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- From: tlode@nyx.cs.du.edu (trygve lode)
- Subject: Re: Over 40 and single....Anyone that "OLD"?
- Message-ID: <1992Dec30.194305.2250@mnemosyne.cs.du.edu>
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- Organization: Nyx, Public Access Unix @ U. of Denver Math/CS dept.
- References: <16101@auspex-gw.auspex.com> <140@jptcs.COM> <1992Dec29.232011.16032@noose.ecn.purdue.edu>
- Date: Wed, 30 Dec 92 19:43:05 GMT
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- In article <1992Dec29.232011.16032@noose.ecn.purdue.edu> mel@niblick.ecn.purdue.edu (Meloney D Cregor) writes:
- >
- >Sure he was. Who said pets had to be alive? Granted, the live ones are
- >more interactive, but hey, rocks are nice and stuffed pets are nice. I
- >once gave a friend of mine a pet cock. I dunno,... seemed like the thing
- >to do at the time. I thought it was kinda cute. It came with it's own
- >little house and a book with care and feeding instructions and everything.
-
- Absolutely--my favorite pet is named Frank and he's a brick. He followed
- me home from school one day and, well, he charmed his brickish way into
- my heart so I kept him. He's a great pet--very clean and neat, no vet bills
- to speak of, and inexpensive to feed. He even knows lots of tricks--he can
- sit, stay, lie down, play dead, and lots more--enough to keep one entertained
- for hours.
-
- Trygve (No ordinary brick Frank--he worked his way through college as
- shielding for a cosmic ray detector.)
-
- --
- "'The life of a patent office clerk is filled with strange experiences,
- but this has got to be the strangest of them all,' I thought to myself
- as I watched the third and final hundredweight of cabbage dissappear
- into the murky waters of the Thames."
-