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- From: ken@aiai.ed.ac.uk (Ken Johnson)
- Newsgroups: talk.bizarre
- Subject: Re: English usage
- Message-ID: <7241@skye.ed.ac.uk>
- Date: 18 Aug 92 17:36:03 GMT
- References: <1992Aug18.155203.21345@macc.wisc.edu>
- Followup-To: talk.bizarre
- Organization: Bugs-R-Us
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- Welcome to `The Can You Spell "Its" Show', everyone, and our first
- contestant is JOHN HEIM! John is a computer freak who lives in
- Wisconsin, and a graduate of a university. (Reverent hush from
- audience.) An American university, that is! (Audience titters.) Or
- geographically challenged, as we have to say these days. (Audience
- guffaws. Fat woman at front of audience goes into hysterics and has to
- be carried out in a wheelbarrow.) Now then, here's the first test, John,
- take your time:
-
- In article <1992Aug18.155203.21345@macc.wisc.edu> heim@vms.macc.wisc.edu
- (JOHN HEIM ) writes:
-
- # If its wrong there's a good chance that its my fault and that I typed it
- ^^^ ^^^
- BZZZZZZZZZZZZTT!! BZZZZZZZZZZZZZZZZZZZZZZZZTT! Oh, dear. <patronising
- smirk> Two wrong already and you've been here less than a minute. I'm
- afraid it doesn't much look as though you'll win that nude windsurfing
- holiday with Christine Nelson in the British Virgin Islands, now, does
- it? Still, you get one more chance, so don't be discouraged. Try again!
- You might win the bunch of bananas.
-
- # in wrong.
- #
- # John G. Heim
- #
- # Email: heim@macc.wisc.edu
- #
- # "If there's something wrong with the computer, it's sophisticated
- ^^^^
-
- BZZZZZZZZZZZZZZZZZZZZZZZZZZZZZZZZZZZZTT!
- You're out of the game, John!
- Goodnight!
-
- This is the best part of the show! As Heim gets an electric shock
- powerful enough to make him urinate uncontrollably, a trapdoor opens.
- He screams and falls into a spiked pit full of scorpions, and the canned
- audience roars with canned laughter.
-
- -- Ken "anchorman manque" Johnson
-
- --
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