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Usenet Posted 23 years ago
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Liberians ask for help as rebels near capital

I hope someone else read that as I did. That's a headline from the newspaper here. My first reaction was "Why are rebels attacking the library?"

-- Tony Cooper aka: (Email Removed) Provider of Jots, Tittles, and Oy!s
  

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[nq:1]I hope someone else read that as I did. That's a headline from the newspaper here. "[/nq] chuckle - spot on.

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  • [nq:1]I hope someone else read that as I did.
  • That's a headline from the newspaper here.
  • "[/nq] chuckle - spot on.
  • Probably protesting against another increase in fines.
  • I think I'll hang on to my books for another week as a gesture of solidarity.
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[nq:1]I hope someone else read that as I did. That's a headline from the newspaper here. My first reaction was "Why are rebels attacking the library?"[/nq]
chuckle - spot on. Probably protesting against another increase in fines. I think I'll hang on to my books for another week as a gesture of solidarity. I'm not one to shirk my duty when it's time to man the barricades.

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[nq:1]I hope someone else read that as I did. That's a headline from the newspaper here. My first reaction was "Why are rebels attacking the library?"[/nq]
I assume that you made a typo and failed to reproduce the typo you mention?
-- Steve Hayes from Tshwane, South Africa http://w
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(Email Removed) (Steve Hayes) writes:
[nq:2]I hope someone else read that as I did. That's ... My first reaction was "Why are rebels attacking the library?"[/nq]
[nq:1]I assume that you made a typo and failed to reproduce the typo you mention?[/nq]
I (mis)read his subject line as he read the headline. I mentally mapped it into something having to do with a situation like the one with
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[nq:1](Email Removed) (Steve Hayes) writes:[/nq]
[nq:2] I assume that you made a typo and failed to reproduce the typo you mention?[/nq]
[nq:1]I (mis)read his subject line as he read the headline. I mentally mapped it into something having to do with a situation like the one with the Baghdad Museum.[/nq]
Steve's from SA and probably more attuned to seeing "Liberians" in the news than
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[nq:2]I assume that you made a typo and failed to reproduce the typo you mention?[/nq]
[nq:1]I (mis)read his subject line as he read the headline. I mentally mapped it into something having to do with a situation like the one with the Baghdad Museum.[/nq]
I went through "Liberals" and "Libertarians" before I got it.

Yesterday I hunted and found some background articles on Liberia:
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