Relay-Version: version B 2.10 5/3/83; site utzoo.UUCP Posting-Version: version B 2.10.1 6/24/83; site stolaf.UUCP Path: utzoo!watmath!clyde!burl!ulysses!mhuxj!ihnp4!stolaf!haeckel From: haeckel@stolaf.UUCP (Paul C. Haeckel) Newsgroups: net.flame Subject: Re: Re: Re: Re: Ronald Reagan/Bombing USSR Message-ID: <1989@stolaf.UUCP> Date: Thu, 11-Oct-84 21:09:39 EDT Article-I.D.: stolaf.1989 Posted: Thu Oct 11 21:09:39 1984 Date-Received: Sat, 13-Oct-84 06:23:29 EDT Organization: St. Olaf College, Northfield MN Lines: 35 >> [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 Good going Wayne - I couldn't believe that person's reaction either. Pretty knee-jerk if you ask me. I'm just wondering what exactly 30 minutes worth of 'military operations against the US' entails, anyway. -- Paul Haeckel > "Death to the war monkeys!!" < {decvax|ihnp4}!stolaf!haeckel