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From: eichin@ATHENA.MIT.EDU ("Mark W. Eichin")
Newsgroups: comp.emacs
Subject: Re: surprise
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Date: 20 Dec 88 23:29:48 GMT
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>> From: John Robinson <jr@bbn.com>
>> Subject: surprise
>> Message-Id: <33736@bbn.COM>
>> Organization: BBN Systems and Technologies Corporation, Cambridge MA
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>> Here's an interactive greeting card.  Eval the following and then M-X
>> surprise.  May offend some non-Christians...

Amusing... I haven't run it yet, of course, though I have glanced over
it. Commemorating the second (third?) anniversary of CHRISTMA.EXEC,
are we?

[I do NOT mean to malign John Robinson, or imply that he would even
THINK about propagating viral elisp code. However, the historical
similarity was too amusing to be passed up...]

				Mark Eichin
			<eichin@athena.mit.edu>
		SIPB Member & Project Athena ``Watchmaker'' 
		 [And part-time Internet Virologist :-]