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- From: spok+@cs.cmu.edu (John Ockerbloom)
- Subject: Re: testing tin
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- Date: Sat, 23 Jan 1993 17:35:12 GMT
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- Doug rumbles:
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- >|>The next person that puns in response to this post is a dead man,
- >|>unless, of course, it is a woman, in which case the appropraite
- >|>gender substitution can be made.
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- Starknight retorts:
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- >"Lighten up, Doug. Around here, the appropriate response to puns you don't
- >like is to throw peanuts, not threats."
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- John can't help responding:
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- "It's quite all right, Starknight. (Heaven forfend that there be only
- one appropriate response, anyway...) From the title of the post, it's
- clear that he's trying out his new threated newsreader."
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- John (now where'd I put that bulletproof vest?) Ockerbloom
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