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From: Robert Carnegie <rja.carnegie@gmail.com>
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Subject: Re: Today's interesting development
Date: Fri, 26 Jul 2024 22:19:20 +0100
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On 23/07/2024 18:19, James Nicoll wrote:
> 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.

And/or betting?