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- From: ap290@cleveland.Freenet.Edu (Ruth M. Hanschka)
- Newsgroups: bit.listserv.words-l
- Subject: Re: Touchtones and Alternative Librarians
- Date: 24 Dec 1992 21:08:14 GMT
- Organization: Case Western Reserve University, Cleveland, OH (USA)
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- In a previous article, gtoal@PIZZABOX.DEMON.CO.UK (Graham Toal) says:
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- >:>I don't have that good an imagination.
- >
- >:Don't be so negative Graham, one would think you'd never met me.:-) Of
- >:course, anyone dense enough to miss ye olde mathematiks puns... Then again,
- >
- >I'm not quite sure which pun I'm supposed to have missed. Perhaps that bad
- >roots are imaginary? (Say, you *do* know what 'rooted' means if you go down
- >under, don't you? I did get Carolyn to drop a hint for you, square and
- >proper, I did...)
- >
- Now, don't tell me you're using your "who me" look again. It won't wash,
- ducks.:-) I'd forgotten about that old chestnut concerning Pandas [as I
- heard it] or Wombats, as in your version. I do mean *old* too...of course
- given the age of the jokester, that shouldn't be unexpected.<g&d>
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