Posted on 07/15/2009 4:00:47 PM PDT by Little Bill
Post your memories of Jim Thompson here for all eternity.
I remember ole Jim. He had Osama Bin Laden chained up in his basement with a goat and he used to let that old billy goat have his way with osama and he charged admission so others could watch.
JT is a hottie!
I gotta step into the shower. Can someone keep me posted.
JimThom and I have been friends going back to when he worked as a Slurpee Jerk at the Dubuque 7-11 in Iowa. We spent many an hour discussing racist politics and trying to figure out our favorite Slurpee flavor combinations. It was the best of times, it was....oh well...it just was.....
Perhaps we should also have one for David Howowitz, that consumer advocate who wrote Radical Son?
I saw Jim Thompson kick the DaiklyKook founder Markos Zuniga in the balls once. Apparently it didn’t affect markos because he had no balls.
Lately, he just hasn’t been the Jim Thompson I knew.....
I'm writing him in next time!
I met Jim Thompson once. He was a spare man; that is, there were eight men threshing the dill-weed, and Jim (JayTee, he said his name was) was the spare.
The threshing of the dill-weed went on for a time, and then four of the men broke away and began mangling some daffodils that had burst nearby. JayTee (Big Jim, he preferred to be called) sat on the Mangle and regaled us with Nestorian Chants.
The other four men took a break from dill-threshing, and packed their pipes with pitch. The noisome pitchsmoke combined with the Nestorian noise, and Big Jim (MAJOR Thompson, he insisted) gave over in favor of somnambulic iambic quadrameter. “Better than sonnets,” quoth he.
I never saw him again, but sometimes wonder, when I smell a road-crew or see odd verses graffitti-like on juxtaposed crenellations, whether he has been about, and in what guise.
I believe he lives alone with his beloved bloodhound, Crockett.
Is that your graphic? It’s excellent.
Jimtom was a bullfrog.
He was a good friend of mine.
I always think of Jim Thompson when I drive past the sewage treatment plant that bears his name.
Jim Thompson been very, very good to me!
OPS4 should be in on this. He was Jim’s best friend on FR.
I remember reading about Jim Thompson. He was at the signing of the Declaration of Independence. He went on to form a railroad monopoly, and singlehandedly conquered the West with a six-gun and some tobacco chaw. When he finally settled in Detroit, he formed Jim Thompson Motors, which was bought eventually by the Ford brothers. He left the CEO position in Ford Motor Company after creating the Model T, and then flew with the Wright Brothers in the back of their first plane. His presence helped the plane fly due to him being at the precise right ballast position. Then he went on to improve Marconi’s radio, making this invention possible. Stopping off briefly to invent dynamite, the Gatling Gun, the television, and the Polio Vaccine (you’ve all heard of Dr. Jonas Thompson, I’m sure), World War II was upon us. Jim Thompson singlehandedly won World War II, coming home briefly to invent the nuclear weapon. He then went on to head NASA for the Apollo program. Finding himself bored, he founded CNN, MTV, and developed the F117 Stealth Aircraft.
Then he began to get busy. It is said he can launch satellites by pitching them into orbit, and if you listen quietly on silent moonlight nights, you can hear him, softly calling, “Liiiibertyyyy..... liiibertyyyy....”
Jim Thompson still owes me $5 and two old issues of Playboy I lent him back in 1978.
Another failed Prep-school Grad I see, to many beats, think one beat per syllable.
Jim Thompson Trail -- Leads 3 miles to the Brins Mesa Trail parking lot. This is an easy trail with a 100 foot change in elevation.
He was probably involved with my GGrandfather in some shady deals in Eastern Utah and Western Colorado in the 1880’s.
It is not well know that JimThom worked as a clown during one of his covert CIA gigs.
Because you couldn’t keep him down..he was the inspiration behind the Bozo punching bag.
I heard through the grapevine that keith O has one in his dressing room and punches it on a daily basis muttering insane rants about JimThom.
I met Jimmy in 6th grade. We were in the same class. We found ourselves under the same table during the “duck and cover” drills.
Everybody on Free Republic knew Jim as a man of few words. But because of that we all looked forward to his posts.
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Heh. :)
Oh yeah! Remember that French hooker in old Ireland? Good times, eh Jim?
He’s just a guy from the neighborhood.
I remember Jim Thompson very well. Terrific Logical Positivist philosopher but he couldn’t hit a major league curveball worth spit. He was the sixth Marx Brother, the fifth Beatle, and first in the hearts of his countrymen. I still owe him a hooker and a pack of smokes.
hey, they started a thread about ya!
;^)
let me try that again.
hey, they started a thread in your honor.
;^)
Did I hear someone call for my services? Oh its a
Magslinger, JR is a very good friend. JT hardly knew ya!
I always thought that Logical Positivistism was bogus and leaned to Karl Popper in philosophical matters, as Jim Thompson pointed out.
Yeh, he was a great thinker when he was sober. I think the last time was 1973.
“I knew Jim Thompson, and you sir are no Jim Thompson.”
Jim Thompson (we used to call him ‘Jay Tee’) and I go waaaaaaay back. He was my first kiss in junior high. *sigh* Old flames never dim.....even after all these years. ;-)
Jimbo Thompson is John Bolton in disguise. Don’t no one out him now.
jim, wherever you are now i just want you to know i forgive you. i will always remember you as a friend and lover who could make me laugh. so you stole my credit card, my car, my social security number, my dog and ran off with my best friend. i can replace the friend, car, card and repair my credit rating, dont know if i can replace the dog, but still. i forgive you, my parents forgive you,(you really should have not stolen mom’s jewelry and dad is still ticked about the wallet), and i am sure the dog forgives you. (the pound, jim? couldnt you just bring him back?) in time i know our 7 children will forgive you for not being here for them, for not sending cards, presents, not calling, not remembering their names. i am certain that they will forgive you. (when the hit man could not find you they decided to forget about you). but as for me.... i forgive you. have a nice life jim.
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