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From: geoffw@jumper.mcc.ac.uk (Geoff)
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Subject: Re: FIVE GOOD REASONS WHY IBM'S ARE BETTER THAN MACS
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Date: 18 Apr 1996 21:44:15 GMT
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Avi (avi@cyberspc.mb.ca) wrote:
: > Marathon is a joke in gameplay and looks like a joke compared to Quake.  Ever 
: > heard of EF2000?  You'd be drenching your shirt with saliva!!!

: doubt. BTW, don't use descriptive nopuns more than once in the same
: sentence, it makes you look like a joke, you joke.

Don't use descriptive nouns more than once in the same sentence,
-except for effect or emphasis-. And that is exactly what he was doing.

G.