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Subject:Idle questions-Humor From:"USA::MU17692" <MU17692%USA -dot- decnet -at- USAV01 -dot- GLAXO -dot- COM> Date:Sat, 12 Nov 1994 11:52:00 EST
And then there's the one where a guy sneaks a bomb on an airplane
because he read that the odds of *two* bombs being on the same
plane were nearly impossible. He felt safer... ;-)
-Mike Uhl (uhl~m -at- glaxo -dot- com)
Glaxo Inc. Research Institute
Research Triangle Park, NC
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