Addie wins my bedlamfarm.com comment of the month for her response to a column on politics I wrote that referred to Donald Trump in what she thought was a hateful way.
Since his messages are always so nice and thoughtful, she thought mine was too sharp.
I absolutely loved two images here, and they are both worth sharing, both were posted on my blog comments.
The award goes for originality and passion and an original use of language.
The first was the image of me “vomiting up “my “red-rotten,” abject HATE.”
The second was the reference to my “HATE being so awful and tasty for the damned that Satan would put whipped cream on it and eat it with a spoon.”
That’s an original line, it stands out. I will remember it for a while. Can hate be tasty? Why not?
I think I’d enjoy meeting Addie, we could run over to Dunkin’ Donuts and get some hot chocolate with a lot of whipped cream and eat it with a spoon. I think Addie would love to meet with Satan, he’s invited.
One way or another, he might come. Here is the message that won it for me:
‘Addie: The hatred really is startling, isn’t it…? Jon has a penchant for portraying himself as some kind of spiritual guru, it’s cloyingly grotesque lol Then he turns around and vomits up this red-rotten, abject HATE so awful and tasty for the damned that Satan would put whipped cream on it and eat it with a spoon.’
This is colorful stuff, it really stands out.
Addie should open an account on TikTok right away. I think she could make a lot of money.
I was drawn to the “cloyingly grotesque” line (okay, I did think of Rudy Guiliani or Mike Pence for a second), and if anybody knows what part of the country “red-rotten” comes from, please e-mail me at [email protected].
Etymology, the study of the history of words, has always been a hobby of mine. I’m guessing Addie comes from a Southern state, maybe Appalachia I found some references to “rotten red apples” in Kentucky and West Virginia.
That might be a clue. The lol suggests she is having some fun. Perhaps not.
This is my second “message” of the month, look for the next one on April 1.
This all depends on what flavor of hate you prefer. For the past four or five years, the most popular one among a sizable segment of Americans has been overpowering orange. So it’s only natural than a lot of its devotees would resent what they perceive as a more ripe and robust variety of hate being introduced — especially when its primary purpose is to counteract the nausea, unpleasant taste and other side effects that the former flavor tends to produce in a much larger segment of the population who suffer from an intolerance to the toxic substance from which it’s derived. (I daresay we would have been far better off had the original never been allowed on the GRAS list in the first place.)
You definitely have high Poet potential in this communication.
Cloying and grotesque bounce off each other like an orchestra playing
Red rotten:. Carolinas? The humidity rots a lot. Slavic? Related to trees? https://www.jstor.org/action/doBasicSearch?Query=%22red+rotten%22&acc=off&wc=on&fc=off&group=none&refreqid=search%3A6713daa1486623dbbbbca1097ede86ab
Fun game
You, Sir, are having way too much fun with this. It may not be entirely legal. 😉
True, I plead guilty…:)
The sad aspect of this is that Addie is clearly an educated person to be able to use such words and sentence structure. Yet she seems unable to distinguish truth from lies, the implausible from reality, and comment from emotional hype.
Addie’s prize could be a tub of Cool Whip and a wooden spoon.