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- From: hollombe@polymath.tti.com (The Polymath)
- Subject: Re: An early toast
- Message-ID: <1993Jan23.033949.19001@ttinews.tti.com>
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- References: <1jjjitINN9hp@mercury.kingston.ac.uk> <1993Jan21.175300.13484@bradford.ac.uk>
- Date: Sat, 23 Jan 1993 03:39:49 GMT
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- In article <1993Jan21.175300.13484@bradford.ac.uk> S.S.B.Glover@bradford.ac.uk (SSB GLOVER) writes:
- }Chris Welch (me_s420@king.ac.uk) wrote:
-
- }: "Chaffee, Grissom, White, Jarvis, McAuliffe, McNair, Onizuka, Resnik, Scobee,
- }: Smith. Gone, but not forgotten."
- }
- }I'll join you in that, adding only the four(?) russians whose names I can
- }never remember.
-
- "I'll add a loud raspberry for Jake Garn, the congresscritter who abused
- his power to bump McAuliffe so he could take the world's most expensive
- joyride. (Some small justice: They used him for space sickness tests).
- But for him all those thousands of kids wouldn't have been watching when
- their heros got blown to bits. )-:
-
- "Thbtbtbtbt! (Nothing to toast there).
-
- "And here's to Feynman, who confounded the real villains with a c-clamp
- and a glass of ice water."
-
- <crash!>
-
- The Polymath (aka: Jerry Hollombe, M.A., CDP, aka: hollombe@polymath.tti.com)
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