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Re: Lar's hoppers
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Sat, 1 May 1999 10:10:31 GMT
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John Neal <johnneal@uswest.net> wrote in message
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> I think sequestering the puns off into their own group where they can't • torture
> anyone such as Mike is a mistake. Therein lies their beauty, interspersed
> between the normal day-to-day blather, like a ray of light, shimmering • down on
> an otherwise humorless world.... Besides, waddya gonna do if one appears • in an
> NG other than .puns? <cue music> "When a bad pun lands, in your favorite
> group, who ya gonna call? PUNBUSTERS! ... ;-)
But it would be nice not to have to download 70 messages to see that 50 of
them are a pun-fest. I don't mind an occasional pun but if you want to make
it a national sport go to the .pun group (if we ever make one).
Jesse
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| (...) Well, maybe you're right, but there's is something worse than downloading a bunch of puns... downloading complaints about them;-) Anyway, Jesse, you should do what I did-- get a DSL line and the point becomes mute [1]. Well, gotta go down and (...) (25 years ago, 1-May-99, to lugnet.off-topic.fun)
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| (...) This was my main problem when I started ranting about the puns. I used to read every message posted to this group. I'd see an occasional pun or three, but that was it. Now, no matter what the subject line, chances are, if I don't read the (...) (25 years ago, 1-May-99, to lugnet.off-topic.fun)
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| I think sequestering the puns off into their own group where they can't torture anyone such as Mike is a mistake. Therein lies their beauty, interspersed between the normal day-to-day blather, like a ray of light, shimmering down on an otherwise (...) (25 years ago, 28-Apr-99, to lugnet.off-topic.fun)
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