The Gwampy Thread

[Mrs. Cindy Gill]

it was a very new idea, that the president could be like any common criminal. it was the thing that made everyone so jaded that we all think everyone does it now.

 

maybe they did then. but we didn't all know it.

 

it was a crime. it murdered our innocence and our ability to believe in things better than ourselves.

 

hard to see it that way from this side, but i do remember looking up to people. stupid as that was looking back on it i guess. but... it was a good thing also.

[reyler]

I suppose that makes sense. Hereditary monarchy had been known for a thousand years at least to be capable of scumminess, but they weren't freely elected by their constituents.

 

It is difficult to understand, though, the mindset that says that a person who has in whatever way obtained a position of power and authority must of a certainty be deserving of it.

[Mrs. Cindy Gill]

not of a certainty but... there was a certain level of discretion involved, and... school children especially were raised to respect authoritah. to not assume everything from the top down was a lie. maybe the grownups knew better but until then... well. doesn't matter now.

[reyler]

It doesn't help that part of the Amerikan character has always involved a bit of a pushback against authority, though the nature of that pushback has varied wildly over the years. I don't think the immediate and unqualifying distrust people have when anyone in authority speaks these days is any healthier than blind obedience, though.

[Mrs. Cindy Gill]

extremes are not usually good. the whole thing seems like a set up. just an easier way to manipulate the masses.

 

i'm a bit paranoid tho.

[reyler]

That's the sort of thing I'm talking about. My boss seems to have this outlook where he believes everyone in the world is out to take advantage of and cheat someone else. I can't think that way - I mean, what would the point be in engaging in society at that point?

[Mrs. Cindy Gill]

it's post apocalyptic thinking. rule by fear. surprisingly effective. i wouldn't have predicted this outcome, but i guess lots of other people did.

[reyler]

No, it's called him being a cynical bastard. I've been dicked over pretty much constantly throughout my life, but I have managed not to interpret this to mean that dicking people over is the natural inclination of existence in general.

[GrandpaG]

Was she referring to "Dick" Nixon?

[Mrs. Cindy Gill]

tricky. id have bought a used car from that man tho.

[reyler]

Maybe, but he'd have sold it to you as new.

[Mrs. Cindy Gill]

it's in the job description. at least you know what you're walking into with used car salesmen.

[reyler]

Certain death?

[Mrs. Cindy Gill]

death is always certain. constant car repair is less so.

[reyler]

Buy a horse. They run on biofuels.

[GrandpaG]

Stable bills.

 

Hay.

 

Shoes.

 

Vet bills.

 

Grooming.

 

Trimming.

 

Exercising.

 

Cleaning up pooh and pee.

 

Getting kicked.

 

Saddle sores.

 

Getting bucked off.

 

Sugar cubes.

 

Dental bills.

 

Etc.

 

 

 

Used car salesmen transitioned from being horse traders.

 

Try as they may, few of them ever get stinking rich and they live with tarnish on their reputations every day.

 

I'd like to be a professional gambler but they get the same bad rap as used car salesmen... not a trade that your grandma would approve of... but still a step above dealing Mary Jane.

 

How did I get started on all of this?

 

Oh, yeah... HORSES!!!

[reyler]

You either deal in Mary Jane or you deal in Gwen.

[bad company]

I would go Black Cat, all Mary Jane is useful for is getting chucked off bridges

[reyler]

Err, Gwen is the one that got chucked off a bridge. MJ just gets chucked off bridges in various adaptational media that want to reference the Death of Gwen Stacy story without fridging MJ or using a character that's been dead for forty years.

[GrandpaG]

* hasn't the foggiest *

 

 

 

 

Wifey is watching the Disney version of Scrooge...AGAIN!!!

 

Oh, well.

 

That's her thing.

 

I shouldn't talk... I just spent an hour writing stuff that only twenty people in the whole world will ever see.

 

A person must enjoy something.

[reyler]

Jeez Gwampy, you were actually of comic reading age at the time!

[bad company]

Don't think he is exactly young, except in heart

[reyler]

His enforced diet would suggest there is nothing young about his heart.

[GrandpaG]

Some days I'm younger than other days. Most days I'm 57. Until April Fool's Day.

 

 

 

 

 

I've reconsidered last week's comment. Who cares if only 2 people read my writing as long as I enjoy it. And what's an hour or two here or there? How many people in this country go MONTHS without actually enjoying ANYTHING!!! I like to RP (or anyway that's what I call it). It's free. It gives me pleasure. If somebody doesn't like it, they don't have to read it. No harm done. A few hundred bytes that could have been wasted elsewhere. And, after I'm dead and gone who knows...maybe I'll get famous posthumously!!!

[reyler]

I've never concerned myself with my audience; my own satisfaction is the only reason I do anything on here.