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From: fred@gymble.UUCP (Fred Blonder)
Newsgroups: net.bizarre
Subject: Re: Turtle time
Message-ID: <241@gymble.UUCP>
Date: Mon, 12-Aug-85 21:53:17 EDT
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Posted: Mon Aug 12 21:53:17 1985
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    > From: dsn@tove.UUCP (Dana S. Nau)
    > Newsgroups: net.bizarre
    > Subject: Re: Turtle time
    > Message-ID: <318@tove.UUCP>
    > 
    > In article <237@gymble.UUCP> fred@gymble.UUCP (Fred Blonder) writes:
    > >
    > >A terrapin is NOT a turtle, which is NOT a tortoise, and should NOT be
    > >confused with a mock turtle, nor confused by a sheep in turtle's clothing.
    > >
    > >I hope I have made myself perfectly clear.
    > 
    > terrapin, n. [< Algonquian],  1. any of various fresh-water or tidewater
    > turtles.  2. its edible flesh.
    > 
    > -- from Webster's New World Dictionary

That dictonary was probably written by slugs.

Everyone here at Maryland knows that Terrapins are made of bronze and
filled with cement to keep them from being stolen.
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