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- From: st891487@pip.cc.brandeis.edu
- Subject: Re: I'm coming!
- Message-ID: <1993Jan26.023746.24828@news.cs.brandeis.edu>
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- References: <C0wpor.Ko1@cck.coventry.ac.uk> <1993Jan18.162514.7354@ctp.com> <7255@m1.cs.man.ac.uk> <1993Jan20.153212.26647@dcs.warwick.ac.uk>,<7434@m1.cs.man.ac.uk>
- Date: Tue, 26 Jan 1993 02:37:46 GMT
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- In article <7434@m1.cs.man.ac.uk>, zzaascd@hpa.ee.man.ac.uk (Colin Dente) writes:
- >In article <1993Jan20.153212.26647@dcs.warwick.ac.uk>, kay@dcs.warwick.ac.uk (Kay Dekker) writes:
- >|>
- [stuff deleted]
- >|>
- >|> "*The* Zaphod Beeblebrox?"
- >|> "No, just *a* Zaphod Beeblebrox - haven't you heard
- >|> I come in six-packs?"
- >
- >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
- >
- >Hugh: "... it's by T. P. Mitchell."
- >Stephen: "What, *the* T. P. Mitchell?"
- >Hugh: "No, *a* T. P. Mitchell."
- >
- >Probably looses something in the translation. Still, I *did* say it was
- >obscure.
- >
- >Colin
- >
- On my glorious return to Brandeis I've had several encounters of the form,
- "Oh, are *you* the Ximena I've heard so much about?" The urge to reply,
- "No, I'm the *other* one" is simply overwhelming.
-
- -X.
-