[geeks] FS: New, in-box Segate Barracuda 4.5 Gig Ext. SCSI drive
Rick Hamell
hamellr at gmail.com
Fri Oct 10 14:12:17 CDT 2008
> A talking watermelon whispered a message to me from: Jonathan Groll
>> On Fri, Oct 10, 2008 at 10:40:06AM -0500, Mike Hebel wrote:
>>> A talking watermelon whispered a message to me from: Lionel Peterson
>>
>> Mike! Care to share some of the secrets of your hilarious database of
>> messages like the above? Are the substrings randomly spliced
>> together, or do you just have a long list of 'em?
>
> Actually I come up with those each time I change my .signature line. It's
> just something I'm able to do mentally.
>
> "The singing golf clubs belted out a message from:"
>
> "Your friend the teapot told you that:"
>
> "A rampant cherry pie splattered the following message from:"
>
> "From the depths of a squirrel's acorn cache came the following:"
You could probably find an old BBS text file full of them. I remember
using BB-something or another that the ability to add a random line from
a text file for this reason. And there was even a Fidonet group that
thought them up and shared 'em.
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Rick Hamell
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