Hey, waitaminnit, what happened to Archie?  I certainly hope he
wasn't evicted by Herman...
 
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> From: MR ART WEIL <[log in to unmask]>
> To: [log in to unmask]
> Subject: Herman
> Date: Thursday, January 22, 1998 3:56 PM
>
>      OK, you guys. Enough of this fun-making about the octopus that
> lives in my basement. I have taken your tittering about smart squid
> as far I can take it. So this is what I did:
>          I went to the squid store (Mr. Squid) and told the nice lady
> there I wanted the smartest squid she had. She had never measured
> their intelligence and told me to come back in a week. And that's
> what I did.
>       At that time, she introduced me to Lydia, explaining that she
> had administered several tests to the squids she had and that Lydia
> had beaten out Tyrone and others in almost every test.
>       I took Lydia home and put her in the basement with Herman.
>       Well, you can imagine.
>       Herman won every chess match they played----16 over a four day
> period. The closest Lydia got was when she tried to use the King's
> pawn in a Kleinmetz manouver. Herman countered quickly with the
> standard Schliebaum-Kalakov responce as any of you would have done.
>        I took Lydia back to the Mr. Squid store and I understand she
> now wins two out of three from Tyrone.
>       You guys out there have any more challengers, Herman is ready.
>                Art