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- From: dunn@hinano.Eng.Sun.COM (Jeff Dunn)
- Newsgroups: alt.paranormal
- Subject: Re: {Tele|Pyro}kinesis
- Message-ID: <ljcaqnINNcj3@appserv.Eng.Sun.COM>
- Date: 21 Dec 92 20:38:47 GMT
- References: <168BDC58.REBECCA@YaleVM.YCC.Yale.Edu>
- Reply-To: dunn@hinano.Eng.Sun.COM
- Organization: Sun Microsystems, Inc.
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- In article REBECCA@YaleVM.YCC.Yale.Edu, REBECCA@YaleVM.YCC.Yale.Edu (Rebecca Drayer) writes:
- <In article <1992Dec12.033552.4327@morwyn.uucp>
- <forrie@morwyn.uucp (Forrest Aldrich) writes:
- <>I wonder if the concept introduced in this movie could be perhaps a
- <>little realistic. I wonder if a chemical stimulation of some sort
- <>could in fact 'wake up' certain abilities within the mind. I had
- <>never heard of the "SHOP" before, but given all the other governmental
- <>conspiracies and experimentations, I would doubt if they were working
- <>at/with something of the sort, somewhere.
- <
- <Stephen King's pet evil government agency is the Shop. He's used it in
- <several of his books, plus his "Golden Years" series. I doubt if it
- <actually exists.
- <
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- "The shop" is a slang term for the CIA, and is used in most fiction about intelligence
- in modern times. Supposedly, the term was coined by CIA agents themselves - hence
- the saying, "Once shop, always shop."
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- Jeff Dunn [if i said it, sun micro didn't mean it] jeff.dunn@eng.sun.com
- Conspirator against long answering machine announcents and .sigs
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