Relay-Version: version B 2.10 5/3/83; site utzoo.UUCP Posting-Version: version B 2.10.3 alpha 4/15/85; site weitek.UUCP Path: utzoo!watmath!clyde!bonnie!akgua!whuxlm!harpo!decvax!decwrl!greipa!pesnta!amd!amdcad!cae780!weitek!mmm From: mmm@weitek.UUCP (Mark Thorson) Newsgroups: net.followup,net.misc Subject: We Have A Winner!! Message-ID: <311@weitek.UUCP> Date: Sun, 27-Oct-85 14:27:07 EST Article-I.D.: weitek.311 Posted: Sun Oct 27 14:27:07 1985 Date-Received: Wed, 30-Oct-85 04:45:33 EST Organization: Weitek Corp. Sunnyvale Ca. Lines: 30 Keywords: Also announcing Big Contest 2!! Xref: watmath net.followup:5383 net.misc:8795 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) ------------------------------------- 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.