On Fri, 29 Mar 1996, Erin Mills version 2.5 wrote:

Hmm... Maybe Ratiko could be court diplo-BAT? ^_^

[That would explain why he's off so often... Treaty
negotiations!]

    OH foul miscreant and pervayor of awful puns! Thou shalt be cast 
into the Pit of the Rabid Spam-like Tortures for this! RRRRasputin! 
Bring hither the skindiving suit with the bottom cut out, and unleash 
the rampant wildebeest!

                                    ---His Holeyness
                                       Erin 2.5
                                  32nd Bishop of the Church of the 
                                            Divine Spam  

(Mike whimpers at the mention, and huddles under his desk gibbering about 
wildebeests)

   So this is the punishment for being caught with a smoking pun? 
Wildebeest torture smacks of a herd mentality; I might have to hoof it 
off the ML if we don't steppe back and relize that being on the horns of 
a dilemma is the tail end of the problem.

-Mike of No Particular Title or Handle

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