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- From: paul@dvorak.amd.com (Paul Schnizlein)
- Subject: Balls on the road?
- Message-ID: <1992Nov20.191843.5016@dvorak.amd.com>
- Followup-To: <1992Nov19.155430.12060@novell.com>
- Summary: Brendan makes Freudian slip
- Keywords: humourous
- Organization: Advanced Micro Devices, Inc.; Austin, Texas
- Distribution: austin
- Date: Fri, 20 Nov 92 19:18:43 GMT
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- bboerner@novell.com (Brendan B. Boerner) writes:
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- >Sure, I flipped over the handlebars of my bike at UT, broke my
- >collarbone and had a concussion. I learned from that accident - I'm a
- >lot more careful than I used to be. If UT had covered the ground with
- >Smurf balls so that I never got hurt, would that have taught me the
- ^^^^^^^^^^^
- >same lesson?
- > Brendan
-
- Perhaps you mean Nerf(TM) balls? They are sqeezable foam rubber.
- Smurfs are small blue cartoon characters, and although there seem
- to enough males on that show to do as you suggest, I doubt it
- would keep you from getting hurt. Maybe before we do that we
- should consult Smurfette? (I got a good chuckle.)
- -Paul
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- "It's never too late to have a happy childhood"
- paul@mozart.amd.com (Paul Schnizlein) (512)462-5215
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