Relay-Version: version B 2.10 5/3/83; site utzoo.UUCP Posting-Version: version B 2.10.1 6/24/83; site pucc-k Path: utzoo!watmath!clyde!burl!ulysses!mhuxj!ihnp4!inuxc!pur-ee!CS-Mordred!Pucc-H:Pucc-I:Pucc-K:agz From: agz@pucc-k (Andrew Banta) Newsgroups: net.flame Subject: Re: Re: Ronald Reagan/Bombing USSR Message-ID: <406@pucc-k> Date: Sun, 7-Oct-84 15:14:44 EDT Article-I.D.: pucc-k.406 Posted: Sun Oct 7 15:14:44 1984 Date-Received: Tue, 9-Oct-84 02:52:12 EDT References: <1575@zehntel.UUCP> <4057@brl-tgr.ARPA> <536@pucc-i> <2720@ucbcad.UUCP> Organization: Alcohol Design and Application Corp. Lines: 22 [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. ------------------------------------------------------------------------------ Andy Banta {decvax!allegra!inhp4}!pur-ee!pucc-k!agz Alcohol Design and Application Corp. --- Serving people over 21 years. ------------------------------------------------------------------------------ "Two suns in the sunset, Could be the human race is run ... "