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- From: tlode@nyx.cs.du.edu (trygve lode)
- Subject: Re: Operation Valentine's Day !!!
- Message-ID: <1993Jan28.081620.12876@mnemosyne.cs.du.edu>
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- Organization: Nyx, Public Access Unix @ U. of Denver Math/CS dept.
- References: <1993Jan25.022131.26683@news.ysu.edu> <1993Jan25.023143.4656@news.acns.nwu.edu> <1993Jan26.152226.1@kosmos.wcc.govt.nz>
- Date: Thu, 28 Jan 93 08:16:20 GMT
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- In article <1993Jan26.152226.1@kosmos.wcc.govt.nz> quirke_a@kosmos.wcc.govt.nz writes:
- >] ag936@yfn.ysu.edu (Lance Durden) writes:
- >
- >]]all: valentine's day is 3 weeks from today on sunday, february
- >]]14th. i SINCERELY desire that every lady in the world receive a
- >]]valentine from me. you may choose to assist me by posting the
- >]]enclosed valentine at sites i cannot readily access. the subject
- >]]line should read "A Valentine For My Tall And Beautiful
- >]]Soulmate !!!". thank you for your assistance in this ambitious
- >]]endeavor. -lance-
- >
- > I have this picture of him receiving 3.2 billion cards stating "thank you
- >for your lovely valentine", all marked postage due...
-
- Awwww...how sweet. Alas, I think Lance's plan is fatally flawed and
- will not achieve the distribution he desires. Yet, all is not lost--
- all we need is to edit it a little so that it'll be slightly more
- effective. Ah, let's see....
-
- "Eight-year-old Lance Durden is currently suffering from terminal cancer;
- before he dies, he hopes to fulfill his lifelong dream--to get into the
- Guiness Book of World Records for receiving the most cards from
- throughout the world. Please, make as many copies of this appeal as
- you can and distribute them to all the gullible people you know.
- Remember, this is your chance to make a dying boy happy."
-
-
- Trygve
- --
- "Why I had accepted my frat brothers' dare to sign up with an
- inter-species computer dating service I'd never understand--oh, I know
- as well as anybody that the decendants of the plethora of ambitious
- genetic experiments of the past century were as intelligent as anybody
- else and sometimes surprisingly compatible with humans, but I had never
- imagined actually dating one of them--or how I came to be matched to
- something (I hesitate to call her a girl) whose grandfather had been an
- insect in a particularly zealous experimenter's garden, but after
- downing all but the cork of a rather large bottle of distilled spirits
- I hardly noticed the huge segmented eyes and extra legs and, somehow,
- we ended up in bed together that night; and, as she wrapped her
- powerful anterior arms around me and drew me to her chitinous green
- torso, one thought only kept racing through what little consciousness
- was left to me--what was it that my freshman biology teacher had said
- about the mating habits of praying mantises?"
-
- (From "Dial-a-Prayer, the story of an insect call girl and what bugs her.")
-