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Re: Don't pump gas on May 15th

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From: Peter D
Date: Sat, 05 May 2007 23:23
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<myhome@mts.net> wrote in message 
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> x-no-archive: yes   On Fri, 4 May 2007 21:39:37 -0500, "Peter D"
> <please@.sk> wrote:
>
>>30c a gallon drop in April 1997? Yeah, right. Statistics without support.
>>Anyway, among the dumbest ideas known to man this has to be right up 
>>there!
>>Credit where credit is due though. It's not your idea. You just snatched 
>>it
>>from someplace else and cut/pasted it here without attribution and took 
>>the
>>credit. So, I guess that means your only a plagiariser and a fool, not the
>>maker of foolish notions.
>>
>
> Geezzzus H Christ, this was posted as a JOKE, is that all it takes to
> set you boys off.

Translation: I found out after the posting that:
(a) I couldn't take credit and got caught stealing someone else's idea;
(b) It was a lame-brained joke and it didn't add up but I was too clueness 
to figure that out before posting
(c) I don't know "someone who knows" in the oil companies so I'm basically 
screwed.
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From: "Peter D" <please@.sk>
Newsgroups: wpg.general,man.general,winnipeg.general,can.general
Subject: Re: Don't pump gas on May 15th
Date: Sat, 5 May 2007 18:23:23 -0500
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