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Scrooge 'was a victim of brain disease'
The Sunday Times ^
| December 24, 2006
| John Harlow
Posted on 12/23/2006 7:22:49 PM PST by MadIvan
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Bah, humbug.
Regards, Ivan
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posted on
12/23/2006 7:22:50 PM PST
by
MadIvan
To: Mrs Ivan; odds; DCPatriot; Texican; Watery Tart; Deetes; Barset; fanfan; LadyofShalott; Tolik; ...
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posted on
12/23/2006 7:23:18 PM PST
by
MadIvan
(I aim to misbehave.)
To: MadIvan
OMG are you kidding Sunday UK times LOL!
I thought Scooge was just bastard
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posted on
12/23/2006 7:23:56 PM PST
by
SevenofNine
("Step aside Jefe"=Det Lennie Briscoe)
To: MadIvan
It was a brilliant Christmas story that has endured the years. Anyone reading anything more into it are nuts themselves.
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posted on
12/23/2006 7:26:07 PM PST
by
tioga
( Merry Christmas)
To: SevenofNine
I just watched the "Blackadder Christmas Carol".
I like that one much better. Nice guys finish last.
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posted on
12/23/2006 7:26:32 PM PST
by
donmeaker
(If the sky don't say "Surrender Dorothy!" then my ex wife is out of town.)
To: MadIvan
I thought he was dropping acid.
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posted on
12/23/2006 7:27:47 PM PST
by
Nachoman
(Just because you're a kook doesn't mean there isn't a conspiracy.)
To: MadIvan
And all these years I just thought it was a fictional book.
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posted on
12/23/2006 7:28:13 PM PST
by
CzarNicky
(The problem with bad ideas is that they seemed like good ideas at the time.)
To: donmeaker
On Friday night I watching Chrismas episode Are you being served LOL
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posted on
12/23/2006 7:28:46 PM PST
by
SevenofNine
("Step aside Jefe"=Det Lennie Briscoe)
To: MadIvan
Memo to Dr. Robert Chance Algar: put a sock in it, you arrogant publicity seeker... you are dead wrong. Lewy body dementia has symptoms of drowsiness, lethargy, lengthy periods of time spent staring into space, and disorganized speech... none of which were shown by Scrooge.
To: MadIvan
To: FormerACLUmember
Scrooge did show signs of mental illness after his "visions".
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posted on
12/23/2006 7:36:35 PM PST
by
donmeaker
(If the sky don't say "Surrender Dorothy!" then my ex wife is out of town.)
To: MadIvan
This reminds me of some hacks from UCSD who "diagnosed"
Samson with antisocial personality disorder a few years back.
To: MadIvan
Since when is Charles Dickens a Psychiatric clinician? He wrote a story about a man who had turned cold toward humanity because of past experiences, and recovered from the error of his ways.
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posted on
12/23/2006 7:39:51 PM PST
by
jmcenanly
(Do not handicap your children by making their lives easy. -- Robert A. Heinlein)
To: MadIvan
Why is it so hard for some to accept that people can have supernatural (i.e. spiritual) experinces and be completely healthy. Why must some constantly replace the spiritual with the secular and attempt to explain the miraculous with the mundane. Dickens wasn't describing a medical condition, he was depicting a change of heart.
To: MadIvan
Ives, I wish Drs. Algar and Saunders a visit from their own personal Jacob Marley(s) for Christmas.
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posted on
12/23/2006 7:42:32 PM PST
by
RichInOC
("I see stupid people. They're everywhere....They don't even know that they're dumb.")
To: MadIvan
Well, at least they aren't "debunking" the Christian religion. If they want to play the "the miracle was really a mental illness/illusion/legend/result of two sparrows flying from Africa with a coconut" game with a fictional character instead of my Lord, they're welcome to it.
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posted on
12/23/2006 7:49:49 PM PST
by
Mr. Silverback
(The people walking in darkness have seen a great light...Merry Christmas!)
To: CzarNicky
"And all these years I just thought it was a fictional book." Well just dang!! Do you mean that you didn't know that fictional characters can have illnesses? I didn't relize that either, so now we are both better educated.
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posted on
12/23/2006 8:01:50 PM PST
by
davisfh
To: MadIvan
"I dont know, it must have been the doses..."
To: MadIvan
Algar thought at first that Scrooge was in the grip of depression or a bipolar disorder, yet neither would explain his ghostly visitors. All the events described in the story fit a person suffering from the early stages of LBD, he said You've got to be kidding me
These people really need to get a life
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posted on
12/23/2006 8:15:27 PM PST
by
Mo1
(Thank You Mr & Mrs "I'm gonna teach you a lesson" Voter ... you just screwed us on so many levels)
To: jmcenanly
Since when is Charles Dickens a Psychiatric clinician? He wrote a story about a man who had turned cold toward humanity because of past experiences, and recovered from the error of his ways. Well according to this dude .. Scourge was just a victim of circumstances beyond his control
I'm still rolling my eyes at this article
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posted on
12/23/2006 8:19:26 PM PST
by
Mo1
(Thank You Mr & Mrs "I'm gonna teach you a lesson" Voter ... you just screwed us on so many levels)
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