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Re: Skelton's in your closet?

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From: Walter C. Wolfe
Date: Thu, 29 Sep 1994 18:19
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Carl Witthoft (carl@aoa.utc.com) wrote:
: In article <35ptmn$r9a@wrdis02.robins.af.mil> wwolfe@robins.af.mil (  Walter C. Wolfe) writes:
: >Elson R. Trinidad (ertrinid@girtab.usc.edu) wrote:
: >: In article <355iil$m0f@news.onramp.net> jgray@onramp.net (Joe Gray) writes:
: >: >In article <352ppm$ig0@panix2.panix.com>, kenny@panix.com (Kenneth Crudup) says:
: >: >>I thought Red Skelton was dead.
: >: Er, are you sure you're not talking about RED BUTTONS?!?!?!
: >  I think he meant Buttons the Clown, from _IT_, by Stephen King.  I
: x
: That's *Pennywise the Clown*, you illiterate netweenie :=)

I stand corrected!  I'd told my wife that morning I wanted to play
golf after work, and fuzzy buttons started popping out on her shirt
and her teeth became pointed and elongated... You can understand my
mistake.

I have read the book, and it's one of his better ones.  Not as good a
story as _The Talisman_, though, which he wrote with Peter Straub.






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