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From: "A Halliwell" <u5a77@**.keele.ac.uk>
Subject: Re: TopCat's Manifesto
Date: Thu, 23 May 1996 17:11:29 +0100 (BST)
||> Hey, Roo-Man, does your wife know how to make a damn fine cup of coffee? ;)
||>
||> (I'm really sorry, but I couldn't resist :)
||>
||> -David
||
||Huh? Well... yeah, she doesn't make a bad cuppa, why? I don't get it, and
||I've tried to get it really I have, but I just don't! Please explain! :-D
|
|Its a reference to an old (late 70s?) tv commercial with a character
|named Mrs. Olson and her coffee.
|
|By this time the joke has lost something in the translation. But trust me,
|it was funny when I wrote it (I think) :)

Believe me. It loses even more in translation on an international group.
It'd be like me referring to the Kit Kat advert with the Pandas. A really
funny Ad', but have any of you americans seen it?

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|Andrew Halliwell | "ARSE! GERLS!! DRINK! DRINK! DRINK!!!" |
|Principal subjects in:-| "THAT WOULD BE AN ECCLESIASTICAL MATTER!...FECK!!!!|
|Comp Sci & something | - Father Jack in "Father Ted"
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