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From: john@x.UUCP (John Woods)
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Subject: Re: Charming typo
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Date: Mon, 29-Apr-85 16:35:21 EDT
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> My favorite example of pseudo-personalized word processing was a piece 
> of mail addressed to my friend, Thomas W. Whalen III.  It was an 
> invitation to enter a sweepstakes and began: 
> 
> Dear Mr. Iii:
> Imagine your neighbors' surprise when you and the entire Iii family
> drive home in your new Pontiac...
> 
The Department Head of my high school's math department, Stan Fredrickson,
used to get lots of junk mail addressed to various perversions of the line
"Stan Fredrickson, Math Department Head".  His absolute favorite, which he
posted on his office wall, was an advertisement from TIME Magazine, which
looked like a huge award plaque addressed to

		MR MATH

-- 
John Woods, Charles River Data Systems, Framingham MA, (617) 626-1101
...!decvax!frog!john, ...!mit-eddie!jfw, jfw%mit-ccc@MIT-XX.ARPA

The above opinions are those exclusively of superior beings.  If you don't
share them, I'm not surprised.