Tuesday, June 9, 2009

Miss Tia's f-words don't refer to forte

HERE IS A well- deserved pat on the back to Bob Dyer, the Beacon Journal columnist, whose journalistic curiosity led him to the discovery of Miss Tia, who turns out to be   Miss Akron Garbage  Mouth of 2009.    And who, you might ask, is Miss Tia?  And why does she deserve her 15 minutes of attention  in a family newspaper? Read on.

Dyer ID's her as a "co-chair" of Warner Mendenhall's Change Akron Now recall website.  Inasmuch as I don't pay much attention to mysterious names because there have been some nasty ones sent to me in wrath before I put a filter on my blog,  I would have never thought to look into Miss Tia's internet profile.  Well, Dyer did and, among other tidbits, counted 32 f-words "in all of its glorious permutations" over the past three weeks. ( Note:  "f" doesn't translate into musical "forte".)

Unfortunately, the Guinness Book of Records doesn't track such   unladylike effusions, so we can only guess where Miss Tia would rank on her own developed scale of zero to one.  However, in the matter of neologisms, I think her reliance on "F---tard" as a noun would earn her a few more points in any alley fight.

There are other things that Dyer reports about Miss Tia, but he did all of the work so you should get it directly from today's column.  God knows. the BJ can use the readers.

If there is a postscript to this madness, is this  an example of where we want to go with Mendenhall's preposterous rag-tag scheme to kick out Mayor Don Plusquellic?    Scary, right?  






9 comments:

Anonymous said...

Dyer has taken it on the chin from outraged Mendenbots today....check out the comment section on the ABJ below his column today.


Ironically, Dyer has been pretty hard on Plusquellic as well....but the Mendenhall mob was calling for Dyer to be publicly hanged after this one.

Fargo

Dyers' point was lost on them...Miss Tia is a co-chair of the Recall Campaign...she is a nut case as are most of the people involved with Mendenhall.....this is a fringe group of whackos. I have to believe that anyone who had legitimate issues with Plusquellic and wanted to run a real campaign against him in a couple of years is shaking their heads in disgust over Warner.

Anonymous said...

Agreed. Does Miss Tia even live in Akron?

Anonymous said...

Gosh, Abe, the Beacon really needs the readers since you took sooooo many when you were booted...

Grumpy Abe said...

Thanks for reading Grumpy Abe, whoever you are. Ask your friends to do the same.

Anonymous said...

Point of order Grumpy....I believe F-tard is an adjective.

Fargo

fargo said...

Anonymous #3....its pretty obvious that you are one of Grumpy Abes readers so what exactly is your point?

Write something intelligent here and I am sure it will get posted.

And FWIW from past comments I know that Mr. Mendenhall reads this blog ...sometimes in the wee hours of the morning....so like Grumpy says...tell your friends to read it as well.

Anonymous said...

Fargo . . .

Is this s joke? Because, seriously, the modified word "F-tard" in its stated use is CLEARLY a noun. If you say that someone or something is "F-tarded" then it would be an adjective.

Sorry for the lesson. Best wishes for your future posts.

Grumpy Abe said...

Thank you. That's one for my side. My old lit teacher in college would be proud of me.

fargo said...

Grumpy, I doubt you have ever translated Classic Mendenbot into English as I have. Nouns are adjectives, unpaid taxes are no big deal, Akrons AA Bond rating is a scary, and white is black.....its an alternative universe. I have studied them in their natural environment so I think I know their linguistic quirks pretty well....F-tard is an adjective to describe what kind of Mendenbot you are talking with.