:-) Briana
---John Francis wrote:
>
>
> Let's not get too upset about the emergence of a crank or two on the
> listserve. They're actually pretty common. I was a newspaper
reporter for
> many years, including a few on The Idahonian, and I used to bump into
> people like this recent person every couple of weeks. They'd have
some
> rambling story about, say, a tribe of evil hippies hiding above
Bovill, or
> cops killing derelicts and hanging their skinned bodies from trees
outside
> Troy, or Moscow magistrates on drugs (usually acid in those days).
>
> As a young reporter on my first newspapers I used to chase stories
> eagerly, hoping against hope one was true. God, what a scoop I'd
have!
> Alas, the conspiracies lived only in the addled brains of the cranks
> themselves. As years went by I'd still check reports if they
seemed even
> slightly credible, but invariable they turned out to be baseless.
>
> The Internet means that some of those poor souls you see muttering
on
> street corners are now on-line. So instead of hurrying by them
without eye
> contact, you need a different means of avoiding them. You know the
names,
> just delete their messages unread. It works fine.
>
> And it's all you can do, because you're not going to get rid of
them. This
> latest one, the lady who has generated some controversy, is here for
good,
> I'd guess, and trying to get her to make sense will get you nowhere at
> all.. Was it not obvious from her initial inchoherent surrealistic
> narrative that she's not wrapped too tight?
>
> It might be interesting to introduce her to Cliff Wassem, the area's
> ultra-Bircher. She could tell him about Moscow's corruption and he
could
> tell her about the Jewish Tri-laterists. My own theory is that
she's the
> reincarnation of D.B.Hughes, Latah County's legendary crank of yore.
Or
> does that idea sound paranoid?
>
> John Francis, 311 East 6th St., #2, Moscow, ID 83843
>
>
>
>
==
:-) Briana
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