DUmmie FUnnies 09-22-09 (Fifth Anniversary Special Edition: Return to Rathergate)

DUmmie FUnnies ^ | September 22, 2009 | DUmmies, Li'l Beaver, and Charles Henrickson

[FredZarguna]

Or was the mole this guy: Supersecret double-counter spy for the Fourth American Empire^TM? [Burn before reading all correspondence.]

[Roscoe Karns]

Ned Lather. Grove’s right-hand man.

[bcsco]

Wee Willie will turn 38 this fall, shortly after his wedding.

Judging by his most recent photo here, I'd add at least 10 years...and I'm being kind.

[bcsco]

That old German script is called Fraktur. I've had to read a bunch of it in my theological studies.

It's a beautiful script, but difficult to read at length. No wonder you wear glasses (as I do, of course). And, no, I don't read German. My German is mostly limited to German cuisine (Spätzle, Zulze, Spikgans, Kartoffelpuffer, Spek, Sauerbraten) and such remarks as "Ein bier, bitte" or "Kann ich kaufe Ihnen ein Getränk".

Of course, those were from my overseas days...

[Petronski]

Back in the day I had crafted two “Schadenfreude” pics. One was black-on-white, still; the other was a blurred black on red with an alternation of the text every .80 (plus or minus .2) seconds.

I later converted it to Freudenschade in hot pink after a ridiculous convolution to that end was posted on DU.

[FredZarguna]

Ned would be my candidate. His story is a thread through American history which has no end -- but the beginning and middle are curiously occulted. For example, there are very few references to him on the Internet, although he is cited as a "Shutter Shy" student at South Dakota State University in 1958: lib.sdstate.edu. Why did he refuse to be photographed for his own yearbook, one wonders?

Curiously, a story in the Fergus Falls Journal concerning the shadowy figure appears to have been pulled. Take a look here to find the vacant "story" on our Mr. Lather. "Would you like to share this story?" Indeed we would... but where has the story gone?

Now, although I have posted a recent photo of this enigmatic figure, he apparently faked his own death in October of 2005, as one can discover by searching the Watertown Library via Bing: http://watweb.sdln.net/obits/lather. Yet things grow ever curiouser, for this death notice does not appear in Google Search. Is the obituary part of a CIA Legend? Or something even more convoluted, devious and bizarre?

Who is the man behind Kurt Grove's greatest hoax? We may never know.

What we do know is that the Single Superscript Theory^TM was part of an elaborate ruse to set Bill Burkett up as a patsy that would would bring down John F. Kerry, one of the great JFK impersonators of our generation.

Yet another Massachusetts JFK's presidential career ends in Texas: there are no accidents.

[Victoria Delsoul]

Happy DUmmie Anniversary!

And may the dummies continue to show us what a big joke they are.

[hsalaw]

The photo on the left is definitely my favorite. Classic examples of DUmmieism.

[mikrofon]

Whether it’s a quip to counter the DUmmies’ “logic” or a timely graphic, it’s always FUn to contribute!

I’m remembering the effort in ‘07 to have DUFU as the top Funniest Weblog for the year — alas, the power of the Dark Side couldn’t be overcome...

[mikrofon]

Graphically, a posthumous tip of the hat goes to michigander, who contributed many a FUnnie pic to the threads over the years.

Also, I have done a few take-offs of the 'xxxxx_enfreude' image, using an Olde English Gothic script that is very similar to Fraktur.

[mikrofon]

Still reeling from the pre-nuptial party at Bukowski's, Wee Willie will turn 38 this fall, shortly after his wedding.

The gift that keeps on giving....

[Roscoe Karns]

The obit from the Waterdown Regional Library lists him as Lather, Ned “OLE”. Hmmm, does “ole” = “mole”? An inside joke perhaps?? Also the date of birth is left blank.....???

[mowowie]

Thanks for all of the wonderful memories guys and please keep them coming!

I look forward to these threads every day.

[mowowie]

Poor girl needs her head checked.

[FredZarguna]

Good catch.

Kurt's keen and occasionally diabolical sense of humor, no doubt. The DUmmies never stood a chance.

[X-FID]

That’s some funny stuff there.

[granite]

Happy anniversary!