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  1. From: wayne@hpfcso.FC.HP.COM (Wayne Covington)
  2. Date: Tue, 10 Nov 1992 22:07:06 GMT
  3. Subject: Re: Swallowed Chewing Gum
  4. Message-ID: <7430060@hpfcso.FC.HP.COM>
  5. Organization: Hewlett-Packard, Fort Collins, CO, USA
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  7. Newsgroups: sci.skeptic
  8. References: <1992Oct28.182442.12977@galileo.cc.rochester.edu>
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  11. jwlr@okeeffe.cc.rochester.edu (James Willer) writes in part:
  12.  
  13. > Back when I was in grade school, one of my teachers insisted that
  14. > a piece of chewing gum would remain in the digestive tract for about
  15. > seven years. (I was of course skeptical.)
  16.  
  17. Doctor:  How's the little boy who swallowed the quarter?
  18.  
  19. Nurse:   No change yet, doctor.
  20.  
  21. Wayne
  22.