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 > >-- Dick Eney > > OPERATION CRIFANAC PUBLICATIONS >http://www.crifanac.net/Index.htm > prozines and fanzines 'n' stuff