Open Thread – Troll of the Week Award!
20 06 2009For the most part, dealing with internet trolls is mildly distasteful, but it’s pretty easy to get rid of them, and with a click of the mouse I imagine them hurtling through space and landing in the mudflats. >splat!< But there are a couple trolls who are quite persistent and I’m not sure if they’re actually aware that their posts never get up on the blog, and don’t generally get read at all. But no matter to me.
However, there was one trollish retort that I couldn’t bring myself to delete. I’ve had it in my spam queue for a week now, and it always gives me a chuckle when I need it. So fond am I, in fact, of this little gem that it finally struck me that I simply must share.
Remember when I posted this picture on an open thread last week?
I said it was some kind of fungus, and that I’d found it just sitting there on the trail all by itself, and that it sort of looked like a brain. There were several witty comments about finally finding “Sarah’s brain,” and then…. this one:
That fugus is smarter then you.
A double whammy! I started laughing and Spouse asked me what was so funny.
Now, Spouse and I tease each other and say, “That fugus is smarter then you!” pronouncing fugus like ‘fyoo-gus’, and making sure to say then and not than.
I’ll delete it some day, but for now, the spam queue always contains at least one item. So, thank you Al from Texas, for a bright spot in my day, and congratulations for being The Mudflats’ Troll of the Week!
June 20th, 2009 at 9:54 PM
samper
*looking at you seriously*
We (as a community) are concerned about YOU.
The Gino can take care of herself. And we (as a community) are not worried about how or where she lives, in that she might be suffering or any of her children.
We are concerned about YOU. And care about YOU. And want the best for YOU. I ask on behalf of the community here that you care for YOU and know that YOUR health and concerns in their best outcome are what we want for YOU.
The Governess will find a way to betray even her most loyal, but not her paid GOP, personnel, and we all know that she can’t keep the lie going and will lose the country, as a whole. The 20%ers will always be with her, and the SS and FBI and the IRS (hopefully) will always be on alert because of her hateful swill.
You’re alright, and we’ll get thought this. All of us, in one way or another. We’re OK and you will be, too. You are a delightful and ingenious survivor, and so stop the crap. You’re stronger than you think.
June 20th, 2009 at 10:16 PM
Wow, love fest going on and I missed it, just came home from a party, met a diver and her husband she is from England, her husband from California, I started saying I read this blogs from Alaska and , theres this lady, she signs as UK Lady ( i’m feeling a connection here) and the woman goes I loove Alaska.. you been there?…. oooh yes a month and a half… oh you know they have this horrible governor….her face goes blank, she has no idea what i’m talking about but she looks at her husband and tells me in a conspiratorial manner… I’m afraid to go back, because I feel I wont be able to leave that place!…. I realized SP is inconsequential to them and I remember the photos taken by celtic Diva and AKM, the photos Hope took on her trip to Eagle and i smile in agreement, Alaska is a wondrous place! Once again i understand the words of Gustavo Adolfo Becquer: “I don’t know if the world lives within or outside of us, but I know I know people who I have never Met”.
Yeah, there was wine.
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June 20th, 2009 at 10:47 PM
Martha Unalaska Yard Sign
Homemakeover Cryfest — watch it all the time. One of my fav’s. My cousin usually calls me about 8 to 10 minutes in, hears me say hello, all she says it, yup you’re watching. Then hangs up. Always make sure a box of tissue is close at hand! There are some commercials that can do it!!
Be proud that you are helping by contributing to your Sister in the care of your mother. That’s a huge thing too as it too can be a strain. For you to uproot, they know and understand that it could cause strain on you and your family which wouldn’t necessarily help. I’m sure she would be appreciative if you are able to periodically provide a break for her and her family to get away. That’s like gold!! Should circumstances change, you’ll be in a better position to step in.
My last employment, my boss was one of 13. Their mother took sick and she moved in with one of the daughters. My boss would care for her a day every two weeks. Once in a while she would do a weekend. She too contributed financially. The other 11, couldn’t see them for their dust. I shook my head in disbelief. It came to a point the one sister could not care for her any longer as she was divorced and had 2 kids in an apartment. They could have collectively put a down payment on a small house for her to help with space and the kids as it would have been paying a mortgage instead of rent. They did put the mother in a nursing home. Between them, they could afford it but it still blew me away out of 13!!!
As to back — it’s from the lifting, bending, rolling, those things you find a method that works for you that becomes repetitious. Then when you need to change your methods when there’s a downgrade, the body alerts you to take a hike!! Ain’t doing it!! You keep pushing through it. When my cousin was able to take her for a weekend, I would be planning out what I wanted to do with this free time which quite often included going to look at pieces of equipment to see if they would work. Two of those gold weekends — she would pick her up Friday afternoon & return on Sunday. Twice on a Thursday I would blow my back, whether sleeping wrong I don’t know, but walking or getting up – I thought I was 105!! Crap! Oh mannnn! I only did it on my time!!! How considerate LOL.
So, as above — there is no guilt to be had. Sis understands and knows but she also knows that you’re there when she needs you & when she does, you’ll be there in a heartbeat. Big difference to what I wrote above re my boss’ family – that’s not in your DNA!!
June 20th, 2009 at 11:15 PM
@Marthe Unalaska: I did not comment but I read all the wonderful love of caring for loved ones and feeling of guilt that you have not done enough back and forth. I commend all of you. You are truly wonderful and your loved ones who seem to not remember who you are, somewhere in themselves are aware and grateful to have you. I am very proud to be acquainted with such a wonderful family as Mudflats. I I love you Mudpups.
June 20th, 2009 at 11:17 PM
good job Al!
just what we need,
another dumb ass from texas!
June 21st, 2009 at 1:41 AM
What a goofy night! I think the whole Red Shirt thing set us on our heels. We were just all over the place tonight – and yet, it all made sense to be nonsensical. All of their intolerance sparked tolerance and confusion in us, much of which benefited us as a collective mentality but we also we wore AKM out as the keeper of our zoo of wounded and stricken hearts.
Tomorrow/tonight is solstice (does that give away where I live even more than my blog name?) and spirits run high as does the sun. We are touched with madness, but a good madness it is! I jumped in because it’s not all about the Twit Sarah – who is a verboten name in my house this last week. I jumped in because it’s high summer and I realized that I wouldn’t exactly know which direction to take next without ya all next to me! AKM – you rock and shine like the solstice eve.
June 21st, 2009 at 2:00 AM
Martha Unalaska Yard Sign wrote :
I think the whole Red Shirt thing set us on our heels.
I actually think that for those of us who spent a lot of time watching the testimony, it has been a long couple of weeks. It is emotionally exhausting to sit there and witness all of that hate and love pouring out. Not to mention some of the upsetting stories of discrimination.
I know I hit my limit of hate on Wednesday night when there were too many red shirts in a row – and there were things going on here which were stressing me out too which did not help.
Today is Sunday, so everyone should put down the keyboards and get outside for a bit.
take a break, we all deserve it.
June 21st, 2009 at 6:10 AM
I almost feel sorry for poor ole Al…
Guess would be that when the slithy toves gyre and gimble (?) in the wabe, he’s right there calling them slimy toads, and totally missing what’s going on… then- also, too.
June 21st, 2009 at 7:50 AM
One more for the secret shopping: spiesindisguise dot com (age compliance).
Thanks MinNJ!! XOXO
Just let’s make sure the rural villages and Eagle are taken care of BEFORE winter.
June 21st, 2009 at 11:51 AM
@samper “hairshirt” is metaphoric shorthand for “self-torture, self-blame, taking too much credit for doing wrong, when in reality you are doing the best you can”. Hairshirts were a very uncomfortable shirt which penitents would wear to remind themselves that they were sinners. A very medieval x-tian concept, like self-flagellation.
June 21st, 2009 at 12:12 PM
Wow… I’m pretty pathetic, then!
June 21st, 2009 at 12:12 PM
And it had NOTHING to do with all the rum last night, either!
June 21st, 2009 at 3:12 PM
I think you should have an ‘Al of the Week’ troll award with the best one published for all the world to see…proof of the unreasonable, ignorant.
June 21st, 2009 at 6:11 PM
@ samper — ((((hugs)))) Definitely did not mean to imply anything about pathetic. We’ve all got hairshirts sometimes.