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Subject:Bad Manuscripts From:Steve Fouts <sfouts -at- ELLISON -dot- SC -dot- TI -dot- COM> Date:Wed, 3 Aug 1994 15:37:01 CDT
Lallie H. Heard writes:
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|} On my way home from work I pass an establishment called the "Women's
|} Pregnancy Center" and wonder why they had to make the distinction.
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I used to drive by a pet store and wonder why the first item on the
list of features at a place called ``Pettable Pets'' was tropical
fish? I could never get mine to hold still for very much petting.
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/_______/__|_______\_/________\ "She understood, as he did, that all writing
was infernally boring and futile, but that it had to be done out of respect
for tradition" --Stanislaw Lem
