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| Reply To: | "Let us not speak foul in folly!" - ][<en Phollit |
| Date: | Sun, 16 Mar 2003 20:40:13 -0800 |
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Ken, I take EVERYTHING on this list with a grain of salt. Ruth
At 12:13 PM -0500 3/16/03, Ken Follett wrote:
>> OK you young whippersnappers, what is the "Merry Prankster Bus," who is
>>Ken Kesey and why would the Smithsonian want his old heap anyway?
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>Ruth,
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>I am not the real Ken Follett, my name is Jeff Kesey. Ken was my little
>brother. Ken wrote a book about some insane people that were running a
>mental hospital in Oregon and he got famous when Jack Nicholson broke out
>of the place and rode around the countryside in a brightly painted church
>bus while acting like a monkee's rump. Rudad knows all about this because
>he was there. The Smithsonian is short on church buses. Ken got all of his
>story material from working in a mental hospital where as an experiment
>they fed him large quantities of psychotropic drugs like LSD and Minwax
>floor polish. The last time I saw Ken he was in a casket because he was
>dead. All the money he got from his book he spent on an Albino goat farm
>and making yogurt. He was really big on pure-white yogurt and when he died
>he was a fat slob. They had to pump his stomach before he could be
>intered. Ken had a tendency of pissing off flower children who would come
>to visit. They would camp out in his front yard for months and months. He
>took to shooting at them with turkey shot. After his first book he wrote a
>second book, *Sometimes a Great Notion*, it was a direct rip-off of my
>novella *Sometimes a Great Lotion.* We never spoke to each other ever
>again after that and I did not read his third book that I've heard second
>hand is about women sleeping with sailors.
>
>For further details read *The Electric Kool-Aid Acid Test* by Tom Wolfe.
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>][<en (if you believe any of this then please forgive me)
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