From:	Simon and Fiona sfuller@******.com.au
Subject:	Now THAT'S An Interesting Question...
Date:	Thu, 8 Jun 2000 16:40:28 +1000

-----Original Message-----
From: Simon Nixon <a_9365@*******.com>
To: shadowrn@*********.com <shadowrn@*********.com>
Date: Wednesday, June 07, 2000 11:03 PM
Subject: Re: Now THAT'S An Interesting Question...


>Just to pull this thread kicking and screaming a little bit back on topic,
>away from the doggy shampoo, there's a condition that manifests a lot like
>the Night One's fur.
>
>It's called 'Hypertrichosis'. It's bloody rare but one of the symptoms is
>that the body grows long fine, diffuse excess hair on either every part of
>the body or confined to certain parts, pot luck really. Didn't the SRComp
>say that Night One's hair is fine? Sounds like someone just looked this one
>up out of a medical textbook and thought 'That looks nice and freaky, I'll
>use that'.
>
People with hypertrichosis look like werewolves or wookies. Night Ones, I
always thought, looked more like they were covered in velvet. Its a mattere
of hair length.