Relay-Version: version B 2.10 5/3/83; site utzoo.UUCP Posting-Version: Notesfiles $Revision: 1.7.0.10 $; site convex Path: utzoo!watmath!clyde!burl!ulysses!mhuxr!mhuxn!ihnp4!inuxc!pur-ee!uiucdcs!convex!wilson From: wilson@convex.UUCP Newsgroups: net.jokes Subject: Re: Pseudo-Groaner Message-ID: <36700055@convex> Date: Sun, 26-Jan-86 20:33:00 EST Article-I.D.: convex.36700055 Posted: Sun Jan 26 20:33:00 1986 Date-Received: Wed, 29-Jan-86 04:26:21 EST References: <1801@trwrba.UUCP> Lines: 17 Nf-ID: #R:trwrba.UUCP:1801:convex:36700055:000:851 Nf-From: convex.UUCP!wilson Jan 26 19:33:00 1986 /* Written 2:02 pm Jan 20, 1986 by suhre@trwrba.UUCP in convex:net.jokes */ /* ---------- "Pseudo-Groaner" ---------- */ I pulled this out of net.med. Seemed more appropriate to net.jokes! >> I have been hearing recently about a supposed phenomenom where >> certain people have supposedly spontaneously combusted. Usually their >> charred remains are found. I would appreciate any information that people >> might have regarding this supposed phenomenom. > Something in the genetic makeup of people from Switzerland makes >them unusually sensitive to this phenomenon. The effect itself seems >to be catalyzed by gases given off by vegetables and fruits as they ripen. > That's why, in the produce sections of supermarkets, one often sees >Swiss chard. Sometimes it happens. People just explode. Natural causes. (A line from Repo Man)