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From: ewp@ihuxn.UUCP (Ed Pawlak)
Newsgroups: net.singles
Subject: M*A*S*H laughtracks and Alan Alda
Message-ID: <374@ihuxn.UUCP>
Date: Mon, 10-Oct-83 15:51:44 EDT
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Posted: Mon Oct 10 15:51:44 1983
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I believe that the remark about Alan Alda replaying the Korean war with a
laughtrack was not a criticism of the use of a laughtrack in M*A*S*H.  It
appeared to me to be a sarcastic way of pointing out that he (or should
that be He) gained whatever credibility he has by starring in a sitcom,
not by being a world leader, or even a TV news anchorman.  If people still
feel the need to defend M*A*S*H or Alan Alda, I would suggest net.tv or
net.flame.

Note : All you AI projects out there who jumped into the laughtrack discussion
       (or started tracking it), you just flunked this part of the Turing
       Test, back to the drawing board.

Ed "What-does-this-have-to-do-with-being-single" Pawlak
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