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- From: ajm@wag.caltech.edu (Abner J. Mintz)
- Newsgroups: alt.callahans
- Subject: Re: Another introduction...
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- Date: 21 Nov 92 01:11:42 GMT
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- Organization: California Institute of Technology, Pasadena, CA
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- >>"You wouldn't happen to have read 'The Rains of Eridan' by H. M. Hoover,
- >>would you? One of my favorites ... I've been looking for a copy for years."
-
- >/* squinches up his face, his eyebrows looking like furry purple
- >caterpillars facing off against each other.
-
- >"No, I don't think so. But I have a desperate need to go bookstore-
- >hopping soon, so I'll be sure to keep an eye out for it!"
-
- "Well, if you ever do see it, I'm certainly willing to pay (as long as you
- don't ship it to Australia first ...). it would be worth the money just
- to have it stop nagging at the back of my head!"
-
- Abner considers for a second. "Of course, then some other book I don't have
- will start nagging, but at least it'd be a change ..."
-
- >>>>>"Thanks, Abner! I think I need another drink after that Purple-People
- >>>>>Eater scare!!"
-
- >>>>Here you go. I'm sure it'll taste mauvelous!
-
- >>>"Many more that bad and I'll get violetly ill!!"
-
- >>"Say many more like that and you'll get purple upset at you!"
-
- >"Okay, okay, you win! I thought I could go for a while
- >telling purple puns, but you've taken all the plum ones!!"
-
- Abner flinches. He's reaching his limit. "If you tell many more puns like
- that, we'll maroon you on a desert island!"
-