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- From: rossi@mtu.edu (Rossi)
- Subject: Re: Do you have a good pickup line?
- Message-ID: <1993Jan1.225002.482@mtu.edu>
- Organization: Michigan Technological University
- References: <1993Jan1.020606.1379@samba.oit.unc.edu> <1993Jan1.175345.253@mtu.edu> <1993Jan1.205703.24903@mnemosyne.cs.du.edu>
- Date: Fri, 1 Jan 1993 22:50:02 GMT
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- In article <1993Jan1.205703.24903@mnemosyne.cs.du.edu> tlode@nyx.cs.du.edu (trygve lode) writes:
- >> PS. Lady Firebird I do hope you can find another of your kind.
- >> I'd hate to think that the firebirds are going extinct.
- >> Initiation of a captive breeding program may be necessary. ;)
- >
- >Fear not, Songbird, I do believe there are other firebirds to be found.
-
- 'twasn't fear I felt, but the crash again of hopes dashing to n fro.
-
- >Tradition has it that your first visitor after new year's indicates what
- >the coming year will be like--at 7:00 AM, I received my first visitor of
- >the year: a medium-sized bird managed to force its way into the heating
- >vents of my house and, after a great deal of sound and fury carried
- >throughout my domicile by cleverly placed ductwork, it was able to locate
- >the furnace and immolate itself within its firey depths.
-
- *Sniff!* A tragedy so soon. An ending so final.
-
- >Now, I don't know quite what this foretells for the upcoming year, but it
- >does suggest that there are more firebirds to be found.
-
- Mine eyes are wide open.
-
- >Trygve (Best to be careful while courting the Phoenix--its mating
- > techniques can be a mite harrowing.)
-
- That might be a good cure if it were perch(ance) to feather it's
- way north.
-
- songbird
-