THOMAS JOSEPH AND HIS PICTURE

[Ras]

IF SMILKSTEIN WERE A REAL JEW,
HE'D RUN FROM YOU REAL QUICK:

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ARAB AUSTRIAN MONGREL MULATTO CREATUE: Thomas Joseph

[Thomas Joseph]

Not a bad looking guy.

[Bozo_D...@37.com]

PSST: He likes you TJ. This is how he expresses affection. Tell him if he really wants to be your friend he has to tell you what doctors say is wrong with him — or it's no deal.

[Thomas Joseph]

On Thursday, December 26, 2019 at 3:50:15 PM UTC-5, Bozo_D...@37.com wrote:

> PSST: He likes you TJ. This is how he expresses affection. Tell him if he really wants to be your friend he has to tell you what doctors say is wrong with him — or it's no deal.

I'm taking his posts for what they are, a vast improvement over the ones he used to send to you alone. I will make no demands. I will let Ras be Ras just as all these years I have let Bozo be Bozo. Yes, I can tell he likes me the same as he likes you. As a behavioral scientist of the highest order I am aware that this is only way he can currently express his love. I accept him, flaws and all. Why? Because that's the kind of guy I am. The kind of guy this fucking world needs more of. Thanks for the suggestion though.

[Bozo_D...@37.com]

Before you get your Nobel Prize, clown, you gotta learn to write and have it peered reviewed first.

[Thomas Joseph]

On Thursday, December 26, 2019 at 4:39:07 PM UTC-5, Bozo_D...@37.com wrote:

> Before you get your Nobel Prize, clown, you gotta learn to write and have it peered reviewed first.

I would turn down the prize if offered. And unlike Bob Dylan I would not later relent. Unlike Brando I would not send another person to receive it for me. I would turn it down period. For good. "Fuck your prize", I would tell them, "it means nothing to me." Then, to show them it's not a matter of being negative or critical of them, it is more a matter of being honest about myself, I would tell them, "I am not a writer and claimed to be", so take your prize and shove it up your ass and blow it to smithereens with what Mr. Nobel himself invented, a stick of dynamite.

[OllieN...@aol.com]

Whoaaa… There's money involved. Take the money.

[Thomas Joseph]

Whoops, forgot about that. If I change my mind am I a phony or do I get a pass this time? My intentions are noble, so I guess I'd accept the noble prize after all.

[OllieN...@aol.com]

On Saturday, December 28, 2019 at 12:02:05 AM UTC-5, Thomas Joseph wrote:
> Whoops, forgot about that. If I change my mind am I a phony or do I get a pass this time? My intentions are noble, so I guess I'd accept the noble prize after all.

Nothing is more No-bell than cash... he invented "Show me the money

[Thomas Joseph]

You mean Johnny Cash? You're saying he's more noble than Nobel? Did the word Noel come from Nobel? Like some kind of prize, but instead of money it was more like a Jewish tip, the old "God bless you", or, "Never get old, never get old", which is what most would leave me with when they got out of the cab. I am not complaining and never have complained about not getting tipped. That is what made me a great driver. I treated them all good whether they tipped or not. It was very NOBLE of me.

[OllieN...@aol.com]

Noble is Swedish for the end of your dick when it is fully engorged.

[Thomas Joseph]

On Saturday, December 28, 2019 at 7:58:05 PM UTC-5, OllieN...@aol.com wrote:

> Noble is Swedish for the end of your dick when it is fully engorged.

It is not only Swedish it is ancient history as my dick has not known the meaning of full engorgement quite some time. I'm talking about total tumescence. Bobbing, Twitching. Pulsating. Leaping upward and pleading for release yet at the same time wanting the torment to go on forever. The end of my dick reached it's end about 15 years ago. But I'm still alive. And I wonder sincerely if my inability to achieve full engorgement might in some way have contributed to my continuing existence.

Rolling without balls....................Onward, MARCH!

[OllieN...@aol.com]

Neutering of cats and dogs is suppose to lengthen their life spans. So it would make sense it works for humans.

[Thomas Joseph]

On Sunday, December 29, 2019 at 12:51:09 PM UTC-5, OllieN...@aol.com wrote:

> Neutering of cats and dogs is suppose to lengthen their life spans. So it would make sense it works for humans.

Next up I'm going to neuter my brain. I want to live forever. A dummy in paradise.

[OllieN...@aol.com]

In your case you get a head start.

Get it? Head- like where the brain is. Man I am fucking funny.

[Thomas Joseph]

You're "heading" in the wrong direction punk. Don't ever challenge me again.

[OllieN...@aol.com]

On Sunday, December 29, 2019 at 10:31:10 PM UTC-5, Thomas Joseph wrote:
> You're "heading" in the wrong direction punk. Don't ever challenge me again.

Heads up, heads down, watch your head. It is all about the head.

[Thomas Joseph]

On Monday, December 30, 2019 at 9:16:38 AM UTC-5, OllieN...@aol.com wrote:

> Heads up, heads down, watch your head. It is all about the head.

Eyes should be sewn into the neck so head can be removed and carried in thick box to keep that skull intact. Ok, so it would take some getting used to. Not just for yourself, for others as well having to see your tattered blood-soaked headless neck while passing on the street. The head in the box is good. Like putting reading glasses in a protective case. Same should exist for the skull. You never know when you might need it.

[OllieN...@aol.com]

Saw a guy yesterday who had a long bent neck that made his head jut out. Like a cartoon image. He looked like Sky.

[Thomas Joseph]

The Goose Goof. About Ras, so far no posts from him. I sense a pattern. I'm a good detective. I getting a Holiday vibe from Ras. Not that is into it by choice, more like its the time of year where people who live off their parents have to pay for the privilege. Family meals, get togethers, possibly even caroling sessions through the neighborhood. His holiday absence makes me suspect he's a remittance man. Again, nothing wrong with it - if you can get it, grab it - but now we know why Ras at times seems capable of thinking for himself but also emits a vibe of one whose life is small and stunted, perhaps by parental restrictions. Not only do I want to see his picture, I want to know how old he is. A person can be old and still live off their parents. But unless he is in the will his good fortunes may soon run out as his providers grow even older than him and die off leaving him to hold the bag all alone on the streets of Raw town eating out of garbage bins and sleeping in abandoned buildings.

[OllieN...@aol.com]

On Tuesday, December 31, 2019 at 2:58:11 PM UTC-5, Thomas Joseph wrote:
> The Goose Goof. About Ras, so far no posts from him. I sense a pattern. I'm a good detective. I getting a Holiday vibe from Ras. Not that is into it by choice, more like its the time of year where people who live off their parents have to pay for the privilege. Family meals, get togethers, possibly even caroling sessions through the neighborhood. His holiday absence makes me suspect he's a remittance man. Again, nothing wrong with it - if you can get it, grab it - but now we know why Ras at times seems capable of thinking for himself but also emits a vibe of one whose life is small and stunted, perhaps by parental restrictions. Not only do I want to see his picture, I want to know how old he is. A person can be old and still live off their parents. But unless he is in the will his good fortunes may soon run out as his providers grow even older than him and die off leaving him to hold the bag all alone on the streets of Raw town eating out of garbage bins and sleeping in abandoned buildings.

I know a few like that. Living off some sort of trust of family hand outs. Also a lot of people collecting SSI at a young age because of a 'disability' which is usually self inflicted. Life is a hustle. I don't believe any of us earn our keep but some do seem to be more useful than others.

[Thomas Joseph]

Nicely put, your belief. Now I can't even remember what we were talking about and the page doesn't print your text. So while I liked the way you expressed your belief, I have since forgotten what your belief was, which is conveniet, as now I can respond to your post without getting too involved. Cool. I mean like sometimes not knowing stuff is cool.

[Thomas Joseph]

When I went to LA in the late 60s I knew a ton of guys getting SSI. They'd talk about how they ripped the system. They'd tell me how to go about it. Yes it's true, most were not raving lunatic, but after knowing the ones I knew for any length of time it wasn't any act that got them the cash - they were definitely nuts. One guy I lived with for a half year or so, Crazy Rick, he was finally accepted after waiting 3 years. He had about 10 grand in residuals coming. He bought a used Cadillac which I don't think lasted less than a month - a new suit with a tie and vest he didn't take off for 2 weeks - drove us all over town celebrating. His cash was gone within the month. He was nuts and getting those residual funds verified it for me.

[OllieN...@aol.com]

On Wednesday, January 1, 2020 at 1:19:02 AM UTC-5, Thomas Joseph wrote:
> When I went to LA in the late 60s I knew a ton of guys getting SSI. They'd talk about how they ripped the system. They'd tell me how to go about it. Yes it's true, most were not raving lunatic, but after knowing the ones I knew for any length of time it wasn't any act that got them the cash - they were definitely nuts. One guy I lived with for a half year or so, Crazy Rick, he was finally accepted after waiting 3 years. He had about 10 grand in residuals coming. He bought a used Cadillac which I don't think lasted less than a month - a new suit with a tie and vest he didn't take off for 2 weeks - drove us all over town celebrating. His cash was gone within the month. He was nuts and getting those residual funds verified it for me.

A few I know are just fat and lazy with resultant health issues.

[Thomas Joseph]

On Wednesday, January 1, 2020 at 2:34:08 PM UTC-5, OllieN...@aol.com wrote:

> A few I know are just fat and lazy with resultant health issues.

I knew a lot of these guys and hung out with them and will not deny that some could have held a job - but for how long I won't guess - and for a while I believed their stories of beating the system and their ideas for me to do the same. But as came to know them better, not just some guy I see on the street now and then - as I came to know these guys I'd see something that would tell me they genuinely do qualify. Most I knew could work. Some did. But only part time. Crazy Rick deserved it. Maybe once you get to know anybody well enough whether they're getting SSI or not you will discover that they are nuts - and they will discover the same about you. Maybe at the same time even. That would be an odd one, two people knowing each other for a long time and never seeing each other as nuts suddenly one day look at each other and each thinks, "Oh my God that guy is nuts!", and they stand there staring at each other like a bear and a gorilla trapped in a boxing ring. I'm sure there are some ethnic types who get SSI just to keep them from rebelling. But individually many I've met who get it deserve it. I have had times in my life when I felt I deserved it and other times I felt not. I never got it till I qualified. It is my social security - age related SSI. I usually spend it all per month but without any stress. Sometimes I even have a little cash left over. Perhaps even enough to one day have you killed.

[OllieN...@aol.com]

Jealous of those who beat the system. Not too much though. I beat it but had to show up at a job most days. Been a lot of years. Had stress. Worked hard sometimes. But no black lung kind of work. I go back tomorrow. It is count down to 65.

[Thomas Joseph]

I know how you feel because I've had mixed feelings on this issue, same as most. But some of these people may not be beating the system as much as buying into it. I mean if they wanted to they could turn down the same people forever, and I'm sure sometimes they do. But they give the OK to some people because without a certain amount being accepted their system would go belly up. I knew particular recipient from Hollywood whom I talked with on the phone many times after leaving in 91. He'd always start off asj8ng me how my job is going and I'd just explode tell7ng him his bad it's been and he'd always interrupt me saying, "I wish I could work." I always told him that was bullshit. He worked part time playing piano in restaurants. But he would complain that his mental condition kept him from full time work. That used to piss me off. But the guy was serious. He actually paid $100 a week to see a shrink. Every month he'd bum a 5 or ten (max) from me and he'd always pay it back only to be there again the following month for the same old advance. But he was nuts, no doubt. I knew him well and he was undeniably nuts. Still it bugged me when he tried to convince me that it was worse for him to go without work than it was for me to suffer with it. He probably really believed it. Maybe he really did want to be fully sane. But if it were suddenly granted I doubt he'd surrender his nut-based monthly assistance checks. I wouldn't either. I never got any of this stuff till I turned 65. It's called SSI but it's really just the minimum monthly social security payment which in some ways might be better than a slightly higher check because of Medicaid and other advantages. I deserve this because I was willing even years ago to take the minimum amount for rent, food, and used clothing in exchange for promise to never seek anything higher in my life. I am satisfied with what I've got but tend at times to think that society owes me a car for all those years I sat behind the wheel for minimum wage while providing rare but fair and honest service to all. The bastards.

[OllieN...@aol.com]

On Wednesday, January 1, 2020 at 11:59:08 PM UTC-5, Thomas Joseph wrote:
> I know how you feel because I've had mixed feelings on this issue, same as most. But some of these people may not be beating the system as much as buying into it. I mean if they wanted to they could turn down the same people forever, and I'm sure sometimes they do. But they give the OK to some people because without a certain amount being accepted their system would go belly up. I knew particular recipient from Hollywood whom I talked with on the phone many times after leaving in 91. He'd always start off asj8ng me how my job is going and I'd just explode tell7ng him his bad it's been and he'd always interrupt me saying, "I wish I could work." I always told him that was bullshit. He worked part time playing piano in restaurants. But he would complain that his mental condition kept him from full time work. That used to piss me off. But the guy was serious. He actually paid $100 a week to see a shrink. Every month he'd bum a 5 or ten (max) from me and he'd always pay it back only to be there again the following month for the same old advance. But he was nuts, no doubt. I knew him well and he was undeniably nuts. Still it bugged me when he tried to convince me that it was worse for him to go without work than it was for me to suffer with it. He probably really believed it. Maybe he really did want to be fully sane. But if it were suddenly granted I doubt he'd surrender his nut-based monthly assistance checks. I wouldn't either. I never got any of this stuff till I turned 65. It's called SSI but it's really just the minimum monthly social security payment which in some ways might be better than a slightly higher check because of Medicaid and other advantages. I deserve this because I was willing even years ago to take the minimum amount for rent, food, and used clothing in exchange for promise to never seek anything higher in my life. I am satisfied with what I've got but tend at times to think that society owes me a car for all those years I sat behind the wheel for minimum wage while providing rare but fair and honest service to all. The bastards.

We pay a lot in taxes. Not just SS tax but income taxes, medicare, all the sales taxes, gas taxes, property taxes, license fees. I don't make the decisions on who gets what. I just want some of it.

[Thomas Joseph]

On Thursday, January 2, 2020 at 8:29:25 AM UTC-5, OllieN...@aol.com wrote:

> We pay a lot in taxes. Not just SS tax but income taxes, medicare, all the sales taxes, gas taxes, property taxes, license fees. I don't make the decisions on who gets what. I just want some of it.

I want more than I've got but not to the point of ever searching it out. I don't think you'd like to switch places with lots of those SSI people you seem mildly envious of. I have paid my dues, that's all I know. I never wanted to work in the first place. Oh I know, who does, right? Yeah, lots of people say that but they zipped into it easily enough when they were young because they had their sights set on the American Dream. Then when it doesn't pan out exactly as they had dreamed they start dwelling on what everyone else has and how it's always better in some way than what they've got. Bastards! Just came from the dentist. A cleaning. Mentioned the tooth that hurts when I chew on it and got a bunch of "Oh I don't know, I don't see anything", and so forth, just as I thought would be the case. They take your blood pressure when you come in. I thought mine would be high, just being there is usually enough to make me feel anxious, but actually it was pretty normal - 122 over 82. To me that's low enough. I sometimes think I can feel when the BP is up or down but it's odd how that is not always the case. I guess that's why they call it the silent killer. Better than a screaming killer I suppose.

[OllieN...@aol.com]

I hate noisy killers. Yes keep it down while you are killing me. Maybe some tooth pain is not a sign of anything serious. I have pain from a tooth when I eat sometimes. Actually my whole body hurts off and on.

[Thomas Joseph]

On Friday, January 3, 2020 at 8:19:33 AM UTC-5, OllieN...@aol.com wrote:

> I hate noisy killers. Yes keep it down while you are killing me. Maybe some tooth pain is not a sign of anything serious. I have pain from a tooth when I eat sometimes. Actually my whole body hurts off and on.

You win. I admit you have it worse than I do. In fact I know I've been pretty lucky. I need you to know how grateful I am that things are not as bad as they could be. My gripes - worthless as they may be - are not about how the pain or discomfort affects me personally - it's more about how the so-called professionals seem to not care or not know anything about the issues, implying in some way I suppose that this stuff is all in my head. That I'm nuts. Is that it? Am I nuts? Is that what you're telling me? You son of a bitch, I'll tear your fucking head off for that. Nobody calls me nuts and gets away with it. Ever.

[OllieN...@aol.com]

I got another bill of copays for my Gall Bladder surgery. 977 bucks. Called the insurance company and they called the Doctors people. I lost. Got to pay up. I pay a lot for insurance then get stuck with thousands in co pays. What a game.

[Thomas Joseph]

It sucks. Glad I never got into paying it and even more glad I've been lucky
healthwise. I've been an emergency room guy my whole life. Never could afford insurance. Maybe that was luck too. If so I am grateful. Sometimes it feels like everything is a rip off. I'm afraid to buy into anything new. But sometimes they take away the old stuff that works. Makes you need to upgrade. I'll upgrade alright. Right out of this fucking life. Hope nothing else goes wrong or is required of you or your insurance. Skiving days he's got good insurance. He could be right. I don't know. Or maybe he just hasn't found out yet that he's wrong. Just the idea of it reminds me of a pawn shop. I suppose in the end there is no such thing as insurance. Good luck.

[OllieN...@aol.com]

On Saturday, January 4, 2020 at 1:37:50 AM UTC-5, Thomas Joseph wrote:
> It sucks. Glad I never got into paying it and even more glad I've been lucky
> healthwise. I've been an emergency room guy my whole life. Never could afford insurance. Maybe that was luck too. If so I am grateful. Sometimes it feels like everything is a rip off. I'm afraid to buy into anything new. But sometimes they take away the old stuff that works. Makes you need to upgrade. I'll upgrade alright. Right out of this fucking life. Hope nothing else goes wrong or is required of you or your insurance. Skiving days he's got good insurance. He could be right. I don't know. Or maybe he just hasn't found out yet that he's wrong. Just the idea of it reminds me of a pawn shop. I suppose in the end there is no such thing as insurance. Good luck.

Insurance is a scam. I say we need an assurance program. You contribute to a fund that assures you will have medical coverage.

[Thomas Joseph]

Ass-surance is when you take your insurance papers and stick them up your ass and set them on fire. Famous women have had their legs insured, or so the fable goes. If legs, why not the ass? Why not any body part against any type of invader - cancer, flesh eating bacteria, the human cock - anything. Insure your ass against everything, with double indemnity for rare oddball anal conditions - stuff nobody would ever expect to happen, like sliding ads first off a roof straight into a church spire one roof below. "Ass-spired." Anything odd or Way out pays double. Let's insure ourselves against some really grizzly stuff and then make it happen on purpose to collect the money. Pain is temporary. I'll think up the stuff we can get insured for, you can be the guy who makes the stuff happen. I'm right here with you all the way. With my brains and your ads there's no thing how far we can go.

[OllieN...@aol.com]

On Sunday, January 5, 2020 at 3:25:59 AM UTC-5, Thomas Joseph wrote:
> Ass-surance is when you take your insurance papers and stick them up your ass and set them on fire. Famous women have had their legs insured, or so the fable goes. If legs, why not the ass? Why not any body part against any type of invader - cancer, flesh eating bacteria, the human cock - anything. Insure your ass against everything, with double indemnity for rare oddball anal conditions - stuff nobody would ever expect to happen, like sliding ads first off a roof straight into a church spire one roof below. "Ass-spired." Anything odd or Way out pays double. Let's insure ourselves against some really grizzly stuff and then make it happen on purpose to collect the money. Pain is temporary. I'll think up the stuff we can get insured for, you can be the guy who makes the stuff happen. I'm right here with you all the way. With my brains and your ads there's no thing how far we can go.

I have gone as far as I can. You will need to go on without me. Just leave me some water and a gun with a bullet. Adios.

[Thomas Joseph]

On Sunday, January 5, 2020 at 1:04:20 PM UTC-5, OllieN...@aol.com wrote:

> I have gone as far as I can. You will need to go on without me. Just leave me some water and a gun with a bullet. Adios.

I'll give you the bullet and some water but I'm not leaving. I'm sticking around for the show. Not because I'm a sadist but because I want to make sure you do the job right. Were I not there who knows what might happen? You might accidentally, or even on purpose, drop the bullet into the water and ruin it somehow. Water and guns don't mix. I think there are some bullets that are resistant to water. I'll looking into getting you a few of those. I know you said just one will do, but you never know. Some people miss almost on purpose, turning their heads at just the last minute - ever so slightly. I'll leave you a full round. And remember, I'm not talking you into it. I don't want you to do it. Just to make it official: "Please Ollie, for the love of God don't off yourself!" But if you won't let me help you then too bad, it's time to say goodbye. I will leave you some water and 6 bullets. That should do the job. I don't care if you back out now and in fact would prefer that you do. But if you won't - if you vow to kill yourself and I leave you the means to do it and then come back later to find you alive you better believe I will make you wish you were dead before I'm through with you. No one welshes on me. Nobody.

[OllieN...@aol.com]

I will do the job right. I been to boot camp. I know how to do gun shit. well some gun shit. I can handle taking care of myself. I am not a great shot but at 0 range how can I miss?

[Thomas Joseph]

I saw an old western where an argument broke out at the poker table and guys stood up and chairs went flying with everyone running in different directions and most of the guys with g7ns were squaring off from a distance and up close too, but one guy, the one who had been cheating at the table, the one who started the ruckus - he was shot first at the table at the closest possible range, the gun pressed right up against his shoulder. The shot. put him down writhing in pain, but he was shot several more times, each time the barrel if the gun pressing directly into his flesh, very softly, not with love nor with hate, just a kind of an "Oh well I suppose if I really have to" attitude. Very indifferent yet very up close and personal. The best of both worlds.

[OllieN...@aol.com]

On Monday, January 6, 2020 at 3:40:26 AM UTC-5, Thomas Joseph wrote:
> I saw an old western where an argument broke out at the poker table and guys stood up and chairs went flying with everyone running in different directions and most of the guys with g7ns were squaring off from a distance and up close too, but one guy, the one who had been cheating at the table, the one who started the ruckus - he was shot first at the table at the closest possible range, the gun pressed right up against his shoulder. The shot. put him down writhing in pain, but he was shot several more times, each time the barrel if the gun pressing directly into his flesh, very softly, not with love nor with hate, just a kind of an "Oh well I suppose if I really have to" attitude. Very indifferent yet very up close and personal. The best of both worlds.

Hard to hit anything with a pistol. Takes steady aim. Not that jerky shit. But I like the way Cagney and Edward G use to shoot. Jerking the gun as if making the bullets fly out.

[Thomas Joseph]

On Monday, January 6, 2020 at 8:47:39 AM UTC-5, OllieN...@aol.com wrote:

> Hard to hit anything with a pistol. Takes steady aim. Not that jerky shit. But I like the way Cagney and Edward G use to shoot. Jerking the gun as if making the bullets fly out.

I like that style too. I think I'd be really good aiming a gun. In fact I know I would. What I have trouble with in movies, even more so in TV detective type fare like Mannix (for example), is at least once per episode there is an exchange of the gun and who is controlling the situation when the guy with the gun gets too close to the other guy allows the other guy to get too close to him. Those exchanges are always boring. I have never held a gun on anyone. I don't care if it's a pistol, I want the person I'm holding at least 10 feet away, or not close enough to leap at me and have it count for anything - a safe distance, whatever that may be - never close enough to snag the gun. I don't like when plot twists revolve on stuff like that. It happens at least 3 or 4 times almost every Mannix episode. It can be funny though. But it's obvious when it's going to happen, no matter who is in control and handling the gun.

[OllieN...@aol.com]

Very formulaic. Too formulaic. I like it less formulaic.

[Thomas Joseph]

On Tuesday, January 7, 2020 at 9:56:18 AM UTC-5, OllieN...@aol.com wrote:

> Very formulaic. Too formulaic. I like it less formulaic.

It is so formulaic that it never surprises and therefore never really aggravates. I am not exaggerating, I see sometimes as many as 5 gun switcheroos in Mannix episodes. It happens with Cannon too, but not as often as with Mannix. I think I like Cannon more. They are on back to back every week night on MeTv. Rare to see one I have not seen before they've been on so long. Time for something new. They know just when to do it, they're pretty good about that. Anyway, it's absurd, holding a gun on someone and letting them get too close. Another ultra formulaic plot twist is when the bad guy tells his henchmen to "Take him out and finish him", where of course he manages to get away. Come on now, you're giving orders like that, you're going to tell me you're not going to stick around to watch? Like throwing a guy in the river. You gonna just leave without seeing if the body comes to the top? That's why I liked Columbo, the old ones where a cop was rarely if ever seen. No muscle of any kind. Upper class scum being booked by Colombo. Very easy to take. Saw Falk in lots of things, not bad, but not so great either. But Colombo was just right for him. Lucky bastard.

[OllieN...@aol.com]

Columbo was pretty funny. He would act like a dumb ass and the criminal helps him out in solving their own case.

[Thomas Joseph]

On Tuesday, January 7, 2020 at 10:42:21 PM UTC-5, OllieN...@aol.com wrote:

> Columbo was pretty funny. He would act like a dumb ass and the criminal helps him out in solving their own case.

Entertainingly unrealistic. All his cases involved people with money. Not that a person with money can't be violent, but mostly his cases involved non violent types in the traditional way. Some might even be happy to be arrested by Colombo. In real life I don't like people who try to get somewhere by playing stupid. But with Colombo I accept it because it didn't always seem his doing. A lot of it came from his suspects who judged him by his rumpled clothing and old car. I didn't see that as an act, just part of the guy's persona. But it helped cement his suspect's under estimation of his abilities. I enjoyed the way we sort of knew who did it ahead of time. I am not a big fan of the "whodunnit" stuff. I like the way he worked the suspects down and how they at times almost brought it on themselves by willfully playing cat and mouse with the rumpled detective.

[OllieN...@aol.com]

Some stuff I didn't care for that Falk did. But when he played goofy he was pretty good. But could Goofy play Falk? Ask Mickey and now we have the mouse.

[Thomas Joseph]

On Wednesday, January 8, 2020 at 11:10:15 PM UTC-5, OllieN...@aol.com wrote:

> Some stuff I didn't care for that Falk did. But when he played goofy he was pretty good. But could Goofy play Falk? Ask Mickey and now we have the mouse.

Yeah, Falk played the light stuff better. Remember him in the Twilight Zone episode where he was like Castro, some guy who just won a revolution and is having most of his opposition executed but is now afraid even his own confidants are out to kill him. So he begins to kill them one by one. Lousy episode but funny. I don't think Falk was trying to be funny, he just couldn't help, he could not play the part straight. He was an over actor. If given his way he would probably have shown us a bit of the method waiting to come pouring out. I saw him in a few movies. He was ok, but not outstanding. As Colombo he was very good. Ok, enough about him and other people I can handle. If you don't mind I'd like to talk a bit more about people I hate right now.

[OllieN...@aol.com]

Hate is more fun than love. People love to hate. I hate that.

[Thomas Joseph]

On Friday, January 10, 2020 at 1:39:59 PM UTC-5, OllieN...@aol.com wrote:

> Hate is more fun than love. People love to hate. I hate that.

No matter what happens I love being alive. I will probably not go out tomorrow. I won't be able to sleep well waiting for those tech guys to get here. So it'll be a week now in bed or just lying around. Why not go the whole weekend? Anyway, I might also want to drink a bit tomorrow. That will involve a walk to the ABC store. Maybe a few other spots. I'll be early so I might as well do some shit before the games start. I will make Monday the real first day of the rest of my life. Monday, I swear to God, that is when I'll start fresh and everything will be ok. I promise.

[OllieN...@aol.com]

I wish Mondays were taken off the weeks schedule. An extra Saturday could take it's place.

[Thomas Joseph]

I have forwarded your request to the "Times Committee" and it will be reviewed and evaluated in due time. Show some patience, this could take a while.

[OllieN...@aol.com]

On Saturday, January 11, 2020 at 6:40:01 PM UTC-5, Thomas Joseph wrote:
> I have forwarded your request to the "Times Committee" and it will be reviewed and evaluated in due time. Show some patience, this could take a while.

I do not have 'awhile'. Make it ASAP. Pronto.

[Thomas Joseph]

ASAP - (at some appropriate point). Like when I say so and not before.

[Bozo_D...@37.com]

On H&I TV I know it's Homos and Icons but what's it mean on MeTv?