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From: peter@viewlogic.COM (Peter Colby)
Newsgroups: comp.sys.mac.games
Subject: Re: Humpback
Message-ID: <1991Feb22.150857.19191@viewlogic.com>
Date: 22 Feb 91 15:08:57 GMT
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In article <1991Feb20.014545.8283@cunixf.cc.columbia.edu>, ali@cunixf.cc.columbia.edu (Ali Lemer) writes:
|> In article <6408@idunno.Princeton.EDU> jacobw@phoenix.Princeton.EDU (Jacob S Weinstein) writes:
|> >
|> >	Does anyone out there know if the public domain game "Humpback",
|> >featuring a camel and a needle, actually has a point? (No pun intended.)
|> >After playing around with it for a while, I assumed it was a very clever
|> >gag, but I recently read something that leads me to think one can
|> >actually play it. Can anyone out there tell me if I'm being duped? 
|> 
|>   After attempting it a few times, I think there honestly is no point. I 
|> believe it was almost an exercise in application design for some lonely hacker
|> or something...it's a cute idea, though.

	Actually, there is a very significant point. There is a verse somewhere
in the Bible that says (approximately) "It is easier for a camel to get through
the eye of a needle than for a rich man to get into heaven."

	Once upon a time, back in the days of net.sources.mac, there was a
huge discussion related to this "game". This discussion gets revisited every
once-in-a-while as new Mac users discover these ancient programs.

	Peter C
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