We saw this post on Lake Worth Talk Message Board and found it very funny. It's too bad that lazy slob has stopped doing anything on that site.
Thank You "DSP" for allowing us to post it here!
A strange disease has been identified in the City of Lake Worth. It appears to affect only the population belonging to two distinct groups and expresses itself in specific symptoms. Identified some time ago, the malady takes its name from the two groups known as the "Pair." It seems to be a cyclical infection, carried in a constant benign state, but flaring up in response to the election cycle, and peaking to epidemic proportions and frenzied reactions as election day approaches. There is no known cure.
While authorities disagree on the origin and exact causes ot this disease, it appears to be a mental condition, often approaching paranoia, with its roots in the philosophical/political identity of the carriers. The variants of the disease are strikingly different in the members of each part of the pair, creating a wide disparity between the two.
Symptoms of the malady are best seen as expressed in a number of ways the carriers have devised to talk about the disease, such as websites, talkboards, blogs (blogging can often be confused with "flogging" of the verbal sort), clandestine (hopefuly) emails, private group meetings, vitriolic exchanges in public meetings, concocted news releases, flyers, signs, and occasional litigation. The exchanges and postings range from verbal abuse, accusations and name-calling to the very rare and infrequent logical discussions between less afflicted members of the Pair.
The attitude of one part of the pair to the other is analogous to language construction: "I despair, we despair" (says one part looking at attitudes of the other), and the other part responds gleefully "you despair, they despair".
A large part of the city's population is not afflicted by the "Pair" disease, and tends to avoid contact with the two groups, particularly at peak outbreaks of the disease around election day. It is assumed that the philosophical identity of this segment of the population is "I despair of the Pair."
Thank You "DSP" for allowing us to post it here!
A strange disease has been identified in the City of Lake Worth. It appears to affect only the population belonging to two distinct groups and expresses itself in specific symptoms. Identified some time ago, the malady takes its name from the two groups known as the "Pair." It seems to be a cyclical infection, carried in a constant benign state, but flaring up in response to the election cycle, and peaking to epidemic proportions and frenzied reactions as election day approaches. There is no known cure.
While authorities disagree on the origin and exact causes ot this disease, it appears to be a mental condition, often approaching paranoia, with its roots in the philosophical/political identity of the carriers. The variants of the disease are strikingly different in the members of each part of the pair, creating a wide disparity between the two.
Symptoms of the malady are best seen as expressed in a number of ways the carriers have devised to talk about the disease, such as websites, talkboards, blogs (blogging can often be confused with "flogging" of the verbal sort), clandestine (hopefuly) emails, private group meetings, vitriolic exchanges in public meetings, concocted news releases, flyers, signs, and occasional litigation. The exchanges and postings range from verbal abuse, accusations and name-calling to the very rare and infrequent logical discussions between less afflicted members of the Pair.
The attitude of one part of the pair to the other is analogous to language construction: "I despair, we despair" (says one part looking at attitudes of the other), and the other part responds gleefully "you despair, they despair".
A large part of the city's population is not afflicted by the "Pair" disease, and tends to avoid contact with the two groups, particularly at peak outbreaks of the disease around election day. It is assumed that the philosophical identity of this segment of the population is "I despair of the Pair."
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