Relay-Version: version B 2.10 5/3/83; site utzoo.UUCP Posting-Version: version B 2.10.2 8/23/84; site ucbcad.UUCP Path: utzoo!linus!decvax!ucbvax!ucbcad!faustus From: faustus@ucbcad.UUCP Newsgroups: net.flame Subject: Re: Re: Re: Ronald Reagan/Bombing USSR Message-ID: <2731@ucbcad.UUCP> Date: Tue, 9-Oct-84 22:42:15 EDT Article-I.D.: ucbcad.2731 Posted: Tue Oct 9 22:42:15 1984 Date-Received: Thu, 11-Oct-84 04:13:59 EDT References: <1575@zehntel.UUCP> <4057@brl-tgr.ARPA> <536@pucc-i> <2720@ucbcad.UUCP> <406@pucc-k> Organization: UC Berkeley CAD Group, Berkeley, CA Lines: 23 > [whoop-dee-do whoop-dee-do whoop-dee-do] > > > Speaking of non-funny jokes, it seems that the day after Reagan's joke > > got into the newspapers, US and Japanese intelligence intercepted a > > message from Moscow to a Soviet base in Eastern Russia that went something > > like "Begin military operations against the US immediately". It was > > followed by a cancellation a few hours later, but things were pretty tense > > for those few hours... Shows that the Soviets have a sense of "humor" too... > > Please! Are we taking a course in creative newsmaking? Why don't we jsut > say the the Soviet Union had missiles on the way that they > self-destructed when they fouund out it was a joke. After posting this > article, I think we ought to be taking a look at YOUR sense of "humor" > before we examine the sense of humor of the Soviets. Nice try anyway. Well, excuuuuse me! I'm sorry if I committed the ultimate sin of (gasp) posting something without 5 pages of references to prove that I didn't just make it up... That was in the newspaper though. I wasn't trying to make any profound points, but rather to provide an interesting (I thought) side note to the discussion... And excuse me if I didn't follow that with a dozen :-)'s to get the idea across to dense clods like you... Wayne