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From: cim1@pyuxv.UUCP (G. Bogatko)
Newsgroups: net.sources,net.sources.games
Subject: festoon (looking for source to..)
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Date: Sun, 23-Mar-86 18:01:07 EST
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Posted: Sun Mar 23 18:01:07 1986
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	Many moons ago, on the New York University PDP-11, there was a
joke program called 'festoon'.

	Festoon, when fed a seed number, representing the percentage of
made-up nouns, would spit out a wonderfully turgid memorandum, ready for
(n/t)roff using the 'mm' macros.  The output seemed to be readable, and
you found yourself trying to make sense of the phrases.  That's how good it
was.  

	Alas, the PDP-11 was shut down, and my contact there doesn't have
any idea where the program went.

	Soooo, if anybody out there has a lead to the program, please post
it or send me a copy.  (My boss keeps bugging me for status reports).

	Thanks,

	G. B. Bogatko