[UA] Occult Hoaxes (old thread with multiple titles--you all know what I'm talking about)

[Ysidro]

Cassady Toles wrote:
> 
> On Thu, 10 May 2001 16:47:45 -0400, ua at lists.uchicago.edu wrote:
> 
>   So there could be a real movie out there with the same plot, the same
>   title, and has the Naked Goddess staring?  Hell, I'll buy it right now!
> 
> Scripts don't usually specify the names of actors and actresses in them.
> That's the other issue.  You either need to choose a real time period,
> studio, and actors that were in it, or there's a good chance the hoax is
> seen through.  If you leave enough of those things sketchy, there's a chance
> that enough of it resembles something else, that something happens.
> 

You're right, of course.  I had forgotten the idea was "anyone have the
movie based on this script?" and not "anyone seen a weird porno with a
woman who's named was removed and *blah blah blah*".

> It doesn't matter, you're all probably right in that there is between
> nothing and very little that could happen to you if you started this hoax,
> but my question is why would you want to anyway.  What would you be hoping
> to accomplish?

To make the world a more exciting place?

There's a sense of power in creating a successful hoax.  Not that I
would know, never having perpetrated (although I probably have
perpetuated) a hoax.  Although if this one works it'll be real monkey
sugar, that's for sure.

Greg
-- 
Penn-Ohio Historical European Martial Arts Society
http://members.bellatlantic.net/~ysidro/pohemas.html

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