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- From: zzaascd@hpa.ee.man.ac.uk (Colin Dente)
- Newsgroups: soc.bi
- Subject: Re: I'm coming!
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- Date: 25 Jan 93 11:23:46 GMT
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- In article <1993Jan20.153212.26647@dcs.warwick.ac.uk>, kay@dcs.warwick.ac.uk (Kay Dekker) writes:
- |>
- |> I'm not sure what I'd do with a smmoch; it sounds Gaelic; but coming from
- |> you it's bound to be good...
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- You say the sweetest things, Kay dear - I'll have to show you what a smmoch
- is in Cambridge...
-
- |> Douglas Adams, in HHG, surely?
- |>
- |> "*The* Zaphod Beeblebrox?"
- |> "No, just *a* Zaphod Beeblebrox - haven't you heard
- |> I come in six-packs?"
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- Several people have suggested this. I was actually thinking of a Fry and
- Laurie sketch from circa 1989 - it's all about poetry, and jolly funny. The
- relevant lines are
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- Hugh: "... it's by T. P. Mitchell."
- Stephen: "What, *the* T. P. Mitchell?"
- Hugh: "No, *a* T. P. Mitchell."
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- Probably looses something in the translation. Still, I *did* say it was
- obscure.
-
- Colin
-
- Colin Dente | JANET: dente@uk.ac.manchester
- Manchester Computing Centre | ARPA: dente@manchester.ac.uk
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- ... I can't even *think* straight ...
-