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From: steven@tifsie
Newsgroups: net.jokes
Subject: Re: Orphaned Response
Message-ID: <43100006@tifsie>
Date: Wed, 18-Dec-85 10:30:00 EST
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Posted: Wed Dec 18 10:30:00 1985
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>/* Written 12:50 pm  Dec 11, 1985 by teddy.UUCP!rdp in tifsie:net.jokes */
>/* ---------- "THAT article - the sequel" ---------- */
>Well, the flames are come fast and furious over my silly little joke
>that I played on the network. One person, probably correctly, pointed
>out that many of the people reading the net seem to be "myopic and
>humorless". Seems that that's especially true for the regular readers
>of net.jokes. Funny how people don't seem to think that a joke that they
>willingly and eagerly fell for belongs in net.jokes. For example, from
.
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>For those of you (about 50 so far) that have sent messages like:

>> You mean people actually took that article seriously?  I just thought it was
>> one of the funniest thing in net.jokes in a long time!
>>
>> Congratulations, and happy holidays,
>> Gary Huckabay
>> !ucbvax!ucdavis!deneb!ccs007

>thanks, your response has been both warm and gratifying. As to the rest of
>you, keep them cards and letters coming! We all need something to laugh
>about.

>Dick Pierce

Well, Dick (no pun intended), I would like to modify the reply you got from
Gary Hickabay to state:
  "You mean people actually took that article seriously?  I just thought it was
   one of the stupidest things in net.jokes all day"


				 -Steve