So, if you see you local bookie today, give him a friendly word.
-- dr foo
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Date: Wed, 7 Nov 90 23:30 EST
From: Michael Travers <mt@media-lab.media.mit.edu>
Subject: More disappearing body parts
To: subgenius@mc.lcs.mit.edu
From: faustus@ygdrasil.Berkeley.EDU (Wayne A. Christopher)
>From the Toronto Globe and Mail, 10/31/90
Nigerians fear dismembering as tales of genital theft grow
Agence France-Presse
LAGOS - A bizarre rumor of disappearing male genitals has gripped
black Africa's givvest city, leading to mob attacks in Lagos on
suspected organ-robbers and extensive coverage in Nigeria's news
media.
The rumor, whose origins are unclear, states that some
unscrupulous people use bodily contacts such as handshakes to make
genitals disappear.
According to the rumor, the stolen organs later reappear in
possession of these people, who sell them for thousands of dollars.
Dozens of suspects have been beaten up by irate mobs or
arrested by policemen in various parts of this city of an
estimated seven million residents in the past two weeks.
Many Lagos residents now go about the streets checking from
time to time their genitals immediately after a handshake or after
a bodily contact with a stranger.
Reacting to the rumor, the Lagos state police issued an
official statement last Thursday. It described the rumor as the
work of mischievous elements who create a panicky situation to
enable them to loot, steal or commit other atrocities against
innocent citizens.
Beside bodily contact, the rumor says, another method used by
the "evildoers" involves asking their victim for the time of day
or for directions.
"Once they succeed in arresting their attention, the genitals
vanish immediately," a firm believer in the rumor said.
Because bodily contacts are impossible to avoid at such crowded
spots as bus stops and markets, that is where the popular fears
most often crystallize into mass violence.
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From: ewa@cs.UCSD.EDU (Eric Anderson)
>From tonight's Tribune:
NIGERIAN police arrested 150 people in Lagos for spreading rumors
that sorcerers have been stealing men's genitals. After the
rumors swept the West African capital, mobs killed at least three
people accused of stealing the organs. According to the rumors,
sorcerers approached strangers and asked them for directions.
Later, the victims reportedly said their genitals were missing.
Police dismissed the reports after investigators examined the
supposed victims.
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Date: Wed, 7 Nov 90 08:26:59 EST
From: Christopher Maeda <cmaeda@exxon-valdez.ft.cs.cmu.edu>
Subject: the Pope is a slack-sucking death alien
To: subgenius@mc.lcs.mit.edu
from NYT
"after the [Polish] Senate approved the [anti-abortion] bill, the Pope
issued a statement saying he was praying for the repeal of the
existing [tolerant] abortion law, which he described as the last
vestige of totalitarianism."
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