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From: cipher@mmm.UUCP (Andre Guirard)
Newsgroups: net.jokes
Subject: Re: Fishshshshshsh
Message-ID: <465@mmm.UUCP>
Date: Wed, 5-Feb-86 19:54:04 EST
Article-I.D.: mmm.465
Posted: Wed Feb  5 19:54:04 1986
Date-Received: Sun, 9-Feb-86 07:31:35 EST
References: <1376@garfield.columbia.edu> <5700@allegra.UUCP>
Reply-To: cipher@mmm.UUCP (Andre Guirard)
Organization: 3M Company, St. Paul, Minn.
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Summary: 

In article <5700@allegra.UUCP> dsf@allegra.UUCP (David Fox) writes:
>	I took a bottle(?) from the shelf
		 ^^^^^^
>	and went to wake them up myself.

The correct word here is "corkscrew."  You can well imagine the fishes
would not like to be awakened in this manner.  The source of the poem is
Lewis Carroll's "Through the Looking Glass."
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