There was an absurd newspaper item quite some time ago from Iowa City, Iowa. It concerned a woman whose palms suddenly started bleeding. A researcher who examined her said that the wounds resembled a certain stigmata that often appears on very religious people. Some of you may have heard of the stigmata. It refers to a condition where people bleed from the palms, especially around Good Friday, resembling the bleeding hands of Jesus on the cross. And this lady in Iowa City had these same kind of wounds on the inside of her palms. But eventually doctors discovered the source of her wounds. She had recently spent twenty-six hours playing video games using a joy stick on an Atari. When she returned the borrowed game, the wounds on her palms disappeared.

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