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In Reply to: RE: One need not be physically threatening to get banned. Mere heterodox views will suffice. Exhibit A: posted by regmac on March 13, 2023 at 13:48:49
My favorite banned person was Wellfed, the subject of the Amazing Randi Million Dollar Challenge for the Intelligent Chip, which was the subject of many months' debate right here on General 2095.The main Randi Educational Foundation interface with Wellded was Kramer, formerly of Butthole Surfers. Eventually negotiations broke down and Wellfed withdrew. But I digress. What Wellfed was banned for, as far as I can tell, was a series of responses in the form of questionable photos to some of his detractors here, and finally there was one photo that broke the camel's back, a photo in rather questionable taste of some bearded guy in a tutu. Some of the photos may still be in the archive, I'll have to check. Clark's demise was more or less by mutual agreement as I recall. They both had long and illustrious runs here.
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kind of crush on you?
He did resort to immature grade school photo replies eventually.
"Once this was all Black Plasma and Imagination" -Michael McClure
I think the word you're looking for is shill.
Without proper promotion something terrible happens. Nothing.
I don't recall Wellfed. But I do recall the drubbing Jim Austin took over his dismissal of the IC without bothering to try it. Charles Hansen and John Curl were especially harsh.
Jim Austin assumed since he had a PhD he MUST know all about quantum physics, that it couldn't possibly work. That's what happens when it gets Piled Higher and Deeper. Even Clark's buddy Dr. Gow poo-poo'd my quantum explanation. Henk and his wife got it, though. I demo'd the Chip for Curl and Crump in the Soundlab room 2005 and they both said heard it right away, but years later under some pressure Curl folded and claimed he might have been tricked. LolAfter Wellfed dropped out of the Amazing Randi Million Dollar Challenge mostly because they required ten consecutive correct guesses under very controlled blind conditions on a system of THEIR choosing.
Weirdly, a little later your humble scribe became the target of The Amazing Randi due to the "paranormal" aspect of the Intelligent Chip, but also the clever clock. One assumes The Amazing Randi had tired of going after dowsers and spoon benders. Later on he went after Michael Fremer and attempted to get him involved in a cable Million Dollar Challenge. One of Randi's goons at the "Educational Foundation" threatened to kick my ass if I came down to the Randi retreat down in the Caribbean somewhere on Randi's yacht.
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All in great fun of course. :-) Jim Austin came out swinging with a SECOND diatribe against the poor little misunderstood Intelligent Chip. Wellfed coined the phrase, been Machina Dynamized. He also coined the phrase, Science Friction. Mr. Chip eventually found its way into the hands of reviewers Henk and his wife in Amsterdam I think it was, can't recall what mag they were reviewers for.
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