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Re: Broke for good (was Re: ports?)
Article: 8562 of alt.hackers From: t_pascal@oxy.edu (C. Regis Wilson) Newsgroups: alt.hackers Subject: Re: Broke for good (was Re: ports?) Date: 13 Sep 1995 15:04:04 -0700 Organization: Occidental College, Los Angeles, CA 90041 - USA Lines: 26 Approved: me@you.com Message-ID: 950913.150401.26136@cougar.cc.oxy.edu NNTP-Posting-Host: cougar.cc.oxy.edu Status: RO
In article <42q9u2$b6o@lyra.csx.cam.ac.uk>,
Hmmm, well.. <root@morningstar.pmms.cam.ac.uk> wrote:
> We seem to have a thread here about minor electrical explosions.
>I had a car with a very leaky boot and stored a soldering iron in it
>for some little time. I think I was half awake when I took the thing
>inside and plugged it in. BANG! Out went the lights, then shortly after,
>out went the soldering iron. Ah well.
>
You foreigners don't know how to speak english. What the heck is a boot?
It must be larger than a bread-box to hold a soldering iron. I have no
idea what this paragraph says.
ObdontknowwhattheOBstandsforbootbootboot:
My hack involves the time I told everyone I had found the second largest
prime number in just under 3 hours and how I was going to do it in less.
The hack isn't just finding the second largest prime, nor doing it in under
three hours: The hack is that I told everyone I had done it, even though
I had, by utilizing the GOOD TIMES virus.
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T. Pascal, King of Pascal | "R.E.M. uses A-minor and E-minor too
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4527 Avocado St. | -Some D00F
Los Angeles, CA 90027 | "Too much?! That's *all* they use."
| -The other D00F talking to the first D00F
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