I have to hand it to Mark Felt, who has recently admitted to being Deep Throat--the famous source for Woodward and Bernstein and their exposure of the Watergate scandal. Felt was often named as a possible candidate for being the mysterious informant, but he was was able to throw people off the trail.
“I would have done better,” Felt told The Hartford Courant in 1999. “I would have been more effective. Deep Throat didn’t exactly bring the White House crashing down, did he?”
That’s just brilliant. Whenever you’re trying to deny being a part of something, just indicate that you could have done better if you had, in fact, been involved. Who would suspect you of contributing to something after you publicly mocked it?
“Greg, did you write this press release? It sucks.”
“No way. If I had written that press release, it would have been much more effective. I would never use an expression like ‘Onomatopoeia of the soul’ when the topic is miniature semiconductors.”
I also wonder if Deep Throat set a precedent. I suspect that all informants now use dirty sounding code names.
“Look, Dirty Sanchez, I can’t believe this intel is accurate. Are you sure about your sources?”
“Absolutely. I heard it directly from Pearl Necklace.”
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Now you’re just fishing for googlejuice.
and another monitor gets a familiar coffee-splash ...
in response to the last line: “oh, ew!” the last thing i want to think about when i hit geese aplenty is pearl necklaces and the making thereof. let’s keep it family friendly shall we? i mean, really. what is this world coming to?
The first thing I thought when I read that news last night is “hmm, I really feel like watching Dick right now”.
Oooh Ooh ooh! Can I be Hot Carl?
Ya Know…
Of all the Blogs I read on a daily basis, somehow I just KNEW that Geese Aplenty would be the first to: “TAKE IT DEEP”
-LAZ
I just like that he is living in frikking SANTA ROSA! and Nixon’s brother is my neighbor, for real.
‘Onomonpeia of the soul’ is the name of my band.
If you wrote, Onomonpeia, I would ask, What the blazes does that mean? It lacks the tasteful, tuneful, tintinabulation of Onamatopoeia!
Ok what are the odds that in one short week I’m gonna encounter the term “Dirty Sanchez” twice? Well consider that I read this blog and Dan’s I guess the chances are a teensy bit better than I previously thought. You guys have GOT to stop calling each other and picking a Porno Term Of The Week.
Am I a troll that posts anonymously and infuriates everyone?
No, if I was to be a troll, trolls wouldn’t be made fun of anymore.
I like this tactic.
what do you know about senior sanchez anyway?
who would have suspected that my neighbor Ol’ Man Felt was actually the “Deep Throat.” we all just thought he was senile. he’d just go on
and on sometimes. it was always Woodward this and Liddy that… the blah blah blah yammerings of an old man.
Didn’t anyone else think “Hot Carl” was funny? or I am just sick enought to appreciate it?
I’m looking for opinions about blog trolls on my post today at Mooalex. I’d like to know what you think if you have the time. Thanks!
LJ
Oh yeah, I also like the part that it was his gandkids that made him “come out” because they wanted the story to pay for their college education. Yeah! That is better than throwing the massive blue diamond into the middle of the damn ocean.
“Are you banging our lawnboy?”
“He’s still able to walk behind that mower, isn’t he?”
Arrgghh!!
It’s O-N-O-M-A-T-O-P-O-E-I-A!!
(Sorry, I don’t mean to be a jerk, but I can’t stand it when that word is misspelled.)
Yeah, I know, usually I’m more careful. It’s one of those words that always trips me up.