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No. I only sneeze at the idea that people sneeze in bright lights. What amazes me is that some people can modify the natural sound of their sneezes to affect the politically and phonically correct sound, "Ah-Choo!", I wonder, do they do this in other languages?
Here are some percentages I found in a URL.
Photic sneeze reflex occurs in something like one-sixth to one-quarter of the population. It occurs more often in Caucasians than Afro-Americans or Orientals.
According to a Johns Hopkins medic named Stephen Peroutka, the trait is passed along genetically, with a 50 percent chance of inheritance.
Researchers in Sweden found that out of 460 subjects, 24 percent sneezed in bright light, and 40 percent had at least one sneezing parent.
Sixty-four percent of children with one sneezing parent were themselves sneezers, but two nonsneezers never produced a sneezer. (Isn't it amazing how I can make these things so easy to understand?)
Nobody's exactly sure what causes photic sneeze reflex. I see here in one of the journals we have an impressive discussion of the role of the trigeminal nerve nucleus.
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How do you sneeze?
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bonzaialsatian
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10/01/02 07:21 PM
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wofahulicodoc
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10/01/02 08:22 PM
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Re: How do you sneeze?
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bonzaialsatian
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10/01/02 08:31 PM
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Running tally
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wofahulicodoc
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10/01/02 08:40 PM
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sneezing in the dark
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redpepper
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10/14/02 12:27 AM
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WhitmanO'Neill
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10/14/02 08:07 PM
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Re: photic sneeze reflex
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wwh
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10/14/02 08:26 PM
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sjm
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10/01/02 08:49 PM
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of troy
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10/01/02 09:04 PM
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Fiberbabe
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10/01/02 09:36 PM
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milum
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10/01/02 10:33 PM
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Wordwind
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10/01/02 10:38 PM
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slithy toves
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10/02/02 12:04 AM
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Re: sneeze - superstition.
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wow
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04/21/03 02:15 PM
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FishonaBike
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10/02/02 10:27 AM
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boronia
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10/02/02 12:34 PM
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Bobyoungbalt
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10/03/02 03:14 AM
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Faldage
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10/03/02 10:13 AM
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Wordwind
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10/03/02 11:19 AM
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Faldage
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10/03/02 11:28 AM
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Re: Soundly Screwing Up Vision
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Wordwind
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10/03/02 11:33 AM
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Re: Soundly Screwing Up Vision
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boronia
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10/03/02 12:42 PM
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Re: Soundly Screwing Up Vision
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AnnaStrophic
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10/03/02 01:51 PM
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Ahem!
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Faldage
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10/03/02 01:56 PM
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Re: Soundly Screwing Up Vision
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WhitmanO'Neill
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10/14/02 07:57 PM
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Re: Soundly Screwing Up Vision
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Faldage
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10/14/02 08:19 PM
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achoo, achoo, achoo, achoo, achoo
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of troy
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10/14/02 08:28 PM
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AnnaStrophic
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10/14/02 08:40 PM
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of troy
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AnnaStrophic
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10/15/02 02:10 PM
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Buffalo Shrdlu
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10/14/02 09:10 PM
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wwh
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10/14/02 09:29 PM
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consuelo
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10/14/02 10:12 PM
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consuelo
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Fiberbabe
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WhitmanO'Neill
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10/14/02 08:42 PM
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Wordwind
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10/14/02 08:58 PM
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AnnaStrophic
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10/14/02 09:24 PM
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Wordwind
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10/14/02 09:38 PM
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Faldage
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10/15/02 10:09 AM
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WhitmanO'Neill
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10/23/02 04:11 AM
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Faldage
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10/23/02 09:44 AM
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Faldage
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10/03/02 12:53 PM
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Wordwind
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10/03/02 01:10 PM
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Faldage
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10/03/02 01:20 PM
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dxb
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10/02/02 09:03 AM
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modestgoddess
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10/03/02 02:01 AM
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Sparteye
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10/03/02 06:51 PM
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milum
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10/03/02 08:41 PM
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the darkness has passed, and it's daylight at last
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wofahulicodoc
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10/03/02 09:08 PM
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Re: the darkness has passed, and it's daylight at last
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FishonaBike
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10/08/02 03:58 PM
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boronia
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10/08/02 04:23 PM
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Alex Williams
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10/08/02 05:19 PM
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milum
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10/08/02 11:15 PM
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TEd Remington
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10/09/02 01:17 PM
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Faldage
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10/09/02 01:25 PM
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Re: the darkness has passed, and it's daylight at last
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TEd Remington
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10/09/02 01:53 PM
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Faldage
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10/14/02 09:55 AM
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Re: the darkness has passed, and it's daylight at last
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Capital Kiwi
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10/14/02 05:18 AM
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of troy
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10/03/02 09:36 PM
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wow
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10/14/02 02:31 PM
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Faldage
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10/14/02 02:38 PM
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jture
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10/22/02 09:08 PM
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Wordwind
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10/22/02 11:07 PM
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bonzaialsatian
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10/26/02 10:16 AM
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TEd Remington
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10/02/02 01:25 PM
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Yawn
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FishonaBike
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10/02/02 01:36 PM
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Re: Yawns are contagious
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WhitmanO'Neill
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10/14/02 07:52 PM
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FishonaBike
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FishonaBike
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10/16/02 01:21 PM
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bonzaialsatian
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10/17/02 04:39 PM
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hev
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10/21/02 05:15 AM
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WhitmanO'Neill
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10/23/02 03:49 AM
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WhitmanO'Neill
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04/18/03 08:52 PM
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Animal sounds
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AnnaStrophic
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04/18/03 11:53 PM
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Re: Yawn sounds
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WhitmanO'Neill
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04/19/03 01:00 AM
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wofahulicodoc
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10/14/02 02:22 PM
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better late than never - Italian sneezing
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emanuela
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04/19/03 08:04 AM
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rav
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04/19/03 02:15 PM
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TEd Remington
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10/14/02 07:22 PM
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Faldage
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10/14/02 07:25 PM
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anchita
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04/25/03 08:34 PM
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musick
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04/25/03 10:33 PM
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Faldage
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04/26/03 12:10 PM
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WhitmanO'Neill
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04/26/03 03:14 PM
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Buffalo Shrdlu
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04/26/03 03:36 PM
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Re: More sneeze stuff
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WhitmanO'Neill
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05/17/03 08:05 PM
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Re: More sneeze stuff
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Faldage
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05/17/03 08:24 PM
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Re: More sneeze stuff
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Buffalo Shrdlu
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05/17/03 08:51 PM
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Faldage
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05/17/03 09:09 PM
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Buffalo Shrdlu
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05/17/03 09:12 PM
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Jackie
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05/19/03 02:04 AM
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WhitmanO'Neill
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05/19/03 02:43 AM
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Faldage
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05/19/03 10:10 AM
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