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Ooops... (re: from TFTD, back to UFO)

#577
From: Shaun Green Greenish9
Date: Tue, 29 Sep 1998 00:00
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Okay, I've just realised that a few messages I meant for the ng have
been sent to various people...so I've tried to rescue what I meant to
post.  Here's one:


     Subject: 
            Re: From TFTD, back to UFO...
       Date: 
            Tue, 29 Sep 1998 20:47:14 +0100
      From: 
            "Shaun Green (Greenish9)"
<gree...@greenshb.globalnet.co.uk>
        To: 
            Detonate <deto...@detonate.demon.co.uk>
 References: 
            1 , 2 , 3



See below:

Detonate wrote:
> 
> Actually, I was finding it kind of odd that the landscape was revealed from
> the Skyranger, but I didn't see any aliens beyond...

Yah, it's weird how you can see terrain but not the aliens.  A soldier
was standing in a field once, looking at a bale of hay.  All was clear,
the map was all uncovered.  He took one pace forward - and blam, was
promptly shot by the Sectoid standing on top of said bale of hay.  Sigh.
 
> Guess I should RTFM, or in this case RTFU !? :-)

Aaargh!  More acronyms! ;)

Greenish_9
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Subject: Ooops... (re: from TFTD, back to UFO)
Date: 1998/09/29
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