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From: daveh@cbmvax.commodore.com (Dave Haynie)
Newsgroups: comp.sys.amiga.advocacy
Subject: Re: The WHAT Fish? <was Re: New baseline Amiga?>
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Date: 25 Apr 91 15:55:15 GMT
References: <8737@crash.cts.com> <1991Apr23.115648.3059@news.iastate.edu> <1991Apr23.225115.27882@nevada.edu> <72714@eerie.acsu.Buffalo.EDU>
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In article <72714@eerie.acsu.Buffalo.EDU> v089pfrb@ubvmsb.cc.buffalo.edu writes:
>In article <1991Apr23.225115.27882@nevada.edu>, niobium@nevada.edu (Christopher W. Carlson) writes...
>>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.

Of course it has something to do with the Tower of Babel.  You mean you didn't
get the joke?

Set the wayback machine for the Days of Legend.  This morning, we all spoke the
same, but there was this Tower of Babel incident, now we can't understand each
other.  That is, until Ford Prefect comes along and introduces mankind, or at
least Aurther Dent, to the Babel Fish.  Stick that baby in your ear, and it 
solve the communication problem -- now everyone understands everyone else.  
This, of course, is as well positive proof that God does not exist.
-- 
Dave Haynie Commodore-Amiga (Amiga 3000) "The Crew That Never Rests"
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