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To: Oorang
>> which is where this great piece originated.

That is a piece that came from Usenet, long before FR. I first saw it close to fifteen years ago, posted on the Ham radio packet network by a good friend of mine who was in a bit of a flame war there. He is an old timer in the computer programming field, and he said it had been in circulation on Usenet since "way back", and by that I think he was talking '70s. It most certainly did not originate in this forum.

10 posted on 04/18/2004 12:06:53 AM PDT by Clinging Bitterly (Going partly violent to the thing since Nov. 25, 2000.)
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To: Dave in Eugene of all places
Thank you for the clarification, I was not aware that the origins of this piece go that far back.
14 posted on 04/18/2004 11:03:52 AM PDT by Oorang ( When all else fails, simply revel in the absurdity of it all.)
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