Francis Shirley was one of the toughest men I ever knew. That's not his real name, of course, but his real name was every bit as doubly girlish. When I knew him at The Petroleum Club Of New Orleans in the early 80's, I'd have to guess he was in his early fifties.
One evening, three LSU students who didn't even know he had a funny name decided they were drunk enough to want to give the old guy shit in a parking garage. I wasn't there so, I don't know if they wanted to fight Francis or, as I suspect, one thing led to another and a fight broke out when he failed to take their cheap shit as was expected of him.
You might know how it goes. There's three of us and one of you and we want to fuck with you and so, be a good sport old man and let us have our fun. You know- if you know what's good for you.
It's been years but, I think that as they ran their mouths, Francis answered back. The boys probably knew that was a possible consequence. Francis was a pretty big ol' boy but not exactly in good shape.
That didn't matter though. Having worked his way up from the oil fields of the Southwest and doing it with a doubly girlish name, Francis was an accomplished fighter. He put a serious whupping on the three college boys.
The police were called. Amazingly, the college boys- bloody and bruised- wanted to have Francis arrested! The cops did the math and figured three drunk college boys had tried to go into one middle-aged man and wound up in a negative circumstance. These kids might have been English majors rather than math majors. The cops weren't having any of that and since Francis didn't care to press charges, everyone was turned loose into the night, lessons learned.
Well, maybe... It might be that all the boys learned that night was don't fuck with THAT guy! Some people never learn but, the next time they thought they could get over on somebody, I bet they remembered Francis.
There has always been bullies and there always will be. Sometimes you have to bloody their nose and let them know they messed with the wrong guy.
But, other times you just have to be the right woman for the wrong guy to mess with and figuratively bloody a bullies' nose simply by being better than him.
Good ass-whuppin' Ms. Fluke! You made it look easy.
And Rush- there's a whole lot more out there where she came from and any one of them can take you.
Something tells me he didn't learn a thing.
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Terrific post. Sadly, I agree. He's probably just pissed that he had to apologize. Ugh, he's so disgusting.
Comedian Patton Oswalt tweeted this: @pattonoswalt Ayn Rand would be very pleased with how the free market bitch-slapped Limbaugh today. I think losing sponsors was the only thing Rush was contrite about.
Are you twittering without me, ferrerman? : (
No! I wouldn't do that! I found that on Michael Moore's page. I liked it but, looked at other tweets and kinda lost interest. Just liked that one quote.
An apology from Limbaugh after this type of personal attack doesn't mean anything. He didn't just go after her once, after all.
Note to Rush: You're only kidding yourself if you think that's applause you're hearing while your head's so far up your fat ass.
Nice to know a woman with such truth and integrity brought him to his knees, whether he wanted to go there or not!
Great post, Ferrerman:)
Limbaugh's apology was as empty as his soul. It's amazing though, the lengths he and his followers will go to in the name of politics. Women are better than half the population. What are they thinking?!
Rush, doesn't think....he just goes with his big, fat gut. That would be the same gut that used his maid to score Oxycontin for him.
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