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Discussion of written science fiction and fantasy.
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Starving people refuse to eat food aid
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In article <60cf5388-5ff6-422f-b975-abeb6 0885...@d21g2000yqn.googlegrou ps.com>, Robert Carnegie: Fnord: cc talk-orig...@moderators.isc.or g ...Take the long view: pay a pittance to keep the thing operating, on the off chance that it will finally take off and sprout up on every corner like it has in so many other countries.... more »
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Starving people refuse to eat food aid
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On Fri, 20 Nov 2009 04:56:15 -0800 (PST), Robert Carnegie: Fnord: cc talk-orig...@moderators.isc.or g <rja.carne...@excite.com> wrote: ...That's in color. Even Kansas is in color. A monochrome sort of yellowish brown, But in color nevertheless.
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Starving people refuse to eat food aid
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On Fri, 20 Nov 2009 14:41:21 +0200, netcat ...Oh dear. Now I'm starting to salivate. Since the family farm was a dairy farm, my cousin-in-law there made her own wonderful squeaky cheese which my wife has so far been unable to duplicate.
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Two YASID - A menace from Earth, and truth serum coffee
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A friend who doesn't have usenet access is trying to identify two stories for a third party - described as follows: The first story concerns a space traveller from earth, being told a story of an ancient menace that roamed the galaxy by aliens he/they have met. the stories punchline is that earth was the ancient menace.... more »
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Starving people refuse to eat food aid
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...You bet. There are no good roads in Poland, at least by American standards. The only real highway goes from Cracow through Silesia to the German border. One of the priorities of the present government is building more superhighways, but the progress is slooow. Of course, our roads are still better than Russian ones:... more »
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"One Hundred Years of Solitude" by Gabriel Garcia-Marquez (DNF) I discussed this one briefly in another thread. Not ostensibly SF, but it has ghosts, magic, and ESP, so it's at least arguably on- topic. Relates the history of the founding, life, and death of the fictional village of Macondo and the family stemming from the... more »
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Starving people refuse to eat food aid
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In article <he3ukq$ou...@solani.org>, Kurt Busiek <k...@busiek.com> wrote: ...My first encounter with Brussels sprouts was in a college cafeteria, where I asked whether they were cabbage fetuses. I have tried many stranger things, but not those.
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