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Subject: Re: The Twins
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Date: Fri, 21-Feb-86 13:48:32 EST
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Posted: Fri Feb 21 13:48:32 1986
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>    They drew apart slightly, making room for me, a new playmate, a
>    third in their world.  Then John, who always took the lead, thought
>    for a very long time--it must have been at least five minutes,
>    though I dared not move ...--and brought out a nine-figure number;
>    and after a similar time his twin Michael responded with a similar
>    one.  And then I, in my turn, after a surreptitious look in my book,
>    added my own ... a ten-figure prime ....
> 

I was dissapointed with the end of this, all along I was expecting a
punch line at the end.  As soon as they started thinking long and hard
to come up with a nine-figure prime and then put to the test of a 
ten-figure prime.  I visioned, calculator tape coming out of thier
mouths, smoke and sparks coming from the ears, and finally thier
heads blowing up, with springs and resistors flying about the room.
And then the guy says, "Damn, blew another fuse."

I like my ending better.