From: JBrandt@AAA.UOregon.EDU (Jay Brandt (Jason))
Subject: Thunderchild Pun-ishes Jason
Organization: The Polyhedron Group
Date: Mon, 12 Oct 92 05:23:31 GMT

Hi Folks,

I've been in direct contact via e-mail with Thunderchild. He is still
having
difficulties with his news server, as he relates in one of the folowing
relayed posts. However, he has no problems sending and receiving e-mail.
Hopefully he will get things worked out soon.

Thunderchild and I have been having a bit of fun by e-mail recently. He
decided to "get me" for some of the puns I recently cracked in the Place.
I've
been bouncing new puns back at him as fast as he sends his replies. We
though
you might enjoy the repartee. I had to reconstruct my comments to him from
his
replies and from memory, as I didn't have copies here. But you should get
the
gist of the conversation.

Enjoy,

Jason
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>From:    Thunderchild
To:      Jason
Subject: Re: BAH! HUMBUG! (was Re: Christmas is busting out all over!)

In alt.callahans you write:
>Trivia questions: 
>Why are binary, octal and hexadecimal used in computers, rather than
>decimal?
>Why doesn't anybody bother to use base-4 (Quadral?)?

>Jason

PLEASE don't go stuffing things around any more than they are at the
moment! At least wait until December (after my exams are over).

> Correct. Hexadecimal uses 0 through 9 and A through F as its digits.
> A good -bit- of information, that.

Oh, by the way, I have something for you:

<<Thunderchild pulls a large device of weapon-like proprtions out of 
hyperspace, aims, and fires>>

Your very own cloud of peanuts, fired at transwarp velocities! Don't worry,
there totally harmless, due to Heisenberg's Uncertainty Theorem, 
Schrodinger's Cat, and all that other stuff.

Tho' the next time you give us a -bit- of information like that, I may have
to load it up with peanut brittle!

Enjoy!
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>From:    Jason
To:      Thunderchild
Subject: Transwarp Peanuts

Hi Thunderchild!

I got a good chuckle from that this morning , thanks.

<A big grin slowly spreads across Jason's face. He can't resist the reply.>

But, a cloud of peanuts fired at transwarp velocities? 

I thought I was just acting on -impulse-. :-)

*Grin*
Jason
-------------------------------------
Religious backup --- Praying nothing goes wrong.

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>From:    Thunderchild
To:      Jason
Subject: RE: Transwarp Peanuts

> I got a good chuckle from that this morning , thanks.
> 
> <A big grin slowly spreads across Jason's face. He can't resist the reply.>
> 
> But, a cloud of peanuts fired at transwarp velocities? 
> 
> I thought I was just acting on -impulse-. :-)
> 
> *Grin*
> Jason
> -------------------------------------
> Religious backup --- Praying nothing goes wrong.
> 

Okay, that does it.

<<Reaching into the depths of null-space, a vast add-on unit is extracted,
and then attached to the transwarp peanut accelerator>>

<< K A B O O M >>

There you go - peanut brittle at sub-light speeds. Guaranteed to gum up the

works for one year or 30,000 km, whichever comes first.

Nothing -impulse-ive about that one!

#include <humour.h>
return(*grin*);


Thunderchild (a.k.a. Chris Anderson)    s903040@minyos.xx.rmit.oz.au
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>From:    Christopher Francis Anderson
To:      Brandt, Jay
Subject: RE: Transwarp Peanuts

Hi Thunderchild,

Well I guess I'm stuck with it. But, what the hey! I -like- peanut brittle.
I reallly have enjoyed this series of conversations with you however. Too
bad the others at alt.callahans can't listen in. They would probably enjoy
it. For that matter, I could post the stuff we just batted back and forth.
I have it all on disk. Should I?

Are you still having problems reading / posting to alt.callahans? If so, I
could relay things from you to be posted. You don't seem to have any
problems e-mailing with me. I don't have the capability to set up an
automated relay of posts from alt.callahans to your e-mail, or I'd offer to
do that too.

Jason
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Genetic Engineering = Heir-styling
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>From:    Christopher Francis Anderson
To:      Brandt, Jay
Subject: RE: Transwarp Peanuts

> For that matter, I could post the
> stuff we just batted back and forth. I have it all on disk. Should I?

By all means, do so! I'm sure the rest of the mad crew at the Place would
love it! However, I may just have to get a bigger ammo-pack for it - esp.
if I start using it as much as I could!

I think I've worked out what the problem is with my site - it's not
receiving
all the posts in any one group. I worked this out when I logged on at
Monash
Uni with a friend's account (well, he logged me in and I had a look
around).
Anyway, when I checked what they had in a.c, there was a heap more than I'd

seen here at RMIT (even allowing for the fact that he didn't read the
group.
Hopefully he does now).

So, maybe this week I'll see the sysadmin and see what the heck is
happening!

> Genetic Engineering = Heir-styling

Aren't you lucky I'm out of ammo! Or maybe not, seing as how you do like
peanut brittle (it tends to gun the gum up - or is that the other way
round?).

See ya 'round like a stuffed Rubik's Cube,

Thunderchild (a.k.a. Chris Anderson)    s903040@minyos.xx.rmit.oz.au


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