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"Doc Smartass" |
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22 Nov 2007 10:45:34 AM |
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Woo-Woo Alert... (UFO's) |
Many of you might remember about 20 years ago when there was a big media
frenzy over UFO sightings at Gulf Breeze, Florida (yeah...Florida again.
We even have our own tag at FARK.com).
This guy claimed he'd seen a UFO, and he had the pictures to prove it.
The woo-woo's went nuts and flooded the area (which is about 20 miles
from where I live) like a stupid human hurricane.
http://www.ufoevidence.org/topics/gulfbreeze.htm
Video at YouTube:
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=h1ffpsmLW8w
The guy moved away at some point and someone else moved into his house.
While they were cleaning up, they found...wait for it...a model of a UFO
that mysteriously resembled the UFO that had been sighted flying over the
community!
This blew the lid off the case for those of us who were looking for the
zipper up the monster's back (so to speak), but of course, the woo-woo's
are undaunted.
There's a retrospective coming up on local news this Monday. It sounds
like the standard media treatment of "bring out a bunch of woo-woo's and
let them yammer for a few minutes, then bring in one guy who thinks it's
***** to add balance. Edit it heavily so he gets 10 seconds of screen
time and looks like a douche. Then we'll go to weather."
The bit I heard on the radio has a woo-woo falling all over himself to
describe his brilliant attempts to make contact--"we knew it was an alien
life form, and we're working on making contact with them using high-
powered lights!"
....which puts in my mind a buncha woo-woos with portable million-
candlepower spotlights, standing on the beach near Gulf Breeze, staring
into the sky, then their leader says, "Okay...let's try the Morse Code.
On three...go!"
Local NBC affiliate, 11-15-07
http://tinyurl.com/yuusjp
I think this is the affiliate that'll be running that intrepid
investigation this Monday.
--
Doc Smartass, BAAWA Knight of Heckling
aa # 1939
No one can terrorize a whole nation, unless we are all his accomplices.
--Edward R. Murrow
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| User: "Doc Smartass" |
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| Title: Re: Woo-Woo Alert... (UFO's) |
26 Nov 2007 10:43:00 PM |
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Doc Smartass <gekido@astroskivviesboymail.com> wrote in
news:Xns99F06D7C1DED8askifyouwantit@216.77.188.18:
Many of you might remember about 20 years ago when there was a big
media frenzy over UFO sightings at Gulf Breeze, Florida
(yeah...Florida again. We even have our own tag at FARK.com).
This guy claimed he'd seen a UFO, and he had the pictures to prove it.
The woo-woo's went nuts and flooded the area (which is about 20 miles
from where I live) like a stupid human hurricane.
http://www.ufoevidence.org/topics/gulfbreeze.htm
Video at YouTube:
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=h1ffpsmLW8w
The guy moved away at some point and someone else moved into his
house. While they were cleaning up, they found...wait for it...a model
of a UFO that mysteriously resembled the UFO that had been sighted
flying over the community!
This blew the lid off the case for those of us who were looking for
the zipper up the monster's back (so to speak), but of course, the
woo-woo's are undaunted.
They're still undaunted, of course. I just grabbed the local station's 5-
1/2 minute (that's 5.5 minutes for you metric folks ;p ) "in-depth"
report...good grief, the woo-woo's are still lapping this up. If I don't
see it on the station's website soon I'll up it to YouTube. I shouldn't
be the only one to *ahem* "enjoy" this.
--
Doc Smartass, BAAWA Knight of Heckling
aa # 1939
No one can terrorize a whole nation, unless we are all his accomplices.
--Edward R. Murrow
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| User: "Doc Smartass" |
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| Title: Re: Woo-Woo Alert... (UFO's) |
27 Nov 2007 04:53:16 PM |
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Doc Smartass <gekido@astroskivviesboymail.com> wrote in
news:Xns99F4E71F93A2Faskifyouwantit@216.77.188.18:
Doc Smartass <gekido@astroskivviesboymail.com> wrote in
news:Xns99F06D7C1DED8askifyouwantit@216.77.188.18:
Many of you might remember about 20 years ago when there was a big
media frenzy over UFO sightings at Gulf Breeze, Florida
(yeah...Florida again. We even have our own tag at FARK.com).
This guy claimed he'd seen a UFO, and he had the pictures to prove it.
The woo-woo's went nuts and flooded the area (which is about 20 miles
from where I live) like a stupid human hurricane.
http://www.ufoevidence.org/topics/gulfbreeze.htm
Video at YouTube:
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=h1ffpsmLW8w
The guy moved away at some point and someone else moved into his
house. While they were cleaning up, they found...wait for it...a model
of a UFO that mysteriously resembled the UFO that had been sighted
flying over the community!
This blew the lid off the case for those of us who were looking for
the zipper up the monster's back (so to speak), but of course, the
woo-woo's are undaunted.
They're still undaunted, of course. I just grabbed the local station's
5-
1/2 minute (that's 5.5 minutes for you metric folks ;p ) "in-depth"
report...good grief, the woo-woo's are still lapping this up. If I
don't
see it on the station's website soon I'll up it to YouTube. I shouldn't
be the only one to *ahem* "enjoy" this.
Dunno how long they'll have it on their "top stories" video page, but
here's the only really direct link I could find. Damn page itself took 7
minutes to load...buncha crap.
http://www.weartv.com/players/news/top_stories/video.shtml
Look for the title "Gulf Breeze UFO's (A Lasting Legacy)" in the right-
hand blue section.
If this doesn't work, I'll get my copy and up it to YouTube. Looks like
I'll have to; the only thing that's loading is a freaking ad and I'm
tired of waiting.
One would think a freaking COMMUNICATIONS company would have their *****
straight.
--
Doc Smartass, BAAWA Knight of Heckling
aa # 1939
No one can terrorize a whole nation, unless we are all his accomplices.
--Edward R. Murrow
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| User: "John Baker" |
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| Title: Re: Woo-Woo Alert... (UFO's) |
27 Nov 2007 10:28:37 PM |
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On Tue, 27 Nov 2007 22:53:16 GMT, Doc Smartass
<gekido@astroskivviesboymail.com> wrote:
Doc Smartass <gekido@astroskivviesboymail.com> wrote in
news:Xns99F4E71F93A2Faskifyouwantit@216.77.188.18:
Doc Smartass <gekido@astroskivviesboymail.com> wrote in
news:Xns99F06D7C1DED8askifyouwantit@216.77.188.18:
Many of you might remember about 20 years ago when there was a big
media frenzy over UFO sightings at Gulf Breeze, Florida
(yeah...Florida again. We even have our own tag at FARK.com).
This guy claimed he'd seen a UFO, and he had the pictures to prove it.
The woo-woo's went nuts and flooded the area (which is about 20 miles
from where I live) like a stupid human hurricane.
http://www.ufoevidence.org/topics/gulfbreeze.htm
Video at YouTube:
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=h1ffpsmLW8w
The guy moved away at some point and someone else moved into his
house. While they were cleaning up, they found...wait for it...a model
of a UFO that mysteriously resembled the UFO that had been sighted
flying over the community!
This blew the lid off the case for those of us who were looking for
the zipper up the monster's back (so to speak), but of course, the
woo-woo's are undaunted.
They're still undaunted, of course. I just grabbed the local station's
5-
1/2 minute (that's 5.5 minutes for you metric folks ;p ) "in-depth"
report...good grief, the woo-woo's are still lapping this up. If I
don't
see it on the station's website soon I'll up it to YouTube. I shouldn't
be the only one to *ahem* "enjoy" this.
Dunno how long they'll have it on their "top stories" video page, but
here's the only really direct link I could find. Damn page itself took 7
minutes to load...buncha crap.
http://www.weartv.com/players/news/top_stories/video.shtml
Look for the title "Gulf Breeze UFO's (A Lasting Legacy)" in the right-
hand blue section.
If this doesn't work, I'll get my copy and up it to YouTube. Looks like
I'll have to; the only thing that's loading is a freaking ad and I'm
tired of waiting.
One would think a freaking COMMUNICATIONS company would have their *****
straight.
No problem with the main page, but the Gulf Breeze page won't even try
to load, because I have my browser set to block scripts it sees as
potentially nasty.
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| User: "Doc Smartass" |
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| Title: Re: Woo-Woo Alert... (UFO's) |
28 Nov 2007 11:04:43 AM |
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John Baker <nunya@bizniz.net> wrote in
news:fhrpk3laq2p3j07rq3o41u7f5arpmdl07v@4ax.com:
On Tue, 27 Nov 2007 22:53:16 GMT, Doc Smartass
<gekido@astroskivviesboymail.com> wrote:
Doc Smartass <gekido@astroskivviesboymail.com> wrote in
news:Xns99F4E71F93A2Faskifyouwantit@216.77.188.18:
Doc Smartass <gekido@astroskivviesboymail.com> wrote in
news:Xns99F06D7C1DED8askifyouwantit@216.77.188.18:
Many of you might remember about 20 years ago when there was a big
media frenzy over UFO sightings at Gulf Breeze, Florida
(yeah...Florida again. We even have our own tag at FARK.com).
This guy claimed he'd seen a UFO, and he had the pictures to prove
it. The woo-woo's went nuts and flooded the area (which is about 20
miles from where I live) like a stupid human hurricane.
http://www.ufoevidence.org/topics/gulfbreeze.htm
Video at YouTube:
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=h1ffpsmLW8w
The guy moved away at some point and someone else moved into his
house. While they were cleaning up, they found...wait for it...a
model of a UFO that mysteriously resembled the UFO that had been
sighted flying over the community!
This blew the lid off the case for those of us who were looking for
the zipper up the monster's back (so to speak), but of course, the
woo-woo's are undaunted.
They're still undaunted, of course. I just grabbed the local
station's
5-
1/2 minute (that's 5.5 minutes for you metric folks ;p )
"in-depth" report...good grief, the woo-woo's are still lapping this
up. If I
don't
see it on the station's website soon I'll up it to YouTube. I
shouldn't be the only one to *ahem* "enjoy" this.
Dunno how long they'll have it on their "top stories" video page, but
here's the only really direct link I could find. Damn page itself took
7 minutes to load...buncha crap.
http://www.weartv.com/players/news/top_stories/video.shtml
Look for the title "Gulf Breeze UFO's (A Lasting Legacy)" in the
right- hand blue section.
If this doesn't work, I'll get my copy and up it to YouTube. Looks
like I'll have to; the only thing that's loading is a freaking ad and
I'm tired of waiting.
One would think a freaking COMMUNICATIONS company would have their
***** straight.
No problem with the main page, but the Gulf Breeze page won't even try
to load, because I have my browser set to block scripts it sees as
potentially nasty.
I figured as much. *sigh*
Now I have another reason not to watch ABC.
I'll work on it this afternoon...
--
Doc Smartass, BAAWA Knight of Heckling
aa # 1939
No one can terrorize a whole nation, unless we are all his accomplices.
--Edward R. Murrow
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| User: "Thurisaz, Germanic barbarian" |
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| Title: Re: Woo-Woo Alert... (UFO's) |
22 Nov 2007 11:10:35 AM |
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Doc Smartass:
...which puts in my mind a buncha woo-woos with portable million-
candlepower spotlights, standing on the beach near Gulf Breeze, staring
into the sky, then their leader says, "Okay...let's try the Morse Code.
On three...go!"
Aaah, memories...
....of the crop circle hype somewhere around the same time, over here in
Europe at least. Some appeared in a field of wheat damn close to where I
lived then, we checked them out in more detail.
Boy oh boy, couldn't that farmer have at least _tried_ to make it look
convincing before asking for 10 DM per person "as reparation for the damage
done to my wheat"? *eg*
In the center of the circles - holes where clearly the pole had been rammed
into the earth. Along the circles - clearly visible footsteps. Et cetera,
ad nauseam. We were close to demanding our money back when...
....an esoteric appeared with his pendulum and went "oooooh clearly, very
clearly, enormous powers are still at work here..."
Yeah, of course. The enormous power of stupid.
We decided that this was more fun than we hoped for and let the farmer keep
our money. Hey, we were laughing for hours after coming home :)
--
"To his friend a man a friend shall prove, and gifts with gifts requite;
But men shall mocking with mockery answer, and fraud with falsehood meet."
(The Poetic Edda)
Must have been written with fundies in mind...
My personal judgment of monotheism:
http://www.carcosa.de/nojebus
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| User: "JTEM" |
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| Title: Re: Woo-Woo Alert... (UFO's) |
22 Nov 2007 08:35:58 PM |
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"Thurisaz, Germanic barbarian" <MAILTOsecret...@carcosa.de> wrote:
...of the crop circle hype somewhere around the same time,
over here in Europe at least.
The funny thing about crop circles is that they broke all the
rules.
I mean, when it comes to supernatural/out-of-this-world events,
the one common/defining characteristic is that they can not
be duplicated by any earthly means. Yet, anyone not on crack
knows that crop circles are well within the capabilities of
humans.
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| User: "Uncle Vic" |
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22 Nov 2007 06:16:24 PM |
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One fine day in alt.atheism, "Thurisaz, Germanic barbarian"
<MAILTOsecretary@carcosa.de> bloodied us up with this:
Boy oh boy, couldn't that farmer have at least _tried_ to make it look
convincing before asking for 10 DM per person "as reparation for the
damage done to my wheat"? *eg*
No need, really. If the farmer did the math and decided he could make more
money charging admission to view "crop circles" than he could selling
wheat, I'd call him fiscally responsible. After all, no matter where you
live, there is never a shortage of fools.
--
Uncle Vic
aa Atheist #2011
Supervisor, EAC Department of little adhesive-backed "L" shaped
chrome-plastic doo-dads to add feet to Jesus fish department.
Convicted by Earthquack.
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| User: "" |
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| Title: Re: Woo-Woo Alert... (UFO's) |
22 Nov 2007 06:40:15 PM |
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On Nov 22, 7:16 pm, Uncle Vic <addr...@withheld.com> wrote:
One fine day in alt.atheism, "Thurisaz, Germanic barbarian"
<MAILTOsecret...@carcosa.de> bloodied us up with this:
Boy oh boy, couldn't that farmer have at least _tried_ to make it look
convincing before asking for 10 DM per person "as reparation for the
damage done to my wheat"? *eg*
No need, really. If the farmer did the math and decided he could make more
money charging admission to view "crop circles" than he could selling
wheat, I'd call him fiscally responsible. After all, no matter where you
live, there is never a shortage of fools.
You ain't kiddin'. Good grief, didn't Bower & Chorley even write a
book describing how they did it? The hoaxers confess, point their
fingers and laugh, and people *still* talk about flying saucers.
Sheesh, what a world.
-Panama Floyd, Atlanta.
aa#2015/KoBAAWA!
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