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From: magundi@gaul.csd.uwo.ca (john macdonald)
Subject: Re: family circus
Organization: Computer Science Dept., Univ. of Western Ontario, London, Canada
Date: Fri, 10 Apr 1992 18:50:48 GMT

In article <1992Apr07.215811.42091@cs.cmu.edu> kji+@SPEECH1.CS.CMU.EDU (Kathi Iannamico) writes:
>
>Can someone come up with a good example of "Nancy"?  I haven't read it
>in years, so it's not fresh in my mind.
>

I would if I could but there is no "good" example of "Nancy".

john
From: gt4646a@prism.gatech.EDU (Rob Beauchamp)
Newsgroups: rec.arts.comics.strips
Subject: Re: Mr. Boffo Rules! (Was: Re: Calvin and Hobbes)
Date: 8 Apr 92 20:22:22 GMT
Organization: Georgia Institute of Technology


 Eric T Sasse writes:
>  Haven't seen this strip in years! Isn't it the same author who draws 
>Willie and Ethel? Now THAT'S humor too!!!!

Yep-- same guy. Joe Martin. 

Willie's slouched in a ratty chair, watching TV, with the remains of
several frozen meals, bags of potato chips, and a lot of empty beer
cans lying around. The Devil is standing next to him, saying, 
   "Normally I try to encourage this kind of stuff, but, I mean,
    there IS a limit!"

-- 
Rob Beauchamp                           \  It's better to be rich and healthy
Georgia Institute of Technology           \    than poor and sick.    
Disclaimer: Back off, man. I'm a scientist. \    -- Dave Barry's mother
From: gregm@sail.LABS.TEK.COM (Greg Montgomery)
Newsgroups: rec.arts.comics.strips
Subject: Boo
Keywords: not original (from comp.graphics)
Date: 7 Apr 92 20:27:01 GMT
Organization: Tektronix Inc., Beaverton, Or.



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From: dcohn@kuhub.cc.ukans.edu
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Subject: <None>
Date: 8 Apr 92 09:48:09 CDT
Organization: University of Kansas Academic Computing Services

I always wanted to be the first to post somewhere! :)
dan

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From: jaguar@netcom.com (Elaine Pang)
Subject: Re: Calvin and Hobbes
Date: Wed, 08 Apr 92 00:43:00 GMT
Organization: Netcom - Online Communication Services  (408 241-9760 guest) 

hship@sw.stratus.com (Howard Ship) writes:

>Personally, I thin C&S is wonderful, but don't discount Robot Man and
                    ^^^I presume you mean Calvin & Hobbes... :)
I just wanted to say, I think the Fusco Brothers beats Robotman any day.
C&H reign, of course!!  The dog in F Bros is so incredibly sarcastic!
And the fumblings of the brothers, especially with women... total laughs!
(please excuse all the exclamation points.)
>-- 
>"Is that real blood?" 
>Howard_Ship@vos.stratus.com
-- 

		  ...............................
			  *jaguar  woman*
			(jaguar@netcom.com)
                  ...............................
                  i'm walking  through the desert
             and i am not frightened although it's hot
                    i have all that i requested
               and i do not want  what i haven't got
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From: Ben Fulton <fulton@copper.ucs.indiana.edu>
Subject: Re: Calvin vs Jason (ho'od win? :-)
Organization: Indiana University
Date: Thu, 16 Apr 1992 08:16:31 -0500

In <yjzjht#.derek@netcom.com> derek@netcom.com (Derek LeLash) writes:

>>While Calvin would no doubt have fun tormenting Paige (Paige could
>>babysit instead of Rosalyn),
>>
>Now *this* is a golden crossover opportunity if I've ever seen one!!!
>How about it, Bill and Bill?   :-)

I can just imagine Paige returning home and giving Jason a big hug,
"Jason, I'm *sooo* glad that *you're* my brother!"  :-)

ben
fulton@copper.ucs.indiana.edu
right here, right now
there is no other place I'd rather be!
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From: hshubs@eff.org (Howard Shubs)
Subject: Re: Family Circus
Originator: hshubs@eff.org
Organization: Electronic Frontier Foundation
Date: Tue, 7 Apr 1992 20:17:21 GMT

In article <1992Apr07.192516.230591@cs.cmu.edu> kji+@SPEECH1.CS.CMU.EDU (Kathi Iannamico) writes:
>I hate that syrupy piece of crap.  It used to be good years ago, but now
>it's nauseating.
>
>And what is this guy's hang-up with dead people?

You want to talk about -bad-?  Look at Garfield!  It was good once
upon a time, but they ran out of stuff to say with it -years- ago!  I
wish they'd put it out of its misery, like Berke Breathed did with
Bloom County three years ago.

Now _there_ is a class-act.  Bloom County was SUPERB for a number of
years, but it went down hill and the stripper (to use his term)
recognized the fact and let it go.  I can really respect that, as
opposed to Garfield and <retch> Peanuts.

-- 
Howard S Shubs      hshubs@eff.org      I don't represent the EFF,
The Denim Adept     hshubs@BIX.com      but I do agree with them.
From: v070n53b@ubvmsb.cc.buffalo.edu (MARK PRZYBYSZEWSKI)
Newsgroups: rec.arts.comics.strips
Subject: Re: Calvin and Hobbes Snowmen
Date: 17 Apr 92 17:37:00 GMT
Organization: University at Buffalo
News-Software: VAX/VMS VNEWS 1.41

In article <1992Apr14.211241.4994@rsg1.er.usgs.gov>, ssnyder@sunai.er.usgs.gov (Steve Snyder) writes...
>More of my favorite calvin snowmen:
> 
>A whole bunch of tiny snowmen and Calvin with that look on his face 
>pretending he's Godzilla about to smash them all.
> 
>Dad coming home from work and walking by a whole line of saluting
>snowmen. Dad says "He knows I hate this."
> 
>A snowman holding its head in its outstretched arms. The head has a very
>surprised look on its face.

The snowman split in two by a sled (toboggan?) and the tiny snowman on top 
of it turned around to see what it did.

The snowman with its body shot out by a snow-cannonball.

These were in the same strip along with another one, but I don't remember
what it was.  Details?
> 
>-Steve-
+++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++
+ Mark Przybyszewski 	v070n53b@ubvms.cc.buffalo.edu	v070n53b@ubvms.bitnet +
+ 				GO BILLS IN '92!			      +
+++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++
+ I may not be the president, I may not be the pope, but as long as I have    +
+ Gritty Kitty, I shall never mope!	Stimpson J. Cat, Ren and Stimpy	      +
+++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++	
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From: jac15@po.CWRU.Edu (Jeffrey A. Curtis)
Subject: Re: Calvin and Hobbes Question
Organization: Case Western Reserve University, Cleveland, Ohio, (USA)
Date: Thu, 16 Apr 92 16:19:38 GMT


The new Calvin & Hobbes Sunday strips are simply wonderful--They
really harken back to the classics like Little Nemo and Krazy Kat
with their use of the full allotment of space provided rather
than strict use of panels that can be cut or re-ordered to 
please the editors...  Can you imagine what he could do if he
was given a WHOLE PAGE like they used to do?  Hey--I'd pay a
dollar a week (the price of our local Sunday paper which is
basically a reprint of the previous week's New York Times[the
Cleveland Plain Dealer]) just for that!

I hope that the papers don't get too stingy or put pressure
on Watterson to change his "art"!
-- 
=======>My Smile Is Stuck:  I Cannot Go Back To Your Frownland!..
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From: allan@cs.UAlberta.CA (Allan Sullivan)
Subject: Re: Mother Goose and Grimm
Organization: University of Alberta, Edmonton, Canada
Distribution: york
Date: Fri, 10 Apr 1992 11:17:09 GMT

cs902060@ariel.yorku.ca (GEOFFREY E DIAS) writes:

>In article <204623@unix.cis.pitt.edu>, dtate@unix.cis.pitt.edu (David M Tate) writes:
>>> Best MG&G:  "Alice in Wonder Bread"
>	I really liked the "jello in the fishbowl" bit. The strip caught me totally off-guard.

I like the one with "Conan the Librarian".

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From: kiran@bronze.ucs.indiana.edu (Kiran Wagle)
Subject: Re: I Go Pogo
Organization: Indiana University
Date: Tue, 7 Apr 92 21:51:37 GMT

ide@studio.enet.dec.com (Jamie Ide) writes:

>Anyone else out there follow Pogo?  
I follow the original strip.

>What do you think of the present incarnation
After a year, it seemed to be hitting a stride, but it wasn't Walt
Kelly. Occasionally the characters would say the wrong thing, and the
tone of the strip was far too strident. Kelly always saw the humor in
everything, the new authors harangued us with their political views
far beyond the point of humor.

The sunday strips were far better, but still didn't live up to the
original. 
-- 
"The truffle is not an outright aphrodisiac, but it may in certain
 circumstances make women more affectionate and men more amiable."
                                                ...Brillat-Savarin

Organization: Sophomore, Math/Computer Science, Carnegie Mellon, Pittsburgh, PA
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Date: Thu,  9 Apr 1992 15:28:35 -0400 
From: Vernon H Harmon <vh00+@andrew.cmu.edu>
Subject: Re: My Favorite Far Side

>another fav I haven't seen mentioned
>is the What We Say To Dogs, where the guy balls out his dog Ginger,
>and the only words Ginger hears and recognizes are "Ginger"

I first saw that one (What We Say To Dogs/What They Hear) on the
desk-top calendar. And while it was funny, what was even funnier was
that the next day's comic was What We Say To Cats/What They Hear and of
course, the cat didn't even hear its name, just a bunch of nonsense. I
was ROFL!!

--Vernon.
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From: moconnor@pms704.pms.ford.com (Mike O'Connor)
Subject: Re: Calvin and Hobbes
X-Disclaimer: Not an official spokesperson for Ford Motor Co.
Reply-To: Mike O'Connor <mjo@fmsrl7.srl.ford.com>
Organization: "Fordz"
Date: Tue, 7 Apr 1992 19:24:56 GMT

In article <1992Apr7.184259.6196@acsu.buffalo.edu>
v121r529@ubvmsb.cc.buffalo.edu (Scott A Elwood) writes:

:Calvin and Hobbes is by far the best comic strip around.  Just trying to
:start some arguments... 8)

Who'd argue with such a thing?

-- 
 Mike O'Connor                     |  Ford Motor Company, USA
 Applications Systems Analyst      |  CPD P&MS ECC Core Software
 Phone #:  +1 (313) 390-4008       |  P.O. Box 2053, ECC MD-7
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From: sos@oz.plymouth.edu (Steffan O'Sullivan)
Subject: Re: Compilations
Reply-To: sos@oz.plymouth.edu (Steffan O'Sullivan)
Organization: Plymouth State College - Plymouth, N.H.
Date: Wed, 8 Apr 92 15:31:04 GMT

isbell@ai.mit.edu (Charles L Isbell) writes:
>
>Anyone know if there are any Robotman compilations?  

I have three Robotman books, and constantly look for a new one.  The
first one is _Robotman Takes Off_, and the second is on loan to my
brother, so I can't look it up exactly, but I think it's _The Untold
Story_.  The third is _Cyberpunktrek_.  All excellent!

I have one Mr. Boffo collection - are there any more?  How about
Dilbert?

-- 
  - Steffan O'Sullivan		         sos@oz.plymouth.edu
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From: markrose@spss.com (Mark Rosenfelder)
Subject: Re: Comic Strips -- American Cultural Imperialism over Canada
Date: Wed, 08 Apr 1992 16:45:53 GMT
Organization: SPSS Inc.

In article <steph.702714993@pegasus.cs.uiuc.edu> steph@cs.uiuc.edu (Dale Stephenson) writes:
>For Better and For Worse has at least one explicit reference to Canada --
>recent she visited her parents in Vancouver.  If there were more Canadian
>strips, there would be more Canadian references.  

There's been more references over the years.  I don't know why one would
demand more; the strip is not about Being Canadian, it just happens to
be set in Canada.

>Andy Capp is full of
>British references, and I've always assumed Fred Basset is from England
>was well.  

Yes, he is.  However, the Fred Basset strips are altered when printed in 
the U.S. to eliminate anglicisms-- altering "pounds" to "dollars" for instance.
Fairly insulting, if you think about it.
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From: irving@casbah.acns.nwu.edu (Thomas Myers)
Subject: Peanuts C&H, Foxtrot, Far SIde
Organization: Northwestern University, Evanston, Illinois
Date: Wed, 8 Apr 1992 00:29:15 GMT


Well, yes, C&H is #1, numero uno, the big cheese, but Foxtrot pounds right on
it's heels.  (Don't you think Indy - 16?)  

K&H is perfect, The adult view pushed through the child.

Foxtrot is perfect, too.  If you have kids, you know.
(How did Quincy behave?
 <List of destroyed objects - all his firend's sister's)
 Wow, that well?!)
 To see the brother's playing together, as well as being completely
incompatible is just exactly right.

The Far Side - "It's not funny if you have to explain it."  When I say that to
someone who says "I don't get it."  I feel soooooo superior.  Sometimes I
laugh at the stupid ones just to piss them off.

I get the Chicago Tribune and The New York Times.  
	Times = News	Trib = Comics	

(All "Sun Times is better" flames to \dev\null please.)
-- 
Tom Myers, Programmer/Analyst				Email: t-myers@nwu.edu
Reingold ECG Center - Northwestern University
From: steinar@faust.solan.unit.no (Cindy Kandolf)
Newsgroups: rec.arts.comics.strips
Subject: Re: C&H translated where? (Was: Re: Needed: COMPLETE)
Date: 14 Apr 92 14:02:45 GMT
	<1992Apr8.145629.25882@coe.montana.edu> <53938@hydra.gatech.EDU>
	<taube.350@oregon.uoregon.edu> <1992Apr13.030029.5572@odin.diku.dk>
Organization: Flodnak, Inc., Trondheim, Norway

Niels Elgaard Larsen writes:
>taube@oregon.uoregon.edu (Christian Taube) writes:
>
>>In article <53938@hydra.gatech.EDU> gt4646a@prism.gatech.EDU (Rob Beauchamp) w\rites:
>>>My younger sister came back from a semester studying in Mexico with
>>>a C&H book called "Calvin y Hobbes 4". Wonder how many other languages
>>>they've been translated into.
>
>Danish.
>In Demark the names are ``Steen'' and ``Stoffer''. Steen (english: stone) is
>an ordinary boys name. Stoffer can be a short form of Christopher but is also
>a hint on the fabric, Hobbes is made of.

In Norwegian it is "Tommy & Tigern".  "The tiger" would be "Tigeren" in 
Norwegian but it's pronounced "Tigern", so the names are kind of boring.

-Cindy Kandolf
 cindy@solan.unit.no
 Trondheim, Norway
From: matoh@lysator.liu.se (Mats hrman)
Newsgroups: rec.arts.comics.strips
Subject: Re: Calvin and Hobbes Question
Date: 16 Apr 92 10:46:01 GMT
Reply-To: matoh@sssab.se
Organization: 3S AB

me@dude.pcs.com (Michael Elbel) writes:

>In <1992Apr8.171237.4360@techbook.com> gummitch@techbook.com (Jeff Frane) writes:

>>potential.  Another great thing about _him_ is that he has vowed never
>>to exploit C&H: no Calvin mugs, no Hobbs t-shirts.

>Not true. I have this Calvin and Hobbes T-shirt at home and are very proud
>of it. I haen't seen anything else with C&H on it, fortunately.

An illegal, unlicenced, "pirate" shirt probably. Have seen such stuff
here in Sweden too... with the (c) conspicuously absent. It stinks, in
my opinion, when people rip off Watterson in that way...


							/Mats
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From: Ben Fulton <fulton@copper.ucs.indiana.edu>
Subject: Re: Merchandising: What's unethical about it
Organization: Indiana University
Date: Tue, 14 Apr 1992 09:58:45 -0500

In <1992Apr10.223704.8238@udel.edu> wagenfuh@huey.udel.edu (Karl Wagenfuehr) writes:

>>"A thousand stuffed Hobbes doll turns the character into a knick-knack."
>>                                --Bill Watterson, paraphrased
>Damn!  Now I will never know the answer to that Great Question, namely:
>Would the merchandised Hobbes dolls be the real Hobbes or the stuffed Hobbes?

I would never buy a Hobbes doll.  How could you stand to look at it and
know that it probably won't ever come to life?  WAY too depressing for me.

ben
fulton@copper.ucs.indiana.edu
right here, right now
there is no other place I'd rather be!
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From: magundi@gaul.csd.uwo.ca (john macdonald)
Subject: Re: The Best Far Side cartoon
Organization: Computer Science Dept., Univ. of Western Ontario, London, Canada
Date: Fri, 10 Apr 1992 19:25:20 GMT


I kind of like the "Bobbing for babies", though most people would
have seen the "Bobbing for Poodles" as it was released.



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From: rowdy@cbnewsj.cb.att.com (robert.dieckmann)
Subject: Re: Calvin and Hobbes.
Organization: AT&T
Date: Tue, 14 Apr 1992 17:12:54 GMT

In article <1992Apr13.220608.23375@EE.Stanford.EDU> sahul@loading-zone.Stanford.EDU (Zakir H. Sahul) writes:
> 
> Calvin and Hobbes presents the classic conflict of parents' control over
> a kid and the kid's resistance to it.  Although Calvin does seem to have a
> good side that pops up every now and then, he is overall "bratty".  
> 
[details deleted]

> What sort of kid would Calvin be if he were "obedient".  Would his imagination
> diminish?  Would he be a bore?  Will his creativity be snuffed out by the
> domineering parents/teachers?  Will he not be as daring?
> 
> Personally, I think so.  But, I would like to ask C&H fans who are parents
> to shed light on this.....

I have 4 kids (2 girls, 2 boys) and C&H is my favorite strip.
However, I offer no societal insight.  It's a comic strip; it's funny.
If forced, I would compare it to Dennis the Menace.  C&H for the 90's
is eqivalent to Dennis for the 50's.  Perhaps my parents worried about the
image of Dennis going around the neighborhood with a slingshot in his
back pocket.  Horrors.


-- 
"Listen up son, and pay attention.   |  Bob Dieckmann (rwd@mtfme.att.com)
How ya' gonna learn anything if you  |  GO: Mets (& dear old Rutgers)
always got your head in a book?"     |  GONE: Brooklyn Dodgers
                -- Foghorn Leghorn   |  **usual disclaimer**
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From: isbell@ai.mit.edu (Charles L Isbell)
Newsgroups: rec.arts.comics.strips,rec.arts.comics
Subject: Kyle Baker's Petty and Vindictive Funnies
Date: 7 Apr 92 22:43:21 GMT
Article-I.D.: pop-tart.ISBELL.92Apr7184321
Followup-To: rec.arts.comics.strips
Organization: MIT Artificial Intelligence Laboratory


I crossposted this because Kyle Baker is a respected Comic Book person
*but* I've set the followup line appropriately--please respect it!

Anyway, has anyone been following Kyle Baker's Petty and Vindictive
Funnies in National Lampoon?  Easily among his funniest (and pettiest
and most vindictive) work.  Anyone who hasn't taken a look but likes
Kyle's sense of humor or just likes the title must give this a try.

--
Peace.
                     "There is a level of cowardice lower than that 
                      of the conformist: the fashionable non-conformist."
                                               - Ayn Rand
                           ------
Don't just adopt opinions |  \/  | I am Charles Isbell, Homeboy from hell,
      develop them.       |  /\  | living axiom and anonymous absolute ruler
                           ------  of the cosmos.
From: news@iscnvx
Newsgroups: rec.arts.comics.strips
Subject: Re: Calvin and Hobbes
Date: 9 Apr 92 22:07:21 GMT
Article-I.D.: iscnvx.1992Apr9.220721.8488
Reply-To: baylor@force.ssd.lmsc.lockheed.com
Organization: LMSC, Sunnyvale, California

In article <1992Apr8.032854.14017@hubcap.clemson.edu>, trev@hubcap.clemson.edu (Trevor Bauknight) writes:
>hobbes@cbnewsd.cb.att.com (timothy.j.burke) writes:
>
>>The wisdom of Hobbes goes far beyond that of a six year
>>old boy, Hobbes is REAL and IS ALIVE!!!!!
>
>Actually, I've seen the theory expounded that Calvin, Hobbes, Mom, "Dad,"
>and even Miss Derkins are merely figments of the imagination of the 
>enigmatic Mr. Bun.  It's all for His entertainment, and at His whim...
>perhaps He is toying with various philosophies or whatever, but Mr.
>Bun is the X-factor, the stationary Point around which the Universe
>revolves, the Fire of Life itself...
AHA! It's the St.Elswhere theory of Life, the Universe, & Everything!
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From: carols@world.std.com (Carol Springs)
Subject: Re: I Go Pogo
Organization: The World Public Access UNIX, Brookline, MA
Date: Wed, 8 Apr 1992 22:51:54 GMT

In article <1992Apr08.165027.7243@spss.com> markrose@spss.com (Mark 
Rosenfelder) writes:

>I thought Doyle & Sternecky were pretty good at whimsy and no good at
>politics.  Their replacements are horrible.  Does anyone know why D&S left?

Someone once wrote me, I *think* in seriousness, that Doyle left to take a
job as editor at the National Lampoon.

I got the impression from Sternecky's swan song strip that his departure was
not voluntary.  However, I've no facts with which to back up this notion. 
 
 
-- 
Carol Springs                      carols@world.std.com
From: enigma@netcom.com (Enigma)
Newsgroups: rec.arts.comics.strips
Subject: The Fusco Brothers (Was Re: Calvin and Hobbes)
Date: 9 Apr 92 15:33:09 GMT
Article-I.D.: netcom.29rj3jb.enigma
Distribution: usa
Organization: Netcom - Online Communication Services  (408 241-9760 guest)

In article <njqjggp.jaguar@netcom.com> jaguar@netcom.com (Elaine Pang) writes:
[stuff deleted]
>I just wanted to say, I think the Fusco Brothers beats Robotman any day.
>C&H reign, of course!!  The dog in F Bros is so incredibly sarcastic!

The "dog"??!?  Excuse me, Axel is a Wolverine!  You're just lucky he
doesnt read rec.arts.comics.strips!  

You're absolutely right about F bros. though, I'd rate them right after
C&H (of course, nothing actually compares to C&H...).

-- 
Enigma (enigma@netcom.com)
From: rallen@orion.oac.uci.edu (Robert Allen)
Subject: Rose Is Rose
Newsgroups: rec.arts.comics.strips
Organization: University of California, Irvine
Date: 9 Apr 92 06:28:27 GMT

"Rose Is Rose" is one of my favorites.... as a "family sitcom", it's not as
realistic as "For Better or For Worse" or "Foxtrot", but its loopy humor
and the way the worlds of the rather bizarre kids and their equally bizarre
parents mirror each other makes it approach the literary genre of "magical
realism". IMHO, of course. What do the rest of you think?
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