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- From: francis@oas.stanford.edu (Francis Muir)
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- Subject: Re: Project B.F.D. (was: An apology)
- Date: 24 Dec 1992 14:50:01 GMT
- Organization: Stanford Exploration Project
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- Steve Dyer writes:
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- Tourette's Syndrome includes an irresistable compulsion
- to emit profanity at _inappropriate_ times. Though it
- appears rarely in females, perhaps you were thinking of
- Heather's most recent articles.
-
- I am quite enchanted at the way you all take it as a given that "Heather"
- is a female, and that this disenfranchises her/him from talking with the
- somewhat robust "voice" that we have all come to recognize. I don't know
- how these things work, but I have always assumed that "Heather" was in
- fact Mark Taranto who found it convenient to employ a disguise to cover
- up this side of his nature.
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- RABworm
-