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I like the wording, providing it isn't too long for "artistic" purposes. Edward Ben Ostrowsky said the following on 1/26/2007 10:45 AM: > Well, if it's open for a rewrite, perhaps something like: > > It was hopeless. Maude and Agnes had cracked top-secret > messages during World War II, but even Bletchley Park's > finest cryptographers were mystified by the enigmatic "008". > > At the risk of dissecting frogs, I think it telegraphs the context and > puts the punchline where it belongs: at the end. It also breaks well > into three lines. > > Ben > -- Edward M. Corrado http://www.tcnj.edu/~corrado/ Systems Librarian The College of New Jersey 403E TCNJ Library PO Box 7718 Ewing, NJ 08628-0718 Tel: 609.771.3337 Fax: 609.637.5177 Email: [log in to unmask]