My day at the top of the Greatest Page....

[Wetzelbill]

Oh it was glorious! I had a thread that garnered 90 recommendations. For once I was on top of the world. Like Brangelina. Like K-Fed. Dare I say even like Paris Hilton?

I was soaring like an eagle, or like a John Ashcroft song.

The world was my oyster.. except those oysters probably have too much mercury in them, but that is another thing altogether.

I must admit. I felt too big for my normal Lounge Lizard pals. The peeps in GD respected me. Accepted me. Maybe even loved me. They took me from tears to glory!

I admit. I owe it all to Greg Palast. And, Abu Musab Al-Zarqawi. Or his death anyway. Mr. Palast, a modern day Bill Brasky, wrote the article that brought me fame. He took me under his wing. I suckled at the teat of his fame until I could suckle no more!

Greg Palast taught me how to love a woman, and how to scold a child.

Everything I had I owe to him.

But, now it is all over. My 24 hours are up. I always knew they would be. I semi-retired from GD a few months ago. Oh but how this last day was sweet!

Now I am back to slumming it with the rest of my dear, sweet, humble and misguided Lizards. Chumming it up with our kudzu and brazillion jokes. Posting on pic threads. Saying good morning to Clintmax.

Oh our quaint little rituals!

But for one day. A brief instance in time. I rose up above all the "KKKarl" threads of the world." The "Zarqawi was spotted eating banana and Peanut butter sandwiches with Elvis" threads had nothing on me. Yet, like the valiant dung beetle, fighting and mulching his life through..... dung... we are all meant to die sometime. Even threads. No matter how great they were!!!!!

For a time, I was a king.

A golden God among Golden Gods.

And, like that.... I am gone.

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[RevCheesehead]

1. Classic example of "what goes up, must come down."

(I did a 2-part sermon on that, for Ascension and Pentecost).

Welcome back to the slums. :hi:

[miss_american_pie]

2. LOL, such hubris

That's not going to get you pictures, either. ;)

[Mutley]

3. Ha! You weren't kidding about stoking your ego, were you?

:D

[Misunderestimator]

4. How on earth do you fit that head through the Lounge door?

[arwalden]

5. Just Think If You Had Actually Written That Article Yourself!!

... you'd positively be beside yourself. I don't think we'd be able to live with you until after the novelty had worn off.

[Susang]

9. You mean he didn't?

Then what's all the fuss about? :shrug:

[Fleshdancer]

6. .

Donald Rumsfeld is briefing president Bush: "Yesterday, 3 Brazilian soldiers were killed."

"Oh no!" exclaims the president, "that's terrible!"

His staff is stunned at this unprecedented display of emotion, watching as Bush sits, head in hands.

Finally, he looks up and asks, "How many is a brazillion?

[billyskank]

7. :D

:thumbsup:

[Misunderestimator]

8. K&R ... what a great joke!

:rofl:

[WritingIsMyReligion]

10. LOL.

:rofl::rofl::rofl::rofl: