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.]
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Wow! If they started begging money Feb 15, and Mr Pitt said they had 25k in 100 hours as of May 3rd, can you imagine how much they have now? Those estimates of 300k may be way under the actual amount. These guys may have pulled off the scam of the century. This might be approaching millions.
Holy Cow!
Isn't this from the first thread? Hey, I'm convinced.
All threads soliciting funds for the felonious Andy in DUmmieland have gone so long now, without responses, that they are practically "archived," not on any "active" or "high traffic" pages of DUmmieland at all.
One has to really dig and dig, to find. One suspects the felonious Andy and his infatuated accomplice the DUmmie "sfexpat2000" are trying to find a new option, as this one has withered away.
Or perhaps the Grand DUmmie "Skinner" is in Baltimore this afternoon, trying to get a handle on what is really going on. Who knows.
The last message from the felonious Andy is from early Friday afternoon; the last message from his infatuated accomplice the DUmmie "sfexpat2000" is from late Saturday morning.
HamdenRice (1000+ posts) Fri May-13-05 01:09 PM Original message The REAL Andy Stephenson scandal Edited on Fri May-13-05 01:10 PM by HamdenRice Obviously the idea that Andy's illness was a scandalous hoax is false. But in all the urgency to raise money for the surgery and then in the uproar over the allegations, we have forgotten the real scandal: That Johns Hopkins would not perform life saving surgery without a cash deposit.
Maat (1000+ posts) Fri May-13-05 01:32 PM Response to Original message 5. I hope that after his surgery...Andy gives us permission to highlight his plight and the need for a national healthcare plan
Andy_Stephenson (1000+ posts) Fri May-13-05 01:53 PM Response to Reply #5 13. You have my permission now n/t
sfexpat2000 (1000+ posts) Sat May-14-05 11:48 AM Response to Reply #51 58. Problem is, even after Andy came up with the money they wanted to turn him away because he had no insurance. And, they nearly did until they got a little public focus and some calls from journalists following this story.
Uh, I wonder what "journalists" have been following this story (other than, of course the hapless DUmmie PUnidiot "William Pitiful")? Has anyone read any stories of the felonious Andy and his plight in any newspapers, or seen any on television, or heard any on radio?
If this ever "breaks" into the media--which I doubt it will--it will probably "break" in a way not helpful to the felonious Andy and his infatuated accomplice the DUmmie "sfexpat2000."
Very timely! I was just running through the thread to see if any explosive news was happening in regard to this on-going comedy! I saw the pictures of Undie with the "lovely" ladies--he sure looked like he was having a good ole time for someone supposedly dying, don't you think?!
Do you know how big the 'mass' was in the diagnostic reports? I've been looking for several days now. Thanks.
I got it from post 30 and 160 from here:
http://www.freerepublic.com/focus/f-bloggers/1400691/posts
Unfortunately not from DU. Anyone have access to archives over there?
From all the info in this thread as I understand it:
Supposedly Undies "partner" Termite mailed the cashier's checks, dated May 5 and 6, from Seattle sometime between the 6th-10th. (Undie stated that the checks were there in Baltimore before the 11th)
OK...how about trying to explain this one:
Charles' posted photo shows Undie and Termite together in Ohio on the 8th. If the checks were indeed cut on the 5th and 6th, wouldn't it be logical to assume that Termite would have brought them with him and personally handed them to Undie.
It makes no sense for Termite to not bring the checks to
Ohio. Are we to believe that the Termite was frolicking in Ohio (undoubtably using funds from the DUmmies' Undie $ Drive) then flew all the way back to Seattle to then mail the checks to some mailroom where they conveniently turn up lost?
This makes the whole losing the checks story even more unbelievable.
There was that question asked about how big the mass was but he didn't respond. I found this on the thread
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79. What about the Seattle Cancer Care Alliance?
They're supposed to be really good.
Sooo I looked them up. Seems to me he didn't need to go out of state at all.
http://www.seattlecca.org/
It is a cancer research hospital, plus they have clinical trial programs for pancreatic cancer, and I wonder if they do Whipple surgery also.
I really want to see the diagnostic sheets that have disappeared.
That is NOT Termite. That guy with Undie in the pic is DUmmie "goodboy".
My bad... I thought that photo was of Partner Termite.
You know, last night I had an interesting conversation with someone in Bellingham, Washington, who actually knows the felonious Andy; in person and all that.
He says, yeah, the felonious Andy is a fat slob with a bad and greasy body-odor--to which I asked, well then, what is his attraction?
This has really bothered me throughout--ever since he garnered all that sympathy for being fired by Bev Harris in late December, early January--this guy has always struck me as "sleaze" from day one.
I know a lot of fat slobs with bad and greasy body-odor--some here on Free Republic may exaggerate, and describe themselves that way, even--but none who have ever struck me with the gut instinct, "this guy is bad news."
In fact, some of my good friends are actually fat slobs with bad and greasy body-odor.....if one wishes to describe them bluntly and impartially.
But why no feelings of revulsion towards them, but this gut-wrenching disgust of the felonious Andy?
This guy in Bellingham, Washington, who actually knows the felonious Andy--a friend of mine had "discovered" him (no, this friend of mine is not of the same sexual denomination as the felonious Andy)--told me, "well, you have to meet him in person.
"He's a hustler, and a good one. In person, he can charm, with his gift of gab; I've never met anybody as good a talker as Andy.....you have to meet him in person, and listen to him....."
Okay, that explains it.
Well, myself being deaf, I imagine I am rather more, uh, "immune" to fast-talk, charming talk, cajoling talk, seducing talk, than are hearing people.
Obviously the felonious Andy is awesome with "conversational skills," wherein apparently lies his attraction, which of course is utterly "invisible" to me.
By the way, one imagines that since the felonious Andy is greatly concerned with the plight of the poor and the working classes, that he thinks, often, of that unpaid bill of $10,700 for sandwich-store supplies, which put one of the "little people" and his supply-business in dangerous financial straits?
Seems to me that two verifiable things need to take place.
Undie needs to show a legitimate, verifiable diagnosis of pancreatic cancer, and Undie needs to have surgery for it at Johns Hopkins.
Anything less is wire fraud.
You can't stop payment on a cashier's check either, not at Verity Credit Union. Of course, the non-existent bank on the second check might have less stringent rules.
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And still no "put your little minds at ease" post from Skins.
Unless I missed it, his last communication was "Update on the Andy Stephenson Situation (12:30PM Wednesday, May 11)":
"There are not going to be any more updates from me until Andy becomes an inpatient at Johns Hopkins. At that point, if Andy signs the waiver, I will call Johns Hopkins back and they will be able to to verify to me that he is an inpatient. I promise I will call Johns Hopkins as soon as it comes to my attention that Andy has been admitted, and I will start a new thread as soon as I have that information."
But Skins, you could verify everything with Andy&Friends if you chose to. You could put it all to bed by vouching for him. But you won't. And that raises many questions, including:
1. "What do you know that you aren't willing to tell the DUmmies?".
2. "Aren't you at all concerned that the members of your web forum, who donate money to fund it and you, might be being scammed?"
3. "Are you concerned that there could be a mass exodus from DU over this?"
4. "Why do allow people to raise funds via your website if you are unwilling to vouch for them?"
5. "Why do you allow people to raise funds via your website AT ALL?"
The guy definitely knows how to run a scam.
The picture that shows Baby Undie playing in the kitchen sink was posted over on the big DUmmie fundraising thread...by Undie himself.
When the pace of contributions started to slow down, Undie tugged on the DUmmie heartstrings by inserting a baby picture that was taken 40 years ago.
Bev taught the apprentice well.
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