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Subject:Re: Possible April Fool's gag From:Faith Weber <weber -at- EASI -dot- ENET -dot- DEC -dot- COM> Date:Fri, 1 Apr 1994 09:45:42 PST
W. Warren writes:
>As long as I learned how to use, overuse, and
>abuse dramatic words like "pounced," "trounced,"
>and "massacred," I just spliced in the facts and
>I had a sports story.
Hey, that gives me an idea. Maybe more people would read
manuals if they were written like sports stories.
"Choose Exit to annihilate the program"!
Faith Weber
EA Systems Inc.
weber -at- easi -dot- enet -dot- dec -dot- com