Ain't linking to MoDo's farewell to Poppy - it's more like her farewell to herself (thank gudness!1

[UTUSN]

I read her whole thing about how she and Poppy had this love/hate tenderness for decades, including about how Poppy and Babs hated how mean she was to Shrub yadda yadda.

Her main proletarian point was how she is of Irish menial maid stock, the ones who tended the blue bloods and how it was such a rush for her to have become a NYT whatever over Poppy blah blah blah.

Yeah, the image of her sitting cross-legged at 6 A.M. observing Poppy on his golf course is creepily creepy.

I got nothing more for this.


*********ON EDIT: I forgot my main zingers::

* She came off sounding like she was Chico and the Man or Driving Miss Daisy!!!!!!!!!!!!!!111

[dhol82]

1. I was more intrigued by the column where she dissed Bill and Hill one more time

She just can’t let it go.

[UTUSN]

2. Yea, the comments telling her to get therapy and let it go are where it's at!1

[DURHAM D]

3. I recall rumors for years that she was having an affair with GHWB.

otoh -The number of women Bush was rumored to be involved with would have left him little time for _________. (fill in the blank)

[UTUSN]

4. Not to mention the midnight tours of the White House

And his oligarch pals' S&M

[PoindexterOglethorpe]

5. Who is MoDo?

That's not a name I've seen before. Or does the person actually have a full name that somehow isn't MoDo?

[dhol82]

6. Maureen Dowd

Columnist for the NYTimes.
And someone who has had a hate-on for HRC forever.

[PoindexterOglethorpe]

7. Thank you.

I wonder why it's so hard to type out just a few more letters so that we'd actually know who is being referred to.

[UTUSN]

8. And I wonder why it's so hard to just skip on by without spoiling.

[dhol82]

11. Wow, sounds like somebody got their fur wet

[UTUSN]

13. When you pick sides you pick sides!1

[dhol82]

15. .......

What?

[Ms. Toad]

16. Asking who is referred to by a cryptic reference I've never heard before is spoiling?

Seriously - it would be nice to include enough context so that the post is accessible to anyone interested in understanding what is being discussed.

I just did a half-dozen searches to figure it out who you were talking about and came up with bupkus.

[UTUSN]

17. "half-dozen searches" but not looking at the 2 posts kindly saving the toil. Hmmm

1) "MoDo" is an old meme, "cryptic" not being the default.
2) Sincere inquiries are sincerely responded to by most.
3) History between contestants is a clue.

[Ms. Toad]

18. I don't generally scan through the thread in order to decide whether I'm interested in the thread

I read the OP. The process I use in deciding which threads to dive into isn't really relevant.

I've been here since the early 2000s, and I've never seen that particular abbreviation before.

No idea about the history between the contestants - I just came back to the OP after doing a quick search for MoDo and came up empty. So I scanned the thread - ran into this subthread, which expressed my current frustration with the second posts in this current scan that was written by someone who apparently fun to be cryptic or can't be bothered to write enough so that the post is clear without doing additional research.

[UTUSN]

19. "Someone who ... fun to be cryptic" - so your personal reading habits

"apparently" make it fine to judge. Look, please stop.

[Ms. Toad]

20. I'm basing that on the responses

which seem to suggest you were treating the confusion you created as a game.

The issue is OPs which appear to be intentionally written to be cryptic, and when asked for clarificaiton, generate derision directed at the person who happens not to be a mind reader.

Why not just write OPs that are accessble to everyone?

[UTUSN]

21. No, the issue regarding you is your drawing suggestions ("game", "intentionally cryptic", "generate

derision" ) . I can't be clearer, nite nite.

[PoindexterOglethorpe]

22. I havel likewise never seen MoDO before.

I've actually been here since 2001, although originally under a different screen name.

So I think my asking to explain a cryptic abbreviation is appropriate. Honestly, it really does help to express things so that all of us can understand whatever you are referring to.

[PoindexterOglethorpe]

23. Skip on? When I haven't a clue who you are referring to?

Why not just post something that is obvious to the most casual observer, rather than some obscure reference that only a few of the in crowd can get?

[machoneman]

10. MoDo: a third-rate hack and someone who has been looney about all things Clinton for decades!

[UTUSN]

12. Speaking of MoDo's slam on the CLINTONs:

Nick Merrill
@NickMerrill
There were 4500 people at this event ⁦
@maureendowd
⁩. 4499 have the capacity for joy. But glad you could make it nonetheless.


And Joan WALSH replied in retreeting:

Joan Walsh
@joanwalsh
Doesn't it ever get weird for her?

[TheBlackAdder]

14. Thanks for the question. I didn't know who it was either.

[Raine]

24. I didn't know who that was either, I'm glad you asked

Thank you!

[UTUSN]

9. And Charles PIERCE said, "Nope."

Somebody named Robert DRAPER said:

Robert Draper
@DraperRobert
This is a beautiful send-up of 41 by @maureendowd, who was blessed with his exasperated affection: (link: https://nyti.ms/2zEHqGn) nyti.ms/2zEHqGn


************AND the estimable Charles PIERCE replied (the aforesaid).