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Subject: Re: Reviews of ACoS by New York Times etc?
From: aleistra@leland.Stanford.EDU (Andrea Lynn Leistra)
Newsgroups: rec.arts.sf.written.robert-jordan
Virtual plonks are created from quantum fluctuations in the vacuum along with
their counterparts, virtual antiplonks. (Antiplonks, which correspond
to the removal of someone from a killfile, are much rarer than plonks.
Usenetphysicists theorize that this originated in a slight discrepancy
in the plonk-antiplonk ratio shortly after the origin of Usenet.)
Virtual plonks and antiplonks recombine after a very short time
that is inversely proportional to the 'vehemence' of the plonk,
a factor dependent on the plonker as well as the plonked.
"An urban legend:
- appears mysteriously and spreads spontaneously in varying forms
contains elements of humor or horror (the horror often "punishes"
someone who flouts society's conventions).
- makes good storytelling.
- does NOT have to be false, although most are. ULs often have a basis
in fact, but it's their life after-the-fact (particularly in reference
to the second and third points) that gives them particular interest."
For more info see
http://www.urbanlegends.com/
Sven Guckes
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