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To: Dr. Id who wrote (5860)	9/5/2000 9:10:19 AM
From: DownSouth	Read Replies (1) \| Respond to of 22706

What was this other silly pro game between Atlanta and the 49'ers? Who won that one?

To: Dr. Id who wrote (5860)	9/5/2000 9:51:47 AM
From: GGorillaGirl	Read Replies (3) \| Respond to of 22706

You did notice that my post about the Bruins destruction of Alabama's football team in a game that wasn't as close as the score* was grammatically correct.* Ordinarily, I would never dream of picking apart a person’s grammatical errors. After all, that would be petty and childish. However, since you’ve given yourself a pat on the back as reward for your “impeccable” grammar, I feel that a little nit-picking is entirely reasonable. Bruins should, in fact, be Bruins’. This is my first post ever on this thread. I hope it falls within the parameters of curmudgeonliness. GGorillaGirl

To: Dr. Id who wrote (5860)	9/5/2000 10:25:14 AM
From: Uncle Frank	Respond to of 22706

Doc, I finally found a way for you to make some money. svmagazine.com Body and Soul By: Julie Sevrens -- Mercury News health writer DOCTORS WOULD never dream of rehabilitating an alcoholic in a pub. So it might seem that Kimberly Young’s latest business venture—a Web-based counseling service for Internet addicts—is a bit misguided. Young meets with clients of her ‘‘virtual clinic’’ in cyberspace, discussing their computer addiction problems with them in live chat rooms ($75 per hour) or via e-mail ($15 per session). (Patients wanting to talk over the telephone pay more—$79 an hour.) ‘‘Clearly there’s an irony,’’ concedes Young, a clinical psychologist and author of the online addiction recovery book ‘‘Caught in the Net,’’ ‘‘but also there’s an irony on why does Weight Watchers make food?’’ Young—who founded the Center for On-Line Addiction in 1995—said she took her services online so she could easily reach the clients who needed her the most. And she’s never been at a loss for business. Research studies indicate that between 6 and 10 percent of Americans may be suffering from an Internet addiction, spending more and more time with their computers at the expense of everything else in their lives. Addiction to online pornography, computer games and cyber gambling is extremely common. To find out if you indeed do have an unhealthy relationship with a browser, take one of Young’s free Internet addiction tests, found on her Web site, www.netaddiction.com.