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| graylien Great Old One Location: Norwich - home of the Puppet Man! Age: 42 Gender: Male |
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| Nevertheless, the Earth does revolve around the sun, for all of Fort's tedious rantings. |
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| Pietro_Mercurios Heuristically Challenged
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| Posted: 10-07-2006 09:59 Post subject: |
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| graylien wrote: | | Nevertheless, the Earth does revolve around the sun, for all of Fort's tedious rantings. |
Haven't you got a Beckjord tribute site you should be busy creating, Graylien?
Don't let us keep you.  |
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| graylien Great Old One Location: Norwich - home of the Puppet Man! Age: 42 Gender: Male |
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almond13 Great Old One Joined: 21 Oct 2005 Total posts: 715 Location: Fullers Earth Gender: Male |
| Posted: 10-07-2006 21:41 Post subject: |
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| Quote: | | The astronomers explained. I don't know what the mind of an astronomers looks like, but I think of a fizzle with excuses revolving around it. |
One of my favourite quotes.
I tried an amateur astronomy NG once and someone was asking what they thought of the suggestion that the moon mission was a hoax.
I asked why none of the astronauts suffered from radiation sickness and a terrible row broke out. They were threatening to “bitch slap” each other and other terrible expletives.
The next thing I know I get a letter from someone saying that they own the IP and this was my final warning.
I still don’t know what I did?
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| Pietro_Mercurios Heuristically Challenged
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| Posted: 10-07-2006 22:02 Post subject: |
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Well, it certainly does you credit!
You forgot to mention Beckjord's extraordinary visualization skills and the fact that he is so much more of a people person than Fort. |
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| JamesWhitehead Piffle Prospector Joined: 02 Aug 2001 Total posts: 5779 Location: Manchester, UK Gender: Male |
| Posted: 11-07-2006 01:35 Post subject: |
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Your respectful offering should frustrate Erik's lawyers.  |
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| fortist Grey Joined: 18 Sep 2005 Total posts: 24 Location: Durham Gender: Male |
| Posted: 11-07-2006 12:49 Post subject: |
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I liked the "ten reasons" but feel I must fight Fort's corner:
1. Fort spent almost a decade studying "everything: chemistry, meteorology, sociology, electricity, magnetism, architecture, music, psychology, astronomy, ethics--taking notes, reading books and going over indexes; hundreds of notes a day, sometimes--geology, entomology, botany, zoology, cytology, histology--over to the library in the morning; out for dinner, pencil and pad with knife and fork in front of me; back to the library; home, to take more notes until bedtime--history, philosophy, evolution, mechanics, mathematics, logic, civil engineering--sounds like a correspondence--school's circular--anthropology, physiology, ethnology, military and naval strategy, sculpture, economics..."
2. Fort wrote books, novels, stories and journalism. Much more than Beckjord ever managed!
3. Fort did not create monsters, contenting himself to try and demonstrate their existence.
4. Fort had a collection of objects and substances that fell from the sky, as well as mounted spiders. Beckjord...didn't.
5. Fort didn't need to found a museum, and even if he could have done, he wouldn't: "I accept that over the door of every museum, into which such things enter, is written 'Abandon Hope"
6. Fort invented supercheckers.
7. Fort's middle name was "Hoy" and he has a blue plaque in London. Beckjord doesn't.
8. Fort won a duel with a Frenchman, battering him and winning straight out.
9. Fort wouldn't be caught dead with The Incredible Squirrel Wire, despite his extensive reading.
10. Fort wasn't concerned to investigate phenomena in the field, being more concerned to examine how data was treated once it was made available.
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| Mr_Nemo Joined: 10 May 2006 Total posts: 525 |
| Posted: 11-07-2006 14:01 Post subject: |
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| fortist wrote: | I liked the "ten reasons" but feel I must fight Fort's corner:
7. Fort's middle name was "Hoy" and he has a blue plaque in London. Beckjord doesn't.
Ian |
Sorry...but Fort has a Silver plaque, not a blue one.
http://www.forteantimes.com/forum/viewtopic.php?t=18731&start=0 |
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| fortist Grey Joined: 18 Sep 2005 Total posts: 24 Location: Durham Gender: Male |
| Posted: 14-07-2006 01:25 Post subject: |
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| Even better!! |
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| graylien Great Old One Location: Norwich - home of the Puppet Man! Age: 42 Gender: Male |
| Posted: 14-07-2006 01:30 Post subject: |
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| I shall start a campaign to get Beckjord a blue plaque. I'm sure I can count on your support. |
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