Newsgroups: alt.pub.dragons-inn From: takashi@nevada.edu (Edward T. Tonai) Subject: Re: Yet another new arrival Message-ID: <1992May15.180417.18847@nevada.edu> Date: Fri, 15 May 1992 18:04:17 GMT The door opens, and a middle-aged medium-length dark-haired woman enters. She brushes off the dust from her blue dress, looks around to the patrons of the inn, and smiles. "Hi, my name is Marilyn so Verysmart. I'm just passing through promoting my syndicated newsgroup, Ask Mary. You can call me Mary, by the way. I hold the alt.useless-facts record for most thoroughly obnoxious INT: 19 NPC in the AD&D Universe. I'm married to the famous Cleric who created the spell "Rock to Artificial Heart," High-Priest Jarvik. So if any of you want to ask me anything--ANYTHING...I'm the one to ask... Just ask me, Marilyn so Verysmart. I do nothing to benefit society with my INT: 19, except to make those math sages who try to challenge my tricky math problems look like fools!!! Hahahahahaha!!!!" Mary looks around to see if anyone is listening, and seeing that very few people REALLY care otherwise more people would subscribe to her newsgroup, decides to just go to the bar and sit down. "Hi! I'm Marilyn so Verysmart, but you can call me Mary! Could you please give me a drink? I'd like a Screaming Viking--in a glass... and if you have a quarter, I can show you something very interesting about how if you roll the quarter around the edge of the glass..you only roll it four times!!!! Wow, isn't that neat? Figured that out all by myself! And all those fool sages at thought I was WRONG!!! I'm never wrong!!! "Now, does anybody have a quarter?"