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From: v089pfrb@ubvmsb.cc.buffalo.edu (Jeffrey C Murphy)
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Subject: Re: The WHAT Fish? <was Re: New baseline Amiga?>
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Date: 24 Apr 91 06:55:00 GMT
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In article <1991Apr23.225115.27882@nevada.edu>, niobium@nevada.edu (Christopher W. Carlson) writes...
> 
>Oh my, oh my...  I promised myself I'd never get into the `Let's all flame

 then don't

>Marc Barrett' frame of mind, but this just had to be said:
> 
>In article <1991Apr23.115648.3059@news.iastate.edu> xgr39@isuvax.iastate.edu writes:
>>
>>\ Wanted for foreign language courses at Iowa State: One    \
>> \ Babble Fish.  Willing to pay Top Dollar.  If you have one \
>    ^^^^^^
>Uh, Marc, ol' buddy, ol' pal, I'm afraid what you're looking for here is a
>BABEL fish, as in the Tower of Babel?  You know, the one that God struck down

Babble Fish. Douglas Adams. Hitchhiker's Guide to the Galaxy. The fish
goes in your ear and translates any spoken language for you. Nothing
to do with the tower of  babel.

l8r
jm