Relay-Version: version B 2.10 5/3/83; site utzoo.UUCP Posting-Version: version B 2.10.1 6/24/83 (MC840302); site ecrcvax.UUCP Path: utzoo!watmath!clyde!burl!ulysses!gamma!epsilon!zeta!sabre!petrus!bellcore!decvax!genrad!panda!talcott!harvard!seismo!mcvax!unido!ecrcvax!snoopy From: snoopy@ecrcvax.UUCP (Sebastian Schmitz) Newsgroups: net.sf-lovers Subject: Re: L. Ron Hubbard Message-ID: <141@ecrcvax.UUCP> Date: Tue, 3-Sep-85 13:43:29 EDT Article-I.D.: ecrcvax.141 Posted: Tue Sep 3 13:43:29 1985 Date-Received: Fri, 6-Sep-85 03:59:42 EDT Organization: ECRC, D-8000 Muenchen 81, W. Germany Lines: 43 Summary: Expires: References: Sender: Reply-To: snoopy@ecrcvax.UUCP (Sebastian Schmitz) Followup-To: net.sf-lovers Distribution: Organization: European Computer-Industry Research Centre, Munchen, W. Germany Keywords: Well. I read the following in a book by Isaac Asimov (one of his anthologies). Now I have gathered that the net is not very keen on Asimov in general, but this is a factual account. It transpires that Laffayette Ron Hubbard and Isaac Asimov, were both working with John W. Campbell (the editor czar). Apparently Isaac was waiting to be seen, when Laffy came storming out of Campbells office (he was angry because his story presumably got rejected) and raced out yelling: "One day I will invent a religion, and get amazingly rich and show you guys !!". So much for that. Perhaps we should ask Ron. But then he is sailing around the Mediteranean on his yacht, unable to take shore because there are several european police forces who would like a word with him for tax frauds amongst other things... But then he seems peanuts against the leader of the "Oregonian" Bhagwan sect, who wants to have a different Rolls Royce for every day of the year. He currently has about 40, I think. Folks, we are in the wrong business. You just don't make money the honest way... -- Love, Sebastian (Snoopy) "You haven't done it, till you've done it with pointers" \!mcvax\!unido\!ecrcvax\!snoopy /* N.B. valid csh address */