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From: stanton@fortune.UUCP (W. Dean Stanton)
Newsgroups: net.jokes
Subject: Re: Telegram
Message-ID: <3631@fortune.UUCP>
Date: Tue, 19-Jun-84 14:39:52 EDT
Article-I.D.: fortune.3631
Posted: Tue Jun 19 14:39:52 1984
Date-Received: Thu, 21-Jun-84 05:59:55 EDT
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Organization: Fortune Systems, Redwood City, CA
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I would not correct anyone else's Telegram Joke, but ...

I heard another one.  My mother, old enough to know,
says a telegram's base rate is for *10 words*.
Hence the message:

	BRUISES HURT. ERASED AFFORD. ERECTOR.
	ANALYSIS HURT, TOO; INFECTIOUS DEAD.

I don't know if punctuation was included in the base rate,
but I added it to provide "readability".

					- Dean Stanton
UUCP:	{ihnp4,ucbvax!amd70,hpda,sri-unix,harpo}!fortune!stanton
USPS:	Fortune Systems Corp, 101 Twin Dolphin Drive, Redwood City, CA 94065
Phone:	(415) 595-8444