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  1. Path: sparky!uunet!mcsun!uknet!warwick!mrccrc!daresbury!icdoc!syma!serget
  2. From: serget@syma.sussex.ac.uk (Serge A Thill)
  3. Newsgroups: alt.peeves
  4. Subject: Re: Spy in the sky
  5. Message-ID: <1992Jul22.003921.105@syma.sussex.ac.uk>
  6. Date: 22 Jul 92 00:39:21 GMT
  7. References: <1992Jul15.045224.5148@news.iastate.edu>
  8. Organization: University of Sussex
  9. Lines: 21
  10.  
  11. In article <1992Jul15.045224.5148@news.iastate.edu> Dan Sorenson writes:
  12. > 
  13. >     It most certainly is when you don't speak French and your Websters
  14. > New World Dictionary cannot provide you with a proper spelling for the
  15. > word "rondevous," which is obvously misspelled but I'll be damned if I can
  16. > find the proper spelling in my goddamned dictionary!
  17.  
  18. Maybe a French girlfriend would be a better solution than Websters. For that
  19. particular problem.
  20.  
  21. > If they had wanted _my_ consideration, they wouldn't eat snails and spell
  22. > words in such a strange manner.
  23.  
  24. Maybe the consideration comes when you consider (sic) that _they_ don't eat 
  25. them at McDonalds.
  26.  
  27. Maybe something else comes.
  28.  
  29. --
  30. Serge Thill.      E-mail: serget@cogs.susx.ac.uk
  31.                   Other Networks: serget@syma.sussex.ac.uk
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