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- Path: sparky!uunet!gumby!destroyer!gatech!pitt.edu!seawasp
- From: seawasp@vm2.cis.pitt.edu (Sea Wasp)
- Newsgroups: sci.skeptic
- Subject: The mighty John Winston, Robert McElwaine, etc.
- Summary: loons-R-us
- Message-ID: <10041@blue.cis.pitt.edu.UUCP>
- Date: 22 Nov 92 16:09:38 GMT
- References: <n0ea2t@ofa123.fidonet.org>
- Sender: news+@pitt.edu
- Organization: University of Pittsburgh
- Lines: 37
- Originator: seawasp@unixd2.cis.pitt.edu
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- In article <n0ea2t@ofa123.fidonet.org> David.Rice@ofa123.fidonet.org writes:
- >John is very enjoyable to read, but after a year or so it gets
- >kind of tedious. I wish the resident fire walker would come back!
- >At least he made an attempt to rationalize away his mistakes.
-
- I know what you mean. The message immediately previous to
- this one (at least on my system) was on "BIOLOGICAL TRANSMUTATIONS"
- from the indefatiguable, ubiquitous, inexorable Robert McElwaine,B.Sc.
-
- That message, which I'd seen before, I just skipped over. Seeing
- THIS one about John got me to thinking...
-
- It's really quite sad, actually. John seems like a rather nice
- guy, judging by his endless cheerful postings. I have to wonder if he
- really believes all this, or if he just has so much time on his hands
- that he's playing the longest-running practical joke on the net.
-
- Robert, on the other hand, is somewhat annoying. At least John
- writes new messages, while mcelwre@... seems to have simply written or
- gotten hold of maybe five or six messages which he reposts in a
- cycle. John responds to Email (often publicly, but we'll forgive him),
- but Robert hasn't responded (at least to me) so far.
-
- Whether Robert B.Sc. actually believes the amazing pseudo-science
- that he posts, I don't know. If he DOES, I have to doubt that he actually
- EARNED his B.Sc....
-
- Of course, the REALLY tragic thing will be if either of these
- people get hold of TRUE information about revolutionary physics or
- alien visitors... none of us will listen to them until it's way too late
- and the aliens have landed...
-
-
- Sea Wasp
- /^\
- ;;;
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