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- From: an072@cleveland.Freenet.Edu (Richard White)
- Newsgroups: talk.bizarre
- Subject: Re: Mushy_O_Phobic v. CloseAirSupport_O_Phobics
- Date: 21 Jan 1993 23:38:33 GMT
- Organization: Case Western Reserve University, Cleveland, OH (USA)
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- References: <1jn396INNfo7@alicudi.usc.edu> <1993Jan13.070533.3693@tc.fluke.COM> <1993Jan15.185458.24342@ultb.isc.rit.edu> <1993Jan17.183858.11293@gozer.mv.com> <1993Jan19.071400.11777@tc.fluke.COM> <schnitzi.727451528@eola.cs.ucf.edu> <C169CK.616@tegra.com>
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- In a previous article, english@alicudi.usc.edu (Joe English) says:
-
- >
- >In article <C169CK.616@tegra.com>, vail@tegra.com (Johnathan Vail) writes:
- >|> In article <schnitzi.727451528@eola.cs.ucf.edu> schnitzi@cs.ucf.edu (Mark Schnitzius) writes:
- >|>>
- >|>> Hmmm.... Could we say FDR was a phobophobe?
- >|>
- >|> Could we say FDR was afraid of an international lightbulb cartel?
- >|>
- >
- >We could, but I wouldn't mention the international lightbulb
- >cartel [there is no international lightbulb cartel (tm)] if
- >I were you.
- >
- >Besides, Phobophobe is somebody's moon. You're thinking of
- >a phoneme.
-
- No, no, no!
-
- A phoneme is the quantum of acoustic energy, regarded as a discrete
- particle, used in mathematical models to calculate vibrational
- properties of solids.
-
- What your thinking of phenylalanine, a product of X Industries, which
- does something nasty to phenylketonurics when they drink Diet Dr.
- Pepper.
-