Past KOTM winner?

I keep seeing claims about a certain kook who won KOTM in March 1998,
but he has always denied it. There is a mention on a website & an
announcement in the archives, but there are other things too. It seems
like the archives are incomplete, and perhaps we will never have 100%
certainty. Looking at posts that were recently quoted & doing some
digging, I wonder if Tholen is correct - perhaps the honour did really
go to Strang.

One ballot for the March 1998 KOTM election -

http://groups-beta.google.com/group/...a?dmode=source

A list of past winners -

http://groups-beta.google.com/group/...3?dmode=source

A claim by Tim to have previously posted other results -

http://groups-beta.google.com/group/...d?dmode=source

Lest anyone get the wrong idea, I am not trying to cast doubt on this
award out of any notion that Tholen is not a kook. I would like to see
the questionable election overturned so that we could nominate him
again, but this time all would be done properly and documented properly
and there would not be any question that he really is KOTM.

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I keep seeing claims about a certain kook who won KOTM in
March 1998, but he has always denied it. There is a
mention on a website & an announcement in the archives,
but there are other things too. It seems like the
archives are incomplete, and perhaps we will never have
100% certainty. Looking at posts that were recently
quoted & doing some digging, I wonder if Tholen is
correct - perhaps the honour did really go to Strang.

One ballot for the March 1998 KOTM election -


http://groups-beta.google.com/group/...a?dmode=source

A list of past winners -


http://groups-beta.google.com/group/...3?dmode=source

A claim by Tim to have previously posted other results -


http://groups-beta.google.com/group/...d?dmode=source

Lest anyone get the wrong idea, I am not trying to cast
doubt on this award out of any notion that Tholen is not
a kook. I would like to see the questionable election
overturned so that we could nominate him again, but this
time all would be done properly and documented properly
and there would not be any question that he really is
KOTM.

Davie is documented as the March '98 KotM on insurgent.org.

http://www.insurgent.org/~kook-faq/whiners.html#kotm

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I keep seeing claims about a certain kook who won KOTM in March 1998,
but he has always denied it. There is a mention on a website & an
announcement in the archives, but there are other things too. It
seems like the archives are incomplete, and perhaps we will never have
100% certainty. Looking at posts that were recently quoted & doing
some digging, I wonder if Tholen is correct - perhaps the honour did
really go to Strang.

One ballot for the March 1998 KOTM election -

http://groups-beta.google.com/group/...517182003e785c
0a?dmode=source

A list of past winners -

http://groups-beta.google.com/group/...sg/fad7da93c90
655c3?dmode=source

A claim by Tim to have previously posted other results -

http://groups-beta.google.com/group/...7043f7755bb488
2d?dmode=source

Lest anyone get the wrong idea, I am not trying to cast doubt on this
award out of any notion that Tholen is not a kook. I would like to
see the questionable election overturned so that we could nominate him
again, but this time all would be done properly and documented
properly and there would not be any question that he really is KOTM.

That would be lending credibility to Tim 'Skidmark' Brown, who was KotM in
1997 (Dec), in his attempt to hijack the KotM process. In those days, we
(tinw) did not have as many awards and the process was not as carefully
documented as they are today. Besides, the Cabal (tinc) was celebrating
the demise of the Kook Kabal -- the numbers of passed out and sleeping
bodies at the newly opened COO headquarters (TINCOOH) were a shock to all
involved.

The election of Davie Tholen as Kook of the Month was legitimate and should
stand.

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On Thursday 14 April 2005, sock wrote in alt.usenet.kooks:

I keep seeing claims about a certain kook who won KOTM in March
1998, but he has always denied it.

Well, he would, wouldn't he?

There is a mention on a website

At least three websites, two of them maintained by Vote Wranglers.

& an announcement in the archives, but there are other things too.
It seems like the archives are incomplete, and perhaps we will never
have 100% certainty.

The only person who professes not to be 100% certain that Tholen won
KotM is Tholen himself.

Looking at posts that were recently quoted & doing some digging, I
wonder if Tholen is correct - perhaps the honour did really go to
Strang.

It must be a conspiracy!

One ballot for the March 1998 KOTM election -

http://groups-beta.google.com/group/...a?dmode=source

A list of past winners -

http://groups-beta.google.com/group/...3?dmode=source

A claim by Tim to have previously posted other results -

http://groups-beta.google.com/group/...d?dmode=source

What do klaims by kooks have to do with the facts?

Lest anyone get the wrong idea, I am not trying to cast doubt on
this award out of any notion that Tholen is not a kook. I would
like to see the questionable election overturned

There isn't anything questionable about it.

so that we could nominate him again,

You can't, since he's already won it once.

but this time all would be done properly and documented properly

It's already documented properly. See http://www.lart.com/,
http://www.plonk.com/ and http://www.insurgent.org/~kook-faq/.

and there would not be any question that he really is KOTM.

You're erroneously presupposing that there's any question about it.

Kook of the Month, March 1998 . . . . . . . . . Dave Tholen
Clueless Newbie of the Month, February 2003 . . Dave Tholen
Coward of the Month, March 2005 . . . . . . . . David Tholen
Goofy Azzed Babboon . . . . . . . . . . . . . . Dave Tholen
Kook Kard Deck, Five of Clubs . . . . . . . . . Dave Tholen

PJR :-)
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