Posted on 05/13/2005 7:36:25 AM PDT by PJ-Comix
It looks like William Rivers (Pied Piper) Pitt is doing a lot of worrying that the scam perpetrated by Andy Stephenson is going to explode in his face. Pity Poor Pathetic Pied Piper Pitt (had to get in at least one allitertation) for he hasn’t slept since April as you can see in this Pitt authored DUmmie THREAD titled, “I could use a little help here.” Yeah, Pitt, you could actually use a LOT of help WHEN the AndyScam blows up in such a way that even the incredibly gullible DUmmies realize that Andy Stephenson has been scamming them just as cold-bloodedly as his former mentor, Bev Harris. A constant theme right now in DUmmieland is that they just KNOW that Andy is on the up and up BECAUSE Pied Piper Pitt told them so. I hate to tell you this DUmmies but Pied Piper Pitt has ALSO been having doubts about the DUmmies as have been documented in the Free Republic discussion forum of the previous DUFU edition titled, “’About the Andy Stephenson situation’---Skinner.” Oh, and speaking of Skinner, haven’t the DUmmies noticed that he has been MIA since issuing his doubts about Stephenson a few days ago? Skinner is less than an hour from Baltimore but he has yet to make the short trip over there to verify Andy’s fraudulent story. It is “The Silence of the Scams.” So let us now join Pied Piper Pitt in his state of complete sleeplessness. Somehow I think Pitt will be greeting the sun for many, many mornings to come. As usual the insomniac rantings of Pitt and his DUmmie followers are in Bolshevik Red while the commentary of your humble correspondent, who enjoyed a refreshing night of deep sleep, is in the [brackets]:
I could use a little help here
[You sure do, Pied Piper Pitt, especially after the DUmmies form a lynch mob to go after you when even those dopes realize FOR SURE that they have been scammed by Andy Stephenson, thanks in large part to you vouching for Andy’s honesty.]
I haven't been able to sleep for about two weeks. I start to drop off, and maybe actually sleep for about 20 minutes, before popping awake. Last night, for about the fifteenth day in a row, I saw the sun come up against my will. This has started to affect my stomach, which makes sleeping harder. I have tried exercise to wear myself out, and have managed to badly strain a muscle in my back.
[Your back will hurt even more after the DUmmies start angrily beating on it while cursing you for enabling the AndyScam.]
So, to recap: No sleep since April, rotten stomach, torn up back. I've reached that insomnia point where I am psyching myself out; I got no sleep the night before last, spent yesterday writing a PDA action alert and a 30-minute speech transcript, drove two hours to do the speech, gave the speech, did a three-hour Q&A, talked to people for another hour, drove two more hours to get home, and by the time I got back here I was literally quivering with exhaustion.
[So, to recap: You are worried sick about what will happen to you after Andy Stephenson is proven to be a complete FRAUD even to the satisfaction of the incredibly gullible DUmmie suckers.]
But I laid awake until 6:37am (I remember looking at the clock), popped awake an 8, 9, 10 before finally giving up and getting up at 11. I can barely see straight right now, my stomach feels like it has snakes in it, my back is killing me so I can't exercise...and I know for a stone fact that I won't be able to sleep again. Tried a nap an hour or so ago. Came thiiiiiiiis close to dropping of and then popped awake.
[3:11 AM: “Worried sick about the backlash when Andy’s scam is finally proven.”
3:12 AM: “Will they toss me out of Dummieland?”
3:13 AM: “Will my speaking engagements be cancelled?”
3:14 AM: “Maybe I could change my identity.”
3:15 AM: “DAMN YOU TO HELL, Andy, for suckering me into being your lousy cheerleader!!!”
3:16 AM: “Is it 3:17 AM yet?”]
Any ideas? I've already heard about taking mela-whatever, but that stuff gave my mother splitting headaches when she tried it. I have drastically cut back on caffiene. Any other suggestions would be appreciated. I've reached that violently, violently, violently frustrated stage of insomnia where sleep is a guaranteed impossibility, and if a routine like yesterday's (while on no sleep) can't get it done, I am at a total loss.
[Confession is good for the soul. And now let us read the hilarious advice on insomnia cures from your fellow DUmmies, Pitt.]
scotch. start about 3pm. you'll be out by 9
[Thunderbird. Start about 3 PM. You’ll be homeless by 9.]
Tried it. I managed to make myself unconscious, but that isn't sleep. Woke up worse off the next day. Tried it again a few days later, and all that happened was I was drunk and wide awake.
[Pied Piper Pitt---The wide awake drunk. That’s what happens when you fall such obvious scams that Andy perpetrates.]
sex?
[Unfortunately Andy can no longer be located.]
Move the clock...for one thing. Looking at that thing with the blinking : all night can be horrifying.
[If Pitt moves his clock all it will mean is that he will have to keep walking over to it every 5 minutes to check to see if he got at least a half hour of sleep.]
yes, sex works remember, only in fundie land is a monogamous partner of the opposite gender who desires to become pregnant is a requirement for "sex."
[Only in DUmmieland does it not matter what gender or species your sex partner is.]
Will: see a doctor. Insomnia is a bitch, although I only get it maybe once or twice a month.
[Pitt needs to see a shrink doctor. See Pitt lying on the shrink’s couch? Let us see what the shrink is writing on his note pad: “Just plain NUTS!!!”]
This sounds like a case for sleeping pills though I ordinarily wouldn't recommend them.
[NOT a good idea. Pitt would be tempted to swallow the whole bottle after the AndyScam blows up in DUmmieland.]
Benadryl. But don't take it every night, as you can become addicted (as per my physician husband).
[Methinks Pitt would become addicted the first night after desperately popping pill after pill of those Benny’s.]
Eat lots of turkey! Turkey has natural sleep inducers in it.
[And if that doesn’t work, have someone take a frozen turkey and slam it on Pitt’s head to knock him out.]
My problem is that I have bad physical reactions to anti-histamine stuff. I had raging bad allergies as a kid, and was always loaded up on the stuff. After a few years it just messed me up, and still does whenever I touch it.
[I can sympathize, Pitt. I’m allergic to wool so I’ve had to cross sheep off my date list. Such are the sacrifices I’ve had to make.]
Tonight I will do turkey, warm milk and the tub
[You’re going to do turkey in a tub filled with warm milk, Pitt? You really ARE kinky!]
Yes - I like Tylenol PM myself.
[I once tried to commit suicide by taking a cyanide pill. Unfortunately some sick bastard tampered with the cyanide pill bottle and I took a Tylenol that he inserted instead. I’m suing!!!]
empty your mind, grasshopper...
[…be just like your fellow DUmmies, cricket…]
I don't really know any tricks to get to sleep but one thing I discovered is that it makes no sense to just lay there willing yourself to do it - the more you try, the less likely it is that it will happen. So when I couldn't sleep, I'd get up. I'd tidy the house, I'd do laundry, I'd go for a walk, I'd read, I'd write, I'd work. Eventually, I'd get very, very tired and I'd lay down again. If I didn't get to sleep within a reasonable time, I'd get up again.
[Good idea… Hey Pitt! My pad needs cleaning and after that you can do my laundry.]
stop doing crystal meth that's what I had to do.
[speed_addiction…is that you?]
The back thing is my own fault. I've been beating the shit out of myself on my weight bench, way overdoing it to try and get sleepy. A muscle in my shoulderblade area finally got tired of it and told me to f*ck myself.
[And after the AndyScam scandal explodes, Pitt, your fellow DUmmies will be telling you the same thing as your shoulderblade muscle told you.]
Definitely see a doctor...there might be a physiological reason you're having trouble sleeping.
[Pitt’s problem is ALL mental.]
Will, I'm not a doctor, but I am going to go ahead and give you medical advice anyway. Your body is telling you to take a break.
[Yes, good advice. Take a break, Pitt, on a Costa Rica getaway with Andy Stephenson. Don’t worry about expenses. Andy has $50,000 to blow.]
Otherwise, until you see an internist, a bit of turkey, milk and a warm bath. Then find something boring, yet educational, to read.
[Maybe not educational but Pitt’s own writings should do the trick.]
A friend of mine who went through a divorce said she would drop her jaw down as you would right before you fall asleep and then force herself to COUNT SHEEP. It actually worked for her.
[It won’t work for me. I told you before that I’m allergic to wool.]
One word solution... PAMPER!
[One word solution… PAMPERS!]
White noise (I have a CD of very, very faint/distand thunderstorms and rain, and it's coma-inducing).
[White noise (I have a CD of very, very faint Pitt speeches, and it’s coma-inducing).]
Breathe thru your eyes ... Bull Durham
[Breath thru your butt … Andy Stephenson.]
Watch some mindless TV.
[Keith Olbermann.]
Ambien is habit forming and every person is different. So telling someone to ignore legitimate and documented side effects and product warnings is not particularly sound advice, wouldn't you agree?
[WARNING: Side effects of Ambien may inlude nausea, diarrhea attacks, dizziness, urges to support left wing loony causes, and the total loss of any ability to discern obvious scams.]
dude...seriously...smoke up. If I need to be asleep, pot is my friend to a nice, happy, and deep sleep.
[“Puff the magic dragon down by the sea!”]
First of all, sleep is over-rated.
[Sleep? Who needs it!]
You need to start "shutting down" very gradually.
[After the DUmmies finally wake up to the AndyScam, they will be “shutting down” Pitt very rapidly.]
Try to figure out what caused this abnormal sleep cycle to begin in the first place and address that issue.
[I don’t believe that Pitt thinking about how he has become Andy Stephenson’s lead cheerleader in Dummieland is going to help him get any sleep.]
Go To An Acupuncturist ASAP.
[Perhaps the acupuncturist can anesthetize those brain cells containing all memories about Andy.]
want something natural? try acupuncture- & I know where to get it cheap in the south end
[I don’t know about Pitt but Andy certainly would love to be acupunctured in the south end.]
You really should go to a doctor for a sleep evaluation. This may include keeping a diary for a week or so…
[May 13: “WHAT? WHAT? WHAT will I do when the DUmmies rise up against me when the AndyScam breaks?
May 15: “Need to leave the country. PRONTO!”
May 16: “Quick flight down to Costa Rica.”
May 20: “Slight gender preference modification but the honeymoon with Andy is just dreamy!”]
Cancel your appointments. Don't listen to TV or radio. Turn off your cell phone. Rent some funny movies.
[Flim Flam Man. The Sting.]
Whoa. Thanks for calling.
Undie said just in the last day or so that JH has been PAID. I'm not talking about the "bloodsuckers" have been paid post, I'm talking AFTER that.
DUmmieland quiet for the moment, so I'm going to town for a bite to eat, and then do some other things.
With P-J already taken off for a few hours himself, I hope someone--doesn't have to be you--will hold down the fort for a bit.
OK Frank. But remember to get a couple of extra packs of cigarrettes so you won't have to leave when the SHTF.
I don't think so unless he made arrangements for the checks to be 'held'. Finance peeps don't like to do that... screws up the books. Also, someone in accounting/finance has to be 'responsible' for the held checks, and they don't like that kind of responsibility. Either JH got the checks or they didn't.
I doubt it. You usually don't want to hold onto checks, especially for that amount (they might get lost/ misplaced/ destroyed). If I were running a business, I wouldn't hold the checks somewhere I my office-- you'd clear them and then perhaps hold the money in a trust for the patient. It all seems very odd. By the way, thanks for understanding what I was complaining about.
May 11: 12 Noon Undie posts that JH has been paid **Undefined Link
http://www.freerepublic.com/focus/f-bloggers/1402493/posts?page=1486#1486
But if you're going out for cigs, we should expect that big news will be breaking soon in the Ant Farm. :-)
So, the checks if paid to JH on the 11th, let's say they were deposited to JH's account on the 12th, they should clear the issuing bank by tomorrow or Wednesday, realistically.
Sorry for ruining your caffeine buzz. I need some caffeine myself, so I'll leave everyone to it and get myself some coffee.
Granted I do not know her/him well either nor do I know you well. But I have not seen anything troll like about her/him.
I know you have had some very good posts here and at CU, and suspicions are allowed, but with all the info she put forth on Friday afternoon, it was obvious she had checked.
I would suggest that the next person who calls, compile a list of easily answered questions for Verity concerning these checks. You know things we forgot to ask.
I would also suggest waiting until the check clears. ,p>It could be Undie had a $7,000 test and will take the $25,000 back to the bank for a refund, just to make it look legitimate.
There is something else we can do, but I can not post it on this board, or anywhere, cause it is for lack of a better word, not kosher, but not illegal either..LOL
Could the kid be an illegal? LOL
"Oh, I left out one thing. She asked me if I was with JH. I said yes, but that I could not comment on why I was asking, ie
can AS bring them back for a refund?"
This is not good. This is very bad. If you are stating accurately what you did, you have compromised all our efforts here. Do you understand that when you lied to that employee, you called into question the integrity of everyone on this board?
Did you give the employee a false name or did you give your own name? I don't want to know.
Extraordinary.
It does make me wonder. But for now I won't get sidetracked on it.
Anyone have an update of the timeline with links. I've been working to add links that I know of, and need to compare.
I actually read that last night and it sort of stuck out to me as well. I scratched my head a few times and moved on though. We need a master file for dumping Andy stuff in. These threads work pretty well, but a file without the chitchat would be nice.
Your posts are starting to sound ridiculous. When the subject of the checks first arose, there were many questions. You picked up on the fact that no calls had been made, so you said you called and have been chiding and challenging other FReepers since then. Today you had another lovely post and you make it sound like I am trying to prove you are wrong! Far from it... I want what the DUmp doesn't have...TRUTH!!!
Posted by I_like_good_things_too to PJ-Comix On Bloggers & Personal 05/16/2005 11:29:02 AM EDT · 1,665 of 1,725
Gee, maybe they could, but then maybe everyone one here will inply that they are lying about it (without of course bothering to check themselves by making a friggin phone call).
The credit union opens at 9-- any of you going to give it a try?
Thanks for the timeline link. Now I'm thinking into the screed about someone from DU finding the checks in the mail dept. If we can nail that date we will get somewhere. If the checks were finally presented to JH on the 11th, they may have been deposited on the 12th in JH's account and therefore wouldn't have cleared by this am.
Get a a grip. I was a credit card fraud investigator with Nations Bank (now Bank of America) for 3 years in the 80's. This is standard skip tracing procedure. Not against the law.
Maybe a daily thread with a continuosly updated timeline as the first post, documents and screenshots sorted by time and date. This would require someone with at least SOME administrative authority. That way, in the Dummie Funnies comments, we just reference a number in the file, and we would have all data in a single location for quick easy reference.
Sorry for the misunderstanding. I believed you did want to verify the info (by asking you if you "really" wanted to call, I was merely suggesting that you might be the next one attacked by others as a possible troll for calling).
So anyhow, that's all behind us, others called.
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