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- From: ajm@wag.caltech.edu (Abner J. Mintz)
- Newsgroups: alt.callahans
- Subject: Re: One quick question
- Date: 26 Jan 1993 01:53:50 GMT
- Organization: California Institute of Technology, Pasadena, CA
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- Message-ID: <1k25jeINNncd@gap.caltech.edu>
- References: <1993Jan25.170709.27220@e2big.mko.dec.com> <1k1a3kINNiml@menudo.uh.edu> <1993Jan25.201248.22543@muddcs.claremont.edu>
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- David Green writes:
- >Noah Ramon writes:
- >->Starknight writes :
-
- >->> "LUXURY! When I was child, we didn't 'ave Usenet to play wordgames
- >->> on... There were seventeen of us trading puns in shoebox in middle of
- >->> road..."
-
- >->"humph! We didn't even have puns! We had to trade plain nouns and verbs, with
- >->NO ADJECTIVES! And under a pebble, all thirty of us!"
-
- >Oh, sure. *You* had it easy. The seventy-four of us spent our time under a
- >sand grain, trading letters back and forth, and we couldn't even afford vowels.
- >Hmmph. Kids these days.
-
- "Hah! All 128 of us *lived* under seven silicon atoms, trading bits back and
- forth all day. All of you are naught but chips off the old block, but by
- nary a miracle could you compare to us!"
-
- Abner goes back to lurking (under those seven silicon atoms in the corner).
-