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From: bzs@bu-cs.BU.EDU (Barry Shein)
Newsgroups: alt.flame
Subject: Re: Talk.politics.Enquirer
Message-ID: <17885@bu-cs.BU.EDU>
Date: 23 Dec 87 02:52:53 GMT
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>In article <17758@bu-cs.BU.EDU> bzs@bu-cs.BU.EDU (Barry Shein) writes:
>>
>>From: sl131089@silver.bacs.indiana.edu
>>>What's that? One of the top research libraries in the country is here in
>>>Bloomington??? Golly. Too bad it's in Indiana where no-one can read...
>>
>>But that was the plan, put it somewhere the locals aren't interested
>>(keeps their hands off it) so its use is limited to people with travel
>>budgets. It's also nice and flat out there so the books don't fall off
>                    ^^^^ ^^^ ^^^^ ^^^ ^^^^^
>>the shelves.
>
>Here's someone who obviously 1) has never been to southern Indiana, and
>2) has no qualms about speaking from ignorance with authority.
>-- 
>Karl Fox, Morning Star Technologies, Inc.    ...!cbosgd!mstar!karl

Ok, perhaps the books do fall off the shelves in Indiana. Maybe it
was a bad idea to put that library there after all.

Hey, what the hell do I know? I've *seen* the foothills of Austin,
breathtaking! I'll never doubt a native again.