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From: js2j@mhuxt.UUCP (sonntag)
Newsgroups: net.religion
Subject: Re: ... on speaking in tongues (Burning people with ice cubes?)
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Date: Tue, 20-Nov-84 13:20:30 EST
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Posted: Tue Nov 20 13:20:30 1984
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>    A good one, which apparently has
> been used by frat men across the nation is that you blindfold
> someone and tell them that you're going to brand them with a
> white-hot branding iron.  When the victim is sufficiently
> hysterical, you touch his skin with an ice-cube.  Appropriately
> enough, the victim screams at the top of his lungs.  Even more
> interesting, is that sometimes the victim will produce blisters
> appropriate for a second degree burn on his skin (which would not

Just out of curiosity, has anyone out there actually witnessed something
like this?
I don't want to hear from anyone who knew someone who witnessed this, or
heard about it, just from someone who saw the ice cube and the blisters.

I mean, the screaming, I can believe.  The blisters?  Let's just wait
until we hear (or don't hear) from someone.

Doubting Thomas was a PUSHOVER!

Jeff Sonntag
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