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|    David Lesher to Questor    |
|    Re: Publishers Clearing House    |
|    20 Apr 21 23:57:16    |
      From: wb8foz@panix.com              usenet@only.tnx (Questor) writes:                     >For a time a housemate was responding to the Publishers Clearing House       >entreaties. "It's only a stamp," they'd say. After a long period of never       >winning anything, and informed that their odds are worse than most lotteries,       >they gave up responding. The mailings continued for a while and then trickled       >to a stop. Until this spring, when they offered some free flower bulbs. My       >housemate bit, got the free bulbs, and now the letters are back in force.              As a college lark, a friend went to a Scientology "Personality Test."       He balked at every attempt of theirs to suck him in.              That was 50 years ago, and his mother, still in the same house, still       gets regular mailing from the cult.              --       A host is a host from coast to coast.................wb8foz@nrk.com       & no one will talk to a host that's close..........................       Unless the host (that isn't close).........................pob 1433       is busy, hung or dead....................................20915-1433              --- SoupGate-Win32 v1.05        * Origin: you cannot sedate... all the things you hate (1:229/2)    |
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