DU'er DFW posts a bouncy with an imbeded funny.
DFW (18,060 posts)
243. Two peripheral things to this
A guy I know from Den Haag still has his number tattooed on his arm. He is an Auschwitz survivor. He is also a soccer fanatic. One time, he accompanied the Dutch national team to a match in Poland. While he was there, he made a side trip to Auschwitz, After he got back, I asked him why in the world he would ever want to go back there. He said he wanted to gloat at the ruins and say "I'm still here, and you're not." He married an Austrian Catholic, so it's not like he bore any grudges. He was neither overly proud nor in the least ashamed of his ethnic identity. Things were what they were. I wish we could all adopt that attitude. You would think that if an Auschwitz survivor can, we all could.
A friend of mine once sent me the following story. He was once portrayed (very inaccurately) by Robin Williams in a film. His sense of humor is very different from Williams' characterization of him, but still......maybe it will lighten things up here for ten seconds or so:
A US Navy cruiser anchored in Mississippi for a week's shore leave.
The first evening, the ship's Captain received the following note from
the wife of a very wealthy and influential plantation owner:
"Dear Captain, Thursday will be my daughter Melinda's Debutante Ball.
I would like you to send four well-mannered, handsome, unmarried
officers in their formal dress uniforms to attend the dance."
"They should arrive promptly at 8:00 PM prepared for an evening of
polite Southern conversation. They should be excellent dancers, as
they will be the escorts of lovely refined young ladies. One last
point: *"No Jews please."*
Sending a written message by his own yeoman, the captain replied:
"Madam, thank you for your invitation. In order to present the widest
possible knowledge base for polite conversation, I am sending four of
my best and most prized officers."
"One is a lieutenant commander, and a graduate of Annapolis with an
additional Master’s degree from MIT in fluid technologies and ship
design."
"The second is a Lieutenant, one of our helicopter pilots, and a
graduate of Northwestern University in Chicago , with a BS in
Aeronautical Engineering. His Master’s Degree and PhD. In Aeronautical
and Mechanical Engineering are from Texas Tech University and he is
also an astronaut candidate."
"The third officer is also a lieutenant, with degrees in both computer
systems and information technology from SMU and he is awaiting
notification on his Doctoral Dissertation from Cal Tech."
"Finally, the fourth officer, also a lieutenant commander, is our
ship's doctor, with an undergraduate degree from the University of
Georgia and his medical degree is from the University of North
Carolina . We are very proud of him, as he is also a senior fellow in
Trauma Surgery at Bethesda ."
Upon receiving this letter, Melinda's mother was quite excited and
looked forward to Thursday with pleasure. Her daughter would be
escorted by four handsome naval officers without peer (and the other
women in her social circle would be insanely jealous).
At precisely 8:00 PM on Thursday, Melinda's mother heard a polite rap
at the door which she opened to find, in full dress uniform, four very
handsome, smiling Black officers.
Her mouth fell open, but pulling herself together, she stammered,
"There must be some mistake."
"No, Madam," said the first officer.
"Captain Goldberg never makes mistakes."
So here in one post we get a bouncy, a bash of Southern womanhood, a knock on blacks ( who would believe they could be...), and stereo typing of Jews. I rate this a hat trick!!
I did not find anyone on the thread who brought up the Hillary's Illinois roots or her past anti Semitic history:
http://aman.members.sonic.net/clintons.htmlThe MSM manages to cover that aspect of Hillary's life pretty deep. One could make a case that she really is a pretty foul mouth nasty drunk (that would explain a lot actually).
