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From: jerry@oliveb.UUCP (Jerry Aguirre)
Newsgroups: net.sf-lovers
Subject: Re: Still another m.t. story . . .
Message-ID: <154@oliveb.UUCP>
Date: Fri, 31-Aug-84 16:19:15 EDT
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Posted: Fri Aug 31 16:19:15 1984
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You left out the best part.  The matter transmission system didn't just
happen to break down while the pregnant woman was in transit.

It seems the system was heavy into preventing someone getting a free
ride.  To that end it not only counted the number of people going into a
booth, it double checked the number when they came out.  Due to the
woman giving birth while in transit and a quirk in programing the system
wouldn't let anybody out while the imbalence existed.  They finally
solved the problem by having a person go into a booth with no
destination.  This compensated for the baby and allowed the "queue" to
empty.

					    Jerry Aguirre
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