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From: john@frog.UUCP (John Woods)
Newsgroups: net.flame,net.rumor
Subject: Re: My Coke runneth over
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Date: Mon, 15-Jul-85 14:08:13 EDT
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Posted: Mon Jul 15 14:08:13 1985
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> Please pardon the lack of obscenities in this flame.  (c;
> Take a clue from this phrase from one Coke posting: "News flash!"
> News flashes can work on TV because (a) there are still few sources of
> the information -- it is still "news", and (b) the transmission reaches
> everyone who is going to hear it within the same few milliseconds.
> 	Sitting on 2000 cases of hoarded Old Coke and RUINED,
> 	Charles Poirier
> 
It's time to let the cat out of the bag.  AT&T bought the Coca-Cola Company
while no one was looking, and we have just about repaid their expenditure...
:-)

--
John Woods, Charles River Data Systems, Framingham MA, (617) 626-1101
...!decvax!frog!john, ...!mit-eddie!jfw, jfw%mit-ccc@MIT-XX.ARPA

I have a bad habit of thinking of tremendously witty .signatures just before
I fall asleep.  If I kept paper by my bed, you'd probably be laughing
uncontrollably at this very moment.  Sorry.