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Re: RANCHO SANTA FE & MSIE (fwd) joke

> ..oh course!!!  We should have known!!!
> 
> Forwarded message:
> > Subject: RANCHO SANTA FE & MSIE (fwd)
> 
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> 
> RANCHO SANTA FE, Calif. (Reuter) - The bodies of 39 men and women, cloaked
> in purple shrouds, were found in a million-dollar California mansion in
> what police Thursday said appeared to be a mass suicide.
> 
> Cmdr. Alan Fulmer of the San Diego County Sheriff's Department told an
> early-morning news conference the cause of death was directly attributable
> to the cultists use of Microsoft Corporation's popular web-browsing
> software Internet Explorer.
> 
> The religious group designed computer web pages that were "best viewed
> with Internet Explorer 3.0"
> 
> Fulmer said that "when they discovered that Internet Explorer was not going
> to be fully support in Java, they had no choice but to kill themselves." He
> continued "only the seriously disturbed or religiously fanatic would
> design web sites for Internet Explorer". An unidentified officer added
> "they should have been using Netscape like all sane people do."
> 
> Police said there was no sign the deaths were related to Saturday's incident
> in Quebec when five members of a doomsday cult called the Solar Temple died
> in a blazing house in an apparent ritual suicide pact.
> 
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> 
> :-))
> E

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