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From: mmm@weitek.UUCP (Mark Thorson)
Newsgroups: net.followup,net.misc
Subject: We Have A Winner!!
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Date: Sun, 27-Oct-85 14:27:07 EST
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Keywords: Also announcing Big Contest 2!!
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The winner is "flame".  I now owe $10 to Brian Smithson of Calma.
Send me your address or drop by Weitek, which is practically around
the corner from you (1060 E. Arques, across the street from Singer/Link).

We now enter the second phase of the experiment, installation of the word
in the language.  How do we do this?  Big Contest 2:  The Usenet Joke.

I want a joke that is so funny that it will be told so often you'll get
sick of hearing it.  The joke must have the word "flame" as a key component,
without which the joke cannot be told or would not be funny.

As before the reward is US$10, in the form of a check drawn on my bank
(the check is backed up by considerably more than $10 from a bank with
offices in all major western countries).

I'm allowing more time for the creative juices to flow:  The closing date
for entries is December 15.  The closing date for votes is December 28.

Mark Thorson  (...!cae780!weitek!mmm)

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So I asked the mechanic "What's wrong with my car?".
He said "Wbva gur arg.haqretebhaq znvyvat yvfg!"

I nodded knowingly, as if I understood.

"How much will it cost to fix?" I asked.

"Twelve hundred dollars" he said quite clearly.