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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
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Organization: St. Olaf College, Northfield MN
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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


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