Art Deco wrote in news:130420061914076154%art_deco@
127.0.0.1:

For:
* Endless lames of all manner
* High-fiving each other for laming abilities
* Welcoming and slurping award-winning kooks
* Desperation for any help in their titanic struggle against
the "coffee boys"
* Kooky pseudoscientific technobabble
* Remaining steadfast in said technobabble even after legion
errors are pointed out
* Abject ignorance about freshman and sophomore-level science
* Abject ignorance about their ignorance (metacognitive deficit)
* Blaming mainstream science and scientists for not promoting
their preconceived notions of how the universe should work
* Pounding square pegs into round holes
* Kooky saucerhead rescue religion
* Whining about off-topic posting while posting reams of dreck
of zero relation to astronomy
* Whining about most anything
* Endless chicken little clucking about impending doom due
to weather
* Endless threads titled: "More Troubling Planetary News"

I nominate the alt.astronomy saucerheads for Kook of the Month for
April 2006.

Any seconds?

Seconds.

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The evidence:

(~snip~ good evidence, & a.a.a-d because of feed rule)

I've already seen all of that. I spend a lot of time lurking the groups
when I'm on the job, but I can't post from work. The nightbat's
initiation of the disHonest John fr00tloop, who probably knows
absolutely zilch about Astronomy, is what did it for me.