Word: macke
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Dates: during 1990-1999
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...that causes a schedule delay of some sorts, hell, shorten that damn 162-game season. Siphon off any excess games to Philly's recreated Connie Mack Stadium (468 to center, over 400 in both of its alleys) or the Old Yankee stadium (a simply indecent 497 feet to straightaway center).Simmer for a few months, then serve. Rabbit ball THIS! [Wicked cackle heard in background...
...slowly become aware of his enigmatic memories, of otherworldly beings lurking in his life, of "strange coincidences" and time out of joint. What was happening? Who could tell him? Casting about for help, says the boyish Pennsylvania health-care worker, "I saw this article in the newspaper about Dr. Mack. And I thought if you can't trust a Harvard professor, who can you trust...
...John Mack is more than a Harvard professor; he is a respected author (his book on T.E. Lawrence, A Prince of Our Disorder, won the Pulitzer Prize in 1977), a psychiatrist who helped found the clinical psychiatry department at Cambridge Hospital and a noted scientific advocate of environmental and antiwar causes. Under Mack's hypnotic guidance, the young man "remembered" being abducted repeatedly by aliens, taken to a spaceship and having a probe inserted in his anus. He also recalled past lives, including one as a young Indian warrior called Panther-by-the-Creek, who died in battle. Even more...
...alien abductions are undeniably common. The aliens, according to his research, are particularly interested in why we humans are so full of hostility, when we have such "a nice planet." This leads Dartboard to pose a corollary question--if our planet in truly so "nice," why doesn't Dr. Mack join us here on its surface rather than dilly-dallying around Cloud Nine...
...insult to those of us who have forced over $80,000 for the honor of the Veritas stamp was compounded by the fact that Dr. Mack's particular appearance was calculated to give a veneer of respectability to tales of alien abduction. Alien abduction, the one canard of vacuous day-time info-tainment that not even its trailer-park-bound viewership beats with a straight face...