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                <text>&lt;p&gt;"Minitel Follies" was published in &lt;a href="https://www.comics.org/issue/167525/"&gt;&lt;em&gt;Gay Comix &lt;/em&gt;issue 12 for Spring/Summer 1988&lt;/a&gt;. &lt;br /&gt;&lt;br /&gt;The six page comic follows the (mis)adventures of Fox as he looks for love on the Minitel. In the opening panels, Fox picks up a terminal from the local post office and rushes home to set it up and type "3...6...1...5..."&lt;/p&gt;
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