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At 2:33 PM -0800 2/23/97, Robin S. Furr wrote:
>This year's ceremony is being conducted in a unique way: We are asking
>that all nominees send in acceptance speeches for their awards; these
>are not supposed to be 200-line mini-sagas, as in the past. These are
>supposed to be about thirty seconds or so of spoken text, and if the
>winners don't get their speeches in by the deadline (to be established
>shortly), then we, the Grunion management, will feel free to write a
>speech for them.


One assumes this will be an "Accepting on behalf of X, is Captain
Non-Sequitor" sort of speech, not a speech written in the voice of the
person who didn't get his stuff in on time.

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