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- From: thf2@ellis.uchicago.edu (Ted Frank)
- Subject: Re: Debugging the group
- Message-ID: <1992Nov18.042206.17456@midway.uchicago.edu>
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- Organization: University of Chicago Computing Organizations
- References: <92Nov16.203605.13018@acs.ucalgary.ca> <BxtyMs.AG0@cs.dal.ca> <1992Nov17.185239.27473@twg.com>
- Date: Wed, 18 Nov 1992 04:22:06 GMT
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- In article <1992Nov17.185239.27473@twg.com> nolan@twg.com writes:
- >
- >OK, folks, that's all I can stand; I can't stand no more. The Curse from
- >Dalhousie still believes there's merit in his contributions to the net, and in
- >particular to this happy group of terminally nice people. I call for a vote!
- >Follow up to this article with your opinion (one line, please, in the holy
- >name of bandwidth) of his "contributions." If the vote favors him, so be it.If
- >not, then I have a proposal for a solution.
-
- Peeve: That this posting apparentally generated a dozen mail-messages in
- my mailbox for some reason.
-
- Peeve: When a woman-friend leaves a message on my answering machine to call
- her back immediately, and I check my messages to get this message,
- and I can't remember her number because my brain is still clogged
- with other useless bits of trivia such as the phone number of Pamela
- Proler, who I haven't seen in eleven years, so I make the foolish
- decision to run home in the middle of a productive night writing
- my comment, get home to discover that the library doesn't believe
- they've collected the $9.50 fine and has instead incurred a late
- fee which will cost me more in time to get rid of than the cost of
- paying their blasted blackmail, search my Sprint records to find
- aforementioned phone number, only to discover she's taken her phone
- off the hook because it's the ungodly hour of 10:30 PM. For this
- I'm staying in Chicago this Thanksgiving?
-
- Peeve: My law review editor will probably make me take out my footnote
- citing Dave Barry.
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