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- From: Not_Al_Crawford@ed.ac.uk (Not Al Crawford)
- Newsgroups: alt.peeves
- Subject: Re: Things that go *** in the night
- Message-ID: <40347@skye.dcs.ed.ac.uk>
- Date: 30 Jul 92 19:14:41 GMT
- References: <24361@castle.ed.ac.uk>
- Sender: nnews@dcs.ed.ac.uk
- Reply-To: Not_Al_Crawford@ed.ac.uk (Not Al Crawford)
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- Organization: Penicuik People's Revolutionary Sheepdog Liberation Front
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- And lo, eset08@castle.ed.ac.uk (J Strobridge) spake unto the masses saying:
- >
- > and after them come the mail planes doing low moaning swoops over the
- > city.
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- Hey, I happen to *like* the mail planes! There's something incredibly
- peaceful about hearing a prop-driven beastie droning slowly overhead at
- midnight or 2am. It triggers off pleasant childhood memories of when most
- traffic into Edinburgh Airport had propellors [cue Geoff on the wonders of
- turboprops...]
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- Not Al Crawford - Not_Al_Crawford@ed.ac.uk
- "The water shines/A sheepdog skips across the face/A dozen times"
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