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I wish I was a Moron! (Extreme vanity)
Skooz
| 11.01.01
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Posted on 11/01/2001 7:57:46 AM PST by Skooz
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To: OWK
I wish I was a Moron! Done.
LOL. Too late.
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posted on
11/01/2001 10:10:35 AM PST
by
Skooz
To: Skooz
Thanks for taking the ribbing with a smile.
As to your original post, I understand your point completely.
42
posted on
11/01/2001 10:15:04 AM PST
by
OWK
To: Skooz
I wanna be plugged back into the Matrix. And I don't wanna remember any of this.
And I want to be rich...
To: Skooz
Ah, the care free joy of getting bored with a 30 minute news broadcast because it is to long...
To: Skooz
I wish I was a Moron I am a fourth generation genie and have granted your wish.
What are your other two wishes?
To: Hugh Akston
I'm so bad about "information" that I am known far and wide as a political HACK; at a wedding last month, an old friend of mine introduced me to her children as "the only person on earth who hates Hillary Clinton more than your daddy does," whereupon they all genuflected......LOL.
And I must confess I now have a portable TV in my car since 9-11.
But the absolute WORST thing I ever did was, back in the fall, the weekend before the election, at a HUGE wedding in Chapel Hill, I held forth in the bar at the reception with all the FAT CAT donors to the GOP who had lost all hope that Bush was going to win; I gave a virtual lecture on the Electoral College using YOUR graphs and charts....when I think back on it, it's really embarassing. However, they now introduce me to all their fat cat friends as "the only woman on earth who thought George Bush could win."
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posted on
11/01/2001 10:34:53 AM PST
by
Howlin
To: Skooz
Great Rant, Great Links. I suffered parental-imposed ignorance as a child and young adult and really, ignorance IS not bliss, it's damn' scary!
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posted on
11/01/2001 10:38:20 AM PST
by
mamaduck
To: Howlin
he he he he.
You correct them and say "knew he would win", right?
To: Howlin
And any time you want to recommend me for a job to one of these fat cats... lolol
To: Howlin
an old friend of mine introduced me to her children as "the only person on earth who hates Hillary Clinton more than your daddy does,"Your friend is wrong. There's just not enough of them in NY. :-)
To: CathyRyan
Ah, the care free joy of getting bored with a 30 minute news broadcast because it is to long... Exactly! You nailed it.
51
posted on
11/01/2001 10:44:55 AM PST
by
Skooz
To: Hugh Akston
I emailed them ALL your last chart and then I called them about 11 o'clock and said, "Don't even THINK about going to bed; he's gonna win this thing!" They thought I was nuts; not anymore.
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posted on
11/01/2001 10:49:25 AM PST
by
Howlin
To: Skooz
I would rather be a sad Socrates, than a satisfied pig.
-- John Stuart Mills
To: Skooz
You and I are two birds of a feather (as are many of our "Freeple" compatriots, I suspect). The worst, I fear, is that our children/spouses are too much Rhett Butler, riding around Atlanta looking for the dame while the city burns.
I consider myself lucky that my hubby puts up with my "addiction" to current events. Heck, given my lineage (daughter of a "pol"; permitted to arrive late to grade school day after conventions' last nights; sister 1 worked for McCord at CREEP; sister 2 wrote the letters (on Reagan's behalf) to the Lebanon bombing victims' families, etc.), it could be much worse. I could have actually gone into politics myself!
Makes me smile when hubby (a banker) ponders, "how can liberals be so stupid?," or little one favors Buchannan 'cuz, "he's the only one who's truly pro-life." Lesson: count your blessings where you find them.
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posted on
11/01/2001 10:53:40 AM PST
by
Catie
To: Terriergal
Check this out. Speaks to your point very well I think: Incompetence is bliss, say researchers
Snip snip...from article
"in other situations, feedback is absent, or at least more ambiguous; even a humorless joke, for example, is likely to be met with polite laughter. And social norms prevent most people, when faced with incompetence, from blurting out, ``You stink!'' -- truthful though this assessment may be. "
Above is not the case on FR! The beauty of the forum.
That was a good article. Thanks for the link.
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posted on
11/01/2001 10:59:43 AM PST
by
bwteim
To: Skooz
You are making me nostalgic. I grew up not giving a hoot what was going on, and please don't tell me about it in the middle of the Beverly Hillbillies! Oh, I had opinions, but they were not consuming. Our security never seemed to be at stake so all was right with the world. Worrying about it was not my job; that's what we pay the leaders for. Then something happened; Bill Clinton became president. I found myself frequently having these increasingly disturbing feelings of uneasiness. Upon closer examination I recognized that it was born of an underlying sense of insecurity...not personal security, but national security. About 4 years into the Clinton administration I realized we were in deep doo-doo. I turned on Fox news and haven't turned it off since. I got online on election day and I'm still here.
I work with people who could care less and really don't want to be bothered with facts. When we are out on the road together, they are drinking and playing cards by the pool while I am glued to the tv and eating in my room. As it turns out, my instincts were right, but I too often long for the days of ignorance; however I realize also that that would require a return to having nothing to be concerned about. Thanks to Bubba Clinton, it may be a very long time before we are able to relax and forget about it.
On a more positive note, we have George W. Bush in the white House and not Al (the inventor) Gore. And we have all our friends here at Free Republic, so it could be much worse. Just imagine if all we had were Al Gore, CNN, and DU. Could've happened. Didn't. Perhaps had we been less vigilant the defining difference may have cut the other way. Count your blessings fellow FReepers. I rest my case.
To: Skooz
I think if this gets out, the DU'ers will be rolling on the floor obviously drunk with their own sense of self-importance and delusions of enlightenment.
To: verity; Skooz
Need new glasses. At first, I saw the word "Mormon."Skooz is usually on the better side of an argument, but if he thinks he is going to get a lot of wives to do his work for him that is illegal now ... and he will have to stop drinking, smoking and cussing...do you know whether he likes Hatch?
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posted on
11/01/2001 11:50:59 AM PST
by
harrowup
To: harrowup
Hatch????
59
posted on
11/01/2001 2:04:38 PM PST
by
Skooz
To: Skooz
I see these idiots on TV and I want to pick up something and throw it at the screen--he just chuckles and turns the channel to Bonanza. How does he do that? You keep letting your brother in law hog the remote.
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