Best Nutter of the Year

[cinnabar]

Have you seen this story? Some demented woman has slapped a restraining order on David Letterman, saying he''s sending secret coded messages during his TV shows. She claims he wants to marry her and make her his TV co-host, and she wants him to stop harassing her.

http://www.cinematical.com/2005/12/23/letterman-hit-with-restraining-order/

I''m not sure who gets my vote as Biggest Nutjob: is it the woman, who is clearly insane and needs professional (medical) help, or is it the stupid judge who signed the order? His chances of re-election are looking slim after this.

Actually, while we''re at it, we could have a little poll on here for "Biggest Nutjob of 2005"

No nominations based purely on political persuasion or personal grievances, please. Just honest-to-goodness fruitcakes.

Some starter suggestions:

1. Anyone who seriously thinks about marrying Paris Hilton

2. Michael Jackson

3. The woman in another news story this week who swallowed her cell phone in an argument with her boyfriend

4. Tom Cruise

5. Colleen Nestler (the Letterman case woman, above), who really could benefit from a tin foil hat

 

[Mara]

Katie Holmes for marrying Tom Cruise!!

Keven Federline just for existing!

 

[strmrdr]

Im sorry but I find this thread very sad.
Its CHRISTmas tomorrow.

Why do we need to tear people down?
Have you ever though that people think your a nut because you spend a lot of time online?
Because you love diamonds?
Because you are otherwise different in any way?

 

[cinnabar]

Date: 12/24/2005 6:34:53 PM
Author: strmrdr

Have you ever though that people think your a nut because you spend a lot of time online?

Because you love diamonds?

Because you are otherwise different in any way?

Yes, people think I''m a nut, I don''t doubt it. I don''t have a problem with it. Hey, I''ll nominate myself, how''s that?

 

[valeria101]

Date: 12/24/2005 9:03:55 PM
Author: cinnabar

Date: 12/24/2005 6:34:53 PM
Author: strmrdr

Have you ever though that people think your a nut because you spend a lot of time online?

Because you love diamonds?

Because you are otherwise different in any way?

Yes, people think I'm a nut, I don't doubt it. I don't have a problem with it. Hey, I'll nominate myself, how's that?

Yes. Sir. You bet! Second that...

Only told one guy about 10k posts... He thought it was a bad joke

Yeah, right. Don't know myself. It would be allot harder for me to spend so much time facing a computer without the occasional lighthearted chatter here

 

[Mara]

haha I *am* a serious nut...the best part is when you know it and EMBRACE it...and don''t care what others think.

(still think k.fed is a serious nutter!!)

 

[AGBF]

Storm,

You are a good man, but sometimes one has to laugh. Not in people's faces, but at the ridiculous things that they (and we) do. I laugh often at the ridiculous. I often find it in my own actions and situations. I used to work with the chronically mentally ill and, truly, if we could not have laughed (with love) my co-worker and I would have burned out long before we did!

We acted with love, but saw the ridiculous in our situations: like fearing a client had committed suicide because she didn't answer the door and we smelled gas; having the police break down the door; the police smelling gas; the building being evacuated...but our client was just in bed, not answering the door. The gas came from another apartment. As the client and I were pushed into the back of the police car (from which there is no escape-to go take her for a shot of Prolixin), the other tenants were on the lawn, and there were fire engines and police everywhere. Also a gas company truck, I think. One of the policemen said, jokingly, to my client, "We'll get the public works department to come over later and dig up the street".

I left out some colorful details in the interest of sanity...but there is even more. Like the police shoving me into the bathroom with the client (who needed to dress) saying, "We're not going to go through that again!" (meaning breaking down the bathroom door)!

Later I'll tell you a recent story about my daughter that, once she was over the trauma, had her (and us, her parents) laughing. We told her she should win a Darwin award!

Love,
Deb

 

[movie zombie]

deb, while i agree with you and totally understand the therapeutic use of humor to releave stress, i also agree with storm: why not wait until after christmas to do a post along these lines?

peace, movie zombie

 

[Mara]

why does it matter if you post a thread on how wacko people can be on Christmas OR the day after? i saw this as humorous and silly since this stuff is always discussed on here in hangout anyway!

this occured to me randomly as well (i shouldn't read PS before coffee! it leads to random thoughts!) ...you shouldn't be any nicer just because it's Christmas than you are the rest of the year...kind of like how on Valentine's Day people say treat your SO as you should always treat them! if you are against a thread like this, be against it ALL the days of the year, not just on Christmas. then again, people are wacko all days of the year as well, not just on Christmas.

I'm especially wacko on Christmas!!

 

[AGBF]

Date: 12/25/2005 11:41:17 AM
Author: movie zombie
deb, while i agree with you and totally understand the therapeutic use of humor to releave stress, i also agree with storm: why not wait until after christmas to do a post along these lines?

You''re right, too. And so is Mara. I''m not arguing with anyone today. Whether or not I should be different on Christmas. Maybe I''ll try to make today the start of a new way of life. I will give up having opinions .

I love you as well as Storm.

Deb

 

[Mara]

Date: 12/25/2005 1:27:33 PM
Author: AGBF

Date: 12/25/2005 11:41:17 AM
Author: movie zombie
deb, while i agree with you and totally understand the therapeutic use of humor to releave stress, i also agree with storm: why not wait until after christmas to do a post along these lines?

You''re right, too. And so is Mara. I''m not arguing with anyone today. Whether or not I should be different on Christmas. Maybe I''ll try to make today the start of a new way of life. I will give up having opinions .

I love you as well as Storm.

Deb

me either deb...I''m replete with egg-nog and Christmas songs...all rational thought has actually fled from my head since that last post. Merry Christmas!!

 

[Kaleigh]

Date: 12/24/2005 5:33:55 PM
Author: Mara
Katie Holmes for marrying Tom Cruise!!

Keven Federline just for existing!

Ok Christmas is almost over, so I agree with Mara.

 

[rubydick]

Date: 12/25/2005 1:09:41 PM
Author: Mara
why does it matter if you post a thread on how wacko people can be on Christmas OR the day after? i saw this as humorous and silly since this stuff is always discussed on here in hangout anyway!

this occured to me randomly as well (i shouldn''t read PS before coffee! it leads to random thoughts!) ...you shouldn''t be any nicer just because it''s Christmas than you are the rest of the year...kind of like how on Valentine''s Day people say treat your SO as you should always treat them! if you are against a thread like this, be against it ALL the days of the year, not just on Christmas. then again, people are wacko all days of the year as well, not just on Christmas.

I''m especially wacko on Christmas!!

This is an interesting question. Are certain subjects too sensitive to be discussed on certain days? From my reading, Cinnebar''s original post had nothing to do with Christmas. And now the poor gal is getting torched like a bible burner. Lordy.

Not everyone in this forum is Christian. For them that ain''t, Xmas is just another day. This site is devoted to jewelry, which reinforces the fact that not everyone is Christian. Much of the world does not celebrate Christmas, for the excellent reason that they are not Christian. Rude, I know, but true.

What I find amazing about the movers ''n'' shakers that founded this country is that they were seers, people who had the foresight to understand that religion was religion and it was separate from building a universal structure of principles and laws that would allow people to live their lives to the fullest extent, no matter what their background.

The brilliance of the founding fathers was protecting freedom of worship while allowing freedom from worship. They seemed to anticipate the day when religious differences would not simply be between different flavors of Christianity, but between ideas of even more fundamental divergence. They chose a structure that would allow inclusion of disparate beliefs, including those of minorities, rather than one which would exclude based upon the whims of a majority.

As my daughter Billie just suggested, the essence of this issue boils down to beliefs. If one really believes the tenets of one''s religion, then one day is as good as another for dogoodery. Every day is Sunday.

 

[movie zombie]

torched?! personally, i don''t think so.......but each to their own opinion. seems to me that Cinnebar has lots of support for her post! and that''s not a bad thing, imo.

yes, these types of posts are often made to hangout, but storm''s question, ''why do we need to tear people down?'' works for me 365 days of each year and it was for this reason that i chimed in in the first place. so, because i agree with Richard''s daughter Billie and with Mara''s, ''if your against a thread like this, then be against it ALL the days of the year'' i''m making it my new years'' resolution to avoid such pricescope threads in 2006.

wish me luck: i just know the first time brad pitt is in the subject line, i''ll be reading that thread!

peace, movie zombie

 

[strmrdr]

I was going to come in here and nominate myself but your right if this makes me sad on CHRISTmas it should make me sad any day.
It does.

I will now get out of this discussion as to not currupt it with anything the least bit Christian to make Mr Hughes happy.
Merry CHRISTmas and a Happy New Year to one and all! :}

 

[AGBF]

Date: 12/26/2005 5:06:15 AM
Author: movie zombie
yes, these types of posts are often made to hangout, but storm''s question, ''why do we need to tear people down?'' works for me 365 days of each year and it was for this reason that i chimed in in the first place. so, because i agree with Richard''s daughter Billie and with Mara''s, ''if your against a thread like this, then be against it ALL the days of the year'' i''m making it my new years'' resolution to avoid such pricescope threads in 2006.

I do not see this issue as black and white. I generally do not join threads just to say that someone is crazy or ill-mannered or unattractive while pregnant or whatever. If I do "contribute" to such threads my "point" is usually tangential. I am not trying to condemn such threads, just to state that that is the point at which my comfort level for putting others down is reached.

As stated above, I think that laughing at the ridiculous, although not in front of someone whom it might hurt, can be good and helpful.

Sometimes, as when criticizing influential or powerful people I think criticism, even be it scathing, is completely warranted and must be done as a matter of conscience.

This is just my own value system, but it works for me:

I would not start a thread on Britney Spears looking bad while pregnant. (I do not recall who started such a thread here and I am sorry if this offends you, whoever you are. I did not intend my comments as a personal attack on you!)

I would tell you a story in which I or someone I know was in a ridiculous situation that made me laugh. The emphasis, were I to bother telling it, would be on the absurd rather than on the stupidity of any individual.

I would absolutely criticize the President or the Supreme Court or a respected religious leader acted in a way I felt harmful.

I haven''t thought this out as completely as I would like to, but people are leaving for the airport and it is busy here, so I will be listening closely to any responses to this that may help me further to refine my positions.


Deborah

 

[valeria101]

Date: 12/26/2005 1:27:54 AM
Author: Richard Hughes


What I find amazing about the movers 'n' shakers that founded this country is that they were seers, people who had the foresight to understand that religion was religion and it was separate from building a universal structure of principles and laws that would allow people to live their lives to the fullest extent, no matter what their background.

Quick note... that is a claim shared by many religions. Either a central tenet or not.

Political systems claim solutions too.

Maybe a bit cliche to be worth a thought. Most brush the thing away, there must be a reason why this is unimportant, I am not old enough to know, perhaps.



Also, I wonder how many celebrate December 25-27 in a non-religious way calling it Christmas? (e.g. random related news).


Relating the two turns out relatively intriguing. Well, for me at least.