Something funny I read this week

Maybe not "haha" funny but more "huh, that's weird" funny. I was reading a book that made a passing reference to Kerry W. Thornley who, along with Gregory Hill, helped to establish a belief system or religious movement called "Discordianism." This counterculture-era religion was founded after the duo's publication of Principia Discordia. The book also heavily features in Robert Anton Wilson and Robert Shea's The Illuminatus! Trilogy, a psychedelic, conspiracy-laden, satirical romp. This book also helped popularize the nonsense word "fnord." All of that isn't too surprising, considering what happened in the 60s. What I did find interesting was this: I looked him up and found he was born on April 17, 1938. He enlisted and was called up for duty in 1958. In 1959 he served as a radar operator at Marine Corps Air Station El Toro in Santa Ana, California. While there, he met and befriended a young marine whom he shared common interests with. A while later, while reading a Stars and Stripe…