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From: wws@siemens.UUCP (William W Smith)
Newsgroups: net.sf-lovers
Subject: The first mucker
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Date: Fri, 20-Jul-84 14:49:58 EDT
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Posted: Fri Jul 20 14:49:58 1984
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My roommate commented that events the day before yesterday are very 
reminiscent of a science fiction book by John Brunner.  "Stand On Zanzibar"
has characters called muckers who go berserk and kill people.  

I nominate James Huberty as the country's first mucker.

From the book:

"It's no coincidence"

	(COINCIDENCE  You weren't paying attention to the other half
of what was going on.
			--The Hipcrime Vocab by Chad C. Mulligan)

"that we have muckers. Background: 'mucker' is an Anglicisation of 'amok'.
Don't believe anyone who says it's a shifted pronunciation of 'mugger'.  You
can survive a mugger, but if you want to survive a mucker the best way is not
to be there when it happens."


Bill Smith
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