BS: Sucking Up is Hard to Do

Subject: BS: Sucking Up is Hard to Do
From: Donuel
Date: 20 Oct 05 - 07:51 PM

That great ol Roy Orbison tune reminds us how hard some things can be.

Can you imagine how hard it would be for you to tell George Bush to his face that he is the most intelligent man you have ever known?

I can not for one minute believe that it comes naturally to Harriet E Miers to suck up in such monumental terms to W. Still let it be a lesson to us all that persistence pays.

http://www.thesmokinggun.com/archive/1012055miers2.html

click on the numbers at the bottom to see the dear George letters.

Subject: RE: BS: Sucking Up is Hard to Do
From: Ebbie
Date: 20 Oct 05 - 08:09 PM

Whatever does Bush mean when he tells her in his letter: No more public scatology'?

Trying to get a handle on it, I looked it up formally and of all these synonyms: "bawdry, dirt, filth, obscenity, profanity, ribaldry, smut, vulgarity. Slang : raunch" it seems most likely that he's telling her to cool it on the public bawdy utterances or maybe profanity?   Anybody got a different idea?

Subject: RE: BS: Sucking Up is Hard to Do
From: Peace
Date: 20 Oct 05 - 08:16 PM

Scatology is the study of animal droppings to determine what that animal has been eating of late.

Subject: RE: BS: Sucking Up is Hard to Do
From: Peace
Date: 20 Oct 05 - 08:17 PM

Scatology is the study of great singers like Ella Fitzgerald and their approach to certain types of jazz/musical breaks in songs.

Subject: RE: BS: Sucking Up is Hard to Do
From: Bee-dubya-ell
Date: 20 Oct 05 - 08:18 PM

He probably meant somethin' else, though God only knows what. Th' boy ain't exactly th' brightest bulb on the Christmas tree, ya know.

However, I did actually hear him use a four-syllable word on the radio today! It's true! He said "infrastructure". Not sure he knows what it means, but he did say it.

Subject: RE: BS: Sucking Up is Hard to Do
From: The Fooles Troupe
Date: 20 Oct 05 - 08:46 PM

Easy! He's heard so often that he's trying to destroy it - ya know if ya throw enough mud at something, some of it sticks...

Subject: RE: BS: Sucking Up is Hard to Do
From: Bobert
Date: 20 Oct 05 - 09:42 PM

Not to deviate too far from scatology but...

... back in my social worker days I had a client, fresh from Central Sate Hospit6al in Pwetersburg where many of my clients came from, who I placed in one of my many "home-for-adults" (borarding house) and got a call from the owner the followin' day...

"Ahhh, BObert, that guy we put in Room #3 has just informe3d the other residents that the second floor bathroom is off limits to the other residents on the 2nd floor..."

"Okay," I asked, "how has he done this???"

"Well, he wrote it on the door with, ahhhhhhh, ahhhhhhhh, ahhhhhhh.... well, it's brown an' yer gonna have to get this assh*le outta my buildin'!!!!"

I wish I had invented this story but, alas, no such luck...

Well, in social work everything goesa into a case file... Oh, how to state what has just occured???

Well, Ill guarentee that if one were to read every case file of every nutball client that has been serviced by the Adult Serives Division of the Richond Department of Welfare one would only find one reference to a "scatological artsit".....

Why me???

Bobert

Subject: RE: BS: Sucking Up is Hard to Do
From: The Fooles Troupe
Date: 20 Oct 05 - 10:02 PM

I can believe you're not making that up Bobert...

Subject: RE: BS: Sucking Up is Hard to Do
From: dianavan
Date: 20 Oct 05 - 10:04 PM

In the context of the note, I would guess that it means "Do not try to explain any shit to the public."

Does anyone have a link to a handwriting analysis of this note?

Subject: RE: BS: Sucking Up is Hard to Do
From: Ebbie
Date: 20 Oct 05 - 10:52 PM

Good guesses- Ella Fitzgerald, indeed, Peace! LOL but I'm still curious as to what the Precedent had in mind. It still seems to me that he's saying something like 'No more swearing in public' or maybe 'No more earthy talk'.

By the by, is Helen Miers married? Saturday Night Live had a funny skit involving her and dubja. (ja ja jippy ja ja!)

Subject: RE: BS: Sucking Up is Hard to Do
From: bobad
Date: 20 Oct 05 - 10:54 PM

I think she's married to Jesus.

Subject: RE: BS: Sucking Up is Hard to Do
From: Amos
Date: 20 Oct 05 - 11:01 PM

Bush's handwriting is a study, isn't it? Fractured, floating, moving too fast to be coherent, undisciplined, unformed.... the hand of a man who really intends to NOT ocmmunicate.

A

Subject: RE: BS: Sucking Up is Hard to Do
From: The Fooles Troupe
Date: 20 Oct 05 - 11:14 PM

Well said Amos (whatever he said) ... :-)

Subject: RE: BS: Sucking Up is Hard to Do
From: Mark Cohen
Date: 21 Oct 05 - 12:55 AM

Wow, Amos, splitting an infinitive and creating an appropriate neologism in the same sentence...pretty cool! [insert stupid winking smiley face thing here]

Aloha,
Mark

Subject: RE: BS: Sucking Up is Hard to Do
From: Ebbie
Date: 21 Oct 05 - 02:47 AM

LOL Amos, that reminds me of an instance when a friend and I were just getting acquainted and discovered that we were both Sagittarius. (This was on email) We then described our characteristics and both assured the other that we were good proofreaders and went on to discuss several other things- in the course of which we both made glaring mistakes that we didn't catch. In a further back and forth we tried to correct the previous errors and made more.

We finally agreed to just drop it.

I do like 'ocmmunicate.' That is just about what he does.

Subject: RE: BS: Sucking Up is Hard to Do
From: Donuel
Date: 21 Oct 05 - 07:01 AM

mmm maybe it was Neal Sedaka that did the song 'breakin up is hard to do, and not Roy Orbison.


THIS JUST IN...   from my imagination.

An occomunicate shows that Repsident Bush has personally foiled a terrorist plot this week.
The office of disinformation has forwarded a miscommunication regarding the federal burro of investment nations and released footnotes of classified documents pertaining to the unterception of yellow cake from Nigeria at Port Baltimore.
Interrogations are said to be discontinuing at this very moment at Camp Ramblewood.

General Betrayusall has stated for the record that the ocmmunicate that he has recieved shows clear evidence of al Kidda chatter that may demand an immediate invasion of Iran.

The buzz inside the beltway alludes that the President himself provided the tip of the iceburg that led to the thwarting of the terrorist plot to obtain yellow cake and assemble the ingredients in the desserts of Arizona.

When the President's press secretary was asked how the President knew of the recipe for disaster, he said "In the interests of National insecurity the exact nature of the unintelligence can not be indulged or misunderestimated at this time".

Subject: RE: BS: Sucking Up is Hard to Do
From: Donuel
Date: 21 Oct 05 - 07:26 AM

and now the rest of the story...

George W was wearing a very shiney suit on that sunny Texas day when Harriet Miers said he was the most "brilliant" man she had ever met.

Subject: RE: BS: Sucking Up is Hard to Do
From: The Shambles
Date: 21 Oct 05 - 07:30 AM

Great thread.

Subject: RE: BS: Sucking Up is Hard to Do
From: The Shambles
Date: 21 Oct 05 - 07:44 AM

See - Sucking Up is not hard at all.

Subject: RE: BS: Sucking Up is Hard to Do
From: Wesley S
Date: 21 Oct 05 - 09:21 AM

Donuel - Could you be thinking of the Neil Sedaka song "Breaking up is hard to do" ?? It's a good song - but it's not by Roy Orbison.

Subject: RE: BS: Sucking Up is Hard to Do
From: Donuel
Date: 21 Oct 05 - 09:47 AM

I said Neal Sedaka, but I guess that is the Jewish spelling ;)
I guess the falsetto was similar to Roy's.
________________________________________


The completed story...


A communiqué has revealed that President Bush has personally foiled a terrorist plot this week.

The Office of Disinformation has forwarded a miscommunication regarding the Federal Burro of Investment nations and released footnotes of unclassified documents pertaining to the interception of yellow cake from a reception at Port Baltimore.

Interrogations are said to be discontinuing at this very moment at Camp Zenophobe.

General Betrayusall has stated for the record that this is clear evidence of al Kinda chatter that may demand an immediate invasion of Iran and possibly Hollywood, depending upon the President's entry strategy.

The buzz inside the beltway is alluding to a rumor that may have the President himself providing the tip of the iceberg that led to the thwarting of the terrorist plot to obtain yellow cake and assemble the ingredients in the desserts of Arizona.

When the President's press secretary was asked how the President knew of the recipe for disaster, he said "In the interests of National insecurity, the exact nature of the unintelligence can not be divulged, indulged or misunderstood at this time but you should take this threat very seriously. The President has said on numerous occasions that if you are not afraid yet, you have greatly misunderestimated him".

The Press Secretary went on to say that "this incident will further strengthen the veracity of, and support for Supreme Court nominee Harriet E Miers. This morning at a pro life prayer breakfast, she further clarified her quote, that "George Bush is the most Brilliant man I have ever met", by saying the Governor was in fact wearing a very shiny Italian suit on a very sunny day in Texas.

The bottom line is, there can now be no doubt in any one's mind, regarding the brilliance of the Commandeer and Chef. Anyone who says otherwise is itching for a fight, and that includes covert CIA agents.

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