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Yale Student Contracts Extended Metaphor Disease
April 1, 2005
In what scientists are calling the first text-to-human transmission of a virus, a Yale University student who goes by the name “Anotmas” has contracted the deadly Extended Metaphor Disease (EMD). Doctors for the afflicted student first discovered his condition after concerned friends alerted New Haven police to his plaintive cry for help in an online poetry forum…