[Vision2020] Pigs, hogs, boars and bores

[debismith at moscow.com]

I said it before in regards to Donovan, and I'll say it again:
Never try to teach a pig to sing. It wastes your time and annoys the pig.

If I remember my Green Acres, criticism and disagreement bring out the boor in Little Arnold... 
It makes him rant and rave and do the hokey-pokey (and shaking his ittty-bitty hooves all about 
is not pleasant for anyone, likely not even that exploited little trotter.). 

At the risk of offending the fine breed called PIG:

Amazing how our Arnold can go from defending a position to attacking other defenders of the 
position in three to five e-mails. (Oh, wait, I meant 35 e-mails, his own self-imposed daily limit.) 
However, I remember Arnold the Pig being the only smart character on Green Acres. It still sort 
of works, as DJA is terribly busy bringing gracious gifts of time and energy to the less fortunate 
yet he still has time to become an expert on every damn thing under the sun---I wish I had that 
level of ambition and ability to stick-to-it! I would have about 12 degrees to shore up my 
pronouncements, and could then improve my own whine with better erudition!

Not claiming any expertise here, but I have watched Donovan do this cyclical dance over about 
five iterations in 2 years----I Love You, I Hate You, Go Away Closer, I'm a Helpless Victim 
Helping Real Victims, I'm Different, Accept Me, You Dirty Scoundrels, Why Don't you Love me, 
Go Away Closer.....etc ad naseum. He has many excuses, many proclaimed diagnoses, and 
many apologies unmade.

 I had the poor DonnieDude off Bozo for a bit, but he's back on my filter until he gets better 
meds and a therapist who will confront his behavior. His ability to reason has again taken a 
hike. I think he's essentially an OK guy, he's just been let off the personal responsibilty hook 
way too many times...or perhaps his very full life is so stressful he needs to wave his little 
hooves around on V2020 to gain some sanity. If that's the case, I say go for it, Donnie. I also 
say to others on the list use your filter or delete button and don't respond. Remember how it 
annoys swine when you do that....

ToeKnee remains filtered because he's just a wanker who like to pull folk's chains...No 
excuses for him. He's a deliberate shite who deserves no explaining....

Debi R-S



To:             	vision2020 at moscow.com
From:           	Joan Opyr <joanopyr at moscow.com>
Date sent:      	Fri, 4 Aug 2006 18:53:36 GMT
Subject:        	[Vision2020] Pigs, hogs, boars and bores

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Donovan, you're a pig.  You're a list hog.  You are boorish and thus both 
a boar and a bore.  There now: are you satisfied?  Area Man has not called 
you a swine.  I have.  This, Arnold Ziffel, is an ad hominem attack.  I 
back it up with no arguments whatsoever; I simply invite people to read or 
re-read your 20 per day of illiterate, irrational, irritating squeals 
dating back, I believe, to the Battle of the Somme.  Brave readers may 
draw their own conclusions as to when exactly you met and annoyed the 
great swine-making goddess Circe.  I would suggest that this happened at 
the time of your birth, so either you were secretly pushed out in on an 
island in Greece or Circe came to Moscow in the early 1970s.  I'm plumping 
for the latter as it would explain more than just your own boarish/boorish 
behavior.

You are an oik and an oink, Donovan Arnold.  On the Internet, as in life, 
this world is all about root hog or die.  You're rooting, all right, but 
you're not rootin' tootin', and I'm not rooting for you, nor yet am I 
playing the tiny violin at your endless pity party.  Why not?  Because you 
can't teach a pig to sing or to dance.  You can't put lipstick on a pig, 
and you can't make a silk's purse out of a sow's ear.  No matter how you 
slice it -- thick cut, center cut, or cured in maple syrup -- you will 
never be appropriately dressed for your very own swinish soiree.

That's too bad, but all is not lost.  Perhaps some day a lovely spider 
named Charlotte will take up residence in the corner of your bedroom and 
write the word "Humble" in her web.  You will read this and take it to 
heart.  Then we will no longer be bored/boared/boored unto death by your 
endless empty annoying squeals.  

Until then, however, this Templeton the Rat isn't holding her breath.

Joan

Joan Opyr/Auntie Establishment
www.joanopyr.com

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