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From: Robert Woodward <robertaw@drizzle.com>
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Subject: Re: Pearls Before Swine: Uncle Is Not Good With Money
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In article <vmh5ha$150uv$1@dont-email.me>,
 William Hyde <wthyde1953@gmail.com> wrote:

> Scott Dorsey wrote:
> > William Hyde  <wthyde1953@gmail.com> wrote:
> >>
> >> As you have not read that article, I feel safe in telling you that the
> >> article makes a big deal of the fact that the movie did not portray
> >> Napoleon as a three-armed Martian who conquered Jupiter.
> > 
> > This said, I would like to say that I would be VERY willing to spend my
> > money to see a movie in which Napoleon was a three-armed martian who
> > conquered Jupiter.  Especially if Nelson is a distributed software-based
> > virtual intelligence.
> 
> With only one arm, just to keep it historically accurate, of course.
> 

And one eye as well.

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