Spiny Norman over Washington D.C.

When the Piranhas left school they were called up but were found by an Army Board to be too unstable even for National Service. Denied the opportunity to use their talents in the service of their country, they began to operate what they called 'The Operation'. They would select a victim and then threaten to beat him up if he paid the so-called protection money. Four months later they started another operation which they called 'The Other Operation'. In this racket they selected another victim and threatened not to beat him up if he didn't pay them. One month later they hit upon 'The Other Other Operation'. In this the victim was threatened that if he didn't pay them, they would beat him up. This, for the Piranha Brothers, was the turning point.

--M.Python, "Ethel the Frog" (1970)

~crossposted at C.o.D.~

•  That's...

  priceless.

  by Maryscott OConnor on Sat Apr 09, 2005 at 03:50:23 PM PDT

•  Dinsdale! n/t

  by wickerman26 on Sat Apr 09, 2005 at 03:51:08 PM PDT

•  Yes!

  DINSDALE!

  Might end up with a nail in your forehead... Thanks for the memories.

  by highacidity on Sat Apr 09, 2005 at 04:22:26 PM PDT

  •  putting the boot in

    Or, with this crew, something worse...

    The parallels would be funnier if they weren't so horrifyingly accurate.

    by WendellGee on Sat Apr 09, 2005 at 05:27:47 PM PDT

•  He was a cruel man--but fair.

  by Yosef 52 on Sat Apr 09, 2005 at 04:39:05 PM PDT

  •  cheerful but violent

    Bush's brand of forthright tough-guy populism can be appealing, and it has played well in Texas. Yet occasionally there are flashes of meanness visible beneath it.

    While driving back from the speech later that day, Bush mentions Karla Faye Tucker, a double murderer who was executed in Texas last year. In the weeks before the execution, Bush says, Bianca Jagger and a number of other protesters came to Austin to demand clemency for Tucker. 'Did you meet with any of them?' I ask.

    Bush whips around and stares at me. 'No, I didn't meet with any of them,' he snaps, as though I've just asked the dumbest, most offensive question ever posed. 'I didn't meet with Larry King either when he came down for it. I watched his interview with [Tucker], though. He asked her real difficult questions, like 'What would you say to Governor Bush?' 'What was her answer?' I wonder.

    'Please,' Bush whimpers, his lips pursed in mock desperation, 'don't kill me.'

    --"Devil May Care," Tucker Carlson, Talk Magazine (9/99)

    by WendellGee on Sat Apr 09, 2005 at 05:17:58 PM PDT

•  "Dubya? Duuubya?!"

  ...So he chains me to the back of the tank and takes me for a scrape round to Dinsdale's. And Dinsdale's there in the conversation pit with Doug and Charles Paisley, the baby crusher, and a couple of film producers and a man they called 'Kierkegaard', who just sat there biting the heads of whippets...

  by WendellGee on Sat Apr 09, 2005 at 04:52:35 PM PDT

  •  that'w when they came up with

    their other other other plan.

    "you pay us..."

    i gave an orchid to two of my closest frinds a few years ago, named spiny norman as both the orchid seemed to be a huge hedgehog in a world of mobsters AND both these friends are huge python-aholics as am i.  

    btw, my all time fave rem song (my all time fave band) would happen to be "wendell gee," so if there was a way to rate this higher than 1000000, i would.  

    and then he climbed inside.

    there wasn't even time
    to say
    goodbye to wendell gee

    one of their all-time perfect pieces of music and poetry.

    _______________

    it's their screen name because they couldn't figure out how to spell "moran."

    -9.75 (e), -7.18 (s)

    by dadanation on Sat Apr 09, 2005 at 06:43:51 PM PDT