Re: Twonking (!)

[Iceman <ELLOWEAG@bravo.aston.ac.uk>]

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> From: Anders Hultman <anders.hultman@unisource.se>
> Newsgroups: rec.music.gaffa
> Subject: Re: Twonking
> Date: 20 Mar 1995 17:52:33 GMT
> Organization: Unisource Business Networks Sweden AB
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> magus@big12.metrobbs.com (magus) wrote:
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> > Just thought I'd point out that back in the golden years of science
> > fiction a writer wrote about "twonkies." These were creatures that lived
> > in television sets that would create fake shows for people to watch. This
> > was how they communicated.
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> Amogst Swedish Science fiction-fans the "twonk disease" is a mythical one, 
> probably inspired by the "twonkies". The "twonk disease" is leathal, and there 
> are no symptoms whatsoever. One symptom is that you leap up and down and 
> scream "Twonk twonk". And you don't die of it.
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> anders, who just loved the original "twonk" post
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Sorry for being really pedantic, but how can it be lethal if you 
don't die from it?

Just wondering!!

Cheers,

Ed