[Vision2020] Can we call him the Stinkster?

[Art Deco aka W. Fox]

Joan writes:

"Doug, who is a published admirer of Southern hospitality, must be familiar with
this kind of reporting..."

Joan, of the publication you speak:  Did Doug write it or did he copy it?

Keeping my blinds tightly shut,

Wayne

Art Deco  (Wayne Fox)
deco at moscow.com

  ----- Original Message ----- 
  From: Joan Opyr
  To: Vision2020 Moscow
  Sent: Tuesday, August 17, 2004 12:08 PM
  Subject: [Vision2020] Can we call him the Stinkster?


  From Moscow's newest gossip columnist:

  >Dr. Nick Gier, local intolerista agitator, and author of God, Reason, and the
Evangelicals: The Case Against Evangelical >Rationalism was recently seen on
Conestoga St. in Moscow, looking to link up with Charles Nolan, publisher of
J.C. >Ryle's great work entitled Holiness. Subsequent events indicated that they
did in fact find each other. Charles Nolan >also recently appeared in World
magazine as a "knowledgable witness" on the tax exemption fracas. Since he was
not >formally connected to those proceedings, we can only surmise other strange
alliances gave him a special esoteric >knowledge.  -- Posted by Douglas Wilson,
to his blog, 8/16/04.


  I'm sorry Tom, Wayne, Jack, et al., but I have to disagree with you.  This
isn't evidence of paranoia; it's a charming return to the small town Southern
tradition of spying (and reporting) on one's neighbors.  As recently as 1991,
when I last lived in North Carolina, little newspapers like the Four Oaks
Gazette had a special column devoted to what was called "society news."  This
consisted of scintillating stories like, "On Friday night, Mr. and Mrs. Red Neck
of 1313 High Colonic Lane were joined at supper by Mrs. Maybelle Colitis of
Goldsboro.  They enjoyed a hearty meal of baked possum, RC Cola, boiled peanuts
and moon pies before embarking on a game of pull-my-finger.  Mr. Neck, who is
reported by friends, relatives, and near neighbors to be 'straight-piped,' won
the game resoundingly."

  Doug, who is a published admirer of Southern hospitality, must be familiar
with this kind of reporting, and I have to admit that I am myself a fan.  It
saves wear and tear on the drapes (all that rubbing back and forth on the
curtain rod caused by peeping out) not to mention phone calls to friends to find
out whose Buick that is in Mrs. Flabbergast's driveway.  Better by far to have
that vital information online!  I only wish I could be an active participant,
but alas, I don't live on Conestoga.  I live at the end of a half-mile long dirt
road, and my house is not visible from the road.  What can I do to be a part of
this vital information sharing?  Wait . . . I've got it.  I'll self report!

  "On Wednesday, Ms. Saundra Lund visited Ms. Mary Joan Opyr at the Opyr-Huskey
home.  The ladies drank Diet Coke and ate stale doughnuts, which, as everyone
knows, have no carbohydrates.  Ms. Opyr then attempted to foist some of her
excess zucchini crop onto Ms. Lund, who kindly took three but left the other
four hundred and thirty six.  Ms. Opyr regrets this as her children are
steadfastly refusing to eat zucchini bread, zucchini fricasse, zucchini
ratatouille, and zucchini surprise -- AKA, zucchini eaten while wearing a
blindfold."

  And that's the news from Lake Wobegone.  I'm Chevy Chase, and you're not.

  Joan Opyr/Auntie Establishment

  PS: Saundra -- come get some zucchini!  I'm begging you!










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