-----Original Message----- From: Freddie Downs <muddauber@worldnet.att.net> To: BOREN-L@rootsweb.com <BOREN-L@rootsweb.com> Date: Wednesday, June 02, 1999 5:53 PM Subject: Geneology Pox >WARNING >Genealogy Pox is VERY CONTAGIOUS >SYMPTOMS: Continual complaint as to need for names, dates and places. >Patient has a blank expression, sometimes deaf to spouse and children. >Has no taste for work of any kind, except feverishly looking through >records at libraries and courthouses. Has a compulsion to write >letters. Swears at mailman when he doesn't leave mail. Frequents >strange places such as cemeteries, ruins, and remote desolate country >areas. Makes secret night calls and hides phone bills from spouse. >Mumbles to self. Has strange, faraway look in eyes. NO KNOWN CURE >TREATMENT: Medication is useless. This disease is not fatal, but gets >progressively worse. Patient should attend genealogy workshops, >subscribe to genealogical magazines and be given a quiet corner in the >house where he or she can be alone. >REMARKS: The unusual nature of this disease is that the sicker the >patient gets, the more he or she enjoys it. >Author UNKNOWN > > >