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From: mcb@k.cs.cmu.edu (Michael Browne)
Newsgroups: net.movies
Subject: Re: Re: Spontaneous Combustion
Message-ID: <732@k.cs.cmu.edu>
Date: Fri, 24-Jan-86 11:34:53 EST
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Posted: Fri Jan 24 11:34:53 1986
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In article <10134@tardis.UUCP> lucius@tardis.UUCP (lucius) writes:
>> From: rjh@calmasd.UUCP (Bob Hofkin)
>> In article <10133@tardis.UUCP> lucius@tardis.UUCP (lucius) writes:
>> >	Spontaneous combustion of humans is impossible.
>> 
>> Nevertheless, it happens.  (And people explode every day, too.)
>	Do you have any documented evidence of this happening?  By impossible,
>I do not mean merely that I am saying that it is impossible, but also that it
>does not happen.  If you have any evidence to the contrary, please show it.

What do you mean by evidence?  I don't have any photographs or anything, but
when I was an undergraduate, I actually saw someone explode.  We were having
a party, and Chris had had much too much to drink.  Someone made the mistake
of saying something negative about the New York Yankees, which set Chris off
on one of his tantrums.  As he yelled and screamed and ranted and raved, he
got redder and redder as his temperature rose.  Next thing I knew, there was
a small blue flash, a puff of smoke, and no more Chris.  He had disappeared
completely and we never saw him again.  (Well, there was a little dust on
the floor, but we weren't sure that it was Chris since we didn't clean very
often.)

Just goes to show you the lengths to which some people will go to avoid
paying for beer.
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