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From: Retz
Date: 12 Oct 2010
Time: 11:48:56 -0500
Remote Name: 205.213.113.52
Interesting, Ken. As I read your post, I thought back to a conversation I had years back at an ASHA Conference. (It sounds like perhaps the same person you had spoken with who is now deceased.) In my conversation with this person, they shared more details than in your description of the "bet". This now deceased person told me that a man once bet ($50.00) a well known leader in stuttering (now deceased) that the leader could not make a certain individual stutter. The leader reportedly took the bet and did, in fact, win! This now deceased person also shared with me that the now deceased leader who won the bet had discussed how this might be done with another well known leader in stuttering (who is also deceased now) who had done some research related to this. This now deceased person also shared a number of other interesting stories about the now deceased leader in stuttering (the leader who took the bet). Seems this same now deceased leader in stuttering would have a group of protege's up to his cabin in the U.P. and over the course of them being together, make a special stew, goulash or chili supper for them with a "special, secret" ingredient none of the protege's were aware of - Nightcrawler's!!! Anyway, seems like all those well known leaders now deceased had a kind of unique sense of...well, whatever one might call it. Unfortunately -- or perhaps fortunately -- dead people can't talk. Look forward to catching up with you sometime.