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From: Hog on 4 Aug 2010 09:01
Grimly Curmudgeon wrote:
> We were somewhere around Barstow, on the edge of the desert, when the
> drugs began to take hold. I remember "Hog"
> <sm911SPAM(a)CHIPShotmail.co.uk> saying something like:
>
>> John Frum
>> http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/John_Frum
>>
>> and
>>
>> Cargo Cults
>> http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Cargo_cult
>
> Strange stuff, indeed.
> http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Prince_Philip_Movement

What makes that even funnier is the disdain with which Phil the Greek would
regard said natives and what he might call them.

I suppose Gods are meant to be haughty and aloof

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Hog


From: darsy on 4 Aug 2010 16:49
On Aug 4, 12:54 pm, "Hog" <sm911S...(a)CHIPShotmail.co.uk> wrote:
> John Frumhttp://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/John_Frum
>
> and
>
> Cargo Cultshttp://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Cargo_cult
>
> Is it just me that finds all that deeply strange and amusing?  The history
> of Vanuatu I just read isn't far behind. Coconut War indeed!

is this stuff really new to you?

if you think this is weird, google something like Timecube or anything
by Alex Chiu.

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d.
From: zymurgy on 4 Aug 2010 18:13
On 4 Aug, 13:55, Grimly Curmudgeon <grimly4REM...(a)REMOVEgmail.com>
wrote:
> "Hog" writ
>
> >Cargo Cults
> >http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Cargo_cult
>
> Strange stuff, indeed.http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Prince_Philip_Movement

Bloody Indians ..

Paul.
From: ogden on 4 Aug 2010 20:05
darsy wrote:
> On Aug 4, 12:54 pm, "Hog" <sm911S...(a)CHIPShotmail.co.uk> wrote:
> > John Frumhttp://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/John_Frum
> >
> > and
> >
> > Cargo Cultshttp://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Cargo_cult
> >
> > Is it just me that finds all that deeply strange and amusing?  The history
> > of Vanuatu I just read isn't far behind. Coconut War indeed!
>
> is this stuff really new to you?
>
> if you think this is weird, google something like Timecube or anything
> by Alex Chiu.

Immortality rings are so ten years ago.

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From: darsy on 5 Aug 2010 04:44
ogden wrote:
> darsy wrote:
> > if you think this is weird, google something like Timecube or anything
> > by Alex Chiu.
>
> Immortality rings are so ten years ago.

yeah - I know - my point was the the concept of "Cargo Cults" is
hardly new, and made into mainstream cultural awareness a long time
ago - there was even a '90s episode of "The Simpsons" based on the
premise.

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d.
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