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From: dmark@cs.Buffalo.EDU (David Mark)
Newsgroups: sci.bio,sci.misc,sci.research
Subject: Re: The Loch Ness Monster
Keywords: Nessie Loch Ness Hallucinations Elasmosaur
Message-ID: <297@cs.Buffalo.EDU>
Date: 30 Jul 88 02:54:26 GMT
References: <861@altger.UUCP> <4408@dandelion.CI.COM>
Reply-To: dmark@joey.UUCP (David Mark)
Organization: SUNY/Buffalo Geography
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In article <4408@dandelion.CI.COM> sacks@classroom.UUCP (Marc Sacks) writes:
>From Robert Sheaffer's "Psychic Vibrations" column in the Spring 1988
>SKEPTICAL INQUIRER (reprinted without permission):
>
     [about 25 lines deleted]

>like a cross between Halley's Comet and the Concorde jet.'  If you are 
>confused as to whether the face of NESSITERAS RHOMBOPTERYX resembles a skull
>or a cat, ...

Did you ever hear that the scientific name, proposed by Sir Peter Scott of the
Wildfowl Trust in the UK, is an anagram that can be re-arranged to spell:

     BY SIR PETERS MONSTER HOAX     ?

dmark@joey.cs.buffalo.edu