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- From: mapd1@syma.sussex.ac.uk (Nigel Ling)
- Newsgroups: misc.writing
- Subject: Re: First Paid By-Line
- Message-ID: <1993Jan11.162135.13463@syma.sussex.ac.uk>
- Date: 11 Jan 93 16:21:35 GMT
- References: <1993Jan7.232627.10373@novell.com> <a883520@pro-harold.cts.com> <1is0pcINN7ri@cronkite.Central.Sun.COM>
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- In article <1is0pcINN7ri@cronkite.Central.Sun.COM> willo@youcon.Central.Sun.COM (Doug Willoughby Area SE - Midwest Area ) writes:
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- >
- >I'm amazed at the number of thing I do for pleasure that others
- >say are foolish. I love to sail. I think it was Lord Byron who
- >said (pardon the paraphase), "Anyone who sails for pleasure is
- >a damn fool." Advice I've never taken along the same lines:
- >"Only racers and other idiots sail into the wind."
- >
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- You're obviously a first class chap. I like sailing too, second only to
- fishing. Byron slagged off fishing too. What a complete pheasant!
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- Nigel
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