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   Your Name to john@jfeldredge.com   
   Re: Science fiction   
   28 Aug 13 18:24:48   
   
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   From: YourName@YourISP.com   
      
   In article , "John F. Eldredge"   
    wrote:   
   > On Wed, 07 Aug 2013 14:36:11 -0700, Gutless Umbrella Carrying Sissy wrote:   
   > >   
   > > (The lastest Android app to make the news is the game in which the goal   
   > > is to throw your phone as high up in the air as you can, and -   
   > > if it survives being caught - it will post the results on some score   
   > > board somewhere. IIRC, it was successful enough that Google had to ban   
   > > it from the app store.)   
   >   
   > The competition is to see who is the most gullible? This sounds like the   
   > sort of game that would be popular after drinking too much.  Of course,   
   > given what alcohol does to one's reflexes, the likely result would be to   
   > fail to catch the phone, and to have to go buy a replacement.   
      
   Which was the whole point fo the game.  :-)   
      
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