[UA] Pop Culture Update

[Greg Stolze]

>Some people? How about a majority of people, especially if the person
>presenting the information has the 'look' of an expert. Reference
>Milgram's experiments.
>
>At 12:01 PM 5/8/02, you wrote:
>>----- Original Message -----
>>From: "Michael Dinowitz" <mdinowit at i-2000.com>
>>
>>> Due to the flow of information, this will eventually end up in a non-RPG
>>book or in someones head and just flow and grow from there. Actually, I
>>expect material from UA to end up in a non-RPG book in the next 2 years.
>>
>>That just goes to prove how ignorant some people really are.
>>
>>A good friend of mine cited the Dr. John Dee version of the Necronomicon as
>>a reference in a University-level English essay (as a joke), and nobody
>>noticed that the reference was complete and utter crap.

Well now, to be fair, it's not terribly realistic to expect college English
professors to be familiar with something as obscure and (to most people)
uninteresting as the intersection between fantastic fiction and occult
trivia.

I knew a guy who used to put a fake book by "Edmund C. Scott" in every
bibliography when he was in high school.  If I recall correctly, he got
away with "Edith Wharton: Man or Myth?" but was called out on "Great
Recipies of the Bible."

-G.

As it turns out, my memory is far less detail-oriented than my imagination.

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