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the_ignored
SFN Addict
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 Posted - 03/13/2009 : 23:00:36
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Don't look at me, I found this on an online archeological journal. Look at their main page if you don't believe me. Why a normally serious journal would publish a spoof article is beyond me. It's not even an April 1st publication date. The "Solanum" virus they talk about is fictional.
Originally posted by the fifth commentator here. It's unclear whether the commentator knew the article was a spoof or not.
There's a lot of interesting lists on that cracked magazine site.
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>From: enuffenuff@fastmail.fm
(excerpt follows):
> I'm looking to teach these two bastards a lesson they'll never forget.
> Personal visit by mates of mine. No violence, just a wee little chat.
>
> **** has also committed more crimes than you can count with his
> incitement of hatred against a religion. That law came in about 2007
> much to ****'s ignorance. That is fact and his writing will become well
> know as well as him becoming a publicly known icon of hatred.
>
> Good luck with that fuckwit. And Reynold, fucking run, and don't stop.
> Disappear would be best as it was you who dared to attack me on my
> illness knowing nothing of the cause. You disgust me and you are top of
> the list boy. Again, no violence. Just regular reminders of who's there
> and visits to see you are behaving. Nothing scary in reality. But I'd
> still disappear if I was you.
What brought that on? this. Original posting here.
Another example of this guy's lunacy here. |
Edited by - the_ignored on 03/13/2009 23:02:15
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Dave W.
Info Junkie
USA
26022 Posts |
 Posted - 03/13/2009 : 23:22:52 [Permalink]
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Originally posted by the_ignored
Why a normally serious journal would publish a spoof article is beyond me. |
I'm guessing that at least one editor found this book to be a hoot-and-a-half, especially since it mentions a site with which he/she was familiar.
Then again, Archeology appears to be the Scientific American of the archeological field, and so shouldn't be held to the same standards as a peer-reviewed journal should. Another story was "Bigfoot vs. Indiana Jones: Battle of the Century" (written by an undergrad intern), which was about a fight between an action figure and a LEGO minifig (respectively). Archeology is obviously no stranger to humor. |
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Why not question something for a change?
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HalfMooner
Dingaling
Philippines
15831 Posts |
Posted - 03/14/2009 : 01:47:57 [Permalink]
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I have and love that Zombie book, Dave.
Here's something, presumably real, along the general lines of the archaeological zombies. This article deals with another class of undead vampires.
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“Biology is just physics that has begun to smell bad.” —HalfMooner
Here's a link to Moonscape News, and one to its Archive. |
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Simon
SFN Regular
USA
1992 Posts |
Posted - 03/14/2009 : 07:40:18 [Permalink]
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Yeah; the book is great.
I have little concern about a journal publishing humor articles from time to time, until some nutjob roll with it as evidence of the reality of zombies from a peer reviewed journal... |
Look again at that dot. That's here. That's home. That's us. On it everyone you love, everyone you know, everyone you ever heard of, every human being who ever was, lived out their lives. The aggregate of our joy and suffering, thousands of confident religions, ideologies, and economic doctrines, every hunter and forager, every hero and coward, every creator and destroyer of civilization, every king and peasant, every young couple in love, every mother and father, hopeful child, inventor and explorer, every teacher of morals, every corrupt politician, every "superstar," every "supreme leader," every saint and sinner in the history of our species lived there – on a mote of dust suspended in a sunbeam.
Carl Sagan - 1996 |
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