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From: merlyn@sequent.UUCP
Newsgroups: net.misc
Subject: Re: Emergency spelled backwards
Message-ID: <482@sequent.UUCP>
Date: Fri, 4-May-84 13:16:09 EDT
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Posted: Fri May  4 13:16:09 1984
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> From: rene@nlm-mcs.UUCP
> Message-ID: <1363@nlm-mcs.ARPA>
> Date: Thu, 3-May-84 15:44:25 PDT
> 
> In a mystery book ("Trace"), the "hero"(? drunk, crazy, strange, but a
> good guy) dreams up a brilliant idea that will make a million. Sell
> plates that say "O U T A", and people will read it in their rearview
> mirror and move over. That's his theory anyway. He wants to expand the
> idea to "ROADHOG", "DRUNK DRIVER" (that will make them move), etc. A
> very strange book.
> 
> 				- rene

Why would seeing "A T U O" in my rear-view mirror make me move over?

Does it stand for something?  (A Terribly Ugly Ogre?!)

Randal L. ("N Y L R E M") Schwartz, esq. (merlyn@sequent.UUCP)
	(Official legendary sorcerer of the 1984 Summer Olympics)
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