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Message no. 1
From: Paul Gettle <RunnerPaul@*****.COM>
Subject: Re: [OT] CCGs: Cardboard Crack? [was: SR Rules on CDROM?]
Date: Thu, 1 Oct 1998 21:56:51 -0400
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At 06:01 PM 10/1/98 -0400, you wrote:
>> >A friend of mine who owns a comic store gives away a free deck of
any
>> >CCG game to anyone who wants one. He makes the investment back
when they
>> >come to buy booster packs later on. Same concept at work.
>>
>> Even little kids? I thought there were laws against that :). How's
he
>> manage to not get arrested :)
>>
>Yeah I believe drug pushers use similar tactics...

He can get away with it because WotC finally managed to quietly get
FDA aproval for the addictive psychotropic powder they dust the cards
with after printing. This is why Magic cards had to be printed in
Belgium until just a year and a half ago (up until Mirage Stand-Alone
Expansion); Belgium was the only country the dust was legal in.

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Message no. 2
From: Gurth <gurth@******.NL>
Subject: Re: [OT] CCGs: Cardboard Crack? [was: SR Rules on CDROM?]
Date: Fri, 2 Oct 1998 11:08:11 +0200
According to Paul Gettle, at 21:56 on 1 Oct 98, the word on the street
was...

> He can get away with it because WotC finally managed to quietly get
> FDA aproval for the addictive psychotropic powder they dust the cards
> with after printing. This is why Magic cards had to be printed in
> Belgium until just a year and a half ago (up until Mirage Stand-Alone
> Expansion); Belgium was the only country the dust was legal in.

No, Belgium is the only country in which they could get away with it by
doing some strategic blackmail and, if need be, assassinations, and also
in which another scandal wouldn't draw any attention.

:)


(For those who don't believe me, do some digging on Belgian recent
history, say the past 20 years or so. Pay particular attention to words
like "hormones", "Agusta", "mafia", "vets",
"politics", and so on.)

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