Relay-Version: version B 2.10 5/3/83; site utzoo.UUCP Posting-Version: version B 2.10.1 6/24/83; site drufl.UUCP Path: utzoo!watmath!clyde!floyd!harpo!ihnp4!drutx!drufl!cwh From: cwh@drufl.UUCP (Hoffmeyer) Newsgroups: net.general Subject: USSR on the net Message-ID: <919@drufl.UUCP> Date: Tue, 10-Apr-84 18:26:37 EST Article-I.D.: drufl.919 Posted: Tue Apr 10 18:26:37 1984 Date-Received: Wed, 11-Apr-84 07:29:25 EST Organization: AT&T Information Systems, Denver Lines: 20 (Correction to the first posting of this article) Some ten years or so ago, an American president committed such stupefying blunders that he finally resigned from office. At that time, and apparently even in his most recent interviews, his personality might still be described as humorless. April Fool's Day is, admittedly, an American institution, but it seems to this writer that one desirable side effect of the net is that national peculiarities may provoke the thought of people in other nations. I very much enjoyed what was so obviously humorous that high school kids got the joke right away... ...for the sour pusses out there, let me take a line from Mickey Spillane's Mike Hammer - Lighten up! Regards - Carl