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- From: sasbmt@jjoyce.unx.sas.com (Bruce Tindall)
- Subject: Re: Car Crime
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- Date: Fri, 20 Nov 1992 22:43:19 GMT
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- In article <1992Nov20.162514.2041@adimail.uucp>, tel@adimail.uucp (Terry Monks) writes:
- >Terry "Is a villian what English people call a trillion?" Monks
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- From the Merriam-Gullible New Collegiate Dictionary (ISBN 1-800-3SIDED),
- "Biographical Names" section:
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- Villian, Francois (1431-1463?), French poet whose lyrics
- were set to American tunes by P.D.Q. Bach. Author of
- "Le Doberman Tchoquent" and other classics. A roman (not
- Roman) Catholic (not catholic), he was never Prime Minister,
- but in the morning *he* shall be sober.
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- Trillion, on the other hand, is a character in Hitchhiker's Guide
- to the Galaxy. The cultural ignorance of some people! Furrfu!
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- Bruce "I've heard of Joyce, but I've never read her books" Tindall
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- Bruce Tindall, Core Testing Mgr., SAS Institute Inc., Cary, N.C. 27513
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