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WileEcoyote Donating Member (1000+ posts) Send PM | Profile | Ignore Tue Oct-30-07 11:13 AM
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Things I liked best about my brother: Fooling with republicans
Remember the George Wallace supporters of the late sixties? Well these "Dixiecrats" inevitably jumped ship to the GOP. That's part of the reason why thy republican party is filled to the brim with CRAZIES today.

My older brother used to eff with their heads big time. We'd be at the swimming pool parking lot and some retard with a Wallace sticker rolls by in his 66 Lincoln with suicide doors. Stuck in exiting traffic my brother walked up to the guy driving with window down and said:

"Sir, I'm sorry to embarrass you but someone stuck a Wallace sticker on your car".

The idiot would get STEAMING mad and yet he was held hostage to traffic while getting a lecture from a 19 history major. Good lecture too. My brother never lost his temper and pulled this trick off several times in my presence.

Works well with modern day Bush supporters too. Those idiots still stupid enough to keep the sticker on their car anyway. You just have to update the remark, be polite and not get angry. When the moron's wife is in the car expect to hear something like:

"Harold I told you to take that sticker off. It's long past the election and makes you look dumb".

"All right Alice. Yes dear".


My brother eventually grew up to be a distinguished attorney (who mastered many other trades). Sadly he died far too young of a hereditary neurological illness. What better way to celebrate a person's life than to remember the times they made you laugh so hard you pist your pants?


A tad more info on my brother John here: http://www.griefnet.org/library/reviews/j/journeyalsR.html
The deadly neuromuscular disease ALS strikes adults of all ages from all walks of life. Some are well known -- actor David Niven, soap star Michael Zaslow, Sen. Jacob Javits, physicist Stephen Hawking -- and their stories have been told and retold. This book is about the rest of us. People like Marcie Gibson, diagnosed at age 23 while pursuing her dream to become a Dallas Cowboys cheerleader; Fred Kanzler, a retired engineer; Garland Neill, a long-haul truck driver; John Cahalan, a lawyer and a lover of the outdoors.
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Love Bug Donating Member (1000+ posts) Send PM | Profile | Ignore Tue Oct-30-07 11:16 AM
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1. Your brother sounds like he was a great guy!
Please accept my condolences for your loss. I think it's great to have good memories of him.
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Neecy Donating Member (1000+ posts) Send PM | Profile | Ignore Tue Oct-30-07 11:17 AM
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2. what a great story
I would have liked your brother - a lot.

And what a great idea next time I see a W sticker on a car!
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WileEcoyote Donating Member (1000+ posts) Send PM | Profile | Ignore Tue Oct-30-07 11:38 AM
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5. Yes! That's the point.
The "I'm sorry to disturb you sir, but somebody put a (insert worthless candidate of your choice) sticker on your car" is still apropos today.

John has been gone a long time now (1995). Thanks for the support but we're past the grieving point these days. I put the note there because I'd just remembered that day at the swimming pool parking lot.

It amazes me that a then 19 year draft dodger/hero like my older brother had the cleverness and spunk to pull off a practical joke like that. Pure inventive genius.

John got in huge trouble with the Selective Service in '68 - '69. they wanted to make an example of him. A "trouble maker" they considered him. So they removed his college deferment even though (unlike Rove who lived nearby) John was a full time college student. The draft board "branded him" 1A. That means you're going to Vietnam...

He beat the rap though after getting an MD to examine and declare his knees bad.

Between you and me I'm not certain there was ever anything terribly wrong with his knees. Didn't stop him from coming in third place ina major bicycle race the day before he turned 40....
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peacebird Donating Member (1000+ posts) Send PM | Profile | Ignore Tue Oct-30-07 11:27 AM
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3. Your brother sounds like a great guy, I'm glad you shared his story!
it's a classic! Sounds like he was too.
:hug:
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liberal N proud Donating Member (1000+ posts) Send PM | Profile | Ignore Tue Oct-30-07 11:31 AM
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4. We should all do that to the idiots with W sticker still on their cars
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madokie Donating Member (1000+ posts) Send PM | Profile | Ignore Tue Oct-30-07 11:47 AM
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7. I plan on doing that very thing
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madokie Donating Member (1000+ posts) Send PM | Profile | Ignore Tue Oct-30-07 11:47 AM
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8. oops
Edited on Tue Oct-30-07 11:48 AM by madokie
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NanceGreggs Donating Member (1000+ posts) Send PM | Profile | Ignore Tue Oct-30-07 11:40 AM
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6. "What better way to celebrate a person's life ...
... than to remember the times they made you laugh so hard you pist your pants?"

There truly is no better way.

Thanks for sharing this!
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