Harry Truman beat his wife?

[Mike_Yates]

I overheard a conversation today about how president Harry Truman used to beat his wife Bess.

He even beat her in front of the secret service and foreign dignitaries!

Despicable! What a rotten guy!

 

[tactful]

She never was into playing checkers, she deserved getting beaten.

 

[Mike_Yates]

Harry Truman was at a white house dinner party and overheard FDR's wife Eleanor Roosevelt say something that offended him.

He went over to her and decked her!

 

[Loring2]

Harry Truman was at a white house dinner party and overheard FDR's wife Eleanor Roosevelt say something that offended him.

He went over to her and decked her!

Sure he did Mike ... there there now ... take it easy big fella ... help is on the way... You'd better hope it is anyway.

 

[KingOrfeo]

Harry Truman was at a white house dinner party and overheard FDR's wife Eleanor Roosevelt say something that offended him.

He went over to her and decked her!

Yeah, but then Eleanor beat Harry's ass like a rented mule!

 

[Mike_Yates]

He pushed Bess Truman down a flight of stairs in the white house in clear view of the secret service, then he pointed and laughed at her!

He viciously assaulted Eleanor Roosevelt at a white house dinner party.

 

[ChinaBandit]

He killed 225,000 people (conservative estimate) in a "flash", pun intended.

What's a little slap-around-in-the-family by comparision.

 

[atmas]

Probably because he didn't attend an Ivy League university and wasn't very good at math, especially calculus.

 

[CHNOPS]

How does Mike do it? No matter how he plays it, they still come. It's incredible.

 

[atmas]

How does Mike do it? No matter how he plays it, they still come. It's incredible.

He's the DollParts of 2012...but without the icky health details.

 

[CHNOPS]

See what I mean?

 

[Wobnoid]

How does Mike do it? No matter how he plays it, they still come. It's incredible.

Variations on a theme, my good man. Duchamp once hung a dirty wash rag on a gallery wall just to hear the commentary. Colbert works a room the same way. It's a talent. There's a new thread or three today that do the same without being a Gallagher or dicks. Yates is a great character. It all goes to character.

 

[CHNOPS]

Variations on a theme, my good man. Duchamp once hung a dirty wash rag on a gallery wall just to hear the commentary. Colbert works a room the same way. It's a talent. There's a new thread or three today that do the same without being a Gallagher or dicks. Yates is a great character. It all goes to character.

Sure, but he's been in meta-Yates territory for some time now, breaking character with glee, basically daring people to continue to buy the persona against all evidence, and they never disappoint. He had an inspired run as a normal in a gaming thread, which I thought was the 'author's' master stroke. But when he dropped back in to what by now has become overt comedy in character, people dropped right back in with him.

At a certain point, he must start to feel like a superhero.

 

[Wobnoid]

Sure, but he's been in meta-Yates territory for some time now, breaking character with glee, basically daring people to continue to buy the persona against all evidence, and they never disappoint. He had an inspired run as a normal in a gaming thread, which I thought was the 'author's' master stroke. But when he dropped back in to what by now has become overt comedy in character, people dropped right back in with him.

At a certain point, he must start to feel like a superhero.

I've never been one to make a Lit List, but... on just such criteria as above, a cast of Lit characters fairly leaps on line. Story tellers have been selling tickets for years. I love riffing on a Yates yarn. Somebody used to pump out volumes of Mad Libs. God they were fun!

 

[shoulderblade]

Variations on a theme, my good man. Duchamp once hung a dirty wash rag on a gallery wall just to hear the commentary. Colbert works a room the same way. It's a talent. There's a new thread or three today that do the same without being a Gallagher or dicks. Yates is a great character. It all goes to character.

He seems to have a methodical and unrelenting eye for the dark side of life. Most people like to look at the brighter side of things or at least keep a balanced perspective.

He is like a religious figure of sorts who is here to remind us that life is darkness and struggle and we must engage in a relentless fight to stay afloat.

 

[Wobnoid]

He seems to have a methodical and unrelenting eye for the dark side of life. Most people like to look at the brighter side of things or at least keep a balanced perspective.

He is like a religious figure of sorts who is here to remind us that life is darkness and struggle and we must engage in a relentless fight to stay afloat.

Really? I don't buy the whole cloth. To do so is to swallow the craftily baited hook. It's clearly clever parody. It's sit-com that never breaks the fourth wall. When I say never - the gaming thread mentioned above? I don't know it, but... passions shown by an undoubted character, read as curious tells on the writer... that's all. There are a lot of 'realer' idiots here.

 

[JohnnySavage]

How does Mike do it? No matter how he plays it, they still come. It's incredible.

You don't think he's funny?

I'll tell JAJ to drop this one.