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<DIV>Holy Cheese Dip, Groop! What happened here?</DIV>
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<DIV>Seen maybe one or two messages a night almost every night for the past several years. So I leave town for four days expecting to come back and find maybe ten messages. I get back and you've sent me EIGHTY?! WOW! The most lively discussion on the Groop in recent memory and I missed it. You planned it this way, didn't you? You waited for me to leave town and then had your little roundtable.</DIV>
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<DIV>I haven't seen this dramatic a jump in a mailing list's activities since someone one the Trombone mailing list opened up a discussion of the merits of different slide lubricants. Once we got into the homemade vs commerically bought argument.....well, I'm sure I don't need to tell you -- the gloves came off!</DIV>
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<DIV>I'll be out of town from this Sunday until Friday. I expect there to be over 200 Groo-filled messages in my inbox when I get back (and yes, I figure about 100 of those to come from Larry, Gary, and Janet).</DIV>
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<DIV>Make me proud Groop. If you're good, I'll give you my two cents. If you're bad, I might regale you with the tale of why I was thrown out of a testing facility today because my name isn't Joanne.</DIV>
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<DIV>Have a good week.</DIV>
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