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Huge Rodham

Friday February 23, 2001


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  • TITLE: "Huge Rodham" Hugh Rodham is a fellow of rather, er, um, uh, plentiful girth.

  • "�SROs, meetings with Hamilton Berger �" SRO is, of course, shorthand for Standing Room Only;

    TRO is Temporary Restraining Order which is the functional opposite of a "writ of Mandamus" which requires an official to do something.

    �Hamilton Berger� was the prosecutor in the Perry Mason series, hamburger is a pun on Ham Berger;

    � Othello� Here is the stanza from Act 5 scene 2:

    Plentiful girth? The man is
    a human eclipse!

    Soft you; a word or two before you go.
    I have done the state some service, and they know't.--
    No more of that.--I pray you, in your letters,
    When you shall these unlucky deeds relate,
    Speak of me as I am; nothing extenuate,
    Nor set down aught in malice: then must you speak
    Of one that loved not wisely, but too well;

    Of one not easily jealous, but, being wrought,
    Perplex'd in the extreme; of one whose hand,
    Like the base Judean, threw a pearl away
    Richer than all his tribe; of one whose subdu'd eyes,
    Albeit unused to the melting mood,
    Drop tears as fast as the Arabian trees
    Their medicinal gum. Set you down this;
    And say besides,--that in Aleppo once,
    Where a malignant and a turban'd Turk
    Beat a Venetian and traduc'd the state,
    I took by the throat the circumcised dog
    And smote him--thus.

  • Go here for the LA Times backgrounder on Hugh Rodham, Rodham Has History of Dubious Dealings

  • "�The MSS Hillary�" Mullings-speak for Mrs. Clinton: The Most Special Senator Hillary.

  • " �The Seven Santini Brothers' �" A famous New York moving company often used in this type of comedic context.

  • "... National Register of Federal Prisoners ..." I made this up. There is no such Register.

  • "�Bruce Lindsay �" President Clinton's closest advisor. Radar O'Reilly and Henry Blake were, of course, characters in the Movie and television show M*A*S*H.

  • "� Oompa-Loompas �" The Greek Chorus in the 1971 film "Willy Wonka and the Chocolate Factory" starring Gene Wilder which was loosely based on the book "Charlie and the Chocolate Factory" by Roald Dahl (the spelling of the first name is correct) who got the screenwriting credit. Dahl also wrote the book "James and the Giant Peach" for those with kids under the age of 24.

  • Click here to listen to the Oompa-Loompa song.
       

  • Mullings' Catchy Caption of the Day:

    "Take this and bring it back when it's
    filled with some more of that nice
    white powder."

    -- Reuters Photo/Sam Mircovich





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