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- From: damiene@aurora.cc.monash.edu.au (Eccles)
- Subject: Re: Small Gods & Lords and Ladies
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- Organization: Monash University, Melb., Australia.
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- Date: Sat, 23 Jan 1993 01:32:17 GMT
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- neilb@physics.su.OZ.AU (RiemannZeta(s)) writes:
-
- >On the subject of encyclopedia salseman, my 'armchair anarchist almanac'
- >has this to say about them
- >"invite them all in. Nip out the back door. Phone the police and tell
- >them your house is being burgled"
- >The AAA is by mike harding and well worth a read. (It got me thrown
- >out of a couple of lectures for causing the entire back of the
- >lecture to burst out laughing.
-
- *giggle* Well, I thought of thje salesman lark while reading Sourcery
- in a CS lecture, does that count?
-
-
- >P.S Taking the piss out of physicists is done best by
- >mad demented physicist honours students, mere amatures
- >don't stand a chance.
-
- No, its best done by two lunatics - one a science/Cs student, who will
- read anything anytime, and understand enough to completely cock up
- an explanation, and the other a Science Engineering Student who sits there
- and adds the technical details L)(
-
- >P.P.S try comparing the one day finial in sydney with the
- >one in melbourne and you will see that melbourne doesn't
- >have a pitch worthy of a b grade side in the middle of
- >a desert.
- Right, thats it. Its on again. Well you can tell Sydney's real
- exciting, when people go there to play Bridge at each other.
- Why not just go to Adelaide and play Trivial Pursuit on New
- Years Eve, or go to Hobart.... and... um.... there must be something
- to do there?
-
- Eccles
-