This is a multi-part message in MIME format. --------------1CB150BE20F9 Content-Type: text/plain; charset=us-ascii Content-Transfer-Encoding: 7bit How many of you are afflicted with this malady????? --------------1CB150BE20F9 Content-Type: message/rfc822 Content-Transfer-Encoding: 7bit Content-Disposition: inline From: "or-roots" <or-roots@archive14.sos.state.or.us> Sender: "Leslie Campbell" <lesliec@gv.net> To: <or-roots@archive14.sos.state.or.us> Reply-To: or-roots@archive14.sos.state.or.us Errors-To: or-roots@archive14.sos.state.or.us Received: from lion.state.or.us ([159.121.88.21]) by mtigwc02.worldnet.att.net (post.office MTA v2.0 0613 ) with SMTP id AAA15039; Sat, 24 Jan 1998 05:00:19 +0000 Received: from archive14.sos.state.or.us by lion.state.or.us; Fri, 23 Jan 1998 20:58:59 -0800 Return-Path: <or-roots@archive14.sos.state.or.us> Message-ID: <021a01bd2885$2dc839a0$34a4a2cd@0.0.0.0.gv.net> Subject: GENEOLOGY POX? Precedence: Bulk X-Listserver: ListSTAR v1.1 by StarNine Technologies, a Quarterdeck Company Date: Sat, 24 Jan 98 05:01:48 +0000 Mime-Version: 1.0 Content-Type: Text/Plain; charset="iso-8859-1" I think I've been infected...how about you? The following was posted on the Australia-L last week by Jenny Brandis of Meekatharra Western Australia. ---------------------------------------------------------------------------- ---- GENEALOGY POX DISCOVERED IN AUSTRALIA! SYMPTOMS: Continual complaint as to the need for names, dates, kinship and places. Patient has blank expressions, sometimes deaf to spouses and children. Has no taste for work of any kind except feverishly looking through records at Libraries and Archives. Has a compulsion to write letters, swears at the postman when he doesn't deliver any mail. Frequents strange places such as cemeteries, ruins, remote country areas. Makes night calls, hides the phone bill from spouse, mumbles to oneself, often a strange far away look in the eye. CURE: No known cure! TREATMENT: Medication is useless. Disease is not fatal, but gets progressively worse, needs a quiet corner in the house where he/she can be alone. REMARKS: The unusual nature of the disease is -- the sicker the patient gets, the more they enjoy it. ---------------------------------------------------------------------------- ---- The Global Gazette, Vol. 2, No. 2, January 23, 1998 --------------1CB150BE20F9--