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However, on the Internet BBS's such as Quartz (now dead), Prism, Monsoon, Sunset, ect, someone pulling that kind of crap is likely to get flamed quite fast and twitted before he/she can breathe.

I've been living in a fairy tale since I met Joe.

Aphercotropism.— “Turning away from an obstruction” is a peculiarity discovered by Darwin. His experiment was as follows:— after allowing a radicle to be well developed in peas, beans, &c, the seed is suspended in the air. A tiny piece of card is attached to one side of the tip by a little gum; the tip will now move away from the vertical position, on the opposite side to the card. The tip may make one or more complete circles in a vertical plane; and it has been known to pass through the first loop so as to tie itself into a knot.