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Thornley  Prankster or Manchurian Candidate?, Kerry Thornley
The Strange but True Story of Kerry Thornley  by Adam Gorightly
Kerry Thornley was born on April 17, 1938 in Los Angeles,
California. A friend who knew Thornley growing up once
characterized him as a “free thinking nerd.” An odd kid with odd
interests, Thornley made the acquaintance of Greg Hill at CalHi
School in East Whittier, with whom he soon discovered he shared
similar odd interests, including a fondness for “crackpot”
cults. One of their first outings together was a visit to one
such cult, a flying saucer group called Understanding.  The lads
also had a fondness for bowling alleys, and it was in one
particular bowling alley that they discovered—or created
(depending on your point of view)—the spoof religion,
Discordianism.  The Bible of Discordianism, titled The Principia
Discordia, was first published in the mid-60s and recounts a
revelation experienced by Thornley and Hill, which