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Bah, humbug.

Regards, Ivan

1 posted on 12/23/2006 7:22:50 PM PST by MadIvan
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Ping!


2 posted on 12/23/2006 7:23:18 PM PST by MadIvan (I aim to misbehave.)
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To: MadIvan

OMG are you kidding Sunday UK times LOL!

I thought Scooge was just bastard


3 posted on 12/23/2006 7:23:56 PM PST by SevenofNine ("Step aside Jefe"=Det Lennie Briscoe)
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To: MadIvan

It was a brilliant Christmas story that has endured the years. Anyone reading anything more into it are nuts themselves.


4 posted on 12/23/2006 7:26:07 PM PST by tioga ( Merry Christmas)
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To: MadIvan

I thought he was dropping acid.


6 posted on 12/23/2006 7:27:47 PM PST by Nachoman (Just because you're a kook doesn't mean there isn't a conspiracy.)
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To: MadIvan

And all these years I just thought it was a fictional book.


7 posted on 12/23/2006 7:28:13 PM PST by CzarNicky (The problem with bad ideas is that they seemed like good ideas at the time.)
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To: MadIvan

Memo to Dr. Robert Chance Algar: put a sock in it, you arrogant publicity seeker... you are dead wrong. Lewy body dementia has symptoms of drowsiness, lethargy, lengthy periods of time spent staring into space, and disorganized speech... none of which were shown by Scrooge.


9 posted on 12/23/2006 7:28:59 PM PST by FormerACLUmember
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To: MadIvan
fiction
10 posted on 12/23/2006 7:30:59 PM PST by SteveMcKing
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To: MadIvan

This reminds me of some hacks from UCSD who "diagnosed"
Samson with antisocial personality disorder a few years back.


12 posted on 12/23/2006 7:39:48 PM PST by happinesswithoutpeace (You are receiving this broadcast as a dream)
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To: MadIvan

Since when is Charles Dickens a Psychiatric clinician? He wrote a story about a man who had turned cold toward humanity because of past experiences, and recovered from the error of his ways.


13 posted on 12/23/2006 7:39:51 PM PST by jmcenanly (Do not handicap your children by making their lives easy. -- Robert A. Heinlein)
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To: MadIvan

Why is it so hard for some to accept that people can have supernatural (i.e. spiritual) experinces and be completely healthy. Why must some constantly replace the spiritual with the secular and attempt to explain the miraculous with the mundane. Dickens wasn't describing a medical condition, he was depicting a change of heart.


14 posted on 12/23/2006 7:39:57 PM PST by Galena Nevada
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To: MadIvan

Ives, I wish Drs. Algar and Saunders a visit from their own personal Jacob Marley(s) for Christmas.


15 posted on 12/23/2006 7:42:32 PM PST by RichInOC ("I see stupid people. They're everywhere....They don't even know that they're dumb.")
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To: MadIvan

Well, at least they aren't "debunking" the Christian religion. If they want to play the "the miracle was really a mental illness/illusion/legend/result of two sparrows flying from Africa with a coconut" game with a fictional character instead of my Lord, they're welcome to it.


16 posted on 12/23/2006 7:49:49 PM PST by Mr. Silverback (The people walking in darkness have seen a great light...Merry Christmas!)
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To: MadIvan

"I dont know, it must have been the doses..."


18 posted on 12/23/2006 8:14:53 PM PST by cardinal4
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To: MadIvan
Algar thought at first that Scrooge was in the grip of depression or a bipolar disorder, yet neither would explain his ghostly visitors. “All the events described in the story fit a person suffering from the early stages of LBD,” he said

You've got to be kidding me

These people really need to get a life

19 posted on 12/23/2006 8:15:27 PM PST by Mo1 (Thank You Mr & Mrs "I'm gonna teach you a lesson" Voter ... you just screwed us on so many levels)
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To: MadIvan

Well, that's a fun article... is it supposed to be? Do these people want others to disregard their profession, or what?


21 posted on 12/23/2006 9:02:38 PM PST by kc8ukw
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To: MadIvan

Are these the same people who recently determined that Mad Man Mohammed's "visions" were the result of brain disease as well?


22 posted on 12/23/2006 9:03:52 PM PST by weegee
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To: MadIvan

He had low self-esteem and an eating disorder, too. LOL!


25 posted on 12/23/2006 9:33:59 PM PST by Nea Wood (Is cheap, illegal labor worth one life?)
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To: MadIvan

now Melville's Bartleby the Scrivener, there's a true case study.


26 posted on 12/24/2006 1:27:09 AM PST by gusopol3
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To: MadIvan

Scrooge was a liberal?


27 posted on 12/24/2006 1:39:54 AM PST by pax_et_bonum (I will always love you, Flyer.)
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