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From: respess@ut-ngp.UUCP
Newsgroups: net.flame
Subject: ehjoe (McGhee)?
Message-ID: <894@ut-ngp.UUCP>
Date: Fri, 31-Aug-84 09:32:01 EDT
Article-I.D.: ut-ngp.894
Posted: Fri Aug 31 09:32:01 1984
Date-Received: Mon, 3-Sep-84 19:45:23 EDT
Organization: Comp. Center, Univ. of Texas at Austin
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Joe ... Joe? ... You still out there, Joe? ... Wanna ask you this, Joe ...
Hope you don't mind, but do you ever get tired being the big daddy Celt of
net.nlang.celts? ... We know it's a tedious job ... Isn't it? ... eh Joe?
... Sure glad you appointed yourself to the post ... When we imagine how 
hard it must be to scan the postings and then type in long, marginally 
relevant replies ... Whew, tough work! Smart boy wanted! ... But somebody
has to do it ... eh Joe? ... Somebody has to maintain the Celtic purity of
the newsgroup ... Somebody has to ensure that innocent viewers don't get
the wrong idea of how they do it over beyant there in Ireland because of 
the careless habits of some posters ... Imagine calling Ireland "Eire"!
The girl deserves a taste of the strap (And begob! I know just the one to
deliver it - bold rossy with muscles on her like a stevedore!) ... But
Joe, doesn't all this supervision cut into the time you need to speculate
about stone circles? ... Or the time you need to communicate telephonically
with other scholars in the field? ... Or the time you need to tell us about
those phone conversations? ... But don't worry, Joe. None of us believed
for even so much as a fortnight that rumor that one of 'em  offered to send 
you a model of Stonehenge just to get you off the phone. Not a man jack
of us, Joe ... Why if we believed that, Joe, we'd have to believe the 
other one about the only reason anyone thinks your ideas have any merit is
that you post followup articles telling us they do ... But that's pure
vaporing, Joe, and we know it ... Anyone found putting faith in such no-
tions will be put to sea instantly in a leaky cor-wiggle ...
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So Joe, here's one with a bent elbow for you (Sorry about that ambiguity,
Joe. I meant "Here's hoisting a ball of malt", of course) ... Looking for-
ward to seeing you in the lecture hall this coming season ... I'll be the
one with the girl in the All Ireland Powerlifting Finals tanktop ...
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Bye, Joe

John Respess
respess@ut-ngp