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From: agz@pucc-k (Andrew Banta)
Newsgroups: net.flame
Subject: Re: Re: Ronald Reagan/Bombing USSR
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Date: Sun, 7-Oct-84 15:14:44 EDT
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Posted: Sun Oct  7 15:14:44 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.


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