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- From: thf2@ellis.uchicago.edu (Ted Frank)
- Subject: Re: Late breaking potential UL!
- Message-ID: <1993Jan2.105159.10051@midway.uchicago.edu>
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- Organization: University of Chicago
- References: <C01M0H.59p@mentor.cc.purdue.edu> <4dx802lO30Rq01@JUTS.ccc.amdahl.com> <C07vBt.GA8@mentor.cc.purdue.edu>
- Date: Sat, 2 Jan 1993 10:51:59 GMT
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- In article <C07vBt.GA8@mentor.cc.purdue.edu> bjackson@mentor.cc.purdue.edu (Ben Jackson) writes:
- >In article <4dx802lO30Rq01@JUTS.ccc.amdahl.com> tjc50@juts.ccc.amdahl.com (Terry Carroll) writes:
- >>In article <C01M0H.59p@mentor.cc.purdue.edu>, bjackson@mentor.cc.purdue.edu
- >>(Ben Jackson) writes:
- >>> I just read in our local paper that President-elect Clinton's first
- >>> executive order was that there should be "fresh flowers" on his desk
- >>> every morning. Can anyone confirm this?
- >>
- >>Kinda hard to give an executive order a month before you become executive.
- >
- >Maybe that's why the next sentence in the original article was something
- >along the lines of "Does anyone know TO WHOM he gave this order?" But
- >luckily you trimmed down the quotation as much as possible!
-
- Methinks the whole thing refers to a certain cabaret singer, rather than
- any novel constitutional theory of executive power vesting in the
- president-elect. In short, to wit, a joke.
-
- Ted "so funny I forgot to laugh" Frank
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