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From pokey@well.UUCP Sat Apr 16 18:19:15 1988
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From: pokey@well.UUCP (Jef Poskanzer)
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Subject: stupid .signatures
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Date: 17 Apr 88 00:19:15 GMT
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Organization: Paratheo-Anametamystikhood Of Eris Esoteric, Ada Lovelace Cabal
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In the referenced message, stowe@silver.UUCP (holly) wrote:
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>In article <5680@well.UUCP> pokey@well.UUCP (Jef Poskanzer) writes:
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>
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>Heavens, no! Not while we have brilliant .signature files like the one
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>seen above!
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Hey, I never claimed it was brilliant. I know it's stupid. It's SUPPOSED
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to be stupid. The whole idea of .signatures is STUPID! We never used them
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in the old days when ARPANET was getting started and netnews hadn't been
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invented. That's because back then, just using the reply command worked
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about 99% of the time. Then uucp came along with its non-compliant, header-
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munging, message-dropping, and generally brain-dead mailers. It's been
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downhill ever since.
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The first time I went to work for a place with uucp connections but no
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direct Internet access, I held off on using a .signature for a long time.
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But eventually, some bozo followed up to one of my postings in a technical
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group, saying "I tried to e-mail this to Jeff Postkanser, but it didn't
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work." Sigh.
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So .signatures are a necessary evil. But we should never forget that they
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*are* evil. My stupid quotes are my way of reminding people of this. Of
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course, as another of my stupid quotes said, "Most people on this network
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wouldn't recognize subtlety if it hit them on the head."
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Anyway, at least I do the net the courtesy of changing my stupid quote every
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time I post. With most people, you see the same stupid quote or graphic
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over and over and over and over and over and over and over and over and over.
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I've appended a list of stupid .signatures currently appearing in soc.singles,
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sorted by number of appearances. If this kind of shit bores and disgusts
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you as much as it does me, please join me in expressing disapproval.
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---
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Jef
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Jef Poskanzer jef@lbl-rtsg.arpa ...well!pokey
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"If a man chooses to do evil... it becomes my sacred duty to
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bash him to a pulp."
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- - - - - - - - - -
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46 Marvin Raab Arlington, VA 22202 (703) 521-5449
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46 ...uunet!vsedev!grebyn!marv +--------------------------------+
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46 ...mimsy!umd5!grebyn!marv | Formerly: marv@vsedev.VSE.COM |
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46 ...marv%grebyn.COM@umd5.UMD.EDU | MFRQC@CUNYVM.BITNET |
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44 =-.=-.=-.=-.=-.=-.=-.=-.=-.=-.=-.=-.=-.=-.=-.=-.=-.=-.=-.=-.=-.=-.=-.
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44 "Please don't tell me how to be. Nancy Colucci
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44 I already am." aka puppy@chinet
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44 UUCP: ihnp4!chinet!puppy
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44 LH: AT&T Network Systems ihnp4!ce023b!cenlc
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40 Men's Rights? NO Women's Rights? NO Equal Rights? YES
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40 The MAD Programmer -- 201-386-6409 (Cornet 232)
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40 alias: Curtis Jackson ...![ ihnp4 ulysses ucbvax allegra ]!moss!rcj
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40 ...![ ihnp4 ucbvax akgua watmath ]!clyde!rcj
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32 Later y'all, vnend@engr.uky.edu and vnend%ukecc.uucp@ukma.BITNET;
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32 Vnend. and CN0001DJ@UKCC.BITNET and MC.DAVID@UKPR.BITNET;
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32 Ignorance is the Mother of Adventure. And, (if your lucky) VNEND on GEnie
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32 "Naughty origami."---Snoopy (ours, not Schultz's)
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22 -- "I ALways push the doors marked pull!"- (I don't know who said that.)
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22 -- Becky McEllistrem (Tadger)
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22 -- mtbb34@ms.uky.edu, mtbb34@ukma.bitnet, {rutgers,uunet,cbosgd}!ukma!mtbb34
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22 -- University of Kentucky in Lexington Kentucky, USA
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16 "These aren't my thoughts, they're my cat walking on the keyboard."
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16
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16 Larry McVoy lm@arizona.edu or ...!{uwvax,sun}!arizona.edu!lm
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15 _ __ NEVIN J. LIBER ...!ihnp4!ihlpf!nevin1 (312) 510-6194
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15 ' ) ) "The secret compartment of my ring I fill
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15 / / _ , __o ____ with an Underdog super-energy pill."
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15 / (_</_\/ <__/ / <_ These are solely MY opinions, not AT&T's, blah blah blah
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14 -----------------------------|@---@ -=----|---------------------------
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14 |Chris Quenelle (The Lab Rat)|\. ./ + --==---| rm -rf * |
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14 |{sun,hplabs}!pyramid!cquenel| \ / ---===--| "rum ruff splat" |
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14 -----------------------------|==o== ----====-|---------------------------
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13 =========================================================================///=
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13 Blair MacIntyre (bmacintyre@watsol.waterloo.edu) (Long live the Amiga!!)///
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13 "Violence is the last resort of the incompetent" - Issac Asimov \\\///
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13 =Have you hugged your dragon today??=(how about your SO??)===========\XX/====
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12 "I Don't Charge Tax, I Collect It" Mark E. Sunderlin
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12 UUCP: ihnp4!chinet!megabyte aka Dr. Megabyte
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12 CIS: 74026,3235 (304) 267-2911 X544
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12 Mail: IRS National Computer Center P.O. Box 1208 Martinsburg, WV 25401
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12 The Polymath (aka: Jerry Hollombe, hollombe@TTI.COM) Illegitimati Nil
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12 Citicorp(+)TTI Carborundum
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12 3100 Ocean Park Blvd. (213) 452-9191, x2483
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12 Santa Monica, CA 90405 {csun|philabs|psivax|trwrb}!ttidca!hollombe
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11 "All I can say is that if, whenever you are asked where you live, you seize
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11 yourself by the throat and start choking, it is apt to cause comment" -R.Hull
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11 ihnp4!scgvaxd!cadovax!gryphon!mhnadel rutgers!marque!gryphon!mhnadel
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11 codas!ddsw1!gryphon!mhnadel
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11 Fai Lau
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11 SUNY at Buffalo (The Arctic Wonderland)
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11 UU: ..{rutgers,ames}!sunybcs!ugfailau
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11 BI: ugfailau@sunybcs INT: ugfailau@joey.cs.buffalo.EDU
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11 :: Jeff Makey
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11
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11 Department of Tautological Pleonasms and Superfluous Redundancies Department
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11 UUCP: {cbosgd hplabs!hp-sdd sdcsvax nosc}!crash!pnet01!jeff
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11 ARPA: crash!pnet01!jeff@nosc.mil INET: jeff@pnet01.cts.com
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11 some day i'll make a real .signature ...
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11 -------
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11 michael j zehr
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11 "My opinions are my own ... as is my spelling."
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10 Tracey A. Baker {ihnp4, ulysses, rutgers!moss}!mhuxu!tab (201)582-5357
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10 Rm. 2F-211, AT&T Bell Laboratories, 600 Mountain Ave., Murray Hill NJ 07974
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10 Any resemblance to actual opinions, |"There ain't no cure when the rabid
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10 living or dead, is entirely coincidental.| rock dog bites..." - Split Sydney
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10
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10 aMAZon @ AT&T Bell Labs, Naperville, IL; ihnp4!ihlpl!maz
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10 *It's never too late to have a happy childhood* (312) 979-5749
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9 *-*-*-*-*-*-*-*-*-*-*-*-*-*-*-*-*-*-*-*-*-*-*-*-*-*-*-*-*-*-*-*-*-*-*-*-*-*-*
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9 Ethan Miller | "If they don't keep on exercising
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9 BBN Laboratories (Cambridge, MA) | their lips, he thought, their brains
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9 ARPAnet: emiller@bbn.com | start working."
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9 Disclaimer: BBN didn't write this. | -- The Hitchhiker's Guide to the Galaxy
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9 *-*-*-*-*-*-*-*-*-*-*-*-*-*-*-*-*-*-*-*-*-*-*-*-*-*-*-*-*-*-*-*-*-*-*-*-*-*-*
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9 <---- David Herron -- The E-Mail guy <david@ms.uky.edu>
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9 <---- or: {rutgers,uunet,cbosgd}!ukma!david, david@UKMA.BITNET
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9 <----
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9 <---- I don't have a Blue bone in my body!
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9 Steve Frye Relational Technology
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9 ptsfa!rtech!stevef 1080 Marina Village Parkway
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9 Alameda, Ca. 94501
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9 "No matter where we are standing, the wind always blows right at us". MGW
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8 Jan "the other Bolle Sister" Sven.
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8 --------------------------------------------------------
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8 Mind like parachute - function only when open!
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8
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8 Jan (Jan, from Amsterdam) no-hyphen Sven Trabandt
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8 ...!{allegro,ihnp4,decvax,pyramid}!utzoo!oscvax!jan
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8 -=*=-=*=-=*=-=*=-=*=-=*=-=*=-=*=-=*=-=*=-=*=-=*=-=*=-=*=-=*=-=*=-=*=-=*=-=*=-
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8 -=*=- Becki Tants (315)423-4155 aka Scamp or Charm H. Larceny -=*=-
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8 -=*=- Syracuse University, Computing and Network Services -=*=-
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8 -=*=- RETANTS@SUNRISE.BITNET or RETANTS@SUNSET.BITNET -=*=-
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8 -=*=- RETANTS@SUVM.BITNET or RETANTS@SUVM.ACS.SYR.EDU -=*=-
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8 -=*=- Disclaimer: Improbability Factor 1 to 1. We have Normalcy. -=*=-
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8 -=*=- Anything you still can't cope with is your own problem. -=*=-
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8 -=*=-=*=-=*=-=*=-=*=-=*=-=*=-=*=-=*=-=*=-=*=-=*=-=*=-=*=-=*=-=*=-=*=-=*=-=*=-
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7 Tim Smith tim@ism780c.isc.com
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7 "I don't practice what I preach because I'm not the
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7 kind of person I'm preaching to" -- J.R. "Bob" Dobbs
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6 ===================================================================
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6 | Howeird@cup.Portal.com |The opinions expressed here are |
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6 | Sysop, Anatomically Correct BBS |a figment of your warped |
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6 | (415) 364-3739 |imagination. |
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6 ===================================================================
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6 DavidBedno(akaTheCatintheHat,Dr.Seuss,Dr.Dave,Bamf)Nowappearingat:
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6 davidbe@sco.COM-OR-...!{uunet,ihnp4,decvax!microsoft,ucbvax!ucscc}
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6 !sco!davidbe-OR-610PacificAve#5,Santa Cruz,California95060Home:
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6 408-425-5266Work:408-425-7222x697(I'mprobablyhere...)/*NotSCO'sopinions*/
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6 *--Tom Revay---Data Resources, 24 Hartwell Ave., Lexington, MA 02173-*
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6 | Phone: (617) 863-5100 |
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6 | UUCP: {ll-xn,harvard!axiom,necntc}!drilex!tomr |
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6 *"And you can BELIEVE me, because I NEVER lie, and I'm ALWAYS right!"*
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Yeah, right. Well, enough of that.
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