readme some sort award for cre-
The Male G-Spot ating something that can be used as a
We'll probably get "blasted" by Tlie Tartan weapon and grant us three wishes. After
The Chinese because of the article, but we won't care, wishing for a football helmet full of cot-
because we'll know we were joking. Then tage cheese and the ability to make a
Polio I'll want to w~te an article making fun of readme in one day, we'll probably wish for
them, but my editor won't let me because, another sweet helmet of cottage cheese,
National `Beat Your Kids" Day "we're above that." Then The Tartan will cause roan, those things rock.
write an "editoi7al" on how whatever we
The Miracle Cure were tag about is actually a good idea Tl1e Geneva Convention will come after
and that some douche on their staff sup- Bush for using such an inhumane weapon
Your Mother's Love ports it. Then we'll print subliminal mes- in combat and because he's from Texas
sages in other articles making fun of The he'll nuke the shit out of the entire world.
Milli Vanilli Tartan. BAM! .Armageddon; all because of our
offensive article. Sorry world, but it has to
Honest Lmmigrants The article will gain international fame and be wfltten. Just not now
be used by our forces in the Middle East to
Vietnam

The Kennedy Assassination

The 60's in and of its entirety

Edging & WritingStaff


Full House: Chris Rotella ~~
Two Pair: Muffin, Aileen D'Esposito, Dana Vinson, Greg Modzelewski, Brian Leahy, Ashley Holtgraver,
Esteban Bowles-Martinez, *, Andrey "3000" Dolgov, Alison Lauer, AB Hair Chris Smoak, Fred Merkle,
Alisa Brown, James Troup, Katie Wallat, Mike Blain, Jake Portnoff, Glenn Willen, Michael Croland, Kevin
Chang, Agata Adamowicz, Ceci Westbrook, Alayna Frankenberry, and Zack Hiwiller
What is readme? Well, it's fiuzny and it's useful. And free. So it's better than sliced bread. activities board
Who makes it? readme is printed by the Activities Board, sponsored by youx student activities fee
Where d0 I get it? readme is handed out at AB events and left in stacks around campus
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Talk Dirrty to Me Cheap Movies at


with Dana and Fred
McConomy
My roommate's girlfriend keeps telling your own damn business and go to the stomp All the nights, brought to you by AB, except
me she's going to break up with him. Is club yourself. Saturday which is SDC. 1 Buck.
it bad that I'm excited about this so that
I can go to the strip club? Wednesday, Jackie Brown 7:30, 10,
My girlfriend wants us to become nud~ 12:30
Dana: I see a few problems with this situa- fists. What should I do? It's Tarantino week. Jackie Brown is a flight
tion. One: why is your roommate's girlfi7end attendant wlio kicks all sorts of ass. If
talking to tiTou about what she plans to do? Fred: I get to answer first this time. I'd like there's one good thing about Tarantino,
Shouldn't she be . . . to start btiT saying nudism is wrong. I mean there's a million, but the best one is that his
Fred: Oh, she is so hitting on him. it takes all the fun out of nakedness. How female leads are shit kickers. Jackie Brown is
Dana: Yes, she might leave a big boner for the hell are yTou going to get excited when a satire of the popular blaxploitation films
the roommate, but that's beside the point. slie seductively takes off her shirt? She of the 1970's. This Jackie does not talk with
The point is, tlti.s girl won't let you guys go won't even have a sh.ii-t to take off. a long island accent or wear socks with san-
to the strip club?! Wliy does this girl have Dana: Nudists in Pittsburgh? Ok, first of all dals thank god.
the power of preventing ti=ou from seeing tit- I have two words for you: The O and sec-
hes? Idon't understand. ond of all it is so cold outside, you need to Thursday, Reservoir Dogs 8, 10, 12
Fred: I just think he wants a stfip club be t1~it,king about some serous shrinkage. I Remember that Rammstein video "Du
buddy. He's too damn embarrassed to go by guess I would just have to ask, is your girl- Hast" where they totally paid homage to
himself. Which is stupid, because stfip clubs friend hot? If yes, stop complaining that this movie? Yeah, that song is awesome and
are a wholesome AmeiYcan activittiT. They're your hot girlfriend wants to be naked all the so is this movie. It's got dialogue, and
fun for the whole family. Hell, some of mti= time and be nudists. If no, then don't and umm... guns. If you haven't seen this, your
good friends in High School worked in a make sure the lights are off when she drops name is Dana. So go see it, Dana... come
stfip club. on out of her drawers. on. No? Yes!
Dana: You had friends in high school? Fred: Well, actually, nudism does have the
Whoa. Well, this girl is either going to let positive benefit that it's another step to Friday, Kill Bill Vol. 1 6, 8, 10, 12
both of them go to the strip club or not, and moving beyond our: Puritanical society. This film has a lot of dialogue. .and
if size's forbiddiizg it, then she should go. That, and if you have a reall~T big package, swords. Swords are sweet. Flashbacks are
But if this girl is talking behind her it's a great way to show you're an alpha male. sweet. There's a lot of blood. Like, a lot. So
boyfriend's back about dumping him, that's So, go ahead and tics it. I mean, the worst if you're squeamish about blood, you're
a bigger problem. It's unfair to the room- that can happen is that everyone will make going to puke on the guy in front of you
mate. So is it wrong for you to be excited? fun of your unattractiveness. That, and, sex and he's going to get up and be like, "Dude!
No, because going to the strip club is fun will get more boring. So you'll just have to What the hell was that?" Then you'll be all,
and you should be happy because your take one for the team, and tell us how it "I'm sorry" and he'll beat you up for ruin-
roommate is getting out a potentially works out. ing his court-jester hat. Or maybe you won't
unhealthy relationship. Dana: Ok, that's it for this week. Didn't we puke and none of that will happen, it's up to
Fred: Yes, I did. And, I didn't have to pay do a fantastic job? Well, I did at least. you.
them. I know the solution. Your room- AnywatiT, send your questions to
mate's girlfriend sl~ould just break up with dbv@andrev~cmu.edu or send an instant Saturday, Intolerable Cruelty 6, 8,
your roommate. And, you should mind message to readmecmu. See you next week! 10, 12
.............. SDC is a bunch of bitches. This movie
totally ruins Tarantino week. Whatever you
do, don't go see this movie. It's got George
Clooney in it and that ho that is schtooping
that old guy. I think her name is Kathe~ne
Zeta Jones. I bet it's linear... pffft!

Sunday, Pulp Fiction 7, 10, 1


'<? >
"They speak English in what, mother fuck-
er?" Oh Samuel L. Jackson, you slay me!
"Stop yelling at me!" "I can't stop yelling!
That's how I talk!" Oh Samuel L. Jackson,
~ x :~
you slay me again! t~h7ght, enough of that,
this movie is just alright... a].fight alright
alt~ight alright alright alright! Actually, it's
really good and everyone should go see it to
wrap up Tarantino week. Way to recover
there Bri an.
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From the Desk of


Student Body Vice
President for Finance
Paul Richelmi
There's Concerts! ;.
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Welcome back everyone; I hope your
That's right kids, for the first time in a while, semesters are off to a good start so far.
there's more than one show I encourage you r1s usual, the start of the spring semester
to go see this week! Unfortunately, it may brings the start of another JFC process.
not work for some of you y because a bunch For those who aren't aware, the JFC, or
of them are over 21 —apparently Pittsburgh's Joint Fun~ir~g Committee is a committee
concert promoters are gradually phasing out of eight Undergraduate Student Senators
all ages shows or something. anyway, on and one Graduate Student .assembly
with the conceits! Representative. These students meet to
allocate part of the student activities fee to
On Satu~:day, Stuttering John is performing student organizations which have fiuzded
at the Rex Theatre for those of you over 21. recognition.
He's best-known for his work on the Howard
Stern Show in the mornings, and for those of In the upcoming round of allocation, the
you in the New York area, he's the host of ,:"`::: pool of money with which the JFC will
Out to Lunch on I~-Rock. He's a funny guy, I'rn on the outsiii~~i~i~~iele work will increase. This extra money
and he periodically puts together ahalf-assed you insist on it, at least it's better than bub- comes from the extra $4 every student will
band and tours. If nothing else, it will be ble-gutn pop. Moreso, if you can swing the be paying in the student activities fee next
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highly amusing to check out. I say go for it hefty price, you should go see the opening year. In past years, a dramatic increase of
band, Soil. It's effectively apoor-man's Black funded organizations and a stagnant activ-
My show choice for the week (if you're 21) is Label Society. Good old Southern metal — if
r
ities fee have forced the JFC to be tight
Robert Bradley's Blackwater Surprise, who you're not familiar with the genre, check out with its allocations. This year, the JFC will
are playing the Hard Rock Cafe on Sunday Zakk Wylde's Black Label SociettiT, Down, be able to meet more of the requests of
night. It's pretty much blues with bits and and on the louder side, Corrosion of more student organizations, while improv-
pieces of other styles —rock, gospel, soul, Conformity, Crowbar, and Pantera. But ing its procedure and efficiency.
jazz, etc. —all mixed in. Robert Bradley is effectively, it's metal and blues combined.
one of the single most talented modern-day .Arid Soil rock hard. Sadly, they're only open- Now that all of the gears are in motion, it
blues artists and his shows often have the • is time for student organizations who wish
energy and liveliness of a Southern Gospel to go through the JFC process to think
revival service. You should go if you have .Arid on a random note, Stacey Earle does a about their budget. Treasurers of organi-
any appreciation of blues, rock, or where 21 and over show at the Club Cafe on zations will find it helpful to review past
rock came from. Wednesday night. I'll be honest, I don't budgets and meet with their respective
know much about her, aside from being executive boards to discuss the projected
On Monday night, Staind bring their tour to alterna-country, but her older brother is costs and income of the upcoming year.
the .aJ. Palumbo Center down at Duquesne. Steve Earle, one of the best songw~ters of rl].so, I will be holding an information ses-
Don't all suddenly lose faith in me, I'm not recent years, so it can't be all bad if yTou're sion within two weeks for student organi-
encouraging you to go see Staind. I mean, if looking to just go to a random show zations who have questions about their
budgets or the process in general.

l~.s alwatiTs, if you have any questions or


concerns about `=our student activities fee,
or anything else, email me at
sbt@andrew.cmu.edu, or stop by mti=
1 Thought WE Were the He'll Get Beat Up by A How Cute, office, UC 318F from 4 - 5 pm on
Tartans Son XP Just Like Lassie Would Wednesday=s.
Have Done
~~pparently, some people in Jon Cuscak, reallti= big nerd Charlotte is 5 months old
Scotland (you know, where and mostly likely a Cl~IU and a pryomaniac. Charlotte
~idrew Carnegie was from), grad, convinced his wife to is also a dog. She lit the fire
aren't happtiT that the country name their newborn son by tLirniilg the stove on,
doesn't acknowledge it's tra- John Cuscack 2.0. No word which ignited some garbage.
ditional cloth: The Tartan. on service pack updates yet. Rescuers found the dog and
l~ntiThow, officials are plan- a hamster behind the couch.
iung anational datiT of p~de "They were Wight next to
called Ta.i-tan Day. each other," said a firefighter
Events and Things On and Off Campus
This font size is getting bigger and bigger
Wednesday, February 4 Theatre, 8pm, ~18, 21+
movie: Jackie Brown. McConomy. 7:30, 10;
12:30. $1 Sunday, February 8
concert: Luc, The Groinmits, The Animators, mov~,e~ Pulp Fiction. McConomy. 7, 10, 1. $1
Urge Overkill @Club Cafe, 7:30pm, $5 concert: Robert Bradley's Blackwater Surprise
concert: Ambition, DJ Solomon, The Profits @ Hard Rock Cafe, 9 pm, $13, 21+
@ Rosebud Cafe, 7pm, $8-10.
Monday, February 9
Thursday, February 5 concert: Stain.d, Soil, LoPro @ A J. Palumbo
movie: Reservoir Dogs. McConomy. 8, 10, 12. Center, 7:30 pm, $28.50
$1
readme: meeting. 3rd Floor UC Lounge. 6pm. Tuesday, February 10
concert: Commander Cody @Club Cafe, 7:30 art: Sex Works Art Show @ Mr. Roboto
pm, $16, 21+ Project, 7pm, $7
concert: Mindy Smith @Club Cafe, 7:30 pm,
Friday, February 6 $10, 21+
movie: Kill Bill Vol. 1. McConomy. 6, 8, 10, 12. concert: Finger Eleven @Club Laga, 7:30 pm,
1 $12
a~~: Senior Design Show opening Reception @ concert: Rose Hill Drive @ Mr. Smalls Fun
The Frame. 7pm House/Theatre
concert: End of Vega, Infinity Number of concert: Gaelic Storm @Rex Theatxe, 7:30
Sounds, New Marianna Prosperity, Omolara @ pm, $15, 21 +
Club Cafe, 8pm, $7
concert: Free rock show @Brave New World. Wednesday, February 11
7pm concert: Stacey Earle &Mark Stuart @Club
concert: Heiruspecs @Shadow Lounge Cafe, 7:30 pm, $10, 21+

Saturday, February 7
movie: Intxolerable Cruelty. McCnomy. 6, 8, 10,
12. $1
concert: Free hip hop and open mic @Brave
new World. 7pm Do you have events?
concert: One21 @Backboard Do you like FREE advertising?
concert: Lucy Kaplansky @Club Cafe, 7:30 YOU DO?!
pm, $16, 21 + Email crotella@andrew.cmu.edu with your event informa-
concert: Mosquitos @Club Cafe, 10 pm, $10, tion. Include a description, the time, date, location and
21+ cost. We will include it in this event listing ABSOLUTELY
FREE! Believe it or not, people actually read this thing.
concert: Michael Burks @ Moondog's I mean, you are, right?
concert: Stuttering John &Friends @Rex

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