Life imitating Art (within reason)

[nemonowan]

This is so much like Doug's case, it's creepy: http://www.sciam.com/article.cfm?id=mus ... en-your-fa

(of course, in the real world, this things never give you powers)

NN

[Bob Schroeck]

The weirdest things give some people seizures... I recall a case where someone would have one when they heard the voice of... ah hell, I can't remember --
Katie Couric? some female newscaster.
-- Bob
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Then the horns kicked in...
...and my shoes began to squeak.

[Foxboy]

Mary Hart. They made fun of it on Seinfeld.
''We don't just borrow words; on occasion, English has pursued other languages down alleyways to beat
them unconscious and rifle their pockets for new vocabulary.''

-- James Nicoll