Re: Pretty Bloody Annoyed

I keep on hoping that if I give you enough rope you will get around to hanging yourself, but it doesn't look as if you are any better at knots than you are at electronics.

-- Bill Sloman, Nijmegen

Now now boys, do we need a referee ?

Or a governess.

John

One of my grandmothers was home-schooled by a series of governesses; her mother - my great-grandmother - was loaded, Nobody else in the family ever had anything like that much money.

-- Bill Sloman, Nijmegen

Is that why only one person in the family acquired any manners?

John

I was home _pre_-schooled by my Mom[RIP]. One of my earliest memories is of sitting on Mom's lap, with a book in my lap, Mom reading from it, pointing to each word as she read it. IOW, I learned to read before I even learned to talk! (I think it was more like imprinting than learning, but in the ensuing years, I used to win spelling contests and stuff.)

And it didn't cost a thing. (IOW, you CAN get a free education - go to the Public Library, and teach your kids to read.)

But my Mom was always very wise.

Cheers! Rich

Obama ?:-) ...Jim Thompson

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Odd that you should say that. Of all my grandparents, my maternal grandmother was the biggest social disaster. She had indeed been well- schooled in manners, which meant that she manifested her her rudeness and egoism in ostensibly inoffensive comments and actions. She wasn't as bad as her younger sister - the infamous Aunt Dora - who bullied her daughter (no shrinking violet herself) so mercilessly that the daughter took herself interstate in her early twenties and refused to have any further conact with her mother.

My mother seems to have learned her social skills from her father, who was a much nicer person.

-- Bill Sloman, Nijmegen

My point-by-point commentary about the defects of the Obama administration/czarism, all 48" column inches of it, was published yesterday in the local newspaper.

Immediately got a hate E-mail that could have been written by "President" Carter... a diatribe about how I just couldn't tolerate Obama simply because he's black; and adding threatening overtones :-( ...Jim Thompson

Obama is black? Why didn't anyone tell me?

Made me laugh for the first time in your life.

See the movie "All of Me" with Lilly Tomlin and Steve Martin.

Roughly what one would expect. We know that Jim hates Obama because Obama isn't far-right enough to suite Jim, but anybody silly enough to take Jim's political opinions seriously enough to read and respond to them has to be silly enough not to be able to distinguish between political and racist malice.

-- Bill Sloman, Nijmegen

I don't take Jim's political ideas seriously, I just mine them for absurd comments - like the above.

You should understand - you do exactly the same kind of thing.

-- Bill Sloman, Nijmegen

Wonder why Slowman still hasn't produced a copy of his USA Visa stamp from his passport... or can he even get a passport ?:-) I'm always pleased to note that I'm the highest standard for Slowman's disdain, but please don't feed the jerk. Let him die that most unpleasant of deaths... alone ;-)

...Jim Thompson

Thompson and I have each other plonked - does anybody want to ask him to either post his diatribe here, or a link to it on the Web?

It might give some interesting insights into the workings of his "mind".

Thanks! Rich