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- From: curtis@cs.berkeley.edu (Curtis Yarvin)
- Newsgroups: alt.peeves
- Subject: Re: Veteran's Day
- Date: 13 Nov 1992 16:50:10 GMT
- Organization: CS Dept. Snakepit - Do Not Feed.
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- In article <9211131020.AA10500@rachel.ibmpcug.co.uk> charless@scol.sco.com,ntipope@rachel.ibmpcug.co.uk (charless) writes:
- >
- >What's veteran's day?
-
- Veteran's Day is when they trot out a lot of withered geeks in
- wheelchairs whose only distinction is that they ran fast enough
- at the Battle of the Bulge or Inchon or Khe Sanh to avoid getting
- the butchering they so richly deserved.
-
- Then the President makes a midnight visit to some war memorial
- or other, I dunno, the War of Jenkins' Ear Memorial, and stands
- there with a deeply sorrowful expression, thinking about the
- election, while a dextrous aide puts artificial tears on his
- face with a squirt gun.
-
- You must have something like it in England.
-
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