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Article #291176Re: Humor: Microsoft Announces Halo 26 -- With Free Cloning!
From: CG
Date: Wed, 28 Jun 2006 01:59
Date: Wed, 28 Jun 2006 01:59
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Now that would be a good spoof article....hmm... considering Bush's attitude toward anyone speaking against him...maybe not. He might try and use the Google Death Ray on me. -- CG cgan...@myuw.net **Goals are just DREAMS with DEADLINES! **Live your life with passion and risk! website: http://home.myuw.net/cganders humor blog: Musings and Meanings on NonSensical Events and Canada http://ahablogolicious.blogspot.com/ (mainly spoof news, light satire and humor) "Luc The Perverse" <sll_noSpamli...@cc.usu.edu> wrote in message news:nrj6n3xbhp.ln2@loki.cmears.id.au... > "CG" <cgan...@u.washington.edu> wrote in message > news:e7q63r$3h5$1@gnus01.u.washington.edu... >> Technically, satire's been around longer...and not just on websites and >> blogs. :) I still remember the "Microsoft buys the Vatican"...and >> Darwin lists. >> >> The blog may be new, but unfortunately, I predate The Onion (and have >> been spoofing a lot longer than I care to remember.) (Remember the >> ARPANET? >> oh dear...has it really been 20 years? I was very very very young and >> that's my >> story and I'm sticking with it.) >> >> Besides, I'm not trying to trick people into thinking the spoof is real. >> :) >> >> And you never know, Halo 26 may end up with cloning available! One can >> only hope...or is that really a good thing? That would also imply that >> Halo will >> end up with a 26 version...and probably not overly innovative....hmmm.... > > It is about as likely as Bush coming out on public television and saying > that he endorses pornography. > > -- > LTP > > :) >
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Path: mbox-mo1.pugleaf.net!g2news2.google.com!news4.google.com!border1.nntp.dca.giganews.com!nntp.giganews.com!newshub.sdsu.edu!router2.astraweb.com!mrouter.astraweb.com!news.astraweb.com!router1.astraweb.com!news.alt.net!news.u.washington.edu!not-for-mail From: "CG" <cgan...@u.washington.edu> Newsgroups: comp.sys.acorn.games,comp.sys.amiga.games,alt.games.starcraft,alt.games.starsiege.tribes,alt.games.the-sims Subject: Re: Humor: Microsoft Announces Halo 26 -- With Free Cloning! Date: Tue, 27 Jun 2006 18:59:01 -0700 Organization: University of Washington Lines: 51 Message-ID: <e7snpi$10o$1@gnus01.u.washington.edu> References: <e7n2el$p2i$1@gnus01.u.washington.edu> <129v5rp66g6smfb@corp.supernews.com> <e7q63r$3h5$1@gnus01.u.washington.edu> <nrj6n3xbhp.ln2@loki.cmears.id.au> NNTP-Posting-Host: cs701-65.myuwmodem.myuw.net X-Trace: gnus01.u.washington.edu 1151459955 1048 209.124.186.75 (28 Jun 2006 01:59:15 GMT) X-Complaints-To: he...@cac.washington.edu NNTP-Posting-Date: Wed, 28 Jun 2006 01:59:15 +0000 (UTC) X-Priority: 3 X-MSMail-Priority: Normal X-Newsreader: Microsoft Outlook Express 6.00.2900.2670 X-MimeOLE: Produced By Microsoft MimeOLE V6.00.2900.2670 X-RFC2646: Format=Flowed; Response MIME-Version: 1.0 Content-Type: text/plain; charset=UTF-8 Content-Transfer-Encoding: 7bit