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From: ljp@trwrba.UUCP (Laura J. Pearlman)
Newsgroups: net.bizarre
Subject: Re: Missing Pets (Seattle area)
Message-ID: <1572@trwrba.UUCP>
Date: Tue, 27-Aug-85 15:25:41 EDT
Article-I.D.: trwrba.1572
Posted: Tue Aug 27 15:25:41 1985
Date-Received: Sun, 1-Sep-85 13:01:05 EDT
References: <1550@trwrba.UUCP> <2714@ut-sally.UUCP>
Reply-To: ljp@trwrba.UUCP (Laura J. Pearlman)
Organization: TRW EDS, Redondo Beach, CA
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In article <2714@ut-sally.UUCP> crandell@ut-sally.UUCP (Jim Crandell) writes:
>> 
>> The missing fish are "neon tetras" and were last seen in an aquarium....
>
>It may be necessary to leave some lights on at all times.  Certain neon
>devices suffer from the so-called ``dark effect'' (i.e., the effective
>ionization potential is affected by the ambient photon flux).

That may be it!  When he first got his fish, my friend used to cover the
aquarium with a blanket every night because he thought they were parakeets.

No, wait a minute -- that was my mother, not my friend with the fish, and it
was a birdcage, not an aquarium, and it turns out she really does have a
parakeet, after all.

Never mind.

		Laura Pearlman
		{hplabs,ihnp4,ucbvax}!trwrb!ljp