psychoceramics: McElwaine et al

[acb @ cs.monash.edu.au (Andrew C. Bulhak)]

[Steve Lamont]
> 
> 
> > > > THIS IS AN ACCOUNT OF MY " WAR " WITH THE ROMAN CATHOLIC CHURCH,
> > > > WEALTHY JEWS AND THE UNITED STATES GOVERNMENT, WHICH HAS SILENTLY
> > > > BEEN RAGING, SINCE 1979, UNTIL OCTOBER 29-30, 1987, WHEN I FIRST
> > STARTED
> > > > TO WRITE IT. 
> > 
> > this, for some reason, reminds me of that other net.loon... uh...
> > what's-his-name... oh, yeah. Robert MacElwaine.  he used to type all in
> > caps, too.
> 
> ALL CAPS is a pretty good indication but actually Robert MacElwaine
> didn't type in ALL CAPS but SEEMINGLY randomly capitalized WORDS that
> emphasized IMPORTANT INFORMATION.  I used to have a FEW of his POSTS
> squirreled away but they DON'T seem to be AROUND anymore.  As I
> recall, he was something of a fan of a GENTLEMAN with the rather
> UNFORTUNATE name of Peter BETER (mentioned in I. Stang's _High
> Weirdness by Mail_).

McElwaine also used '$'s in lieu of 'S's in some words.  Grepping a 
directory of early McElwaine posts (the ones from Kibo's archive)
has this result:

/home/acb % grep -h '[A-Z]\$' txt/kooks/mcelwaine/* |sort |uniq
                                 CAU$E$ OF WAR$ 
                     MARK-OF-THE-BEA$T bar-code$/scanner$
               "Global 2000" is an international CON$PIRACY to WIPE-OUT 
               The numbers, etc., were INFLATED by the ZIONI$T$ as an 
               WAR$ AND ATROCITIES WILL CONTINUE as long as most people 
               What we have here is a gang of government PIG$ trying to 
          BEA$T", 666, ALREADY CODED INTO THEM.  Each of the so-called 
          BELONGED TO THE BANKER$ ALONE!  And the paper "currency" that 
          CHANGER$), for HIDDEN PURPOSES.  [This is ALSO true about 
          PIG$ will someday have to answer to Spiritual Law (Galatians 
          The ATF, FBI, DEA, CIA, and IRS GESTAPO PIG$ are a MUCH 
          VE$TED INTERE$T$.  The government is needed to intervene.  If 
          cooperating with the "MARK-OF-THE-BEA$T" bar-code, OCR-
          the "MARK OF THE BEA$T" so far, with the "NUMBER OF THE 
          were, the ATF PIG$ had NO BUSINESS assaulting them on Feb. 
          you play it backwards it tells you how BAR-CODE-SCANNER$ can
          zionist PIG$ from Israel are still doing it today!] 
     Some form of the "MARK OF THE BEA$T" is ALREADY required in order to check
Subject: "CAU$E$ OF WAR$" CENSORED
Subject: CAU$E$ OF WAR$
Subject: MARK-OF-THE-BEA$T bar-code$/scanner$

(Note that this misses words starting with '$'.)


Speaking of legendary kooks of yore, does anyone know if there are any
Gary Stollman rants anywhere on the web or FTP sites?

 -- acb