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You know, I have been wondering about this for quite some time. Is Brett Gilliam's participation in US Navy experiments in 1971 the reason why the WKPP crowd call him a pot smoker? If so, it seems like a distortion of the facts. If you call him a fat slob, then listeners assume you mean he is overweight now. If you call him a pot smoker, then again, listeners assume now. But no one has come forward with any such evidence. If I were Brett, I would sue. On a possibly related topic, what is with George Irvine? First we get an unusual (to say the least) message that he would no longer be reading techdiver, but that messages could be relayed to him if sent to a particular address. Then someone asks why, only to be flamed by a WKPP'er for making fun of George's legal problems. But what are his legal problems? Then George starts posting under names like Kathy van Deusem Irvine <kirvine@sa*.ne*> and Ian Irvine <iirvine@sa*.ne*>. On the very first such post he makes a brave effort to assume the persona, but it breaks down by the end. So what could explain all this? The most common guess that I have heard is that he is being sued for slander, and/or libel. But who? Brett Gilliam is of course the obvious choice, especially when you see what he has on his web site about George. http://www.tdiusa.com/articles/fear.html. But this was such old hat. And why have none of the WKPP crowd let it slip - called Brett Gilliam a "fat pot smoking lawyer loving slob", perhaps. Another possibility is that George has taken his interest in law enforcement to the point of interference. My recollection is that George's silence started shortly after he had boasted of calling up some sheriff in the Mid-West, to claim that a diving death was in fact murder. A death with whose circumstances George had no personal familiarity. But I do not really see counsel advising not reading the techdiver list as a defense strategy. But the law in America always surprises me. And why would he start posting under transparently fake names? Perhaps because he cannot help himself, but then we are getting into a whole different kind of explanation. And what would that kind of explanation be? I assume Narcissistic Personality Disorder, http://www.mentalhealth.com/dx/fdx-pe07.html, but I am not a psychologist. A brief hospitalization would explain the absence from the list in which he could not even lurk It does not explain the George/Kathy/Ian shell game though. My initial guess was that George was having problems at Sears. Or rather, Morgan Stanley Dean Witter Reynolds, since Sears had just sold the financial services to Morgan Stanley. This incident started shortly after he started posting to techdiver from his Bloomberg terminal, i.e. at work. So this scenario would be that Sears notices how much e-mail George is doing on his Bloomberg, and realizes that he is not doing his work. Rather than canning him, he agrees not to participate in techdiver ... but sneaks back on, once he learns that they are not really watching carefully. So, any takers for any of these scenarios? Any facts to be added? E-mail to me directly if you want to remain anonymous, but remember to broadcast the flames. -- Wrolf Wrolf's Wreck: http://www.concentric.net/~Wrolf Wrolf's Net.Wreck: http://www.concentric.net/~Wrolf/netmgmt.shtml -- Send mail for the `techdiver' mailing list to `techdiver@aquanaut.com'. Send subscribe/unsubscribe requests to `techdiver-request@aquanaut.com'.
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