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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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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Appreciate you, Lynn.
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I would buy it. I already have one of his books that was gifted to our family about the inside workings of his mind. It’s 232 pages and each page is blank. 🙂
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Now that is a good one. Quick read, huh?
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I’m roaring!
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Detailed information can be found here:
https://www.foxnews.com/media/biden-takes-heat-strange-cannibal-story-something-bad-script
Among other details: “Lt. Ambrose Finnegan was a ground crew member and ordinance officer, not a reconnaissance pilot.”
Biden lives in a fantasy world. And his supporters buy into his stories hook, line, and sinker. (More like crook, lyin’, and stinker.)
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Yeah, quick and predictable. Readers can figure out the ending early on. 🙂
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Got to keep them simple for the younger readers, those ten second attention spans are tough to write for.
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All I can think about “Eat ’em up. Eat ’em up” with Spanky & the Little Rascals.
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That was one of the best shows they did. Stymies uncle from Borneo, the cannibal. I’m honored that someone got it.
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That guy scared the Tootsie Rolls out of me.
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Kudos to the Uncle George picture from The Kid From Borneo! One of my favorites!
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