On Oct 27, 4:09*pm, "Michael \"Dog3\"" > wrote:
> "Dimitri" @fl pi149.ffdc.sbc.com:in rec.food.cooking
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> > "Gregory Morrow" > wrote in message
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> >> Something interesting I thought I'd share...
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> >> This weekend I took a friend out for a birthday dinner. *Went to a
> >> little Pan - Asian place down the block, a place I'd never patronised
> >> but it was the choice of the Birthday Gal...
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> >> Best
> >> Greg
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> >> " I find Greg Morrow *lowbrow, witless, and obnoxious. For him to
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> >> we are some
> >> kind of comedy team turns my stomach."
> >> - "cybercat" to me on rec.food.cooking
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> > Obamopertunity missed - you should have given the waiter 1/2 tip and
> > the homeless man the other half.
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> Yes, well he didn't. Greg is my sistah and I luvs him, but sometimes... *He
> took from someone that probably makes less than $25 grand a year (unless
> the waiter is Allan Greenspan in disguise, trying to see how the little
> people live so he can relate to them) and gave it to the homeless man. *
> Either Greg knows nothing of the economic policies of either party or he
> chooses to make jokes of them. *However, Greg did not show Republican
> tendencies either. *Were Greg a Republican he would have manufactured a
> reason to stiff the waiter, either ignored or kicked the homeless man, and
> invested the $20 in Exxon.


Lol...

Actually, if I were in the waiter's position I would have thought
something along the lines of "Hmmm...maybe I shouldn't wear anything
that promotes any particular political candidate, maybe nobody cares
who I vote for. I'm there to do my job, not to proselytize...".

Voting and politics is a very personal thing, and I don't bring up the
subject unless someone else does. Being in the heart of the ***
community *everyone* assumes that *every* *** person is voting for
Obama or whoever the Democratic candidate of the moment is, they
assume that all conservatives are evil, that Reagan was The Devil
Incarnate, etc. So when someone - and I'm speaking especially here
of the *** activists I know - starts going on about "our community"
and such I'll always pipe up and say, "Uh, did I elect you to speak
for me?". These types always act very shocked when I respond in such
a manner my response is, "Well, Y-O-U brought it up, didn't you? Did
it ever occur to you that not every single person you encounter might
not agree with you...???".

As I've gotten older I've gotten very tired of all the politically
crap, and there is a LOT of it in the *** community. These people are
a pretty smug and self - satisfied bunch, very adept at crying
"victim" and pointing an accusing finger at any who dare to disagree
with them...many take the moral high road when they personally
*themselves* are naught but scumbags. That to me is simply childish
and immature and I distance myself from that. IMNSHO the the "***
community" is a pretty fvcked - up group who need to grow up and get
their acts together, the only "community" that's more messed - up is
the black community...

The thing is that when some group - in this case the *** community -
posits themselves as so very morally superior to, say, Republicans or
conservatives or whatever and when they act exactly as bad or worse as
they they are criticising that makes them hypocrites. I *ain't*
havin' it...

It's similar to when the Repugs were all braying about Clinton's
blowjob a decade ago and then it comes out that some of his GOP
accusers (particularly IL Rep. Henry Hyde aka "Henry Hyde the Humbug"
as we called him here in Illannoy) was just as guilty of even *worse*
egregrious behaviours in his past, e.g. blatant affairs, divorces,
etc.

BTW years ago I was in some podunk place downstate and I ate at a
place where you got a printed bible verse thing with your check. I
did not tip *that* waitperson either, same as I did with the incident
above. Your particular agenda is *not* my business, so don't be all
annoying and shoving it my face and then expect me to *pay* you for it
on top of everything...it's simply common sense to me.

Anyways, I am a very generous tipper and I am always kind to those
working in public contact positions, I'm big on the "Please, thank
you, sir, ma'am" stuff. I've worked those jobs and a customer being
nice to them more often than not might even make their day...they work
pretty hard for not much money.


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Best
Greg