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Date: Thu, 18-Oct-84 00:16:26 EDT
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Nf-From: ism780!jeff    Oct 17 12:52:00 1984

The great detective was explaining how he had finished off Count Dracula.
"It was really quite simple, I had him change his citizenship."
    "But there must have been more to it than that!" exclaimed his
companion and biographer.
    "No, actually, not.  I sent him a series of travel folders, some
books on the history of England, and the estate advertisements from the
Sunday Times.  He quickly leased a large manor in the lake district and
moved his household.  Then he turned in his Transynvanian passport and
became a subject of the crown.  He then set his alarm clock, ready to
rise when the sun set, to go off in search of fresh blood.  But when he
awoke, it was still day.  He thought he had miscalculated, reset his
alarm clock for 12 hours later, and dozed off again.  When the clock went
off, it was still daylight.  He was shocked.  He started setting the
clock for shorter and shorter intervals, until finally in frustration,
ignoring the danger, he leapt out of his coffin, and took off in search
of me, realizing what had happened.  Of course, once in the sunlight, his
demise was assured."
    His companion was still puzzled.  "Well, what happened.  It can't be
so simple."
    "Elementary my dear chap.  Hadn't you heard that the sun never sets
on the British vampire?"