Re: [HoE] Dr. Pepper?

[Allan Seyberth <darious@darious.com>]

At 12:41 AM 2/21/00 -0600, you wrote:
>O.K., I just got the main HoE rulebook yesterday, and I noticed something in
>the Gear section.  I noticed Dr. Pepper curing all Wind lost due to
>radiation.  I know this comes from some kinf of urban legend, but can
>someone please help me remember what it is?  I think it has somethign to do
>with a cemical found in Dr. Pepper also being found in rabbits.

Sheep. . . at least according to Shane.

Rulebooks: Hell On Earth Main, Dr. Pepper (Hey, enquiring minds gotta know)
Q)	Chapter 4.  The burning question, what's up with the Dr. Pepper? Am I
missing something being Australian or do you have some sort of weird   Ad
campaign going with them? - tbet1
A)	There's long been an "urban legend" that a certain chemical in Dr.
Pepper washes out radiation. Sheep supposedly have high levels of the same
chemical in their body, and are also particularly resistant to radiation.
I've figured out what the chemical must be, but can't find any real proof.
So we decided that since it was fun, in our world, it's real (and it MIGHT
be in the real world as well). I'll let those who are smarter than me tell
the real story if they know it. [Shane Hensley, HoE listserv, 9/15/98]
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Allan Seyberth
darious@darious.com
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John Le Carre:
Because it knew, at the core of its being where none could ever reach, that
its only course of action now that its cover was blown wide open was to try
and slip away into the grey, foggy, bleak evening before Smiley came,
accompanied by his silent shadow Peter Guillam, asking questions for which
there could never be answers.