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From: sef@kithrup.COM (Sean Eric Fagan)
Newsgroups: comp.arch
Subject: Re: What's in the '586?
Message-ID: <1991May30.232146.11042@kithrup.COM>
Date: 30 May 91 23:21:46 GMT
Article-I.D.: kithrup.1991May30.232146.11042
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In article <14251@exodus.Eng.Sun.COM> chased@rbbb.Eng.Sun.COM (David Chase) writes:
>I'm not sure, but I'd swear
>that people have been writing parody, satire, and sarcasm since before
>there were smiley faces, and somehow they got the message across.  Not
>everyone on the net is Swift or Voltaire, but an intended joke is
>almost always immediately obvious, even if it isn't funny.

It's amusing that you mention Swift.  "A Modest Proposal" was taken
seriously by at least one or two people in Parliament.

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