None of it intended by the Usual Suspects, and all of it at their expense."
While our Lost Causers (or pro-Confederates, if you prefer) get belly-laughs from mockery, they don't realize some of the biggest guffaws are on them.
Where should we even begin?
- In post after post woodpusher mocks a clerical error, but pays no attention to #365 and #423 where FLT-bird posts "hit & run" attacks with no addressees!
Those "hit & run" posts are not "clerical errors" since you can't do them without knowingly deleting the addressee block. - And, speaking of FLT-bird: hilariously dumps lengthy posts (i.e., #215, #258, #260, #269, #287, #311... etc.) while almost simultaneously (beginning at #261) repeatedly claiming there'll be no more "stealing my time".
- For some context, the following appeared in "today's" New York Times, October 16, 1861, regarding a naval engagement near New Orleans:
- "We are indebted to the rebels for late and important news from New Orleans and the mouth of the Mississippi.
The only trouble we have is to determine how much of it is worthy of belief: for we have found that a rebel bulletin of victory has followed every clash of arms, no matter how unfortunate the result may have been to the rebel side.
It is a part of the rebel system of warfare, and felt to be necessary, no doubt, in order to keep the cause alive, to make the rebel population believe that their arms are always triumphant.
And hence, perhaps, the present boastful dispatch from New Orleans...""The rebel system of warfare..." -- to claim victory, no matter the actual results, the original Bagdad Bobs.
In that particular case, near New Orleans, Confederate reports were accurate, the Union naval squadron did panic & flee from Confederate fire-rafts.
Indeed, throughout 1861 Confederates won more than they lost, even in Union states, and so gross exaggerations were not so often needed.But even these days, as we see on this thread, our pro-Confederates will do their football end-zone victory dances, as if they'd scored a touchdown when they are actually pushed back to their own end-zone.
Now that's funny! - Woodpusher's odd sense of humor is evident in his hoping to get Union defenders to say that Ulysses Grant himself was somehow a Lost Causer!
This slight-of-hand began with woodpusher quoting Grant from December 1865, but presenting Grant's words as if they were woodpusher's own.
He then challenged us to agree and when we declined, claimed that means we think (Big Reveal!!) Grant himself was a Lost Causer!Then, rolling on the floor laughing, woodpusher extends his "Grant the Lost Causer" names to include:
- "By now his Lost Causers by quotation include Abraham Lincoln, Ulysses S. Grant, and Roy P. Basler (executive secretary and editor-in-chief of the Abraham Lincoln association 1947-1952; editor of The Collected Works of Abraham Lincoln, 9 volumes)."
The most curious part is that woodpusher claims to be a Northerner, and that may explain why his joke was so oddly conceived and poorly executed.
Jeffersondem, I think, on these threads epitomizes subtle, understated Southern humor.
Woodpusher could take lessons.