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Bcordb3
| | Posted on Friday, April 08, 2005 - 12:00 pm: | 
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Ah yes, L. Ron Hubbard. Years ago I read (in Time magazine) that Hubbard was speaking at a science fiction writers convention. In his speech he told his fellow writers that they were all writing for peanuts, the real way to make money was to start their own religion. |
Got1nut
| | Posted on Friday, April 08, 2005 - 12:08 pm: |
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I passed. Im not crazy. Now i get the good ol finger up the butt and the doc gets a handful of nuts. Cant wait for this. |
Josh_
| | Posted on Friday, April 08, 2005 - 12:15 pm: |
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Hubbard was a great Sci-Fi writer.
And wackko.
"Your mother was a hamster and your father smelt of elderberries"
"Now go away or I will taunt you for a second time"
"Perhaps we could build a rather large Badger" |
Glitch
| | Posted on Friday, April 08, 2005 - 12:23 pm: |
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It's not a question of where he grips it! It's a simple question of weight ratios! |
Ted
| | Posted on Friday, April 08, 2005 - 12:35 pm: |
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wow there's still alot of Python geeks around.
I used to be a Python geek, now i'm a Simpsons geek.
'I phart in your general direction' |
Glitch
| | Posted on Friday, April 08, 2005 - 12:52 pm: |
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Whodom
| | Posted on Friday, April 08, 2005 - 01:28 pm: |
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Josh- IMHO, Hubbard was a great sci fi writer from ~1930 to ~1950; his later stuff was pretty mediocre. We both agree he was a wacko.
I read two books from VERY different angles with pretty much the same opinion of Hubbard. One is "Kingdom of the Cults" and it goes into detail about some of Scientology's lesser-known completely-off-the-deep-end beliefs (i.e.- clams, etc.). The other book was a history of science fiction by Lester Del Ray who was a contemporary of Hubbard's, writing sci fi in the early days (30's, 40's, 50's). He told how Hubbard started delving into stories about ESP and that sort of thing. John W. Campbell was a writer, publisher and editor who published many of their stories during that time. Del Ray said Campbell really liked the ESP angled stories Hubbard wrote and encouraged him to write more. Eventually, Hubbard started claiming these stories were based on fact (which Del Ray, knowing Hubbard quite well, found completely preposterous) and soon after he founded the COS. |
Whodom
| | Posted on Friday, April 08, 2005 - 01:29 pm: |
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Ted, I am proud to say my 12 year old son has been raised in the ways of Python and is quite the Python geek himself.
"But she's got HUGE tracts of land!" |
Firemanjim
| | Posted on Friday, April 08, 2005 - 02:00 pm: |
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Hubbard,sci-fi writer,NO,
Jerry Pournelle,scifi writer extrordinaire.
Read all of his stuff.
Used to read Lester Del Rey back in the 60's.He had alot in the Ace double books.
John Campbell was the editor of a bunch of the Scifi monthly mags back then,also.Analog, I think. |
Blackbelt
| | Posted on Friday, April 08, 2005 - 02:18 pm: |
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MONTY PYTHON's FLYING CIRCUS!!!!!
MY BRAIN HURTS!!!
HELLO PARROT!
And now for something completely different.... |
Whodom
| | Posted on Friday, April 08, 2005 - 02:23 pm: |
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"If I went 'round claiming I was an emperor just because some moistened bink had lobbed a scimitar at me, they'd put me away!" |
Whodom
| | Posted on Friday, April 08, 2005 - 02:24 pm: |
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Jim- Cool! You and I have probably read a lot of the same stuff. |
Josh_
| | Posted on Friday, April 08, 2005 - 02:29 pm: |
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I have all of Heinlein and a small portion of Asimov, plus Norton (RIP), Lovecraft, Bradbury (even met him), Alfred Bester ... and about 900 other SciFi books, 18 years of Asimov's SciFi mag ... Previous license plates have included "Dr Who" "Asimov" and "ANSWR 42" heh heh not that I'm a geek or anything.
If you read nothing else from Hubbard, read the Mission Earth books (1-10). They're huge but go by pretty fast. |
Firemanjim
| | Posted on Friday, April 08, 2005 - 02:36 pm: |
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My mom started me off with her Heinlien collection about 40 years ago.She had all of the old standbys--Asimoc,A.C.Clarke,Simak,Heinlien,etc.I went through all of Edgar Rice Burroughs,Robert E.Howard,Verne,probably everything Andre Norton wrote,etc.I just ended up giving my nephews about 500 books and selling about 1000 more as my attic was groaning under the weight.Kept a bunch of the classics.
(Message edited by firemanjim on April 08, 2005) |
Josh_
| | Posted on Friday, April 08, 2005 - 02:47 pm: |
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ahhh! let me know next time, I'll make a trip. |
Got1nut
| | Posted on Friday, April 08, 2005 - 05:56 pm: |
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hijacked  |
Firemanjim
| | Posted on Friday, April 08, 2005 - 09:26 pm: |
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Sorry,must have been one of my other personalities horning in again--is that back on the psyc thread???
(Message edited by firemanjim on April 08, 2005) |
Moxnix
| | Posted on Friday, April 08, 2005 - 10:28 pm: |
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I used to live next door to a guy who claimed to have operated L. Ron Hubbard's body in his past.
www.xs4all.nl/~fishman/fable.htm
Whaddabunchanuts. And dangerous, to boot. Probably didn't like motorcycles, either.
The above site operates out of Holland to avoid Scientology lawsuits. |
Aesquire
| | Posted on Friday, April 08, 2005 - 11:00 pm: |
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I thought Travolta's version of "Battlefield Earth" was better than the book. This makes it quite unusual in the movie universe. ( movie was horrible, but I stand by my opinion )
Grew up with Norton, Heinlein, etc. Now into Weber, Drake, Ringo etc. Niven & Pournelle still at it. I must get the new book.
"When danger reared it's ugly head, Brave Sir Robin turned & fled......" |
Bbstacker
| | Posted on Friday, April 08, 2005 - 11:41 pm: |
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I'm a Simpsons geek too. It only extends to trivia, though. I don't get into tripe about who was wearing what in which episode.
But I cannot altogether forsake the Python.
Nobody expects the Spanish Inquisition. |
Sportsman
| | Posted on Saturday, April 09, 2005 - 12:12 am: |
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Congrads Got1, the geeks got going and can't stop and deal with reality.(reality is no fun) Are you sure you really want to do this? If so, just don't let your power be abused. "The color of justice is green", don't get sucked in, best of luck. |
Captainkirk
| | Posted on Saturday, April 09, 2005 - 12:17 am: |
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Dinsdale????Dinsdale!!!!!!!
Tennis, anyone? |
Glitch
| | Posted on Saturday, April 09, 2005 - 07:26 am: |
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Ant's don't like condiments. |
Rek
| | Posted on Saturday, April 09, 2005 - 08:13 am: |
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Everyone seems to have forgot Terry Pratchet. SF/comedy at its finest.
Rob |
U4euh
| | Posted on Sunday, April 10, 2005 - 11:33 pm: |
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Got1-just make sure he doesn't have a hand on each...you know the rest!!
Congrats!! Think you can convince them to let you patrol on a Buell?!! |
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