Date: Fri, 21 Jul 2006 10:52:45 -0400 Subject: [ark] Re: The Internet In alt.religion.kibology, asw@TheWorld.com wrote: TeaLady (Mari C.) wrote: >it all to "mark as read, forever and ever" "Zees eez a slightly ...unusual request," said Dr. Kibo, with commendable restraint (not /that/ kind). "As far as I know, it is the first time anyone's been asked to supply a SuperFoonlyConnectionSystem++ automatic computer to a bunch of cartoons. Would you mind telling me what you are going to do with it?" "Gladly," replied the llama. "The monkeys were getting expensive, and hard to clean up after (which I will not put). If we simulate them, and their typewriters, on your fancy new computer, we should be able to write all possible USENET posts in a manner of minutes." ... He could just see Teo's face, a white oval turned to the servers. "Look," whispered Teo, and Kibo lifted his eyes to the hills (on retractable eyestalks). Overhead, without any fuss, the blinkenlights were going out. plorkwort. -- A girl and a boy bump into each other -- surely an accident. A girl and a boy bump and her handkerchief drops -- surely another accident. But when a girl gives a boy a dead squid -- *that had to mean something*. -- S. Morganstern, "The Silent Gondoliers"