Subject: Re: Donuts
From: mt@media-lab.MEDIA.MIT.EDU (Michael Travers)
Date: 1990-04-19, 10:47
Newsgroups: alt.tv.twin-peaks
Reply-to: mt@media-lab.media.mit.edu (Michael Travers)

In article <1990Apr19.151902.2265@gpu.utcs.utoronto.ca> mposner@gpu.utcs.utoronto.ca (Eli Posner) writes:
> >
> >
> >Can someone tell me what the joke is about the millions of
> >donuts that are always neatly organized and stacked whenever the
> >sherrif and his men are meeting? 

Aside from the surface joke of exaggerating the customs of policeman,
this is apparently a self-directed in-joke based on Lynch's own habit 
of massive sugar consumption.
-- Michael Travers / MIT Media Lab / mt@media-lab.media.mit.edu