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Subject: [NJHUNTER] Re: Genealogy Pox
Date: Mon, 28 Jan 2002 10:07:38 EST

Found this on a website today and couldn't resist sending it along!!! My
husband says that I definitely have all the symptoms.

GENEALOGY POX
WARNING!! Very contagious to mature adults. NO KNOWN CURE


SYMPTOMS:
* Mumbles to self.
* Makes secret calls at night.
* Hides phone bill from spouse.
* Has strange far away look in eyes.
* Has strong compulsions to write letters.
* Always includes a check in these letters.
* Swears at mailman when he leaves no mail.
* Continual complaints for names, dates, and places.
* Patient has 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 compulsions to frequently visit strange places, such as cemeteries,
ruins, and remote desolate country areas.

TREATMENT: * Medication is useless.
* Disease is not fatal, but gets progressively worse.
* Patient should be given a quiet corner of the house where he or she can be
left alone.
* Patient should subscribe to as many societies, newsgroups, surname lists,
and genealogical magazines as possible.

REMARKS: * The unusual nature of this disease is... The sicker one gets, the
more he or she enjoys it.

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Kay

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