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From: geoff@pmafire.UUCP (Geoff Allen)
Newsgroups: news.groups
Subject: Re: Proposal: news.groups.puns
Message-ID: <861@pmafire.UUCP>
Date: 15 Nov 89 18:13:59 GMT
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Reply-To: geoff@pmafire.UUCP (Geoff Allen)
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>> In article <6909@ficc.uu.net>, peter@ficc.uu.net (Peter da Silva) writes:

>> > And to put my monet where my mouth is: 

In article <6915@ficc.uu.net> jeffd@ficc.uu.net (jeff daiell) writes:

>> I get the picture!

In article <6921@ficc.uu.net> peter@ficc.uu.net (Peter da Silva) writes:

>Not wanting to be painted into a corner, or give the wrong impressionism,
>but this illustrates a groaning trend in news.groups. I think it's time to
>step on degas and drive a new group through before we get flooded by this
>sort of thing.

Are you kidding, Peter?  The puns are the best stuff we've seen in
news.groups in a *long* time!

Perhaps we should `canvas' others for their opinions on creating a new
group?

I like sci.lang.puns! :-)

(seriously, though, rec.humor.puns might not be a bad idea)

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