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- Path: sparky!uunet!spool.mu.edu!umn.edu!csus.edu!netcom.com!obrien
- From: obrien@netcom.com (Robert O'Brien)
- Subject: Re: Keep the penguin or choose door #3
- Message-ID: <1992Dec28.082458.20657@netcom.com>
- Organization: Netcom Online Communications Services (408-241-9760 login: guest)
- References: <1992Dec27.225107.6477@dg-rtp.dg.com>
- Distribution: alt.peeves
- Date: Mon, 28 Dec 1992 08:24:58 GMT
- Lines: 18
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- cochran@spam.rtp.dg.com (A. Jing Hippy) writes:
- >Peeve: Game shows. Somebody *must* watch these, or they wouldn't
- [stuff omitted]
- >The first question that I heard was "What does a cartographer produce?".
- >This received 4 dull, blank stares until the buzzer sounded and the emcee
- >gave the answer. The next question was "What color are smurfs?". Four
- >voices sang out "blue!" in unison.
- >
- >Peeve: That someone who is actually admitted to a college in this country
- > doesn't know what cartography is, but instantaneously knows about
- > smurf melanin attributes. When smurfs sunburn, do they turn
- > purple?
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- Peeve: The near certainty that two or more "persons" read this and then
- sent email to the poster asking for the answer to the cartographer
- question.
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