Date: Tue, 16 Jul 2002 13:59:04 -0400
From: Steve Smith <sgs at aginc.net>
To: WSFA members <WSFAlist at keithlynch.net>
Subject: [WSFA] Re: 'genius' disses?
Reply-To: WSFA members <WSFAlist at keithlynch.net>

ronkean at juno.com wrote:
>
> On Tue, 16 Jul 2002 09:11:11 -0700 (PDT) N Lynch <sfbookfan at yahoo.com>
> writes:
> > --- ronkean at juno.com wrote:
> > > Libertarian self-described genius Michael Cloud
> > > popped up at Alcor's
> > > annual Cryonics Technology Festival
> ...
>
> > Wow!!  What a genius of outreach!  He dissed how many
> > people in one sentence?  So, I guess the presentations
> > should be at Libertarian party meetings?
> >
>
> I attended a Libertarian fundraiser during the 2000 Presidential campaign
> where Modest Michael spoke.   He informed the crowd that he is a
> particularly annoying speaker, and that he would stop speaking when the
> fundraising goal for the meeting was reached.  After about 20 minutes of
> harangue, people began pulling $10 and $20 bills out of their wallets,
> passing them forward, until he mercifully stopped his presentation.  I
> suppose one could say he is an effective fundraiser.
>
> Ron Kean

Yeesh!  Effective, I guess, where walking out isn't an option for
whatever reason.

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