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From: agb@reed.UUCP (Alexander G. Burchell)
Newsgroups: net.suicide
Subject: Re: twinkies
Message-ID: <2113@reed.UUCP>
Date: Wed, 6-Nov-85 05:21:48 EST
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Posted: Wed Nov  6 05:21:48 1985
Date-Received: Thu, 7-Nov-85 06:05:16 EST
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Reply-To: agb@reed.UUCP (Alexander G. Burchell)
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In article <8988@ritcv.UUCP> msl5864@ritcv.UUCP (Michael S. Leibow) writes:
> In article <3128@hplabsb.UUCP> morrell@hplabsb.UUCP writes:
> > > Yesterday I went to the store to buy a box of Twinkies, and the
> > > clerk told me that they only come in two-packs.  Is this true?  How
> > > can it be?  Dan White must have been a determined man.
> > He must have meant he only carries the two-packs.
> > I have bought a ten-pack of twinkies.  They definitely exist.
> What in the hell do Twinkies have to do with suicide?

	You may remember Dan White, the killer of the mayor of San Francisco
some years back.  You also may remember his "twinkie defense", in which it
was claimed that his consumption of junk foods (such as twinkies) made him
temporarily insane.
	Dan White committed suicide recently.

					Alexander G. Burchell
						
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