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- Subject: Re: English usage
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- From: rmk@rmkhome.UUCP (Rick Kelly)
- Organization: The Man With Ten Cats
- Date: Wed, 19 Aug 1992 05:03:30 GMT
- Reply-To: rmk@rmkhome.UUCP (Rick Kelly)
- Message-ID: <9208190004.05@rmkhome.UUCP>
- References: <1992Aug18.180257.2759@macc.wisc.edu>
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- In article <1992Aug18.180257.2759@macc.wisc.edu> heim@vms.macc.wisc.edu (JOHN HEIM ) writes:
- >In article <7241@skye.ed.ac.uk>, ken@aiai.ed.ac.uk (Ken Johnson) writes...
- >
- >>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.
- >
- >You gotta be kiddin' me.
-
-
- But wait, here's another chance for you.
-
- If, while blindfolded, you can tell the difference between having sex
- with a mountain goat and having sex with Christine Nelson, you'll win
- the all expense paid holiday to Glasgow with Ted Kaldis.
-
- --
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- Rick Kelly rmk@rmkhome.UUCP unixland!rmkhome!rmk rmk@frog.UUCP
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