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From: hen@bu-cs.BU.EDU (Bill Henneman)
Newsgroups: comp.edu
Subject: and the winner is .....
Message-ID: <16196@bu-cs.BU.EDU>
Date: Thu, 19-Nov-87 09:11:03 EST
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Posted: Thu Nov 19 09:11:03 1987
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Reply-To: hen@bucsd.UUCP (Wm. H. Henneman)
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After many of reading articles on various nets, (starting with ARPANET
in the early '70s) I thought I had become inured to all the varieties
of silliness exhibited by peoples attitudes towards computers and
programming.  I was wrong - a new world's record was set by
thornton@ssc-vax.UUCP (Ken Thornton) in article 743 of comp.edu.

> After all, anyone with a background in chemistry and physics knows
> exactly how a computer works.

Yes folks, this one is my cadidate for the most outlandishly silly
sentence about computers ever sent across the net.

				hen
				Amused in Kenmore Square