[MarineMomJ]

>>Sometimes the Traditionalists on this forum remind me of "Hee-Haw"<<


And what is that supposed to mean??

[ArrogantBustard]

You never watched the show? They had a recurring skit where some of the regulars would sit on a broken-down porch, wearing ratty clothes, accompanied by the saddes houn'-dog you ever did see, and sing:

"Gloom, despair and agony on me
Deep dark depression, excessive misery
If it weren't for bad luck, I'd have no luck at all
Gloom, despair, and agony on me!"

Then they'd piss and moan about something, and repeat the chorus. It was one of my favourite parts of the show.

That's what you folks remind me of, sometimes.

[pascendi]

I think it's taken from the LayCatholic Magisterium's 4th Council of Interpretations: On The Spirit of the Second Vatican, Section on Further Interpretations of Initial Interpretations of Re-interpreted Dogma-like Pastoral Statements, Chapter 4: On Gloom and Doom, the attached anathema:

"Whosoever saith that the post conciliar debacle, after having reach a certain fevered pitch, beith any formal cause of outright griping, or causeth one to be in the condition aptly described as gloom, or in the way of expressing agony or the desire thereof, or the passion known as Deep Dark Depression, or true and blatant misery to excess, or who dares, God forbid, to equate the disposition of bad luck with no luck at all, such that they be so named as if to be one and the same in both essence and in accident... let him be anathema."

"But if any one shall presume to gripe, moan, or obstinately to mope, or even in public disputation to defend the gawdawful belly-aching concerning that which is manifestly contrary to the Faith of the Ages, he shall be thereupon be considered sort of excommunicated."