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- From: jmpierce@whale.st.usm.edu (Jimmy Malcolm Pierce)
- Subject: comment about fruit cake Re: Jason rambles from home
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- Date: Wed, 18 Nov 1992 15:00:10 GMT
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- JBrandt@AAA.UOregon.EDU (Jay Brandt (Jason)) writes:
- >"Pegasus is getting ready to get a fruitcake drunk again. She's pouring
- >brandy onto one she's been working patiently on for 7 years or so. This
- >year we get to try it for Chtristmas. Maybe it gets to try us? :-) My
- >mormon sister will be mortified. But if it comes out good the rest of us
- >will scarf it down. Pegasus says 'it will either be marvelous or taste like
- >hell'. You never know with an aged cake until you get brave enough to serve
- >it."
- >Jason
-
- "Johnny Carson always said this time of year was when people took the
- fruitcake that they received last year gets re-wrapped and sent to someone
- else... 'There is only one fruit cake, we just send slices of it, uneaten,
- to our realtives and friends. Then the following year we send out the slices
- that somebody sent us !' A paraphrase, but fairly close I believe..." DJ.
-
- "Oh Mike, before I forget again, here's a payment on Phoenix's tab here
- as I said I would pay it, " DJ.
-
- DJ places some ones in the cigar box.
-
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- Jim Pierce Bach. of Sci. in Applied Computer Science USM - Gulf Park Campus
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