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Traveler Editor Kurt Repanshek Spurns Pulitzer, Goes into Hiding

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April 1, 2009

Have you seen Kurt Repanshek? We need to talk to him.

This just in.

After being officially informed that he is a finalist for this year’s Pulitzer Prize for Editorial Writing, National Parks Traveler editor Kurt Repanshek shocked the Pulitzer committee by requesting that his name be immediately withdrawn from the competition.

Sources close to the Pulitzer committee have confided that Repanshek, who seemed “very agitated,” has admitted that nearly all of his published works in Traveler were either plagiarized or ghost written by Jim Burnett.

Repanshek has gone into hiding. He was last seen in the Virgin Islands in the company of a gorgeous babe that he claims to be his wife.

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Comments

Submitted by admin on April 1, 2009 - 8:20am.

you actually got me with that, I googled to find more info and then realized...


Submitted by DOCREP on April 1, 2009 - 8:28am.

I would look under a large piece of coral around Buck Island ;-)) OMAR


Submitted by Kirby Adams on April 1, 2009 - 8:42am.

I was just in Olympic National Park and spotted a guy that looked like that. He was riding a mountain bike off trail through Douglas-fir saplings with an AK-47 strapped to his back....


Submitted by Bob Janiskee on April 1, 2009 - 8:48am.

Could be him, I suppose. Tell me, was this guy constantly banging into trees and falling off his bike? Did he seem hopelessly lost?


Submitted by admin on April 1, 2009 - 12:24pm.

I hope they are mixing their side action with beautiful wildlife. That is my kind of April Fool's Day:).


Submitted by admin on April 1, 2009 - 12:48pm.

I could have sworn that was him I just saw careening around a new ATV trail in Great Smoky with a concealed weapon and a 'just say no to the plovers of Cape Hatteras' sign....


Submitted by Bob M on April 1, 2009 - 2:15pm.

A very large piece of coral placed on him by his wife just to make sure he doesn't surface to soon.


Submitted by Craig W. on April 1, 2009 - 4:05pm.

LOL!


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