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- Date: Sun, 27 Dec 1992 12:00:11 +1000
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- From: LNCJB@WOMBAT.NEWCASTLE.EDU.AU
- Subject: Re: Touchtones and Alternative Librarians
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- >>I thought Graham said only a few days ago that he didn't read your messages
- >>and had often deleted mine by mistake...... perhaps he observes something
- >>similar about us that he's not letting us in on that is leading to his
- >>confusion. ;-)
- >>
- >We probably have the same taste in jokes.:-) We certainly both give him
- >deadpan answers to some tasteless joke questions.
-
- True enough!
-
- >I didn't catch the Wombat
- >reference at first, until Frank clued me in; I've always heard that joke
- >about Pandas and Koalas.:-)
-
- It doesn't apply to Koalas...... they have a very restricted diet - can only
- eat one type of eucalyptus leaf and only come onto the ground to run to the
- next 'food' tree which is invariably a fatal move if there happens to be a
- highway between the two trees.
-
- >Graham is usually like a bear with a sore paw
- >this time of year anyway, so maybe we both just give him good targets to
- >growl at.
-
- I thought the rumbling noise I heard from him was his stomach anticipating
- the festive season. :-)
-
- >Actually, given his physical appearance, a bear isn't that bad of
- >an analogy....
-
- Yep! He reminds me of a teddy-bear I used to have... it used to growl when it
- 'rocked' too.
-
- >[eh, fungus-face? THIS IS YOUR CLUE TO GROWL IN, GRAHAM] :-)
- >
- >--
- > ### Ruth Hanschka, the Nethead ###
-
- Reminds me of the description one of my sons gave of his father after he first
- saw his father with a beard...... "He looks like a rat looking through a
- toilet brush". That was two years after our divorce, so I just had to concur.
- Thankfully, Graham doesn't fit that description at all.
-
- Carolyn
-