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  1. Path: sparky!uunet!olivea!sgigate!sgi!igor!donb
  2. From: donb@igor.tamri.com (Don Baldwin)
  3. Newsgroups: alt.peeves
  4. Subject: Re: My trip out West (long)
  5. Message-ID: <1993Jan25.015916.17175@igor.tamri.com>
  6. Date: 25 Jan 93 01:59:16 GMT
  7. References: <1jq86qINN4t6@titan.ucs.umass.edu> <zOrls*p01@prolix.apana.org.au>
  8. Organization: TOSHIBA America MRI, South San Francisco, CA
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  10.  
  11. In article <zOrls*p01@prolix.apana.org.au> dac@prolix.apana.org.au
  12. (Andrew Clayton) writes:
  13. >"Her nipples went 'spung'."
  14. >                     Number of the Beast.
  15. >                     Robert A. Heinlein.
  16.  
  17. Whoah Dac, you're scaring me now.
  18.  
  19. Gun control politics are one things but, if you were to say you liked the
  20. later (after 1973, excluding "Friday")  Heinlein, you'd REALLY scare me.
  21. He had some good stuff to say early on but most of what he wrote after
  22. "Time Enough for Love" was the confused gibberish of a trepanized, horny
  23. old man.  Probably under the influence of animal tranquilizers.
  24.  
  25. Peeve:  Waiting all those years for "Number of the Beast" to come out in
  26. 1980 (?) and being so horribly disappointed.
  27.  
  28.     don
  29.