FROM BRETT...

Subject: Barry and I...

... were getting frustrated and thought that it would help if we beat
   somebody up.

        Totally unrelated, now: could you possibly come to the
   graphics lab for about ten minutes.  Don't worry about that other
   stuff I said...  Put it right out of your mind.


FROM CHRIS...

Subject: Re: Barry and I... 

Uhh... Uhhh...sorry I uhhhh have to... uhhhh... go and, uhhh, bake a cake, yeah
thats it, I have to bake a cake.  Uhhh A friend (who you don't know and never
heard of) is comming into town, yeah thats it, and I have to go bake a cake....