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From: dennison@telepath.com
Subject: Re: When will Ada big moment arrive? what is missing?
Date: 1999/05/28
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In article <374ED920.4FD22EC0@pwfl.com>,
  diespammer@pwfl.com wrote:
> Well, in trying to make a play on "The Great American Novel" which
> everyone wants to write upon retiring from the rat race, I guess I was
> being a little insensitive to the international quality of Ada. Pardon
> my ethnocentricism ;-)

The phrase "rat race" is demeaning to laboratory rodents and marketing
executives. The marketing executives of course we don't care about, but
tick off the rodents and you're liable to wake up one morning to hear
that Ada has been found to cause cancer...


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