DAY 68 DUmmies Held Hostage

July 5, 2005

[franksolich]

DUMMIE ALERT!

DUMMIE ALERT!

ALL QUIET ON THE ANDYITE FRONT IN DUMMIELAND THE NIGHT OF THE 4th!

ANDYITES OUT CELEBRATING THE 4th!

OR WERE THEY?

MUCH LOCK, DELETE, BAN, IN DUMMIELAND APPARENTLY WENT ON!

ALAS NO ONE WATCHING THE ANT FARM LAST NIGHT! NO SCREEN CAPTURES! OR PERHAPS NOT!

[Charles Henrickson]

UNDIE ALERT!
UNDIE ALERT!!
UNDIE ALERT!!!

USEFUL PUNDIDIOT PITT FINALLY WISHES ANDY WELL!

POST #326 OF GET-WELL THREAD!

WilliamPitt Wed Jul-06-05 01:42 PM

326. Get well soon!!!!!!!!

[This must be the shortest message that Will "The Pitt and the Ponderous" Pitt has ever posted. CH]

[CAluvdubya]

I don't think that is the doctor they were refering to. I can't remember who the head of the dept is.

I went to garden catz's site and found that Dr. Cameron was the doctor they said was head of the dept. and not Andy's doctor. As far as I could tell, at that time, they did not say who the surgeon was.

sigh, wrong again.

[JLO]

Conflicting info.

[CAluvdubya]

Wait a minute. She has not asked permission but a link will be up very soon?

That is the way I read it.

[ReeWalker]

Doesn't this while mess remind you of a group of 8 yr olds trying to get a story straight?

[Chappaquiddick Crawdad]

Hey Frank, what's the significance of your tagline? Are you letting the DUmmies get to you?

[CAluvdubya]

They always come up with some justification after reading what they should have said or done here.

Andy kind of reminds me of Eddie Haskell (Leave it to Beaver)! :)

[franksolich]

Well, I thought it was a most appropriate tagline, under the circumstances.

[Duke Nukum]

I can get behind that sentiment.

[Chappaquiddick Crawdad]

I suppose it's appropriate, but I would hardly deem DUmmie cover-ups worth onsetting madness, taken literally.

[franksolich]

Well, if I remember Latin correctly, it means "beware the fury of a patient man."

But perhaps the Latin is rusty?

[Allosaurs_r_us]

These are the people Orwell warned us about...unfortunately for Will Pitt it looks like he landed the role of Old Major and poor Bev has to be Snowball.

 

Excellent! Been a long time since I read Animal Farm. Have been trying to get my niece to read it. She is only 10, but I am quite sure she can grasp the overall meaning of the pigs taking over and turning into the tyrants. She is extremely bright and is an avid supporter of George W and our Troops.

 

9/11 affected her a lot more than a youngster her age should have been. She already uses a phrase she picked up from me..... "Hmpf! Must be a Democrat!" A regular chip off the 'ol block......LOL

 

She has been reading since she was 4, and I am proud to say I had a lot to do with it. I was lying around waiting for workman's comp to realize I actually had an on the job injury to my back, and we spent many hours reading everything she was interested in. She showed an amazing interest in computer jargon too. I am confident we will have no worries as long as our children grow up like her. She is the apple of my eye. 

[MisterRepublican]

Well, it's about time. Almost a week before he noticed that card for his friend and hero? Hmmmmm.

But at least we know Pitt and Stephenson are still friends and all.

I look forward to a long and tedious "essay" from Pitt about the latest developments in the Andy Stephenson Situation on either Truthout or PDA. No one knows the facts about the Andy Stephenson Situation, like William Rivers Pitt.

[Duke Nukum]

I got a similar sentiment when I googled the phrase. From Bartlett's:

NUMBER: 2939
AUTHOR: John Dryden (1631-1700)
QUOTATION: Beware the fury of a patient man. Note 1
ATTRIBUTION: Absalom and Achitophel. Part i. Line 1005.

Note 1. Furor fit læsa sæpius patientia (An over-taxed patience gives way to fierce anger.—Publius Syrus: Maxim 289.

[franksolich]

When I was manager of a privately-owned student union at the University of Nebraska many years ago, the office was behind a photocopying store in the indoor mall.

Since the job was not especially arduous, I used to tinker with photocopying machines and paper, printing out a whole lot of the most-excellent personal stationery one could hope to devise, all of it on the best possible paper--much of which during the intervening years has been put to very good use, as I write a lot of letters.

Anyway, I had found all these quotations in Latin, and used quite a few of them--my favorite being cave quid dicis, quando, et cui--I no longer remember the sources of them.....but am gratified that many who get letters from me know Latin; more than I do.

Right now, I'm using letterhead headed a fronte praecipitium, a tergo lupus, which pretty much describes life these days.

[Boomer Geezer]

Another translation gives: "Patience, when too often outraged, is converted into madness." But Duke's is easier to handle.

Fred, Here's a good site just chuck full of Latin quotes. Your "precipice in front, wolves behind" happens to be the first one there ;)

[franksolich]

You know, sir, that was an interesting job, managing that privately-owned student union; it was my first encounter in life with big-time confidence men.

The building was owned by the chairman of the First Congressional District (Nebraska, seat of the capital, Lincoln) Democratic Party.

Just before I came along, it was managed by the president of the Lancaster County Young Democrats.

My predecessor as manager got fired because he was skimming the till, going on trips with fellow Young Democrats to New York, to Chicago, to Las Vegas.

I bumped into this job by accident. I lasted in it for four years, four times longer than my four predecessors put together (read that again), and ran an honest and open and tight ship. It was great.

The owner owned an insurance company, which preoccupied most of his time, separate from anything involved with me.

The owner, this prominent Democratic personality in Nebraska, was discovered to have kited more than $7,000,000 in checks from his insurance company.....five minutes after he had put a gun inside his mouth, in January 2002.

I wrote about it, and my story was used by the Lincoln Journal-Star during January-March 2002, for "background" about stories of his financial escapades and shenanigans.

As soon as I can find it--it is no longer on disc, but black ink on white paper--I'm going to erase my "profile" and post that story here. It's rather long, but I think illuminating.

And I think instructive about people pretending to be what they are not.

[feefee]

...I'm going to erase my "profile" and post that story here. It's rather long, but I think illuminating.

I'm looking forward to that, let me know when it is up.

but, if it is at all possible, would you leave the bird pic up? minimize him if you must, but i do enjoy gazing upon his lovely image...

[franksolich]

There's humor in it too, madam.

Like the time he ripped off elevator doors in a local skyscraper when feuding with another insurance company.

That incident involved me; the other insurance company didn't want to cover me because they had gotten an (erroneous) physician report alleging I smoked 800 cigarettes a day--some sort of recording or transcription error, I assume--and so I was too high a "risk."

A very volatile man.

But despite that it's 75% true and accurate humor, the moral of the story remains; one should never pretend to be something he is not.

[franksolich]

I need to restate that; typed too fast.

Since it was 100% true and 75% humor.....

Reporters covering the story found it 100% corroborated, backed up, by others.