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Subject: Re: Discovery!  Save Money!
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Date: Fri, 29-Nov-85 10:21:55 EST
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Summary: 

In article <1399@sphinx.UChicago.UUCP> see1@sphinx.UChicago.UUCP (Ellen Seebacher) writes:
>Net.jokes has the "Obligatory Joke" rule:  every posting has
>to have [okay, ought to have] a joke in it.  The "imminent-
>collapse-of-the-net" debate has prompted a new protocol, 
>that net.philosophy and net.religion have a new rule:  the 
>"Obligatory Thought."  

Hmm... I don't think there'll be too many postings to those two groups
now :-)

And now the obligatory joke (and thought--two for the price of one!):

If "fortification" means a very large fort, why doesn't "ratification"
mean a very large rat?

						dwarf

-- 
"Degeneracy is not necessarily a bad thing."

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