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From: dsn@tove.UUCP (Dana S. Nau)
Newsgroups: net.jokes,net.nlang
Subject: Re: Charming typo
Message-ID: <203@tove.UUCP>
Date: Thu, 9-May-85 23:29:25 EDT
Article-I.D.: tove.203
Posted: Thu May  9 23:29:25 1985
Date-Received: Mon, 10-Jun-85 05:02:05 EDT
References: <616@lsuc.UUCP> <142@mot.UUCP>
Reply-To: dsn@tove.UUCP (Dana S. Nau)
Organization: U of Maryland, Laboratory for Parallel Computation, C.P., MD
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Summary: 

In article <142@mot.UUCP> al@mot.UUCP (Al Filipski) writes:
>
>My favorite example of pseudo-personalized word processing was a piece 
>of mail addressed to my friend, Thomas W. Whalen III. ...

(1) The Duke University Library once got a letter addressed to "Duke Univ
Lib" which began

	Dear Mr. Lib:

	Did you know that the Lib family has a coat of arms?

(2) An Indian friend of mine named Ramu Reddy once got a letter from a
company that did geneological tracings, saying that they had traced the
Reddy family back to County Kilmanrock in Ireland, and that for a fee they
would investigate his family tree even further.
-- 
Dana S. Nau,  Computer Science Dept.,  U. of Maryland,  College Park, MD 20742
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