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Offline jake

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genealogy disease
« on: Wednesday 22 February 06 12:01 GMT (UK) »
GENEALOGY POX
Very contagious to adults.
Symptoms:
A continual complaint as to the need for names, dates and places. Patient has blank expression, often deaf to spouse and children. Has no taste for work of any kind except feverishly looking through records at libraries and courthouses. Has compulsion to write letters, swears at the mailman when he doesn't leave mail. Frequents strange places such as cemeteries, ruins and remote desolate areas. Makes secret night calls. Hides phone bill from spouse. Mumbles to self and has a far away look in eyes.

NO KNOWN CURE....

Treatment:
Medication is useless. Disease is not fatal but gets progressively worse. Patient should attend genealogy meetings, subscribe to a magazine and be given a quiet corner in the house where they can be alone. The usual nature of this disease is that the sicker the patient gets the more they enjoy it!

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Re: genealogy disease
« Reply #1 on: Wednesday 22 February 06 12:23 GMT (UK) »
Jake
Thanks for putting a name on my illness LOL

Love Anne

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Re: genealogy disease
« Reply #2 on: Wednesday 22 February 06 12:31 GMT (UK) »
Oh, thats whats wrong with me! ;)


I was beginning to wonder ..... will just have to learn to live with it I suppose! 8)

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Re: genealogy disease
« Reply #3 on: Wednesday 22 February 06 13:40 GMT (UK) »
I think there should be a Government Health warning - "Genealogy can take over your life"
Diana
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Re: genealogy disease
« Reply #4 on: Wednesday 22 February 06 13:55 GMT (UK) »
Quote from: jake on Wednesday 22 February 06 12:01 GMT (UK)

and be given a quiet corner in the house where they can be alone.

Can my quiet corner have a connected PC in it please please pretty please  ;D

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Re: genealogy disease
« Reply #5 on: Wednesday 22 February 06 14:22 GMT (UK) »


 :o Only hides the phone bill, they forgot the credit card and bank statements  ;D
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Re: genealogy disease
« Reply #6 on: Wednesday 22 February 06 16:22 GMT (UK) »
 ;D another victim here  ;D
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Re: genealogy disease
« Reply #7 on: Wednesday 22 February 06 16:25 GMT (UK) »
Me too!  :(

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Re: genealogy disease
« Reply #8 on: Friday 24 February 06 14:02 GMT (UK) »
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