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From: nunes@utai.UUCP (Joe Nunes)
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Subject: Re: Spontaneous Combustion
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Date: Tue, 28-Jan-86 10:03:12 EST
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> In article <895@dataioDataio.UUCP> bright@dataio.UUCP (Walter Bright writes:
> >
> > I understand that when Michael Jackson was filming the Pepsi commercial,
> > he spontaneously combusted on the stage. I believe it was even captured
> > on film.
> > 
> > While doing Saturday Night Live, Eddie Murphy once caught fire while
> > doing a skit with W. F. Buckley.
> 
> Catching on fire and spontanous combustion are not the same thing.  The
> Pepsi commercial had a lot of fireworks in it and some of them ignited the
> 'afro-sheen' in his hair.  I heard of anything ever happening to Eddie Murphy.
> -- 
> 		Kevin Chu
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No, no, no. This is getting silly. Eddie Murphy did a skit on Saturday Night
Live in which he played a talk-show guest that had a theory that blacks
could spontaneously combust. He gave Michael Jackson and Richard Pryor as
examples. As the skit ended smoke started coming out his clothes.