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From: (Dennis Jackson)
Subject: Re: OT: why would anyone bother? (Was Re: Plantagenet Bastards]
Date: Mon, 27 Jan 2003 23:19:45 +0000
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P J Wallace <> wrote:

> I'm beginning to wonder if this is a bot rather than a troll. But is
> designing a programme to write specious nonsense more (or less) of a
> waste of time and some sort of skill than writing it for real every
> single time?
> Discuss on one side of the paper only.
>
>
> On Sun, 26 Jan 2003 07:42:55 -0000, "D. Spencer Hines"
> <> wrote some old rubbish


from the description of the Summoner in the Prologue in The Canterbury
Tales:

And drinking strong red wine till all was hazy.
Then he would shout and jabber as if crazy,
And wouldn't speak a word except in Latin
When he was drunk, such tags as he was pat in;
He only had a few, say two or three,
That he had mugged up out of some decree;
No wonder, for he heard them every day.
And, as you know, a man can teach a jay

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