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- From: jelson@poincare.cs.jhu.edu (Jeremy Elson)
- Newsgroups: comp.os.linux
- Subject: Re: Linux history...
- Message-ID: <1992Aug12.200009.19233@blaze.cs.jhu.edu>
- Date: 12 Aug 92 20:00:09 GMT
- References: <1992Aug8.155223.306@spuddy.uucp> <3272@ra.nrl.navy.mil> <1992Aug12.061013.16206@cheshire.oxy.edu>
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- In article <1992Aug12.061013.16206@cheshire.oxy.edu> rafetmad@cheshire.oxy.edu (David Giller) writes:
- >eric@tantalus.dell.com (Eric Youngdale) wrote:
- >> Speaking of which... Did all of you see Bloom County (a comic in the
- >>newspapers) a week ago last Sunday?
- [...]
- >A couple of years ago, something happened, something so horrible that
- >I was never able to pick up a comic section since.
- >
- >Bloom County went out of circulation.
- >
- >Are you trying to tell me it's BACK???
-
- Nope, Bloom County was discontinued by its author, and he started "Outland",
- a once-a-week comic strip found in the Sunday paper which is based on many
- of the same characters as Bloom County was based on. The Bill Gates parody
- (quite funny, actually) was an Outland strip.
-
- -je
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- Jeremy Elson
- jelson@server.cs.jhu.edu (Internet) / jelson@jhuvms (Bitnet)
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