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  3. From: mnemonic@eff.org (Mike Godwin)
  4. Subject: Re: Non-rabelaisian farts 
  5. Message-ID: <1992Dec23.031505.20736@eff.org>
  6. Originator: mnemonic@eff.org
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  9. Organization: Electronic Frontier Foundation
  10. References: <1h7fj1INNb5v@morrow.stanford.edu> <1992Dec22.214601.791@cbnewsd.cb.att.com> <1992Dec23.012730.15462@panix.com>
  11. Date: Wed, 23 Dec 1992 03:15:05 GMT
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  14. In article <1992Dec23.012730.15462@panix.com> mls@panix.com (Michael Siemon) writes:
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  16. >I am perplexed by the voices who seem to think that ANY mode of humor
  17. >on the subject must (by definition?) be Rabelaisian.
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  19. I don't know anyone who holds this view. But many of the examples of
  20. so-called non-Rabelaisian fart humor seemed Rabelaisin in that celebratory
  21. excessive manner that we Rabelais fans enjoy so much.
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  24. --Mike
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  29. -- 
  30. Mike Godwin,    |"I'm waiting for the one-man revolution
  31. mnemonic@eff.org| The only one that's coming."
  32. (617) 864-0665  |                           
  33. EFF, Cambridge  |                   --Robert Frost 
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