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- From: olson@husc8.harvard.edu (Chip Olson@somewhere.out.there)
- Date: 23 Nov 92 23:59:54
- References: <memo.761158@cix.compulink.co.uk>
- Organization: Spam-On-A-Rope Inc.
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- In-reply-to: maryb@cix.compulink.co.uk's message of Fri, 20 Nov 1992 18:17:00 +0000
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- In article <memo.761158@cix.compulink.co.uk> maryb@cix.compulink.co.uk (Mary Branscombe) writes:
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- >In-Reply-To: <1992Nov19.181533.17616@husc3.harvard.edu> olson@husc9.Harvard.EDU (Charles Olson)
- >
- >Castellan - glad to help! Have a hug back!
-
- "Kind of difficult (albeit not impossible) to give a hug without getting one
- at the same time... that's why I like to give them so much."
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- >I *do* like this place. Even when we charge around on our soap-boxes
- >and tread on each other's feet, it always feels friendly and warm and
- >*nice* Bet we can even get some back-rub sessions going here...
-
- "There's always at least one backrub going on somewhere here; may I offer
- you one?"
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- >Mary is definitely in a good mood now - thanks Castellan!
-
- "Hey, you're the one who put me in the good mood in the first place" replies
- Castellan, cracking his knuckles and shaking out his hands. "But feedback
- and affirmation are always good things, I believe."
-
- >can I ask? *Why* do you put spam onto a rope? And what do you *do*
- >with it then? (I *think* I want to know!)
-
- "Well, it's like this", says Castellan as he begins to work the knots out
- of Mary's back, "Spam on a Rope is like Soap on a Rope, except it's Spam on
- the rope instead of soap, so if you're eating a nice big hunk of Spam and
- suddenly need to go do something else you can hang it up on something and
- it'll still be there when you get back, or for that matter when the archae-
- ologists dig it up 10,000 years from now... OK, OK, forget all that; I was
- listening to some radio station where they announced some parody of a contest,
- and one of the supposed prizes was Spam on a Rope. I don't know why it struck
- me so funny, but I rolled on the floor for fifteen minutes, and subsequently
- decided it would make an appropriately silly Organization: line."
-
- --
- -Chip Olson. | olson@husc.harvard.edu | ceo@{gnu.ai,silver.lcs}.mit.edu
- "These are the days you might fill with laughter until you break. These days
- you might feel a shaft of light make its way across your face... And when you
- do you'll know how it was meant to be..." -10,000 Maniacs, "These Are Days"
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