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Snack Time In New Guinea


” Yum Yum eatum up”

The old Chief Sniffer should have been a dime novel author.

“My uncle was eaten by cannibals on the island of New Guinea” is his latest contribution to his resume of fantastical yarns. That could have certainly happened; the tribes in New Guinea are renowned for their culinary skills. Now, come to find out, it’s a whopper of a lie. He was fact-checked in-depth and has told this one before. His poor uncle perished in a plane crash near New Guinea in WW2: And why would Sniffer tell a group of United Steel Workers this story? The fun begins when this guy goes off script or loses a notecard; that’s when he fancies himself to be good old Will Rogers from Scranton, PA.

Behavior like this is quite normal for folks with Dementia or drunk authors. I should know: my two late uncles were masterful spinners of incredible yarns and a few lies here and there. My cousins tell me I am afflicted with the same virus.

Hemmingway never wrote a line without the accompaniment of liquor, and Edger Poe didn’t draw a sober breath for decades: a serious conversation with a Raven made him famous.

President Sniffer is no Hemmingway or Poe, just a mentally ill old man that folks feel sorry for while he destroys our Republic. Maybe Jill should publish his yarns? You know it would be a New York Times bestseller.

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13 Replies to “Snack Time In New Guinea”

  2. Good to see you just abandoned Grammarly. It’s Hemingway, ha. But nobody cares, I’m just teasing you. Ha. Hemingway didn’t write high, though. He did all his writing at 5 a.m., wrote I think no more than 5 hours, and then believed he had to live life to write about it. You needed to quit writing at a spot where you knew where you were headed the next day, he thought, then you forgot about it for the day. I’m a fan, obviously. Not that I approved of him totally as a person. And not that his drinking might not have “informed” his work. More likely the insanity inspires good stories and the booze an attempt to self-medicate. But either way, you tell a good story! Happy Thursday.

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