question time about the DUmpster, Skins's island, the primitives, &c., &c., &c.

[Karin]

Thanks very much, Frank.  I did finally take the time to read some of the Fitzmas debacle.  That thread you rec'd above was so funny as the days ticked by...Mon, Tues, Wed....and heads start to splode.  What a classic.  And, here I see smiling Karl on TV nearly every night, talking to Sean and others, free as a bird. 

[GOBUCKS]

Fitzmas, on May 12, 2006, was hilarious.

And DUmmies everywhere were popping corks on champagne they had been saving since before Christmas 2005, when they had been assured Lord Rove's indictment was imminent. The funniest thing about Fitzmas, aside from the shock and in the DUmmy world when it fizzled, was that after Jason Leopold and Pitt dreamed the story up, mainstream democrat politicians briefly bought into it. Hillary Clinton even mentioned Rove's indictment at a public event on May 12. Her humiliation forever doomed any chance Pitt ever had of legitimate political employment.

[franksolich]

And DUmmies everywhere were popping corks on champagne they had been saving since before Christmas 2005, when they had been assured Lord Rove's indictment was imminent. The funniest thing about Fitzmas, aside from the shock and in the DUmmy world when it fizzled, was that after Jason Leopold and Pitt dreamed the story up, mainstream democrat politicians briefly bought into it. Hillary Clinton even mentioned Rove's indictment at a public event on May 12. Her humiliation forever doomed any chance Pitt ever had of legitimate political employment.

What always got me about it was that even illuminaries such as P-J Comix seemed to blame the Leopudlian reporter, Jason Leopold, for the mess, when the blame should fit squarely upon the Bostonian Drunkard.

It's true that the Leopudlian journalist wrote the story, but the Bostonian Drunkard was his editor, where the buck stops.

And then it got even more ridiculous, when the Bostonian Drunkard leaked the story to the primitives before it had been verified.

The Bostonian Drunkard can't keep his mouth shut.

It was reminescent of November 2004, when the Bostonian Drunkard leaked that the Bostonian Billionaire was going to challenge Ohio, and then had to make all sorts of excuses about why it hadn't happened yet, almost clear up until Valentine's Day 2005.

One now sees the foresight of the Bostonian Drunkard's paternal grandfather, in leaving a trust fund for his grandson, but under a trusteeship of responsible adults; possibly the paternal grandfather suspected that if the Bostonian Drunkard didn't spend it all on beer, he'd spend it buying the Brooklyn Bridge.

[franksolich]

Incidentally, it was during the Fitzmas Fiasco that "schadenfreude" was invented.

Some primitive was trying to be clever (before the story turned out a hoax), and mentioned breaking open a bottle of champage as a means of freudenschade, a term in German for gloating over the misfortunes of one's enemy, but got the word ass backwards.

[franksolich]

Someone in a personal message asked the origin of the name "Fat Che," AKA "Fister," BenBurch.

"Fister" comes from a peculiar private sexual proclivity (and perhaps more of a fantasy than a practice) of Fat Che.

Sometime after the Scamdal had died down, about autumn 2005, someone at our old home researched Fat Che, and found a "personal" advertisement Fat Che had placed on the internet in 1996, stating that proclivity, or fantasy.

In it, Fat Che readily admitted he was fat, and at the time (1996) in his forties.

Coincidentally, about the same time, I had been shown (not given, but shown) a real-life photograph of the real-life Fat Che--never mind why I had been shown the photograph; it was the most unpleasant experience I've ever had on the internet--which betrayed him as a fatting four-eyes, by then in his 50s.  His belly hung down in front of him, as if an apron.

Fat Che at various times had admitted to being near-sighted and asthmatic, besides obese.

Fat Che, while on Skins's island, had always been advocating violent revolution, machine-gunning down the "class enemies."

And so the "picture" immediately popped up, that of a near-sighted older middle-aged guy wearing a bandana and a Che Guevera t-shirt, machine-gun in hand, wheezily storming the ramparts, his belly flip-flapping in the air.

[miskie]

Incidentally, it was during the Fitzmas Fiasco that "schadenfreude" was invented.

Some primitive was trying to be clever (before the story turned out a hoax), and mentioned breaking open a bottle of champage as a means of freudenschade, a term in German for gloating over the misfortunes of one's enemy, but got the word ass backwards.

I'm pretty sure that's backwards - schadenfreude is the actual word with no English equivalent - meaning to take joy in someone's misfortune , whereas freudenschade came to mean what the primitives got to experience - intense feelings of dismay as the misfortune they were prematurely enjoying was actually their own.  There is a great DUFU on the new word located HERE.   

[Odin's Hand]

Someone in a personal message asked the origin of the name "Fat Che," AKA "Fister," BenBurch.

"Fister" comes from a peculiar private sexual proclivity (and perhaps more of a fantasy than a practice) of Fat Che.

Sometime after the Scamdal had died down, about autumn 2005, someone at our old home researched Fat Che, and found a "personal" advertisement Fat Che had placed on the internet in 1996, stating that proclivity, or fantasy.

In it, Fat Che readily admitted he was fat, and at the time (1996) in his forties.

Coincidentally, about the same time, I had been shown (not given, but shown) a real-life photograph of the real-life Fat Che--never mind why I had been shown the photograph; it was the most unpleasant experience I've ever had on the internet--which betrayed him as a fatting four-eyes, by then in his 50s.  His belly hung down in front of him, as if an apron.

Fat Che at various times had admitted to being near-sighted and asthmatic, besides obese.

Fat Che, while on Skins's island, had always been advocating violent revolution, machine-gunning down the "class enemies."

And so the "picture" immediately popped up, that of a near-sighted older middle-aged guy wearing a bandana and a Che Guevera t-shirt, machine-gun in hand, wheezily storming the ramparts, his belly flip-flapping in the air.

Someone, I know whom it was and they are a member here, hacked into his webcam and posted various images at CU of him lousing about in his utility apartment.

[happy1ga]

To the end of heping you with market research, Frank, I also started coming here from NewsBusters. I was a heavy commenter there starting in late 07, and this site was mentioned often. I havent posted there in quite a while, so am not sure how it goes now.

[miskie]

Someone, I know whom it was and they are a member here, hacked into his webcam and posted various images at CU of him lousing about in his utility apartment.

BWAHAHAH!!!  I knew nothing about that.

Two important lessons

A) don't leave your webcam connected if not in use.
B) check for viruses and whatnot regularly.

I'm going to guess the tool used was Sub7 or a variant thereof. I also find it amusing that a self-righteous "tech genius" would get caught with a trojan capable of webcam control infecting his PC.  

[franksolich]

I'm pretty sure that's backwards - schadenfreude is the actual word with no English equivalent - meaning to take joy in someone's misfortune , whereas freudenschade came to mean what the primitives got to experience - intense feelings of dismay as the misfortune they were prematurely enjoying was actually their own.  There is a great DUFU on the new word located HERE.   

Thanks for the correction, sir; German isn't a language of mine.

[franksolich]

During the early evening (I was out), I got another personal message, inquiring of how "Skinner" evolved into "my fellow alum Skins."

My fellow alum Skins of course being the owner of Skins's island, which he has magnanimously given to the primitives, for them to romp and play at will.....and scant gratitude he gets from them for that, but they're primitives after all.

By the way, Skins played rugby for Yale. 

Really; I kid you not.

The first time I saw a photograph of Skins (the one where he was carrying an anti-life sign at a protest), I did a double-take, because minus his ears and eyeglasses, we would almost be twins.

That was some years ago, and while franksolich remains the same, yesterday, today, tomorrow, always the same, my fellow alum alas has aged.  I saw a recent photograph of Skins palling around with Lord Marblehead.

My fellow alum either had his eyes recalibrated, or now wears contact lenses, but the years have not been kind to him--or perhaps it's the futility of trying to please his charges, the primitives--he now looking tight and drawn like Nancy Reagan.

Anyway.

Skins graduated from Yale University in New Haven, Connecticut.  franksolich graduated from the University of Nebraska in Lincoln, Nebraska.

Incidentally, the Center for the Study of the Great Plains at Yale is the jewel in Yale's crown; there's more Nebraska history stored there, than in Nebraska.  Which is of course fine; that way, Yale, and not the taxpayers of Nebraska, pays for preserving this stuff.

To get back on track: the University of Nebraska, at least when I was there, used to "borrow" professors from other institutions, finding that less expensive than hiring permanent professors.  Apparently this was a "prestige" thing, eastern professors being invited to teach at Nebraska for one or two years, as the University never had any problem getting them to come out here.

I recall that one time while in college, I commented it seemed peculiar that so many of my professors were from.....Yale.  (This was years before Skins's island existed.)

Well then, since Skins and I were both taught by professors from Yale, I suppose it's reasonable to claim that we're fellow alums.

[DumbAss Tanker]

Incidentally, it was during the Fitzmas Fiasco that "schadenfreude" was invented.

Some primitive was trying to be clever (before the story turned out a hoax), and mentioned breaking open a bottle of champage as a means of freudenschade, a term in German for gloating over the misfortunes of one's enemy, but got the word ass backwards.

Miskie is quite correct, "Schadenfreude" is the correct German word.  PJ, over on DUFU, started using an inversion of it, "Freudenschade," for the particular phenomenom of their malicious glee over our misfortunes (Which would be Schadenfreude, and the word was featured in the gloating DU threads when the pending indictment was trumpeted by Witless Will) turn to ashes in their mouths when events turn on them and they find themselves rather than the VRWC on the losing end, as indeed happened in the Great Fitzmas Fiasco.

I find this site to be a great resource for checking German vocabulary, the dictionary typing utility has a nice little feature that lets you insert umlaut letters rather than going to arcane coding drills or trying to Anglicize them:  http://dict.tu-chemnitz.de/

[franksolich]

Yeah, I really goofed on that.

I knew there were two words involved, and wasn't sure how it went, and so flipped a coin.

Obviously I lost.

[miskie]

Yeah, I really goofed on that.

I knew there were two words involved, and wasn't sure how it went, and so flipped a coin.

Obviously I lost.

Oh well, excrescence happens. I have spent a lifetime perfecting the art of making mistakes and will continue to do so for the rest of my days.

[bkg]

My only question...

Why do so many people on this site spend so much time over at DU, etc? I mean, I get the "know your enemy" aspect...

But otherwise dont' get it at all.

[franksolich]

My only question...

Why do so many people on this site spend so much time over at DU, etc? I mean, I get the "know your enemy" aspect...

But otherwise dont' get it at all.

Guilty as charged.

I work at home, accounting and bookkeeping.

I am deaf; can't hear a damned thing, thus no television, no radio, no movies, no telephonic chitchattery, no other forms of diversion and amusement freely available to hearing people.

What is one to do then?  Sit in a comatose state, twiddling the thumbs?

Also, I have an academic interest in anthropology, sociology, and to a lesser degree, psychology.

Skins's island was made for franksolich.

And hence I make no apologies; hearing people watch soap operas or nightly serials on television, which is exactly the same thing.

[crockspot]

I have a question about DUmmies..... Why are they so ******* stupid? 

[bkg]

Guilty as charged.

I work at home, accounting and bookkeeping.

I am deaf; can't hear a damned thing, thus no television, no radio, no movies, no telephonic chitchattery, no other forms of diversion and amusement freely available to hearing people.

What is one to do then?  Sit in a comatose state, twiddling the thumbs?

Also, I have an academic interest in anthropology, sociology, and to a lesser degree, psychology.

Skins's island was made for franksolich.

And hence I make no apologies; hearing people watch soap operas or nightly serials on television, which is exactly the same thing.

Hope you didn't think it as an attack. Honest question worded poorly. I just don't get the fascination, though the humor is entertaining. 

[franksolich]

I have a question about DUmmies..... Why are they so ******* stupid? 

I'm going to pass that question on to JohnnyReb, our Will Rogers here.

[franksolich]

Hope you didn't think it as an attack. Honest question worded poorly. I just don't get the fascination, though the humor is entertaining. 

No, sir, it was not (mis)construed as an "attack," but rather accurately perceived as an honest question.

[happy1ga]

I came here due to my fascination of the primatives. I dont know anyone like them in real life, so they seem foreign to me. I wanted to understand how they could have such screwed up sensibilities. I still enjoy the reading, but am no closer to understanding them, however. I also work from home and dont care much for television, so this is like a soap drama for me.

[Odin's Hand]

I came here due to my fascination of the primatives. I dont know anyone like them in real life, so they seem foreign to me. I wanted to understand how they could have such screwed up sensibilities.

That is the first reason I became interested in the DUmpmonkeys, as well. I live in the reddest of the red states and I am not exposed to their lot often outside of the university I attend...even then their views are subdued unlike the DUmp. Then one day, when I had first came across CU through a recommendation by an established member there, Ben "Fister" Burch was saying, bluntly, that he hoped the U.S. military was destroyed during an invasion of Iran had Bush Jr. pursued that line of action through Congress. It was an eye-opener to true mentality and desires of the left on a scale that I hadn't seen before.

[AllosaursRus]

When I had back surgery many years ago, I was restricted to reclining 24/7 for nearly 6 months, I heard of FreeRepublic on a Rush program. Of course the premier thread on FR was the DUmmie Funnies. I joined the Viking Kitties and it became a great competition to be the first poster daily on PJ's most excellent renditions of the DUmp and their petty BS.

I met Coach thru DuFu,  PJ, etc, and was invited to CU during AndyScam. I began hanging out over there more than the more restricted FR. (you have to pretty much watch your p's and q's, plus there seem to be many holier than thou types). When the ronulans took over CU I noticed Coach was not around as frequently along with many of the regular posters I was accustomed to. I asked Coach about this and was invited here.

The DUmmies have always fascinated me as their complete lack of logic amazes me. Having been in construction 30 years and forced into technology to the point of programing, logic is paramount. That they continue to exist without logic is nothing short of a miracle to me. I guess I am like a condor circling it's next meal, waiting for it to succumb to the natural order of things, in order to feed on the dying corpse.

[franksolich]

Well, here's something interesting.

There's much comment in the DUmpster, about the ways the primitives think.

One could allege that the primitives don't think at all, they only "feel."

But that aside, what's always struck me about the primitives and the way the primitives think, is their habit of thinking things to a desired conclusion.....and then stopping thinking.

Never mind that there's much more beyond the point of the desired conclusion.

[thundley4]

Well, here's something interesting.

There's much comment in the DUmpster, about the ways the primitives think.

One could allege that the primitives don't think at all, they only "feel."

But that aside, what's always struck me about the primitives and the way the primitives think, is their habit of thinking things to a desired conclusion.....and then stopping thinking.

Never mind that there's much more beyond the point of the desired conclusion.

That law of unintended consequences bites them in the ass all the time.  What's the old saying? "The road to Hell is paved with good intentions."