Comments on: A New Generation of Father Coughlins

By: Buddy Larsen

Buddy Larsen — Tue, 21 Jun 2005 00:39:05 +0000

Ha! I got it, Kyda, I words too when ing fast. But, here, have a comic take on the affair--which (Thank the Lord) doesn't even mention the T***w****r.

By: Kyda Sylvester

Kyda Sylvester — Tue, 21 Jun 2005 00:29:37 +0000

Ok, let me try that again: Buddy, I haven't laughed so hard in weeks. Really. It was first thing I saw after I hit post. You're not going to give me the Gaslight treatment, are you? (I was still wiping the tears from my eyes.) Thanks for the support, Luther.

By: Luther McLeod

Luther McLeod — Tue, 21 Jun 2005 00:15:38 +0000

I know, and agree, that there’s nothing of substance or consequence in the memo’s.

But, (and, sorry Kyda, but I am with you as to your befuddlement of the typing) why would this be done with a typewriter? Would a small amount of ‘white-out’ and a copier have not done the same thing. Were there notes in the margins, or in the body of the text, that would have precluded the quicker and simplest approach? I mean, eighteen pages of typing versus five minutes of ‘white-out’, come on, there’s a reason there. And, having experience, typists are not normally drones, most especially when they are trusted to the level that this typist was. They read it, they know.

By: PeterUK

PeterUK — Tue, 21 Jun 2005 00:15:37 +0000

Kyda

Exactly,forensics have been doing that for decades.

We would be better finding out what Mr Larsen is drinking,he sounds like a Kamikazi pilot dropping dud bomds on a battleship.

By: Kyda Sylvester

Kyda Sylvester — Tue, 21 Jun 2005 00:10:47 +0000

Buddy, I haven’t laughed so hard in weeks. Really. It was first think I saw after I hit post. You’re not going to give the Gaslight treatment, are you?

By: Buddy Larsen

Buddy Larsen — Tue, 21 Jun 2005 00:05:06 +0000

Pay no attention. Y’all are doing good work. I’m a smirking idiot.

By: Kyda Sylvester

Kyda Sylvester — Tue, 21 Jun 2005 00:03:38 +0000

Indeed, Peter, that is the point. Can’t say why exactly this likely irrelevancy sticks in my craw. Somehow I feel that if Holmes were investigating, he’d want to get to the bottom of it (The Clue of the Old Fashioned Typewriter). I can picture him saying to Smith: “Mr. Smith, you say that you reproduced these memos on an old fashioned typewriter instead of a modern word processor at the advice of your legal department because you did not want an electronic trail leading back to you. Did you not know, sir, did they not know, that any typewritten page can be traced to a unique machine?” Oh well, perhaps we’ll never know. At any rate, you’ll all be happy to hear, this dog is letting go of the bone.

By: Buddy Larsen

Buddy Larsen — Tue, 21 Jun 2005 00:01:16 +0000

Takatakatakatakatak. Takatakatak *DING*

atakatakatak. Takatakatak. Taka *DING*

takatakatakataka. Takatakatakata *DING*

katakatakataka! Takatakatak! *DING*

(riiiiiiip)

By: PeterUK

PeterUK — Mon, 20 Jun 2005 23:11:55 +0000

Knucklehead,

It wouldn’t avoid search and siezure,if the police thought he had something they would turn his house over.Gain nobody would take his word that he did it on an old typewriter,they wouldn’t care.

What does the fact that the Police don’t seem to be interested tell you about the quality of Smith’s information?

By: PeterUK

PeterUK — Mon, 20 Jun 2005 23:03:54 +0000

Kyda,

It could just be a sarcastic reference to the Rather debacle.

The main point is they are unsourced copies,it doesn’t matter if he chipped it them solid marble in cuneiform, they are reproductions.

All the rest is the standard flummery that comes with this kind of thing,basic misdirection,the meaning of fixed gets debated,the age of the typewriter ad nauseum,what gets forgotten is the fact that these memos are not original,they are “copies of photocopies”,the person who supposedly authenticated them is anonymous.Smith is a journalist.