Re: virus: Fwd: Jedi Mind Trick

Tim Rhodes (proftim@speakeasy.org)
Sat, 5 Sep 1998 00:06:47 -0700


Robert Moritz wrote:

>Strangely enough, i tried that on several(many) people, and when they're
caught off
>guard on the fruit/vegetable issue many say orange. Upon reflection they
usually feel
>quite stupid, but it might have to do with how the trick works. How does
it work
>anyways? an orange and a carrot have the same number of letters and have
basically the
>same color. hmm. As for your cucumber response...a preoccupation maybe?
What would
>freud say?

Of those I passed it on to "cucumber" was the #1 repsonse, followed closely
by "carrot" (myself among the carrots). I suspected the hard C sound in the
"six" you repeat before choosing to be the culprit, but your "orange"???

Boy, yous jus' musta be wired up all wrong!

-Prof. Tim