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- From: obrien@netcom.com (Oh! It's ... YOU)
- Subject: Re: kpix SCREWS UP (was Re: Skyscraper FALLS DOWN.)
- Message-ID: <1992Dec30.102109.26254@netcom.com>
- Organization: Netcom Online Communications Services (408-241-9760 login: guest)
- References: <1992Dec28.213747.5311@unislc.uucp> <1992Dec29.064554.25146@netcom.com> <1992Dec30.002451.9748@samba.oit.unc.edu>
- Date: Wed, 30 Dec 1992 10:21:09 GMT
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- Bruce.Tindall@launchpad.unc.edu (Bruce Tindall) writes:
- >obrien@netcom.com (Robert O'Brien) writes:
- >>ObUL: Dan Quayle's law degree was partially chewed up by the dog
- >> Bob "just heard that on KPIX" O'Bob
- >
- >I was watching KPIX-TV news on Dec. 31, 1983, when the ignorant blow-dried
- >newscreature mentioned that we were about to start the year 1984, in which
- >(he said), George Orwell warned us that computers would be a danger to the
- >world, blah blah blah. Of course, anyone who's ever read _1984_ knows
- [otherwise]
- >
- >So "heard that on KPIX" should be a contender for AFU motto-of-the-whatever.
- >
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- No argument on that from me, though they did seem to be stating this
- from some source having to do with establishing an exhibit of Quayle
- "memorabilia" so it may be possible to verify *this* "factoid"
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- ObUL: the "word" 'factoid' was in use before there was a CNN
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- Bob O'Bob
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