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Mon Apr 2 13:31:17 EDT 2001 · http://mail.python.org/pipermail/python-list/2001-April/115013.html

In article <mailman.986193601.16744.python-list at python.org>, Daniel
Berlin <dan at www.cgsoftware.com> wrote:

> Ooh ooh. can it point you to sections that don't exist, saying something
> like "Section 37.2.1 of the ANSI standard [serial number
> 59129120918201212] *obviously* explains why this is", when the standard
> only goes up to section 12?

I am somehow reminded of a bit from Richard Armour (college English
prof and published humorist in the 1940s/1950s).  Something like

For more information, order Publication RX5912z9120-918201212-A from
the US Government Printing office *

* Due to a printing error, two publications with this number were
printed.  Be sure to specify "the blue one."

  --John (see if you can dig an Armour book or two out of your
Library...Light Armour would be one choice, IIRC)

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