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BS: I Want to Be a Dictator!

27 Feb 05 - 10:26 PM (#1422551)
Subject: BS: I Want to Be a Dictator!
From: Bee-dubya-ell

Not really. But every time I see the "I want to be a director" thread title I think it says "dictator". So maybe when I see this thread title I'll think it says "director" and everything will balance out. Harmony will be restored. Or maybe not.

And maybe someone will call me a dumbass for starting this stoopid copycat thread. That'd be nice. Nobody's called me a dumbass for weeks. Come on, call me a dumbass. Make my day. My shitlist is down to two names and they need some company.


27 Feb 05 - 10:31 PM (#1422555)
Subject: RE: BS: I Want to Be a Dictator!
From: wysiwyg

OK, I'll be glad to: DUMBASS! Saw the thread title, thought "What dumbass did that?" And there ya go.

:~)

~S~


27 Feb 05 - 10:31 PM (#1422556)
Subject: RE: BS: I Want to Be a Dictator!
From: open mike

well i hope at least you would be a benevolent one.


27 Feb 05 - 10:32 PM (#1422557)
Subject: RE: BS: I Want to Be a Dictator!
From: Peace

Why do you want to be called a drumbass? What IS a drumbass? However, if yer gonna be a dictator, your wish is my command: DRUMBASS!


27 Feb 05 - 10:33 PM (#1422560)
Subject: RE: BS: I Want to Be a Dictator!
From: John O'L

Benevolent dictator or benevolent dumbass?


27 Feb 05 - 10:34 PM (#1422562)
Subject: RE: BS: I Want to Be a Dictator!
From: number 6

I think that's good bee_dubya-ell !!


27 Feb 05 - 10:34 PM (#1422563)
Subject: RE: BS: I Want to Be a Dictator!
From: John O'L

Or benevolent director?


27 Feb 05 - 10:34 PM (#1422564)
Subject: RE: BS: I Want to Be a Dictator!
From: Little Hawk

Hey! DUMBASS!!! Yeah, you!

Feel better now?


27 Feb 05 - 10:35 PM (#1422566)
Subject: RE: BS: I Want to Be a Dictator!
From: Peace

Oh, DUM bass--like not-too-bright fish. Misspelled, too. DUM BASS!


27 Feb 05 - 10:46 PM (#1422575)
Subject: RE: BS: I Want to Be a Dictator!
From: CarolC

Yeah, yeah. Don't we all.

But what we really want to know is who are the last two people on your shitlist, and who's on top?


27 Feb 05 - 11:11 PM (#1422588)
Subject: RE: BS: I Want to Be a Dictator!
From: Bee-dubya-ell

Sorry, Carol, but there's a nondisclosure clause in my shitlist maintenance licensing agreement. It's in the fine print. It's probably in yours too, assuming that you're running SList 5.0 or later.

But if you're concerned that you may be one of the two remaining people on the list, don't worry. I've totally forgiven you for sending the incriminating photo to Tweed.


27 Feb 05 - 11:15 PM (#1422593)
Subject: RE: BS: I Want to Be a Dictator!
From: John O'L

Just like a dumbass dictator


27 Feb 05 - 11:46 PM (#1422606)
Subject: RE: BS: I Want to Be a Dictator!
From: Amos

ANyone coming out and asserting they want to be a dictator is too dumb to be a dictator, unless he already has his hands on national power, like our E. Dumbya Imperialiis.

Ya don't broadcast it fer cryin' out loud!! That qualifies you to fail at dogcatcher, never mind Dictator!

A


27 Feb 05 - 11:57 PM (#1422611)
Subject: RE: BS: I Want to Be a Dictator!
From: CarolC

But if you're concerned that you may be one of the two remaining people on the list, don't worry. I've totally forgiven you for sending the incriminating photo to Tweed.

Ah well. One can dream anyway...


27 Feb 05 - 11:58 PM (#1422612)
Subject: RE: BS: I Want to Be a Dictator!
From: Bee-dubya-ell

Notice the slick manner in which Amos Silvertongue implied "dumbass" without saying "dumbass"? Sheer genius!


28 Feb 05 - 02:59 AM (#1422658)
Subject: RE: BS: I Want to Be a Dictator!
From: alanabit

Mudcat sure is cheap. Some men have to pay a lot of money to get this kind of treatment!


28 Feb 05 - 05:01 AM (#1422697)
Subject: RE: BS: I Want to Be a Dictator!
From: GUEST,Mingulay at work

Why would anyone want to be a SPECTATOR t a DUSTBIN?


28 Feb 05 - 05:49 AM (#1422712)
Subject: RE: BS: I Want to Be a Dictator!
From: Jeanie

Director.....Dictator.....sometimes these titles are interchangeable ;). But, from my experience, what you *really* need to aspire to, Bee-dubya-ell, in the Ultimate Power and Maximum Sadism stakes is to be a Choreographer !

- jeanie


28 Feb 05 - 10:59 AM (#1422922)
Subject: RE: BS: I Want to Be a Dictator!
From: Bill D

as a student of grammar & language, I note that the statement says:
"I Want to Be *a* Dictator!" ...a post which can be meaningless.

now if he wants to be THE dictator, we have a different situation.

I always aspired to be Emperor of the Universe, but I seldom get a vote after I explain my platform.


28 Feb 05 - 11:01 AM (#1422927)
Subject: RE: BS: I Want to Be a Dictator!
From: Donuel

The best line in the folksong "I want to be a dictator" is 'I'll raise me a bunch of dic tator tots'.


28 Feb 05 - 11:27 AM (#1422956)
Subject: RE: BS: I Want to Be a Dictator!
From: Rapparee

But, since I created all of you and everything else, I already am the the Top Boss Of Everyone And Everything. Bee-dubya, you can be a junior assistant Bottom Boss.


28 Feb 05 - 11:35 AM (#1422965)
Subject: RE: BS: I Want to Be a Dictator!
From: Amos

Oh, look who's all over generous of a sudden!! Nice of you, Mister Solipsist!!

One can be A dictator; there are more than one countries that already have them, or could have them with just a little more work -- the United States comes to mind.

A


28 Feb 05 - 12:21 PM (#1423007)
Subject: RE: BS: I Want to Be a Dictator!
From: Rapparee

Watch it, Amos, or I'll stop thinking about you.


28 Feb 05 - 12:45 PM (#1423020)
Subject: RE: BS: I Want to Be a Dictator!
From: gnu

I thought there already was a dictator here... Big Mick.


28 Feb 05 - 01:11 PM (#1423039)
Subject: RE: BS: I Want to Be a Dictator!
From: Amos

LOL!! Mick, a dictator?? No, you have a Deep Misunderstandiong; Mick persuades, encourages, harasses, encourages, explains and exemplifi3es, and sometimes even exhorts and bugs; but DICTATE? No, never, not he.

There's a simple reason -- his heart is too big. Dictatorial attitudes require a scrunching down of the heart, even unto a black cinder in some cases. The United States Presidency comes to mind.

A


28 Feb 05 - 01:52 PM (#1423058)
Subject: RE: BS: I Want to Be a Dictator!
From: gnu

Uh, I was referring to the spud in his shorts.


28 Feb 05 - 02:00 PM (#1423067)
Subject: RE: BS: I Want to Be a Dictator!
From: GUEST,*Laura*

I was planning on being a dictator when I'm a proper grown up. hehe.
But maybe I should change that and hop on over to the director thread instead - they're not that different!

xLx


28 Feb 05 - 02:03 PM (#1423075)
Subject: RE: BS: I Want to Be a Dictator!
From: Amos

Gnu:

I am sorry -- I missed the double entendre de pommes frites. Dick tater indeed.

A


28 Feb 05 - 02:06 PM (#1423079)
Subject: RE: BS: I Want to Be a Dictator!
From: gnu

Fried apples?


28 Feb 05 - 02:12 PM (#1423085)
Subject: RE: BS: I Want to Be a Dictator!
From: gnu

Ohh. Tu Desire un Big MAC pi a small fries la.


28 Feb 05 - 02:14 PM (#1423088)
Subject: RE: BS: I Want to Be a Dictator!
From: gnu

Oops. Tu desire un Big MAC pi a small fries la. Je fuckup la.


28 Feb 05 - 02:15 PM (#1423089)
Subject: RE: BS: I Want to Be a Dictator!
From: Bee-dubya-ell

I've changed my mind. I said I was only joking - that I don't really want to be a dictator. Well, I've decided I do want to be one after all.

Here's my first decree:

The speaking of French is hereby banned!

Il est parlé loin trop fréquemment dans cet endroit.


28 Feb 05 - 02:21 PM (#1423095)
Subject: RE: BS: I Want to Be a Dictator!
From: GUEST,*Laura*

so - if you (open question) were really a dictator (of the WHOLE WORLD) what rules would you add/remove?

Lets start with someone telling the guy I sit next to in law class to stop playing with himself under the table! It's gotta be done!

:0)

xLx


28 Feb 05 - 02:34 PM (#1423107)
Subject: RE: BS: I Want to Be a Dictator!
From: gnu

Pas Francais. C'est Shaques la. Even you can pass dat la.


28 Feb 05 - 02:44 PM (#1423117)
Subject: RE: BS: I Want to Be a Dictator!
From: John MacKenzie

Gnu surely you mean Micktater?
My friend Richard Murphy was also known as the great Dick Tater
Bee-dubya, isn't there an easier and less dominating way to make the trains run on time?
Giok ¦¬]


28 Feb 05 - 02:51 PM (#1423119)
Subject: RE: BS: I Want to Be a Dictator!
From: Amos

BeeDub, you should know that Babelfish is pathetically inept at nuance. For example, it cannot disitnguish between "far", meaning extremely, and "far" meaning a long way away. Your sentence reads "It is spoken (a long way away) too frequently in this place." Roughly.

Laura: You are treading a slippery slope telling boys not to play with themselves. I mean I can understand the desire, but the problem with laws designed hastily is they have unintended consequences. Some of which you would probably deem less desirable than the original problem, possibly, I guess. SOftly, softly, catchee monkey!! Consider the thoughtful self-restraint of the Founding Fathers; they imposed no moral requirements, out of respect for the individual.

Of course you could tell him you thought it was really gross -- that would handle it through sheer embarassment, and no law needed!! :D

Me, I would make a law against making laws that were about more than one subject, and which were of the wrong scale.

One law, one subject. Federal-scale mandates from Congress, everything else from the states and counties and civic units.

A


28 Feb 05 - 03:46 PM (#1423173)
Subject: RE: BS: I Want to Be a Dictator!
From: Rapparee

As the sign on my office door says:

All power corrupts. Absolute
power is kinda neat.



28 Feb 05 - 03:47 PM (#1423177)
Subject: RE: BS: I Want to Be a Dictator!
From: Peace

Yo, boss, what it be?


28 Feb 05 - 03:59 PM (#1423186)
Subject: RE: BS: I Want to Be a Dictator!
From: Bill D

I had a social studies teacher in High school who, after a 'spirited' discussion about freedom in class, walked in the next day and wrote on the board:

"This class is run democratically!

    signed, King Harmon the First


28 Feb 05 - 04:02 PM (#1423191)
Subject: RE: BS: I Want to Be a Dictator!
From: GUEST,*Laura*

Amos - He can play with himself - just not under the table of a public place when he's sitting next to me!

xLx

- and it would help if he didn't look like something from planet of the apes too :0)


28 Feb 05 - 04:45 PM (#1423243)
Subject: RE: BS: I Want to Be a Dictator!
From: Amos

LOL!!!! You should tell him he has permission to do it. It would bring him to screeching halt. For a while, anyway. Or take notes. :)

A


28 Feb 05 - 04:57 PM (#1423252)
Subject: RE: BS: I Want to Be a Dictator!
From: GUEST,*Laura*

Hahahahahahahahaha.
Maybe I'll try that one! :0)

xLx


28 Feb 05 - 04:58 PM (#1423255)
Subject: RE: BS: I Want to Be a Dictator!
From: Bee-dubya-ell

Yes, Babelfish's French sucks! But it doesn't suck nearly as bad as what remains of my 35-year-old single course in high school French. That's why I decreed that French shall not be spoken. You may not speak in tongues which your dictator can't understand!


28 Feb 05 - 06:00 PM (#1423321)
Subject: RE: BS: I Want to Be a Dictator!
From: Amos

That's gonna be a tough one man. If I start chanelling ancinet Persian, Mayan or Urdu, whatcha gonna do?

A


28 Feb 05 - 06:25 PM (#1423345)
Subject: RE: BS: I Want to Be a Dictator!
From: John MacKenzie

Channeling; tongues! Didn't we have this coversation already?
Giok ¦¬]


28 Feb 05 - 06:28 PM (#1423350)
Subject: RE: BS: I Want to Be a Dictator!
From: Rapparee

wintn hnoig actcu toiua idnlg feaae iaprr tnalr sdrar?


28 Feb 05 - 06:30 PM (#1423354)
Subject: RE: BS: I Want to Be a Dictator!
From: Amos

Rapaire!! Put that thing away this minute!!!


A


28 Feb 05 - 06:57 PM (#1423390)
Subject: RE: BS: I Want to Be a Dictator!
From: Rapparee

Stand back! I've got an Enigma machine and I'm not afraid to use it!


28 Feb 05 - 07:03 PM (#1423393)
Subject: RE: BS: I Want to Be a Dictator!
From: Amos

But...what does it really MEAN?


And what's that wrapped up inside it?

A


28 Feb 05 - 07:10 PM (#1423401)
Subject: RE: BS: I Want to Be a Dictator!
From: Blissfully Ignorant

I thought director said dictator too...then i started thinking about dictaphones...

Secretary- "May i use your dictaphone?"

Boss- "No, use your finger like everybody else!"

Sigh... i'm off to eat noodles, this is all too discombobulating. WOMBATS!!!


01 Mar 05 - 04:22 AM (#1423631)
Subject: RE: BS: I Want to Be a Dictator!
From: open mike

well, I, for one, am a Common Tater...
that is my radio nick name..
I'd rather be a Common one than a Dick one.
but what would be even more heavy would be
a gravi tater..


01 Mar 05 - 04:52 AM (#1423643)
Subject: RE: BS: I Want to Be a Dictator!
From: GUEST

If I had a self peeling potato I would call it an ampu tater.


01 Mar 05 - 05:04 AM (#1423647)
Subject: RE: BS: I Want to Be a Dictator!
From: John MacKenzie

Rapaire methinks white man speak with forked tongue ¦¬]
Giok