Hi, everyone,
Found this in The Glabal Gazette, Vol. 2, No. 2, January 23, 1998, and
thought you might enjoy it.
Slan,
*kathy
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GENEALOGY POX DISCOVERED IN AUSTRALIA!
The following was posted on the Australia-L last week by Jenny Brandis of
Meekatharra Western 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 stange places such as cemeteries, ruins, remote country areas.
Makes night calles, 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.