Date: Thu, 30 Jun 2005 12:34:33 -0400
From: "Michael Walsh" <MJW at press.jhu.edu>
To: <WSFAlist at WSFA.org>
Subject: [WSFA] Re: Saturday: National Flying Saucer Day

> dicconf at radix.net 6/30/2005 12:25:34 PM >>>
>
>On Thu, 30 Jun 2005, Ted White wrote:
>
>> ----- Original Message -----
>> From: "Ernest Lilley" <elilley at mindspring.com>
>>
>>> On this Saturday, in 1947 an object supposedly fell from the sky
over
>>> Roswell, New Mexico. I'm not worried about the truth of the
Roswell
>>> Incident, but it's clearly part of the mythology of fandom.
>>
>> Actually, it has no part of the mythology of fandom -- unless your
idea of
>> fandom is celebrating alien abductions and anal probes.  In actual
fact,
>> fandom has done its best to distance itself from the UFO Believers,
and has
>> done so for over 50 years.
>
>At the very first Disclave we got a breathless letter (most letters
are,
>come to think of it) from somebody who misinterpreted the "DISC" part
of
>our name to warn us that the flying saucers were controlled by the
>"ULTIMATE SEEKERS BRO-HOOD" (in caps) and we ought to shun their
wiles.
>AFAIK we did.

Did any one discover messages written on the soles of their shoes by
Deros?

mjw

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