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Gareth Wilson  
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 More options Aug 14 2002, 5:15 am
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From: Gareth Wilson <gr...@ext.canterbury.ac.nz>
Date: Wed, 14 Aug 2002 21:24:38 +1200
Local: Wed, Aug 14 2002 5:24 am
Subject: Re: Quick thought on the collapse of the Roman Empire
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Arkadiusz Danilecki wrote:
> Uh-oh.

> Is brain-eater some shwi idiom i missed? Or it is just mythical animal
> invented right now to Coyu, whose main feature is that it eats engineers'
> brains? Just curious.

Not just engineers. James Nicoll invented it over on the sf newsgroups to
describe a common career trajectory among writers. If you've read enough
Asimov, Heinlein, Niven, or James P. Hogan, you probably understand it
already.
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Gareth Wilson
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http://www.gareth.wilson.name/
al-Qaa'ida laazim makhruuba
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