Today's Topics:
News of the Weird
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Date: Wed, 3 Oct 90 11:57:06 edt
From: Eric Haines <eye!erich@wrath.cs.cornell.edu>
Subject: News of the Weird
To: cornell!subgenius%media-lab.media.mit.edu@wrath.cs.cornell.edu
Come November, there's going to be a new volume of "News of the Weird" called
something like (sorry, I left the ad at home) "News of the Weird, Volume 2",
by Chuck Shepherd et al, from New American Library/Plume books. To whet your
appetite, here are a few snippets from the latest issue of News of the Weird
(a newsletter which is available for $8/year from Chuck Shepherd, PO Box
57141, Washington, DC 20037. Also, send him your weird news clippings).
- James M. Jernigan, 30, was arrested in Folly Beach, S.C., in April outside
the church where Teresa Parker was being married. Jernigan, described as
infatuated with Parker, was attempting to prevent the marriage, brandishing a
toy pistol and wearing a big cowboy hat, white cape, and black mask.
- A Springfield, Ill., physician, writing in an April medical journal about a
3-year-old boy's severe constipation, attributed it to his fear of entering
the bathroom due to memories of a TV commercial in which the toilet bowl turns
into a monster, with the lid making a chomping noise. He had refused to enter
a bathroom for six months without explaining why.
Eric Haines
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