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- From: pfritsch@skid.ps.uci.edu (Paul Fritschle)
- Subject: Re: An oracle post *I* got that never made it into the Oracularities
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- Date: 23 Dec 92 23:35:13 GMT
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- jfurr@polaris.async.vt.edu (J. Furr) writes:
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- >The Usenet Oracle has pondered your question deeply.
- >Your question was:
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- >> Tell me, o mighty Oracle, whose picnics are as the picnics of heaven and
- >> whose potato salad is Never infested by ants,
- >>
- >> Why is corned beef called "corned beef"?
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- >And in response, thus spake the Oracle:
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- [Answer deleted for the benefit of those with a sense of humor]
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- >Personally, I thought that was a howl. Totally out of the blue. Never
- >would have thought of answering the question that way. What do you all think?
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- Personally, I think you should stick to lemurs.
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- Paul Fritschle pfritsch@skid.PS.UCI.EDU
- Have you hugged YOUR shoggoth today?
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