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- From: schweppe@acs.bu.edu (Edmund Schweppe)
- Newsgroups: alt.callahans
- Subject: Re: Snowball
- Message-ID: <105849@bu.edu>
- Date: 31 Dec 92 07:38:00 GMT
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- Organization: Boston University, Boston, MA, USA
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- The Bi-Bulb writes:
-
- >"RIGHT!" Rummaging around in his pockets, he comes out with a device that
- >has on the side 'ACME SNOW PITCHER/QUANTUM ACCELERATOR' with a BIG switch
- >below the stencil, in the 'snow pitcher' mode currently. He scoops a few
- >handfuls of snow into the hopper, and turns the machine on. It begins
- >putting after a start, and...
-
- Merlinvin had just dashed out to join the fun when he spots the Bulb's
- heavy equipment. Having read far too many incident reports, recall
- notices and other complaints regarding the safety and effectiveness of
- Acme's high technology lines, he stops in the doorway and begins muttering
- and incanting. After a moment or two, an all but invisible dome forms around
- Merlinvin, who jumps out into the fray. The observant note that while
- hand-thrown snowballs are unaffected by the dome, anything expelled from
- the Bulb's accelerator is scattered to the four winds...
-
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