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- From: mwasson@nyx.cs.du.edu (Gecko-boy)
- Subject: Re: testing tin
- Message-ID: <1993Jan23.002726.6888@mnemosyne.cs.du.edu>
- Sender: usenet@mnemosyne.cs.du.edu (netnews admin account)
- Organization: University of Denver, Dept. of Math & Comp. Sci.
- References: <1993Jan21.173108.11233@e2big.mko.dec.com> <C18I95.A0E@fc.hp.com> <1993Jan22.153106.16146@e2big.mko.dec.com>
- Date: Sat, 23 Jan 93 00:27:26 GMT
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- Gecko-boy looks up from a large tome on discreet mathematics at
- the sound of impending altercation...
-
- >|>I have been around here far too long to start respecting the traditions
- >|>at this point.
- >|>
- >|>I respond as I see fit.
- >
- >"Better yet, don't... No. I'm not going to flame anyone, especially not
- >here. I vowed to be a better person this year, and that includes toleration,
- >even of things I can't stand... like people who jump down my throat for
- >having fun. Take care, doug... respond as you see fit, but I won't see it."
- >
- ><kill all by author:daq@fc.hp.com>
-
- "Oh dear. Starknight, are you perhaps taking this the wrong way?
- What you don't see in doug's posts are all the invisible smiley
- faces. Actually, doug is insistently dead-pan, so maybe he should
- append a dead-pan face to all his posts, like so:
- ;^|
- Well, OK, in this font it looks a little gap-toothed, but the
- point is -- I don't think our resident ironist was really jumping
- down anyone's throat."
-
- Gecko-boy breaks off and looks around nervously for any sign of
- stormtroopers, then continues.
-
- "Whether you put doug in your kill file is your business,
- of course. I just hope you aren't doing so because of a
- misinterpretation ... "
-
- >Starknight
- >spr@abo.dec.com
- >Disclaimer: Huh? What'd I say?
-
- --Da Geck' (doing about as good a job of lurking as kitten)
-
-
- --
- Mike Wasson (Gecko-boy) | U Hawai'i/Fat Messiah Games
- mwasson@uhunix.uhcc.hawaii.edu | #include <std_disclaimer.h>
- "The concatenation of 'dog' and 'house' is 'doghouse.'"
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