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Imbroglio
Joined: 23 Jan 2003
Location: Behind the wheel of a large automobile
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 Posted: Fri Apr 14, 2006 4:05 am Post subject: I'm dying to know if anyone knows the back story on this |
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I know it's morbid. My curiosity was aroused about this about two years ago when I first heard about it browsing Thorn Tree.
It's all about an American who was either too stupid to cover himself, or was an elaborate troll.
He posted the following on Thorn Tree and I'm linking the rest of what he wrote to a blog that has the whole story (google search, 1st hit)
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| Be everything as it may, this transcontinental, international cyclotouriste is navigating to locate a good companion for an extended bicycling tour. Good is defined as---female, healthy, cyclist, with a sense of bold adventure, and the willingness to be compatable on an extended world tour with yours truly. |
Cycle Boy Goes Nutzoid (or, March of the Chickenshit Poltroons)
The only reason I bring it up here is because his CV mentioned in the blog says he taught in SK for a few years.
Theres a funny story behind this one and I want to hear it!!
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RACETRAITOR
Joined: 24 Oct 2005
Location: Seoul, South Korea
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| Posted: Fri Apr 14, 2006 5:09 am Post subject: Re: I'm dying to know if anyone knows the back story on this |
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I remember that guy. He was a serious nutbar. Apparently he wrote a huge epic story about how he predicted 9-11 and nobody would listen to his warnings. He even wrote out conversations he supposedly had with 911 operators, which would usually go something like this:
Operator: Hello, 911.
Psychlotouriste: I know something you don't know...
Operator: Like what?
Psychlotouriste: There's going to be a major terrorist attack.
Operator: Can you be more specific?
Psychlotouriste: Oh, you'll see.
Operator: Sir, it's an offense to prank call 911.
Psychlotouriste: Just you wait...
He had vivid recollections of telling people "Planes are going to crash into buildings!" and nobody ever really seemed to pay it much attention. I get the feeling he remembered things differently than they happened.
I'm looking for the site where he posted his ramblings. |
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RACETRAITOR
Joined: 24 Oct 2005
Location: Seoul, South Korea
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Imbroglio
Joined: 23 Jan 2003
Location: Behind the wheel of a large automobile
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| Posted: Fri Apr 14, 2006 7:23 am Post subject: |
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| Shouldn this fine specimin of a human being be in the hall of fame for Freakiest Waygooks thread, since he taught in SK?? |
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Porter_Goss
Joined: 26 Mar 2006
Location: The Wrong Side of Right
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| Posted: Fri Apr 14, 2006 7:48 am Post subject: |
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Myself: Okay then. Do you have any family or friends working in the World Trade Center or connected with it in any way that they might go there regularly.
Eva: No. No way. No connection at all.
Myself: Are you sure?
Eva: Yes.
Shooting the breeze continues and ends.
Years later I am in a foreign country. I write her a letter. I tell her I had known about those coming attacks in detail.
She writes back and says that that is crazy. She admonishes me for saying what I said in the letter. She states in writing that she lost friends in the WTC attack.
I wrote back to her reminding her of what I had told here when she was visiting, and that I had asked her about any connections she might have to the WTC, and that she said she had no connections there whatever.
She did not write back after that. |
Because you are a nut! |
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Imbroglio
Joined: 23 Jan 2003
Location: Behind the wheel of a large automobile
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| Posted: Fri Apr 14, 2006 8:44 am Post subject: |
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Attack Plans Detailed to Senior Professor.
Place: ELS Language Institute in Taegu, South Korea.
Time: Afternoon: Sometime in 1999-2000 is the best I can give you on this one.
On this occasion I just walked up and told this person what I thought I had learned from Saudi Arabia back in 1997. There were others in the office, but I addressed him personally, and asked him to remember what I was telling him later after that attacks were carried out.
The reason I told this particular person is that I had worked around him for a year and I was impressed with his knowledge. He has a sharp, retentive mind. I knew I could rely on his memory, and that is precisely why I told him what I did.
Below this sentence is an exact quote. It is a letter he wrote to me.
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Stacy Homer" Add to Address Book
To: [email protected]
Subject: good to hear from you
Date: Wed, 13 Oct 2004 05:15:32 +0000
Hi, John
This is Steve here at ELS Daegu. I am (for the time being, at least) Senior Teacher here at ELS - in Andrew's old job. But there have been a lot of reshufflings here lately and I may possibly move up to Seoul to work on the new textbook project. Yes, indeed - I vividly remember you describing likely plane attacks on the WTC back in 1999-2000. Another case of people not listening until it is too late, huh? I was in China over the Ch'useok holiday on a guided tour. Beijing was a nice place (cleaner than I expected it to be) but I don't think I would like dealing with the heavy air pollution.
I hope you and your family weathered the hurricanes OK. I heard two of the four made landfall around Stuart. Some of my relatives in St. Petersburg had fallen tree limbs and wet basements, but that was about it. Do you suppose the hurricanes took out any of those punch cards and voting booths?? Speaking of which, what do you think will happen after this election? Regardless of who wins, I think North Korea is going to flex some of its (possibly nuclear) muscle and rattle some cages here. The current President here, Roh Moo-Hyun, is a former card-carrying communist and depised by the older generation here. He is, on the other hand, the darling of the rich and pampered privileged young generation up in Seoul.
I have to run as I am still doing some teaching this month. Definitely keep me in the loop on what you are doing.
Have a great week,
Steve |
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flotsam
Joined: 28 Mar 2006
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More news...
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To nationalists fighting the colonial regime, the term justified the struggle as one of national identity. Then for decades afterwards, the term was used in Korea to stress the ethnic unity that tied South to North Korea.
Its use in Korean history textbooks, however, appears doomed. In a recent nod to the nation��s increasingly multiracial face, the Education Ministry announced that the term for racial purity could be taken to exclude the children of mixed parents living in Korea, and that it was considering mandating a revision of the nation��s textbooks.
Like many other words and phrases in the Korean language, danil minjok is being erased in favor of more inclusive and politically-correct language. As with any society in transition, Korea is becoming increasingly aware of how its language reinforces stereotypes and assumptions about people.
Only recently, however, have Korean scholars begun to consider language to be a mode of political expression. Nor have they seen language as a reflection of a social mindset, of which Korea��s is rapidly changing to include disadvantaged social groups. |
http://article.joins.com/article/article.asp?total_id=2265992
All hail the Word of the Ward. |
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