HDTenEightyP/NetNews huggingface dataset:
From: hennebry@plains.NoDak.edu (Michael J. Hennebry)
Subject: Re: Realism in Guards!Guards!
Date: Sun, 24 Jan 1993 19:30:05 GMT
Organization: North Dakota Higher Education Computing Network
Keywords: Flynn

In article <1993Jan15.120741.13875@garland.bt.co.uk> jeremy@garland.bt.co.uk (Jeremy Pavier) writes:
>she was completely unable to accept that such a large dragon could be
>won by such a small male. When I said that I thought there was supposed

>Am I the only one who feels that there are a lot of people
>out there suffering from a serious Sense-of-Humour Failure?

There is obviously at least one such sufferer.
Perhaps you should explain to your SO that unlike larger dragons
Errol could go *all* the way.

If you feel the need to actually reason with her, you might mention
that most of the large dragons had a tendency to disappear when their
creators' attentions wandered.

-- 
Mike   hennebry@plains.NoDak.edu
"I myself have had to change banks having filled the first one up."
                                                            Terry Pratchett
From: astoker@nyx.cs.du.edu (Andrew Stoker)
Newsgroups: alt.fan.pratchett
Subject: Re: The Annotated Pratchett File, v5.0 - part 3 of 3
Date: 26 Jan 93 15:33:26 GMT
Organization: Nyx, Public Access Unix at U. of Denver Math/CS dept.

In article <ano.728043327@reading> ano@csug.cs.reading.ac.uk (Adrian Ogden) writes:
>leo@cp.tn.tudelft.nl (Leo Breebaart) writes:
>
>>+ [p. 21] "Some people are born to kingship. Some achieve kingship, or at
>>  least Arch-Generalissimo-Father-of-His-Countryship. But Verence had
>>  kingship thrust upon him."
>
>>  I just *know* this paraphrases a well-known quote about leadership, but I
>>  can't place it. anybody?
>
>I believe the original was "Some are born great, some achieve greatness
>and some have greatness thrust upon them." I can't identify the source
>tho'.

A William Shakespeare play, I *think* it was Twelfth Night, this quote is
spoken by a chap called Malvolio while talking to himself, unaware that he is
soon to get a BIG comeupance (sp?).

See? SEE?  The english lit o-level was good for something :-)
--
Andrew J. Stoker | "My lord, I cannot ride!"
Leicester Uni.   | "Capital, we shall give you a horse that can't be ridden."
ajs6@leicester.ac.uk   |		      ``Wyrd Sisters'', Terry Pratchett
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From: neilb@physics.su.OZ.AU (RiemannZeta(s))
Subject: Re: Small Gods & Lords and Ladies
Organization: School of Physics, University of Sydney, Australia
Date: Tue, 26 Jan 1993 00:15:49 GMT

Quetzal writes (types actually)
>Yep, It's on again.  Might I mention that the only Test match so far
>*not* to be marred by rain was the one in *Melbourne*?

Well might I mention that the only test match where you saw any decent
batting displays was in Sydney. And anyway the sydney test was not marred by
rain, and test match where both sides score over 500 in the first innings,
obvioulsy wasn't marred by rain.

Neil

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But much more for the touch of your whips, Dear.
You can raise welts
Like nobody else,
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From: dan@dunaad.co.uk (Dan Hunter)
Newsgroups: alt.fan.pratchett
Subject: Re: Small Gods Annotations
Date: 22 Jan 93 17:01:41 GMT
Distribution: alt
Organization: Dunathad

>>p. 15 "You Don't Have To Be Pitilessly Sadistic To Work Here But It
>>Helps!!!"
>>
>>In the UK (and probably the US) it is popular to pin up signs in
>>offices saying: "You don't have to be insane/mad to work here but it helps!"
>>
>Hasn'e PTerry already mentioned this joke once? Somewhere I seem to remember
>a discursion about "The people who have 'You Don't Have to be Mad to
>Work here -But it Helps' on their desk/wall/etc are invariably the most
>humorless and dogmatic people in the place...". Where did I read this? Help?
>-- 
>&ndy Holyer, School of Cognitive and     |"In the beginning, there was
>Computing Studies, University of Sussex, |  nothing, which exploded."
>JANET: andyh@cogs.sussex.ac.uk           |   - Terry Pratchett


I think it's in a Ben Elton book, not sure though.
Dan

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From: damiene@aurora.cc.monash.edu.au (Eccles)
Subject: Re: Herne the Hunted (annotation request
Organization: Monash University, Melb., Australia.
Date: Thu, 28 Jan 1993 01:43:47 GMT

Stuart_Foster@kcbbs.gen.nz (Stuart Foster) writes:

>> I still want to know how they got that great curved sword out of the  
>> scabbard that was thinner at the top than the blade.....  
>>  
>  
>Was it a magic sword ??  

Stop that, thats silly :)

Eccles
From: S_MARTIN@IRAV19.ira.uka.de (|S| Ralf Martin)
Newsgroups: alt.fan.pratchett
Subject: Re: Alien Controversion
Date: 28 Jan 1993 13:01:38 GMT
Organization: University of Karlsruhe, FRG
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In <damiene.727753089@aurora.cc.monash.edu.au> damiene@aurora.cc.monash.edu.au writes:

> leo@cp.tn.tudelft.nl (Leo Breebaart) writes:
> 
> >S_MARTIN@IRAV21.ira.uka.de (|S| Ralf Martin) writes:
> 
> >> The really strange stuff is that every bug-eyed,slime-drooling monster
> >> from planet #@$%^%$&%@#%51776 Dillington,Murmansk jumps out of his 
> >> Spacecraft,grabs a shapely Blonde and zooms off to a erotic
> >> extravaganza in outer space.
> 
> >Science fiction *has* progressed a little since the 1930's, you know...
> 
> Yeah, just look at Buckaroo Banzai
> "Where are we going?
>  Planet Ten!
>  When are we going?
>  Real Soon!"
> 
> Best line in the movie :)
> 
> Eccles


Yep,or Alien3.
Totally different!
Girl had no hair at all!
Never to mention what ET might
have done if he would have had
a spaceship on his sleeve
and no NASA in his neck.
Oh that sweet little sister.
Right size and blonde too!
OK,I admit thatthere are some intelligent SF-films,but still they pump
more money in FX then in script writers.
(I must know! I once wrote this great script about a spaceship discovering
a flat world standing on the back of a giant turtle via four Elephants and
what happend? Nothing,right! Seems nobody out there is interested in the
real good stuff.)

Buy,Ralf
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From: leveret@warren.demon.co.uk (Nick Leverton)
Subject: Re: Small Gods Annotations
Reply-To: leveret@warren.demon.co.uk
Distribution: world
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Daniel@scs.leeds.ac.uk (where *has* he been?) writes:
>|> p.162 "'And the wrong sort of ash', said Vorbis"
>|> 
>|> British Rail (last winter I think) were having difficulty getting
>|> trains to run on time and they blamed it on the snow. They
>|> were then quizzed as to why their snow-ploughs couldn't deal with it.
>|> They replied that it was "the wrong sort of snow". (perhaps this story
>|> was leaves first, I can't remember). Again "the wrong sort of X" is
>|> now part of the idiom.
>
>The real beauty of it is that they had used the *same* excuse the autumn (fall)
>before when train failures/delays were blamed on "the wrong sort of leaves".
>For American's out there, British rail are either the nationalised railway
>system in the UK or a running national joke. Or perhaps both.

Ahem! a) It was nothing to do with Chris Green's whizzy new snow-blower,
but the fact that the fine, dry, powdery snow blew inside the traction
motor cooling slots and, melting, caused the motors to arc over. It is
very rare for British snow to be cold and dry enough to do this, hence
the "wrong sort of snow" comment which the press, seeking as usual for
any excuse to make fun of BR, leapt upon with great glee.

But just to make you happy, a traction motor from a Networker [the new
generation of trains, ordered mid 1980's and - thanks to That Bloody
Woman - only being delivered in the mid 1990's] was recently demonstrated
running immersed in a tank of water to prove its immunity to the problem.

And I have *never*, *ever* heard of your "wrong kind of leaves" story.
Please suppy a reference for it.

Nick
From: mcsba1wsb@dct.ac.uk
Newsgroups: alt.fan.pratchett
Subject: RE: FAVE BOOK.
Date: 26 Jan 93 20:06:46 GMT
Organization: Dundee Institute of Technology

My all time fave TP book is Good Omens.  I love the DiscWorld series but found
Good Omens was in a class of it's own.  My friends really liked it as well.  I 
had to threaten two of them with violence before they would give it back.  I'm 
not lending them any of my DiscWorld ones.  Just in case.

		MAGRAT
			aka
				!!WENDY!!
From: nealk@maths.tcd.ie (Neal Kidson)
Newsgroups: alt.fan.pratchett
Subject: The Luggage (Where is it!!)
Date: 26 Jan 93 21:32:44 GMT
Organization: Dept. of Maths, Trinity College, Dublin, Ireland.

OK.
I've read the list of models.
So what happened?
Hmmm?
WHERE'S THE LUGGAGE??!!???

Why is there no model of the Luggage?????

WHYYYYY???!?????!???? *spasm*

Alright I've calmed down now....
I've taken the tablets...

So now, I'm announcing the formation of the
       
      Luggage Appreciation Society

We can be found in
         A padded Room InA
           Large Steel Box
             Somewhere in Europe

As of then we are barricading ourselves into this newsgroup until 
furniturism is defeated. 

ALL HAIL THE LUGGAGE!

NK Enterprises Inc. (tm)

P.S. Owen (ok owen stop twisting my arm, I'll put oscar@maths.tcd.ie in)
 who is sitting besideme as I spew this stuff, agrees with me.

P.P.S Does anyone know who Owen is? 



     Oi!! Who nicked my sig!!??!?
From: leveret@warren.demon.co.uk (Nick Leverton)
Newsgroups: alt.fan.pratchett
Subject: Re: The Annotated Pratchett File, v5.0 - part 3 of 3
Date: 27 Jan 93 00:27:07 GMT
Reply-To: leveret@warren.demon.co.uk
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> + [p. 184] In the Disc model, Ankh-Morpork was a carbuncle. A carbuncle is
>   (1) a red semi-precious gem, and (2) a festering sore like a boil.

Johnson (see next annotation) also described London as "the Great Wem",
which is another (archaic) word for a boil.

> + [p. 193] "'When a man is tired of Ankh-Morpork, he is tired of ankle-
>   deep slurry.'"
>
>   The original quote here dates back to 1777, and is by Samuel Johnson (a
>   well-known harmless drudge): "When a man is tired of London he is tired
>   of life; for there is in London all that life can afford."



> LORDS & LADIES
>
> + [p. 21] "Some people are born to kingship. Some achieve kingship, or at
>   least Arch-Generalissimo-Father-of-His-Countryship. But Verence had
>   kingship thrust upon him."
>

It's Twelfth Night again, Act II Scene 5 line 158: "But be not afraid of
greatness: some men are born great, some achieve greatness, and some
have greatness thrust upon them."

For an extra point, who actually said it ? .... I'll throw it open ...

> + A very big inconsistency in Discworld continuity occurs when Esme
>   Weatherwax and Archchancellor Ridcully meet again, and there seems to be
>   no notable age-discrepancy.
>
>   Yet in "Wyrd Sisters" we are told that time was stopped for everyone in
>   Lancre (including the witches) for twenty years, so Ridcully should
>   therefore now be twenty years older than Esme...

It's possible that Ridcully's estate, from which he was summoned to be
Chancellor of the Unseen University, was within the borders of Lancre
and hence was timeshifted with the rest of the kingdom. I can't remember
offhand whether Ridcully was already Chancellor at the time.
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From: damiene@aurora.cc.monash.edu.au (Eccles)
Subject: Re: My tuppence
Organization: Monash University, Melb., Australia.
Date: Sat, 23 Jan 1993 01:25:40 GMT

litterst@pecan.cns.udel.edu (Stephen Litterst) writes:

>In article <1993Jan20.224152.7289@sol.ctr.columbia.edu> slb22@cunixb.cc.columbia.edu (Seth "the Lesser") writes:
>>damiene@aurora.cc.monash.edu.au (Eccles) writes:
>>>
>>
>>Remember--blondes(/art students/favorite minority) are dangerous, and should
>>only be used with proper safety precautions.  Don't try this at home, kids.
>>
>>Seth L. Blumberg          \    "The whole thing was an accident.  No saboteur

>That's right, we're danerous and proud of it!  But, could you please speak/type
>slower... I am a natural blonde.  :)

I was only generally picking on people

>Steve L.  (6'6", blonde and proud of both facts)
Eccles (5'11'', sort of blonde-red, and wishing he was taller)
From: fkschmid@cip.informatik.uni-erlangen.de (Frank Schmidt)
Newsgroups: alt.fan.pratchett
Subject: Re: A Question for Terry Pratchett
Date: Wed, 20 Jan 1993 20:40:42 GMT
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tpratchett@cix.compulink.co.uk (Terry Pratchett) writes:

[...]
>Johnny and the Dead: Johnny is the weird kid familiar to readers of OYCSM. He
>can see and hear the dead people buried in the old cemetery next door, who
>are hanging around waiting for Judgement Day, and he gets heavily involved
>when there are plans to built offices on the site.  The dead aren't
>particularly unpleasant...if fact, they're rather nicer than some of the
>living...

Well, OYCSM isn't out in german yet. Does it lose a lot in translation?

>Right now I'm sketching out MORT -- THE GRAPHIC NAVEL.  Turning a book into a
>big comic is tough.

Btw, why does Mort's sandclock run on in the fight sequence
with Death at the end of the book?

And what happened to Eskarina (after ER)?

>Terry

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From: ano@csug.cs.reading.ac.uk (Adrian Ogden)
Newsgroups: alt.fan.pratchett
Subject: Re: The Annotated Pratchett File, v5.0 - part 2 of 3
Date: 26 Jan 93 10:06:14 GMT
Organization: University of Reading

rdippold@qualcom.qualcomm.com (Ron Dippold) writes:

>I don't even need to look this one up (although I did check it for
>your peace of mind), H.P.  Lovecraft is one of my favorite writers.

>	That is not dead which can eternal lie,
>	And with strange aeons [even] death may die.

>This first appears in The Nameless City and refers to the City (once
>without the "even," then with).  It is repeated elsewhere by Derleth.
>It enjoyed a resurgence when Metallica used it in "The Thing That
>Should Not Be".  Say what you want about them, they're well read.

Iron Maiden used it too. It's on the cover of the "Live After Death"
album, as an epitaph on Eddie's gravestone.


<<  Adrian Ogden -- "Sic Biscuitus Disintegrat" -- ano@csres.cs.rdg.ac.uk  >>
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From: leo@cp.tn.tudelft.nl (Leo Breebaart)
Subject: Shakespeare, Shawn Ogg, and St Crispin's day
Reply-To: leo@cp.tn.tudelft.nl
Organization: Delft University of Technology
Date: Tue, 26 Jan 1993 12:15:08 GMT

I've had an e-mail conversation with Andy Holyer about one of the
annotations in the APF. We decided to ask the help of other a.f.p.
readers.

This is the annotation:

---------------------------------------------------------------------------
+ [p. 236]  Shawn's speech.

  The part in Shawn's speech about people hiding under the bed instead of
  gloriously fighting etc. *might* be drawn from Shakespeare's "King Henry
  V" (Act IV, Scene iii), where Henry V makes his 'St. Crispin's Day'
  speech, in which he also mentions beds in the context of stay-at-homes.
  Frankly, I'm a bit skeptical about this one...
---------------------------------------------------------------------------

This is what Andy said:

> I'm *sure* it's from the St Crispins' day speech. [...]  Hmmm..
> Makbe this is some sort of cultural thing. Henry V is one of
> shakey's most jingoistic plays (I don't know if this come across,
> but it's *really* racist, especially about the welsh), and a couple
> of the speeches (mainly, I must admit, "Once More unto the Breach,
> Dear Friends, Once More", but also to a lesser extent the St
> Crispins Day speech) really sum up to the english psyche the sort of
> "backs-against-the-wall" british last-ditch-defence war spirit (does
> the phrase "Dunkirk Spirit" mean anything to you? No, no reason why
> it should). Try and see the film of Henry V (though why on earth it
> should ever be shown in NL I don't know). It was filmed at the
> height of the Blitz (the German air assault on Britain in the summer
> of 1940, originally to be the precursor to an invasion). The sort of
> "Dashed British Pluck" feel runs all the way through it.
> 
> I'm going on too long. What I'm trying to say is: if you went up to
> the "average briton in the street" and said "Quick! the massed
> legions of the elves are at the gates! There (aren't many) of you,
> very few are really trained to fight, and you havent got proper
> weapons anyway! What comes into your head?", I for one think that
> most of them would say "The Battle of Agincourt", or "Once More Unto
> the... (etc)". Now, if PTerry had used OMUTBDFOM as the basis,
> there'd have been this tremendous groan, and then some bright spark
> :-) would have pointed out that that speech comes in the *middle* of
> the battle, no before it.  Hence he used the Crispin's day speech.

So, what do the (British) readers of a.f.p. say about this? Agree?
Disagree? Farfetched? Obvious?

-- 
Leo Breebaart  (leo @ cp.tn.tudelft.nl)
From: kyraan@bach.udel.edu (Stephen Ch Litterst)
Newsgroups: alt.fan.pratchett
Subject: Re: TP's big drive
Date: 26 Jan 93 22:29:50 GMT
Organization: University of Delaware

In article <memo.895672@cix.compulink.co.uk> tpratchett@cix.compulink.co.uk writes:
>In answer to all those who mailed me saying 'what do you want such a big disc
>drive for?" the answer is that, when I log on to a.f.p., I get it ALL, HERE,
>on this little PC -- so on top of the mail and the stuff from CIX I also get,
>every month, the Annotated File from that nice Mr Breebaart (I'm not
>_complaining_, you understand.)  Downloads yesterday were almost 400k.  And
>there all the writing drafts I save.  So when I found myself shuffling stuff
>on the 200 meg drive I thought 'I don't HAVE to be stuck for disc space, hey,
>I have a Mastercard'. That's where your money goes, folks...
>
>Terry

Just for those of us who are curious... What's the rest of your system like?
I merely ask because I'm looking at piecing together a decent system and
have become really curious about what everyone else has found workable. (esp.
my favorite author.  


				Steve

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Organization: Penn State University
Date: Mon, 25 Jan 1993 09:18:52 EST
From: <CSD108@psuvm.psu.edu>
Newsgroups: alt.fan.pratchett
Subject: Re: Cripple Mr Onion?

In article <23JAN199319151150@pavo.concordia.ca>, a_weitz@pavo.concordia.ca
(WEITZMAN, ANDREW) says:
>
>I learn something new every day.  You mean there really is such a game as
>Cripple Mr Onion?  Heck, I just thought it was a joke game TP made up.
>If there are rules, could someone email them to me?  'Preciate it!
>
>--Andrew--

Yeah. Me too. I just got Witches Abroad on Saturday and it sounds fascinating

to an old card-shark like me.

-Craig D.

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From: ma_blase@csd.uwe.ac.uk (Fox)
Newsgroups: alt.fan.pratchett
Subject: Re: Herne the Hunted (annotation request
Date: 25 Jan 93 11:04:20 GMT
Organization: University of the West of England, Bristol
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Paula Mickevich (casimira@hq.lcs.mit.edu) wrote:
> 
> After reading this newsgroup for several months I swear if I win the
> lottery I am going to set up an endowment at the local universities
> that any incoming non-liberal arts major gets a free encyclopedia.
> I swear. 

Sorry, don't believe you *8)

Mike
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 \O O/ O   no theiving git can nick it.  A shotgun helps too..."
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From: dkf11@cl.cam.ac.uk (Donal K. Fellows)
Subject: Re: Rankin.
Reply-To: dkf11@phx.cam.ac.uk
Organization: U of Cambridge Computer Lab, UK
Date: Mon, 25 Jan 1993 16:19:28 GMT

In article <1993Jan25.110118.16495@csd.uwe.ac.uk> ma_blase@csd.uwe.ac.uk (Fox) writes:
>Paul Sammy 4th Year iE/CES (ssammy@cs.strath.ac.uk) wrote:
>> 
>>  > Whats wrong with glow in the dark condoms?
>>  > P.
>>  > -- 
>> 
>>   What worries ME is: what kind of radioactive compound do they use
>>   to make them glow? :-)
>>
>
>Oh gawd,  think about the cancer!
>

Such naiveity! Glow in the dark condoms work by having a light bulb in
them. When you plug them in to the wall socket, they light up.... :)

Donal.
--
If the opinions above are anyone else's, that's their problem.
From: pfritsch@skid.ps.uci.edu (Paul Fritschle)
Subject: Witches Abroad now available in US
Newsgroups: alt.fan.pratchett
Organization: Miskatonic University Department of Computer Science
Distribution: usa
Date: 24 Jan 93 03:56:02 GMT

Got a copy tonight at Waldenbooks.. saw it at Dalton as well. Only on
page 20, and it is already hilarious!!!

--

Paul Fritschle                                         pfritsch@skid.PS.UCI.EDU
                 Have you hugged YOUR shoggoth today?
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From: john7552@mach1.wlu.ca (Niall Johnson u)
Subject: Unadulterated Cat (WAS Re: Reaper Man & sundry)
Organization: Wilfrid Laurier University
Date: Fri, 22 Jan 1993 03:50:23 GMT

In article <1993Jan21.173403.17067@maths.tcd.ie> nealk@maths.tcd.ie (Neal Kidson) writes:

[stuff deleted]

>P.S. I've never heard of The Unaldulterated Cat.
>     Can someone PLEASE tell me what its about??!?

An excellent book which will appeal to owners of *real* cats everywhere.

Unfortunately availability appears to be a major problem. I have found it
once and that was when I first came to Canada - the library here in
Kitchener-Waterloo has a copy!
Look in the NON-fiction sections of your library, maybe you'll get lucky!

--
Ciao

Niall Johnson,			"Time flies when you do most of your real work
Dept. of Geography,		 after midnight - five months can go by and it
Wilfrid Laurier University.	 feels like one sleepless night."
     john7552@mach1.wlu.ca			 	Hunter S. Thompson
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From: gnat@kauri.vuw.ac.nz (Nathan Torkington)
Subject: Re: Endless Discworld                       
Organization: Contract to CSC, Victoria Uni, Wellington, New Zealand
Date: Thu, 28 Jan 1993 20:23:55 GMT

In article <memo.900662@cix.compulink.co.uk> tpratchett@cix.compulink.co.uk (Terry Pratchett) writes:

>  I can't imagine how anyone can be _forced_ to write a book.

Just ask Douglas Adams; I'm sure he has a fairly good idea :)

Nat
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From: leo@cp.tn.tudelft.nl (Leo Breebaart)
Subject: Re: Alien Controversion
Reply-To: leo@cp.tn.tudelft.nl
Organization: Delft University of Technology
Date: Thu, 21 Jan 1993 16:46:31 GMT

S_MARTIN@IRAV21.ira.uka.de (|S| Ralf Martin) writes:

> The really strange stuff is that every bug-eyed,slime-drooling monster
> from planet #@$%^%$&%@#%51776 Dillington,Murmansk jumps out of his 
> Spacecraft,grabs a shapely Blonde and zooms off to a erotic
> extravaganza in outer space.

Science fiction *has* progressed a little since the 1930's, you know...

-- 
Leo Breebaart  (leo @ cp.tn.tudelft.nl)
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