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  1. Newsgroups: talk.bizarre
  2. Path: sparky!uunet!newsstand.cit.cornell.edu!news
  3. From: John Austin <jea1@cornell.edu>
  4. Subject: Re: Elevators
  5. Message-ID: <1992Nov19.130812.16292@mail.cornell.edu>
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  12. References: <josh.721593172@mowgli> <schnitzi.722118693@eola.cs.ucf.edu> <18NOV199221355977@vxcrna.cern.ch> <MJD.92Nov18165612@saul.cis.upenn.edu>
  13. Date: Thu, 19 Nov 1992 13:08:12 GMT
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  16. In article <BxxC8B.MnF@news.cso.uiuc.edu> Ben Cox, thoth@uiuc.edu writes:
  17. >>With the leaves off the trees, I can go up to the third floor of my victorian
  18. >>manse, and look across the reservoir to the yuppy hilltop community where
  19. >>Rocket Roger Clemens lives during baseball season.
  20. >
  21. >My parents live on the 49th floor of the same building as one of the
  22. >Chicago White Sox.  Unfortunately, I can't remember his name, because
  23. >I'm a Cubs fan.
  24.  
  25. I grew up 300 feet from George Steinbrenner's house, soaped his windows on
  26. Halloween, got caught, and lived to tell the tale.
  27.  
  28. Hank went to private school, so the neighborhood kids only saw him during the
  29. weekend  football games.  We figured he was well insured and tackled him with
  30. particular relish and gusto.
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  33. John Austin (jea1@cornell.edu)                                                 
  34. Grafix 'R Us                                                this space for rent
  35. Boyce Thompson Institute for Plant Research                                    
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