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Article #5001Re: LONGEST KNOWN THREAD - AND MOST BORING
From: "Colin F. Russ"
Date: Tue, 25 Oct 1994 23:15
Date: Tue, 25 Oct 1994 23:15
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In article <Cy4sDC.BM@murdoch.acc.Virginia.EDU>
kaj@Hopper.itc.Virginia.EDU "Kaj Groner" writes:
> dingdingding! jpdavid@netcom.com (John Kordic) said this!
> y In article <pM4gkWY6a8HV063yn@en.com>, Lou DuChez <ljduchez@en.com> wrote:
> y >In article <38968p$bnb@nyx10.cs.du.edu>, Michael Straight wrote:
> y >LD> >>>>>>Homosexuality is wrong!!!!!!!
> y >LD> >>>>>
> y >LD> >>>>>No it isn't!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!
> y >LD> >>>>
> y >LD> >>>>It says so in the BIBLE!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!
> y >LD> >>>
> y >LD> >>>No it DOESN'T!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!
> y >LD> >>
> y >LD> >>Is too!!!!!!!!!!!
> y >LD> >
> y >LD> >Is NOT!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!
> y >LD>
> y >LD> Tell me there's a longer and more boring thread.
> y >
> y >Is TOO!
> y
> y Why do they call them threads anyway? There should be a more proper
> y analogical counterpart, because threads are linear, and the usenet is
> y subject to tangents. My suggestion is 'upsidedown trees'. I think it
> y is appropriate, because we start on top with the trunk, and we get
> y branches, then the leaves are so distant from the trunk that they bear
> y little resemblance. The squirrels and birds are the non-sequitur type
> y posts.
>
> I propose we call them all Queen Elizibeth II.
>
OK, so tell me there's a longer and more boring Queen Elizabeth II.
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