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From: v...@interport.net (Vicki Rosenzweig)
Date: 1998/01/22
Subject: Re: Getting Laid at cons...(was: some word I can't spell)
In article <885371094...@bluejo.demon.co.uk>, J...@bluejo.demon.co.uk wrote: Nobody seems to know this. I heard of this example from Teresa Nielsen >In article <avram-2001982149140...@avram.port.net> > av...@interport.net "Avram Grumer" writes: >> I take it that you've not heard of the famous example of Why Serial Commas >Every so often I wonder about that, what sort of child they'd have had. >The book, presumably, was :Galt Messiah:? >What book was it really? Hayden. When I asked her about it, she referred me to Jon Singer. Jon referred me to a former co-worker of his, to whom I sent an email that began, approximately, "You don't know me, but I'm a friend of Jon Singer's (I know, isn't everybody?)..." He sent me a friendly reply, explaining that he had never actually seen the book in question, only a copy of the dedication page, and that he no longer had an audit trail on this. For all I know, someone put it together as a joke and sent copies around. It almost doesn't matter: the example is so perfect that mere existence could not possibly add anything to it. Vicki Rosenzweig You must Sign in before you can post messages.
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