[meteorite-list] Re: UFO Commentary is Nicht Verboten

From: Dave Mouat <dmouat_at_meteoritecentral.com>
Date: Thu Apr 22 10:08:31 2004
Message-ID: <3D912C5A.5DA6D6EA_at_dri.edu>

A Class Act
(and from a non-UFOaphile)
Dave

EL Jones wrote:

> In all sincerity, I humbly and rightly stand corrected. In retrospect
> it is probably the Meteor Observers group which had that restriction....
> My Bad.... Thank you for the kind chastisement. I'll endeavor to
> rely more on my archive text than faulty memories of flame wars past. I
> remembered the administrator's admonishment but it was the wrong
> administrator. UFO subject matter hadn't appeared on this list in so
> long I confused the list I was addressing. The aforementioned,
> imaginary, list policy has been discredited and removed from the head of
> the undersigned. My emotional maturity had nothing to do with any
> opinion over the existence of alien life nor its discussion here at
> Meteorite Central. To prove it, I ask forgiveness of anyone who thought
> I was intruding in list policy, it was done so in error.
>
> Public apologies to Rosemary; whom I've have already apologized to in
> private and asked to reconsider her decision to leave, and the list at
> large, to Michael, and the Association and the Academy (of Science)
> etc. , and anyone else who was offended my my error. For the record I
> tried to make it clear that it wasn't a dig at Rosemary and wasn't
> meant to hurt anyone's feelings. It was not intended to suppress
> legitimate historical or mythical interpretations of the event in question.
>
> On a more humorous tone, I stand aside. Let the close encounter
> accounts begin. Because this is an open topic let me be the first: I
> have some un-identifiable material, of unearthly origin,analyzed, by an
> unknown but reputable lab"- that was recovered from BOTH an undisclosed
> location near both "Area 51" AND the Roswell Crash Site (sic)( Yeah I
> know, one is in Nevada and the other is in New Mexico but what's a
> little 800 mile strewn field discrepancy for something this important)
> which was extracted from crash site debris by an un-known top secret
> government scientist and given to a un-known brother to smuggle to an
> un-known mother of an un-known friend who sold it from an un-known
> Souvenir stand at Burning Man--to another personally known friend who
> showed it to me because I was interested in meteorites (<-meteorite
> related) And gee...I missidentified it as a melted melted 7-UP bottle
> enclosed in a melted Clorox bottle... So not the first blunder I've
> made. With provinance like we have I don't know why I don't already
> have it on Ebay or turned over to the National Enquirer.
>
> Back to my corner for my nightly self flagulation,
> Elton
>
> Michael L Blood wrote:
>
> > Hi El & all,
> > I do not have any idea where you came up with your statement,
> > "I remind the list that "UFO" machinations are one of the specific
> > topics forbidden here." (cited in full context below), but I am afraid
> > you are badly misinformed as to the actual list policies. Following are
> > the list policies: <clip>
> >
> >
>
> Not "badly" I only missed one out of 9 or 10 ....ej
>
> > The above list is directly taken from Meteorite Central. Any other
> > "List Policies" exist only in the heads of people who have no say in
> > actual
> > list policies.
> > Sincerely, Michael Blood
>
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Received on Tue 24 Sep 2002 11:24:10 PM PDT


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