by AlicetheCurious » Fri May 26, 2006 6:03 am
<!--EZCODE QUOTE START--><blockquote><strong><em>Quote:</em></strong><hr>He unbuttoned his business shirt, revealing jungle-pattern surgical scrubs and a pair of hairy, toned biceps.<br><br>"A little bit like Superman," said the dentist, Chuck Williams.<br><br>...<br><br>Kuja... was the Senate majority leader of the gorillas, who negotiated disputes, back-slapped the ape boys <!--EZCODE BOLD START--><strong>and owned exclusive mating rights with the females. <br></strong><!--EZCODE BOLD END--> [Huh? Is the writer implying that Frist shares such 'rights' wih Kuja?]<br>...<br><br>Frist listened to the heart; the gorilla's lub-dub sounded human. "When you're this close, you feel this kind of oneness with them," Frist said. The stink of ape sweat and gorilla testosterone soaked his hair and clothes.<br><br>...<br><br>His gloves turned red with gorilla blood.<br><br>...<br><br>"This oneness, this wholeness. You can't compare it to the Senate floor. I immerse myself in it. This is my real life."<br><br>...<br><br><br>"He's on my side," Frist said, stroking Kuja's fur.<br><br><!--EZCODE BOLD START--><strong><!--EZCODE ITALIC START--><em>"People say, 'Oh, he's inside-baseball, and stiff.' "</em><!--EZCODE ITALIC END--></strong><!--EZCODE BOLD END--> [Anybody have any idea what that means??? What is "inside-baseball"?]<br><br>"Reid called," an aide said at the Capitol door, referring to the Democratic leader.<br><br>"I think we're on the same wavelength," Frist said as they strode inside. [Another of many non-sequiturs in this article, maybe it is so awkwardly written because it IS in code].<br><br>At 9:30 a.m., Frist opened the Senate, gripping the corners of the lectern, <!--EZCODE BOLD START--><strong>as he had the operating table</strong><!--EZCODE BOLD END-->. [Why this emphasis on a surgeon gripping the corners of the operating table and the SML gripping the corners of the lectern?]<br><br>Frist smiled and spoke unremarkably from the lectern, reeking of silverback testosterone. [Wow, it's stated twice in one article that Frist is soaked with & reeking of gorilla testosterone].<hr></blockquote><!--EZCODE QUOTE END--><br><br>This is one of the creepiest, most poorly written, most uninformative articles I have ever seen; and to think it was published by the Washington Post!<br><br>Honestly, this "reeks" not of gorilla testosterone, but of a plant, courtesy of the folks at Operation Mockingbird (or whatever they call it nowadays). <p></p><i>Edited by: <A HREF=http://p216.ezboard.com/brigorousintuition.showUserPublicProfile?gid=alicethecurious>AlicetheCurious</A> at: 5/26/06 1:49 pm<br></i>