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In article <3ot3qu$pqh@geraldo.cc.utexas.edu> bill@clyde.as.utexas.edu (William H. Jefferys) writes:
   In article <3ori0u$83o@cronkite.cisco.com>, Roger M. Wilcox <rogerw@cisco.com> wrote:
   #
   #(Seriously, there was one platygaeanist [flat-Earther] I read the ramblings of
   #some years back who claimed that the Earth was flat but SPACE in the vicinity
   #of Earth was so severely curved that it made the Earth appear spherical,
   #so that going around the world was actually an act of circumnavigating the
   #universe!  I think he got slashed on Occam's Razor pretty badly....)

   The only "platygaeanist" to have posted (and I think he
   coined the term) was an early troller named Bret Trolly, 
   I think.

Bret Joly (sp?), if I remember correctly.

	     He was a mathematician and made very sophisticated
   arguments like this one. But he was obviously pulling
   everyone's leg.

I think he went so far as to even state this explicitly at one point.
In any case, he was obviously not a believer in his own arguments.


		   As a troller, he was head and shoulders
   above any of the current crop. He kept this joke running
   for years.

His .sig featured the memorable quote: ``In your heart, you know it's
flat.''  So he was able to spread the gospel of platygaeanism wherever
he posted.

	      (He did this before the term 'trolling' had
   even been invented. A true pioneer.)

Yea, verily, there were giants on the net in those days.  Now ALL we
HAVE is various true-believer and propagandist dumbots WHO post and
rePOST the same drivel.  O tempora!  O mores!  O stercor!

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Bob Ingria
``As early as the beginning of 1703 Peter the Great had recovered from
  the shock of the disaster at Narva, and invaded Ingria.''
	--- James L. White, _The Origins of Modern Europe_