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- From: schweppe@acs.bu.edu (Edmund Schweppe)
- Newsgroups: alt.callahans
- Subject: Re: Laz does fun stuff.
- Message-ID: <108229@bu.edu>
- Date: 25 Jan 93 21:41:09 GMT
- References: <107683@bu.edu> <1jiso7INNpj8@shelley.u.washington.edu> <1k0buiINNsc9@gap.caltech.edu>
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- Speaker-to-Minerals writes:
-
- >In article <1jiso7INNpj8@shelley.u.washington.edu>,
- >lazuli@stein.u.washington.edu (Fred Sloniker) writes:
-
- >=>>Laz nods. "Um, I don't drink tea. Sorry. But I wouldn't mind visiting,
- >=>>after I get my bearings."
-
- [ The returned Kzin tries the obvious pun... ]
-
- > Only to discover that he's been beaten
- >to the punch, as:
-
- [ quoting myself, now! ]
-
- >=>"Perhaps I can be of assistance. Would these be what you were looking for?"
- >=>
- >=>Merlinvin holds out a palmful of polished, perfectly spherical stainless
- >=>steel balls...
-
- >=Laz, looking bemused, politely declines each, and turns to Thyra. "What *is*
- >=this place?" he asks her, fixing on her as the one faintly familiar figure
- >=here.
-
- >"Well," StM explains, "it's a bar. But like Klahd and Xanth, it seems to be
- >made mostly of puns."
-
- Merlinvin turns to greet StM. "Welcome, friend! Sorry I stole your thunder,
- so to speak, but I hadn't seen you around... in fact, I'm not entirely sure
- we've properly met."
-
- So saying, Merlinvin goes to offer StM a hug, a drink, a scritch behind
- the ears, or any combinations or permutations thereon. (The massage
- table is also open - although I think that skipping the scented oil remains
- a good idea for massagees of the furry kind.)
-
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