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Dilbert Firestorm
 
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bill van wrote:

>In article >,
> Dilbert Firestorm > wrote:
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>>bill van wrote:
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>>>In article >,
>>>Dilbert Firestorm > wrote:
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>>>>Walter Traprock wrote:
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>>>>>did people use to eat mammoth meat early last century? i've
>>>>>just read about being served mammoth meat by the Czar of Russia,
>>>>>meat dug up that's been frozen for thousands of years. there was
>>>>>no comment on the taste of he meat. book: sea devil's fo'c'sle,
>>>>>by lowell thomas (1929). OK, i'll quote all of it relating to mammoth:
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>>>>>"and then there was mammoth's meat. It had been dug up in Siberia
>>>>>out of the ice, where it had been kept naturally refrigerated
>>>>>for thousands of years. Eating that ancient mammoth's meat is
>>>>>more common now, but then it was something new and startling."
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>>>>I heard that it was good... dunno where that reference came from
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>>>An old girlfriend, perhaps?
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>>you wish, maybe???
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>Dilbert, for you to go back and edit quoted material -- your original
>post, as preserved on everyone's news server, said:
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>>I heard that i was good... dunno where that reference came from
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>is ****ing dishonest. You don't do that.
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>bill
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I don't know why you're making a big stink over a minor correction I
made. don't see correcting a typo as dishonest.

one little ol' letter never hurt anyone anyways...