Posted on 02/11/2005 7:18:12 AM PST by ILL
Texas longhorn
If you ever have to “grab a bull by the horns” try a Texas longhorn. Considering that my first post was critical of SF Chronicle's depiction of USMC General Mattis – but somehow got into a vanity section – I wouldn’t be surprised that this too gets reclassified the same way. According to some members here, I invited the Wrath of Gods upon myself on account of:
a) being new – not knowing the ropes
b) having posted a vanity as my first article
c) me being a pink, pro-communist, liberal threat to security of the United States because my name contains too many consonants
d) In my naiveté I posted my real name and a degree which most plumbers and cab drivers consider offensive, and would prefer I dropped out of high school.
Something else came to my mind watching the Oliver Stone (BOOOO! – scared ya’, didn’t I?) movie JFK, last night. OK cat lovers, donkey posters get your ammo out, this is gonna be your field day, the more pictures of animals the better. Since films ordinarily fall into the category of culture I think this is the appropriate placement for this sarcastic semi-grievance.
Meanwhile back at the ranch: JFK (BOO! Scared you again) the movie revolves around this New Orleans District attorney Jim Garrison – a true life character. By all accounts the director (Stone) and this Garrison were more pink than pink, and therefore enemies to certain forums that enjoy posting pictures of domestic animals. But something unexpected happened. This Garrison (as pink as you want to make him) took the bull by the horns and strongly fought for what he believed. Contrary to the general perception that he may have been a “pinko” in his real life, I see, his fight, his irreverence, his stubbornness, his strong moral adherence to protecting the Laws of our country, his clash with the FBI, as the very essence of a good radical warrior who just happens to be on the wrong side of the fence (providing I ever grant anybody to put up a fence between me and my country). I would want that man on my side, no matter what side I choose to be on. All his qualities (in the film), I admire. Now, since (according to Hoyle) he is colored pink, I must hate him. Well, I won’t. That’s what DOGMA stands for. In plain English: Do not use your brain or any part thereof. Listen to the “powers that be” even if you have to swallow your own foot on a daily basis. Now certain forums (especially cat and donkey lovers), verbally stand for all things American, and learned how to pump/beat their chests in the name of the Flag, the fifty nifty united states, the incredibly clever president we happen to be blessed with, but they will swallow you whole, if you, as much as pronounce the letter P, let alone spell out the entire word P-I-N-K.
OK you got me. It really isn’t a topic about culture. It is a topic about LACK OF CULTURE. What we so strongly and so profoundly believe, we shall demonstrate by destroying even the worthiest of those who we (mistakenly, self-righteously and pompously) endow with signs of a pinko. This Pinko (Garrison) fought tooth and nail against all odds and his deeds make him my brother, even if he’s the worst scum of the Earth, in your eyes. I saw in him the admiration for the country, Law, Constitution, pride of being American and the will to face unforgiving odds in an uphill struggle. OK, I’m done. Start the cat barrage. Get the donkeys out of the closet. Or, alternatively you may choose to read and make some sense by looking at yourself. Naaaaaaaaaaaaaaaah. Just bring it on. Let him, who has sinned not, cast the first stone.
Iliya Pavlovich (the plumber)
Finish dinner first so we will have your undivided attention.
It would strain my pea brain to have to do it a third time.
Well said from a geder. :)
It only counts if ya grilled it!
If we had a week during which all screennames were blocked from posts, and known only to the AMs, and all posts had to stand on their own merit without regard to reputation or putative "credentials" - then MadIvan's posts would still be among the best. A lot of people here could - but don't - respond to the insolence and impudence of some silly posts by saying "You don't know to whom you're posting, grasshopper!"
Don't be so quick with the self-congratulations there Spike. Seems as thought you merely accomplished the amazing feat of tootin' your own horn.
"If I get flamed - than, I suppose I got flamed."
Also, one would suppose a PhD would know that the appropriate word there is "then" not "than".
Shoot, deep fried. Do I get half points?
Plus extra credit if it's smothered in cream gravy.
Dang, I used blue cheese, I was thinking mock buffalo wings.
Congratulations! You just won yourself an ORGAZMATRON, on account of what I mentioned earlier: There are some testasterone driven, intelectual Neanderthals, who will want to split hairs between knight and nigth, right and wright, staak and stake. Knock yourself out. This petty squabbling over some person's infantile desire to belittle another person shall not be answered in the future with any degree of kindness or understanding. You stone me - I heap the Grand Canyon on you. Better start using that spell check today.
What did you expect?
Me to turn the other cheek?
Sorry to disappoint you. I also thought that publishing something private in public was not entirely "in line" with ethical standards requested by the site operators (ahem ahem), but I could be wrong, I'm a "newbie" and therefore worth stoning.
Nah, I reckon you are just stoned.
close, but no cigar. Allow me to clarify.
Oh well, this may have nothing to do with you, but on the off chance that you are one of us males (myself included) we’d better be grateful to the few women we have present on these boards. They are way smarter and more perceptive and more intelligent, astute than we men are. I am not sure if half of your/their attempts at “belittling” some person on account of your (alleged) “seniority” is not even worth a reply. So consider yourself honored that somebody actually took the time to read your gook. Most men’s (here and elsewhere) misplaced search for masculinity and cure for low self-esteem, seems to go along the lines of testosterone driven, Neanderthal brain level engaging in some form of belittling some other person and their values. Did anybody really think that would work anywhere? That’s just about as bright as the construction workers whistling after an attractive woman passing in front their site.
Special not to ORGAZMATRONERS: splitting hairs linguistically, will not get you to have a longer lasting erection, neither will it enable you to read and understand the text you’re looking to butcher. The incredibly important issue to our national security still largely relies on the difference between site and sight, break and brake, steak and stake – so go ahead – help your country.
"I have a nice profile page (or so I think), and you don't reply to me? What gives?"
I can't remember. But in all probability you either belittled me too much or not enough. I would hate to think that you are one of those bright women who did ZORG me here, to whom I can only reply with taking my hat off. <- bad English: never finish your sentence with a ...........
ORGAZMATRONERS: you just got yourself another browny point.
go away.
Sir, yes Sir.
Bragging is just one of my many flaws. It becomes more prominent when I get belittled since nobody wants to kiss my Papal ring that I never knew I had. Yes, it did take me (only 14 years) to accomplish my goal (many of my professors were half my age, but that's the price I had to pay and I ate a humble pie twice a day, and three times on Sundays).
No, "this drooling idiot" was never here before, but he managed to drop the scary PhD so the rest of you men can feel free to stick needles in me any time you feel like it, and if I should respond by any chance it might not be quite "turning the other cheek".
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