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- From: aleta@cs.cornell.edu (Aleta Ricciardi)
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- Subject: Re: First!
- Message-ID: <1993Jan23.162221.4765@cs.cornell.edu>
- Date: 23 Jan 93 16:22:21 GMT
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- In article <1993Jan22.234529@IASTATE.EDU>, cffitzge@IASTATE.EDU (Charles F Fitzgerald) writes:
- |> -Ken writes:
- |> >(a) So you put the whole binge up to Jeeves and see if he can't
- |> > scare up a happy ending somehow. Tell him my future is in his
- |> > hands, and that, if the wedding bells ring out, he can rely on
- |> > me, even unto half my kingdom. Well, call it ten quid.
- |> > "What! I'm hanged if I do!"
- |> > "And you call yourself a pal of mine!"
- |> > "Yes, I know; but there are limits."
- |> > "Bertie," said *****, reproachfully, "I saved your life once."
- |> > "When?"
- |> >(b) "Didn't I? It must have been some other fellow then..."
- |>
- |> Sounds abombidibly (sp) like _Code of the Woosters_ (one of my all time
- |> favorites, I am sure) and even if it's not, it ought to be. Can't say
- |> who said it, though. Maybe that preacher sort, who was to marry the
- |> lass who had connections to the magistrate (not M. Basset, hang it, the
- |> other one!)
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- you're thinking of the reverend harold "stinker" pinker, betrothed to
- stephanie "stiffy" bing.
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- but for some reason, i think richard "bingo" little was the utterer...
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- aleta
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