We have the best readers in the whole wide blogosphere. We brag about all y’all all the time to the other new bloggers – the ones that envy us because we sped up the Ecosystem so fast from all you guys linking to us right away. Without your comments we’d be sitting around mordantly typing out our posts and boring our Significant Others to tears about policy stuff that they don’t care about. You are, in truth, the wind beneath our wings…
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OK, OK, that last bit’s tossing it on a bit thick – but I for one do know that Katherine, von and I lucked out majorly in being able to start with an existing audience. Many thanks.
Will that do, Matt?
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Moe
*Mark the date well, my droogies: that may be the last time you ever see an emoticon in one of my posts. Comments are a different story, of course.
Wow, that was impressive! You just don’t get this kind of service at the other blogs.
Actually, since my tag is smacked up there in huge type right next to the phrase “sucking up,” can I suggest a theme? How about “Great suck-ups, sycophants, and dupes from history” for 200 points?”
Sure. Nobody after 1953 AD, though: time for everybody to show off their erudition. 😉
Shoot. (Blows dust off moth-eaten copy of History of the Medicis)
How about someone that shows even heroes can be fooled. Star aviator, veteran, and Nazi apologist, Charles Lindbergh:
“Even after the Nazis conquered France in 1940, Lindbergh lectured on, declaring that nothing could come of ‘shouting names and pointing the finger of blame across the ocean’ at Hitler and the Germans. Lindbergh’s son, Reeve, recalled a speech in which the elder Lindbergh identified three groups that were pushing the U.S. to enter the war, ‘the British, the Roosevelt Administration and the Jews.'”
Lindbergh later served with valor in the Pacific theater.
Sure. Nobody after 1953 AD, though: time for everybody to show off their erudition.
I make the cut off point by 11 days. I was a suck up even then (hey, a boy has to eat).
Neville Chamberlain, Joe Kennedy and Henry Wallace would fit nicely in that initial time frame (1935-45).
If groups are allowed, then the boys who ran the market up (and didn’t get out) in ’28 would certainly qualify.
I’ll go with Josephus. If you need some sucking-up done, he’s your boy. 🙂
Machiavelli? Einhard?
In Soviet blogs, we comment on the readers! Thank ye.
The clear winner in the “greatest suck-ups and sycophants in history” category is Marshal Petain, who sucked up to the Nazis greatly to the detriment of the French.
Yo, in the future might we call these “commemorative threads”? For a brief moment, I thought that MattK/D1 had died in said act of sucking up.
How about Alcibiades? He sucked up to the Athenian Council, Sparta and the Persians! Course it didn’t work out so well for him.
Great historical suck up/sychophant: Rasputin
Yo, in the future might we call these “commemorative threads”? For a brief moment, I thought that MattK/D1 had died in said act of sucking up.
Moe’s a forward-thinker.