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- From: st923058@pip.cc.brandeis.edu (Jessica Raine)
- Newsgroups: alt.fan.warlord
- Subject: Re: The first line says it all....
- Message-ID: <1993Jan26.164430.7012@news.cs.brandeis.edu>
- Date: 26 Jan 93 16:44:30 GMT
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- In article <1993Jan26.000759.22672@organpipe.uug.arizona.edu>, dave@cs.arizona.edu (Dave Schaumann) writes:
- >In article <C1F313.82w@cck.coventry.ac.uk>, mei172@cch (guru) writes:
- >>In article <C17GF8.BF7@demon.co.uk> James Petts <pettsj@visigoth.demon.co.uk> writes:
- >>> ===> James Petts <===
- >>>
- >>>*** CAUTION - READ THIS .sig AT YOUR OWN RISK! [snip]
- >>>* [snip]
- >>>* Q. Wenn ist das Nunstueck git und Slotermeyer? [snip]
- >>>* A. Ja!... Beiherhund das Oder die Flipperwaldt [snip]
- >>>* gersput! [snip]
- >
- >I could be wrong, but isn't this "The funniest joke in the world", from
- >the Monty Python sketch of the same name?
- >
- >>guru sez:
- >> yep, this one's got it all, silly "oh no, scary .sig" line at the
- >> start, nice ASCII star border and shiteloads of whitespace...
- > ^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^
- >Pot. Kettle. Bang.
-
- Actually, Dave, I feel compelled to come to guru's defense here. (My
- underlying niceness seems to be breaking through the carefully constructed
- covering of nastyism.) According to a friend of mine in Dublin, it's pretty
- common to spell "shit" with an "e" in the UK, 'specially Ireland.
- >
- >> Anybody get the relevance of the preferred address?
- >>--
- >> /~~~) / / /~~~) / / A dangerous subversive cruising on the razor's
- >> (___/ (___/ / (___/ edge of reality, moving faster than the speed
- >> / of thought, ready to challenge your ideals,
- >> (___/ mei172@cch.cov.ac.uk morals and way of life. Listen if you dare...
- >
- >Dave "shiteloads?" Schaumann
-