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From: "Thomas Bushnell, BSG" <tb+usenet@becket.net>
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Subject: Re: [9fans] (no subject)
Date: Tue, 12 Mar 2002 09:42:48 +0000
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rsc@plan9.bell-labs.com (Russ Cox) writes:

> >> 2) exactly how many angels can dance on the head of a pin?
> > 
> > Of course, the medievals actually used this as a *caricature*, nobody
> 
> Unlike Presotto, who was dead serious, I'm sure.

I hope not!  What's the point of adding a joke to a joke if the
original isn't a joke in the first place.

I'm pretty darn sure Presotto was making a funny, I was responding
with the same spirit in mind.