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- From: dsals@vms.macc.wisc.edu (David Sals)
- Newsgroups: misc.writing
- Subject: Re: Reserach in Fiction (the SF tangent)
- Message-ID: <1992Jul21.211352.22882@macc.wisc.edu>
- Date: 21 Jul 92 21:09:51 GMT
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- Organization: University of Wisconsin Academic Computing Center
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- In article <1992Jul21.183821.27236@u.washington.edu>, jswthomp@milton.u.washington.edu (James Thompson) writes...
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- >In article <1992Jul21.132114.1@eagle.wesleyan.edu> mschmitt@eagle.wesleyan.edu writes:
- >> Note title has been uncorrected. :)
- >
- >> If you're going to "bend" or "break" the laws of physics as we
- >>currently understand them, then you _NEED_ to know what laws you're breaking or
- >>bending. Otherwise, you tend to just look like a baffoon.
- >
- >What does a baffoon look like? Is this a new genetic strain? Or maybe a
- >buffoon with a transplanted baboon heart?
- >
- >Jim
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- It's a baffled buffoon, of course. Any gnomeskull would know that.
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- :-D ave
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