From: "Tom Fawcett" <fawcett@mindspring.com>
Newsgroups: talk.bizarre
Subject: Side effects, potential and actual
Date: Wed, 1 Dec 1999 23:06:36 -0800
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POTENTIAL:
  Agitation, headache, anxiety, dizziness, difficulty breathing,
  confusion, mild obsessive behavior, irregular heartbeat.

ACTUAL:
- Auditory hallucinations of Peter Gabriel's "Sledgehammer"
  sung by W.Shatner.

- Compulsion to write and rewrite endless hypothetical obituaries for
  Sherman Helmsley and David Soul.

- Obsession with rhetorical questions in television advertisements.

- Elaborate hallucination of NPR story on Russian religious persecution
  in which Russian priests speak in California slang
  and repeatedly call interviewer "dude".

- Intermittent feverish compulsions to illustrate the serial adventures of
  Grant Follicle, Court Stenographer.