[UA] But that was in another country, and besides....

[Kevin Mowery]

-----Original Message-----
From: John C <john1x at hotmail.com>
To: ua at lists.uchicago.edu <ua at lists.uchicago.edu>
Date: Monday, April 17, 2000 4:10 PM
Subject: [UA] But that was in another country, and besides....

>Interesting story at Yahoo, about a man arrested for selling passports to
an
>imaginary country -- "Sealand".
>
>http://www.salon.com/travel/planet/2000/04/17/sealand/index.html
>
>This seems as though it may have UA applications, somehow.  Of course, my
>father has been doing this for years.  He never claimed that his country
was
>real, but he's been making stamps, passports, currency, maps, etc. for
>years.  Never thought of him as a potential  adept before, though.

    This sounds an awful lot like an idea Ken Hite had in his Suppressed
Transmission column on Sir John de Mandeville.  Life imitates High
Weirdness, I guess.

Kevin Mowery________________profbobo at io.com
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