Atman meets franksolich (story now complete)

[GOBUCKS]

Pedro is gonna be pissed at being outed as an aging queer.

All his DUmpmonkey buddies are following this thread.

It's been a bad year for Pedro, fired by the junkmailmeisters at Mission Control, DUmpmonkey candidates losing elections, and now outed by franksolich.

Pedro is seeking work as a freelance cartoonist with no artistic skills whatever.

Could be slim pickings ini the 0bameconomy.

Anyway, keep him in mind for all your cartooning needs.

[franksolich]

Pedro is gonna be pissed at being outed as an aging queer.

Well, there should be penalties for bad manners.

Like, for example: it's okay to shout out to franksolich from Skins's island.

Sometimes, however, franksolich is very busy with something more important.

However, since it's good manners to respond to a shout-out, one is compelled to drop that, and address the shout out.  And franksolich is an avid practitioner of good manners.

It's perfectly okay for any primitive to shout out to franksolich.

But it's good manners if the primitive makes an appointment first, so as to not interrupt franksolich.

And now Atman has seen what happens, when one has bad manners.

Too bad for Atman.

[Skul]

 
Poor Pedro. The lad hasn't had his "inkwell" dipped in years.

You, sir, probably used to do this river that runs by here, the Elkhorn River.

Elkhorn was half a mile south.  Hwy 20/275, three blocks south. 281, two blocks to the west.    Yup, did it.

[franksolich]

Somebody from eastern Connecticut was here.

Now, I'm not going to say it was Atman; all I'll say is I can guarantee it's not the late Chief S itting Bull, the bird-smacking stoned red-faced primitive, the Greatest Primitive Ever.

It appears franksolich has put his evil twin in a most unusual quandary now.

Atman wants to go back to Skins's island to whine about franksolich.

But if he does that, he'll attract the attention of primitives to this story.

And he doesn't want all this stuff to be known about him.

So.....what's Atman to do?

What a quandary, what a predicament.  Alas for Atman.  Too bad.

[Ballygrl]

So is Atman 1 of those leftists who are snobby and look down at what they view as the "little people"?

[Ballygrl]

continued

“They’re nice places, neat and clean and all that, and the food can’t be beat, but you got no more chance of finding one with a vacant room than nadin does of marrying Prince Harry.”

to be continued

[franksolich]

So is Atman 1 of those leftists who are snobby and look down at what they view as the "little people"?

You have got to be kidding, girl.

Please tell me you're kidding.

Atman makes the rich bitch kpete look egalitarian in comparison.

This after all is a guy who pipes Perrier water into his commode, because ordinary water isn't good enough for what he drops in there.

It's really odd, this royal attitude, because Atman's not part of the 1%.  Part of the 5%, but not the 1%.

A long time ago, I thought that Atman perhaps was a graduate of some elite college, like Yale, because of his attitude.  Much to my surprise, I later learned he has no college degree at all.  He's just one of those bums, supported by mom's investments in a camera company decades ago, who grew up lounging around on the beaches of Florida, and never got into college at all.

That threw me for a loop.

[Ballygrl]

You have got to be kidding, girl.

Please tell me you're kidding.

Atman makes the rich bitch kpete look egalitarian in comparison.

This after all is a guy who pipes Perrier water into his commode, because ordinary water isn't good enough for what he drops in there.

It's really odd, this royal attitude, because Atman's not part of the 1%.  Part of the 5%, but not the 1%.

A long time ago, I thought that Atman perhaps was a graduate of some elite college, like Yale, because of his attitude.  Much to my surprise, I later learned he has no college degree at all.  He's just one of those bums, supported by mom's investments in a camera company decades ago, who grew up lounging around on the beaches of Florida, and never got into college at all.

That threw me for a loop.

I know nothing about him at all, and find it amusing that the people they say they care about are the ones they turn their noses up at.

[franksolich]

You know, I'm still wondering if perhaps Atman and franksolich haven't actually met in real life.

I spent the summers of 1978 and 1979--about two months each time--in the home of an ancient physician of Italianate derivation in Springfield, Massachusetts (he was later on 60 Minutes being asked why he was the largest recipient of Medicare payments in the country; I dunno what he said, for obvious reasons).

They were usually gone up to Maine, but that was okay.  The house was jammed with books.

I also took long walks around the city; my "landmark" was the home of some illustrator of children's books; it was supposed to famous, but I was indifferent about it.

Anyway, I wonder if at any of the stores, Atman and franksolich bumped elbows.  Atman was a forklift driver at a camera factory in Springfield those summers.

[Chris_]

I know nothing about him at all, and find it amusing that the people they say they care about are the ones they turn their noses up at.

He showed up at our old home and tried to pass himself off as educated and worldly. 

It didn't work.

[Skul]

Too bad, so sad, for the atman primative.
Now that his sexual and financial shenanigens have been revealed, Will he ever have another "date" with some fine young man on Skimmer's island?
Pedro should have known better than to mess with the master.

[franksolich]

He showed up at our old home and tried to pass himself off as educated and worldly. 

It didn't work.

I remember--oh, there's s-o-o-o much to remember--two of his faux pases in particular.

One of the two was when he alleged that there had never been polls showing a majority support for impeachment of William Clinton back in 1998.

miskie nailed him on that one, and good.

The second of the two was when he alleged that William Clinton had won both his presidential races by Reaganesque landslide margins.

franksolich had the honors of nailing him on that one; Clinton in fact was the only two-term president in American history who never got a majority of the popular vote in at least one of those two elections.

Most however remember his bouts with dutch508.

[franksolich]

Pedro should have known better than to mess with the master.

Well, I dunno about that, but I hope to God the next time--if there's a next time (which there probably won't be)--he wants to shout out to franksolich, he checks first and makes an appointment, in case franksolich is too busy doing something else (in this case, OSC).

[Revolution]

As usual, excellent work, sir.

Most however remember his bouts with dutch508.

I wasn't here. Maybe Dutch would care to illuminate me, and others who are interested.

[GOBUCKS]

He showed up at our old home and tried to pass himself off as educated and worldly.

That's as laughable as when he showed up at the Mission Impossible junkmail firm and tried to pass himself off as an artist.

Imagine how incompetent one must be to be fired by a political advertiser during the runup to a national general election.

The ability to lick envelopes should assure employment at least until the end of the year.

[obumazombie]

Was he genetically gay, and if so, was he also genetically a surfer ?

[Revolution]

He might have webbed feet...

[franksolich]

As usual, excellent work, sir.

Thank you, but I do have one regret.

I wanted to post a certain photograph of franksolich for the lurking primitives to see, but there's some here who don't like it, saying it doesn't show off my best side.

Maybe Dutch would care to illuminate me, and others who are interested.

For days, for weeks, dutch508 and Atman got into it about anything and everything, the bottom line being that every time dutch508 proved Atman wrong, Atman got all upset and threatened to sue him.

[GOBUCKS]

Thank you, but I do have one regret.

I wanted to post a certain photograph of franksolich for the lurking primitives to see, but there's some here who don't like it, saying it doesn't show off my best side.

Thanks for your restraint.

Maybe you could persuade Lucinda to send that photo to DUmmy Pedro in a personal message.

[obumazombie]

The adjustable wrench could have been used to personalize the surfboard "accidentally" even, as Snagglepus would say.

[franksolich]

Was he genetically gay, and if so, was he also genetically a surfer?

That was the most difficult decision I had to make, when writing the story.

Should I put a surfboard, or skis, atop Atman's car?

Atman skis too, although he's probably not good at it (for the record, franksolich himself has never put on a set of skis, so it's reasonable to assume that Atman tops franksolich in skiing), given the problems he had in real life, getting through one of the mountain passes in southern Colorado several years ago.

I wanted his car to stick out.

Well, motor vehicles with skis strapped to the top are as common as Cornhusker football fans in Nebraska, so I went with the surfboard, again, to make Atman stick out.

[Skul]

That was the most difficult decision I had to make, when writing the story.

Should I put a surfboard, or skis, atop Atman's car?

Atman skis too, although he's probably not good at it (for the record, franksolich himself has never put on a set of skis, so it's reasonable to assume that Atman tops franksolich in skiing), given the problems he had in real life, getting through one of the mountain passes in southern Colorado several years ago.

I wanted his car to stick out.

Well, motor vehicles with skis strapped to the top are as common as Cornhusker football fans in Nebraska, so I went with the surfboard, again, to make Atman stick out.

For some reason, that just creeps me out. 

[franksolich]

For some reason, that just creeps me out. 

Atman way back when wrote a few free-lance stories for a surfing magazine, and at a garage sale up here (but in the big city) some years ago, I found one with one of his stories.

As you know, I'm an avid collector of old magazines, generally those before 1941, when they started going downhill, and there were a few old surfing magazines included in a box of other magazines; one had to buy the whole box, which I did.

There was a story about some physician of Hebraic derivation, who'd given up his profession just to surf.

Yeah, that's right.

Atman thought him rather remarkable.

I googled the surfer, to find out more about him.  This was years and years after Atman had written his piece, and it was an eye-opener.  The guy had pulled his kids out of school (he graduated from medical school in 1946, so you know what "time-period" we're dealing with) and took them to live on the beach with him.

They grew up illiterate, and as adults turned against him.

He was still alive at the time I googled him, and his latest endeavor had been "surfing for Palestine" off the shores of Israel.

Atman really knows how to pick winners.

[obumazombie]

Maybe Pedro learned how to pick winners from Al and Jesse as well.

[Skul]

Maybe Pedro learned how to pick winners from Al and Jesse as well.

Perhaps that's true, however, Al and Jesse are smart enough not to eat their own boogers.