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From: gordonl@microsoft.UUCP (Gordon LETWIN)
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Subject: Re: And You Thought 900 Was a Ripoff!
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Re: the discussion of how the Italian "God Calling Service" worked -
please note that the {World Weekly News}, which published this story,
routinely makes up their stories from whole cloth.  So trying to make
sense of this story might be like trying to learn physics by studying
Star Trek episodes.

When standing in supermarket checkout lines I used to amuse myself by
reading the headlines on these rags and trying to guess what the real,
underlying story really was.  When I learned that they weren't just
distorting a germ of fact, but were literally just writing fiction,
then all the fun was out of it.  (I forget where I learned about this
(and similar rags) story creation - I think it was an interview with
an ex reporter for the sister pub. of WWN - Nat Enq?)


Gordon Letwin