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From: bccarty@whuts.UUCP (Brian C. Carty)
Newsgroups: net.jokes.d
Subject: Re: Photo Flash Abuse
Message-ID: <204@whuts.UUCP>
Date: Tue, 30-Jul-85 11:35:09 EDT
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Posted: Tue Jul 30 11:35:09 1985
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> 
> Fake flashes:
> 
> It is intersting to note that sometimes events use 'fake flashes'.
> On some awards ceremony (no I never watch them - it was just on - honest)
> something caught my eye about the large volume of flashes coming from the 
> audience.  To begin with, most of the audience were 'stars' (not the sort
> to come with an instamatic).  Most of the flashes seemed to come from the edge
> of the audience - in actuality the back wall.  Some bright 'PR' type of 
> person had evidently gotten strobe lights with a semi-random pattern of 
> firings so that all of us little people at home would feel the excitement
> of the moment.
> 
If most of the audience are 'stars', then couldn't some of the flashes
actually be some of that gaudy, reflective jewelry that some seem to
wear?
-- 
	Brian C. Carty 		AT&T Bell Laboratories - Piscataway, NJ

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