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From: jdnicoll@panix.com (James Nicoll)
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Subject: Re: Today's interesting development
Date: Tue, 23 Jul 2024 17:19:25 -0000 (UTC)
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In article <v7olas$dc9$1@reader1.panix.com>,
James Nicoll <jdnicoll@panix.com> wrote:
>In article <v7okdl$197vv$1@dont-email.me>,
>Ahasuerus  <ahasuerus@email.com> wrote:
>>On 7/22/2024 9:19 PM, James Nicoll wrote:
>>> In article <v7mr1t$s1a5$1@dont-email.me>,
>>> Ahasuerus  <ahasuerus@email.com> wrote:
>>>> On 7/22/2024 4:01 PM, James Nicoll wrote:
>>>>> Someone spent $19,000 dollars to stuff the Hugo Award ballot
>>>>> box in a way that seems either very, very ineptly or in a
>>>>> manner calculated to be spotted.
>>>>>
>>>>> https://glasgow2024.org/hugo-awards/statement-22-july-2024/
>>>>>
>>>>> Now, I do recall a case in the 1980s, I think, where an exuberant
>>>>> fan tried to buy a story he liked a Hugo, using consecutively
>>>>> numbered traveller's checks to buy memberships. So people do
>>>>> fuck up comprehensively. But it could also be someone really dislikes
>>>>> Finalist A and wanted to make them look bad.
>>>>
>>>> Or -- conceivably -- someone who dislikes the Hugo award as an institution.
>>> 
>>> What a half-assed attack, then.
>>
>>Perhaps it was more along the lines of George Bernard Shaw's dictum 
>>about wrestling with pigs:
>>
>>"You both get dirty and the pig likes it."
>>
>>Or "If we throw enough mud at the wall some of it will stick".
>>
>Just at this second, it looks like it might be SF's version of the
>Black Sox Scandal. 
>
Which is to say, some gambler dropped 20K trying to fix a contest on
which he was voting. 
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