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- From: pwg@dcs.ed.ac.uk (Paul Goldberg)
- Newsgroups: alt.peeves
- Subject: Re: Our dear alma mater
- Message-ID: <40322@skye.dcs.ed.ac.uk>
- Date: 30 Jul 92 15:21:51 GMT
- References: <24312@castle.ed.ac.uk>
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- Reply-To: pwg@dcs.ed.ac.uk (Paul Goldberg)
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- Organization: Laboratory for the Foundations of Computer Science, Edinburgh U
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- In article <24312@castle.ed.ac.uk> egpv29@castle.ed.ac.uk (JHenderson) writes:
- >I have just been hit with a bill for #100 for photocopying that
- >piece of crap which I elevate by calling it a thesis.
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- It's part of the drive to get people to write shorter theses. Take me
- for example. I ran out of ideas after 98 pages. Everyone I talk to
- seems to think that this is a Good Thing.
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- Paul.
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- Voltaire to Rousseau, on reading Rousseau's "Ode a la Poste'rite'":
- "Mon ami, voila une lettre qui ne sera jamais recue a son addresse"
-