From - Fri Oct 10 14:23:46 1997
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From: furry@ami.net (Troy Klingler)
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Subject: TAMAGOTCHI ARE DEMONIC!!!
Date: Fri, 26 Sep 1997 00:30:27 GMT
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Well, think about it:

1.  They look like they're alive, but they're not.  (Undead, anyone?}
2.  They come imprisoned in a little container, like a genie in
    its bottle.  (That is, until they escape...)
3.  You have to perform rituals to appease them.  (Well, pushing
    buttons all day sounds like ritual behavior to me...)
4.  They can't be killed.  Even when "dead", they can always be
    summoned up from whence they came.  (Virtual Necromancy?)
5.  The only way to truly banish the creature is to destroy its link
    with the physical world.  (Smash its case, or at least take out
    the batteries!)  Legends speak of nigh-indestructable fiends who
    have weak points like this as their only weakness.

Makes you think, eh?  Who knows what evil lurks in the circuits of
those cute little thingamabobs?  What are they REALLY up to when they
pretend to "sleep" and you can't do a thing with them, no matter how
many buttons you press?  WAKE UP, PEOPLE!  THE HORROR MUST BE
STOPPED!!!