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'''''Guff-awe''''' (or perhaps '''''GUFF-awe'''''; majuscule typescript makes capitalisation details ambiguous) was a seriees of three one-page [[GUFF]] [[newsletter]]s published in 1980 by [[John Foyster]] in [[Australia]] (in the same period, UK had ''[[The Northern Guffblower]]'').

In his 1988 ''Guffawe'' 4 [https://ozfanfunds.com/guff/guffawe4.html], [[Irwin Hirsh]] wrote:

 GUFF administrator reports have come under all manner of titles. […] this level of consistency was discarded by [[John Foyster]] who used a wide range of titles. […] ''GUFFAWE'' is a title John Foyster used three times, all in the early part of his 5 year administration.

(Foyster followed with one ''GUFF Newsletter'' in 1981 and after the GUFF hiatus of 1982–3, one ''GUFF1984''). However Hirsh seems to have missed Foyster's hyphen, so it is a question whether his own '''''Guffawe''''' series (#4, February 1988, to #9, August 1990; details available at https://ozfanfunds.com/?page_id=6#guffawe-ih ) should be treated separately.

Also, ''Guff(-)awe'' must not be confused with [[Paul Kincaid]]'s turn-of-the-millennium ''[[Guffaw]]''.

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 # || Date || Notes 
1 || April 1980 || very minimal, somewhat different from the next ones. Unnumbered but interspaced title; opens "[[Eastercon 1980|Easter 1980]]: [[Dave Langford]] and [[John Foyster]] hereby call for nominations", their addresses (in order above), anecdote headlined "Guffaw 1." Was included as last page of Foyster's ''[[Chunder!]]'' V2.4 February–May 1980 
2 || July 1980 || new heading with addresses of [[John Foyster]] and [[Rob Jackson]], "closing date for nominations has been set back to 31 August", more on VOTING, MONEY and Foyster's postal auction, bottom marked <tt>''[[Chunder!]]'' June–July 1980 page 13</tt>
3 || December 1980 || titled '''<tt>GUFF AWE 3</tt>''' with no trace of hyphen in the space; header like #2 with minor variations; more on Foyster's moneyraising fanzine sale and auction; accompanied by the ballot
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