[dfwgator]

You just know L Ron Hubbard just had to be thinking to himself, "these suckers actually bought it?!?"

[timtoews5292004]

Hubbards been dead for a while, but when he was alive he was famously quoted as saying "the quickest way for someone to get rich would be to start your own religion."

[Ignatius J Reilly]

I have heard the whole thing started as a bet with Asimov that he could start a religion - and he did.

[Darkwolf377]

Harlan Ellison once wrote that from his limited friendship with Hubbard (they exchanged mostly cards and phone calls) he thought Hubbard never fully believed in his religion, but "knew a good thing when he saw it". He said Hubbard was a decent guy who didn't actually believe the mythology per se but thought the methods worked to help people, whatever their basis. He also suggested Hubbard thought his followers were a bit wacked, and that Hubbard's inner circle may have been a lot more manipulative than Hubbard himself.

And I still think Jenna Elfman is NOT a hottie--too ditzy, too many teeth. She's blonde and skinny--is that all it takes for someone to be considered hot? (Sarah Jessica Parker, for example--blech!)