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From: jgay@digi.lonestar.org (john gay)
Newsgroups: comp.sys.amiga.advocacy
Subject: Re: The WHAT Fish? <was Re: New baseline Amiga?}
Message-ID: <1991Apr24.162450.3474@digi.lonestar.org>
Date: 24 Apr 91 16:24:50 GMT
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From article <1991Apr23.225115.27882@nevada.edu}, by niobium@nevada.edu (Christopher W. Carlson):
} 
} Oh my, oh my...  I promised myself I'd never get into the `Let's all flame
} 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:
}>
}>  -------------------------------------------------------------
}> / Marc Barrett  -MB- | BITNET:   XGR39@ISUVAX.BITNET        /   
}>/  ISU COM S Student  | Internet: XGR39@CCVAX.IASTATE.EDU   /      
}>------------------------------------------------------------    
}>\ 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
} and then, as a punishment, scattered the people far and wide and made them all
} speak different languages?

To bad you never read The Hitcher's Guide to the Galaxy.

Kinda makes it all makes sense.


john gay.