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From: rcj@burl.UUCP (Curtis Jackson)
Newsgroups: net.rumor
Subject: Re: Computer Horror Stories
Message-ID: <1135@burl.UUCP>
Date: Wed, 19-Mar-86 16:41:32 EST
Article-I.D.: burl.1135
Posted: Wed Mar 19 16:41:32 1986
Date-Received: Fri, 21-Mar-86 03:34:47 EST
References: <14700001@hplabsb.UUCP> <12121@ucbvax.BERKELEY.EDU>
Reply-To: rcj@burl.UUCP (Curtis Jackson)
Organization: AT&T Technologies, Burlington NC
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Summary: 

>In article <118@graffiti.UUCP> buck@graffiti.UUCP (Lester Buck) writes:
>...some simple Pavlovian conditioning had taught this dog
>that whenever he relieved himself on that one spot, he was fed.
>They replaced the cable and everything has worked fine since.
>
>I'm not sure I believe this, but it makes for a hilarious story on tape.
>
I'm not so sure, either.  One of my neighborhood friends great tricks
was to say, in the presence of a new kid who wanted to be part of the
group, "Yeh, ol' Fred bet me I couldn't kill the engine on his minibike
without touching it, so I won the bet by pissing on the spark plug."

Those new kids never did figure it out the easy way....
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