"Mel's Hole"---any comments? Merely a hoax, or... (n/t)

[Westegg]

[Dookus]

1. I don't know Mel

so I can't qualify on his hole.

Do you have any other info on this?

[Westegg]

2. Yes. I do.

[Dookus]

3. well that's bound

to stimulate a fierce discussion.

[Westegg]

5. I'd like to say more, but I'm under surveillance...

Hey, I just realized that "surveillance" defies that old spelling rule "'i' before 'e' except after 'c'." Weird... OK, look: Mel's hole. Supposedly bottomless. There are men in black hats who don't want this info out there. I may have said too much already.

DON'T ANSWER THE DOOR.

[Misunderestimator]

9. You forgot part of the rule.... sounds of "a" as in neighbor and weigh

[Westegg]

10. Dammit! Nobody ever taught me that! Live and learn, eh? Thanks!

[SOteric]

4. Nope. No hoax. It's there.

[Westegg]

6. Perhaps you heard the follow-up to the original Mel's Hole episode...

...wherein the strange, otherwordly creatures were coming forth? It was riveting drama indeed and I much enjoyed it. But beyond that? No way. A case of gilding the lily, I think. In any case, true or not, it's a genius idea. I WANT to believe...

[THUNDER HANDS]

7. I've heard of it

Supposedly it's a bottomless pit of some sort. I forgot where though.

[The empressof all]

8. Eastern WA

And if you lean over far enough you'll hear the bowels of hell

[frylock]

11. nah .. that's the hole in siberia..

Mel claims he dropped a fridge down the hole on his property, and never heard it hit bottom.

[Westegg]

13. Also said he dropped a dead cow down there w/ the same result...

...He claims the Native Americans in the region had been disposing of things in the hole for---I dunno---centuries? And the hole never filled up.

[Westegg]

12. Cheney's "undisclosed location," in other words. Okay...

...it's ALL starting to make sense now.