you can try to stop it but it keeps on coming

BBC Nationwide - June 12th, 1973

“It’s a strange mission indeed that’s brought the Reverend Donald Omand on a 700 mile journey from his West Country home to the shores of Loch Ness. But Dr. Omand, just retired as vicar of Chideock in Dorset, has an appointment with the monster. It’s a coming together that the seventy-one year old doctor of philosophy doesn’t expect Nessie to particularly enjoy - because Dr. Omand is here to get the monster to change its ways...”

In 1973, a man named the Reverend Doctor Donald Omand exorcised Nessie.

Okay some background.

Omand believed the following:

Nessie is an evil presence that induces the people of Scotland into black magic, divorce, and drink

It also puts them under the weather

There was a real Nessie once, who was a dragon, which is the devil

This Nessie is an apparition

He has previously exorcised this Nessie-entity from lakes in Sweden and Norway, where it takes the form of Storsjöodjuret and whatever Norway's lake monster is

Simple. Normal. Mundane. Omand did exorcise people, but predominately focused on exorcising locations of their bad vibes.

The townsfolk of Drumnadrochit disagree with the theory that Nessie may "do them a mischief"...

Nessie is the "kind, sweetest" monster - if it exists.

"I think they're under the weather when they see the monster."

"An English vicar been up today has exorcised the monster because he thinks it's having a very evil effect on the local community - driving them to drink."

*laugh* "Doesn't need a monster to do that!"

Omand says he would wait to see if his exorcism of Loch Ness was a success to do more exorcisms. Well it must have been, because in 1978 he exorcised the BERMUDA TRIANGLE by conducting equidistant exorcisms in Miami, Puerto Rico, and Bermuda itself.

Olivetti RST-300: A Beautiful Lie

I recently stumbled upon a fascinating article about the Olivetti RST-300, which supposedly was a yellow personal computer directed by Mario Bellini and unveiled in 1983.

The "il canarino digitale" (digital canary) featured such captivating details as a distinctive startup melody, the Steve Jobs story, and Klein blue prototypes. However, after searching the internet, I discovered that this machine never existed. While Olivetti did manufacture word processors in the 1980s, the RST-300 was never among them.

So it remains a wonderful fictional concept that never came to life.