The gentleman in the picture was an elderly Brit who dressed up as ‘The Royal Town Crier’ and got himself photographed during all the hoopla at the birth of little Prince George. The pic went viral. Though he had no official standing, the Royal Couple graciously sent him a thank-you note.

(It is disturbing to know that my mind stores this kind of pop-culture trivia…probably because I scan the Daily Mail web-site…which this morning was featuring a very large spread on Karen de la Carriere.)

Dan Locke, Spot on! Back in the day if you were to query the AOLA/ASHO computerized Addo & Accounts, (before INCOMM) you’d see that a couple thousand people bought Ad course packages during that time (before the prices where climbing.) Those people then had to climb the bridge up to that point and purchase Preps & Elig in Pac at the higher rates. They then went to AO for 1-3 and spent a lot of $ at AO or FSO for IV-VII with a portion training at AOSH. That was the LARGEST group of people to go up the bridge. That is where the VAST majority of Whales we see today came from. I mapped this whole thing out for Guillaume at one point in time later but he couldn’t do anything about the insane pricing.

That grimacing character in red plaid just turned CLEAR! And he wants EVERYONE to know about. So, like a town crier, he’s out there beating the drums about how great it is to be Clear. Seems as obvious as the nose on your face.

It’s a pretty bold statement to say that the executive director of the Explorer’s Club, Mr. Will Roseman spoke so highly of LRH (notwithstanding…sorry, couldn’t resist…Ron’s accomplishments and association with the EC in the ’40s, but just given the toxic pr around his name nowadays.) I’m reminded of the recent ‘radio interview’ in Ireland. Complete, utter fabrication (I wonder what the BBC is up to about that right now, they seemed pretty pissed at the time.)

Whether Mr. Roseman said those things or not, the cof$ obviously threw a HELL OF A LOT of money at the EC for the dinner to even be held in the first place.

Oh, I never bought a seat. I only ever thought about doing so.

What puzzles me is, why do they want to build an LRH Hall when there was clearly supposed to be an auditorium in the SP building? Their stated reason, not the obvious, which is “to grab more money”. What happened to the auditorium? Was it never built?

The Sea Org workers would be forced to steal it since there is a shortage.

My thoughts exactly SadState.