HDTenEightyP/NetNews huggingface dataset:
From: dunne@rtsg.mot.com (Jim Dunne)
Subject: Re: Band Names
Organization: Motorola Inc., Cellular Infrastructure Group
Distribution: usa
Date: Tue, 28 Jul 1992 19:18:16 GMT


   I came up with...

       Tow Jam

       EarWhacks
From: bsercomb@neumann.une.edu.au (You'd better believe it!,,,)
Newsgroups: rec.humor
Subject: Re: NEEDED: C to Cobol converter
Date: 28 Jul 92 07:42:30 GMT
Reply-To: bsercomb@neumann.une.edu.au
Originator: bsercomb@neumann.une.edu.au

From article <1992Jul25.192155.3447@constellation.ecn.uoknor.edu>, by chroessl@kittyhawk.ecn.uoknor.edu (Sim Human):
> Hey,
> 	I am in dire need of a C to Cobol converter.  Please HELP!!!
> 
Now this is *REALLY* funny!

Why don't you try comp.lang.c or comp.lang.pascal ??

Brad.
Newsgroups: rec.humor
From: N51LS801@ncsuvm.cc.ncsu.edu
Subject: Re: Conversation Non Sequitur
Organization: North Carolina State University
Date: Fri, 31 Jul 1992 15:20:03 GMT

In college, a friend came up with the concept of an a priori non-
sequitur  -- a remark that, in and of itself, and by its very
nature, follows from nothing and makes no sense. Life seems to be
full of them.
Newsgroups: rec.humor
From: jcc41885@uxa.cso.uiuc.edu (Fezzik the giant)
Subject: REQUEST: make like a _____ 
Organization: University of Illinois at Urbana
Date: Tue, 21 Jul 1992 21:38:58 GMT

Hey there people! I was wondering if any of you guys had any of the
make like a ____ sayings at all?

I only know a few of them and was wondering if there were anymore.

If any of you people know them could you mail or post these for me?
A few that I know...

Make like a drum and beat it!
Make like a tree and leaf.
Make like a hockey player and get the puck outta here!
Make like a Tom and Cruise.

(I know I know pretty pitiful isn't it :) )

Thanx in advance!

Josh Chen

Jcc41885@uxa.cso.uiuc.edu


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From: wilder@mik.uky.edu (jeff wilder)
Subject: Re: NAMES - FUNNY
    <1992Jul25.181828.25779@crd.ge.com> 
    <1992Jul27.160822.13059@usenet.ins.cwru.edu>
Organization: University Of Kentucky, Dept. of Math Sciences
Date: Mon, 27 Jul 1992 17:35:17 GMT

In <1992Jul27.160822.13059@usenet.ins.cwru.edu> vxv4@po.CWRU.Edu (Virgilio Velasco) writes:



|The archbishop of Manila is Jaime Sin.  He is thus referred 
|to as Cardinal Sin.

Cool.  And if you just add a teensy apostrophe...J'aime Sin.

I like Sin.  Kinda appropriate.

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| Wilder   & wilder@mik.uky.edu | are subtle, and will piss on your cyberdeck. |
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From: ebp4907@ultb.isc.rit.edu (E.B. Palmer )
Subject: Re: NAMES - FUNNY
Originator: ebp4907@ultb
Organization: Rochester Institute of Technology
Date: Tue, 21 Jul 1992 01:18:52 GMT

 If I married my current boyfriend my name would end up being Erica
Erkkila.  Which isn't nearly as weird as the fact that if he took my
last name he'd be Paul Palmer.  :)


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Erica                                        | "I co-oped for Kodak and all  |
                                             |  I developed was this lousy   |
ebp4907@ritvax.isc.rit.edu                   |  cold."                       |
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Subject: Re: a cat story
From: <MDSQC@CUNYVM.BITNET>
Date: Thursday, 23 Jul 1992 12:42:57 EDT
Organization: City University of New York/ University Computer Center

let me followup my followup. the story was not jolly good, and I do wish
that 'N' did something. But hey, it's a free country.
Newsgroups: rec.humor
From: pw15@cunixa.cc.columbia.edu (Philip  Wang)
Subject: Re: French Jokes
Reply-To: pw15@cunixa.cc.columbia.edu (Philip  Wang)
Organization: Columbia University
Date: Fri, 24 Jul 1992 21:27:04 GMT

In article <13554@gazette.bcm.tmc.edu> ak990140@SPECIALK.IAIMS.BCM.TMC.EDU (Arthur Kania) writes:
>
>Purquoi les Newfies amenent des fusils pour aller a la toillete ?
>
Comment dit on "des fusils" en anglais? (Je regrette, ma francais n'est plus
si bon comme quand je la etudie dans le lycee.)
>
>
>Pour chasser les odeurs et tirer sur la chaine.
>
philip
"Inside the power cage, I can feel the music call my rage
It's paranoid, first degree. It's telling me that I'm not free.
I've got heavy metal music in my blood and I like to get it to you if I could"
-Holocaust, "Heavy Metal Mania" ||||||||| pw15@cunixa.cc.columbia.edu |||||||||
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From: cadams@athena.cs.uga.edu (Clark Adams)
Newsgroups: rec.humor,rec.humor.d,talk.bizarre,alt.sex,alt.sex.bestiality
Subject: Send Mail
Summary: Person wants mail
Keywords: help
Date: 28 Jul 92 01:49:41 GMT
Organization: University of Georgia, Athens

Please help me.  My friend just got an e-mail account and told me that
he wants some mail.  Could you please send him a lot of it.  If possible
please send long files. It matters not how gross, bizarre or otherwise
they are.

His address is:

0700chu@cbacc.cba.uga.edu

(His name is Chris).

Thanx a lot for your help.
Newsgroups: rec.humor
From: jd@dickens.com (Joe Dudar)
Subject: Re: names - funny
Date: Thu, 30 Jul 1992 14:26:02 GMT
Organization: Dickens Data Systems, Inc.

Seen on a graduation program (masters):  Win Silver Wang.
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jd@dickens.com   |  has to climb over enough of them, he might inadvertently
Atlanta, GA      |  fall on top of her.
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From: viking@iastate.edu (Dan Sorenson)
Subject: Re: Hick joke (Quayle)
Organization: Iowa State University, Ames IA
Date: Fri, 24 Jul 1992 05:45:41 GMT

In <1992Jul24.125848.89510@vaxc.cc.monash.edu.au> che238n@vaxc.cc.monash.edu.au writes:

>In article <1992Jul21.184631.18986@rs6000.cmp.ilstu.edu>, ejhupper@rs6000.cmp.ilstu.edu (Eric Huppertz) writes:

>> I have this friend...his name is "Shy Shy".  Actually, his name is
>> Mike Scheier, but everyone calls him Shy Shy.  So anyway, his birthday
>> is in a few days, see and he's from Omaha, Nebraska, so we kind of
>> make fun of him being a hick.  So....

	Too simple: What's the mating cry of a Nebraskan Hick?

	a: "Go Big Red!"

	(hint: the Nebraska football team is called the Cornhuskers, and
wear red jerseys, hence called the Big Red.  It's a local thing.)
From: doug@e7sa.epi.syr.ge.com (Doug Smith)
Newsgroups: rec.humor
Subject: FUNNY NAMES
Date: 23 Jul 92 12:54:25 GMT
Reply-To: doug@e7sa.epi.syr.ge.com
Organization: General Electric

I went to high school with Sandy Rump and later worked with a (James) Harry Dick. The worst joke is getting stuck with a name like Smith...

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From: kinzler@cs.indiana.edu
Newsgroups: rec.humor.oracle
Subject: Usenet Oracle temporarily off-line
Date: 25 Jul 92 15:38:42 GMT
Reply-To: kinzler@cs.indiana.edu
Followup-To: rec.humor.oracle.d
Organization: Computer Science, Indiana University

Iuvax, and thus the Usenet Oracle, will be down and out of service
starting Sunday 26 July.  The machine, a VAX 8800, is being replaced
with a Sun server.  Since I'm still in Spain and at my busiest with the
Olympics starting today, I haven't had a chance to completely port the
Usenet Oracle software to the new machine.  So, it may be some time
until the Oracle service is available again.  Hopefully, not too many
days, but it's hard to tell now.  If there are serious complications, it
might take weeks.  Sorry for the short notice, but this news kind of
caught me by surpise, too.  Eventually and certainly, however, the
Usenet Oracle shall return to the net.  It's been running non-stop for
almost 3 years now and there're no plans to stop.  In the meantime, the
priests can take a break and the supplicants and incarnations can save
up some creative juices.  I will post another message here when the
Oracle is back on-line.  Take care, enjoy the summer (for those of you
in the northern hemisphere, at least) and the Games on television.

Steve "live from Montjuic (Mount Olympus at the moment)" Kinzler
From: mcgee@nic.csu.net
Newsgroups: rec.humor.oracle.d
Subject: A modest proposal
Date: 28 Jul 92 14:22:01 GMT
Organization: Information Resources and Technology

Hi, all!

In the absence of the Oracle, may I make a suggestion?
How about if a supplicant creates both a question
*and* and answer, and posts them here? I've got some
great question/answer combinations in mind, and it
might be a good way to pass the time away until Steve 
wins his final gold medal and fixes the box.

Rich, The Novice Priest
Newsgroups: rec.humor.oracle.d
From: ewhac@ntg.com (Leo 'Bols Ewhac' Schwab)
Subject: Re: A modest proposal
Organization: Politically Incorrect Software, Ltd.
Date: Wed, 29 Jul 1992 17:03:54 GMT

In article <Bs3vEC.4tA@acsu.buffalo.edu> lyda@acsu.buffalo.edu (kevin lyda) writes:
>Excuse my ignorence, but what is Steve competing for?
>
	I heard a rumor that Steve was the guy that shot the arrow to light
the Olympic flame, but I don't buy it myself....

(-: (-: (-: (-: (-: (-: (-: (-: (-: (-: :-) :-) :-) :-) :-) :-) :-) :-) :-) :-)
Leo L. Schwab -- The Guy in The Cape                    ewhac@ntg.com
 \_ -_          Recumbent Bikes:                ..or..  ewhac@well.sf.ca.us
O----^o       The Only Way To Fly.                     (pronounced "EH-wack")
         "Because you never know who might want to sit in your lap."
From: wirzeniu@klaava.Helsinki.FI (Lars Wirzenius)
Newsgroups: rec.humor.oracle.d
Subject: Re: A modest proposal
Date: 29 Jul 92 19:08:01 GMT
Organization: University of Helsinki

ewhac@ntg.com (Leo 'Bols Ewhac' Schwab) writes:
>	I heard a rumor that Steve was the guy that shot the arrow to light
>the Olympic flame, but I don't buy it myself....

Oh, I thought that was the Oracle getting mad at not getting any
questions anymore and Zotting the whole Olympic Games.

--
Lars.Wirzenius@helsinki.fi	"hate them myself"
From: swb@ccwf.cc.utexas.edu (Steve Buffum)
Newsgroups: rec.humor.oracle.d
Subject: Oracle Mailer Problems
Date: 27 Jul 92 15:41:51 GMT
Reply-To: swb@ccwf.cc.utexas.edu (Steve Buffum)
Organization: Just Some Guy
Originator: swb@mickey.cc.utexas.edu


	In trying to mail to the Oracle, I got my mail returned and a cryptic
message about an "unknown mailer error 1".

	Has anyone else received this error?  If the net.oracle.deities read
this newsgroup, please take a peek at the mailer (the machine from which
the mail was returned was actually "moose" not "iuvax").

					Steve.
-- 
  ___________________________________________________________________________
  |         Steve Buffum          | Personal : swb@ccwf.cc.utexas.edu       |
  |       General Libraries       | Phone    : 512 495 4391 (W)		    |
  | University of Texas at Austin |                                         |
  |            MAI 28             | "But I came here for an Argument!"      |
  |       Austin, TX 78701        | "Oh, sorry.  This is Abuse."            |
From: gn@st-andrews.ac.uk (Greg Newman)
Newsgroups: rec.humor.oracle.d
Subject: Pressing Oracle...
Date: 31 Jul 92 10:59:41 GMT
Followup-To: rec.humor.oracle.d
Organization: St. Andrews University, Scotland.

Something I spotted in alt.books.technical recently:

In article <1992Jul30.022144.8975@tdmuscs2.uucp> rock@kami.uucp (Rock Lee)
writes:
>Hi, Oracle gurus:
>
>A friend of mine is learning how to use Oracle. A good introductory book
>certainly will help. Any comment on the following two books?
>
>1. "ORACLE: the complete reference" by George Koch, 1991, Osborne McGraw-Hill
>2. "ORACLE: database developer's guide" by Ulka Rodgers, 1991, Prentice-Hall
>
>It will be even better if you can recommend some other better book(s) on
>Oracle. Thanks in advance for your valuable information.
>
>
>-- Y. Rock Lee
>   512-795-2119
>   mpd.tandem.com

Sheesh - the Oracle is down for a few days and everyone wants to make
one...! ;-)

Greg "What's a database anyway?"
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Newsgroups: rec.humor.oracle.d
From: asbestos@nwu.edu (Michael A. Atkinson)
Subject: Re: Oracle Mailer Problems
Followup-To: rec.humor.oracle.d
Originator: mikea@casbah.acns.nwu.edu
Organization: Chaos
Date: Mon, 27 Jul 1992 19:04:34 GMT

In article <76645@ut-emx.uucp> swb@ccwf.cc.utexas.edu (Steve Buffum) writes:
>
>	In trying to mail to the Oracle, I got my mail returned and a cryptic
>message about an "unknown mailer error 1".
>
>	Has anyone else received this error?  If the net.oracle.deities read
>this newsgroup, please take a peek at the mailer (the machine from which
>the mail was returned was actually "moose" not "iuvax").
>
>					Steve.

Iuvax is down for replacement.  The Oracle is similarly down until further
notice (hopefully within a week, but I make no promises).

Mike Atkinson,
Oracle Priest

-- 
Michael A. Atkinson       | "Just stop whining." - Rebecca 
asbestos@nwu.edu          |

            A Libertarian and an NRA member.
From: steve1@genesis.nred.ma.us (Steve Belczyk)
Newsgroups: rec.humor.oracle.d
Subject: Alternative Oracle
Date: 30 Jul 92 05:16:43 GMT
Organization: Genesis Public Access Minix  +1 508 664 0149

Given that the real Oracle is unavailable, I thought I'd mention that
we have a rather modest Oracle implementation running here.  Send mail
with the word "help" in the subject line to oracle@genesis.nred.ma.us
for more information.

steve belczyk  steve1@genesis.nred.ma.us
Genesis Public Access Minix:  +1 508 664 0149
3 lines, free Usenet News and mail, HST, V.32
From: cah@pdx.csd.mot.com (Chris Huey)
Newsgroups: rec.humor.oracle.d
Subject: Re: A modest proposal
Date: 30 Jul 92 22:14:01 GMT
Article-I.D.: pdxvme.1273
Organization: Motorola CSD, Beaverton, OR
X-Newsreader: Tin 1.1 PL3

ewhac@ntg.com (Leo 'Bols Ewhac' Schwab) writes:
: In article <Bs3vEC.4tA@acsu.buffalo.edu> lyda@acsu.buffalo.edu (kevin lyda) writes:
: >Excuse my ignorence, but what is Steve competing for?
: >
: 	I heard a rumor that Steve was the guy that shot the arrow to light
: the Olympic flame, but I don't buy it myself....
: 
: (-: (-: (-: (-: (-: (-: (-: (-: (-: (-: :-) :-) :-) :-) :-) :-) :-) :-) :-) :-)

That wasn't an arrow; that was a <ZOT>! (Ouch, that was close!)

-- 
Chris Huey                             Motorola Inc., Computer Systems Division
cah@pdx.csd.mot.com                                                            
Voice: (503) 644-4346                  ... uunet!apple!motcsd!mcspdx!cah
"In the beginning was the word, 2 bytes long, aligned on an even boundary."
From: poulson@cs.widener.edu (Joshua R. Poulson)
Newsgroups: rec.humor.oracle.d
Subject: Re: A modest proposal
Date: 29 Jul 1992 11:28:27 -0400
Organization: Widener Univ. Dept. of Computing Services
NNTP-Posting-Host: lisa.cs.widener.edu

In article <Bs3vEC.4tA@acsu.buffalo.edu> lyda@acsu.buffalo.edu (kevin lyda) writes:
>Excuse my ignorence, but what is Steve competing for?

He is doing some of the graphics that you see on the TV. :)
-- 
Joshua R. Poulson (NIC handle: JRP8)       [Joshua R. Poulson@cyber.Widener.EDU]
Systems Programmer, Widener University     [poulson@cs.Widener.EDU]
"Try to be sensitive..." -- the Usenet Oracle Helpfile (send a mail
message with the subject "help" to oracle@iuvax.cs.indiana.edu)
From: ed@fhouse.UUCP (Ed Felton)
Newsgroups: rec.humor.oracle.d
Subject: Re: Oracle Mailer Problems
Date: 30 Jul 92 15:44:45 GMT
Organization: Summa Technology, Inc.

asbestos@nwu.edu (Michael A. Atkinson @ Chaos) once wrote....
>In article <76645@ut-emx.uucp> swb@ccwf.cc.utexas.edu (Steve Buffum) writes:
>>
>>      In trying to mail to the Oracle, I got my mail returned and a cryptic
>>message about an "unknown mailer error 1".
>>
>>      Has anyone else received this error?  If the net.oracle.deities read
>>this newsgroup, please take a peek at the mailer (the machine from which
>>the mail was returned was actually "moose" not "iuvax").
>>
>>                                      Steve.
>
>Iuvax is down for replacement.  The Oracle is similarly down until further
>notice (hopefully within a week, but I make no promises).
>
>Mike Atkinson,
>Oracle Priest

  So, the oracle finally outgrew iuvax...  I told him it would happen if
  he kept up this answering all questions business!

>
>-- 
>Michael A. Atkinson       | "Just stop whining." - Rebecca 
>asbestos@nwu.edu          |
>
>            A Libertarian and an NRA member.

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From: nolan@helios.unl.edu (Michael Nolan)
Subject: Re: A modest proposal
Reply-To: nolan@helios.unl.edu
Organization: University of Nebraska - Lincoln
Date: 29 Jul 92 19:37:46 GMT

ewhac@ntg.com (Leo 'Bols Ewhac' Schwab) writes:

>In article <Bs3vEC.4tA@acsu.buffalo.edu> lyda@acsu.buffalo.edu (kevin lyda) writes:
>>Excuse my ignorence, but what is Steve competing for?
>>
>	I heard a rumor that Steve was the guy that shot the arrow to light
>the Olympic flame, but I don't buy it myself....

Actually, the whole opening ceremonies were a computer simulation by Kinzler &
Company, Ltd.  The *real* Olympics don't start until next week.  (And I think
the Usenet Olympics aren't until October!)
---
Harold The Foot
Newsgroups: rec.humor.oracle.d
From: ptaylor@airfarce.Canada.Sun.COM 
Subject: Re: Oracle Mailer Problems
Reply-To: ptaylor@airfarce.Canada.Sun.COM
Organization: Sun Microsystems
Date: Tue, 28 Jul 1992 13:06:41 GMT


asbestos@nwu.edu (Michael A. Atkinson) writes:
> swb@ccwf.cc.utexas.edu (Steve Buffum) writes:
> >
> >	In trying to mail to the Oracle, I got my mail returned and a cryptic
> >message about an "unknown mailer error 1".
> >
> >	Has anyone else received this error?  If the net.oracle.deities read
> >this newsgroup, please take a peek at the mailer (the machine from which
> >the mail was returned was actually "moose" not "iuvax").
> >
> >					Steve.
> 
> Iuvax is down for replacement.  The Oracle is similarly down until further
> notice (hopefully within a week, but I make no promises).
> 
> Mike Atkinson,
> Oracle Priest

I'm barely qualified as an Oracle incarnation, but I can foresee a whole
lot of postings like Steve's until the software is back up and running.

Perhaps one of the priesthood could take it upon themselves to make a 
regular posting to r.h.o. &/or r.h.o.d. so that Steve Kinzler's message 
is repeated for those who missed it first time around?

					Your humble servant
						(..ohh, stop grovelling.....

___________________________________________________________________________
Peter K. Taylor			||	Grab your egg-and-fours and	
Northern Hemisphere &		||	let's get the bacon delivered!
Western Hemisphere		||
Planet Earth			||			mpfc
From: jfw@ksr.com (John F. Woods)
Newsgroups: rec.humor.oracle.d
Subject: Re: A modest proposal
Date: 28 Jul 92 14:50:43 EDT

lyda@acsu.buffalo.edu (kevin lyda) writes:
>Excuse my ignorence, but what is Steve competing for?

The fun of it?

Newsgroups: rec.humor.oracle.d
From: harvey@indyvax.iupui.edu
Subject: Re: Oracle Mailer Problems
Organization: Indiana University
Date: 29 Jul 92 17:17:09 -0500

In article <1992Jul28.130641.27790@newscan.canada.sun.com>, ptaylor@airfarce.Canada.Sun.COM  writes:
>
> asbestos@nwu.edu (Michael A. Atkinson) writes:
>> swb@ccwf.cc.utexas.edu (Steve Buffum) writes:
>> >
>> >	In trying to mail to the Oracle, I got my mail returned and a cryptic
>> >message about an "unknown mailer error 1".
>> >
>> >	Has anyone else received this error?  If the net.oracle.deities read
>> >this newsgroup, please take a peek at the mailer (the machine from which
>> >the mail was returned was actually "moose" not "iuvax").
>> >
>> >					Steve.
>>
>> Iuvax is down for replacement.  The Oracle is similarly down until further
>> notice (hopefully within a week, but I make no promises).
>>
>> Mike Atkinson,
>> Oracle Priest
>
> I'm barely qualified as an Oracle incarnation, but I can foresee a whole
> lot of postings like Steve's until the software is back up and running.
>
> Perhaps one of the priesthood could take it upon themselves to make a
> regular posting to r.h.o. &/or r.h.o.d. so that Steve Kinzler's message
> is repeated for those who missed it first time around?

iuvax was MXed to moose, now it appears that this has been changed so that
iuvax is a nickname for moose.  Perhaps moose could be temporarily setup so
that mail for the Oracle could be bounced with a special message like "the
Oracle is down for replacement until further notice" ? ...  (it would be
tempting to make it say "vacationing on Mount Olympus until further notice",
but then we'd be getting questions about what _that_ meant :-).

--
James Harvey    IUPUI OIT Technical Support/Networks
harvey@iupui.edu  uucp: iugate!harvey  bitnet: harvey@indyvax
From: johnson@spectra.com (boyd johnson)
Newsgroups: rec.humor.oracle.d
Subject: Re: A modest proposal
Date: 30 Jul 92 17:53:16 GMT
Organization: Spectragraphics Corporation

In article <nolan.712438666@helios> nolan@helios.unl.edu writes:
>ewhac@ntg.com (Leo 'Bols Ewhac' Schwab) writes:
>
>>In article <Bs3vEC.4tA@acsu.buffalo.edu> lyda@acsu.buffalo.edu (kevin lyda) writes:
>>>Excuse my ignorence, but what is Steve competing for?
>>>
>>	I heard a rumor that Steve was the guy that shot the arrow to light
>>the Olympic flame, but I don't buy it myself....

So that's the optical (light?) network he was setting up there.
Much faster than sneakernet, but a very low baud rate.

>Actually, the whole opening ceremonies were a computer simulation by Kinzler &
>Company, Ltd.  The *real* Olympics don't start until next week.  (And I think
>the Usenet Olympics aren't until October!)

Is it anything like the movie "Capricorn 1" where they faked the first 
manned moon mission?
I bet they did it all on an SGI Indigo.

-- 
======== Boyd Johnson    nosc!spectra.com!johnson  San Diego, Ca. ========
From: mcsweinberg@memstvx1.memst.edu
Newsgroups: rec.humor
Subject: Re: NAMES - FUNNY
Date: 22 Jul 92 08:51:22 -0600
Distribution: world
Organization: Memphis State University

In article <1992Jul22.125314.12471@phillip.edu.au>, t9014123@phillip.edu.au writes:
> What about the poor kid whose sirname was Bates, can't remember the
> movie/show... he was called Master Bates by his teachers...
> 
This was in _THE TOY_.

Rai.
> hehe
> 
> -- 
> ---------------------------------------------------------------------
> Grant Fisher
> T9014123@phillip.edu.au
> gfisher@arcadia.mc.phillip.edu.au
> ---------------------------------------------------------------------
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