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[buck@satyr.sylvan.com (Michael Butler)]

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From: buck@satyr.sylvan.com (Michael Butler)
Subject: Re: Twonking
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Organization: Sylvan Associates...  NOT!
Date: Sat, 25 Mar 1995 07:29:27 GMT
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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.

And in the golden years of science fiction fandom there was the
insidious "Twonk's disease", brought about by too much fannish
activity, e.g. publishing zines.  The name was thought to derive from
the sound of a Gestetner mimeograph machine.  The symptoms?  There...
aren't any.  That's one of the reasons it's insidious...

Michael Butler