To paraphrase Hawkeye Pierce: "The instrument has yet to be invented that could measure

[Warpy]

23. I knew somebody like that, she was also sucked in by Jim Bakker

back in the old days when he was fleecing the faithful while Tammy Faye wept.

Fortunately, this lady was very old money, rich as Croesus, and relied on religious bullshit to help her cope with an alcoholic husband, so I kept my trap shut as she showed off all her televangelist bling.

It's just very different when they're scamming money from people whose Social Security isn't allowing them enough to eat, and that's what Dumdum's gang of grifters was doing. At least the televangelist scams had an element of choice, Dumdum's grifting was involuntary on the part of the suckers.