Path: utzoo!hoptoad!ihnp4!ptsfa!lll-tis!mcb
From: mcb@tis.llnl.gov (Michael C. Berch)
Newsgroups: alt.flame
Subject: Re: Theories and hoaxes
Message-ID: <21944@tis.llnl.gov>
Date: 1 Jan 88 00:31:17 GMT
References: <5909@jade.BERKELEY.EDU> <1842@chinet.UUCP> <1960@chinet.UUCP> <22138@ucbvax.BERKELEY.EDU>
Reply-To: mcb@tis.llnl.gov (Michael C. Berch)
Organization: Lawrence Livermore National Laboratory, Livermore CA
Lines: 24
Keywords: Mark Ethan Smith
Summary: "Can't work?"

In article <22138@ucbvax.BERKELEY.EDU> robinson@dewey.soe.berkeley.edu 
(Michael Robinson) writes:
> In article <1960@chinet.UUCP> rhonda@chinet.UUCP (Rhonda Scribner) writes:
> >
> >It's nice to know our public assistance money, intended to help people who
> >cannot otherwise help themselves, is being used by one such person to make
> >long distance calls to post to the net!  [etc. ...]
> 
> Mark is also a skilled and competent mechanic.  However, Mark can't work.
> When the Navy decided to get rid of Mark, they couldn't fire him for
> incompetence or poor job performance because they had been giving him 
> excellent job evaluations all along.  So they kept sending him to 
> psychiatrists until they got one to say that Mark was emotionally disabled 
> (whatever the hell that > means).  So the Navy was able to get rid of Mark, 
> but the government had to put him on social security for them to do it.

Huh? "Can't work"?  Since when is the Navy the exclusive employer of
mechanics?  I know (by anecdotal evidence of persons believed to me to be
truthful) that Mark Ethan Smith is "real", which was the original
disputation, but Mr. Robinson's defense does not seem to make sense.

Michael C. Berch 
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