From: jfw@jfwhome.FUNHOUSE.COM (John F. Woods)
Subject: Re: Inauguration 
Keywords: thus
Organization: Misanthropes-R-Us
Date: Fri, 22 Jan 1993 02:52:08 GMT

In <1993Jan19.200458.3815@mnemosyne.cs.du.edu> pfinerty@nyx.cs.du.edu (fun fun fun boy) writes:
>In article <1993Jan19.160454.25849@ericsson.se> etljmme@etlxd30.ericsson.se writes:
>HEY EVERYONE!!! JIMBO IS HERE TO TAKE OVER MY BAD LUCK JOB!! 
>100,000,000,000,000,000 quatloos to anyone who sends this to the FBI, or
>the secret service. ha

>jim, didn't your mother tell you it isn't nice to make fun of the pres??

First of all, Jim is apparently Swedish.
Second of all, it is very nice to make fun of the President, as long as he
is expected to survive the fun.  To quote a very valuable piece of information
I received in email some years ago:

>From an interview of Hunter Thompson by P.J. O'Rourke:

Q.  Recently you told a college audience at Marquette University,
``George Bush should be killed.  He should be stomped to death, and
I'll join in.''  .... How did the students react?

A.  Hey, they cheered!  Then I called for a voice vote.  It was
two-thirds to stomp him.  Meanwhile some fucking maniac recorded it
and took it to the Milwaukee Journal.  And the U.S. attorney in
Milwaukee was about to indict me on two felony charges: five years for
threating the vice-president and another five for inciting others to
do it.  ... I started getting calls from the Secret Service.

Q.  Did you answer any of those calls?

A.  Not at first, because I thought they were cranks.  If it was
important, they'd leave a message.  And then the Secret Service showed
up at the Examiner and at my lecture agency.  I realized they were
serious.  So I called the Secret Service guy in Denver, Larry Hoppe.
And he was very nice.  And I said, ``What's going on here, man?''  And
Hoppe said, ``Dr. Thompson, let me tell you one thing: I would advise
you not to go to Washington without talking to me first.''  So I said,
``Come on over.  What the hell.''

Well, we talked for a while, and by that time Hoppe knew it was a
joke.  I said, ``Have times changed?  I've threatened to drag people
around Washington by their nuts behind Oldsmobiles at a hundred miles
an hour.  I've advocated the slaughter of all politicians.  What are
the guidelines now?''

He had a pretty good sense of humor.  He said, ``Well, you can't say
that he should be strung up.  If you say that to people, WHAP!  Ten
years.  You can say he should be tarred and feathered.''  And I said,
``Wait a minute.  I don't grasp it.  What's the difference?''  And Hoppe
says, ``I don't know.  That's the way it is.  Don't go out anymore and
threaten to string George Bush up or stomp him to death.''

Q.  Now, to what level of public figure does this extend?  Take somebody
I really hate, like Meese.  Meese is not an elected official.  Can I say
that somebody should slice Meese open and wrap his intestines around a
phone booth?

A.  No, you probably can't.  He should be flogged -- just not to death.

Q.  What if we said Messe should be fucked by an elk? 

A.  That's apparently harmless as hell.  I believe that Ed Meese --
being a person without any honor, a fat bastard, really a congenital
cheap pig in the style of and on the level of Richard Nixon -- should
be locked in a large concrete basement with an elk.  And the elk
should be ram-fed full of acid before he's put in there.

Q.  An angry, horny, acid-crazed elk.

A.  Meese is naked, and the elk is huge, maybe 800 plus.

Q.  Elk can be ugly customers.

A.  And once they're full of acid, and they're really horny -- oh yeah,
all night long!