Neanderpundit

Don’t know why I’m so popular all of a sudden. The spam traps are catching it, but it’s blocking up the intakes. Hope to have something approaching actual content later.

And I may have deleted a few comments, I still have over 11000 to go!!! If I deleted your comment accidentally do please comment to make sure you still can. If it doesn’t let you through email me at mhardig at aol dot com.

Aw, bugger I did it again, accidentally. Sorry, folks.

In Burroughs “Western lands” he describes a type of Assassin who is trained to act on the mention of a specific word “beetho”. An Assassin would ingratiate himself into the company of his intended victim or victims, and at some point a visitor would yell “beetho!” which would subliminally activate the assassin and cause him to kill everyone in the room.  The beetho caller would yell his magic word and bugout quick lest he be among the chosen.

 

So many times, I wish this were not fiction. So many times I want to walk into a roomful of people and yell “BEETHO!”. And today may be no different.   When management sends you an invitation to a “Company gathering” and then gets pissed off when everyone declines, and then makes the gathering mandatory, that is a surefire way to raise morale. Definitely. Yeppers.