Today's Topics:
Xtians
Is the NY Times Fit to Print? (Was: A Dobbstown for Rednecks?)
Worldcon
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Date: 25 Jul 89 08:26:13 EST
From: Dougras Roos <dougl@westfort.plain-city.oh.us>
Message-Id: <4019@westfort.plain-city.oh.us>
Subject: Re: Xtians
> I've been thinking about this for a while, and I came to the conclusion
> that the correct spelling should be Xians, not Xtians. More consistant
> with X-mas etc, and reminiscent of the little creatures in Hack that
> sap your strength. ("the Xian hits - your wallet feels lighter")
Hmm. I say "X-mas" like "cris - mass:" the X sounds like "cris." I say
Xtians like "cris - chens." Without the t, I'd be liable to say "cris - yins,
" and get both myself and my prey confused. Not that that wouldn't be
desirable....
And Xians looks more like Xists than Xtians. Confusion is not slack.
Douglas Luce
Modesty International
dougl@westfort.plain-city.oh.us
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Subject: Is the NY Times Fit to Print? (Was: A Dobbstown for Rednecks?)
Reply-to: ingria@bbn.com
Date: Tue, 25 Jul 89 12:14:22 EDT
From: ingria@bbn.com
Message-ID: <8907251213.aa09280@mintaka.lcs.mit.edu>
From: "The Rt. Rev. Wor. Dr. Y. Foo" <dryfoo@athena.mit.edu>
Date: Mon, 24 Jul 89 11:59:46 EDT
Date: Thu, 20 Jul 89 23:42:42 EDT
From: clipsend@jennings.LCS.MIT.EDU (Clipping Service)
Subject: BC SECT WEAPONS SFCHRON
type: NYT (Copyright 1989 The New York Times)
date: 07-20-89 0759EST
PARADISE VALLEY, Mont. -- Residents of this picturesque valley bordering
Yellowstone National Park are in a frenzy this week amid allegations
that a burgeoning New Age sect in the area
[Elizabeth Clare Prophet's Church Universal and Triumphant]
is stockpiling arms and
frantically building underground bomb shelters.
Until the latest revelations, ranchers living around the commune had
become used to neighbors who chant for spiritual protection and follow
the disembodied advice of an obscure 18th century French count.
This is the Count St. Germain, who is, depending on your point of
view, one of the great charlatans of all time (right up there with
Cagliostro and Don Juan) or one of the great initiates of all time.
He dressed only in black or gray, wore scads and scads of diamonds,
allowed no one to see him eat, and hinted that he was hundreds of
years old. Chelsea Quinn Yarbro even built a series of novels and
short stories around him, explaining his long life in terms of him
being a vampire. Obviously the Times research department is slipping.
Or else, the Time surmises, probably correctly, that the average
reader these days doesn't know squat about anybody or anything more
than 20 years old, let alone from the 18th century. Still, you'd
think they'd pretend, just for the culture snob factor.
-30-
Bob
``What did you find, dad?''
``Illumination.''
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Date: Tue, 25 Jul 89 09:44:52
From: Mason <haedx.UUCP!mason@cgl.ucsf.edu>
Message-Id: <8907252144.AA16677@haedx>
Subject: Worldcon
Greetings, all, after having been list-less for a little while now,
I am back in email-touch, and I'd like to find out whether there are
any Subgenius activities planned to occur at this year's WorldCon,
seeing as it's in Boston, near the list's origin. Hopefully there
will be *something* happening, as last year. If nothing's planned,
perhaps something should be...
"Is there any escape?"
{sun,uunet}!hoptoad!haedx!mason
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