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> Has anyone seen the latest TP book?  Apparently it is called something 
> like "You Can Save The Earth" and is out now in UK hardcover.

Yup, bought it on Wednesday, read it by Thursday (so, I was busy Wednesday
evening :-) ). It's supposedly a kids book (like the Nomes series), but has
TP's usual amusing, whimsical style... The idea is just *so cool* (it is
still cool to say cool, right?).

DaveP







<Oh, all right - pointer to the basic idea of the book coming up...>











It's about a 12-year old playing a shoot-em-up computer game, when the aliens
he's shooting surrender to him and get him to grant them "safe passage" to
somewhere they'll be safe from homicidal games freaks.... For more, read the
book! :-)
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From: s911325@minyos.xx.rmit.oz.au (Alexander Neilson)
Newsgroups: alt.fan.pratchett
Subject: Re: Cripple Mr Onion Rules 1
Date: 28 Sep 92 06:26:21 GMT
Organization: RMIT Computer Centre
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alien@acheron.amigans.gen.nz (Ross Smith) writes:

>   And the Major Arcana? Earth's Tarot deck has 22, but in the interests of
>making it possible to play CMO on Earth without actually buying two Tarot
>decks I think we should assume that the Caroc deck has 13, the same as the
>'real' suits (Earth's Tarot actually has 14 in the suits, but let's not
>make matters any more complicated than they already are). TLF mentions five :
>'The Star', 'The Importance of Washing the Hands', 'The Dome of the Sky',
>'The Pool of Night', and (of course) 'Death'.

>   Naming the other eight would, I think, be an excellent topic for
>suggestions from the Net. I think 'The Octavo' should be one, and probably
>'The Disc' itself (something like Josh Kirby's magnificent painting on
>pages 34-35 of 'Eric'), but beyond that I'll wait and see what everyone
>can come up with...

How about 'The Sourcerer' , 'The Victim' , 'Bel-Shamharoth' (I don't have my
copy with me, but the '8' god? whose temple Twoflower wanders into in TCoM)
, 'The University' (well, there's only one I've heard of on the disc) ,
and, of course, god old Ankh-Morpork itself. . .

Aradan (s911325@minyos.xx.rmit.oz.au) 
		All nice comments welcome. . .
From: peter@NeoSoft.com (Peter da Silva)
Newsgroups: alt.fan.pratchett
Subject: Re: Cripple Mr Onion Rules 1
Date: 1 Oct 92 01:14:38 GMT
Organization: NeoSoft Communications Services -- (713) 684-5900

In article <1992Sep29.231809.27109@Princeton.EDU> millard@pupgg.princeton.edu writes:
> Great A'Tuin's actual sex was never discovered, the matter is open to
> debate.

Well, you know what "debate" means on the Disc. So I think we can assume
that different cults have different Caroc cards. And horrible religious
wars over them.
-- 
Peter da Silva.  <peter@sugar.neosoft.com>.
 `-_-'   "Segodnja volka obnimal?"
  'U`  
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From: peter@NeoSoft.com (Peter da Silva)
Subject: Re: Gormenghast and Pyramids
Organization: NeoSoft Communications Services -- (713) 684-5900
Date: Tue, 06 Oct 1992 12:17:51 GMT

In article <1992Oct6.031018.25552@Princeton.EDU> woodhams@phoenix.Princeton.EDU (Michael Woodhams) writes:
> while hanging yourself. (Michael Morcock reviewed them (very
> favourable) and regarded them as light comedy. I had to check that we
> had been reading the same books.

Remember, the most normal of Moorcock's books are about an albino emperor
who destroys his kingdom and kills his sister, and that's before it really
starts getting depressing.
-- 
Peter da Silva.  <peter@sugar.neosoft.com>.
 `-_-'   "Oletko halannut suttasi tnn?"
  'U`  
Kunt u mij de weg wijzen naar het dichtstbijzijnde intelligente zoogdier?
From: jmm25@po.CWRU.Edu (Jessica M. Mcgeary)
Newsgroups: alt.fan.pratchett
Subject: Re: The Superior Person's Little Book of Words
Date: 29 Sep 1992 02:33:51 GMT
Organization: Case Western Reserve University, Cleveland, Ohio (USA)
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@!@#$!@!!!!!!!

I HAD TO TAKE CARE OF A CAT NAMED MERKIN!!!!!!!!!!!
-- 
Jessica McGeary
jmm25@po.cwru.edu
Case Western Reserve University
Remember! Arguments should be FUN!
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Subject: Re:  Cripple Mr Onion Rules 1
From: alien@acheron.amigans.gen.nz (Ross Smith)
Date: 29 Sep 92 18:10:19 GMT+12
Distribution: world
Organization: Wanganui Amigans, Wanganui, NZ

tao@ginger.princeton.edu (Terry Tao) writes:
>Granny Weatherwax refers, if I remember correctly, to a suit "with a lot
>of these black pointy things" (spades?).  And an ace of cups or coins is
>up someones sleeve.  This complicates matters.

   Unfortunately I haven't got a copy of WA on hand to check, but I'll take
you word for it :-)

>However, just as nowadays the Tarot deck is not used for playing a
>typical game of cards, I assume that the rather wizardly Caroc cards would
>not be used for Cripple Mr Onion.  For one, no special cards were mentioned
>in WA.  However, we assume that th game of CMO once had a magical
>significance in the past, before it became an ordinary card game.

   But we know from TLF that Caroc cards *are* used for Aqueduct (or whatever
it is you put across a river). Would they really use two different decks for
two different games?

>As you can see, our idea for the 8 suits were the four tarot and the four
>modern suits.  But to make flushes even remotely possible, two of the suits
>have to be combined together, making four suits overall.

   It's just struck me that there's a simple solution to the suits problem.
There *are* two different decks (Caroc and 'ordinary', as on Earth), *but*
both decks contain the same number of cards (104) and there's a one-to-one
correspondence between them, so any card game can be (and is) played with
either deck without changing the rules. The 'ordinary' deck, commonly used
for games, contains, as you suggest, the four modern and four Tarot suits,
with 13 cards in each. The Caroc deck, used for fortune telling and for
card games on formal occasions (and by people like Twoflower), contains
the four Tarot suits, the three extra ones mentioned in TLF (Elephants,
Octograms, and Turtles), and 13 Major Arcana. The three 'extra' suits would
correspond to three of the modern suits (something like Elephants = Clubs,
Octograms=Diamonds, Turtles=Hearts), with the Arcana corresponding to the
fourth (Spades, e.g. 'The Lady' = Queen of Spades).

   This way we can have our Caroc and eat it too, so to speak ... we get a
total of 11 suits, which we seem to need to be consistent with all the books,
but only 8 in any one deck. I think this is the only way to remain
consistent with the games in both TLF and WA without assuming that
different games use different decks, which seems silly. In a way, it also
seems more 'Discworldish' to have different people use the same cards in
completely different ways ... I seem to recall a scene in one of the books
in which somebody was listening for the chimes on the hour, but, since
different religions have completely different ideas of how to measure time,
the chimes from different clocks were spread over quite a while.

--
...... Ross Smith (Wanganui, NZ) ...... alien@acheron.amigans.gen.nz ......
           "Reasonable thought can only go so far. Beyond that,
     you must either be unreasonable or stop thinking." (A. Brilliant)
From: bena@yoyo.cc.monash.edu.au (Ben Aveling)
Subject: Re: Cripple Mr Onion Rules 1
Organization: Monash University General Access Unix
X-Newsreader: TIN [version 1.1 PL6]
Date: Sat, 3 Oct 1992 07:38:18 GMT

Ross Smith (alien@acheron.amigans.gen.nz) wrote:
: tao@ginger.princeton.edu (Terry Tao) writes:
:                                          ... without assuming that
: different games use different decks, which seems silly. ...

Why ?  Eg Bridge and 500.


Ben
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From: ins534z@aurora.cc.monash.edu.au (Quetzal)
Subject: Re: NOT the "Good Omens" sequel
Organization: Monash University
X-Newsreader: TIN [version 1.1 PL6]
Date: Tue, 6 Oct 1992 08:51:30 GMT

Wayne McDougall (system@CODEWKS.nacjack.gen.nz) wrote:
: leifmk@Lise.Unit.NO (Leif Magnar Kj|nn|y) writes:
: 
: > In article <38358@sdcc12.ucsd.edu>, garton@jeeves.ucsd.edu (Simon Garton) wri
: >  > In article <BPOSTOW.92Sep20224116@edvac.oberlin.edu> bpostow@edvac.oberlin
: >  > >
: >  > >why would any decent beast have anumber starting with 0898???
: >  > 
: >  > Well, 0898 in British is the same as 1-976-???-???> in American
: >  > it's the prefix you use when you want to discuss unsavoury
: >  > things ........
: >  > with people you have never met ...
: >  > whats the Oz and Kiwi versions anybody ?
: >  > 
: In New Zealand we have 0900-???-???
: 
I suppose the Australian equivalent is 0055-???-???.  These are the incredibly
expensive time-charged calls.  Something *really* unsavoury might be
0011-???-???, which is even more expensive; but I suppose that's just my
alter-ego's xenophobia shining through (for all those in forn parts, 0011 is
International Direct Dial).

Tim Pickett
ps: actually, 0055 isn't a party line, which seems to be what you are asking
about.  We do have them, but being a little angel myself, I never
bothered to find out the number.
pps: The magnetic moment of an electron starts 1.0011596.....(some more digits)
If you dial the decimal part in Australia, you'll get somebody in Martinique.
Just who? You'll have to wait for physicists to establish the next few digits.
ppps: The magnetic moment of a muon gets you to Singapore.
From: Fox@csd.brispoly.ac.uk
Newsgroups: alt.fan.pratchett
Subject: test
Date: 30 Sep 92 16:03:55 GMT
Organization: Bristol Polytechnic, England
X-Newsreader: Tin 1.1 PL5

Oh hell, I'm still in emacs and can't escape
From: pashley@sdcc13.ucsd.edu (Montykins)
Newsgroups: alt.fan.pratchett
Subject: Re: 668
Date: 29 Sep 92 19:13:22 GMT
Organization: University of California, San Diego

In article <1992Sep28.180100.1@fnalo.fnal.gov>, morrow@fnalo.fnal.gov (Inherit the Elmo) writes:
>
>	Say!  That _is_ news!
>
>	>grump< I only posted th'exact same thing a couple of weeks ago....

And, in fact, _I_ posted it a couple days before _you_. Which all
goes to show one thing: newsfeeds can be awfully slow.

 -Paul "Monty" Ashley
   (Relax. Have a cookie.)
-- 
  "Didn't expect to see me again,         | pashley@sdcc13.ucsd.edu
eh, Svengali?"                            |  [Not a UCSD employee]
     -- Bugs Bunny                        |
From: hennebry@plains.NoDak.edu (Michael J. Hennebry)
Newsgroups: alt.fan.pratchett
Subject: Re: Chocolate covered Good Omens
Date: 5 Oct 92 16:43:24 GMT
Organization: North Dakota Higher Education Computing Network

In article <92276.112008IBRUNTON@ESTEC.BITNET> IBRUNTON@ESTEC.BITNET writes:
<'Heaven is where the police are British, the mechanics are German, the chefs
<are French, the lovers are Italian and it's all organised by the Swiss.
<
< Hell is where the police are German, the mechanics French, the chefs are
<British, the lovers Swiss and it's all organised by the Italians.'

Of course there is also the Frenchman's defense to a charge of necrophilia:
"I didn't know she was dead; I thought she was English."

BTW 664, the other neighbor of the beast, doesn't like chocolate and has a bit
of an inferiority complex.

-- 
Mike   hennebry@plains.NoDak.edu
"I still thing it's garbage, but beautifully cooked."   --  TP on TP
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From: eda858xsft@vx24.cc.monash.edu.au
Subject: RE: NOT NOT the "Good Omens" sequel
Organization: Computer Centre, Monash University, Australia
Date: Sat, 26 Sep 1992 06:37:36 GMT


In Australia we have 0055 and 0051 instead of 0898
0055 is "milder".

0051 you need a password to listern.

AND STOP KNOCKING AUSTRALIA.
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Subject: Re: Chocolate covered Good Omens
From: alien@acheron.amigans.gen.nz (Ross Smith)
Date: 1 Oct 92 12:23:57 GMT+12
Distribution: world
Organization: Wanganui Amigans, Wanganui, NZ

In article <28SEP92.22789331.0085@VM1.MCGILL.CA> BFRJ@MUSICB.MCGILL.CA (BFRJ) writes:
>I have no idea whether or not it is only playing in Canada, but there
>is a Kit Kat chocolate bar commercial on the TV these days which seems
>to have been written by someone who just finished reading Good Omens.

<details of commercial involving angel & demon omitted...>

An identical commercial appeared on New Zealand TV many years ago, before
anyone had ever heard of Terry Pratchett. I can't remember what the product
involved was; it may or may not have been Kit Kat bars.

--
...... Ross Smith (Wanganui, NZ) ...... alien@acheron.amigans.gen.nz ......
           "Reasonable thought can only go so far. Beyond that,
     you must either be unreasonable or stop thinking." (A. Brilliant)

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From: peter@NeoSoft.com (Peter da Silva)
Subject: Re: Cripple Mr Onion Rules 1
Organization: NeoSoft Communications Services -- (713) 684-5900
Date: Tue, 29 Sep 1992 12:23:06 GMT

In article <1992Sep28.132524.13610@Princeton.EDU> tao@ginger.princeton.edu (Terry Tao) writes:
> Great A'tuin: Queen of Coins

Um, has the kingdom of Krull determined A'tuin's sex? Or are there two sets
of CMO rules that contradict each other (and are the basis for horrible
religious wars)?

Oh, and please wrap your lines before 80 columns! It makes it hard to read.
-- 
Peter da Silva.  <peter@sugar.neosoft.com>.
 `-_-'   "Segodnja volka obnimal?"
  'U`  
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From: morrow@fnalo.fnal.gov (Inherit the Elmo)
Subject: Re: Cripple Mr Onion
Organization: Stephen Jay Gould Fan Club
Date: Mon, 28 Sep 1992 23:58:28 GMT
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In article <1992Sep28.041012.23634@Princeton.EDU>, spencer@flower.Princeton.EDU (S. Spencer Sun) writes:
> With all this discussion about obscure rules and complicated modifiers
> in Cripple Mr Onion, I am forced to strike a balance here between my two
> favorite comedy authors, Pratchett and Asprin.  I would caution those
> drawing up rules for CMO to be sure it doesn't turn into a blatant
> ripoff of Dragon Poker in the Myth series...

	Which was itself a ripoff of Fizbin from Star Trek: A Piece of the
Action.
	Where or not conditional-rules games originated _there_, I cannot say.
I haven't seen any verifiably earlier ones, though.
	A delightful variant has been Calvinball, from the strip Calvin &
Hobbes.
-- 
"Bring out your dead!  Bring out your dead!"                                   
--Monty Python                                                                 
  
elmo (morrow@physics.rice.edu,morrow@fnal.fnal.gov)
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From: tpratchett@cix.compulink.co.uk (Terry Pratchett)
Subject: Cripple Mr Onion                        
Cc: tpratchett@cix.compulink.co.uk
Reply-To: tpratchett@cix.compulink.co.uk
Date: Sat, 26 Sep 1992 21:31:00 +0000

I advise against too many specific DW in-jokes.  All the eights: nice idea.
Incidentally, remember than nine and ten card flushes stand a very good
chance of having at least two Onions.

Any good card game worth its salt has a Dead Man's Hand -- ie, on account of
what happened to Colon the Sitting-with-his-back-to-the-Door when _he_ had
this hand, it's now considered unlucky to have 2 7s, a 3, two 8s, a 9, a ten,
two Jacks and a 4, especially if they're covered with blood.

It ought to be possible to include a draw element, allowing people to nurse a
sick hand into something better.

Terry
Newsgroups: alt.fan.pratchett
From: MILLARD@pupgg.princeton.edu
Subject: Re: Chocolate covered Good Omens
Originator: news@nimaster
Reply-To: millard@pupgg.princeton.edu
Organization: Physics Department, Princeton University
Date: Tue, 29 Sep 1992 01:29:28 GMT

The reason that the devil has a British accent is because that is a British
commercial that I remember seeing on tv in Britain a number of years ago,
long before (I'm afraid) GO.
Andrew C. Millard
Physics Department,
Princeton University.
From: segr@nessie.mcc.ac.uk (Simon Read)
Newsgroups: alt.fan.pratchett
Subject: OYCSM - Review?
Date: 5 Oct 92 15:55:12 GMT
Organization: UMIST


Plot
----

The basic plot is already well known to this group. A guy
called Johnny starts playing a pirated version of a game
called OYCSM. He ends up trying to save an alien race of
video game aliens from extinction.

Any more than this would definitely spoil the plot. 

Some personal opinion
---------------------

First of all I must say that I'm a great Pratchett fan. I
think he is an incredibly funny writer. I don't just approve
of DW either, "The Unadulterated Cat" is the funniest thing
about the species (or should that be genus?) I have ever read.

Unfortunately every one has there off days and I'm afraid
this must have been on one.

I think the plot is rather weak, and predictable. But then DW
novels don't have epic plots.

There's some funny moments, but no "I really can't control
myself, I have to share this with someone else" jokes.

I'm not sure whether kids (one's whose real age is less
than 18, rather than just their mental age :-)) are supposed
to read this. I'm not sure it will appeal, most of the humour
seems to me to be ABOUT kids rather than FOR kids.

The characters are sufficiently well drawn, though obviously
intended to poke fun at stereo-typing. Unfortunately there
are a couple of points where the Hero has to be reverted to
the stereo-type in order to make the plot work, this
completely spoils the effect for me.

One of the things that makes TP SO funny is his use of
text-based humour. We all know what I mean: footnotes,
CAPITALIZATION FOR A CERTAIN PERSONS SPEECH, puns and so
forth. Sadly that's lacking in OYCSM, there are a few
attempts at it, but they don't really work.

Perhaps there are a few reasons for this: The book is quite
short, and one is only just getting into the
style/genre/whatever by the end of it, many DW jokes are
funny because they are long standing (Librarians etc.); the
plot idea is enough to maintain a very good short story, but
it's spun over 170 pages.

Having said this I did read the whole thing, and enjoyed it
in a way. I would have preferred to have spent the time
re-reading something else (TCOM, TLF, ..) though.

The verdict
-----------

Sorry, TP but: it's not as good as a DW novel; wait until it
comes out in paperback and borrow a copy from a friend. It's
not as good as I expected it would be, I was hoping for more
of the slanted jibes at real-life and use of the medium.

Flames/Disagreements
--------------------

This must be my own opinion. If you have another, I welcome
you sharing it with me, in public or private. Just make it
well-reasoned, please!

Simon Read
----------
Simon.Read@umist.ac.uk
From: dominic@natcorp.ox.ac.uk (Dominic Dunlop)
Newsgroups: alt.fan.pratchett
Subject: _The Legend of Perseus_ endorsed by Terry Pratchet [sic]
Summary: _Bored of the Rings_ applied to Greek mythology
Date: 6 Oct 92 09:10:01 GMT
Organization: British National Corpus, Oxford University, GB
Originator: dominic@onions.natcorp.ox.ac.uk

Browsing (ah, what joy) the other day I came across a book bearing the
... er ... legend:

`` `What professional gunfighters used to dread were the lads who were
out in the woods somewhere, just grinning and potting at tin cans all
day, getting better and better.  That's why these guys worry me.''

-- Terry Pratchet''

So I had to buy it, didn't I?  Particularly as it's published in
Oxford, and has a cover (unattributed) by local cartoonist Jim Needle,
whose work I like.

What is it, then?

The Legend of Perseus, Gregory Klyve & Chris Oakley, Byronic Books,
Oxford, 1989; pounds 3.50, paperback.  (ISBN 0 9514571 0 1)

Well, if you want the legend of Perseus given the _Bored of the Rings_
treatment (role models demolished while-U-wait; modern brand names
sorely, yet deservingly, abused), and can put up with a lack of proof
reading (misplaced apostrophes -- GAAAGH!  The wrong ``there'' ---
ARRRGH! ...), it's probaly worth tracking down.  Just how good a skit
it is on the legend in question, I can't say: I lack the kind of
classical education the demise of which is bemoaned by the namesake
of this newsgroup.  Suppose I could look all the characters up in
Brewer's Dictionary of Phrase and Fable, although I doubt that, for
example, Bollux would feature in that reference work...
-- 
Dominic Dunlop
From: Lindsay.Marshall@newcastle.ac.uk (Lindsay F. Marshall)
Newsgroups: alt.fan.pratchett
Subject: Re: holt book
Date: 30 Sep 92 11:09:38 GMT
Organization: University of Newcastle upon Tyne, UK, NE1 7RU

aesba1ii@dct.ac.uk writes:
>   which new holt book?

It's called Ye gods

L.
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Newsgroups: alt.fan.pratchett
From: kjackson@cix.compulink.co.uk (Keith Jackson)
Subject: In article <28SEP92.22789331.0085@VM1.MCGILL.CA>, 
Reply-To: kjackson@cix.compulink.co.uk
Date: Thu, 1 Oct 1992 06:35:53 +0000

BFRJ@MUSICB.MCGILL.CA (BFRJ) writes:
>I have no idea whether or not it is only playing in Canada, but 
>there is a Kit Kat chocolate bar commercial on the TV these days 
>which seems to have been written by someone who just finished 
>reading Good Omens.

>It involved an angel and a devil (how original...) who are just 
>starting their respective coffee breaks. Both exit from separate 
>elevators, the angel accompanied by several pure-white animals, 
>while the devil turns back into his and screams "Shut up!" (in a 
>British accent no less...) to whatever demons are causing a ruckus 
>behind him.

I remember that one, it ran over here a couple of years ago.

It seems we get the Pratchettesque adverts first as well as the books 
:-)

Keith
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From: ssuhouns@csug.cs.reading.ac.uk (Paul Marshall Hounslow)
Newsgroups: alt.fan.pratchett
Subject: Re: NOT NOT the "Good Omens" sequel
Date: 29 Sep 92 16:31:18 GMT
Reply-To: ssuhouns@csug.cs.reading.ac.uk
Organization: Dept. of Comp. Sci., University of Reading

In article 1@vx24.cc.monash.edu.au, eda858xsft@vx24.cc.monash.edu.au () writes:

>AND STOP KNOCKING AUSTRALIA.


Why?




Paul

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From: mbm@dsbc.icl.co.uk (Malcolm Mladenovic)
Newsgroups: alt.fan.pratchett
Subject: Re: Chocolate covered Good Omens
Date: 29 Sep 92 21:25:33 GMT
Organization: UNIX Centre, ICL, Bracknell, UK

In article <1992Sep29.012928.2746@Princeton.EDU> millard@pupgg.princeton.edu writes:
>The reason that the devil has a British accent is because that is a British
>commercial that I remember seeing on tv in Britain a number of years ago,
>long before (I'm afraid) GO.

Interesting.  In that case it has been resurrected because I saw it here 
not all that long ago - certainly < 12 months.

>Andrew C. Millard

-Malcolm
Newsgroups: alt.fan.warlord
From: rsholmes@rodan.syr.EDU (Rich Holmes)
Subject: Re: Elvis sighted in Yellowstone Park!
In-reply-to: hpoe@nyx.cs.du.edu's message of 20 Sep 92 14:02:59 GMT
Organization: Syracuse University
Date: Fri, 25 Sep 92 21:34:52 EDT

In alt.elvis.sighting (a what? a life? no thanks, had one once, hated
it.) article <1992Sep20.140259.331@mnemosyne.cs.du.edu> hpoe@nyx.cs.du.edu (Howard Poe) writes:

>-Howard Poe   
>Nothing this person says, writes, or otherwise communicates is the opinion
>of his employers, relatives, lawyers, or any other person or being on this
>planet.(Earth, Sol, Milky Way, U235-7829374 by conformed inter-dimensional
>reckoning.) Any off-planet maediums or guides that use my words are just lookingfor a FIGHT!

Eh? Off-planet? Good idea. 

What's Howard going to be like when he gets to be drinking age, do you
think?

--
Rich Holmes 
Clone-dependent no more.