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- From: ap290@cleveland.Freenet.Edu (Ruth M. Hanschka)
- Newsgroups: bit.listserv.words-l
- Subject: Re: Wheeee!
- Date: 28 Jan 1993 05:47:28 GMT
- Organization: Case Western Reserve University, Cleveland, OH (USA)
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- In a previous article, rita@WORLD.STD.COM (Rita Rouvalis) says:
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- >My grandmother may not have any idea what a modem is, but she just bought
- >us a 14.4 bps :). This getting married thing is even more lucrative than
- >graduating. Now if I could only convince my mother that we really, really
- >would rather they bought us a computer instead of a couch.
- >
- I think I like your grandmother.:-) Maybe you ought to point her at a good
- used 386 and a 9600 modem for herself? Plus a list of local boards? It
- could be interesting.... Or heck, point her at it, sell *her* on it, and
- then get her to sell your parents. A two-generational sell job works
- better than one.:-)
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- ### Ruth Hanschka, the Nethead ###
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