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   Mickmane to ram@zedat.fu-berlin.de   
   Re: R.I.P. Erich von D?niken, 90   
   16 Jan 26 15:23:00   
   
   From: ATH@kruemel.org   
      
   On 16.01.26, ram@zedat.fu-berlin.de   wrote:   
   > "Mickmane"  wrote or quoted:   
      
   >> Yeah, but I'd rather stick with crazy hair guy (people know who I   
   >> mean, and he didn't mind the hair reference in some episode) than   
   >> trying to spell the name correctly. :)   
      
   >   People have long used messy or "wild" hair as a visual shorthand   
   >   for a disordered or unusual mind, and phrases like "bird's nest   
   >   in one's hair" grow out of that older association of tangled hair   
   >   with neglect, eccentricity, and madness.   
      
   Blame Albert Einstein, or someone before him?   
      
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   Mickmane   
      
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