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- From: larry@peak.psl.nmsu.edu (Evil Engineer doin' it the Cowboy Way)
- Subject: Re: The "familiar face" syndrome
- In-Reply-To: bberbeni@nyx.cs.du.edu's message of Fri, 13 Nov 92 04:24:07 GMT
- Message-ID: <LARRY.92Nov15115428@peak.psl.nmsu.edu>
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- Organization: New Mexico State University, MetaPhysical Science Laboratory
- References: <1992Nov13.042407.26917@mnemosyne.cs.du.edu>
- Date: Sun, 15 Nov 1992 18:54:28 GMT
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- In article <1992Nov13.042407.26917@mnemosyne.cs.du.edu> bberbeni@nyx.cs.du.edu (Bill Berbenich) writes:
-
- You ever been out somewhere and a total stranger will walk up and say
- "Hey, don't I know you?" or "Tom/Dick/Harry?" It's called the "familiar
- face" syndrome and it happens to me at LEAST once a week on average. I
- had it happen again tonight after I forayed out after completing my
- writings. A fat girl and her boyfriend were chatting amicably at the
- food court at a local yuppie-mall, the boyfriend with his back to me as
- I appoached. The blimp-woman says in an uncomfortably loud voice "hey,
- look at that guy!" as she pointed toward the bill-ster. She continued,
- "he looks just like YOU!" to her boyfriend. He turned around to see.
-
- I was shocked to see that we did indeed bear a remarkable resemblance
- to one another! Same size, same age, same features.
-
- If the bimbo hadn't have been such a fat, loud, obnoxious creature, I
- may have walked over and chatted for a bit.
-
- She may have saved your life. If a person and his doppleganger ever touch,
- they are immediately converted into pure energy.
-
- Peeve: I'm probably the twin of some horrible axe-murderer and will
- unwittingly meet up with one of the victims' relatives. I'll
- just have to kill the witnesses, too, eh?
-
- The only safe way to view a doppleganger is in the mirror...
-
- Familiarly,
- Bill (the boy next door)
- --
- No, you do not know me.
- Yes, I KNOW I look like someone you know.
-
- Say, Bill, didn't you used to machine plutonium cores at Rocky Flats? I
- knew I had seen you somewhere..
-
- L.
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