[Rhodes22-list] Supreme Court Gives Gore’s Nobel to Bush (Political humor)

[Eric Sandberg]

Once upon at time in a land far, far away .......


There was an email list called the Rhodes 22 email list. This list was 
sponsored by a company that sells boat related gear and parts, etc. The 
folks that owned Rhodes 22s joined the list and chatted back and forth 
about their boats until one day ...... Somebody brought up a topic and 
it devolved into a political discussion. Soon, the owner of the list 
(the marine parts company) appeared to tell the Rhodes 22 Owners that 
this was a “sailing related only” email list and would we please take 
our political and other off topic discussions else where. This happened 
many times and began to bother some of the R 22 owners, also known as 
Rhodies. Soon they began to discuss ways to remove themselves from the 
tyranny of the list owner and find a place where they could freely speak 
of the topics they desired and yes, posting pictures should be allowed 
too they exclaimed.


Lo and behold ..... out of the east rose a savior, a computer guru and 
fellow Rhodes Owner named Michael Meltzer (MJM) who said, fear not, I 
can lead you away from the tyranny of the list owner and into a server 
where you will be free to speak as you wish without persecution. Shortly 
after this, the Rhodes 22 – list was born. Now the Rhodies were able to 
speak freely and even post pictures of their wonderful craft,


Life was good, until one day ..... someone, a new comer, posted a wish 
to return to the tyranny and censorship of the former list owner .....


The old Rhodies, remembering the persecution of the old days, wisely 
told this inexperienced new member of the topic police that they very 
much enjoyed their newfound freedom and that, he should get used to it, 
or be careful not to let the door hit him in the ass on the way out.


And that my young sailor friend, is how the Rhodes list came to be the 
beacon of free speech, wonderful pictorials and intelligent political 
and other off topic conversations it is today.



Hank wrote:
> Little Al,
>
> Look at the bottom of the email for the "Door" to leave and don't let it hit
> you in the ass on the way out!
>
> Hank
>
>
> On 10/15/07, Alan Robertson <bigal_61 at msn.com> wrote:
>   
>> It's this kind of non-sailing crap that turns some of us off to the Rhodes
>> 22 mailing list. Get a soap box Rummy and use it some other place.
>> BigAL
>> ----- Original Message -----
>> From: R22RumRunner at aol.com<mailto:R22RumRunner at aol.com>
>> To: rhodes22-list at rhodes22.org<mailto:rhodes22-list at rhodes22.org>
>> Sent: Sunday, October 14, 2007 6:43 AM
>> Subject: [Rhodes22-list] Supreme Court Gives Gore's Nobel to Bush
>> (Political humor)
>>
>>
>>
>> Stunning Reversal for Former Veep
>>
>> Just days after former Vice  President Al Gore received the Nobel Peace
>> Prize
>> for his efforts on global  warming, the United States Supreme Court handed
>> Mr. Gore a stunning reversal,  stripping him of his Nobel and awarding it
>> to
>> President George W. Bush instead.
>>
>> For Mr. Gore, who basked in the adulation of the Nobel committee and the
>> world, the high court's decision to give his prize to President Bush was a
>> cruel
>> twist of fate, to say the least.
>>
>> But in a 5-4 decision, the justices  made it clear that they had taken the
>> unprecedented step of stripping Mr. Gore  of his Nobel because President
>> Bush
>> deserved it more.
>>
>> "It is true that  Al Gore has done a lot of talking about global warming,"
>> wrote Justice Antonin  Scalia, writing for the majority. "But President
>> Bush
>> has actually helped create  global warming."
>>
>> Even as Mr. Gore was being stripped of his Nobel, he  received strong
>> words
>> of support from Democratic presidential candidate Hillary  Clinton, who
>> said
>> that the former vice president's Nobel win "shows that he is  devoting his
>> life
>> to the right thing and should definitely stay the course."
>>
>> In an interview with reporters in Iowa, Sen. Clinton said that "Al Gore
>> should remain dedicated to the cause of global climate change, at least
>> through
>> November of 2008."
>>
>> Sen. Clinton suggested that Mr. Gore could further  research the source of
>> global warming by immediately boarding a rocket ship to  the sun.
>>
>>
>>
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