Oh, great, another alliterative themed day. I know that’s what you’re thinking.
I mean, this Unfinished Dude already has Sunday Shout-Out, Meandering Monday, WTF Wordless Wednesday, Flashback Friday and Superfluous Surfing Saturday (by the way, which he never uses) and now Takeback Tuesday. WTF indeed? What’s next? Thirsty Thursday where he reviews microbrews?
Well, don’t worry, my faithful followers and those of you new to this enterprise. No, not that Enterprise, this enterprise I call Unfinished Rambler.
First of all, I’m not a beer drinker, I drink girlie drinks. No, really. Ask The Wife, she drinks Guinness Stout, I drink blue drinks.
Second, it’s not often that I have to take something back (snicker, snicker) and apologize. But today that is just what I am going to be doing: taking back some of things I said or did (or what you might have thought I said or did anyway) and apologizing (or based on that last parethetical remark, pretending to apologize anyway).
So without further adieu, all apologies to the following individuals:
1. ettarose from Sanity On Edge: who thought from what I remember, because unfortunately neither you nor I can access all the hilarious and insightful comments posts prior to my “upgrade” to a new domain (working on it with JS-Kit), that I was making fun of gays when I wrote in a footnote to post about my days in musical theater in high school:
As for that “ahem” comment I made earlier in the post, strangely or is that queerly enough?, I’ve since learned that the friend who asked me to be in “The Music Man” and later went on to play Curly in “Oklahoma” was…ahem…well, he is letting his flag of many colors fly now, shall we say?
What I think is sad, though, is that he hasn’t returned to a class reunion since either; ostensibly because of how his ex-classmates, mostly a bunch of rednecks, might treat him. This post is for you, my friend, wherever you are.
In her comment, she said something to the effect that she thought it was sad that I cared what flag he flew. I believe she may have missed my point. The point was the second paragraph, and maybe I should have spelled it clearer than I did. To wit:
This post is a tribute to you, my friend, wherever you are and whatever your sexual orientation. I still would like to see you, no matter what flag you fly because you were a good friend in high school and I would like to “catch up” with you. If any of our ex-classmates have a problem with your sexual orientation, let them. I won’t and don’t.
Plus I have at least one homosexual friend (okay, she’s a friend of my wife’s) and I’ve even allowed Kids of Queers to advertise on my blog through Entrecard. So there, etta. 
2. hate the book big time: who, speaking of gays, on a post on one of my other blogs in which I reviewed The Giver by Lois Lowry commented recently:
i hated this book so much it was so g@y and stupid now i have to do a book report on it this sux.
i’m sorry you hated the book so much and you thought it was so g@y that you had to use the @ sign to censor yourself and stupid and that you had to do a book report on it that probably also sucked and sux based on your impressive writing skills in evidence here.
3. Lisa, my sister, from Boondock Ramblings: whom I called on her cell phone during church and she wasn’t there to answer it and was subsequently embarrassed when she returned to the pew to find it sitting there as if someone had placed it there accusingly after rooting around in her purse to find it and turn it off because everybody in the whole church had turned around and was looking, as if to say, “Why don’t you shut off your cell phone in church, lady?” but the lady wasn’t there and as if that person who had left the phone there on the pew was saying, “How rude.”
Sorry, I called you on your cell phone, which you should have shut off in church, lady. How rude.
4. Merrill Guice from The Daily Egg: who took issue with the jumping off point for my St. Patrick Day’s post called Where’s My Freaking Pot of Gold? (complete with comments). I used AIG execs getting millions of dollars in bonuses to lead to a silly post about why the government is giving me a pot of gold.
The first part of the first of three well thought-out responses from Merrill, each one longer that the one before it, was this:
Ahh, listening to the liberal fascists on NPR again are you? Just remember that your brain is what it eats!
1. The reason we bailed out AIG, is so its counterparties wouldn’t fail, too. Most of them being European Banks. That’s why they are getting billions.
2. The reason AIG made bonuses to its financial products group is so they wouldn’t all run off and take hedge fund jobs and leave amateurs to sort out AIG’s derivative book.
I’m sorry that I used a jumping off point about which I obviously know nothing for a post that was meant completely as a lark. I’m sure this will lead Merrill to respond with a comment something to the effect that premises are especially important if trying to attempt a stab at political humor, which obviously said “stab” was a stab in the dark and completely off the mark.
Seriously, though, as I said in my last response to your last response:
I was mainly using the AIG situation as a jumping off point for a silly post, not an economics class, but I appreciate your intelligent replies about the AIG situation. Really.
I’m sure it was enlightening for readers of my blog as well, because I think really none of us know much about what’s going on. We get our information from soundbites from talking heads, don’t bother to take the time to really understand the situation and then joke about it.
For lighter fare from people not bothering to take the time to really understand any situation and joke about every situation, politically correct or not, please visit the following sites:
Humor-Blogs.com
Humor Bloggers
BlogStorm
P.S. Right before I hit “publish,” I realized I had typed quickly and put in “Where’s My Freaking Pot of God?” instead of “gold.” Imagine the apologies I would have had to be making then. I imagine the outcry: “Are you saying God can be put in a pot? Or are you equating marijuana with God?” Although that last point from what I’ve heard has merit, in that it can be pretty cosmic — um, from what I hear.
