Third-Way Manny has run off, you swine

[MannyGoldstein]

Left a note saying that he can't possibly write anything better than some of the stuff that's already showing up on DU these days. The high bar has become too damned high.

@#$%. I hope he doesn't do anything impulsive.

If he shows up straddling a drone headed toward Sheremetyevo International Airport's transit zone, whoopin' and wavin' a cowboy hat around, I will hold all of you personally responsible.

[ananda]

1. Maybe he'll come back as the prodigal Fourth-Way Manny.

[MannyGoldstein]

15. Does that involve gender reassignment?

I don't think we can afford that right now.

Although we do live in Massachusetts, so insurance coverage for it might be mandatory.

If I need to lure him out of a tree or similar, I'll try suggesting it... could work.

[DontTreadOnMe]

2. self immolation!

well, at least just your hair then...

[MannyGoldstein]

11. He's more of a spontaneous combustion type.

Although I worry when he starts huffing insect repellent. That stuff's pretty volatile.

[babylonsister]

3. Praise dog!

[madinmaryland]

4. Manny Supremo just signed with the Texas Rangers. nt

[leftstreet]

5. We will not give you asylum!

[Wounded Bear]

37. I think it is wrong....

to not give him a psylum if he needs one.

I mean we are socialists around here, right?

Right?

[Kennah]

40. If you give him psylum, then I'll smoke weed, and MFM will drop acid. Wait, what's the downside?

[Safetykitten]

6. No!

[nadinbrzezinski]

7. Well, third way might write home

With emails checked and all that, will provide entertaining material to the brave boys at NSA.

[MannyGoldstein]

32. I often wonder what the NSA does with things like this thread

Determining whether it's a "menace" or a "threat" could tie up a half-dozen agents for a week.

I feel like we're wasting taxpayer money. So sad.

[kath]

39. BWAH!

Good one!

[Kennah]

41. How could that happen?

It's not like we're plotting or colluding, before or after the fact, with or without accessories.

We're just executing on a plan--no character assassination.

There are no WMDs, that anyone knows of, referenced here.

However, this could turn very explosive.

[sabrina 1]

47. That depends on how you look at these things. All those billions of dollars in tax payer

money are going to make the rich richer. Eg, Booz Allen (Clapper's former Corporation) is getting billions from the tax payers so they are getting richer and richer. What else would we do with tax payer money? Eg, Clapper was a former (and probably future) CEO of Booz Allen. NOW he's the Director of Intelligence. Why don't we appreciate the BRILLIANCE of all this?

They have a small club, they use the system to keep funneling money into their own businesses. Terror is the COMMODITY they are selling. And Congress hears from Clapper about how the threat is so huge they need MORE money to fight it. And it's worked now for over 12 years.

As for the spies who are reading this thread, I would be so angry if I were in their position. They are the peons, working against their own people, and getting a pittance for doing so while the bosses get richer and richer.

[Enthusiast]

48. Terror is the COMMODITY they are selling.

They did it with Soviet communism for many decades.

[Starry Messenger]

8. Silly man. Hopefully a nice evening with his postage stamp collection will set him right.

[MannyGoldstein]

10. Bad idea.

He scrapes the glue off of 'em into a little pile and snorts it. For the next month there's nothing by whining about cat hairs stuck in his nose.

It's awful.

[Starry Messenger]

16. Oh the humanity!

[LittleBlue]

9. Third Way Manny is hot on Snowden's trail

Moscow airport authorities alerted

[rhett o rick]

12. I knew it, I knew it, Third Way Manny was a wanker. nm

[MannyGoldstein]

19. Was? Was? Oh my God, does that mean you know he's... he's...

Not wanking anymore?

That'd be a relief.

The incident at the library was more than a decade ago, but the embarrassment still seems fresh in my mind.

[rhett o rick]

26. Good grief. Once a wanker always a wanker. nm

[PoliticAverse]

13. Yes Third-Way clearly inspired many current DU posters. He should be proud. n/t

[MannyGoldstein]

14. You'd think he'd be bursting with pride!

But he's a nervous wreck, his self-esteem totally shot.

A shell of a (sensible) man.

He feels like he's been permanently eclipsed by forces even Thirder Way than himself.

[PoliticAverse]

18. I'm surprised he's not bursting - he seemed to be full of something. n/t

[L0oniX]

22. He needed a break. He was pissing off a lot of assholes.

[kentuck]

17. Sorry to hear that..

He was one of my favorites.

[pa28]

20. Poe's law is dead.

Poe did a swan dive off the golden gate bridge after reading DU this week.

[MannyGoldstein]

21. I never knew about Poe's law

Only lived it.

So self-unaware, I am.

Thanks for the info!

[woo me with science]

49. +1

[woo me with science]

50. +1

[bigtree]

23. not necessary

. . . just put another sock (or two) over the last one.

[MannyGoldstein]

24. I think that's a sock puppet joke

But I don't get it.

Maybe I'll have a Sam Adams and try it again.

[bigtree]

27. truth be told

. . . I only half-listened to 'TWM,' so I'm likely the one not 'getting it.'

Is this more performance art, or is it something serious that you think I should pay closer attention to, Manny? Thanks in advance for your answer.

[MannyGoldstein]

29. It's like performance art meets norovirus

I'd recommend staying far away, and donning biohazard gear just in case.

[DeSwiss]

25. We'll meet again Manny.....

...I'm almost certain of it!

- K&R

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[MannyGoldstein]

30. God, I love that movie.

"No fighting in the War Room"

[Spitfire of ATJ]

28. Good. The guy was an asshole.

[MannyGoldstein]

31. Was? My ass!

He has an indomitable asshole spirit.

[Spitfire of ATJ]

36. If that were true, he wouldn't have writer's block.

[Fuddnik]

33. Save Third Way Manny!

Tom Wolfe almost gave up writing "Bonfire Of The Vanities", because when he wrote a chapter that was so outrageous, to be preposterous, something would pop up in the New York headlines the next week, that was even crazier than the craziest he could imagine.

Just look at the Cargo Cult as an inspiration for an even crazier future. Let your inner craziness flourish and grow!

[Tierra_y_Libertad]

34. Manny, there may be an opening for you at the White House or DNC.

[Kennah]

43. West lawn, 120 feet from the guard shack, just crawl under TWM

[MrModerate]

35. Errrm . . . I think I would have needed to be there . . . ? n/t

[longship]

38. And the DUzys are on hold again.

Oh! The HuMannyty!

[Kennah]

42. I hear he signed up with the Judean People's Front

[MannyGoldstein]

46. Sorry, I can't get behind that.

[Maven]

44. Saw him boarding a plane in Moscow.

And here is his flight path!

[idwiyo]

52. ...

[Le Taz Hot]

45. Manny, you are one of DU's greatest wits.

I love your posts. Always have.

[DisgustipatedinCA]

51. Third-Way Manny is now beyond help from anyone, save one

Luckily, he's available since his last gig didn't work out.

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[suffragette]

53. Oh no! Does he need a map to find his way back?

If we look around here, I'm sure we could find one.

[felix_numinous]

54. If we can't laugh at ourselves

periodically, we will kill each other.


Happy 4th!!

[KoKo]

55. LOL's...