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From: winston@merk.com (Winston Smith)
Subject: TALK: Re: MONEY
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Keywords: Latin, "talent", silver, joke
Organization: Technology Partners, Inc.
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Date: Fri, 22 Apr 1994 11:12:22 GMT
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On April 19, 1994 at 07:55:29 GMT  (1:55pm EDT ? )
  dgreen@osiris.hmc.edu (David Green) writes:

 DG> Good night, where did that come from?... [stuff deleted]
 DG> 
 DG> Actually, I have a harder time getting a mummy out of that than
 DG> a loonie anyway...
 DG> 
 DG> ->Pax vobiscum
 DG>
 DG> Does anyone else see the irony here, or is it just me?

Actually I see:
          Subject: Re: MONEY
          ->  [ picture of coin ]
          -> ...to advertise your "talent"
          -> on this worthy network.  
          -> 
          -> Pax vobiscum
 
     As the topic is "money", the closing is in Latin, the picture is of a
coin, and "talent" is in quotes and the network is "worthy", perhaps he is
making a play-on-words of the word "talent", which, if I am not mistaken,
was a Roman coin that was worth one "talent" of silver.  In that case the
posting would have been meant as a joke, except he forgot to include the
smilie or the <* just kidding *> at the end.  Hmm...  that type of humor
is a bit too esoteric for the net.  Just a thought....  ;-)