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From: sjs28257@uxa.cso.uiuc.edu (Steve Stelter)
Subject: Re: Red herrings
Date: Tue, 11 May 1993 20:21:04 GMT
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crosby@ucsu.Colorado.EDU (Matthew Crosby) writes:

>In article <1sn6u9INNh8k@twain.ucs.umass.edu> cma@twain.ucs.umass.edu (COLIN MA) writes:
>>Wasn't there a character in WITNESS opening a can of red herring?
>>That was not too subtle.
>>
>>Colin

>Nope, it was Deadline.  It was George, which was an extremely amusing touch,
>since he was the most obvious suspect.

>(It may have been in Witness to, but I only remember Deadline.)

Red herrings weren't in WITNESS, as far as I know, but there was a similar
joke in that game: while in the kitchen, Phong can be seen opening a can
of worms.

                               --Steve Stelter
                                 sjs28257@uxa.cso.uiuc.edu
