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- From: smezias@rnd.GBA.NYU.EDU (Stephen J. Mezias)
- Newsgroups: talk.abortion
- Subject: Meet Peter Nyikos, generator of random posts.
- Message-ID: <34528@rnd.GBA.NYU.EDU>
- Date: 22 Dec 92 01:23:11 GMT
- References: <16DEC92.21143872@vax.clarku.edu> <1992Dec17.180016.6709@mnemosyne.cs.du.edu> <nyikos.724963465@milo.math.scarolina.edu>
- Organization: NYU Stern School of Business
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- In article <nyikos.724963465@milo.math.scarolina.edu>
- nyikos@math.scarolina.edu (Peter Nyikos) writes the formulaic Nyikos
- post:
-
- (1) Produce a random whine about how your posting software and net
- technology conspire against you.
-
- >I was going to add "Was: Loren...dictator" but these subject lines tend to
- >get squashed in the middle on my "index" [better term: table of contents],
- >rendering them unintelligible.
-
- (2) Generate a random `the-check-is-in-the-mail' statement about
- crucial evidence.
-
- > The biggest piece of evidence will come in Part 3, coming
- >your way soon.
-
- (3) Randomly accuse others of what you *yourself* are actually doing:
-
- About Larry Margolis:
-
- >regales us with his own brand
- >of pseudoscience. [Note in particular his substitution of "become" for
- >"grow into." Larry is a master of equivocation and subtle terminology
- >shifts.]
-
- (4) Randomly generate sentences following rules (1) to (3) until the
- number of sentences equals the median number of sentences in
- talk.abortion posts during the last two hours.
-
- SJM
-