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From: conway@mundil.cs.mu.OZ.AU (Thomas Charles CONWAY)
Subject: Re: Linux thoroughly insulted by Infoworld!
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Date: Fri, 27 Jan 1995 00:42:18 GMT
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karl@plato.simons-rock.edu (Karl A. Krueger) writes:

>
>Thunderbird?  Try Lada!
>
>(cheap Soviet car, falls apart, coughs gak in the air like no tomorrow, 
>and breaks down.)
>

Hence the joke:
	A man walks into a service station and says "Can I have a new
	rear-vision mirror for my Lada?"
	The mechanic replies "Yeah, sure! That's about a fair exchange."

pax
Thomas