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From: daver@felix.UUCP (Dave Richards)
Newsgroups: net.jokes
Subject: Re: Fear of Failing
Message-ID: <1002@felix.UUCP>
Date: Wed, 26-Mar-86 15:17:07 EST
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Posted: Wed Mar 26 15:17:07 1986
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References: <203@daemen.uucp> <2285@jhunix.UUCP>
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In article <2285@jhunix.UUCP> ins_armr@jhunix.ARPA (Rudy M Rumohr) writes:
>In article <203@daemen.uucp> wersan@daemen.UUCP writes:
>>These are some comments from professors on student papers.
>>
>>	"I don't like your topic, the style of your
>>	 writing, or the way you dress."
>>
>>			-Anonymous
>>
>>	"I'm returning this note to you, instead of
>>	 your paper, because it (your paper) presently
>>	 occupies the bottom of my bird cage."
>>
>>		-English Professor
>>		 Providence College
   

I think my favorite of this type is a note sent in response to a very nasty
letter received by Samuel Clemens, or Winston Churchill, or Groucho Marx,
or some other oft-quoted person:

    "I am sitting in the smallest room in the house.  I have your letter
     before me.  Soon it will be behind me."


Anybody know the source for this?  Responses by e-mail or to net.jokes.d.
Edit the newsgroups line!

Dave "The Regulator Guy" Richards