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From: sl@wimsey.bc.ca (Stuart Lynne)
Newsgroups: comp.arch
Subject: Re: What's in the '586?
Message-ID: <1991May31.011725.5142@wimsey.bc.ca>
Date: 31 May 91 01:17:25 GMT
References: <42390@cup.portal.com> <4731.284500fb@iccgcc.decnet.ab.com> <14251@exodus.Eng.Sun.COM>
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In article <14251@exodus.Eng.Sun.COM> chased@rbbb.Eng.Sun.COM (David Chase) writes:
}herrickd@iccgcc.decnet.ab.com writes:
>>mmm@cup.portal.com (Mark Robert Thorson) writes:
}>> Gee, didn't you notice the smiley at the end?  
}>Another facet of this that no-one commented on - it came right at the
}>end of a heavy flame war on news.admin because Ed Vielmetti posted
}>a similar joke with no smiley.
}
}I was quite surprised that so many people failed to spot the posting
}as a well-written joke, smiley or not.  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

Not everyone is Swift or Voltaire and please remember that they where roundly
"flamed" by many of their contempories. The sarcasm and satire was not that obvious.


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