Sujet : Re: Today's interesting development
De : jdnicoll (at) *nospam* panix.com (James Nicoll)
Groupes : rec.arts.sf.writtenDate : 23. Jul 2024, 02:34:36
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Organisation : Public Access Networks Corp.
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In article <
v7n0ed$pf5$1@reader1.panix.com>,
James Nicoll <
jdnicoll@panix.com> wrote:
In article <v7mr1t$s1a5$1@dont-email.me>,
Ahasuerus <ahasuerus@email.com> wrote:
On 7/22/2024 4:01 PM, James Nicoll wrote:
Someone spent $19,000 dollars to stuff the Hugo Award ballot
box in a way that seems either very, very ineptly or in a
manner calculated to be spotted.
https://glasgow2024.org/hugo-awards/statement-22-july-2024/
Now, I do recall a case in the 1980s, I think, where an exuberant
fan tried to buy a story he liked a Hugo, using consecutively
numbered traveller's checks to buy memberships. So people do
fuck up comprehensively. But it could also be someone really dislikes
Finalist A and wanted to make them look bad.
>
Or -- conceivably -- someone who dislikes the Hugo award as an institution.
>
What a half-assed attack, then.
Which isn't to say that's not what happened! Sometimes, people are
just incompetent.
BODYGUARD OF LIES had a vignette about how the Germans during WWI,
faced with Allied leaflets dropped on Germans lines claiming that
German officers were stealing enlisted men's pay, responded with
leaflets dropped in Allied territory showing that their bookkeeping
was solid and no embezzlement was occuring.
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