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Related: Editorials & Other Articles, Issue Forums, Alliance Forums, Region ForumsAin't linking to MoDo's farewell to Poppy - it's more like her farewell to herself (thank gudness!1
I read her whole thing about how she and Poppy had this love/hate tenderness for decades, including about how Poppy and Babs hated how mean she was to Shrub yadda yadda.
Her main proletarian point was how she is of Irish menial maid stock, the ones who tended the blue bloods and how it was such a rush for her to have become a NYT whatever over Poppy blah blah blah.
Yeah, the image of her sitting cross-legged at 6 A.M. observing Poppy on his golf course is creepily creepy.
I got nothing more for this.
*********ON EDIT: I forgot my main zingers::
* She came off sounding like she was Chico and the Man or Driving Miss Daisy!!!!!!!!!!!!!!111
dhol82
(9,398 posts)She just cant let it go.
UTUSN
(71,917 posts)DURHAM D
(32,793 posts)otoh -The number of women Bush was rumored to be involved with would have left him little time for _________. (fill in the blank)
UTUSN
(71,917 posts)And his oligarch pals' S&M
PoindexterOglethorpe
(26,132 posts)That's not a name I've seen before. Or does the person actually have a full name that somehow isn't MoDo?
dhol82
(9,398 posts)Columnist for the NYTimes.
And someone who has had a hate-on for HRC forever.
PoindexterOglethorpe
(26,132 posts)I wonder why it's so hard to type out just a few more letters so that we'd actually know who is being referred to.
UTUSN
(71,917 posts)dhol82
(9,398 posts)UTUSN
(71,917 posts)What?
Ms. Toad
(35,186 posts)Seriously - it would be nice to include enough context so that the post is accessible to anyone interested in understanding what is being discussed.
I just did a half-dozen searches to figure it out who you were talking about and came up with bupkus.
UTUSN
(71,917 posts)1) "MoDo" is an old meme, "cryptic" not being the default.
2) Sincere inquiries are sincerely responded to by most.
3) History between contestants is a clue.
Ms. Toad
(35,186 posts)I read the OP. The process I use in deciding which threads to dive into isn't really relevant.
I've been here since the early 2000s, and I've never seen that particular abbreviation before.
No idea about the history between the contestants - I just came back to the OP after doing a quick search for MoDo and came up empty. So I scanned the thread - ran into this subthread, which expressed my current frustration with the second posts in this current scan that was written by someone who apparently fun to be cryptic or can't be bothered to write enough so that the post is clear without doing additional research.
UTUSN
(71,917 posts)"apparently" make it fine to judge. Look, please stop.
Ms. Toad
(35,186 posts)which seem to suggest you were treating the confusion you created as a game.
The issue is OPs which appear to be intentionally written to be cryptic, and when asked for clarificaiton, generate derision directed at the person who happens not to be a mind reader.
Why not just write OPs that are accessble to everyone?
UTUSN
(71,917 posts)derision" ) . I can't be clearer, nite nite.
PoindexterOglethorpe
(26,132 posts)I've actually been here since 2001, although originally under a different screen name.
So I think my asking to explain a cryptic abbreviation is appropriate. Honestly, it really does help to express things so that all of us can understand whatever you are referring to.
PoindexterOglethorpe
(26,132 posts)Why not just post something that is obvious to the most casual observer, rather than some obscure reference that only a few of the in crowd can get?
machoneman
(4,118 posts)UTUSN
(71,917 posts)Nick Merrill
@NickMerrill
There were 4500 people at this event
@maureendowd
. 4499 have the capacity for joy. But glad you could make it nonetheless.
And Joan WALSH replied in retreeting:
Joan Walsh
@joanwalsh
Doesn't it ever get weird for her?
TheBlackAdder
(28,679 posts)Raine
(30,587 posts)Thank you!
UTUSN
(71,917 posts)Somebody named Robert DRAPER said:
Robert Draper
@DraperRobert
This is a beautiful send-up of 41 by @maureendowd, who was blessed with his exasperated affection: (link: https://nyti.ms/2zEHqGn) nyti.ms/2zEHqGn
************AND the estimable Charles PIERCE replied (the aforesaid).