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- From: lippard@skyblu.ccit.arizona.edu (James J. Lippard)
- Newsgroups: sci.skeptic
- Subject: Weekly World News (was Re: Human Parthenogenesis?)
- Message-ID: <25JUL199219485091@skyblu.ccit.arizona.edu>
- Date: 26 Jul 92 02:48:00 GMT
- References: <1992Jul22.210032.18308@pony.Ingres.COM> <1992Jul25.193400.14718@rosevax.rosemount.com>
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- In article <1992Jul25.193400.14718@rosevax.rosemount.com>, grante@aquarius.rosemount.com (Grant Edwards) writes...
- >Ah, but the tabloids have PICTURES! John will never be able to
- >compete with the darling pictures of Nessie's baby, or the flying
- >saucer sitting on the flight deck of the Nimitz that the Weekly World
- >News had. Or is it the World Weekly News? Either way it's a great
- >paper.
-
- The Weekly World News--they have a "source" for every story. I think
- readers must make some of this stuff and send it in for laughs--like
- the "former Siamese twins" who want to be reconnected (photo shows
- pair of adult twins standing next to each other; baby photo shows
- them sitting together, touching, but no visible evidence of any physical
- connection), or the "girl with four arms" pictured in about three
- photos, where it's fairly obvious that there is simply someone else
- hiding behind her (though one of the photos was particularly well done--
- a full body shot of the girl sitting on a stool where you can see through
- its legs). Some sci.skeptic folks should make some contributions and
- see if any get printed.
-
- Jim Lippard Lippard@CCIT.ARIZONA.EDU
- Dept. of Philosophy Lippard@ARIZVMS.BITNET
- University of Arizona
- Tucson, AZ 85721
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