Date:    Wed, 1 Apr 1998 10:46:29 -0500
<br>From:    Mark Mandel  Mark[AT SYMBOL GOES HERE]DRAGONSYS.COM 
<br>Subject: THIS X SUCKS
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<br>In response to Ron's well-reasoned demands for data: I should have made my basis
<br> of assertion clearer. I vas dere,
<br>Sharlie. I remember what I thought the expression referred to (as does George S.
<br> Cole, evidently a few years older than
<br>I). I didn't mention that as an argument, and I should have.
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