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- From: aad@siemens.com (Anthony Datri)
- Subject: Re: Just what I always wanted!
- Message-ID: <1993Jan9.224445.6992@siemens.com>
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- Organization: Siemens Corporate Research, Princeton (Plainsboro), NJ
- References: <larne.05aq@canetoad.UUCP>
- Date: Sat, 9 Jan 1993 22:44:45 GMT
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- >canetoad). My parents have a tradition of getting me really lame stuff
- >for my birthdays. Socks, ramen, cheese, that kind of stuff.
-
- Man, you've got it good. My mother keeps sending me sweaters. I was living
- in *Texas*, and she made me a sweater and sent it to me for Easter. The
- sweaters themselves are often fine, but Mom believes that all males of the
- species take clothes that are of the "large" size, so the arms tend to
- extend some six inches below my physical hands.
-
- One year she mailed me a plastic gumball machine and a potted pine tree.
-
- >This year I even asked them not to get me anything.
-
- I did that the last two years with the 'rents for Christmas, although they
- still don't understand.
-
- >So I was somewhat disappointed when they presented me with a large
- >wrapped box.
-
- Same here. This Christmas I got yet another Large sweater and a bunch of candy,
- which they know that I don't eat.
-
- >when I pulled it closer, and found that the spacial translation towards
- >me somehow turned into a rotation. As I pulled it the world twisted
- >around me, or maybe I twisted around it.
-
- You've read Heinlein's @i(The Number of the Beast) one too many times.
-
- >I turned a delighted face towards my mom. "We know you've been
- >disappointed with our gifts in the past, so this year we got you one
- >of those singularity things you're always talking about."
-
- Gee, I was suprised when I got a Lava Lamp three years after I wanted one.
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