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Dear Sir,

Thankyou for my request being actioned. However, I rather hoped that there would be some substance to the above post.

I am waiting for some juicy meat to ponder over.

Yours Sincerely

Ms X

what happened to your camera?

Dear Ms Y,

My pleasure in actioning your request. Some meat will be delivered soon.

Yours Sincerely,

Mr X

Wendy,

My Camera stopped working. Well, really the image is utterly terrible. Appartently the CCD (the light sensing bit of the camera) has died. Not sure why. Have not bumped / dropped the camera. Quote from the place to repair it -- repair cost is very high (greater than the cost of buying a new camera).

So, I'm looking for a new camera!

Cheers,
Kevin

Dear Mr X,

With regard to the post by Mr Y, did you mean to adress a mythical Ms Y, rather than the author , Ms X, of the first post? Have you become algebraically ( or just alphabetically)-challenged in your advanced years?

Yours sincerely
Ms Z

ps I, too, am awaiting some 'meat'.

NEWS FLASH:

At New York's Kennedy airport today, an individual later discovered to be a public school teacher was arrested trying to board a flight while in possession of a ruler, a protractor, a setsquare, a slide rule, and a calculator.

At a morning press conference, Attorney general John Ashcroft said he believes the man is a member of the notorious al-gebra movement. He is being charged by the FBI with carrying weapons of math instruction.

"Al-gebra is a fearsome cult,", Ashcroft said. "They desire average solutions by means and extremes, and sometimes go off on tangents in a search of absolute value. They use secret code names like "x" and "y" and refer to themselves as "unknowns", but we have determined they belong to a common denominator of the axis of medieval with coordinates in every country.

"As the Greek philanderer Isosceles used to say, there are 3 sides to every triangle," Ashcroft declared.

When asked to comment on the arrest, President Bush said, "If God had wanted us to have better weapons of math instruction, He would have given us more fingers and toes.

"I am gratified that our government has given us a sine that it is intent on protracting us from these math-dogs who are willing to disintegrate us with calculus disregard. Murky statisticians love to inflict plane on every sphere of influence," the President said, adding: "Under the circumferences, we must differentiate their root, make our point, and draw the line."

President Bush warned, "These weapons of math instruction have the potential to decimal everything in their math on a scalene never before seen unless we become exponents of a Higher Power and begin to factor-in random facts of vertex."

Attorney General Ashcroft said, "As our Great Leader would say, read my ellipse. Here is one principle he is uncertainty of: though they continue to multiply, their days are numbered as the hypotenuse tightens around their necks.