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Joined: 18 Aug 2004
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Number Two Pencil
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My new contribution to the growing lexicon of disaffection is 'Number Two Pencil.' As in, "That dweeb at the ticket counter who is moving at half speed while we're waiting to get into the theater and out of the rain is a real Number Two Pencil."
It's all about the last thing I did in Paris before leaving for a kickback weekend in Amsterdam. I voted. Twice.
That is, the time limit had just passed for waiting for your real ballot, so I sent in the write-in ballot. No problem. Then later that day I got my official ballot. So I says to myself, "Self, why the fuck not?" So I started to fill in the official ballot, too. And it looked simple. Right on the balllot it said, in big letters, "Complete the arrow next to your candidate." The arrows next to each name were broken. You had to color in the one next to your candidate's name. Seemingly no problem.
Then I read the fine print. It was on another piece of paper, in writing so small I had to get my reading glasses out to deal with it. And there, buried in the fne print, was, "Fill in the blank to complete the arrow using a Number Two Pencil. Ballpoint pins, ink pens and other writing implements not acceptable."
So I looked at the ballot itself again and, sho nuff, there is not a word about the need to use a Number Two Pencil. And I'm thinkin' -- this is really insidious. Not to say it *will* happen, but some sumbitch back in New Mexico could legally take it upon himself to disqualify thousands of votes, just because they read the official ballot and followed the instructions on it, to the letter.
A 'Number Two Pencil' is a person or thing or process whose purpose in life seems to be to keep people from doing what they want to do.
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Sat Oct 09, 2004 5:01 am |
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Doofball Willy
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Re: New wazerds
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| Bill Lambert wrote: |
| And then we have flashopplers and fleebuleggs. They live at the periphery of your vision. I've seen them, you've seen them. |
Yes I've seen them too but a word to the wise: don't tell people about them. Otherwise they jack you up with thorazine and a jacket where the arms are too long.
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Sat Oct 09, 2004 6:47 am |
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