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Re: Discovered: The Internet's underground editors
Subject:Re: Discovered: The Internet's underground editors From:Jo Francis Byrd <jbyrd -at- byrdwrites -dot- com> To:"Mark L. Levinson" <markl -at- gilian -dot- com> Date:Wed, 12 Jan 2000 10:51:31 -0600
Count me among the editors. I don't forward jokes often...they have to be REALLY
good (as in TERRIBLY bad puns, the kind that produce cringes and groans. My
favorites!), and then forwarded only to a select few who I know will really
appreciate them.
Jo Byrd
"Mark L. Levinson" wrote:
> Interestingly, no fewer than five people wrote to me saying that yes,
> sometimes before forwarding jokes or curiosities that they receive by e-mail,
> they edit them.
>
> Now I understand why the spelling-checker rhyme, rightfully banned from these
> precincts, seems to have gained a verse or two each time I see it.
>
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> Mark L. Levinson - markl -at- gilian -dot- com - Herzlia, Israel
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