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RE: Stalking, Weird Letters

From: "Forward, Jonathan" <JForward@SITGBSD1.TELECOM.com.au>
Date: Mon, 19 Sep 94 11:08:00 EST
Subject: RE: Stalking, Weird Letters
To: "rec.music.gaffa" <love-hounds@uunet.UU.NET>
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Date: Friday, 16 September 1994 1:11PM
Karen wrote:

]The Technology Review, a
]magazine of tech from MIT has a hilarious article on p. 72 of their
]October issue.  Technology Review is bombarded with mail from people who
]are building spaceships in their back yard so they can "return to their
]true home - Saturn", folks who share their "personal memories of King
]Arthur", and the mysterious Mr. O. who managed to devise a machine from a
]wire coil, a thumbtack and a nonfilter cigarette that "blocks out
]malicious telepathy."

 I think I just started needing one of those.

]He also discusses a seizure disorder known as hypergraphia, though I
]doubt it could be common enough to account for the number of weird
]correspondence generated each year.

 "Hypergraphia!  That's what it is, officer.  I swear it!" - snidely
 whimpered at the feet of Sergeant "Confess or Die" Castergine, by
 some poor, cranky, telepathically-challenged amoeba.

The Snide Bastard, Adelaide Australia.
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