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To: Peter Singleton who wrote (47639)	2/17/1999 2:50:00 PM
From: Knighty Tin	Respond to of 132070

Peter, Those messages are the important ones. They are in a numeric one time book code and discuss whether Paul McCartney or John Lennon was The Walrus and why all their songs sound so hokey after 30 years. <G>

To: Peter Singleton who wrote (47639)	2/17/1999 4:27:00 PM
From: Earlie	Read Replies (3) \| Respond to of 132070

Peter: ROFLMAO. Re Your keyboard Doze-Off Indicator Theory. With Prejudice This is to inform you that we have completed a series of tests at this end, at the request of an un-named party, endeavouring to validate your findings, but in a more scientific manner. Unfortunately, we have not been able to duplicate the precise keystroke pattern you postulate, in spite of repeated applications (hundreds of tests) of various parts of the forward-falling cranium to keyboard. Our findings produce a less random pattern, primarily concentrated on the centre of the keyboard, and not the predominantly outer edges of the keyboard pattern that you have found (check it out). Not to disparage your findings, but in scientific circles, as you well know, duplication of findings is of paramount consideration. Unless your subject, MB is two-headed (as many on the Dell thread suggest), it is simply not possible to create the pattern you suggest. It IS possible that other parts of the human anatomy are the cause of the pattern (cauliflower ears, as one finds in former pugilists or wrestlers comes to mind), but you do not suggest this in your findings. An alternate possibility that might explain the pattern is a frontal lobotomy, which has been known to leave a post-surgical physical depression in the forehead. We note that this too has been suggested as the state of your subject MB, but we suspect that a person so impaired would not be chosen for a scientific experiment of such significance. We have brought the implied discrepancies in your reported observations to the attention of the appropriate medical licensing authorities. We would request that a detailed explanation as to how such apparent misinformation has been published and circulated for public assimilation particularly given the lax standards applied in your research into this unfortunate affliction now affecting so many in our population. We look forward to your near term explanation. Govern yourself accordingly. E.A. RLIE, attorney for the plaintive