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- From: kgdykes@thinkage.on.ca (Ken Dykes)
- Subject: Re: Congratulating (het) parents on their new roast
- Message-ID: <1992Dec23.131158.16929@thinkage.on.ca>
- Organization: Thinkage Ltd.
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- Date: Wed, 23 Dec 1992 13:11:58 GMT
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- In article <Bzo2DH.DFx@cs.columbia.edu> ji@cs.columbia.edu (John Ioannidis) writes:
- >have accounts at, that Mr&Mrs so-and-so had a brand new baby, vital
- >statistics of the baby follow, and the message ends with how the
- >father is proud and the mother is resting at the hospital. The message
- >is invariably congratulatory.
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- >5. Am I the only one with the (suppresed) urge to post followups along
- >the lines of "who cares?" or "only 10 pounds? You can hardly make a
- >pot roast out of that!"
-
- as i wrote my parents when i moved into a townhouse complex this fall
- "there are enough little children here to feed a large dog for a year..."
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