Re: Today's interesting development

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Sujet : Re: Today's interesting development
De : jdnicoll (at) *nospam* panix.com (James Nicoll)
Groupes : rec.arts.sf.written
Date : 23. Jul 2024, 18:19:25
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In article <v7olas$dc9$1@reader1.panix.com>,
James Nicoll <jdnicoll@panix.com> wrote:
In article <v7okdl$197vv$1@dont-email.me>,
Ahasuerus  <ahasuerus@email.com> wrote:
On 7/22/2024 9:19 PM, James Nicoll wrote:
In article <v7mr1t$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.
>
Perhaps it was more along the lines of George Bernard Shaw's dictum
about wrestling with pigs:
>
"You both get dirty and the pig likes it."
>
Or "If we throw enough mud at the wall some of it will stick".
>
Just at this second, it looks like it might be SF's version of the
Black Sox Scandal.
>
Which is to say, some gambler dropped 20K trying to fix a contest on
which he was voting.
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Date Sujet#  Auteur
22 Jul 24 * Today's interesting development13James Nicoll
23 Jul 24 +* Re: Today's interesting development8Ahasuerus
23 Jul 24 i`* Re: Today's interesting development7James Nicoll
23 Jul 24 i +- Re: Today's interesting development1James Nicoll
23 Jul 24 i `* Re: Today's interesting development5Ahasuerus
23 Jul 24 i  `* Re: Today's interesting development4James Nicoll
23 Jul 24 i   `* Re: Today's interesting development3James Nicoll
26 Jul 24 i    `* Re: Today's interesting development2Robert Carnegie
27 Jul 24 i     `- Re: Today's interesting development1James Nicoll
23 Jul 24 +* Re: Today's interesting development3James Nicoll
23 Jul 24 i`* Re: Today's interesting development2William Hyde
23 Jul 24 i `- Re: Today's interesting development1James Nicoll
23 Jul 24 `- Re: Today's interesting development1David Duffy

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