there, and a "comp" group will propagate your article further.)
You may also find it is more fun to post the article once in each
group. If you list all the newsgroups in the same article, some newsreaders
-will only show the the article to the reader once! Don't tolerate this.
+will only show the article to the reader once! Don't tolerate this.
-- Emily Postnews Answers Your Questions on Netiquette
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Dear Emily:
You may also find it is more fun to post the article once in each group.
If you list all the newsgroups in the same article, some newsreaders will
-only show the the article to the reader once! Don't tolerate this.
+only show the article to the reader once! Don't tolerate this.
-- Brad Templeton, _Emily Postnews Answers Your Questions on Netiquette_
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Q: I cant spell worth a dam. I hope your going too tell me what to do?
below your address label. (d) Then print on your 3x5 card, above your
computer-printed name and address the words "CARTER & VAN PEEL
SWEEPSTAKES" (Use all capital letters.) (e) Finally place 3x5 card
-(without bending) into a plain envelope [NOTE: do NOT use the the
+(without bending) into a plain envelope [NOTE: do NOT use the
Official Prize Claim and CVP Perfume Reply Envelope or you may be
disqualified], and mail to: CVP, Box 1320, Westbury, NY 11595. Print
this address correctly. Comply with above instructions carefully and
-- Flannery O'Connor
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Examinations are formidable even to the best prepared, for
-even the greatest fool may ask more the the wisest man can answer.
+even the greatest fool may ask more the wisest man can answer.
-- C.C. Colton
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Experience is the worst teacher. It always gives the test first and
After being reported missing a day or two later, rangers found two bears,
one a male, one a female, looking suspiciously overstuffed. They killed
the female, autopsied her, and sure enough, found the German and the Pole.
- "What do you think?" said the the first ranger.
+ "What do you think?" said the first ranger.
"The Czech is in the male," replied the second.
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Aberdeen was so small that when the family with the car went
To which the heroes reply, that's a pretty good allegation from a bunch of
wimpsoes who won't go near a woman on account, can you believe it, of their
mystical power being sort of drained out. Right, say the wizards, that just
-about does it, you and your leather posing pouches. Oh yeah, say the the
+about does it, you and your leather posing pouches. Oh yeah, say the
heroes, why don't you ...
-- Terry Pratchett, "The Light Fantastic"
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and others that neither side of the question is susceptible of proof. Just
what can these hopeful ones believe that the word "proof" involves? The
evidence against the persistence of personal consciousness is as strong as
- the the evidence for gravitation, and much more obvious. It is as convincing
+ the evidence for gravitation, and much more obvious. It is as convincing
and unassailable as the proof of the destruction of wood or coal by fire.
If it is not certain that death ends personal identity and memory, then
almost nothing that man accepts as true is susceptible as proof."
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An Israeli soldier was checking travelers' papers on a road, when a
man and a heavily pregnant woman on a donkey came by. "Your names please?"
-said the the soldier.
+said the soldier.
"My name is Mary," said the woman.
"And mine is Joseph," said the man.
"Oh," said the soldier, a little taken aback, "And where are you
for, with two regrettable exceptions for which I beg your indulgence.
Unfortunately the sum of one shilling and ninepence remains
unaccounted for in one infantry battalion's petty cash and there has been
-a hideous confusion as the the number of jars of raspberry jam issued to
+a hideous confusion as the number of jars of raspberry jam issued to
one cavalry regiment during a sandstorm in western Spain. This
reprehensible carelessness may be related to the pressure of circumstance,
since we are war with France, a fact which may come as a bit of a surprise
-- Miramanee, "The Paradise Syndrome", stardate 4842.6
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... The things love can drive a man to -- the ecstasies, the
-the miseries, the broken rules, the desperate chances, the glorious
+miseries, the broken rules, the desperate chances, the glorious
failures and the glorious victories.
-- McCoy, "Requiem for Methuselah", stardate 5843.7
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