--- In [email protected], TurquoiseB <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> 
wrote:
> --- In [email protected], Peter Sutphen 
> <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote:
> > Nowadays the former hysteric would be called anxious.
> > Hysteria was a name given to people who were easily
> > overwhelmed with anxiety due to poor emotional coping
> > skills and did not authentically experience their
> > emotions. It is still used to today among clinicians
> > when discussing patients. It describes a personality
> > type very effectively. 
> 
> Is it still treated the same way?  :-)
> 
> I'm reminded of the mcguffin in the film Buckaroo 
> Banzai.  Everyone was running around trying to find 
> the Oscillation Overthruster.
> 
> Lord John Whorfin:  Where are we going? 
> Red Lectroids:  Planet Ten! 
> Lord John Whorfin:  When? 
> Red Lectroids:  Real soon!

Not to mention:

Penny Priddy:  Buckaroo, you forgot your thruster. 
Buckaroo Banzai:  Why don't you hold onto it for a while? 
Penny Priddy:  Any time. 

:-)






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