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From: wls@astrovax.UUCP (William L. Sebok)
Newsgroups: net.misc
Subject: Re: Spontaneous combustion of people!
Message-ID: <712@astrovax.UUCP>
Date: Sun, 19-Jan-86 14:36:11 EST
Article-I.D.: astrovax.712
Posted: Sun Jan 19 14:36:11 1986
Date-Received: Mon, 20-Jan-86 06:29:45 EST
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Reply-To: wls@astrovax.UUCP (William L. Sebok)
Organization: Princeton Univ. Astrophysics
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>>>certain people have suppossedly spontaneously combusted. Usually their
>>>charred remains are found. I would appreciate any information that people
>>>might have regarding this suppossed phenomenom. I would especially like to
>>>learn about any possible written material regarding this rather amazing claim.
>>Get Serious!  Either you've been watching too much of The Twilight Zone or
>>hitting the wackie tobaccie a little too heavily in my opinion.  :-)
>
>It's not so silly, after all.  Tomorrow evening (Jan. 14, 1986),
>the Canadian Broadcasting Corporation is airing a show examining
>the topic.  "20/20" (similar to "60 Minutes" in the States), as an
>in-depth news programme, would not spend an hour seriously looking
>at this if it were totally ridiculous.

Yes they would.
-- 
Bill Sebok			Princeton University, Astrophysics
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