CDR: RE: Re: A very brief politcal rant

[Trei, Peter]

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> From: 	Alan Olsen[SMTP:alan at clueserver.org]
> Reply To: 	Alan Olsen
> Sent: 	Wednesday, November 08, 2000 9:22 PM
> To: 	cypherpunks at einstein.ssz.com
> Cc: 	cypherpunks at einstein.ssz.com
> Subject: 	CDR: Re: A very brief politcal rant
> 
> At 10:36 AM 11/8/00 -0500, brflgnk at cotse.com wrote:
> >If the citizens of Missouri chose to elect a deceased person as Senator,
> I 
> >think
> >that's exactly what they should get.  Leave the seat empty for two years.
> 
> Nah!  Just dig him up and wheel him to all the meetings. (I believe that 
> has been done at some British university. Not certain. Too much Ripley's 
> Believe It or Not as a kid...)
> 
Jeremy Bentham, spiritual founder of University College, University of
London.

http://www.ucl.ac.uk/Bentham-Project/jb.htm
for an image of the 'auto-icon' 
http://www.ucl.ac.uk/Bentham-Project/auto_il.gif

It turns out that the story that the his preserved body attends University
Council meetings (and is noted in the minutes as 'present, not voting')
is only a UL (university legend).

I got my degree at Kings College, University of London. Bentham was an 
atheist and the founder of Utilitarianism. King's was founded by a group
of religious Londoners appalled by the thought of godless UC, and even 
in the late 1970's there was still a distinct rivalry between the two
schools.

Periodically, students from UC would steal 'Reggie' a lifesize lion statue
which was King's mascot, and King's students would kidnap Jeremy's
head (which is separated from, but stored with, the rest of his body). 
Usually, the momentos would be ransomed after a few weeks, with the
money going to charity.

Peter Trei

PS: We covered all this in the list 5-6 years ago.