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Re: YASID : Contest 'winner' selected by narrowing population traits

by goldfarb@[EMAIL PROTECTED] (David Goldfarb) Mar 22, 2008 at 02:58 AM

In article
<e73b21a6-c20c-46d1-be1e-ec6d01ae0f6a@[EMAIL PROTECTED]
>,
Daphne Brinkerhoff  <cendare@[EMAIL PROTECTED]
> wrote:
>On Mar 21, 6:49=A0am, Blue Tyson <aussieva...@[EMAIL PROTECTED]
> wrote:
>> However, it gets creepier as it goes on and you realise the winner may
>> not be a 'winner' as such, and in fact people carry contest knives
>> around with them to claim their prize by dispatching them from the
>> state of being alive, to claim their own kind of prize. =A0 The
'winner'
>> being corned at work in a section of a department store, I think.
>
>I'm really mad at myself, because I've read this in the last couple
>years, but I can't remember.  Could it be Theodore Sturgeon, "It's
>You!"?  I feel like it is from the 50's/60's.

It might conceivably be Sturgeon, but it's not "It's You!".  (I just
pulled out my copy of _Sturgeon is Alive and Well_ and read the story,
and it's nothing at all like the story requested.  It's not any of
the other stories in that collection either.)

-- 
   David Goldfarb          |"I require three things in a man.  He must be
goldfarb@[EMAIL PROTECTED]
  | handsome, ruthless, and stupid."
goldfarb@[EMAIL PROTECTED]
 |                    -- Dorothy Parker




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YASID : Contest 'winner' selected by narrowing population traits
Blue Tyson <aussievamp  2008-03-21 04:49:18 
Re: YASID : Contest 'winner' selected by narrowing population tr
mimus <tinmimus99@[EMA  2008-03-21 15:55:45 
Re: YASID : Contest 'winner' selected by narrowing population tr
Daphne Brinkerhoff <ce  2008-03-21 17:41:56 
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goldfarb@[EMAIL PROTECTED  2008-03-22 02:58:55 
Re: YASID : Contest 'winner' selected by narrowing population tr
Rich Horton <rrhorton@  2008-03-22 03:10:05 
Re: YASID : Contest 'winner' selected by narrowing population tr
Blue Tyson <aussievamp  2008-03-22 00:20:42 
Re: YASID : Contest 'winner' selected by narrowing population tr
Blue Tyson <aussievamp  2008-03-22 00:22:20 
Re: YASID : Contest 'winner' selected by narrowing population tr
Simon Slavin <slavins.  2008-03-24 22:50:43 
Re: YASID : Contest 'winner' selected by narrowing population tr
Blue Tyson <aussievamp  2008-03-24 18:11:18 

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