Date: Sun, 03 Nov 2002 14:19:09 -0500
From: Steve Smith <sgs at aginc.net>
To: WSFA members <WSFAlist at keithlynch.net>
Subject: [WSFA] Re: Space Aliens of Interest
Reply-To: WSFA members <WSFAlist at keithlynch.net>

ronkean at juno.com wrote:

> Tom Cruise has secret sex change operation, gives birth to two-headed
> baby.  Photos inside...
>
> But this raises a legitimate question.  If a two headed baby is born, is
> the baby one person, or two?

This came up a couple of WSFA meetings ago.  There was a TV show on
"Discovery Health" (aka "The Freakshow Channel") about a two-headed
child.  From what little I remember of the show, she was (they were?)
about 9 years old and doing quite well.  Others, I am sure, remember
more.  IIRC, they considered tehmselves to be separate people, although
they had to cooperate quite closely to control their body.  It'll be
interesting to see what happens when they're old enough to vote.

Anyway, now you know one algorithm for writing tabloid articles -- watch
every obscure, out-of-the-way news source you can get your hands on (the
Web is wonderful for this!), find unusual stories, and sensationalize,
sensationalize, sensationalize!

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Steve Smith                                           sgs at aginc.net
Agincourt Computing                            http://www.aginc.net
"Truth is stranger than fiction because fiction has to make sense."