From: owner-alloy-digest To: alloy-digest@smoe.org Subject: alloy-digest V1 #84 Reply-To: alloy@smoe.org Errors-To: owner-alloy-digest Precedence: bulk X-To-Unsubscribe: Send mail to "alloy-digest-request@smoe.org" X-To-Unsubscribe: with "unsubscribe" as the body. alloy-digest Sunday, 10 November 1996 Volume 01 : Number 084 Today's Subjects: ----------------- Alloy: Fwd: Alloy List & Misc Alloy: The Flat Earth Society- old news to some, new to me ---------------------------------------------------------------------- From: Paul Baily Date: Sat, 9 Nov 96 18:42:21 +1000 Subject: Alloy: Fwd: Alloy List & Misc Subject: Alloy List & Misc Sent: 9/11/96 11:33 am Received: 9/11/96 6:29 pm From: Elaine Linstruth, elaine@QNET.COM To: BigAl, alloy@smoe.org Hi out there! Somehow, I managed to de-subscribe myself earlier this summer, so I have been missing all the fun. But for anyone that remembers me.. hi, and it's great to be back. I'm the one that did the annoying geographical data on the Alloy list, determining that none of us are located centrally to each other. Then, this summer I up-and-moved 3,000 miles to southern California! I'm also 6 months' pregnant now, so it's been an interesting year. (They tell me 1997 will be even more so.) I just finished reading Melissa's message about the submarines -- wow. And I never knew the GTTME character was named Alloy. Ya learn something new every day! Anyway, this was just my little re-introduction. I'm looking forward to chatting with you all again. - -- Elaine Linstruth Palmdale, CA (USA) ------------------------------ From: Mary Ellen Spiegel Date: Sat, 9 Nov 1996 16:31:46 -0500 Subject: Alloy: The Flat Earth Society- old news to some, new to me Dear Fellow Members, Forgive if this has been posted before, but I just ran into this in Fortean Times and had to pass it on... >ASSOCIATED PRESS LANCASTER, Los Angeles County -- Fire destroyed the home of the >president of the Flat Earth Society and burned membership rosters for the international organization >of contrarians. "It's all gone," Charles Johnson said. His lonely house near Saddleback Butte State >Park doubled as world headquarters of the society, whose 3,500 members reject science and >satellite photos. "I hope people will write to us wondering what happened to us, and we'll b able to >get their names again," the 71-year-old Johnson said last week. "Right now, we're really at a loss." >Authorities weren't sure what had started the fire, nor was Johnson. He said he had been watching >TV when he noticed flames on the front porch. He made an emergency call, then helped his wife, >Marjory, who cannot walk and uses an oxygen tank to breathe. The couple lived in the house since >1972, the same year Johnson became president of the society on the death of Samuel Shenton of >Britain. "We don't believe the hoax that the world is a globe," Johnson said. "The average person >goes along with it because they haven't given much thought to it. "If you like the spinning ball, stay >with it. But we just want to give people an opportunity to get out of the herd and think for >themselves." Now a couple of questions arise.... Why did he use the phone first before getting his wife, a moored potential Malatov Cocktail, out of the house? (and does he believe in this new-fangled oxygen thingy, anyhow?)? Why does the Flat Earth Society (which led me to THIS FES site) have a web page either? (Wouldn't computers also be a psuedo-science in their postulations?) Where exactly are the demarcations of the ends of the earth? Nquiring minds need to know... Mary Ellen Spiegel ME Emmy (phonetic [ever notice that word isn't? ;) Femme (again ;) pick one ;> "Vedi, Vici, Veni" ME Spiegel copyright 1994 (and I MEAN that... even if it's the ONLY thing I EVER get into Bartlett's Familiar Quotations ;) "Pretty Mary bought some skates Upon the ice to frisk Wasn't she a silly girl Her little * ?" - -M. Gartner ALL RIGHT, ALL RIGHT!!! NO-ONE gets the JOKE..... What is this: * ???? It's an asterisk. Now go read that poem again; and if you have any more problems, turn in your Mensa card... ;> ------------------------------ End of alloy-digest V1 #84 **************************