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From: jwl@ernie.Berkeley.EDU (James Wilbur Lewis)
Newsgroups: alt.flame
Subject: Re: LSD (was Re: Flat Earth drivel)
Message-ID: <22171@ucbvax.BERKELEY.EDU>
Date: 15 Dec 87 03:31:40 GMT
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In article <27496COK@PSUVMA> COK@PSUVMA.BITNET (R. W. Clark to the masses) writes:
>I still believe that platygeanists are not personally stupid, but possessed of
>an incredibly stupid belief.  

Actually, I think it's more likely that they (the ones on the net, anyway) get 
a boot out of baiting people, then watching with glee as the indignant 
counter-flames roll in...it's a common net.ailment known as "Eric Mading 
Disease", or alternatively, "Grand-Mal Weaseldom".

This disease, while exhibiting strikingly similar symptoms, is unrelated
to the well-known "Ray Frank Syndrome", in which the victim actually
*is* posessed of the incredibly stupid belief in question.  This malady
is widespread among creationists, "Kill the Druggies" advocates, and assorted 
other dogmatic weenies (not to be confused with dogmatic Wieners!)

There is no known (permanent) cure for either ailment.  (I have a feeling 
that being dragged by one's nuts behind an Oldsmobile at ~100mph might
do the trick, but this conjecture has yet to be tested.) Victims of Eric
Mading disease (notable recent cases include "Bird Dog" and the prototype
himself, E.M.) have been known to exhibit spontaneous remissions of a year
or longer, only to reappear with ever-increasing obnoxiousness and volume.
Diagnosis should NOT be attempted except by EXPERIENCED NETTERS!  Writing
to their system administrator (or telling them to stick their head in a pig)
is usually ineffective, but may make *you* feel better.  A goot shot of
nitrous can also help in that respect...I keep a canister by the terminal
at all times!

*whooooosh!*  yes, much better indeed...ahhhhhhh!  *giggle*

-- Jim Lewis (Criminal Drug Analyst)
   U.C. Berkeley

		"In every culture there will always be THOSE people,
	those peculiar people, those who go against the grain of the
	general consensus. I am not concerned about those peculiar and
	twisted anti-social types."		- Ray Frank