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Re: graduating virgins legend

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From: Marc VanHeyningen
Date: Fri, 28 Aug 1992 18:30
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Thus said fulton@silver.ucs.indiana.edu (Ben Fulton):
>Every college has some legend about "when a {virgin|non-virgin} graduates
>from {university} {event-X} happens."  At Indiana, when a virgin graduates,
>a fish disappears from Showalter Fountain.
>
>Anyway, I just wanted to let everyone know it happened.  Following 
>graduate ceremonies last week, there is now one less fish in Showalter
>Fountain.  Whoever you are, step forward :-)

Yes, and even though it happened months ago, it was just *so* very
IMPORTANT and TIMELY that it was on the *front page* of the
Horrible-Terrible.  I guess they didn't have any high school Basketball
photos to put there yet.
-- 
Marc VanHeyningen     mvanheyn@whale.cs.indiana.edu     MIME accepted
"If it were not for the First Law of Thermodynamics, all bright students
of mechanical engineering would want to work on perpetual motion!"
		- Maurice Wilkes on AI
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Subject: Re: graduating virgins legend
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