TGIF!

TGIF is a term all working folks are familiar with. Friday is known as the best day of the week, mainly because it heralds the weekend. However, on the Fascination with Kimmer threads, it has taken on a new meaning. Friday seems to be a day very popular with a group of people we call Five O’clock Charlies. They are known for their propensity to show up on Friday with admonitions about our behavior or our position on various topics. They were given the affectionate term Five O’clock Charlie from an episode of M*A*S*H in which a well-meaning North Korean flew past the compound on a regular schedule in an ill-maintained airplane lobbing bombs and missing the target.

They have a party line that has become so familiar it’s almost predictable; we have no case, we are mean spirited, we are wasting our time, we should let the court system decide, we are neglecting our families and other responsibilities…………… blah……..blah……blah…… It is starting to take on the persona of the teacher character on the Peanuts cartoons. You know, the one whose voice is the muted trumpet droning wah, wah, wah. It is very hard to take someone under your duck wing when in their introductory post, they tell us we are wrong on all points. It doesn’t endear them to us. Let’s take a look at a few of them.

The most recent dissenter to grace us with his presence is Sam Redman. He started with a garrulous post along the party line that in a bombastic manner referred to John Tiedt as an opportunistic lawyer and accused the ducks of being guilty of tortious interference. These are fighting words to be sure. Sam Redman doesn’t seem to recognize that a blog or bulletin board post is an opinion, nothing more, nothing less. One cannot be guilty of tortuous interference when they are posting an opinion. In his vast reading, Sam does not seem to have stumbled across the First Amendment to the Constitution. Sam Redman is an enigma to me. He came out swinging at the ducks, but then morphed into someone who seemingly agreed with us and was willing to be helpful. The jury is still out on whether or not he believes that Heidi Diaz is guilty of fraud. I don’t get him and not sure I want to put for the effort to try. All I can say is, thank God Sam Redman is not the judge of the case, although he seems to think he is.

Another poster who is a regular on the thread is known to us as Lola. She is our virtual mother, wagging her finger at us for perceived wrongdoings and admonishing us to get back on the straight and narrow path, one of her definition. She’s cornered the market on civil behavior and insists that we live up to her example of perfection. Surely we will continue to disappoint her and we’re doomed to repeat performances from her that will certainly remind us that she is the one who knows what’s right and we are naughty recalcitrants who need to hear her brand of morality. A legend in her own mind, surely she will save the world from the ducks and their nefarious behavior.

Honorable mention must be given to Crispy Bread. It is believed this poster is none other than Heidi herself. Her posts of late have cheered Sam Redman on. I can’t help but contemplate there may be a connection between the two. Crispy Bread’s latest appearance oddly enough was a Friday on which an important court decision was handed down. This court decision, in response to a motion by the Plaintiffs, ordered Heidi Diaz to hand over a plethora of documentation she has withheld, claiming confidentiality. Sorry Heidi, if that argument didn’t work for Richard Nixon, it’s not going to work for you.

The ducks have come to look forward to Friday, for we know not what it will bring, or should I say who it will bring. It may be a wannabe lawyer telling us we are wasting our time and have no case, or it may be our virtual mother giving us the temperance lecture about our actions, or it could be Heidi herself disguised under the crust of Crispy Bread. Whoever or whatever it brings, TGIF!