Today's Topics:
excerpts from Fortean Times
Watch those fingers!
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Date: Thu, 3 Jan 91 23:39 MST
From: "James J. Lippard" <LIPPARD@ccit.arizona.edu>
Subject: excerpts from Fortean Times
To: subgenius@mc.lcs.mit.edu
Some excerpts from Fortean Times #55 (Autumn 1990):
On 10 February 1989 the inhabitants of the tiny town of Fyffe in
Alabama witnessed the return to earth of the late glittering pianist
Liberace (double-size, 12 foot tall), who descended from a golden
banana-shaped spacecraft via a moving starway and treated the
lucky witnesses to a medley of Hollywood show-stoppers, with
glowing fingers on a floating piano. Talk of the apparition brought
chaos to the town with 4,000 cars jamming the main street on 6
March 1989. An "American UFO expert" said: "Too many people have
seen strange things for it to be a hoax."
(Portsmouth) News, D. Star 7 Mar 1989.
Also in February 1989, Roseann Greco, 52, of West Islip, near
Happauge in NY State, was sentenced to 15 years in jail for killing
her husband in 1985. She ran him over repeatedly with a car in
their driveway because, she insisted, he was possessed by Mickey
Mouse. She was found mentally competent to stand trial.
Victoria (BC) Times-Colonist 25 Feb 1989.
An estimated 41,000 Parisians got a nasty shock through the post
last year--a letter accusing the recipient of murder, extortion and
organising prostitution in the French capital.
Embarrassed Justice Ministry officials explained that a computer
had mixed up a list of suspects who had jumped bail with one
containing the names of people guilty of minor parking violations.
The good news for citizens who unexpectedly found themselves on
a police "Most Wanted" list was a paragraph in each letter informing
them of the penalty for their capital crime: a small fine equivalent to
that imposed on those issued with parking tickets.
MIS Week (US) 11 Sept 1989.
Troy Brewer, a Pizza delivery man, was robbed of $50 on 5 June
1990 by two men armed with a snapping turtle in Balch Springs,
Texas. He was in a phone booth when the men came up to him, put
the turtle to his face and said: "Don't move or you're gonna get bit."
South Wales Echo 8 June 1990
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Date: 03 Jan 91 17:42:33 EST
From: MTG@csi.compuserve.com
Subject: Watch those fingers!
To: SUBGENIUS@mc.lcs.mit.edu
I just got my latest issue of the American Family Association Journal,
and noticed a couple of toll-free numbers listed for:
Philip Morris, International... 1-800-421-1003... who supports
Senator Jesse Helms quite amply, and...
Procter & Gamble... 1-800-543-7276... who give thousands of pets
new, space-efficient homes, and give their lives new
meaning and new value.
I am sure that many of you dial 1-800 numbers regularly, and I just
wanted to warn you of these two so when the opportunity arises, you can
avoid their unnecessary expense of approximately $1 each time they answer
your call.
Dial safely!
- Mark G.
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