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- Path: sparky!uunet!sci34hub!gary
- From: gary@sci34hub.sci.com (Gary Heston)
- Subject: Re: Doppelganger (Was: My Good Deed)
- Message-ID: <1993Jan2.010640.3974@sci34hub.sci.com>
- Reply-To: gary@sci34hub.sci.com (Gary Heston)
- Organization: SCI Systems, Inc., Huntsville, Al.
- References: <john.725819135@csrnxt1.ae.utexas.edu> <1993Jan1.031517.22506@netcom.com>
- Date: Sat, 2 Jan 1993 01:06:40 GMT
- Lines: 27
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- In article <1993Jan1.031517.22506@netcom.com> cliftonr@netcom.com (Pope Clifton) writes:
-
- |Doppelganger! Let that be a warning to you. Moreover, "doppelganger"
- |sounds much more literary than "evil twin."
-
- |That said, here is another little story to explain my reference, without
- |further use of the offending word.
-
- |Years ago, when I was going to the U. of Chicago, occasionally some of
- |my friends would tell me, "Oh, I saw you last night at such-and-such."
- | [ ... ] A stunningly beautiful young woman walked past me, gave me a
- |big smile, said "Hello, Clifton", and walked on. I was certain I had
- |never met her. [ ... ]
-
- |None of this was ever explained.
-
- Your friends were playing a joke on you. They made up the stories about
- seeing you, just to prime you for the pretty lady to freak you out on
- the street.
-
- Or, there's *really* another Clifton...
-
- --
- Gary Heston SCI Systems, Inc. gary@sci34hub.sci.com site admin
- The Chairman of the Board and the CFO speak for SCI. I'm neither.
- "Data sheet: HSN-3000 Nuclear Event Detector. The [NED] senses the gamma
- radiation pulse [from a] nuclear weapon." As if we wouldn't notice...
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