Stuff I Forget, Volume VIII

memory

Asterisk = Had to look it up.

183. guy who died in crash married ingrid croce
jim croce

184. italian palazzo buildings at 51st and madison
villard houses*

185. Philip Nelson’s boss, the one who was ambassador to Australia
Edward Aubrey Clark*

186. woody allen movie with jasmine in the name, cate blanchett
Blue Jasmine

187. guy whose body is on display at UCL
Jeremy Bentham

188. salopian…what school
shrewsbury

189. eye tie singer w keely smith
louis prima

190. miss moneypenny…name…
ah, lois maxwell

191. Actress in The Verdict and Georgy Girl
charlotte rampling

192. uniontown pa, was looking it up yesterday because it appeared in something i was listening to, and i remembered geo marshal was from there…who was the other person?
(no idea)

193. In Whitehall, the slab memorial I always knew even before I saw it. The Osteoplinth.
Cenotaph

194. who that awful Colin person?
Colin Liddell?

195. chloe cole brockman who’s the indian lawyer in sf
harmeet dhillon

196. actress on x files…Definition of a star is someone equally crushy to both sexes. My mind is gone and I can’t remember her name but she was someone with an Irish name on X Files and I think she studied at RADA.
Gillian Anderson

197. german name luggage begins with h…lots of brown leather and tan nylon
Hartmann

198. Blackstone or Blackpool or Blackpill or what was thing Dick Cheney was with?
Halliburton

199. Henry Higgins’s friend (Wilfrid Hyde-White role)…same name as the guy who went to ss p&j and malvern then west point (Steve Pickering?)
yes, Pickering

200. The congressman from Florida, with the hair. Something like Waltz or Weitz. His name keeps eluding me.
Matt Gaetz (found it in my blog post)

201. strange transvestite whose name was something like steven dye, from town in shropshire begins with t, same name as the IMT lawyer, Keith Peterson’s cousin…telford is the town…dye had rock blog called streetmusic uk

GOT IT, worked it out early last year: funny little crossdressing guy from Telford
had a newsletter called Streetmusic UK
Used the Twitter handle @KathleenRiot2019 but got banned
then @RocknRoller2019
streetvoiceuk

Steve Lye
Steve DIY
before drag years

202. name of hollywood jews who…oh, mankowitz…was going to start with herman and then go to joe and then the young one who was introducing TCM

203. what is the fake person you bring up when you have a bad argument…
oh a strawman

204. Matt Damon movie…oh Good Will Hunting…
Norm Macdonald had a parody idea joke of a black version.
Good Will Smith?

205. That LA Times sportswriter who was attempting a sex change around 2007, backed out, horrified, killed himself.
*Mike Penner/Christine Daniels

206. Chthulu creator. Bancroft, Ravenscroft, Hellcroft, three names.
*H. P. Lovecraft

207. jewish assistant in kz camp
sonderkommando

208. O’Hara novel with concern in the title
the lockwood concern

209. cheap, tinselly, word like pipsqueak…
ah pinchbeck

210. straw shoes, solid heel 2”, something like huaraches
espadrilles

211. what do you call coastal evasion of guards, as in rum-running, as in Wilmington NC during the Civil War? What did John Carey do?
Blockade running

(end of 2024)

Yankee Doodle Dandy is longer than I remembered

memory

I did not renew presenttension in time, and my payment has not gone through at this moment. Diary entry here instead, late on Sunday June 20, 2025.

Today I saw an old photo of Union Square with a very distressed billboard for Arthur Treacher’s Fish and Chips. Well where the hell can I get good fish and chips? I found myself resorting to things like Yelp. I was guided to Judge Roy Bean, out the back door of my building. Where Moki and I spent many a lazy afternoon 1998-1999 and maybe beyond. We had a regular barman named Rudy. Lebanese, and I think he was or had been a student at Columbia. Great guy, could talk about anything. I got there today at noon. It was empty. I sat at the bar. Almost the same as the last time I was in there (around 2003 maybe, with Keith, both very drunk, and the place was unaccountably filled with niggers). But the bar is a lot longer now. They broke open the kitchen and made that a seating area.

The $22 fish and chips were okay, served up with malt vinegar, ketchup, tartar, et al. I made notes in Book 88 about the Buckley book. Things left out. Lack of focus in Tanenhaus. The bill was rather more than twice that $22 as I had two beers. Can’t do this again for a long time. Money very short. Rent. Con Ed. Bills.

Cagney, Cuddles, Whorf

Cagney, Cuddles, Whorf

Last weekend, on the day when I was not due out in Queens (that would be Saturday) I found myself watching Yankee Doodle Dandy. I had tried to rent it on the Fourth, but there was some Amazon glitch. But the rental was made anyway and it was available when I looked a few days later. Friday, Saturday. My, it was much much longer than I remembered, and I must have been raised on truncated editions on Million Dollar Movie and The Early Show. What I remembered were the Little Johnny Jones numbers (Yankee Doodle Dandy and Give My Regards to Broadway), somebody singing Mary It’s a Grand Old Name, and Forty-five Minutes from Broadway. And then the lights go off in an outside stage, but with the help of headlights they all sing Over There. And of course the story is framed with Cohan meeting an FDR impersonator in the Oval Office (which is upstairs in the WH, not by the Rose Garden in the West Wing, as it had been by FDR’s day), and at the end Cohan dances down the WH stairs. The Sam Harris character I barely remembered, did not remember at all it was played by Richard Whorf.

And I never saw, or blanked out, on the early scenes when young George M. is playing in Peck’s Bad Boy and gets beat up by the neighborhood ruffians. And then talks fresh to Mr. Edward Albee, the theatrical manager, who comes to the theater to lure the Cohans down to Providence. Cuddles Sakall is an early angel when Harris and Cohan go into business. That I did not recall. Or the four Cohans singing I Was Born in Virginia.

That’s the state that’ll win ya.

I unpacked the Waterpik Flosser today and used it three times. I’m very clumsy and uncoordinated and sprayed water all over the place the first two times. My old Waterpik in orthodontia days had a big tub receptacle that held about a pint of water. The handheld device, attached on a siphon, was controlled by a button that turned the squirt on and off. This new one is shaped like a cross between a dildo vibrator and an insecticide can, where the squirt nozzle goes into your mouth but you control the spray from an on/off switch on the side. I will adapt.

Picture Post 25

images

(Original Caption) 12/31/1936-New York, NY- Above is a general scene looking north on Times Square, New York, as the great Gotham crowds gathered at the crux of the Great White Way to welcome 1937. Photo shows signs looming over the crowds and streets as cars otor by.

A view of Times Square at the intersection of Broadway and 7th Avenue, New York City, New York, 1937. (Photo by P.L. Sperr/Getty Images)

Each element can be used separately.

Screenshot

Screenshot

Stuff I Forget, Volume VII

memory

Asterisk = Had to look it up.

182. Jewess who took the weird photographs, studied under Model.
Diane Arbus

183. Guy who died in crash, married Ingrid Croce.
Jim Croce

184. Italian palazzo buildings at 51st and Madison.
Villard Houses*

185. Philip Nelson’s boss, the one who was ambassador to Australia.
Edward Aubrey Clark*

186. Woody Allen movie with jasmine in the name, Cate Blanchett.
Blue Jasmine

187. Guy whose body is on display at UCL.
Jeremy Bentham

188. Salopian…what school Shrewsbury?
Shrewsbury

189. Eyetie singer with Keely Smith?
Louis Prima

190. Miss Moneypenny…name…ah, Lois Maxwell!

191. Georgy Girl, The Verdict, Terri Jentz thought I looked like her?
Charlotte Rampling (took a minute)

192. Uniontown Pa, was looking it up yesterday because it appeared in something i was listening to, and i remembered George Marshal was from there…who was the other person?
(No answer yet.)

193. In Whitehall, the slab memorial I always knew even before I saw it. The Osteoplinth. What is the real name?
Cenotaph

194. Who that awful Colin person?
Colin Liddell? yes

195. Chloe Brockman “Cole”: has ambulance-chaser Indian attorney.
Harmeet Dhillon

196. Actress on X Files.
Gillian Anderson (took a while)

197. German name luggage begins with h…lots of brown leather and tan nylon.
Hartmann (my mind completely blanked out, as with Jeremy Bentham)

198. Blackstone or Blackpool or Blackpill or what was thing Dick Cheney was with? Halliburton

199. Henry Higgins’s friend (Wilfrid Hyde-White role)…same name as the guy who went to SS P&J and Malvern then West Point?
Steve Pickering

200. The congressman from Florida, with the hair. Something like Waltz or Weitz. His name keeps eluding me.
Matt Gaetz (found it in my blog post)

201. Strange transvestite whose name was something like steven dye, from town in shropshire begins with t, same name as the IMT lawyer, Keith Peterson’s cousin…telford is the town…dye had rock blog called streetmusic uk…

GOT IT, worked it out early last year:

Funny little crossdressing guy from Telford. Had a newsletter called Streetmusic UK. Used the Twitter handle @KathleenRiot2019 but got banned then @RocknRoller2019.
(Had to find these in my own Notes.)
Streetvoiceuk*
Steve Lye*
Steve DIY
before drag years

202. Name of Hollywood Jews who…oh, Mankowitz…was going to start with Herman and then go to Joe and then the young one who was introducing TCM.
*Ben Mankowitz

203. What is the fake person you bring up when you have a bad argument…oh a strawman

 

Sieger, Alison, Drmies, jpgordon, and other wiki jerkoffs

Wikipedia
cleome

 

alison

Being a revisit to the Wikipedia trolls and their enablers.
Fun and games from June 2013 and earlier.

https://archive.is/mkB2d

archive of page reached when searching for
robert sieger Rms125a@hotmail.com

full URL:

cleome

Good long takedown of the crackpot administrator calling himself Drmies (Dr Mies) at this blogspot.

 


cleome

by NG | Dec 1, 2017

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It is perfectly all right with me to have the “Joseph Rowbottom” article become merely a “Rowbottom” article inasmuch as there seemed to be nothing in Wikipedia on the subject before my article. Just “Rowbottom” is fine and appropriate. Nevertheless, there probably should be something about Joseph Rowbottom.Sallieparker (talk00:59, 27 December 2010 (UTC)[reply]

Ninth Avenue El category

Actually the “abandoned subway lines” category is the only one we have. Other elevated railways are in that category, and it needs to be renamed. I see from the category talk that the error has been noticed before, by myself among others. ScottyBerg (talk13:04, 4 August 2011 (UTC)[reply]
I’m not so sure the whole category needs to be renamed. Perhaps the “Defunct New York City Elevated lines” can be a sub-category. —-DanTD (talk14:06, 4 August 2011 (UTC)[reply]
New York City Elevated Lines need their own category. In New York City, the El lines were a separate metro system from the Subway system. It was different with the London Underground: there, the original above-ground Metropolitan trains of the 1860s ran at surface level or in shallow trenches. Their network was easily integrated with that of the electric ‘Tube’ trains that began service 40 years later. But this never happened in New York. The El lines of the 1870s were never combined with the electric subways of the 1900s. No one ever mistook an elevated subway for part of the “El” system. When the Third Avenue El finally came down in May 1955, no newspaper referred to it as part of the subway system.Sallieparker (talk05:16, 28 August 2011 (UTC)[reply]
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Wilbysuffolk Talk to me 10:07, 5 May 2012 (UTC)[reply]

It is concerning to me that you deleted a fully referenced comment regarding Breen’s anti-Semitism simply because you did not like it; that is not valid grounds for removing encyclopaedic text. I will be monitoring your edits, and if I notice that you are disturbing, distorting or deleting text to push some form of agenda I will contact the necessary administrators. Quis separabit? 22:21, 30 March 2013 (UTC)[reply]
1) “It is concerning to me…” Your comment was not adequately referenced at all, let alone “fully referenced.” Eh, boychik? 2) And WHO are you, exactly, “Quis separabit?”, other than a contentious little anti-Catholic Marxist? 3) Yes, please do “monitor” my edits, and I’ll be watching for you, too: online and otherwise!Sallieparker (talk02:20, 26 May 2013 (UTC)[reply]
Aside from the anti-semitic nature of “Eh, boychik?” which I will take to WP:ANI, your ahistorical almost Orwellian attempts to whitewash the Irish-Catholic nature of American film censorship and Breen’s own intense anti-semitism as amptly documented by writer Thomas Doherty (the quote you keep trying to delete is on page 98), are nonsense. Take it to The Wanderer or The Irish Echo or wherever. And I am no more a Marxist than you are an editor in good faith. Quis separabit? 23:33, 26 May 2013 (UTC)[reply]

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ANI notice

Hello. There is currently a discussion at Wikipedia:Administrators’ noticeboard/Incidents regarding an issue with which you may have been involved. Thank you.
Stop icon This is your only warning; if you make personal attacks on other people again, you may be blocked from editing without further notice. Comment on content, not on other contributors or people. Your comments to Quis separabit?, above, are highly inappropriate. Drmies (talk23:54, 29 May 2013 (UTC)[reply]
NO, the comments to this character are NOT “highly inappropriate” given the abusive messages I have received from this person, posted here as well as sent to my email accounts. Sallieparker (talk18:38, 11 June 2013 (UTC)[reply]

ANI Notice

G’day “Sallieparker.” Your name has once again come up on the Administrators’ noticeboard/Incidents. You might stop by and say hello. Here’s the link again in case you need it. ANI. Best regards, —Tim //// Carrite (talk15:52, 30 May 2013 (UTC)[reply]

SPI

Stop icon

You have been blocked indefinitely from editing for persistent disruptive editing. If you think there are good reasons why you should be unblocked, you may appeal this block by adding below this notice the text {{unblock|reason=Your reason here ~~~~}}, but you should read the guide to appealing blocks first.  Drmies (talk16:17, 30 May 2013 (UTC)[reply]

SP Notice

This user’s unblock request has been reviewed by an administrator, who declined the request. Other administrators may also review this block, but should not override the decision without good reason (see the blocking policy).

Sallieparker (block log • active blocks • global blocks • contribs • deleted contribs • filter log • creation log • change block settings • unblock • checkuser (log))

Request reason:
Apparently someone has been attacking me/posing as me/sending me threats via Wikipedia. I just discovered this now. The culprit may be this person using the alias “Quis separabit?” who has been sending me abusive messages for several months. By the way, I am not “Alf.laylay.wa.laylah” as suggested in the “Sockpocket investigations” thing above. Unblock me so that I don’t have to post using a different account. Thank you.
Decline reason:
(a) You’ll really need to substantiate your allegations below — in particular, your accusations against User:rms125a@hotmail.com. What makes you think he created NYFinanceGirl? (b) Nobody says you are User:Alf.laylah.wa.laylah; that user simply advised you that there was a sockpuppet investigation involving you. (c) This unblock request does not address the reason you are blocked. —jpgordon::==( o ) 20:18, 11 June 2013 (UTC)[reply]

If you want to make any further unblock requests, please read the guide to appealing blocks first, then use the {{unblock}} template again. If you make too many unconvincing or disruptive unblock requests, you may be prevented from editing this page until your block has expired. Do not remove this unblock review while you are blocked.
Further and Better Particulars: I have paid so little attention to this stuff that I was unaware there was any controversy. Apparently this Robert M Sieger, or rms125a@hotmail.com (current Wiki signature “Quis separabit?”) has created a lame parody of me called NYFinanceGirl, which almost immediately got banned as a “sockpocket” around 30 May ’13. This is in addition to the abusive emails he sent me around that time. He got himself blocked twice around 2005-2007, and seems to have a long history of tetchiness. I made no personal insults to him on Wikipedia (other than criticising the made-up third-hand quotations that he like to cite). I may well have been harsher when I responded to one of his vitriolic emails. 35MntgmrySt /SP Sallieparker (talk19:58, 11 June 2013 (UTC)[reply]

JP Notice

This is for Jpgordon, in reply to remarks above.
OK, JPG, I have addressed everything I know about. You will have to be more specific about your queries. The ostensible reason for blocking is “disruptive editing,” but I made no disruptive edits, apart from maybe a typo here and there.
Perhaps you are asking for the abusive emails from Robert M Sieger [rms125a@hotmail.com (current Wiki signature “Quis separabit?”)]? I can send you what I have. I would not post them here because they run too long, and all they do is repeat the filth we see above, which has been a trademark of Sieger’s for many years. (See: http://able2know.org/topic/63547-1 or http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/User:Eliz81/RMS )
The reasons to think that it was Sieger who made up the sockpocket “NYFinanceGal” are that: a) he has a history of doing this sort of thing, as indicated in the URLs above; b) the IPs are said to be in the same general location; c) it wasn’t me, and I presume it wasn’t you; d) the shrill, feverish rhetorical style is very similar to that of Sieger’s comments here and elsewhere; e) the account name was obviously conjured up in parody of my thumbnail bio. Rereading the “Alf.laylay.wa.laylah” comment, I still find it very confusing. Why would I make up a sockpocket as a lame parody and and insult to myself? Perhaps to play the victim? No, no, not my game.
And so, over to you. /SP Sallieparker (talk23:32, 11 June 2013 (UTC)[reply]
The above is not really an unblock request … if you’re trying to communicate with a specific admin, use the “e-mail this user” function”. If you’re merely replying, then simply reply. If you’re requesting unblock, it needs to be WP:GAB-compliant (✉→BWilkins←✎) 10:55, 12 June 2013 (UTC)[reply]
FINE, BWilkins. I don’t have Josh Gordon’s e-mail address so I can’t e-mail him. Just unblock the thing or tell the reason why. I’ll take care of the Sieger problem myself. /SP Sallieparker (talk14:25, 12 June 2013 (UTC)[reply]
Click on the “email this user” on the left of his userpage under “toolbox”. He should have it enabled. Daniel Case (talk15:51, 12 June 2013 (UTC)[reply]

I will, however, not reply in this case. Any continued discussion regarding this should either be public, here, or should be sent privately to ArbCom. —jpgordon::==( o ) 16:13, 12 June 2013 (UTC)[reply]
THANK YOU JOSH, but you just DID reply. Appreciate it.

Sieger’s Fake Vandalism

I made an alarming discovery this morning… It seems Sieger didn’t just do the fake-socky “NYFinanceGal” thing once. He did it many times. Go to the History page for the Joseph Breen article and you’ll see them there, in the latter part of May. I have not read them all, in fact I haven’t read any of them except the one reproduced on Dmries’s talk page, which I took to be a one-off bad joke.
Sieger had threatened to do something like this, but I didn’t know what he had in mind. He implied however that he had pulled some little numbers on other people.
Now, you people KNEW about these multiple postings, and you did not tell me. You did not alert me with any emails or any notice other than snarky postings to this page and elsewhere.
To repeat: I am not and never was “NYFinanceGal”–a throwaway alias almost certainly made up by Robert M. Sieger. Take a look at the IPs. (Robert M. Sieger is rms125a@hotmail.com, current Wiki signature “Quis separabit?”) He may have used a neighbor’s Wifi or the library Wifi to disguise the location; he may have done it at Starbucks or his parents’; perhaps he had Anita do it. I don’t know the details, but Sieger’s fine hand was behind this.
For now, just unblock me. I expect you to take some action against Sieger as Wikipedia has done in the past. If you don’t want to bother, fine; I can have someone else speak to Sieger directly and you won’t have to be involved. /SJP Sallieparker (talk20:16, 12 June 2013 (UTC)[reply]
NYFinanceGal was neither you nor RMS. Your accusations and implied threats are not reflecting well on you, and are making an unblock less likely, not more. Writ Keeper ♔ 20:43, 12 June 2013 (UTC)[reply]
1) “Accusations and implied threats”? That’s pretty rich. The accusations against Robert M. Sieger, rms125a@hotmail.com, are on target. And I made no threats. Just an advisory note. (I don’t get tough, Mr. Gittes. My lawyer does.)
2) You just admitted that you know the socky was not me. So why am I blocked? Bit of lapse in logic there, hey, “Writ Keeper”?
3) You claim Sieger’s fake vandalism was not done by Sieger. That is a possibility, but unlikely. (Perhaps it was Sieger’s imaginary friends, Marvin and Nettie?) Come on. I’ve got e-mails from the guy. It was Sieger.
4) Okay now, here’s a tossup for fifteen points. Why didn’t you notify me when all this vandalism was going on? Buzz.
5) You go right ahead, keep blocking me. I’ll just go back to SJParker or MTBacon or Elinor66 or whatever, and one of the half-dozen or so IPs we have available here. In the meantime, we’ll have someone look into the Sieger problem.
/SJP Sallieparker (talk) 21:41, 12 June 2013 (UTC)[reply]

Final Unblock Request

This user’s unblock request has been reviewed by an administrator, who declined the request. Other administrators may also review this block, but should not override the decision without good reason (see the blocking policy).

Sallieparker (block log • active blocks • global blocks • contribs • deleted contribs • filter log • creation log • change block settings • unblock • checkuser (log))

Request reason:
If I had known about the socky “NYFinanceGirl” multiple vandalisms, I would have responded earlier, but I received no communications and found out only when I logged in yesterday. I had nothing to do with any of the purported vandalisms. I believe these were all the doing of someone named Robert M. Sieger, whom I do not know personally, but who had previously threatened me in comments and in e-mail, and whose culpability is clearly evident in his late-May postings. I believe it is improper for Wikipedia to permit a known vandal like Robert M. Sieger to attack other users. Clearly I am not the first, or even the dozenth, whom he has attacked in this manner. I will not pursue this further, at least not via this “unblock” method on Wikipedia. /sjp Sallieparker (talk22:01, 12 June 2013 (UTC)[reply]
Decline reason:
So, over 10 days, dozens of admins have reviewed this unblock request, and for various reasons have failed to accept it – yet, not outright declined it. I have now reviewed this page a half-dozen times myself, and still do not see a WP:GAB-compliant request, and have great trouble overcoming the clear evidence (✉→BWilkins←✎) 00:38, 22 June 2013 (UTC)[reply]

If you want to make any further unblock requests, please read the guide to appealing blocks first, then use the {{unblock}} template again. If you make too many unconvincing or disruptive unblock requests, you may be prevented from editing this page until your block has expired. Do not remove this unblock review while you are blocked.
Thanks, anyway, Bwilkins. Sallieparker has gone to ground (RIP 2006-2013), at least for the present. I’ve scarcely used the alias in the past couple of years. I haven’t even contributed a new article as Sallie since Ion Trewin in January 2012.
I am puzzled by your remark that you “have great trouble overcoming the clear evidence.” Evidence of what? Please expand on this. (You may do so privately; you don’t have to put it here.)
The Basic Story is that I was repeatedly attacked by veteran Wiki-vandal Robert M. Sieger: on Talk pages, edit comments, and e-mails to me, and through his favorite tool, the reverse-sockpuppet (see above). My supposed “offense” to him was responding to one of his threatening notes by calling him “boychik.” Boychik is a yiddish term of endearment, often used patronizingly. Sieger screamed that the word was “anti-semitic” (!). Actually Sieger found it offensive because it is yiddish. You and I might think yiddish is cool, but it’s a hot-button issue with Sieger. He wants the world to know he’s not from a yiddisher background. His shrieks of outrage were purely theatrical. He figured the average Wikipedian wouldn’t know anything about “boychik.” Furthermore he was certain the poltroonish administrators would be terrified of defending someone accused of being an Aunty Seemite, even if the name-calling was done by a longtime troublemaker like Sieger.
Sieger, or one of his throwaway avatars, thereupon created a character called “NYFinanceGirl” who was supposed to be based on me. It was very poor mimicry. He got his “NYFinanceGirl” banned, and persuaded some administrators that this inept lampoon really was me. And that’s where the situation stands at present.
Remote Causes of the War. This whole kerfuffle followed my deletion of defamatory and/or apocryphal material that Sieger posted on Joseph Breen. Sieger quoted a dubious letter-excerpt from a recent pop-history of Hollywood, in which Breen is supposedly denouncing the immorality of Hollywood Jews. The book itself is highly fictionalized, with imagined conversations, imaginary people, and so many errors of fact (that is, when it is apparently trying to be factual) that it is useless as a documentary source. Sieger could have framed the doubtful quotation within a disclaimer (“One recent book claims that…”, eg), and there would have been no problem, but Robert M. Sieger does not understand the difference between a primary source and a book like ‘Hollywood Babylon.’ Anyway, I removed Sieger’s citation, replacing it with an anodyne paragraph about the Great War. That’s when Sieger went ballistic.
Sieger’s Anti-Catholicism. I’ve gone pretty easy on Sieger so far, because he’s far more articulate and careful in his writing than most Wiki contributors. You can tell he really puts a lot of time and effort into his stuff, and I give him credit for that. The trouble is, he has an anti-Catholic obsession that completely subverts his thinking. This is why he has been repeatedly banned from Wikipedia. This obsession has led into a subsidiary anti-Irish thing. When Sieger first started to post his anti-Catholic remarks ten years ago, most of his opponents seemed to be Irish Catholics, and he wrote long screeds on the subject. (I am not Irish myself, but I can see how Sieger would come to decide that Irish Catholics were his specific enemy.) Anyway this is why Sieger has adopted the alias “Quis separabit?”, a slogan that he associates with north-Irish Protestantism. It allows him to masquerade, superficially, as a champion of that cause…a cause in which he evinces scarce interest otherwise…
Till anon, as it were.

Alas, Ms Parker…

Word of advice – Never go full retard on wikipedia. It just doesn’t pay.
Perhaps you wouldn’t have been suspected of being a sock if you weren’t such a raging anti-Semite. It makes it much easier to mimic you when you spout off like that. AGF doesn’t apply to crypto-fascists.
You might also want to redact that bit about using socks. They’ll indeff you for that (chuckle).
Oh, and if you really think I’m a sock of QS, the SPI is thataway—> — Preceding unsigned comment added by 209.140.36.11 (talk21:46, 19 June 2013 (UTC)[reply]
This IP editor is actually a  Confirmed sock of Jonathan Yip (talk · contribs) – one of many – Alison  23:51, 19 June 2013 (UTC)[reply]

Mr Sieger, meet Godwin’s Law…

1) Robert, dearheart (that’s English for ‘boychik’)… how many throwaway aliases have you used? ‘Jonathan Yip’? ‘NYFinanceGirl’? ‘Chungo Bungo’? Those aren’t bad handles by themselves, but then you go and get them banned, which means you can’t use ’em again. Not too smart.
2) Did you really think your mimicry of my idiom was on target? It wasn’t. It is clear that you pride yourself on your fluency in English. However, as you are not a native speaker, you cannot see your own clumsiness.
3) Did you really think I would believe that you had this vast network of confederates around the world, ready to chime in and support your oddball passions? You were very easy to smoke out with the Alison thing. (A smart person would have lain low and played along for a while.) You went to Brooklyn, or thereabouts, to post as ‘Jonathan Yip.’ Surely you could have found someone up in Montreal–maybe even in Minsk or Pinsk–to post as ‘Jonathan Yip’ for you? No?
4) As to your name-calling: have you ever heard of Godwin’s LawNo? I’ll tell you about it. Seems there was this famous poet named Percy Bysshe Godwin, I think, and his wife was getting abused by one of you folks, so Godwin laid down the law. And ever since then, anyone who calls another person a Nazzzi, or a Fasscist, or an Aunty Seeemite–or even a “crypto-fascist” (as Gore Vidal once did, to his later chagrin and million-dollar loss)–is considered to have lost the argument.
You lost the debate.
B’bye.

Stuff I Forget, Volume VI

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Asterisk = Had to look it up.

165. The I Led 3 Lives guy…Herb Philbrick. (Is the nautical writer his son?)

166. I just noticed someone else who went to Trinity Pawling, besides RF Gary. But who? George Murphy! Before Peddie.

167. John McCain’s running mate in 2008, Sarah… *Palin

168. holobeeks what do you call the french calvinists? huguenots okay

169. Jewish journalist who moved to Saratoga Springs, likes public transport. James Howard Kunstler*

170. Ellen Quinn’s husband’s name. *Yerman

171. Harold the Nazi? On Tom Snyder? Harold Covington

172. German filmmaker into green tints and grotty subjects…not the one who made Fitzcarraldo but the other one. *Fassbinder

173. Blonde blowsy actress of 30s and 40s who drank too much toward the end, Roaring Twenties, Best Years of Our Lives, The Hard Way…Gladys George?

174. diotima and hannibal’s real names…always think his name is Eric…always think she’s jeffries not jeffrey…diotima flyte and hannibal bateman…Marjorie Jeffrey & Alex Habighorst

175. Colombian drug lord…Moki liked him…oh, Pablo Escobar

176. What song is this like (rhyme and meter, not words)? “some are dancing speedboats/some are tearing down moats”…The Mighty Quinn

177. Oregon libertine, affair with john reed, married bill bullitt…louise bryant

178. What do you call expedited programs, fast and furious? no. Fast Track.

179. Senator from La, trent affair, grew up in same neighborhood in nyc as charles wilkes. *John Slidell

180. Who wrote The Firm (etc)? *John Grisham

181. Beach town in OC beginning with H…*Huntington Beach

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(January – June 2024)

128. The USAF airbase near Steve and Alma in Alvescot.
Brize Norton.

129. New Haven townie queen with curly brown shag, more of a mullet, townie queen to end all townie queens.
Gary Greco.
(This came to me because I remember Noël Canfield saying the name c. 1973.)

130. Who was that strange guy in a tunic with a pickup truck in Wisconsin who had a weird surname like hannipaw or silly paw or something paw.
Supernaw. Or Suprenaw.

131. Who was that ghastly jewish artist with the cartoony primitive style.
Marc Chagall.

132. Admiral of the ocean sea, harvard naval historian, family seat at nahant, samuel eliot something…
Samuel Eliot Morrison.

133. What was the play that robt morley was interested in doing, adapted to a Brit idiom, which made no sense at all?
A Gore Vidal one, maybe.
Yes, Visit to a Small Planet. Actually that might have worked, but the number of changes would have made it an entirely different comedy.

134. Female vector illustrator who does juvenile books but did the Eurostar posters 25 years ago.
Nicki Slater, Nicola Slater.
This took a while. I could remember Nicki, had to search fiercely till I found her surname. If only I’d linked her mentally to Nigel.

135. Actor who played jackson bentley, created biff….Arthur Kennedy?
Easy to mix him up with George Kennedy or the near-identical Kevin McCarthy or John Ireland.

136. Jew who was original Willy Loman.
Lee J. Cobb.

137. Winefest and I…what is the name of Richard E Grant film?
Withnail and I.

138. Woman who married Dick Goodwin, LBJ biographer.
Doris Kearns Goodwin.

139. Female illustrator who mostly drew girls in mob caps.
*Kate Greenaway

140. F Scott Fitzgerald’s first novel. (don’t look it up)
This Side of Paradise?

141. Writer, screenwriter I’m thinking of. Sweet Smell of Success.
Ernest Lehman?

142. WTF is the cemetery in Cambridge?
Not laurel hill.
Mount Auburn.

143. The english constitution by walter…badger, biggot, baggins?
Walter *Bagehot (badgit).

144.Javascript framework that installs in remote server and is basis for a million things. node.js

145. I brined something recently, what was it? Oh salmon. It was good, I probably had the skillet too hot.

146. Fort in Alabama with Indian massacre early 1800s…
*Ft Mims.

147. The girl who got away Frank Capra movie 1934, gable and colbert.
It Happened One Night?

148, 149.  Michael, john Murphy’s friend from Michigan and that private school the son of the Rambler guy went to.
Mitt Romney went to Cranbrook.
Michael —— and Susan Bauer.
Michael now calling himself Mika.
Cooper. Okay.

150. The old entrepreneur who took Moki and me to lunch at Travers Island in July 2019. Had a bicycle shop in Westport. Told us about the Ashtabula crank. What was his name? Family was from MS, clergymen.
I remember a Jerry I think, and look him up.
Jerry *Allmand. Must be French.

151. CK designer whose minipurse I have, whatever his initials. Drawing a blank. MK. Michael Kors.

152. Word for prescription…like bird man of alcatraz’s ….
oh specifics, Stroud’s Specifics.

153. Those tart little reddish brown onions I like so much.
*shallots…i had to look up an image chart of onions.
[Note: This is the second time this has been in the list.]

154. Ricky Vaughn’s real name. Douglass…
Mackey! Got it.

155. Head of religious studies department at yale in the 70s…think he was head of grad school too… sort of a science fictiony name like Blunt Spearski…German Hungarian maybe… Strooth Furtherman…something about a bird, a pigeon, Bix Pigeonman…
JAROSLAV PELIKAN.

156. The Williamson guy who dives in and out of social media and posts scary clowns and once wrote for National Review and told Brendan Michael Dougherty these rural losers should get the hell out of Garbut.
Kevin Williamson.

157. Plessy v Ferguson. For a moment I could not remember the case name.

158. Mulatta obama advisor…i have to go to stuff i forget to find it…6 years ago! that makes two double forgetting, but at least i knew i’d forgotten it before.
*Valerie Jarrett.

159. Strange guy with big nose CPA n England pretends to be TS.
Miranda Yardley (took a while).

160. Also Fionne…what is last name?
Orlander*

(Additions 10 Aug 2024)

161. “not a cloud in the sky, and I won’t be surprised if it’s a dream” from what?*Carpenters song

162. The Reach for the Sky guy. *Kenneth More

163. What the Mo’nig Indians are really called. Shinnecock.

164. That Texas governor with the weird hair. “Po’ George, he can’t he’p hisself. He was bo’n with a silver foot in his mouth.” Ann Richards…took me a minute.