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- From: cjackson@adobe.com (Curtis Jackson)
- Subject: Re: Wartime Spagthorpe
- Message-ID: <1993Jan26.192011.6030@adobe.com>
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- References: <728065117snz@morgan.demon.co.uk>
- Date: Tue, 26 Jan 1993 19:20:11 GMT
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- In article <728065117snz@morgan.demon.co.uk> tony@morgan.demon.co.uk writes:
- }accompanying figures clearly outlined a bike based on the pre-war Thunderer
- }prototype that vas never produced owing to the intervention of hostilities.
- ^^^
- }back, I presumed to copy it. When she returned it was with a grim faced
- }little man who informed me that the document had been declassified in error
- }and it would be better for me if I forgot that I had ever seen it. I thought
- }that I had even better let the net know just in case anything happens to me.
-
- As is obvious from your little "vas" instead of "was" slip above, the
- little man knew that you were a holdover German spy, and so had good
- reason to keep the plans from you. I'll bet you wear one of those
- helmets with the big Kaiser spike on top, don't you, Fritz?
-
- "God is obviously on our side; we have the Spagthorpes"
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- Curtis Jackson '91 Black Lab/Blue Heeler "Studley Doright"
- cjackson@mv.us.adobe.com '92 Collie/Golden "George"
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