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Old 11-25-2002, 05:14 PM   #167
MaggieL
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Quote:
Originally posted by Tobiasly

Nah, if it were sweeps, they would have combined them into a 2-hour special on transgender dwarfs.
Let's see...guesses on the incidence of transsexuality run from 1 in 1e4 to 1 in 3e4. Genetic dwarfism is given as 1 in 1e4. So...assuming the tendencies are independant, this would give a joint incidence of around 1:2e8...in a population of 300 million, this *might* yield two individuals if you were lucky.

So...one hour on each one? I don't think so.

Let's consider the obligatory jokes about "tail end of the show" and "short subject" to have been made. :-)
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