From: swb@ccwf.cc.utexas.edu (Steve Buffum)
Newsgroups: alt.fan.warlord
Subject: Re: Battletech: You want munchkin?
Date: 15 Dec 92 22:43:36 GMT
Organization: Just Some Guy


	alt.beer was a false alarm, I admit.  But this rec.games.mecha is
a GOLDMINE!

	If you don't get this gem, try reading "junk".

	By the way, the Petester actually included this monstrosity TWICE
in this posting; I have deleted the first occurence since:

1) it is monstrous
2) my newsposter requires that I type more lines of text than I include

	Which is going to be tough on this one.

In article <1992Dec10.165730.1@kosmos.wcc.govt.nz> hamilton_p@kosmos.wcc.govt.nz writes:
>    _____________________________________________________________________
>   /  Sho-sa Peter Hamilton                                              \
>   |  Commander Charlie Company                                          |
>   |  First Battalion                                                    |
>   |  37th Dieron Regulars              _______________________________  |
>   |  DCMS (3056)                      /  E-mail me at                 \ |
>   |  {The real me}                    | HAMILTON_P@KOSMOS.WCC.GOVT.NZ | |
>   |        |                          | if you have any thing to say. | |
>   |       AKA                         \_______________________________/ |
>   |        |                                                            |
>   |   Tai-sa Harry M. Kemp                                              |
>   |   Commander 37th Dieron Regulars                                    |
>   |   DCMS (3027)                                                       |
>   |        |                                                            |
>   |       AKA                                                           |
>   |        |                                                            |
>   |    Star Captain Sil Ward                                            |
>   |   Commander 11th wolf Guard                                         |
>   |   Delta Galaxy                                                      |
>   |   Clan Wolf (3056)                                                  |
>   \_____________________________________________________________________/

	At first glance, I thought that Captain Whitespace had attacked
New Zealand with the Dieron Regulars and blasted forth with a whole battalion
of null-firing ballistic missiles, but upon further reflection, it appears
that the Tai-sa was trying vainly to disprove the Four-Color Map Theorem
by using the time-honored "island" approach.  Sadly, the theorem has been
proven, but this does not stop enterprising twelve-year-olds of all ages
from doodling in the margins of their notebooks during seventh-grade Health
class.

	The question that comes (nay, LEAPS) to mind is whether the Star
Captain has ever taken the advice of his island and waited until he had
something to SAY before laying out TWO COPIES of inane (yet mathematically
unsophisticated) gibberish out onto the Net.

	As a parting word, we hear from the REAL Captain himself:

"Alas, poor inews, I knew him, Meach."
-- Capt. W.B. Cheese, upon seeing that Peter Hamilton's double-signature
   was not truncated mercilessly

--
Steve Buffum           | "Fly by night away from here,
swb@ccwf.cc.utexas.edu |  There's too many crackling salesmen." -- Lee Lexpear
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