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    Edgar Allan Poe's Own Balloon Hoax May Have Inspired Jules Verne

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    Image of Klebert L. Hall Klebert L. Hall
    10/21/09

    In reply to Edgar Allan Poe's Own Balloon Hoax May Have Inspired Jules Verne
    "Many were shocked when it was revealed that Falcon Heene's fictitious balloon ride was nothing more than a fame-grabbing hoax"

    Many? Really?
    -Kle. #edgarallanpoe
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    10/21/09

    In reply to Edgar Allan Poe's Own Balloon Hoax May Have Inspired Jules Verne
    i also read all the poe stuff and the verne stuff when i was younger.
    poe did write some interesting stories. #edgarallanpoe
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    Image of Grey_Area Grey_Area
    10/20/09

    In reply to Edgar Allan Poe's Own Balloon Hoax May Have Inspired Jules Verne
    Great post, Lauren, typo (FIXED already!) be damned. It's great that you connected this to the recent Balloon Boy scandal.

    The original Poe articles in The New York Sun probably suckered in more folks than Orson Welles' infamous War of the Worlds broadcast and were certainly an influence in the development of what would become Science Fiction.

    We should note that the fictional balloonist was based on the very real aeronautical pioneer Thomas Monck Mason. Also, that The Sun ran another notorious, but less believable hoax about life on the Moon back in 1835. [en.wikipedia.org]
    Aaaah, journalisim!
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    Image of tammygarrison tammygarrison
    10/20/09

    In reply to Edgar Allan Poe's Own Balloon Hoax May Have Inspired Jules Verne
    Man, I love typos. This one's almost a Choose Your Own Adventure. Is Poe in the future, or is HG Wells involved? Or is Jules Vern off having Secret Adventures... #edgarallanpoe
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    Image of theDreamscapist theDreamscapist
    10/20/09

    In reply to Edgar Allan Poe's Own Balloon Hoax May Have Inspired Jules Verne
    [www.harkavagrant.com] #edgarallanpoe
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    Image of 92BuickLeSabre 92BuickLeSabre
    10/20/09

    In reply to Edgar Allan Poe's Own Balloon Hoax May Have Inspired Jules Verne
    I feel certain the author must actually mean 1944 BCE!

    1944 would have been pretty diificult since everyone knows Poe wrote exclusively in cuneiform. #edgarallanpoe
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    10/20/09

    For the record, this was a highly enjoyable post. Asshat comments aside. #edgarallanpoe
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    Image of jamesryan jamesryan
    10/20/09

    In reply to Edgar Allan Poe's Own Balloon Hoax May Have Inspired Jules Verne
    Maybe it was supposed to be 1944; the typo's in the other author. It was actually H. G. Wells who gets influenced by Poe's ability to travel 100 years into the future, thus writing THE TIME MACHINE.

    Think about it: The Morlocks could just as easily have appeared in a Poe work, perhaps the extended cousins in the Usher family, and Weena bears more than a passing resemblence to Annabel Lee... #edgarallanpoe
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    10/20/09

    In reply to Edgar Allan Poe's Own Balloon Hoax May Have Inspired Jules Verne
    It is in fact not a typo. Though Poe "died" in 1849 it certainly was not his last death. #edgarallanpoe
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    Image of 92BuickLeSabre 92BuickLeSabre
    10/20/09

    In reply to Edgar Allan Poe's Own Balloon Hoax May Have Inspired Jules Verne
    tj

    I need an example of four different people using four different ways to say the exact same thing one right after the other for a class I'm teaching on insanity. Any suggestions?

    /tj #edgarallanpoe
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    Image of TheTheTheTheWhat TheTheTheTheWhat
    10/20/09

    In reply to Edgar Allan Poe's Own Balloon Hoax May Have Inspired Jules Verne

    [www.harkavagrant.com]

    I'm sorry, I had to. #edgarallanpoe
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    Image of bookling bookling
    10/20/09

    @TheTheTheTheWhat: Oh my god, brilliant. :D #edgarallanpoe
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    Image of Grey_Area Grey_Area
    10/20/09

    @TheTheTheTheWhat: That was soooo sweet. #edgarallanpoe
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    Image of Sabbatai Sabbatai
    07/21/09

    In reply to British Schoolchildren Traumatized by Fake Alien Invasion
    So one day I am in school... high school and I am slightly inebriated (read: very fuxed up) sitting on the sidewalk outside of the cafeteria when a van pulls up.

    The door opens and a giant mouth, a guy with a neck the length of your arm and some other creature I don't recall jump out.

    The mouth eats my backpack and I all my teachers and the administration are pointing at me and laughing.

    Then to make me feel better my friend who is completely sober tells me "Don't worry they are real, I see them too."

    It didn't make me feel better....

    We have this thing called "First Night" here in Annapolis MD that happens every New Year's Eve. People dress up in costume, get drunk and so forth.

    This was all done in secrecy with no advance warning that crazy goblins would be coming to visit us.
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    Image of CoffinDodger (If the typos crap. Blame my keyboard) CoffinDodger (If the typos crap. Blame my keyboard)
    07/21/09

    In reply to British Schoolchildren Traumatized by Fake Alien Invasion
    I remember reading in the news about a guy in the UK who got slightly sloshed. And watched an Independance Day fake broadcast on BBC2. He panicked, grabed his wife and kids and made his way down into the basement. He stayed there for a week until other family members got concerned and called the police. They found the family huddled in a corner of the basement!! What a cock!
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    Image of Dr Emilio Lizardo Dr Emilio Lizardo
    07/21/09

    In reply to British Schoolchildren Traumatized by Fake Alien Invasion
    Maybe the kids could get back at them if they all stop dead in their tracks at the exact same moment and start speaking in unison.
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    Image of RandomFrequentFlierDent RandomFrequentFlierDent
    07/21/09

    In reply to British Schoolchildren Traumatized by Fake Alien Invasion
    Didn't the same thing happen during Orson Wells' broadcast of The War of the Worlds, except in America and with over a million adults?
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    Image of MonkeyT MonkeyT
    07/21/09

    @RandomFrequentFlierDent: My grandmother heard that broadcast. She didn't panic. She loaded her shotgun and sat on the porch waiting for them.
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    07/21/09

    @MonkeyT: This world needs more people like your grandmother.
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    Image of LiC LiC
    07/21/09

    @MonkeyT: I need to hear more stories about grandmas, alien invasions, and loaded shotguns.
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    Image of Evil Tortie's Mom: R.O.A.C.H. Evil Tortie's Mom: R.O.A.C.H.
    07/21/09

    @MonkeyT: My grandparents heard that broadcast too. Including the disclaimer. Plus, grandpa read the original book.
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    Image of Grey_Area Grey_Area
    07/21/09

    In reply to British Schoolchildren Traumatized by Fake Alien Invasion
    Of course next week the school will catch fire. Alarms will go off and the teachers will be yelling, "Everybody queue up and walk out to the yard. there's no need to panic..."

    Only to face roomfuls of little crossed arms and icy stares. "Yeah right. Like we're really gonna fall for this shite twice."
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    Image of Evil Tortie's Mom: R.O.A.C.H. Evil Tortie's Mom: R.O.A.C.H.
    07/21/09

    @Grey_Area: "Pull the other one, it's got bells on it. Alien bells, oo-er."
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