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- From: DonD@cup.portal.com (Don Robert DeCosta)
- Newsgroups: comp.sys.amiga.audio,comp.sys.amiga.misc
- Subject: For Sale: One sense of humor, never used.
- Message-ID: <65753@cup.portal.com>
- Date: Sat, 12 Sep 92 14:44:24 PDT
- Organization: The Portal System (TM)
- Distribution: usa
- References: <1992Sep11.150445.26214@sbcs.sunysb.edu>
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- >Are you serious? Why should any of us out here buy a computer
- >for you? Besides, if you're begging for money, then you should
- >consider accepting personal checks. :-)
- >
- >Yes, send some cash through email net. Be sure to CC: me on
- >it, too, so I'll get a copy of the cash. :-)
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- >This is why those of us who can't afford new systems buy things like:
- >
- > * Insurance
- > * Maintenance contracts
- >
- >'Cuz these systems aren't exactly built "Ford tough" (unless that's the Ford
- >Kleenex Corporation you're thinking of)... ...I'm on my 5th 1950, my second
- >mouse, and now my floppy drive's going... ...joy.
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- I present the above as PROOF that the net is the most humorless place on
- earth!!
-
- Geez, folks!! Wasn't the absurdity of the request a big enough clue that
- he was JOKING! And if that wasn't good enough, was the absurdity of
- demanding CASH ONLY via EMAIL a clue that he was joking???
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- On a serious note, if the NEA can pay for photographs of plastic crucifixes
- submersed in human urine then I think there is a need/right for CERTAIN
- Amiga artists to solicit contributions and arts funding.
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- Don DeCosta |The nice thing about sanity is| VM/Nomad2
- DonD@cup.portal.com |you can lose it more than once| Amiga/Imagine
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