From: utzoo!utcsrgv!lewis Newsgroups: net.jokes Title: Re: Real-life ironic story Article-I.D.: utcsrgv.942 Posted: Fri Jan 28 23:39:17 1983 Received: Sat Jan 29 06:50:06 1983 References: cwruecmp.435 This reminds me of a story I heard about a behavioural physcologist's lectures. It seems he had a habit of pulling on his hair (or some such thing). The class decided to collaborate, and ignored him, except for a minute or so after he tugged on his hair. By the end of the term, he was pulling on it constantly. Perhaps apocryphal, but similar.