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From: andrews@ubc-cs.UUCP (Jamie Andrews)
Newsgroups: net.bizarre
Subject: Re: neats
Message-ID: <23@ubc-cs.UUCP>
Date: Wed, 25-Sep-85 16:05:40 EDT
Article-I.D.: ubc-cs.23
Posted: Wed Sep 25 16:05:40 1985
Date-Received: Thu, 26-Sep-85 02:43:43 EDT
References: <90800002@convex>
Reply-To: andrews@ubc-cs.UUCP (Jamie Andrews)
Organization: UBC Department of Computer Science, Vancouver, B.C., Canada
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In article <90800002@convex> tmorris@convex.UUCP writes:
>	Let us not forget the plight of the defenseless little neets.
>These poor rodents have been exploited for years ,raised in cages and 
>mistreated their entire life ;only to have their feet cut off and boiled down
>for the valuable oil....

     In fact the true spelling is "neat" and it's just an archaic term for
an ox.  And what you describe is basically what happens to them.  I'm not a
militant vegetarian or anything but in this case it's not so much of a joke.
     --Jamie.