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From:
"Bruce Hutchinson" <bhutch@g...>
Date: (Date Unavailable)
Subject: Re: [AAR_Skeptics] National Kook Day
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I had another inspiration (brain fart?)
Rather than emphasize another Kook award, which we can still
grant, make it a page honoring ALL kooks with a "register" of
kooks listed by Usenet group. We would ask the regulars of each
ng to nominate their pet kooks for recognition on a special page
for each group. Top vote getters would be recognized some way.
Each nomination has to be accompanied with a short description
of the special kook-qualities.
This would be kind of poetic, as Curley was always threatening
the Skpti-Cult with those phantom "registers" that were
monitoring our every post.
>National Kook Day Web Page….
>
>Earl Gordon Curley was, at his core, a “Paranormal Kook”,
>espousing all sorts of nonsense on his powers as an “Intuitive
>Psychic”. He was also real big on Out Of Body experiences.
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>But, being the Über Kook that he was, he embraced any and all
>Paranormal subjects with verve, and his patented, and often
>incoherent rants. UFOs were no exception.
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>So- what we need is a Curley-esque page that honors the UFO kook
>who best exemplifies the sprit of Curley when it comes to UFOs.
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>Criteria: Consideration will be given to: abuse of Usenet and
>to the posters, number of lawsuits threatened, incoherence,
>alcohol/drug abuse, malapropisms (a specialty of Earls), and, of
>course, overall kookiness. Of course, we do not expect any of
>the nominees to be proficient in all of the above categories
>(there IS, after all, only one Über Kook), so the winner would
>be the one who comes closest to the Spirit of Earl.
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>Nominations will be submitted to the members of the Yahoo Group
>AAR_Skeptics for consideration, and the vote of that august body
>will be final.
>
>We need a name for this page. Interestingly enough, both a
>Google search and a Dogpile search failed to turn up a single
>reference on the Web about National Kook Day! Equally
>interesting was that WHOIS reports that no one has registered
>NationalKookDay as a domain. So it would appear that we “own”
>the rights, even though it was Garrison Hillard who first coined
>the phrase, IIRC.
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>So we could, if someone wants to take on the responsibility,
>create not only the controlling NKD organization, but the
>AAR_Skeptics UFO category as well.
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>If you want, I can ask some of the sci.skeptics crowd to take on
>the chore of developing categories and getting nominations from
>their groups (which include alt.paranormal.*).
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>So- those are my ideas. I know that this parallels some of KOTM
>activities, but we would be limiting ourselves primarily to the
>UFO kooks. And in honor of Earl, we would be taking on the
>whole spectrum of paranormal kooks as well.
>
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>Please feel free to applaud or trash the above. If you like,
>add additional criteria, offer additional ideas, or present a
>completely different proposal.
>
>But, considering the lack of a skeptic page honoring the
>memories of Earl Gordon Curley, I think it important that we
>come up with some sort of permanent memorial.
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>Comments? Other Ideas?
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>
>Bruce
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