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From: boblind@percival.UUCP (Bob Lindstrom)
Newsgroups: comp.sys.amiga
Subject: The Big April/Amiga Fool's Day joke
Summary: So funny I forgot to laugh...
Keywords: teargas, knives, president, San Diego Amiga Users' Group
Message-ID: <1207@percival.UUCP>
Date: 15 Apr 88 17:17:58 GMT
References: <4164@sdcc3.ucsd.EDU> <5690@well.UUCP>
Reply-To: boblind@percival.UUCP (Bob Lindstrom)
Organization: Troutdale Shrine of Computing
Lines: 31

In article <5690@well.UUCP> ewhac@well.UUCP (Leo 'Bols Ewhac' Schwab) writes:
>[ To the President of the San Diego Amiga User's Group: ]

(A pretty funny message about incurring Leo's wrath...)

I'm not going to have the class and temperance that Leo displayed.

I flatly think that letting this stupid users' group practical joke get
beyond the walls of the club was irresponsible. Haven't we got enough
misinformation circulating about the Amiga? Doesn't the press have a low
enough opinion of the immaturity of the Amiga market? ISn't there enough
legitimate info to pass on the net without bloating the bandwidth with
silly gags?

You have to admire (and I do admire) the thoroughness with which this hoax
was prepared but I am disgusted by the ego-serving carelessness of those
involved in letting their prank spread throughout the country and, perhaps,
around the world. 

Way to go guys (yawn)...

I say, banish everyone involved in this dumb joke to the Valley of the Lepers
(ever seeBen-Hur?) and make them drink Mountain Dew for the rest of their
unnatural lives.


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