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- From: decay@cbnewsj.cb.att.com (dean.kaflowitz)
- Subject: Re: Stranded on an Island
- Organization: AT&T
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- Date: Fri, 4 Sep 1992 12:09:51 GMT
- Message-ID: <1992Sep4.120951.24044@cbnewsj.cb.att.com>
- References: <1992Sep3.194041.11683@acd4.acd.com>
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- In article <1992Sep3.194041.11683@acd4.acd.com> wdo@TEFS1.acd.com (Bill Overpeck) writes:
- > If these people are "crazy", I'm unaware of it.
-
- But we just explained you that they are. How can you claim
- ignorance in the same posting in which it is called to
- your attention? Trust me, Bill, some (not all) of the
- ones mentioned are very ill. They may even work for the
- post office.
-
- > Chaney
- > (for example) is outrageous but certainly no more so
- > than Novak, who is never characterized as disordered.
-
- Oh Novak is disordered all right. You can bet on that.
- Sick man. Sick sick sick. In fact, there have been
- special freight airlifts to get an adequate supply of
- thorazine to him. Right now he's stacking thorazine,
- haldol, and Ben-Gay. Does about 800 millis of each a day.
- You ought to see what he posts when he's off his
- medication. NASA is thinking of using him to communicate
- with Mars.
-
- Chaney is just sicker, that's all. Outrageous? His
- frothing fits and identity problems go beyond outrageous
- and do more than hint at mental illness.
-
- > I have to believe that armchair Usenet diag-
- > nosticians simply have too little information to label
- > other participants as mentally disordered.
-
- I have to believe that, for me, I have exactly the right
- amount of information to make my diagnoses. Not too
- much, not too little.
-
- You know, Bill, I sense a certain paranoia in your posting
- here. Hmmm...
-
- Dean Kaflowitz
-
- Skating away
- Skating away
- Skating away
- On the thin ice of a new day
-