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From: barton@nepo1.iaea.or.at (Jerry Barton)
Subject: Snow blows, schools close
Keywords: topical, smirk, Latin
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Hardly original with me, but I'm sure the copyright expired decades ago...

There must be at least one lone Latin scholar left on the East Coast,
(Perhaps at Yale Divinity School?) who, during this week's snow storm,
couldn't take the train to school and muttered..

   "Sick transport, glorious Monday!"

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Administrative note:


The recent joke "The info Highway..." describing a real-life highway system
modeled on the Internet originally appeared in the com-priv mailing list
(titled "A highway with teeth", written by Russell Nelson, nelson@crynwr.com).
My apologies to him for the lack of attribution.  I will yet again ask people
to *please* accurately attribute their submissions.  It goes beyond just what
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source to friends or mailing lists, trim out header garbage, but keep the
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The recent joke "Turnabout is fair play" about an alleged incident at
a Cambridge exam is an urban legend, which has been reported to have taken
place at several different universities.  That kind of attribution is
unimportant, because it is an urban legend (and impossible to accurately
attribute).  This is, after all, a humor newsgroup, and it is unreasonable to
take seriously any claims that "this is a true story" or "this actually
happened", since, in most cases, it didn't.