He had his Charmin squeezed for $50,000????? No wonder Mr. Whipple is smiling!!
Posted on 05/17/2005 12:04:34 PM PDT by PJ-Comix
No, [deleted] it.
I've missed out on all the scoops.
Every single one of them the past nine days.
I would make a lousy, a crummy, newspaper reporter.
I'm going to SuperGlue myself to the chair until this is over.
Late news from DC this afternoon....
When asked by your humble "Internet Investigator" and "Journalist", MisterRepublican, how he felt about the ongoing meltdown at DU, Senator Chappaquiddick responded, "Hello........Hello......".
Ya know, we have programs for people who don't have insurance and need money . . . it's called WORK!
You're enjoying this way too much! :-)
All forums eventually get DITHF'ed.
LOL!!!!
Top Ten?
dang! not even close.
He had his Charmin squeezed for $50,000????? No wonder Mr. Whipple is smiling!!
287. I hope Andy really does have pancreatic cancer
Oh, that's classic. Bwahahahahahaha.
nice!
This just in from Madrid. According to doctors attending
Generalissimo Francisco Franco, the former head of state
is valiantly hanging on in his fight to remain dead.
Need an explanation' Thread II This is thread one, which is getting pretty huge: http://www.democraticunderground.com/discuss/duboard.ph... First of all, I'm not going to apologize for asking these questions. Something is not right about all this. Let's be clear:
The very-publicly-proclaimed diagnosis of pancreatic cancer, which I was personally told of, was changed to a thread-buried diagnosis of pancreatitis. The first is deadly dangerous, the second is very much not.
An enormous amount of money was raised in rapid fashion based on the aforementioned first diagnosis. For those who say 'Big deal' about the money raised, understand that it isn't about the money itself, nor is it about 'my ego.'
The organizations I work for, plus a whole bunch of organizations I have never heard of, took 'pancreatic cancer' and raised it to the rooftops. I am getting frightened PMs and emails from representatives of these organizations.
It isn't about the money. It is about the ability of these organizations to fundraise for important causes we all believe in. If this situation is not on the level, the ability for those organizations to do their good work is now imperiled. That hurts each and every one of us.
I believe Andy is sick, and I believe he needs treatment. I believe the compassion showed by DUers and others in rallying to his aid was and remains one of the most remarkable things I have ever seen.
But, based on the aforementioned concerns, I need to know why we were allowed to yell 'pancreatic cancer' and 'Whipple' and 'impending death' from the rooftops for weeks. I need to know why $50,000 was raised for a procedure at Johns Hopkins, when it appears now the diagnosed ailment could have been treated on the cheap in Seattle.
I need to know why I've been allowed to believe Andy was dying, why I was not told that this wasn't the case. Hell, a part of me is massively relieved...but the rest of me is badly hurt and deeply confused. I have called Andy my friend. Friends usually tell friends when they are no longer dying. I never heard that, and had to read it buried in a thread. If you need a personal impetus for my posts, you can have that.
This could all be a vast miscommunication. If so, if all this is on the up-and-up and it is just a matter of a bunch of wires getting crossed, then I will take whatever rap is coming for stirring up a hornet's nest. But I am not going to apologize. Anyone who thinks this is just about me does not appreciate the scope of the issue here. Hundreds of people, a bunch of important organizations and dozens of important causes are on the hook with this.
To answer the question of why I didn't talk to Andy, all I can say is this. I did talk to Andy. Dozens of times. It was from him first that I got the pancreatic cancer/Whipple/Johns Hopkins thing. It was from him first that I got the death-is-impending messages. Dozens of times. It was talking to Andy that started this, and right now, I am not at all comfortable going to Andy for confirmation of anything.
The pancreatic cancer diagnosis, the death-is-impending statements, the need to have all that money and the need for Johns Hopkins were all very publicly proclaimed. The hysteria to get it done was propelled in no small part by threads and posts from Andy himself. Therefore, a demand for an accounting of the vast discrepancies must also be public.
No more going out for cigarettes for you--have them FED-Xed in! LOL!
the thread link in this post is a bad link
Do you suppose they'll start a fund raiser for Pitt when he loses his mind utterly and is confined to a mental hospital?
This is hilarious stuff. Thanks for keeping track of going's on over there. I catch up on the Dummie Funnies every week or so.
Yeah; a slush fund is a sure way to avoid future Scamdies.
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