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From: faustus@ucbcad.UUCP
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Subject: Re: Re: Re: Ronald Reagan/Bombing USSR
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Date: Tue, 9-Oct-84 22:42:15 EDT
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Posted: Tue Oct  9 22:42:15 1984
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> [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