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From: dipirro@louie.DEC (I spilled spot remover on my dog and now he's gone)
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Subject: Offensive to insensitive morons - nonROT
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Date: Thu, 23-Jan-86 15:26:01 EST
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Posted: Thu Jan 23 15:26:01 1986
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	A guy returns from a long trip to Europe, having left his beloved cat
in his brother's care. The minute he's cleared customs, he calls up his brother
and inquires after his pet.
	"Your cat's dead," replies his brother bluntly.
	The guy is devastated. "You know how much that cat meant to me," he
moaned into the phone. "Couldn't you at least have thought of a nicer way of
breaking the news? Couldn't you have said, 'Well, you know, the cat got out of
the house one day and climbed onto the roof, and the fire department couldn't
get her down, and finally sh died of exposure...or starvation..or something'?
Why are you always so thoughtless?"
	"Look, I'm sorry," said his brother. "I'll try to do better next time."
	"Okay, let's just put it behind us. How are you, anyway? How's Mom?"
	His brother is silent for a moment. "Uh," he stammers, "uh...Mom's
on the roof."

Steve DiPirro
Digital Equipment Corp.