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Subject:Re: Exploding whales, take 2 From:Len Olszewski <saslpo -at- UNX -dot- SAS -dot- COM> Date:Thu, 7 Apr 1994 09:26:35 -0400
From Frank DiIorio:
[...]
> The little fella finds a stray can of spinach, eats it and (you
> guessed it), bursts out of the whale, leaving nothing but a skeleton
> behind. Art imitating life. No word on whether Olive Oyl's house was
> damaged by falling whale parts.
Regardless of whether Olive's house was crushed by large falling chunks
of whale, no doubt she was off to the side - blubbering, as usual.
Hey, stop groaning and answer this question: can *you* do better?
> Wondering what we're going to talk about today,
Obligatory technical writing:
Is anybody out there using the IBM Bookmanager/Bookmaster format to
share single source online doc for mainframe, low-end terminal and PC
users? Is it working out? How's their SGML interpretter?
|Len Olszewski, Technical Writer |"Don't use the imperative!" |
|saslpo -at- unx -dot- sas -dot- com|Cary, NC, USA| -Rhetorical contradiction |
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