From: gavron@spades.aces.com (Ehud Gavron 602-570-2000 x. 2546)
Newsgroups: comp.os.vms
Subject: Re: How I contact to ARPANET...
Date: 13 Jan 93 02:44:00 GMT
Reply-To: gavron@ACES.COM
Organization: ACES Consulting Inc.
News-Software: VAX/VMS VNEWS 1.4-b1

In article <9301121744.AA03814@ucbvax.Berkeley.EDU>, MCMAHON@AC.GRIN.EDU ("McMahon,Brian D") writes...
#* deep breath *
# 
#* extra cup of coffee *
# 
#* aspirin *
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#> What do I do to contact to ARPANET because I send some message to this but I
#> received saying That this address UNKNONW of thsi ARPANET.
# 
#Complete nonsense.  The ARPANET was the precursor to what we now call the
#Internet.  As such, ARPANET no longer exists.  Now, in order to give a
#_useful_ answer, we need _useful_ information:

WHAT?  I can't believe that on INFOVAX-L you would insist that someone
ask a useful question.  What happenned to all the nice people?  I am
aghast* that you could say this to My Friend Sabry (tm) who has obviously
expended a great deal of time and energy lately posting to info-vax.
And how much have you posted, oh Brian McMahon from Grinnell, with
the gorgeous coworker who I run into at weddings and DECUSes and never
remember her name, huh?  How much do you post? Well, so there, obviously
not as much as Sabry.

Oh no, you can sit back and flame him for asking a stupid question, when
we all know THERE IS NO SUCH THING AS A STUPID QUESTION!!!**

I am ashamed and disgusted and really really sorry for My Friend
Sabry that this happenned.

#DATA, blast it.  We need DATA.  Or maybe more aspirin.

Such rudeness.

Well I'd like to take this opportunity to introduce the
	My Friend Sabry Doll!

Yes, this furry cuddly fuzzy doll will sleep with you, bathe with
you, offer you companionship, and even ask good questions.  Here are
some of the phrases this speaking doll says:
	"My system VAX twelve megabytes!"
	"I connect how ARPANET."
	"SYSGEN PARAMETER [and list]"
	and much much more!

Now how much would you pay?  Well don't answer yet because you also
get the Laut addon.  This little pack slips onto My Friend Sabry Doll
and makes it offer biblical lessons like:
	"Friends all be lets"
		and
	"other cheek turn, parameter where?"

Now how much would you pay?  Well it comes with the Vance Hammerly
Gratuitous Command Procedure, guaranteed to demonstrate bad DCL code
any novice can use to fix. 

You can use My Friend Sabry to instruct, to teach, and to carry with
you to have as a friend while everyone else is in the bedroom having fun.
You can have My Friend Sabry to hug and hold and feel warm and cuddly,
because there is no such thing as a stupid answer!

The My Friend Sabry fuzzy doll is on sale at a store near you.

#Brian McMahon (BDM13)    <MCMAHON@GRIN1.BITNET>    <MCMAHON@AC.GRIN.EDU>
#Postmaster / Acad. Software Support   Grinnell College Computer Services
#Grinnell, Iowa 50112 USA   Voice: +1 515 269 4901   Fax: +1 515 269 4936

Ehud

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Ehud Gavron        (EG76)     
gavron@aces.com


* For those non-English speakers, "aghast" is a word in English.

**There are really DUMB ASS FUCKING questions, but most people call
  them stupid.  Those who say "there are no such things as stupid
  questions" just know them by their other name, because these are
  typically the people who ask them.  See references Kotob, Laut, etc...