Re: What would make you believe?



On 12 Feb 2008 14:7:16 -0500, "Ash Wyllie" <ashw@xxxxxx> wrote:

:George W Harris opined
:
:>On Mon, 11 Feb 2008 08:38:48 GMT, "Joetheone"
:><joetheone@xxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxx> wrote:
:
:>:
:>:Then there was that X Files psychic that was consistently one number off
:>:across the board
:>:
:> Clyde Bruckman, played by Peter Boyle, in the
:>best X-Files episode evar.
:
:> His only power was knowing how and when people
:>would die.
:
:Was it a sure thing, or could the victim(?) use the information to extend his
:life?

It was a sure thing.

He was very depressed.
:
: -ash
: Cthulhu in 2008!
: Vote the greater evil.
:
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which the physical world is turbid and confused."

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