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* IDEABANK:  IDEO01.BNK (Articles Ideas that have been written up)
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* DATE:  19980220
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* NUMBER OF ARTICLE IDEAS:  3
* (The hope is that this number will get larger and larger as ideas
*  get written up into full articles...)
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*   I4   -- Wheelchairs
*   I60  -- What To Do When You Have Acquired Eternal Life
*   I81  -- Zzzzz
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%t Wheelchairs
%n I4
%s What Are They And What Can You Do With Them (or something similar)
%c Roel van der Meulen  (vdmeulen@strw.leidenuniv.nl)
%x Transportation Methods for the Earth-Confined Hitchhiker
* This idea has been written up by Robert Garland (myst@onramp.net) as a
* series of articles about wheelchairs.
*EOA*


%t What To Do When You Have Acquired Eternal Life
%n I60
%s Acquired Eternal Life Syndrom
%i AELS
%c Roel van der Meulen  (vdmeulen@strw.leidenuniv.nl)
* This was written up as "Immortality, What To Do When You Have Acquired"
* by Jeff Hillary (skip4@airmail.net).
%e
I think everyone will want to contribute a paragraph to this article, so 
let's make this a combined effort article (making life difficult for our
article browsers).  Send in your paragraph and/or answer and please be
original (don't copy DNA's idea of someone offending every living being in
the universe).

Eternal Life is a classic theme.

Something could be said about the impossibility of eternal life, or we could
also change the article to that Eternal Life is some kind of disease (akin
to or opposite to AIDS). About the impossibility, we could say something
about the DNA code that takes care of us waring out, just like industry
builds in an 'expiration date' for tv's.

My example for what you could do: make some kind of special collection, like
a definitive collection of ballpoint balls. Or make a full scale copy of the
Empire state building in... ear-mucus or nose-buggers (or even
corner-of-your -eye-mucus). Though collection is kinda anal.


Robert A. Uhl (ruhl@odin.cair.du.edu):

> One of the most popular activities among those who have AELS is to do that
> which is straight-out impossible for those with a limitted time to live. 
> Mr. Sam Hoffman, of Lincoln, Mich, has carved complete likenesses of
> everyone born on his birthday (2. June, 980) out fo peanuts.  He has now
> gone on to try and find the grave of each of these and place the peanut
> therein.  Mr. Hoffman is widely considered to be uite mad.
> 
> Another has knitted all of his clothes from belly button lint.


Aaron Rice (a.rice@ukonline.co.uk):

> Hmmm...  If I were immortal, I'd write a list of things to do - and manage
> to get every item completed. :)
%e
*EOA*

 
%t Zzzzz
%n I81 8R needs a lot more
%s What A Cliched Little Snooze
%a Aaron Rice  (a.rice@ukonline.co.uk)
%d 19960620
%x Insomnia
%x Sleep
%i Sleep, Cliched
%i Noises In The Night
* Aaron Rice (a.rice@ukonline.co.uk) did add more to this article and
* it now appears under the same name.
%e
One of the most common cliches to have arisen over the years, is the
customary "Zzzzz" which is used to represent a sleeping person.  It is very
hard to see how this originally came into place, as there are few, if any,
people that actually make this noise when they are dozing, unless they are
subconsciously attempting to conform to a stereotypical snooze.

Editor:
This article isn't finished by a mile.  Where does that cliche come
from? It must be able, through some research, to find out more about
it. If you don't find anything more, I suggest you forget about this
article. It's basically just a question.
%e
*EOA*